Chance

Partial

Playmatic1978playmatic.chance.1978

playmatic/chance-1978.mdplaymatic/chance-1978.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
chance

1 ROM set resolve to this machine. Clones share the definition unless a hardware difference is listed.

Controller platform
Not determined
Displays

No display inventory recorded yet.

Address space
Switches
11–48 (22)
Solenoids
1–17 (4)

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion6%

Progress is derived from the fixed author-readiness requirements. It helps rank unfinished work, but only a 100% author-ready definition passes the publication gate.

Catalog Identity
validated
Address Enumeration
unknown
Semantic Naming
unknown
Physical Wiring
unknown
Mechanisms
unknown
Variant Coverage
candidate
Recreation Knowledge
unknown
Still missing · 15
IdentityDriver MappingController PlatformInput EnumerationInput SemanticsOutput EnumerationOutput SemanticsDisplay InventoryMechanism InventoryMechanism BehaviorPolarityVariant DifferencesRecreation NotesProvenanceSpatial Placement

Switches

The addresses PinMAME reports as closed. Numbers are the public API values, not matrix hardware pins.

22 addresses

Switch map

Column × row matrix — the address is column·row.

used unused
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
22 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
11
Raise Right
switch.raise-right candidate
12
Raise Right
switch.raise-right-12 candidate
13
Raise Right
switch.raise-right-13 candidate
16
Raise Left
switch.raise-left candidate
17
Raise Left
switch.raise-left-17 candidate
18
Raise Left
switch.raise-left-18 candidate
23
Sw34a
switch.sw34a candidate
24
Sw34a
switch.sw34a-24 candidate
26
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
27
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
28
Sw38a
switch.sw38a candidate
33
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
36
W46a
switch.w46a candidate
37
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
38
W48
switch.w48 candidate
41
W51a
switch.w51a candidate
42
W52a
switch.w52a candidate
43
W53
switch.w53 candidate
44
Rubber Band015
switch.rubber-band015 candidate
45
Check LNum
switch.check-lnum candidate
47
W57
switch.w57 candidate
48
W58
switch.w58 candidate

Controlled devices

Everything the ROM can energise, grouped the way a table author builds it.

Coils, magnets & motors

4
4 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Raise Right
coil.raise-right candidate
2
Raise Left
coil.raise-left candidate
4
Sol Center Post
coil.sol-center-post candidate
17
Sol Top Saucer
coil.sol-top-saucer candidate

Recreation notes

Working knowledge that has no schema field yet — edition differences, tuning values, pitfalls.

Coverage: partial - machine identity plus candidate-only I/O attachments. Playfield devices, wiring, mechanisms, and behavior are evidenced only as unverified candidates.

This record was promoted from the generated catalog stub stub.pinmame.chance by the catalog-wide identity pass of 2026-08-29. The promotion resolves machine identity and carries the catalog's residual driver grouping over unchanged, the platform and device attachments below were added by the 2026-08-29/30 candidate passes and assert nothing beyond candidate provenance. Every requirement in the definition's coverage.missing is genuinely outstanding.

Identity

  • PinMAME catalog: root driver chance, description "Chance", manufacturer "Playmatic", catalog year "1978".
  • No OPDB record is mapped for this driver in machines/opdb_id.csv, so the name above comes from the PinMAME catalog alone and is unverified.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under chance; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • chance (1978, Playmatic).

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 1 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 26 candidate devices. When curator work weighs sources, a retained script outranks emulator-derived candidates for runtime semantics, but every device here is still a candidate until a known-working table is verified against this exact physical machine.

What a curator must establish next

Controller platform from the pinned PinMAME driver source; full input, output, and display enumeration with semantic names; physical wiring and polarity; mechanism inventory and behavior; variant differences across the clone tree; recreation knowledge from a manual, schematic, or known-working table; runtime provenance; and a normalized spatial placement for every physical device. No manual, schematic, or runtime-harness evidence is retained for this machine yet; the candidate sections above are the only retained I/O evidence so far.

ROM sets

Every driver that resolves to this physical machine.

ROM set Description Year Parent Hardware
chanceChance 1978——

Parent set: chance — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

Evidence

Every claim above traces to one of these. When they disagree: a known-working VPX script wins on controller addresses and causality, the manual wins on wiring and construction, pinned PinMAME wins on emulator routing and display layout.

  • PinMAME catalog

    BSD-3-Clause

    pinmame.catalog.8371478a7640

    PinmameGetGames

    8371478a7640
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.447ae713a8f9b385

    vpxtable-scripts: Chance (Playmatic 1978) v600.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Chance (Playmatic 1978) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    447ae713a8f9…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 15 unmet requirements, listed under Coverage above. Fixes belong in the definition itself — editing on GitHub forks it for you and opens the pull request.

Cite a source for anything you change — a manual page, a line in a working VPX script, PinMAME source, or a reading from the machine's own service menu. Claims without provenance cannot be validated.

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