Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Partial

Sega1995sega.mary-shelley-s-frankenstein.1995

OPDB IPDB sega/mary-shelley-s-frankenstein-1995.mdsega/mary-shelley-s-frankenstein-1995.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
frankst

3 ROM sets 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
15–56 (24)
Solenoids
1–16 (13)

Coverage

Partial

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

Completion13%

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 · 14
Driver 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.

24 addresses

Switch map

Sequential addresses, grouped in columns of eight.

used unused
 
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
1–8
9–16
17–24
25–32
33–40
41–48
49–56
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
24 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
15
Ball Release
switch.ball-release candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Bumper13
switch.bumper13 candidate
42
Bumper14
switch.bumper14 candidate
43
Bumper15
switch.bumper15 candidate
44
Bumper16
switch.bumper16 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
46
Sw46
switch.sw46 candidate
47
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
48
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
54
Sw54
switch.sw54 candidate
55
Sw55
switch.sw55 candidate
56
Sw56
switch.sw56 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

13
13 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Lockout
coil.sol-lockout candidate
2
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
3
Sol Auto Launch
coil.sol-auto-launch candidate
4
Sol Lower Scoop Eject
coil.sol-lower-scoop-eject candidate
5
Sol Top Scoop Eject
coil.sol-top-scoop-eject candidate
6
Sol Ice Cave Eject
coil.sol-ice-cave-eject candidate
7
Sol VUKEject
coil.sol-vukeject candidate
9
Sol Trap Left Hand
coil.sol-trap-left-hand candidate
11
Sol GI
coil.sol-gi candidate
12
Sol Trap Right Hand
coil.sol-trap-right-hand candidate
13
Sol Franks Arms
coil.sol-franks-arms candidate
14
Sol Orbit Diverter
coil.sol-orbit-diverter candidate
16
Sol Kickback
coil.sol-kickback 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.frankst 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 frankst, description "Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's", manufacturer "Sega", catalog year "1994".
  • OPDB record GRB7E-MP3rR (IPDB 947) names this machine "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (Sega, manufacture date 1995-02-01); the resolved identity rests on the agreement of the PinMAME catalog and this reviewed mapping.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under frankst; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • frankst (1994, Sega).
  • frankstg (1995, Sega, clone of frankst).
  • franksti (1995, Sega, clone of frankst).

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 37 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
frankstiFrankenstein, Mary Shelley's (Italian) 1995frankst—
frankstgFrankenstein, Mary Shelley's (German) 1995frankst—
frankstFrankenstein, Mary Shelley's 1994——

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

Pinball memory maps

External source LGPL-3.0-only1 map

RAM layouts published by an independent project and mirrored here at a pinned commit. They are not part of this machine’s definition: nothing below was used as evidence for the definition, and none of it counts towards coverage. Check claims against the upstream project.

Upstream
tomlogic/pinball-memory-maps
Commit
d8693b9

This program makes use of content from the Pinball Memory Maps project.

frankst.map.json

dataeastv2format 0.8

maps/dataeast/version3b/frankst.map.json

Applies to ROMs
frankstfrankstgfranksti
Sections
game_statehigh_scoresmode_champions
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

dataeast defines the RAM layout this map’s offsets are read against — the map is not interpretable without it.

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.d94351ddf7a92c20

    vpxtable-scripts: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Sega 1995) v2.0.4.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Sega 1995) v2.0.4.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    d94351ddf7a9…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 14 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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