Pole Position (Sonic)

Partial

Sonic (Spain)1987sonic-spain.pole-position-sonic.1987

sonic-spain/pole-position-sonic-1987.mdsonic-spain/pole-position-sonic-1987.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
poleposn

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
1–37 (31)
Solenoids
7–31 (3)

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.

31 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
31 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
2
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
3
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
4
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
5
Gate2
switch.gate2 candidate
6
Sw1
switch.sw1 candidate
7
Spinner3
switch.spinner3 candidate
10
Sw2a
switch.sw2a candidate
11
Sw3
switch.sw3 candidate
12
Sw4
switch.sw4 candidate
13
Sw5
switch.sw5 candidate
14
Sw6
switch.sw6 candidate
15
Sw7
switch.sw7 candidate
16
Sw8
switch.sw8 candidate
17
Sw9
switch.sw9 candidate
20
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
21
Sw12a
switch.sw12a candidate
22
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
23
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
24
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
27
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
30
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
31
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
32
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
33
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
34
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
35
Sw24a
switch.sw24a candidate
36
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
37
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

3
3 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
7
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
8
Solrelease
coil.solrelease candidate
31
PFGI
coil.pfgi 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.poleposn 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 poleposn, description "Pole Position (Sonic)", manufacturer "Sonic (Spain)", catalog year "1987".
  • 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 poleposn; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • poleposn (1987, Sonic (Spain)).

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 34 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
poleposnPole Position (Sonic) 1987——

Parent set: poleposn — 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.f99dd34215702fc4

    vpxtable-scripts: Pole Position (Sonic 1987)2.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Pole Position (Sonic 1987)2.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    f99dd3421570…

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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