Avatar Limited Edition

Identity and evidence precedence

This definition covers avr_101h and avr_120h, the 250-unit Limited Edition/Premium physical machine identified as IPDB 5653, model I-00B6, released on 2010-12-02. The exact avr_120h ROM service tables and real-machine diagnostic dump establish LE-specific names. The exact known-working Pro VPX script is ground truth for shared controller behavior and mechanisms; no independently proven LE VPX table was found, so LE-only causality is additionally validated through exact-ROM service tests, owner/service documentation, and the physical edition record. The official manual controls common wiring and construction facts.

Four-ball set and ceramic Na'vi detection

The LE still uses four balls, not five: three steel balls and one ceramic Na'vi ball. Trough switches are 18-21, jam opto 22, up-kicker output 1, and shooter switch 23 with manual plunger plus auto-launch output 2. Two exposed metal rails at the bottom of the shooter lane are dedicated D8/public switch 72. A steel ball bridges and closes them; the nonconductive ceramic ball leaves them open, which tells the ROM to begin Na'vi double scoring. Preserve per-ball material identity through every drain, trough shift, and serve so detector and magnet response remain correct.

AMP three-bank, suit, magnet, and marching legs

The AMP bank moves targets 42-44 together between switch 46 up and 45 down under output 5. Exact diagnostics show output 5 asserted from 46 while moving toward 45; the proven table supplies the 25-step Z range and collision gating. The AMP suit uses motor 19 plus direction relay 13 between switch 58 up and 57 down. Starting at 58, the exact service test asserts 13 and 19 and reports movement toward 57. Magnet output 3 influences steel balls without centering them. LE adds unsensed right/left marching-leg actuators on outputs 4/12; alternate their pulses so the suit physically walks rather than treating them as lamps.

Motorized transporter pod

The transporter is a separate LE playfield mechanism, not the Link lock animation. One motor is driven through reversing relay output 14. Switch 47 is down and switch 48 up. Exact avr_120h service tests prove both directions: from 48/up, output 14 deasserts while moving toward 47/down; from 47/down, it asserts while moving toward 48/up. Endpoint switches stop travel. Build the pod's moving collision/cover geometry with a single reversible motor path; do not invent a second motor output or an auxiliary-board channel.

Link lock and shared playfield

Switch 14 reports the Link lock. Output 6 raises its pins and output 7 controls the latch; this ball-retention mechanism is separate from transporter output 14. One captive ball uses inverted/normally-closed switch 39. LE adds left ramp entrance switch 41 before common ramp exit 52. Spinners are 9/40, orbits 10/35, flippers outputs 15/16 with public button/EOS pairs 84/83 and 82/81, pops 9/30, 10/31, 11/32, and slings 17/26, 18/27.

Lamps, flashers, and controller capacity

LE makes previously unused scoring inserts 20 and 44-46 physical and adds bottom-arch flashers on output 27. Manual PDF page 41 proves eight J13 lamp-column drives against ten J12 lamp returns; the JSON records both wires/pins for every matrix address. Output 8 is the factory-included shaker. Lamp 25 and 65-80 remain unused. Q20-23 and Q25-32 are flashers. The common scanned manual is Pro-only for Q4/Q12/Q14/Q27: its board schematic proves their Q/control pins but its coil chart leaves their power feeds blank, so the definition does not invent LE wire colours or voltages. PinMAME declares SAM_GAME_AUXSOL12, but exact diagnostics and physical evidence show no installed Avatar auxiliary controlled devices; public 51-66 are explicit unused emulator capacity. Synthetic game-on 33 has no coil, and legacy public queries 34-36 alias it rather than naming separate devices.

Author construction checklist

• Build the typed four-ball trough, metal-rail shooter detector, manual/auto shooter, motorized AMP bank and suit, non-centering magnet, alternating marching legs, reversible transporter with both endpoints, Link lock/latch, captive ball, flippers, pops, slings, ramps/orbits, spinners, lanes, targets, shaker, and LE flashers/inserts.
• Initialize switches 18-21, 46, 48, and 58 active. Keep ceramic material identity, switch 39 polarity, EOS polarity, motor endpoint exclusion, and moving collision geometry accurate.
• Bind every matrix/dedicated/DIP input, Q1-Q32, game-on 33, explicit unused auxiliary 51-66, lamp 1-80, GI 0, and the DMD. Do not add a physical aux board or device merely because PinMAME reserves address capacity.
• Use the proven Pro script for shared runtime behavior, exact LE service diagnostics for added mechanism direction/endpoints, and the manual/IPDB records for physical construction boundaries.

Spatial review status

The ordered table search found no exact LE VPX table. The two retained local candidates are Pro avr_200 tables. The partial definition retains only direct centers of named Pro playfield objects whose semantics reconcile to common LE devices; the source hashes and retained extraction object records are the reproducible anchors. The canonical space is normalized player view: x=0 left, x=1 right, y=0 rear/backglass end, and y=1 front/apron end.

Exact blockers are deliberately visible:

• Inputs 8, 18-23, 26-27, 41-46, 47-48, 57-58, and 72 are explicit blockers. Their switch semantics and physical presence are retained, but the prior right-bank/slingshot/trough/AMP/transporter/detector points were manual, hidden, or LE-only projections without a reproducible named Pro anchor.
• Outputs Q4, Q5, Q12-Q14, Q17-Q19, and Q27 are explicit blockers. Their physical devices and quantities remain documented, but marching-leg, AMP-bank, suit, slingshot, transporter, and bottom-arch coordinates are not asserted without exact LE/manual socket anchors.
• Q20, Q22, Q23, Q25, Q26, and Q28-Q32 retain physical flasher quantities but no spatial records. Q22's Pro Light.f22 is explicitly a fantasy placement, and the other retained VPX flasher objects are not proven physical sockets.
• Lamps 20 and 44-46 retain their LE physical inventory but no spatial records because the previous manual/IPDB/photo points were calibrated projections, not named Pro centers.
• GI-0 retains its one controller channel but no physical quantity or coordinates. GIWhite is a table-wide render light, not a physical socket map. The DMD is explicitly controlled N/A because it is a cabinet display.

The exact ROM/service diagnostics, manual, IPDB record, and photo continue to establish LE-only semantics, quantities, and mechanism causality. They do not manufacture missing normalized coordinates.

Sources

• manual.avatar-pro-le.2010: official Stern manual, SHA-256 afaed95b1b3406193a234a4afa579f15bc5bb3c4cd92859def4ad7b202fab04b; organized under the external Avatar manual cache.
• service.avatar-le.real-machine-dmd-1.2: authenticated real-machine diagnostic archive SHA-256 9ed7b04692e5891305ae17f6f1685a2a95901b26bf987328e4d6769eafffc85b; decoded diagnostic stream SHA-256 d5334e30dc52cd989aee65188e47f514c09e87384b635d2b442fdce57481b7cf.
• rom.avatar-le.avr-120h: exact LE ROM archive SHA-256 264a1ad74e2d247b212837951d9528910ee9b6a127a5eaaac51dcd6572344269; ROM bytes remain external.
• runtime.avatar-le.boot-start: corrected callback-state evidence SHA-256 6d00f26380ed4c71b7a921a38fe241bf3a675e472be884c742ee35ac4e8f99e8.
• Transporter, suit, and three-bank exact service-test hashes are recorded in the definition sources and mechanism-diagnostic evidence file.