Catacomb

Partial

Stern1981STERN-MPU200stern.catacomb.1981

OPDB IPDB stern/catacomb-1981.mdstern/catacomb-1981.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
catacomb

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

Controller platform
pinmame.stern-mpu200

PinMAME already reports logical active state. Do not invert again in the table — normally-closed is a physical fact recorded per switch, not a runtime transform.

Displays

No display inventory recorded yet.

Address space
Switches
4–40 (34)
Solenoids
6–20 (10)

Coverage

Partial

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

Completion19%

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 · 13
Driver MappingInput 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.

34 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.
34 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
4
Spinner4
switch.spinner4 candidate
5
Trigger5
switch.trigger5 candidate
9
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
10
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
11
Upper Left Sling Shot
switch.upper-left-sling-shot candidate
12
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
13
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
14
Trigger B14
switch.trigger-b14 candidate
15
Trigger B15
switch.trigger-b15 candidate
16
Trigger B16
switch.trigger-b16 candidate
17
Drain
switch.drain candidate
18
Trigger18
switch.trigger18 candidate
19
Trigger19
switch.trigger19 candidate
20
Trigger20
switch.trigger20 candidate
21
Trigger21
switch.trigger21 candidate
22
Trigger B22
switch.trigger-b22 candidate
23
Trigger B23
switch.trigger-b23 candidate
24
Trigger B24
switch.trigger-b24 candidate
25
Trigger25
switch.trigger25 candidate
26
Trigger26
switch.trigger26 candidate
27
Target27
switch.target27 candidate
28
Trigger28
switch.trigger28 candidate
29
Trigger29
switch.trigger29 candidate
30
Trigger B30
switch.trigger-b30 candidate
31
Trigger B31
switch.trigger-b31 candidate
32
Trigger B32
switch.trigger-b32 candidate
33
Ball Release
switch.ball-release candidate
34
Slot1
switch.slot1 candidate
35
Slot2
switch.slot2 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
38
Trigger B38
switch.trigger-b38 candidate
39
Trigger B39
switch.trigger-b39 candidate
40
Trigger B40
switch.trigger-b40 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

10
10 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
6
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
7
Sol Left Kicker
coil.sol-left-kicker candidate
8
Sol Right Kicker
coil.sol-right-kicker candidate
9
Sol Outhole
coil.sol-outhole candidate
10
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
11
DTBank AReset
coil.dtbank-areset candidate
12
DTBank BReset
coil.dtbank-breset candidate
13
DTBank CReset
coil.dtbank-creset candidate
14
DTBank DReset
coil.dtbank-dreset candidate
20
Sol Backbox
coil.sol-backbox 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.catacomb 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 catacomb, description "Catacomb", manufacturer "Stern", catalog year "1981".
  • OPDB record GRoQ6-MLx0X (IPDB 469) names this machine "Catacomb" (Stern Electronics, manufacture date 1981-01-01); 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 catacomb; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • catacofp (1981, Stern, clone of catacomb).
  • catacomb (1981, Stern).
  • cataconb (2021, Stern / Idleman, clone of catacomb).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares catacomb at src/wpc/stgames.c:1154 with machine module by35_mST200v; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.stern-mpu200 from it.

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 2 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 44 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

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
cataconbCatacomb (No Bagatelle) 2021catacomb—
catacombCatacomb 1981——
catacofpCatacomb (Free Play) 1981catacomb—

Parent set: catacomb — 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.

catacomb.map.json

stern-m200v3format 0.8

maps/stern/m200/catacomb.map.json

Applies to ROMs
catacomb
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

stern-m200 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

  • PinMAME source

    BSD-3-Clause

    pinmame.core.8371478a7640

    src/wpc/stgames.c:1154 (machine module by35_mST200v)

    src/wpc/stgames.c
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.6fe3a915e1126758

    vpxtable-scripts: Catacomb (Stern 1981) - redbone(MOD) v1.0.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Catacomb (Stern 1981) - redbone(MOD) v1.0.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    6fe3a915e112…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.5a814437d836211d

    vpxtable-scripts: Catacomb (Stern 1981) v2.0.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Catacomb (Stern 1981) v2.0.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    5a814437d836…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 13 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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