Flight 2000

Partial

Stern1980STERN-MPU200stern.flight-2000.1980

OPDB IPDB stern/flight-2000-1980.mdstern/flight-2000-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
flight2k

5 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 (21)
Solenoids
7–20 (5)

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.

21 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.
21 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
4
Sw4
switch.sw4 candidate
5
Sw5
switch.sw5 candidate
9
Left Sling Shot2
switch.left-sling-shot2 candidate
10
Right Sling Shot2
switch.right-sling-shot2 candidate
11
Left Sling Shot1
switch.left-sling-shot1 candidate
12
Right Sling Shot1
switch.right-sling-shot1 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
17
W17
switch.w17 candidate
18
W18
switch.w18 candidate
19
W19
switch.w19 candidate
20
W20
switch.w20 candidate
21
W21
switch.w21 candidate
22
W22
switch.w22 candidate
23
W23
switch.w23 candidate
24
W24
switch.w24 candidate
36
W36
switch.w36 candidate
37
W37
switch.w37 candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Lock3
switch.lock3 candidate
40
W40
switch.w40 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

5
5 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
7
Sol Left Target Reset
coil.sol-left-target-reset candidate
9
Sol Ball Lock
coil.sol-ball-lock candidate
15
Sol Right Target Reset
coil.sol-right-target-reset candidate
17
Sol Lane2
coil.sol-lane2 candidate
20
Sol Lane1
coil.sol-lane1 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.flight2k 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 flight2k, description "Flight 2000", manufacturer "Stern", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record G48kY-MDxRV (IPDB 887) names this machine "Flight 2000" (Stern Electronics, manufacture date 1980-01-01); 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 flight2k; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • flight2k (1980, Stern).
  • flight2m (2020, Stern / Idleman, clone of flight2k).
  • flight2mb (2020, Stern / Idleman, clone of flight2k).
  • flightfp (1980, Stern, clone of flight2k).
  • gamatron (1985, Pinstar, clone of flight2k).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares flight2k at src/wpc/stgames.c:930 with machine module by35_mST200v; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.stern-mpu200 from it.

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

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
flight2mbFlight 2000 (modified rules & sound rev. 3347) 2020flight2k—
flight2mFlight 2000 (modified rules rev. 3335) 2020flight2k—
gamatronGamatron 1985flight2k—
flightfpFlight 2000 (Free Play) 1980flight2k—
flight2kFlight 2000 1980——

Parent set: flight2k — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

Pinball memory maps

External source LGPL-3.0-only2 maps

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.

flight2m.map.json

stern-m200v3format 0.8

maps/stern/m200/flight2m.map.json

Applies to ROMs
flight2m
Sections
high_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.

m200-7digit-A.map.json

stern-m200v4format 0.8

maps/stern/m200/m200-7digit-A.map.json

Applies to ROMs
flight2k
Also covers
biggamecheetahcheetah2cheetahbcheetahb2quicksilseawitchstargzr
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:930 (machine module by35_mST200v)

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

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.43eb0dd84b5319bb

    vpxtable-scripts: Flight 2000 (Stern 1980).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Flight 2000 (Stern 1980).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    43eb0dd84b53…

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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