Grand Prix

Partial

Stern2005stern.grand-prix.2005 1 of 3 editions

OPDB IPDB stern/grand-prix-2005.mdstern/grand-prix-2005.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
gprix

30 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
15–62 (29)
Solenoids
1–32 (18)

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.

29 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
57–64
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
29 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
15
Sol Trough
switch.sol-trough candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36a
switch.sw36a candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Sol Garage Down
switch.sol-garage-down candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
47
Sw47
switch.sw47 candidate
48
Sw48
switch.sw48 candidate
49
Sw49
switch.sw49 candidate
50
Sw50
switch.sw50 candidate
51
Sw51
switch.sw51 candidate
57
Sw57
switch.sw57 candidate
58
Sw58
switch.sw58 candidate
59
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
60
Sw60
switch.sw60 candidate
61
Sw61
switch.sw61 candidate
62
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

18
18 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Trough
coil.sol-trough candidate
3
Truck Exit
coil.truck-exit candidate
4
Sol Truck
coil.sol-truck candidate
5
Sol Garage Down
coil.sol-garage-down candidate
7
Sol Track Exit
coil.sol-track-exit candidate
12
Sol Reset Droptargets
coil.sol-reset-droptargets candidate
13
Sol Right Divert
coil.sol-right-divert candidate
14
Sol Garage Up
coil.sol-garage-up candidate
19
Flasher19
coil.flasher19 candidate
20
TMag
coil.tmag candidate
25
LMag
coil.lmag candidate
26
BMag
coil.bmag candidate
27
Sol Pit RLeft
coil.sol-pit-rleft candidate
28
Sol Pit RRight
coil.sol-pit-rright candidate
29
Flasher29
coil.flasher29 candidate
30
Flasher30
coil.flasher30 candidate
31
Flasher31
coil.flasher31 candidate
32
Flasher32
coil.flasher32 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.gprix 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 gprix, description "Grand Prix (4.50)", manufacturer "Stern", catalog year "2006".
  • OPDB record G5YWX-MDxXX (IPDB 5120) names this machine "Grand Prix" (Stern, manufacture date 2005-06-29); 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 gprix; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • gpr301 (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr301f (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr301g (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr301i (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr301l (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr340 (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr340f (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr340g (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr340i (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr340l (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr350 (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr350f (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr350g (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr350i (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr350l (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr352 (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr352f (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr352g (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr352i (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr352l (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr400 (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr400f (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr400g (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr400i (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gpr400l (2005, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gprix (2006, Stern).
  • gprixf (2006, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gprixg (2006, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gprixi (2006, Stern, clone of gprix).
  • gprixl (2006, Stern, clone of gprix).

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 47 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
gprixlGrand Prix (4.50 Spanish) 2006gprix—
gprixiGrand Prix (4.50 Italian) 2006gprix—
gprixgGrand Prix (4.50 German) 2006gprix—
gprixfGrand Prix (4.50 French) 2006gprix—
gprixGrand Prix (4.50) 2006——
gpr400lGrand Prix (4.00 Spanish) 2005gprix—
gpr400iGrand Prix (4.00 Italian) 2005gprix—
gpr400gGrand Prix (4.00 German) 2005gprix—

Parent set: gprix — 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.

nascar.map.json

whitestarv4format 0.8

maps/stern/whitestar/nascar.map.json

Applies to ROMs
gpr301gpr301fgpr301ggpr301igpr301lgpr340gpr340fgpr340ggpr340igpr340lgpr350gpr350f
Also covers
dalejrnas301nas301lnas340nas340lnas350nas350lnas352nas352lnas400nas400lnascar
Sections
game_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

whitestar 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.15c9b0097a99d350

    vpxtable-scripts: JPs Grand Prix (Stern 2005) v600.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in JPs Grand Prix (Stern 2005) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    15c9b0097a99…

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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Other editions

Nascar shipped in 3 editions with different playfields. Compare what each one actually has before building against this definition.

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