Stars

Partial

Stern1978stern.stars.1978

OPDB IPDB stern/stars-1978.mdstern/stars-1978.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
stars

4 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
1–38 (16)
Solenoids
1–10 (7)
Lamps
1–60 (31)

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.

16 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.
16 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sw1
switch.sw1 candidate
4
Sw4
switch.sw4 candidate
5
Sw5
switch.sw5 candidate
12
Sw12
switch.sw12 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
15
Sw15a
switch.sw15a candidate
17
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
20
Tsw20
switch.tsw20 candidate
21
Tsw21
switch.tsw21 candidate
22
Tsw22
switch.tsw22 candidate
23
Tsw23
switch.tsw23 candidate
24
Tsw24
switch.tsw24 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
36
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
37
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
38
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

7
7 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Chime1
coil.sol-chime1 candidate
2
Sol Chime2
coil.sol-chime2 candidate
3
Sol Chime3
coil.sol-chime3 candidate
4
Sol Chime4
coil.sol-chime4 candidate
6
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
9
Sol Drop Up L
coil.sol-drop-up-l candidate
10
Sol Drop Up R
coil.sol-drop-up-r candidate

Lamps

31

Lamp 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.
31 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
L33
lamp.l33-1 candidate
2
L17
lamp.l17-2 candidate
6
L6a
lamp.l6a candidate
7
L7a
lamp.l7a candidate
8
L8a
lamp.l8a candidate
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 candidate
12
L12
lamp.l12 candidate
17
L17
lamp.l17 candidate
19
L19
lamp.l19 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21
lamp.l21 candidate
22
L22
lamp.l22 candidate
24
L24
lamp.l24 candidate
25
L25
lamp.l25 candidate
26
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
28
L28
lamp.l28 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
38
L38
lamp.l38 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
43
L43
lamp.l43 candidate
44
L44
lamp.l44 candidate
49
L49
lamp.l49 candidate
51
L51
lamp.l51 candidate
52
L52
lamp.l52 candidate
54
L54
lamp.l54 candidate
58
L58
lamp.l58 candidate
59
L59
lamp.l59 candidate
60
L60
lamp.l60 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.stars 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 stars, description "Stars", manufacturer "Stern", catalog year "1978".
  • OPDB record GrXEW-MDEwr (IPDB 2366) names this machine "Stars" (Stern Electronics, manufacture date 1978-03-01); 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 stars; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • stars (1978, Stern).
  • starsb (2024, Stern / slochar, clone of stars).
  • starsb7 (2025, Stern / slochar, clone of stars).
  • starsfp (1978, Stern, clone of stars).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares stars at src/wpc/stgames.c:100 with machine module by35_mST100; no platform is declared (no reviewed profile covers that module yet).

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 54 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
starsb7Stars (MOD rev. 103, 7-digit conversion) 2025stars—
starsbStars (MOD rev. 103) 2024stars—
starsfpStars (Free Play) 1978stars—
starsStars 1978——

Parent set: stars — 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.

freeplay.map.json

stern-m100v4format 0.8

maps/stern/m100/freeplay.map.json

Applies to ROMs
starsfp
Also covers
draculfphothanfplectrofpmagicfpmemlanfpnugentfppinbalfpprincefpstingrfptridenfpwildfyfp
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

stern-m100 defines the RAM layout this map’s offsets are read against — the map is not interpretable without it.

generic.map.json

stern-m100v4format 0.8

maps/stern/m100/generic.map.json

Applies to ROMs
stars
Also covers
draculahothandlectronomagicmemlanenugentpinballprincessstingraytridenttridentawildfyre
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

stern-m100 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.d4b3487c7ff635e9

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Stars (Stern 1978)1.0.2/Stars (Stern 1978).vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Stars (Stern 1978)1.0.2/Stars (Stern 1978).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    d4b3487c7ff6…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.a255a09f0fcfbf4b

    vpxtable-scripts: Stars (Stern 1978).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Stars (Stern 1978).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    a255a09f0fcf…

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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