Stingray

Partial

Stern1977stern.stingray.1977

OPDB IPDB stern/stingray-1977.mdstern/stingray-1977.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
stingray

3 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
5–40 (16)
Solenoids
1–10 (8)

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
5
Sw5
switch.sw5 candidate
12
Sw12a
switch.sw12a candidate
14
W14
switch.w14 candidate
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
21
W21
switch.w21 candidate
22
Sw22a
switch.sw22a candidate
23
W23
switch.w23 candidate
24
W24
switch.w24 candidate
30
W30a
switch.w30a candidate
31
W31
switch.w31 candidate
32
W32
switch.w32 candidate
36
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
37
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

8
8 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Chime1
coil.sol-chime1 candidate
2
Sol Chime10
coil.sol-chime10 candidate
3
Sol Chime100
coil.sol-chime100 candidate
4
Sol Chime1000
coil.sol-chime1000 candidate
6
Solknocker
coil.solknocker candidate
7
Bs Trough Sol Out
coil.bs-trough-sol-out candidate
9
Solsaucer
coil.solsaucer candidate
10
Reset Drops L
coil.reset-drops-l 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.stingray 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 stingray, description "Stingray", manufacturer "Stern", catalog year "1977".
  • OPDB record G57lj-MJwxY (IPDB 2377) names this machine "Stingray" (Stern Electronics, manufacture date 1977-01-01); 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 stingray; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • stingrab (2022, Stern / Quench, clone of stingray).
  • stingray (1977, Stern).
  • stingrfp (1977, Stern, clone of stingray).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares stingray at src/wpc/stgames.c:71 with machine module by35_mST100; no platform is declared (no reviewed profile covers that module yet).

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 24 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
stingrabStingray (MOD rev. 14) 2022stingray—
stingrfpStingray (Free Play) 1977stingray—
stingrayStingray 1977——

Parent set: stingray — 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
stingrfp
Also covers
draculfphothanfplectrofpmagicfpmemlanfpnugentfppinbalfpprincefpstarsfptridenfpwildfyfp
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
stingray
Also covers
draculahothandlectronomagicmemlanenugentpinballprincessstarstridenttridentawildfyre
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.c317abf476428d15

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Stingray (Stern 1977) 2.0/Stingray (Stern 1977).vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Stingray (Stern 1977) 2.0/Stingray (Stern 1977).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    c317abf47642…

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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