Vortex

Partial

Taito1982taito.vortex.1982

taito/vortex-1982.mdtaito/vortex-1982.json

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vortex

1 ROM set 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
3–73 (23)
Solenoids
12–17 (3)
Lamps
1–123 (44)

Coverage

Partial

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

Completion6%

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 · 15
IdentityDriver 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.

23 addresses

Switch map

Column × row matrix — the address is column·row.

used unused
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Hover or tap an address to identify it.

Outside the matrix3, 4 — dedicated, diagnostic or flipper-column addresses. See the table below.

23 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
3
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
4
Sw4
switch.sw4 candidate
12
Spinner2
switch.spinner2 candidate
13
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
22
Spinner1
switch.spinner1 candidate
23
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
32
Spinner3
switch.spinner3 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
52
Sw52
switch.sw52 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
54
Sw54
switch.sw54 candidate
62
Sw62
switch.sw62 candidate
63
Sw63
switch.sw63 candidate
64
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
71
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
72
Sw72
switch.sw72 candidate
73
Sw73
switch.sw73 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

3
3 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
12
Sol Left Gi
coil.sol-left-gi candidate
13
Sol Right Gi
coil.sol-right-gi candidate
17
Sol Gi
coil.sol-gi candidate

Lamps

44

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
65–72
73–80
81–88
89–96
97–104
105–112
113–120
121–128
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
44 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Li1
lamp.li1 candidate
2
Li2
lamp.li2 candidate
10
Li10
lamp.li10 candidate
11
Li11
lamp.li11 candidate
12
Li12
lamp.li12 candidate
20
Li20
lamp.li20 candidate
21
Li21
lamp.li21 candidate
22
Li22
lamp.li22 candidate
30
Li30
lamp.li30 candidate
31
Li31
lamp.li31 candidate
32
Li32
lamp.li32 candidate
40
Li40
lamp.li40 candidate
41
Li41
lamp.li41 candidate
42
Li42
lamp.li42 candidate
50
Li50
lamp.li50 candidate
51
Li51
lamp.li51 candidate
52
Li52
lamp.li52 candidate
60
Li60
lamp.li60 candidate
61
Li61
lamp.li61 candidate
62
Li62
lamp.li62 candidate
70
Li70
lamp.li70 candidate
71
Li71
lamp.li71 candidate
72
Li72
lamp.li72 candidate
79
Li79
lamp.li79 candidate
80
Li80
lamp.li80 candidate
81
Li81
lamp.li81 candidate
82
Li82
lamp.li82 candidate
83
Li83
lamp.li83 candidate
89
Li89
lamp.li89 candidate
90
Li90
lamp.li90 candidate
91
Li91
lamp.li91 candidate
92
Li92
lamp.li92 candidate
93
Li93
lamp.li93 candidate
99
Li99
lamp.li99 candidate
100
Li100
lamp.li100 candidate
101
Li101
lamp.li101 candidate
102
Li102
lamp.li102 candidate
103
Li103
lamp.li103 candidate
109
Li109
lamp.li109 candidate
110
Li Bumper1a
lamp.li-bumper1a candidate
111
Li Bumper3a
lamp.li-bumper3a candidate
112
Li Bumper2a
lamp.li-bumper2a candidate
113
Li113
lamp.li113 candidate
123
Li123
lamp.li123 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.vortex 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 vortex, description "Vortex", manufacturer "Taito", catalog year "1982".
  • No OPDB record is mapped for this driver in machines/opdb_id.csv, so the name above comes from the PinMAME catalog alone and is unverified.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under vortex; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • vortex (1982, Taito).

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 70 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
vortexVortex 1982——

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

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.ad394df92f58386e

    vpxtable-scripts: Vortex v1.0.2.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Vortex v1.0.2.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    ad394df92f58…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 15 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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