Alien Poker

Partial

Williams1980williams.alien-poker.1980

OPDB IPDB williams/alien-poker-1980.mdwilliams/alien-poker-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
alpok_l6

7 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
11–41 (27)
Solenoids
2–21 (10)
Lamps
10–60 (48)

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.

27 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
27 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
12
Sw12
switch.sw12 candidate
13
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
14
Tsw14
switch.tsw14 candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
16
Tsw16
switch.tsw16 candidate
17
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
19
Phys sw19
switch.phys-sw19 candidate
20
Tsw20
switch.tsw20 candidate
21
Phys sw21
switch.phys-sw21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
27
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
28
Phys sw28
switch.phys-sw28 candidate
29
Sw29
switch.sw29 candidate
30
Tsw30
switch.tsw30 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
Phys sw33
switch.phys-sw33 candidate
35
Bumper002
switch.bumper002 candidate
36
Bumper001
switch.bumper001 candidate
37
Bumper003
switch.bumper003 candidate
38
Bumper004
switch.bumper004 candidate
39
Phys sw39
switch.phys-sw39 candidate
40
Phys sw40
switch.phys-sw40 candidate
41
Phys sw41
switch.phys-sw41 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

10
10 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
Sol Spade
coil.sol-spade candidate
3
Sol Heart
coil.sol-heart candidate
4
Dt10drop
coil.dt10drop candidate
5
Dt Jdrop
coil.dt-jdrop candidate
6
Dt Qdrop
coil.dt-qdrop candidate
7
Dt Kdrop
coil.dt-kdrop candidate
8
Dt Adrop
coil.dt-adrop candidate
14
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
15
Sol Club
coil.sol-club candidate
21
Sol Drop Up
coil.sol-drop-up candidate

Lamps

48

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.
48 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 candidate
12
L12
lamp.l12 candidate
13
L13
lamp.l13 candidate
14
L14
lamp.l14 candidate
15
L15
lamp.l15 candidate
16
L16
lamp.l16 candidate
17
L17
lamp.l17 candidate
18
L18
lamp.l18 candidate
19
L19
lamp.l19 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21
lamp.l21 candidate
22
L22
lamp.l22 candidate
23
L23
lamp.l23 candidate
24
L24
lamp.l24 candidate
25
L25
lamp.l25 candidate
26
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
28
L28
lamp.l28 candidate
29
L29
lamp.l29 candidate
30
L30
lamp.l30 candidate
31
L31
lamp.l31 candidate
32
L32
lamp.l32 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34
lamp.l34 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
37
L37
lamp.l37 candidate
38
L38
lamp.l38 candidate
39
L39
lamp.l39 candidate
40
L40
lamp.l40 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
43
L43
lamp.l43 candidate
44
L44
lamp.l44 candidate
45
L45
lamp.l45 candidate
46
L46
lamp.l46 candidate
47
L47
lamp.l47 candidate
48
L48
lamp.l48 candidate
50
L50
lamp.l50 candidate
51
L51
lamp.l51 candidate
52
L52
lamp.l52 candidate
53
L53
lamp.l53 candidate
56
L56
lamp.l56 candidate
57
L57
lamp.l57 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.alpok_l6 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 alpok_l6, description "Alien Poker (L-6)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record G4yen-MD12Y (IPDB 48) names this machine "Alien Poker" (Williams, 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 alpok_l6; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • alpok_b6 (2006, Williams / Oliver, clone of alpok_l6).
  • alpok_f6 (1980, Williams, clone of alpok_l6).
  • alpok_f6ff (1980, Williams, clone of alpok_l6).
  • alpok_l2 (1980, Williams, clone of alpok_l6).
  • alpok_l2ff (1980, Williams, clone of alpok_l6).
  • alpok_l6 (1980, Williams).
  • alpok_l6ff (1980, Williams, clone of alpok_l6).

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 85 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
alpok_b6Alien Poker (L-6, Multiball conversion) 2006alpok_l6—
alpok_l6ffAlien Poker (L-6 Free Play Fix) 1980alpok_l6—
alpok_l6Alien Poker (L-6) 1980——
alpok_l2ffAlien Poker (L-2 Free Play Fix) 1980alpok_l6—
alpok_l2Alien Poker (L-2) 1980alpok_l6—
alpok_f6ffAlien Poker (L-6, French Speech, Free Play Fix) 1980alpok_l6—
alpok_f6Alien Poker (L-6, French Speech) 1980alpok_l6—

Parent set: alpok_l6 — 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.

alien_poker.map.json

williams-system6-6Kv3format 0.8

maps/williams/system6/alien_poker.map.json

Applies to ROMs
alpok_f6alpok_f6ffalpok_l2alpok_l2ffalpok_l6alpok_l6ff
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scoresplayer_state
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-system6-6K 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.846277163d525fc9

    vpx-standalone-scripts: AlienPoker(Williams1980)1.0/Alien Poker (Williams 1980).vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in AlienPoker(Williams1980)1.0/Alien Poker (Williams 1980).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    846277163d52…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.656cb923fcd43b3f

    vpxtable-scripts: Alien Poker 1.0.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Alien Poker 1.0.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    656cb923fcd4…

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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