Cyclone

Partial

Williams1988SYSTEM-11williams.cyclone.1988

OPDB IPDB williams/cyclone-1988.mdwilliams/cyclone-1988.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
cycln_l5

3 ROM sets resolve to this machine. Clones share the definition unless a hardware difference is listed.

Controller platform
pinmame.system-11

PinMAME already reports logical active state. Do not invert again in the table — normally-closed is a physical fact recorded per switch, not a runtime transform.

Displays

No display inventory recorded yet.

Address space
Switches
10–64 (35)
Solenoids
1–32 (17)

Coverage

Partial

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

Completion19%

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 · 13
Driver MappingInput 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.

35 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.
35 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
Outhole
switch.outhole candidate
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
17
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
18
Spook House Drop Up
switch.spook-house-drop-up candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Shooter Lane
switch.shooter-lane candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
27
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
28
Sw28
switch.sw28 candidate
29
Sw29
switch.sw29 candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
54
Sw54
switch.sw54 candidate
55
Sw55
switch.sw55 candidate
56
Sw56
switch.sw56 candidate
60
Bumper Izquierda
switch.bumper-izquierda candidate
61
Bumper Derecha
switch.bumper-derecha candidate
62
Bumper Abajo
switch.bumper-abajo candidate
63
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
64
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

17
17 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Outhole Kick
coil.outhole-kick candidate
3
EMKicker
coil.emkicker candidate
4
Sol Boomerang Kickout
coil.sol-boomerang-kickout candidate
5
Spook House Drop Up
coil.spook-house-drop-up candidate
7
Knocker Solenoid
coil.knocker-solenoid candidate
10
Sol GI
coil.sol-gi candidate
11
Sol Back Gen Illumin
coil.sol-back-gen-illumin candidate
15
Flash15
coil.flash15 candidate
16
Sol Wheel Drive
coil.sol-wheel-drive candidate
25
Flash25
coil.flash25 candidate
26
Flash26
coil.flash26 candidate
27
Flash27
coil.flash27 candidate
28
Flash28
coil.flash28 candidate
29
Flash29
coil.flash29 candidate
30
Flash30
coil.flash30 candidate
31
Flash31
coil.flash31 candidate
32
Flash32
coil.flash32 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.cycln_l5 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 cycln_l5, description "Cyclone (L-5)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1988".
  • OPDB record G4O2b-MJpn4 (IPDB 617) names this machine "Cyclone" (Williams, manufacture date 1988-02-01); 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 cycln_l5; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • cycln_l1 (1988, Williams, clone of cycln_l5).
  • cycln_l4 (1988, Williams, clone of cycln_l5).
  • cycln_l5 (1988, Williams).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares cycln_l5 at src/wpc/s11games.c:512 with machine module s11_mS11BS; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.system-11 from it.

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 52 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

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
cycln_l5Cyclone (L-5) 1988——
cycln_l4Cyclone (L-4) 1988cycln_l5—
cycln_l1Cyclone (L-1) 1988cycln_l5—

Parent set: cycln_l5 — 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.

cycln_l5.map.json

williams-system11-48Kv4format 0.8

maps/williams/system11/cycln_l5.map.json

Applies to ROMs
cycln_l5
Sections
auditschecksum8game_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-system11-48K 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

  • PinMAME source

    BSD-3-Clause

    pinmame.core.8371478a7640

    src/wpc/s11games.c:512 (machine module s11_mS11BS)

    src/wpc/s11games.c
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.25073fbf28d24bde

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Cyclone (Williams 1988) 2.0.1/Cyclone (Williams 1988) 2.0.1.vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Cyclone (Williams 1988) 2.0.1/Cyclone (Williams 1988) 2.0.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    25073fbf28d2…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.1c183aaaa0f82502

    vpxtable-scripts: Cyclone (Williams 1988) v.2.2.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Cyclone (Williams 1988) v.2.2.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    1c183aaaa0f8…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 13 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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