Flash

Partial

Williams1979williams.flash.1979

OPDB IPDB williams/flash-1979.mdwilliams/flash-1979.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
flash_l1

5 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
9–46 (29)
Solenoids
2–23 (9)

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.

29 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.
29 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
9
Sw9
switch.sw9 candidate
10
Sw10
switch.sw10 candidate
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
12
Sw12
switch.sw12 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
Sw18
switch.sw18 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
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
27
Saucer Out
switch.saucer-out candidate
37
Sol Reset
switch.sol-reset candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Tsw39
switch.tsw39 candidate
40
Tsw40
switch.tsw40 candidate
41
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
42
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
46
Sw46
switch.sw46 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

9
9 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
Dropupleft1
coil.dropupleft1 candidate
3
Dropupleft2
coil.dropupleft2 candidate
4
Dropupcenter
coil.dropupcenter candidate
5
Saucerout
coil.saucerout candidate
6
Flash9
coil.flash9 candidate
7
Post Up
coil.post-up candidate
8
Post Down
coil.post-down candidate
14
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
23
Sol BGFlash
coil.sol-bgflash 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.flash_l1 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 flash_l1, description "Flash (Sys.6 L-1)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1978".
  • OPDB record Grypn-MQdbe (IPDB 871) names this machine "Flash" (Williams, manufacture date 1979-01-01); 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 flash_l1; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • flash_l1 (1978, Williams).
  • flash_l1ff (1978, Williams, clone of flash_l1).
  • flash_l2 (1978, Williams, clone of flash_l1).
  • flash_t1 (1978, Williams, clone of flash_l1).
  • flash_t1ff (1978, Williams, clone of flash_l1).

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 38 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
flash_t1ffFlash (Sys.6 T-1 Ted Estes, Free Play Fix) 1978flash_l1—
flash_t1Flash (Sys.6 T-1 Ted Estes) 1978flash_l1—
flash_l2Flash (Sys.4 L-2) 1978flash_l1—
flash_l1ffFlash (Sys.6 L-1 Free Play Fix) 1978flash_l1—
flash_l1Flash (Sys.6 L-1) 1978——

Parent set: flash_l1 — 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.

flash_l2.map.json

williams-system4v3format 0.8

maps/williams/system4/flash_l2.map.json

Applies to ROMs
flash_l2
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-system4 defines the RAM layout this map’s offsets are read against — the map is not interpretable without it.

flash_l1.map.json

williams-system6-6Kv3format 0.8

maps/williams/system6/flash_l1.map.json

Applies to ROMs
flash_l1flash_l1ffflash_t1flash_t1ff
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.840724d25a3a2f9f

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Flash (Williams 1979)/Flash (Williams 1979).vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Flash (Williams 1979)/Flash (Williams 1979).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    840724d25a3a…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.c4ee2f5734dc02f5

    vpxtable-scripts: Flash (Williams 1979) v600.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Flash (Williams 1979) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    c4ee2f5734dc…

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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