Pinbot

Partial

Williams1986SYSTEM-11williams.pinbot.1986

OPDB IPDB williams/pinbot-1986.mdwilliams/pinbot-1986.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
pb_l5

10 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
12–60 (29)
Solenoids
4–29 (13)

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.

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
49–56
57–64
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
29 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
12
Sw12
switch.sw12 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 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
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
48
Sw48 bumper2
switch.sw48-bumper2 candidate
52
Sw52 bumper1
switch.sw52-bumper1 candidate
53
Sw53 bumper3
switch.sw53-bumper3 candidate
54
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
55
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
56
Wall LAa
switch.wall-laa candidate
59
Wallrb
switch.wallrb candidate
60
Walllcc
switch.walllcc candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

13
13 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
4
Reset Drops
coil.reset-drops candidate
5
Sol Ramp Up
coil.sol-ramp-up candidate
6
Sol Ramp Dwn
coil.sol-ramp-dwn candidate
9
Sol9
coil.sol9 candidate
11
Sol11
coil.sol11 candidate
12
PFGI
coil.pfgi candidate
15
Sol15
coil.sol15 candidate
16
Sol16
coil.sol16 candidate
25
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
26
Sol26
coil.sol26 candidate
27
Sol27
coil.sol27 candidate
28
Sol28
coil.sol28 candidate
29
Sol29
coil.sol29 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.pb_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 pb_l5, description "Pin-Bot (L-5)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1986".
  • OPDB record G41Z8-MJKvP (IPDB 1796) names this machine "Pinbot" (Williams, manufacture date 1986-10-06); 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 pb_l5; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • pb_j1 (2020, A.M. Thurnherr, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_j2 (2023, idealjoker, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_j3 (2023, idealjoker, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_j5 (2026, idealjoker, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_l1 (1986, Williams, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_l2 (1986, Williams, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_l3 (1986, Williams, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_l5 (1986, Williams).
  • pb_l5h (2012, Francis, clone of pb_l5).
  • pb_p4 (1986, Williams, clone of pb_l5).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares pb_l5 at src/wpc/s11games.c:357 with machine module s11_mS11XSL; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.system-11 from it.

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 42 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
pb_j5Pin-Bot (PEMBOT (no relation) J-5) 2026pb_l5—
pb_j3Pin-Bot (PEMBOT (no relation) J-3) 2023pb_l5—
pb_j2Pin-Bot (PEMBOT (no relation) J-2) 2023pb_l5—
pb_j1Pin-Bot (PEMBOT (no relation) J-1) 2020pb_l5—
pb_l5hPin-Bot (L-5, Free Play / Solar Value Mod) 2012pb_l5—
pb_p4Pin-Bot (P-4 Prototype) 1986pb_l5—
pb_l5Pin-Bot (L-5) 1986——
pb_l3Pin-Bot (L-3) 1986pb_l5—

Parent set: pb_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.

pb_l5.map.json

williams-system11-48Kv4format 0.8

maps/williams/system11/pb_l5.map.json

Applies to ROMs
pb_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:357 (machine module s11_mS11XSL)

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

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.da61989f38f8a33f

    vpx-standalone-scripts: PinBot (Williams 1986) 2.1.1/PinBot (Williams 1986) 2.1.1.vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in PinBot (Williams 1986) 2.1.1/PinBot (Williams 1986) 2.1.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    da61989f38f8…

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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