Pokerino

Partial

Williams1978williams.pokerino.1978

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
pkrno_l1

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
9–46 (25)
Solenoids
2–23 (8)

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.

25 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.
25 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
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
18
Bumper001
switch.bumper001 candidate
19
Bumper002
switch.bumper002 candidate
20
Bumper003
switch.bumper003 candidate
21
Sol Reset Q1
switch.sol-reset-q1 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
27
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
28
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
30
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
35
Sol Reset J1
switch.sol-reset-j1 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 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

8
8 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
Sol Reset S
coil.sol-reset-s candidate
3
Sol Reset J1
coil.sol-reset-j1 candidate
4
Sol Reset J2
coil.sol-reset-j2 candidate
5
Sol Reset Q1
coil.sol-reset-q1 candidate
6
Sol Reset Q2
coil.sol-reset-q2 candidate
7
Sol Post Down
coil.sol-post-down candidate
8
Sol Post Up
coil.sol-post-up candidate
23
Sol Run
coil.sol-run 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.pkrno_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 pkrno_l1, description "Pokerino (L-1)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1978".
  • OPDB record G5pn8-MJ5P4 (IPDB 1839) names this machine "Pokerino" (Williams, manufacture date 1978-01-01); 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 pkrno_l1; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • pkrno_l1 (1978, Williams).

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 33 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
pkrno_l1Pokerino (L-1) 1978

Parent set: pkrno_l1 — 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.

Commit
d8693b9

This program makes use of content from the Pinball Memory Maps project.

pkrno_l1.map.json

williams-system4v2format 0.8

maps/williams/system4/pkrno_l1.map.json

Applies to ROMs
pkrno_l1
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores

williams-system4 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

    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640
  • VPX script

    vpx-script.4c4719e620cfd62d

    vpxtable-scripts: Pokerino (Williams 1978) v600.vbs

    by
    Authors credited in Pokerino (Williams 1978) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    4c4719e620cf…

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.