Scorpion

Partial

Williams1980williams.scorpion.1980

OPDB IPDB williams/scorpion-1980.mdwilliams/scorpion-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
scrpn_l1

4 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
14–57 (29)
Solenoids
1–23 (11)

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
49–56
57–64
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
29 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
23
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
24
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
32
Spinner1
switch.spinner1 candidate
39
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
40
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
46
Sw46
switch.sw46 candidate
47
Sw47
switch.sw47 candidate
48
Sw48
switch.sw48 candidate
49
Sw49
switch.sw49 candidate
50
Sw50
switch.sw50 candidate
51
Sw51
switch.sw51 candidate
52
Sw52
switch.sw52 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
54
Sw54
switch.sw54 candidate
55
Sw55
switch.sw55 candidate
56
Sw56
switch.sw56 candidate
57
Sw57
switch.sw57 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

11
11 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Out Hole
coil.out-hole candidate
2
C1 DTReset
coil.c1-dtreset candidate
3
C2 DTReset
coil.c2-dtreset candidate
4
LDTReset
coil.ldtreset candidate
5
RDTReset
coil.rdtreset candidate
6
Ball Release
coil.ball-release candidate
7
Kicker1
coil.kicker1 candidate
8
Kicker3
coil.kicker3 candidate
14
Knocker
coil.knocker candidate
16
Coin Lockout
coil.coin-lockout candidate
23
Enable
coil.enable 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.scrpn_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 scrpn_l1, description "Scorpion (L-1)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record G4qQj-MD8XD (IPDB 2067) names this machine "Scorpion" (Williams, manufacture date 1980-07-01); 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 scrpn_l1; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • scrpn_l1 (1980, Williams).
  • scrpn_l1ff (1980, Williams, clone of scrpn_l1).
  • scrpn_t1 (1980, Williams, clone of scrpn_l1).
  • scrpn_t1ff (1980, Williams, clone of scrpn_l1).

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 40 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
scrpn_t1ffScorpion (T-1 Ted Estes, Free Play Fix) 1980scrpn_l1—
scrpn_t1Scorpion (T-1 Ted Estes) 1980scrpn_l1—
scrpn_l1ffScorpion (L-1 Free Play Fix) 1980scrpn_l1—
scrpn_l1Scorpion (L-1) 1980——

Parent set: scrpn_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.

Upstream
tomlogic/pinball-memory-maps
Commit
d8693b9

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

generic.map.json

williams-system6-6Kv3format 0.8

maps/williams/system6/generic.map.json

Applies to ROMs
scrpn_l1scrpn_l1ffscrpn_t1scrpn_t1ff
Also covers
blkou_f1blkou_f1ffblkou_l1blkou_l1ffblkou_t1blkou_t1ffgrgar_c1grgar_l1grgar_l1ffgrgar_t1grgar_t1fflzbal_l2
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.37cde8363b0920e9

    vpxtable-scripts: Scorpion mod (Williams 1980) 2.2.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Scorpion mod (Williams 1980) 2.2.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    37cde8363b09…

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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