Solar Fire

Partial

Williams1981williams.solar-fire.1981

OPDB IPDB williams/solar-fire-1981.mdwilliams/solar-fire-1981.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
solar_l2

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
11–42 (17)
Solenoids
1–19 (16)

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.

17 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.
17 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
11
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
12
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
17
Sol Top Eject Hole
switch.sol-top-eject-hole candidate
18
Right Eject Hole
switch.right-eject-hole candidate
19
Left Eject Hole
switch.left-eject-hole candidate
20
Drain
switch.drain candidate
21
Ball Release
switch.ball-release candidate
22
Slot Center
switch.slot-center candidate
23
Slot Left
switch.slot-left candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
26
Gate2
switch.gate2 candidate
40
Trigger40
switch.trigger40 candidate
42
Trigger42
switch.trigger42 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

16
16 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Top Eject Hole
coil.sol-top-eject-hole candidate
2
Sol Right Eject Hole
coil.sol-right-eject-hole candidate
3
Sol Left Eject Hole
coil.sol-left-eject-hole candidate
4
Drop Target Bank Bottom Left
coil.drop-target-bank-bottom-left candidate
5
Drop Target Bank Bottom Right
coil.drop-target-bank-bottom-right candidate
6
Drop Target Bank Top Right
coil.drop-target-bank-top-right candidate
7
Drop Target4 Bank Left
coil.drop-target4-bank-left candidate
8
Drop Target4 Bank Right
coil.drop-target4-bank-right candidate
9
Sol Solar Gun Lamps
coil.sol-solar-gun-lamps candidate
10
Sol Outhole
coil.sol-outhole candidate
11
Sol GI
coil.sol-gi candidate
12
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
13
Sol BG13
coil.sol-bg13 candidate
14
Sol BG14
coil.sol-bg14 candidate
15
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
19
Sol Solar Gun
coil.sol-solar-gun 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.solar_l2 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 solar_l2, description "Solar Fire (L-2)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1981".
  • OPDB record GRB26-MQPwX (IPDB 2238) names this machine "Solar Fire" (Williams, manufacture date 1981-07-01); 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 solar_l2; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • solar_l2 (1981, 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
solar_l2Solar Fire (L-2) 1981——

Parent set: solar_l2 — 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-10KB.map.json

williams-system7-10Kv4format 0.8

maps/williams/system7/generic-10KB.map.json

Applies to ROMs
solar_l2
Also covers
barra_l1bk_l4csmic_l1fpwr2_l2jngld_l2jst_l2pharo_l2tmfnt_l5vrkon_l1wrlok_l3
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-system7-10K 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.d7329ac96740a035

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Solar Fire (Williams 1981) w VR Room v2.0.5/Solar Fire (Williams 1981) w VR Room v2.0.5.vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Solar Fire (Williams 1981) w VR Room v2.0.5/Solar Fire (Williams 1981) w VR Room v2.0.5.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    d7329ac96740…

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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