Sorcerer

Partial

Williams1985SYSTEM-11williams.sorcerer.1985

OPDB IPDB williams/sorcerer-1985.mdwilliams/sorcerer-1985.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
sorcr_l2

2 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
9–43 (31)
Solenoids
1–19 (12)
Lamps
6–55 (50)

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.

31 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.
31 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
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
22
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
23
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
27
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
28
Drain
switch.drain candidate
29
Slot1
switch.slot1 candidate
30
Ball Release
switch.ball-release candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
33
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
37
Sol MBEject
switch.sol-mbeject candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Phys RB Sensor sw39
switch.phys-rb-sensor-sw39 candidate
40
Phys RB Sensor sw40
switch.phys-rb-sensor-sw40 candidate
42
Phys RB Sensor sw42
switch.phys-rb-sensor-sw42 candidate
43
Phys RB Sensor sw43
switch.phys-rb-sensor-sw43 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

12
12 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Outhole
coil.sol-outhole candidate
2
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
3
Sol MBEject
coil.sol-mbeject candidate
4
Sol Dt Bank
coil.sol-dt-bank candidate
5
Sol5
coil.sol5 candidate
6
Flash6
coil.flash6 candidate
7
Flash7
coil.flash7 candidate
8
Sol8subroutine
coil.sol8subroutine candidate
11
Sol Gi
coil.sol-gi candidate
14
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
15
Sol Bell
coil.sol-bell candidate
19
Sol19
coil.sol19 candidate

Lamps

50

Lamp 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
50 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
6
Li6
lamp.li6 candidate
7
Li7
lamp.li7 candidate
8
Li8
lamp.li8 candidate
9
Li9
lamp.li9 candidate
10
Li10
lamp.li10 candidate
11
Li11
lamp.li11 candidate
12
Li12
lamp.li12 candidate
13
Li13
lamp.li13 candidate
14
Li14
lamp.li14 candidate
15
Li15
lamp.li15 candidate
16
Li16
lamp.li16 candidate
17
Li17
lamp.li17 candidate
18
Li18
lamp.li18 candidate
19
Li19
lamp.li19 candidate
20
Li20
lamp.li20 candidate
21
Li21
lamp.li21 candidate
22
Li22
lamp.li22 candidate
23
Li23
lamp.li23 candidate
24
Li24
lamp.li24 candidate
25
Li25
lamp.li25 candidate
26
Li26
lamp.li26 candidate
27
Li27
lamp.li27 candidate
28
Li28
lamp.li28 candidate
29
Li29
lamp.li29 candidate
30
Li30
lamp.li30 candidate
31
Li31
lamp.li31 candidate
32
Li32
lamp.li32 candidate
33
Li33
lamp.li33 candidate
34
Li34
lamp.li34 candidate
35
Li35
lamp.li35 candidate
36
Li36
lamp.li36 candidate
37
Li37
lamp.li37 candidate
38
Li38
lamp.li38 candidate
39
Li39
lamp.li39 candidate
40
Li40
lamp.li40 candidate
41
Li41
lamp.li41 candidate
42
Li42
lamp.li42 candidate
43
Li43
lamp.li43 candidate
44
Li44
lamp.li44 candidate
45
Li45
lamp.li45 candidate
46
Li46
lamp.li46 candidate
47
Li47
lamp.li47 candidate
48
Li48
lamp.li48 candidate
49
Li49
lamp.li49 candidate
50
Li50
lamp.li50 candidate
51
Li51
lamp.li51 candidate
52
Li52
lamp.li52 candidate
53
Li53
lamp.li53 candidate
54
Li54
lamp.li54 candidate
55
Li55
lamp.li55 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.sorcr_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 sorcr_l2, description "Sorcerer (L-2)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1985".
  • OPDB record G4qxv-MJPyv (IPDB 2242) names this machine "Sorcerer" (Williams, manufacture date 1985-03-01); 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 sorcr_l2; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • sorcr_l1 (1985, Williams, clone of sorcr_l2).
  • sorcr_l2 (1985, Williams).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares sorcr_l2 at src/wpc/s11games.c:114 with machine module s9_mS9S; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.system-11 from it.

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 3 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 93 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
sorcr_l2Sorcerer (L-2) 1985——
sorcr_l1Sorcerer (L-1) 1985sorcr_l2—

Parent set: sorcr_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.

sorcr_l2.map.json

williams-system9-12Kv6format 0.8

maps/williams/system9/sorcr_l2.map.json

Applies to ROMs
sorcr_l1sorcr_l2
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-system9-12K 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:114 (machine module s9_mS9S)

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

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.2222f6be1fcd5598

    vpxtable-scripts: Sorcerer (Williams 1985) v4.0.4.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Sorcerer (Williams 1985) v4.0.4.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    2222f6be1fcd…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.defa8afa1fb00a3b

    vpxtable-scripts: Sorcerer (Williams 1985) v600.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Sorcerer (Williams 1985) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    defa8afa1fb0…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.233a98d0139ccfbb

    vpxtable-scripts: Sorcerer 1.0.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Sorcerer 1.0.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    233a98d0139c…

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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