Tri Zone

Partial

Williams1979williams.tri-zone.1979

OPDB IPDB williams/tri-zone-1979.mdwilliams/tri-zone-1979.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
trizn_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
9–35 (22)
Solenoids
1–23 (8)
Lamps
10–56 (35)

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.

22 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
22 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
9
Ball Release
switch.ball-release candidate
10
Sw10
switch.sw10 candidate
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
12
Phys Sensor 12
switch.phys-sensor-12 candidate
13
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
14
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
15
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
17
Phys Sensor 17
switch.phys-sensor-17 candidate
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
21
Phys Sensor 21
switch.phys-sensor-21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
27
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
28
Sw28
switch.sw28 candidate
29
Phys Sensor 29
switch.phys-sensor-29 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
35
Do DTAnim
switch.do-dtanim 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
1
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
2
Sol Saucer
coil.sol-saucer candidate
3
Sol DTReset Z
coil.sol-dtreset-z candidate
4
Sol DTReset O
coil.sol-dtreset-o candidate
5
Sol DTReset N
coil.sol-dtreset-n candidate
6
Sol DTReset E
coil.sol-dtreset-e candidate
14
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
23
Sol Run
coil.sol-run candidate

Lamps

35

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.
35 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
12
L12
lamp.l12 candidate
13
L13
lamp.l13 candidate
14
L14
lamp.l14 candidate
15
L15
lamp.l15 candidate
16
L16
lamp.l16 candidate
17
L17
lamp.l17 candidate
18
L18
lamp.l18 candidate
19
L19
lamp.l19 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21
lamp.l21 candidate
22
L22
lamp.l22 candidate
23
L23
lamp.l23 candidate
24
L24
lamp.l24 candidate
25
L25
lamp.l25 candidate
26
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
28
L28
lamp.l28 candidate
29
L29
lamp.l29 candidate
30
L30
lamp.l30 candidate
31
L31
lamp.l31 candidate
32
L32
lamp.l32 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34
lamp.l34 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
38
L38
lamp.l38 candidate
39
L39
lamp.l39 candidate
40
L40
lamp.l40 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
43
L43
lamp.l43 candidate
44
L44
lamp.l44 candidate
46
L46
lamp.l46 candidate
56
L56
lamp.l56 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.trizn_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 trizn_l1, description "Tri Zone (L-1)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1979".
  • OPDB record GrxNK-MLEzY (IPDB 2641) names this machine "Tri Zone" (Williams, manufacture date 1979-07-01); 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 trizn_l1; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • trizn_l1 (1979, Williams).
  • trizn_l1ff (1979, Williams, clone of trizn_l1).
  • trizn_t1 (1979, Williams, clone of trizn_l1).
  • trizn_t1ff (1979, Williams, clone of trizn_l1).

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 2 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 65 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
trizn_t1ffTri Zone (T-1 Ted Estes, Free Play Fix) 1979trizn_l1—
trizn_t1Tri Zone (T-1 Ted Estes) 1979trizn_l1—
trizn_l1ffTri Zone (L-1 Free Play Fix) 1979trizn_l1—
trizn_l1Tri Zone (L-1) 1979——

Parent set: trizn_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
trizn_l1trizn_l1fftrizn_t1trizn_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.f65902063acecadd

    vpxtable-scripts: Tri Zone (Williams 1979) v2.0.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Tri Zone (Williams 1979) v2.0.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    f65902063ace…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.15206fa05b9e3269

    vpxtable-scripts: Tri Zone VPX v1.0.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Tri Zone VPX v1.0.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    15206fa05b9e…

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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