Earth Wind Fire

Partial

Zaccaria1981zaccaria.earth-wind-fire.1981

OPDB IPDB zaccaria/earth-wind-fire-1981.mdzaccaria/earth-wind-fire-1981.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
ewf

3 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
9–42 (22)
Solenoids
2–20 (5)

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
41–48
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
22 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
9
Sw9
switch.sw9 candidate
10
Sw10
switch.sw10 candidate
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
12
Bumper12
switch.bumper12 candidate
13
Bumper13
switch.bumper13 candidate
16
Sol Release
switch.sol-release candidate
17
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
18
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sw22a
switch.sw22a candidate
23
Sol Kicker
switch.sol-kicker candidate
28
Sw28a
switch.sw28a candidate
30
Bumper30
switch.bumper30 candidate
31
Bumper31
switch.bumper31 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

5
5 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
Sol GIRelay
coil.sol-girelay candidate
10
Sol Kicker
coil.sol-kicker candidate
11
Sol Release
coil.sol-release candidate
15
Sol Drop Targets
coil.sol-drop-targets candidate
20
Flipper Relay
coil.flipper-relay 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.ewf 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 ewf, description "Earth, Wind & Fire", manufacturer "Zaccaria", catalog year "1981".
  • OPDB record GR96Q-MNEnx (IPDB 3611) names this machine "Earth Wind Fire" (Zaccaria, manufacture date 1981-01-04); 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 ewf; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • ewf (1981, Zaccaria).
  • ewfa (1981, Zaccaria, clone of ewf).
  • ewff (1981, Zaccaria, clone of ewf).

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 27 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
ewffEarth, Wind & Fire (Free Play) 1981ewf—
ewfaEarth, Wind & Fire (alternate sound) 1981ewf—
ewfEarth, Wind & Fire 1981——

Parent set: ewf — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

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.3be024e31b198011

    vpxtable-scripts: Earth Wind Fire (Zaccaria 1981).2.2.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Earth Wind Fire (Zaccaria 1981).2.2.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    3be024e31b19…

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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