House of Diamonds

Partial

Zaccaria1978zaccaria.house-of-diamonds.1978

OPDB IPDB zaccaria/house-of-diamonds-1978.mdzaccaria/house-of-diamonds-1978.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
hod

2 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
17–39 (23)

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.

23 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.
23 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
17
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
18
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
19
Right Inlane
switch.right-inlane candidate
20
Right Outlane
switch.right-outlane candidate
21
Left Inlane
switch.left-inlane candidate
22
Left Outlane
switch.left-outlane candidate
23
Spinner1
switch.spinner1 candidate
24
Drop5a
switch.drop5a candidate
25
Drop4a
switch.drop4a candidate
26
Drop3a
switch.drop3a candidate
27
Drop2a
switch.drop2a candidate
28
Drop1a
switch.drop1a candidate
29
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
30
Spot1 A
switch.spot1-a candidate
31
Side1
switch.side1 candidate
32
Drop10a
switch.drop10a candidate
33
Drop9a
switch.drop9a candidate
34
Drop8a
switch.drop8a candidate
35
Drop7a
switch.drop7a candidate
36
Drop6a
switch.drop6a candidate
37
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
38
Spot2 A
switch.spot2-a candidate
39
Trigger1
switch.trigger1 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.hod 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 hod, description "House of Diamonds", manufacturer "Zaccaria", catalog year "1978".
  • OPDB record GRVpL-MJjPR (IPDB 3165) names this machine "House of Diamonds" (Zaccaria, manufacture date 1978-07-01); 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 hod; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • hod (1978, Zaccaria).
  • hodf (1978, Zaccaria, clone of hod).

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 23 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
hodfHouse of Diamonds (Free Play) 1978hod—
hodHouse of Diamonds 1978——

Parent set: hod — 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.

hod.map.json

zaccaria-gen1v1format 0.7

maps/zaccaria/gen1/hod.map.json

Applies to ROMs
hod
Sections
game_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

zaccaria-gen1 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.bc2951adc45740f9

    vpxtable-scripts: House of Diamonds (Zaccaria 1978).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in House of Diamonds (Zaccaria 1978).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    bc2951adc457…

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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