TX-Sector

Partial

Gottlieb1988gottlieb.tx-sector.1988

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/tx-sector-1988.mdgottlieb/tx-sector-1988.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
txsector

6 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
35–76 (21)
Solenoids
1–9 (9)

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.

21 addresses

Switch map

Column × row matrix — the address is column·row.

used unused
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
3
4
5
6
7
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
21 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
46
Sw46l
switch.sw46l candidate
52
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
54
Sw54
switch.sw54 candidate
55
Sw55
switch.sw55 candidate
56
Sw56
switch.sw56 candidate
62
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
63
Sw63
switch.sw63 candidate
64
Sw64
switch.sw64 candidate
65
Sw65
switch.sw65 candidate
66
Sw66
switch.sw66 candidate
72
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
73
Sw73
switch.sw73 candidate
74
Sw74
switch.sw74 candidate
75
Sw75
switch.sw75 candidate
76
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

9
9 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol1
coil.sol1 candidate
2
Sol2
coil.sol2 candidate
3
Drops Right
coil.drops-right candidate
4
Drops Top
coil.drops-top candidate
5
Sol5
coil.sol5 candidate
6
Sol6
coil.sol6 candidate
7
Drops Single
coil.drops-single candidate
8
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
9
Sol Outhole
coil.sol-outhole 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.txsector 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 txsector, description "TX-Sector", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1988".
  • OPDB record GRLzj-MJPYK (IPDB 2699) names this machine "TX-Sector" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1988-03-01); 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 txsector; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • txsecffp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of txsector).
  • txsecgfp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of txsector).
  • txsectfp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of txsector).
  • txsector (1988, Gottlieb).
  • txsectrf (1988, Gottlieb, clone of txsector).
  • txsectrg (1988, Gottlieb, clone of txsector).

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 30 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
txsectrgTX-Sector (German) 1988txsector—
txsectrfTX-Sector (French) 1988txsector—
txsectorTX-Sector 1988——
txsectfpTX-Sector (Free Play) 1988txsector—
txsecgfpTX-Sector (German Free Play) 1988txsector—
txsecffpTX-Sector (French Free Play) 1988txsector—

Parent set: txsector — 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.

80b-8digit-C-10KB.map.json

gottlieb-system80b-10Kv4format 0.8

maps/gottlieb/system80b/80b-8digit-C-10KB.map.json

Applies to ROMs
txsecffptxsecgfptxsectfptxsector
Also covers
arenaarenaaarena_fparenaafparenaffparenagfpdiamonddiamonfpdiamngfpdiamnffprobowarsrobowrfp
Sections
adjustmentsauditsdip_switchesgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

gottlieb-system80b-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.5970a1bdbf1189f4

    vpx-standalone-scripts: TX-Sector (Gottlieb 1988) SG1bsoN Mod V1.1/TX-Sector (Gottlieb 1988) SG1bsoN Mod V1.1.vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in TX-Sector (Gottlieb 1988) SG1bsoN Mod V1.1/TX-Sector (Gottlieb 1988) SG1bsoN Mod V1.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    5970a1bdbf11…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.1d100ed472771b00

    vpxtable-scripts: VP10_TX_SECTOR_Dozer_RTM.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in VP10_TX_SECTOR_Dozer_RTM.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    1d100ed47277…

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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