Independence Day

Partial

Sega1996sega.independence-day.1996

OPDB IPDB sega/independence-day-1996.mdsega/independence-day-1996.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
id4

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
9–62 (41)
Solenoids
2–34 (5)
Lamps
1–128 (69)

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.

41 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
49–56
57–64
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
41 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
9
Trigger9
switch.trigger9 candidate
16
Trigger16
switch.trigger16 candidate
18
Trigger18
switch.trigger18 candidate
19
Trigger19
switch.trigger19 candidate
20
Trigger20
switch.trigger20 candidate
21
Trigger21
switch.trigger21 candidate
22
Trigger22
switch.trigger22 candidate
23
Trigger23
switch.trigger23 candidate
24
Superjackpot SU
switch.superjackpot-su candidate
25
Mini Loop SU
switch.mini-loop-su candidate
27
Center Ramp SU
switch.center-ramp-su candidate
28
Right Ramp Left SU
switch.right-ramp-left-su candidate
29
Right Ramp Right SU
switch.right-ramp-right-su candidate
30
Trigger30
switch.trigger30 candidate
31
Trigger31
switch.trigger31 candidate
32
Trigger32
switch.trigger32 candidate
33
Area51 Top
switch.area51-top candidate
34
Area51 Mid
switch.area51-mid candidate
35
Hurry Up Top
switch.hurry-up-top candidate
36
Hurry Up Mid
switch.hurry-up-mid candidate
37
Trigger37
switch.trigger37 candidate
38
Trigger38
switch.trigger38 candidate
39
Trigger39
switch.trigger39 candidate
40
Trigger40
switch.trigger40 candidate
41
Rear Vuk
switch.rear-vuk candidate
42
Trigger Alien Head Opto
switch.trigger-alien-head-opto candidate
43
Rear Vuk
switch.rear-vuk-43 candidate
45
Front Vuk
switch.front-vuk candidate
46
Side Vuk
switch.side-vuk candidate
47
Area51 Bot
switch.area51-bot candidate
48
Hurry Up Bot
switch.hurry-up-bot candidate
49
Left Bumper
switch.left-bumper candidate
50
Bot Bumper
switch.bot-bumper candidate
51
Right Bumper
switch.right-bumper candidate
52
Open Alien
switch.open-alien candidate
57
Trigger57
switch.trigger57 candidate
58
Trigger58
switch.trigger58 candidate
59
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
60
Trigger60
switch.trigger60 candidate
61
Trigger61
switch.trigger61 candidate
62
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot 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
Auto Plunger
coil.auto-plunger candidate
17
Sol Lockout
coil.sol-lockout candidate
19
LGate
coil.lgate candidate
20
RGate
coil.rgate candidate
34
Open Alien
coil.open-alien candidate

Lamps

69

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
57–64
65–72
73–80
81–88
89–96
97–104
105–112
113–120
121–128
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
69 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Light1
lamp.light1 candidate
2
Light2
lamp.light2 candidate
3
Light3
lamp.light3 candidate
4
Light4
lamp.light4 candidate
5
Light5
lamp.light5 candidate
6
Light6
lamp.light6 candidate
7
Light7
lamp.light7 candidate
8
Light8
lamp.light8 candidate
9
Light9
lamp.light9 candidate
10
Light10
lamp.light10 candidate
11
Light11
lamp.light11 candidate
12
Light12
lamp.light12 candidate
13
Light13
lamp.light13 candidate
14
Light14
lamp.light14 candidate
15
Light15
lamp.light15 candidate
16
Light16
lamp.light16 candidate
17
Light17
lamp.light17 candidate
18
Light18
lamp.light18 candidate
19
Light19
lamp.light19 candidate
20
Light20
lamp.light20 candidate
21
Light21
lamp.light21 candidate
22
Light22
lamp.light22 candidate
23
Light23
lamp.light23 candidate
24
Light24
lamp.light24 candidate
25
Light25
lamp.light25 candidate
26
Light26
lamp.light26 candidate
27
Light27
lamp.light27 candidate
28
Light28
lamp.light28 candidate
29
Light29
lamp.light29 candidate
30
Light30
lamp.light30 candidate
31
Light31
lamp.light31 candidate
32
Light32
lamp.light32 candidate
33
Light33
lamp.light33 candidate
34
Light34
lamp.light34 candidate
35
Light35
lamp.light35 candidate
36
Light36
lamp.light36 candidate
37
Light37
lamp.light37 candidate
38
Light38
lamp.light38 candidate
39
Light39
lamp.light39 candidate
41
Light41
lamp.light41 candidate
42
Light42
lamp.light42 candidate
43
Light43
lamp.light43 candidate
44
Light44
lamp.light44 candidate
45
Light45
lamp.light45 candidate
46
Light46
lamp.light46 candidate
47
Light47
lamp.light47 candidate
48
Light48
lamp.light48 candidate
49
Light49
lamp.light49 candidate
50
Light50
lamp.light50 candidate
51
Light51
lamp.light51 candidate
52
Light52
lamp.light52 candidate
53
Light53
lamp.light53 candidate
54
Light54
lamp.light54 candidate
55
Light55
lamp.light55 candidate
56
Light56
lamp.light56 candidate
58
Light58
lamp.light58 candidate
59
Light59
lamp.light59 candidate
60
Light60
lamp.light60 candidate
61
Light61
lamp.light61 candidate
62
Light62
lamp.light62 candidate
63
Light63
lamp.light63 candidate
65
Light65
lamp.light65 candidate
106
S106
lamp.s106 candidate
107
S107
lamp.s107 candidate
123
S123
lamp.s123 candidate
125
S125
lamp.s125 candidate
126
S126
lamp.s126 candidate
127
S127
lamp.s127 candidate
128
S128
lamp.s128 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.id4 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 id4, description "ID4: Independence Day (2.02)", manufacturer "Sega", catalog year "1996".
  • OPDB record G4doQ-MKNN9 (IPDB 3878) names this machine "Independence Day" (Sega, manufacture date 1996-01-01); 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 id4; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • id4 (1996, Sega).
  • id4_201 (1996, Sega, clone of id4).
  • id4_201f (1996, Sega, clone of id4).
  • id4f (1996, Sega, clone of id4).

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 115 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
id4fID4: Independence Day (2.02 French) 1996id4—
id4_201fID4: Independence Day (2.01 French) 1996id4—
id4_201ID4: Independence Day (2.01) 1996id4—
id4ID4: Independence Day (2.02) 1996——

Parent set: id4 — 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.

id4.map.json

whitestarv6format 0.8

maps/sega/whitestar/id4.map.json

Applies to ROMs
id4id4_201id4_201fid4f
Sections
game_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

whitestar 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.a987381758ac535a

    vpxtable-scripts: Independence Day (SEGA 1996) 2.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Independence Day (SEGA 1996) 2.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    a987381758ac…

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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