The X Files

Partial

Sega1997sega.the-x-files.1997

OPDB IPDB sega/the-x-files-1997.mdsega/the-x-files-1997.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
xfiles

5 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
10–62 (37)
Solenoids
3–32 (13)

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.

37 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.
37 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
Drain
switch.drain candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
17
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
27
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
28
Sw28
switch.sw28 candidate
29
Sw29
switch.sw29 candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
Sol Trapdoor
switch.sol-trapdoor candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
46
Sw46
switch.sw46 candidate
47
Sw47
switch.sw47 candidate
48
Sw48
switch.sw48 candidate
49
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
50
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
51
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
57
Sw57
switch.sw57 candidate
58
Sw58
switch.sw58 candidate
59
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
60
Sw60
switch.sw60 candidate
61
Sw61
switch.sw61 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

13
13 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
3
VUK
coil.vuk candidate
17
Sol Trapdoor
coil.sol-trapdoor candidate
18
Sol Rampdiv
coil.sol-rampdiv candidate
19
Sol Loopdiv
coil.sol-loopdiv candidate
22
Flasher22
coil.flasher22 candidate
25
Flasher25
coil.flasher25 candidate
26
Flasher26
coil.flasher26 candidate
27
Flasher27
coil.flasher27 candidate
28
Flasher28
coil.flasher28 candidate
29
Flasher29
coil.flasher29 candidate
30
Flasher30
coil.flasher30 candidate
31
Flasher31
coil.flasher31 candidate
32
Flasher32
coil.flasher32 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.xfiles 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 xfiles, description "X-Files, The (3.03)", manufacturer "Sega", catalog year "1997".
  • OPDB record G4jPq-MQdlK (IPDB 4137) names this machine "The X Files" (Sega, manufacture date 1997-09-01); 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 xfiles; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • xfiles (1997, Sega).
  • xfiles2 (1997, Sega, clone of xfiles).
  • xfiles20 (1997, Sega, clone of xfiles).
  • xfiles304 (2023, Sega, clone of xfiles).
  • xfilesf (1997, Sega, clone of xfiles).

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 50 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
xfiles304X-Files, The (3.04 unofficial MOD) 2023xfiles—
xfilesfX-Files, The (3.03 French) 1997xfiles—
xfiles20X-Files, The (2.00) 1997xfiles—
xfiles2X-Files, The (2.04) 1997xfiles—
xfilesX-Files, The (3.03) 1997——

Parent set: xfiles — 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.

xfiles.map.json

whitestarv7format 0.8

maps/sega/whitestar/xfiles.map.json

Applies to ROMs
xfilesxfiles2xfiles20xfiles304xfilesf
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.63e44aa3ec2984a8

    vpx-standalone-scripts: X-Files Hanibal 4k LED Edition/X-Files Hanibal 4k LED Edition.vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in X-Files Hanibal 4k LED Edition/X-Files Hanibal 4k LED Edition.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    63e44aa3ec29…

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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