Firepower

Partial

Williams1980williams.firepower.1980 1 of 4 editions

OPDB IPDB williams/firepower-1980.mdwilliams/firepower-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
frpwr_l6

12 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
17–84 (8)
Solenoids
2–3 (2)

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.

8 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
65–72
73–80
81–88
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
8 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
17
Combo Trigger1
switch.combo-trigger1 candidate
18
Combo Trigger1
switch.combo-trigger1-18 candidate
19
Combo Trigger2
switch.combo-trigger2 candidate
21
Combo Trigger3
switch.combo-trigger3 candidate
22
Combo Trigger3
switch.combo-trigger3-22 candidate
23
Combo Trigger4
switch.combo-trigger4 candidate
82
Toggle AI
switch.toggle-ai candidate
84
Toggle AI
switch.toggle-ai-84 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

2
2 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
LBank Reset
coil.lbank-reset candidate
3
RBank Reset
coil.rbank-reset 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.frpwr_l6 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 frpwr_l6, description "Firepower (L-6)", manufacturer "Williams", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record G5VDd-MJpqO (IPDB 856) names this machine "Firepower" (Williams, manufacture date 1980-02-01); 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 frpwr_l6; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • frpwr_a6 (2008, Williams / Oliver, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_b6 (2003, Williams / Oliver, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_b7 (2003, Williams / Oliver, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_c6 (2008, Williams / Oliver, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_c7 (2006, Williams / Oliver, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_d6 (2008, Williams / Oliver, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_l2 (1980, Williams, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_l2ff (1980, Williams, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_l6 (1980, Williams).
  • frpwr_l6ff (1980, Williams, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_t6 (1980, Williams, clone of frpwr_l6).
  • frpwr_t6ff (1980, Williams, clone of frpwr_l6).

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 10 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
frpwr_d6Firepower (Sys.6/6-digit /10 Scoring rev. 31) 2008frpwr_l6—
frpwr_c6Firepower (Sys.6/7-digit conversion rev. 31) 2008frpwr_l6—
frpwr_a6Firepower (Sys.6/6-digit conversion rev. 31) 2008frpwr_l6—
frpwr_c7Firepower (Sys.7/7-digit conversion rev. 38) 2006frpwr_l6—
frpwr_b7Firepower (Sys.7/7-digit conversion) 2003frpwr_l6—
frpwr_b6Firepower (Sys.6/7-digit conversion) 2003frpwr_l6—
frpwr_t6ffFirepower (T-6 Ted Estes Free Play Fix) 1980frpwr_l6—
frpwr_t6Firepower (T-6 Ted Estes) 1980frpwr_l6—

Parent set: frpwr_l6 — 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.

frpwr_l6.map.json

williams-system6-7.5Kv3format 0.8

maps/williams/system6/frpwr_l6.map.json

Applies to ROMs
frpwr_l2frpwr_l2fffrpwr_l6frpwr_l6fffrpwr_t6frpwr_t6ff
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scoresplayer_state
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-system6-7.5K 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.5d333bb5c0387e11

    vpxtable-scripts: FirePower(Vs A.I.)V3.7.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in FirePower(Vs A.I.)V3.7.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    5d333bb5c038…

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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Other editions

Firepower shipped in 4 editions with different playfields. Compare what each one actually has before building against this definition.

All 4 editions of Firepower, side by side