diff --git a/emulators/visual-pinball.yml b/emulators/visual-pinball.yml
index 72314b7b..21a725d3 100644
--- a/emulators/visual-pinball.yml
+++ b/emulators/visual-pinball.yml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ type: standalone
 core_classification: game_engine
 source: "https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball"
 upstream: "https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball"
-profiled_date: "2026-10-04"
-source_commit: "8a9f36d227a0e71be33c36418e4e3ffc8c5c2723"
+profiled_date: "2026-10-20"
+source_commit: "e4a79a5d58df3d543ffb5360ae8458cfdf4cb7bb"
 core_version: "10.8.1"
 display_name: "Visual Pinball X"
 cores:
@@ -17,14 +17,21 @@ mode: standalone
 notes: |
   Pinball table simulator. The table is the content: .vpx and .vpt files are
   OLE Compound Documents holding the geometry, textures, sounds and a VBScript
-  program, read through POLE (src/parts/pintable.cpp:1427-1430). Every build
-  other than the Windows editor compiles the shared source set with
-  __STANDALONE__ and links libwinevbs, Wine's VBScript engine with its COM and
-  ATL headers, beside SDL3, SDL3_ttf, FreeImage, hidapi, libspatialaudio and
-  libmysofa with zlib. PinMAME, AltSound,
-  DMDUtil, DOF, FlexDMD, B2S, PUP, Serum, VNI and ScoreView are plugins staged
-  in plugins/ next to the binary (make/CMakeLists_app.txt:533-554,605-615,
-  make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:811-817, make/CMakeLists_plugins.txt:21-25,39-56).
+  program, read through POLE (src/parts/pintable.cpp:1538-1541), and a .vpz
+  pack, a zip or a plain folder of JSON part files, is read through the JSON
+  serializer instead (src/parts/pintable.cpp:1447,
+  src/utils/JSONSerializer.cpp:1096-1102). Every build other than the Windows
+  editor compiles the shared source set with __STANDALONE__ and links
+  libwinevbs, Wine's VBScript engine with its COM and ATL headers, beside SDL3,
+  SDL3_ttf, FreeImage, hidapi, libspatialaudio and libmysofa with zlib
+  (make/CMakeLists_app.txt:535-556,607-617, make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:829-835).
+  AlphaDMD, AltSound, B2S, DMDUtil, DOF, FlexDMD, HelloScript, HelloWorld,
+  Inspector, Nixie, PinMAME, PUP, RemoteControl, Serum, UpscaleDMD, VNI and WMP
+  are plugins staged in plugins/ next to the binary, ../PlugIns on macOS
+  (make/CMakeLists_plugins.txt:21-25,39-55). The player scans that folder and
+  loads every subfolder whose plugin.cfg names a library for the running
+  platform (src/core/player.cpp:145, src/core/FileLocator.cpp:216-222,
+  plugins/plugins/MsgPluginManager.cpp:425-436).
   ES-DE finds VPinballX_BGFX or VPinballX_GL and
   runs `<binary> -play <rom>`, Batocera builds the standalone tree at
   3ec37c7f9a into /usr/bin/vpinball and runs `VPinballX_GL -PrefPath <dir> -Ini
@@ -38,7 +45,7 @@ notes: |
   everything in the application folder, which is the legacy Windows 9x
   behaviour. Which one applies is decided by where VPinballX.ini is found: in
   the preferences folder gives AppPrefData, else beside the executable gives
-  AppOnly, else AppPrefData (src/core/FileLocator.h:11-25,57,63-66,
+  AppOnly, else AppPrefData (src/core/FileLocator.h:11-25,60,66-69,
   src/core/FileLocator.cpp:195-206). The preferences folder is the SDL
   preference path for VPinballX with a major.minor subfolder
   (src/core/FileLocator.cpp:46-53). Batocera's 001-default-path.patch
@@ -48,79 +55,93 @@ notes: |
   locations in order, each case-insensitively: the table's own folder, then
   user/ and scripts/ beside it, then the installation folder with user/,
   scripts/ and tables/ under it, then the preferences folder with user/ and
-  scripts/ under it (src/core/FileLocator.cpp:379-412,
-  src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:352-381). The
-  scripts/ directory the build ships carries the 71 .vbs files tables include
+  scripts/ under it (src/core/FileLocator.cpp:400-433,
+  src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:350-379). The
+  scripts/ directory the build ships carries the 73 .vbs files tables include
   by name, core.vbs and controller.vbs beside the per-manufacturer machine
   scripts (WPC.vbs, sam.vbs, s11.vbs, zac.vbs and the rest), copied from
-  src/scripts (make/CMakeLists_app.txt:631-635). The Windows editor's
+  src/scripts (make/CMakeLists_app.txt:633-637). The Windows editor's
   completion parser asks for core.vbs through the same search without a table,
   so in the seven installation and preferences locations, and shows a warning
-  box when none holds it (src/ui/win/codeview.cpp:2068-2076,
+  box when none holds it (src/ui/win/codeview.cpp:2053-2061,
   src/core/FileLocator.cpp:238-245).
   Table scripts also read four directory properties. UserDirectory is the
   table's user folder, created on demand, TablesDirectory the system documents
   folder or the installation folder when SDL reports none, MusicDirectory the
   table's music folder with an optional subfolder, ScriptsDirectory scripts/
   under the installation folder. Each fails when its directory does not exist
-  (src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:383-424, src/core/FileLocator.cpp:251-259).
-  In AppPrefData mode user/, music/, cache/ and autosave/ sit beside the table;
-  a folder missing there on a read is looked up the AppOnly way, where user/
-  hangs off the installation folder and music/ is tried under the installation
-  folder, the table folder, then the preferences folder
-  (src/core/FileLocator.cpp:267-377).
+  (src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:381-422, src/core/FileLocator.cpp:251-259).
+  In AppPrefData mode user/, music/, cache/<table name>/ and autosave/ sit
+  beside the table. A folder missing there on a read is looked up the AppOnly
+  way, where user/ hangs off the installation folder, the cache sits under
+  Cache/<table name> in the preferences folder and music/ is tried under the
+  installation folder, the table folder, then the preferences folder
+  (src/core/FileLocator.cpp:267-398).
 
   The rest of the install tree is read the same way and ships with the binary:
   assets/ holds BallEnv.exr, AODither.webp and EnvMap.webp, the first two
   loaded with no fallback (src/renderer/Renderer.cpp:176-188),
-  the bumper and kicker textures (src/parts/bumper.cpp:148,160,172,186,
-  src/parts/kicker.cpp:198-239), the segment display textures
-  (src/renderer/Renderer.cpp:1493-1510), TableSizes.csv, the table size
+  the bumper and kicker textures (src/parts/bumper.cpp:150,162,174,188,
+  src/parts/kicker.cpp:200-241), the segment display textures
+  (src/renderer/Renderer.cpp:1503-1521), TableSizes.csv, the table size
   database (src/core/TableDB.cpp:16), vpinball.png for the window icon
-  (src/renderer/Window.cpp:280), LiberationSans-Regular.ttf, the textbox font
-  used when the table folder holds no <FontName>-<Style>.ttf
-  (src/parts/textbox.cpp:701-722), the editor/ part icons
+  (src/renderer/Window.cpp:280), LiberationSans-Regular.ttf, the font textboxes
+  and decals fall back to when neither the table folder, as
+  <FontName>-<Style>.ttf, nor the table file carries the font, nor on builds
+  with the Windows SDK an installed font matches
+  (src/renderer/TextRenderer.cpp:125-196), and which PUP adds after the fonts
+  of a pack's FONTS folder (plugins/pup/PUPManager.cpp:468-475),
+  fabian-hrir.sofa, listed below, the editor/ part icons
   (src/ui/live/editor/EditorChrome.cpp:200) and four starter tables,
   blankTable.vpx, exampleTable.vpx, lightSeqTable.vpx and strippedTable.vpx:
   the live editor loads blankTable.vpx when started without a table or when
   the requested one fails to load, and its New Table menu loads any of the
-  four (src/core/AppCommands.cpp:277-283, src/ui/live/EditorUI.cpp:338-357).
+  four (src/core/AppCommands.cpp:287-293, src/ui/live/EditorUI.cpp:339-358).
   OpenGL builds also get shaders-10.8.1/, the .glfx and .fxh sources parsed at
-  runtime (src/core/FileLocator.cpp:223, src/renderer/Shader.cpp:1827-1828,2231-2234,
-  make/CMakeLists_app.txt:637-647), and the directory is not copied for the BGFX
-  renderer. Three plugins carry resources of their own: plugins/flexdmd/assets/
+  runtime (src/core/FileLocator.cpp:223, src/renderer/Shader.cpp:1803-1804,2207-2210,
+  make/CMakeLists_app.txt:639-649), and the directory is not copied for the BGFX
+  renderer. Four plugins carry resources of their own: plugins/flexdmd/assets/
   holds the bitmap fonts UltraDMD asks for by resource name, the
   FlexDMD.Resources. prefix being stripped before the lookup
   (plugins/flexdmd/UltraDMD.cpp:20-24,32-34,
-  plugins/flexdmd/resources/AssetManager.cpp:103-109,252-272),
-  plugins/scoreview/layouts/ the default .scv layouts
-  (plugins/scoreview/ScoreViewPlugin.cpp:64-77) and plugins/inspector/assets/
-  the pages of the inspector's web server
-  (plugins/inspector/InspectorPlugin.cpp:618-626).
+  plugins/flexdmd/resources/AssetManager.cpp:103-109,260-280),
+  plugins/nixie/layouts/ the default .nix layouts and the glass textures they
+  name (plugins/nixie/NixiePlugin.cpp:96-110, plugins/nixie/Nixie.cpp:45-65,104-129),
+  plugins/inspector/assets/ the pages of the inspector's web server
+  (plugins/inspector/InspectorPlugin.cpp:618-626), and plugins/pinmame/ the
+  memmaps/ and gamedefs/ trees the platform scripts fetch from
+  tomlogic/pinball-memory-maps at 68c1b33 and vpinball/pinmame-game-defs at
+  6eece7e (make/CMakeLists_plugin_PinMAME.txt:115-122, platforms/config.sh:12-13,
+  platforms/linux-x64/external.sh:252-258,558-561).
 
   Two parts of that tree ship without a reader on the desktop targets.
   docs/Changelog.txt is read by the About dialog
-  (src/ui/win/dialogs/AboutDialog.cpp:34), which sits in the Windows source
-  list only (make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:493,542-543,
+  (src/ui/win/dialogs/AboutDialog.cpp:34), which only the Windows editor
+  build reaches, the editor being compiled out of every __STANDALONE__ build
+  (src/core/stdafx.h:36-40, src/core/AppCommands.cpp:14-18,
   make/CMakeLists_app.txt:78-80), and assets/web/, vpx.html with its scripts
-  and style sheet, is served by the web server that only the iOS and Android
+  and style sheets, is served by the web server that only the iOS and Android
   library build compiles (lib/src/WebServer.cpp:92-99,
-  make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:819-825, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:679).
+  make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:837-845, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:679).
 
   PinMAME is where the emulation happens. Tables that recreate a real solid
   state machine hand a ROM name to the controller, which resolves its root as
   the pinmame folder beside the table when that folder holds roms/, else the
-  PinMAMEPath setting, else $HOME/.pinmame on Linux and macOS
-  (plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:214,322-367). libpinmame then hangs roms,
-  nvram, samples, cfg, hi, inp, memcard and sta off that root
-  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1080-1087) and reads alias.txt from
-  it, a list that renames a requested game before the driver lookup
-  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:304-337,343-346). A memmaps folder,
-  beside roms/ in the table's pinmame folder or under the PinMAMEPath setting,
-  is scanned for an index.json that maps the ROM name to an NVRAM memory map,
-  loaded with the platforms/<platform>.json it names
-  (plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:339,346-347,
-  plugins/pinmame/Controller.cpp:183-241).
+  PinMAMEPath setting, else $HOME/.pinmame on Linux and macOS, <prefpath>/pinmame
+  on iOS and Android, and the registered Visual PinMAME install folder with its
+  registry folder settings on Windows
+  (plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:216,274-294,437-509). libpinmame then hangs
+  roms, nvram, samples, cfg, hi, inp, memcard and sta off that root
+  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:85-91,1141-1146) and reads alias.txt
+  from it, a list that renames a requested game before the driver lookup
+  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:361-394,400-403). A memmaps folder,
+  beside roms/ in the table's pinmame folder, under the PinMAMEPath setting or
+  shipped in the plugin folder, is scanned for an index.json that maps the ROM
+  name to an NVRAM memory map, loaded with the platforms/<platform>.json it
+  names, and a gamedefs folder found the same way supplies
+  catalog/pinmame.json, which maps the driver to a game definition naming the
+  machine's inputs and outputs (plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:445-472,
+  plugins/pinmame/Controller.cpp:184-284).
 
   A ROM set is one zip per machine, and every ROM is looked up in the game's
   zip first, then up its parent chain (pinmame src/common.c:1343-1348).
@@ -140,19 +161,20 @@ notes: |
   (pinmame src/common.c:271), the two files that register that option live in
   src/windows/config.c and src/unix/sound.c and neither is in the libpinmame
   source list, and PinmameSetConfig zeroes the whole options struct
-  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1071). Independently, SAMPLESINTERFACE
+  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1132). Independently, SAMPLESINTERFACE
   is defined in the PinMAME tree (pinmame src/wpc/wpcsam.h:23) and no driver
   references it. history.dat and mameinfo.dat (pinmame src/datafile.c:619-623,
   649-653) are read only by displayhistory, a page of the MAME on-screen menu
   (pinmame src/usrintrf.c:2846-2851), and by the listing path in
   pinmame src/info.c:820 which libpinmame never calls. VPX passes NULL for
   fn_IsKeyPressed, the thirteenth member of PinmameConfig
-  (plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:304-320, pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.h:422-438),
+  (plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:411-427, pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.h:451-467),
   so osd_is_key_pressed always answers 0
-  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:519-525) and the menu cannot be opened.
+  (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:576-582) and the menu cannot be opened.
 
-  The pinmame observations were read at 268854a18be9ad334569b5654345c06a7d0ef521,
-  the revision the build scripts fetch (platforms/config.sh:11).
+  The pinmame observations were read at 5386aa17fbed2cf41470cea252c38ed77eac64e5,
+  the revision the build scripts fetch (platforms/config.sh:11), and the libdof
+  ones at 4908f45a5bd3b05369885b23f39465d589a32c1f (platforms/config.sh:17).
 
 files:
 
@@ -324,7 +346,7 @@ files:
     category: bios_zip
     required: false
     description: "Recel System III shared program"
-    source_ref: "pinmame src/wpc/recelgames.c:70-73, pinmame src/wpc/recel.h:119-130"
+    source_ref: "pinmame src/wpc/recelgames.c:72-75, pinmame src/wpc/recel.h:120-131"
     note: "Container set, parent of the Recel games, which declare the same two ROMs beside their own game PROM."
     contents:
       - name: a2361.b1
@@ -341,7 +363,7 @@ files:
     category: game_data
     required: false
     description: "MAME high score memory map database, read once per machine start"
-    source_ref: "pinmame src/hiscore.c:18, 223-230, pinmame src/cpuexec.c:332-334, 393, 1755, src/core/player.cpp:463-465"
+    source_ref: "pinmame src/hiscore.c:18, 223-230, pinmame src/cpuexec.c:332-334, 393, 1782, src/core/player.cpp:435-437"
     note: >-
       hs_open is called unconditionally at the top of cpu_run for every PinMAME
       machine, and the whole body sits behind `if (f)`, so an absent file is a
@@ -349,15 +371,15 @@ files:
       the player sets to the table's own folder: libpinmame sets paths for eight
       file types and FILETYPE_HIGHSCORE_DB is not among them, and the option
       table that would supply a default is linked only by the Windows COM build
-      (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1080-1087,
-      pinmame src/libpinmame/fileio.c:141, pinmame src/win32com/VPinMAMEConfig.cpp:127).
+      (pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:85-91,1141-1146,
+      pinmame src/libpinmame/fileio.c:146, pinmame src/win32com/VPinMAMEConfig.cpp:127).
 
   - name: cheat.dat
     system: vpinball
     category: game_data
     required: false
     description: "MAME cheat database, read when the PinMAME plugin's Cheat setting is on"
-    source_ref: "pinmame src/cheat.c:8434,8602-8614, pinmame src/mame.c:581-587, pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1141-1144, plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:215,373, plugins/pinmame/Controller.cpp:162"
+    source_ref: "pinmame src/cheat.c:8434,8602-8614, pinmame src/mame.c:590-596, pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1205-1208, plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:217,529, plugins/pinmame/Controller.cpp:163"
     note: >-
       Off by default: PinmameSetConfig zeroes options, and the plugin's Cheat
       setting, false unless the user changes it, is handed to PinmameSetCheat
@@ -369,18 +391,19 @@ files:
     path: "assets/fabian-hrir.sofa"
     system: vpinball
     required: false
+    bundled: true
     size: 1766147
     sha1: "5bf46cfb6472b81f4aa7fb2c87bc79afc23109d7"
     md5: "b98b60a050e3c2edfa7a59863c625c61"
     description: "FABIAN full-sphere HRIR set, the HRTF of the binaural spatial audio renderer"
-    source_ref: "src/audio/SpatialAudio.cpp:49-56,344-360, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:631-635"
+    source_ref: "src/audio/SpatialAudio.cpp:49-56,344-361, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:633-637"
     note: >-
       Read from assets/ under the installation folder when libspatialaudio is
       built with libmysofa, which every build script does. The headphone and VR
       binauralizer then runs second order ambisonics on it. A missing or
       unreadable file logs "Failed to load the binaural HRTF" and audio falls
-      back to loudspeaker decoding. The file sits in the repository's top-level
-      assets/ while the build copies src/assets, so no build output carries it.
+      back to loudspeaker decoding. The file sits in src/assets, which the build
+      copies beside the binary.
 
 analysis:
   shipped_with_the_binary:
@@ -388,85 +411,129 @@ analysis:
       Copied into the build output next to the executable and installed as one
       unit by every distribution, so they arrive with the emulator rather than
       being sourced separately.
-    source_ref: "make/CMakeLists_app.txt:631-635"
+    source_ref: "make/CMakeLists_app.txt:633-637"
     entries:
       - what: "scripts/, the .vbs library tables include"
-        source_ref: "src/core/FileLocator.cpp:379-412, src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:352-381, src/ui/win/codeview.cpp:2068-2076"
+        source_ref: "src/core/FileLocator.cpp:400-433, src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:350-379, src/ui/win/codeview.cpp:2053-2061"
       - what: "assets/, textures, segment display maps, TableSizes.csv, the window icon, the fallback font, the editor icons"
-        source_ref: "src/renderer/Renderer.cpp:176-188,1493-1510, src/parts/bumper.cpp:148,160,172,186, src/parts/kicker.cpp:198-239, src/core/TableDB.cpp:16, src/renderer/Window.cpp:280, src/parts/textbox.cpp:719-720, src/ui/live/editor/EditorChrome.cpp:200"
+        source_ref: "src/renderer/Renderer.cpp:176-188,1503-1521, src/parts/bumper.cpp:150,162,174,188, src/parts/kicker.cpp:200-241, src/core/TableDB.cpp:16, src/renderer/Window.cpp:280, src/renderer/TextRenderer.cpp:184-185, plugins/pup/PUPManager.cpp:472-474, src/ui/live/editor/EditorChrome.cpp:200"
       - what: "assets/blankTable.vpx, exampleTable.vpx, lightSeqTable.vpx, strippedTable.vpx"
-        source_ref: "src/core/AppCommands.cpp:277-283, src/ui/live/EditorUI.cpp:338-357"
+        source_ref: "src/core/AppCommands.cpp:287-293, src/ui/live/EditorUI.cpp:339-358"
         note: "The live editor's default table and its four New Table templates."
       - what: "shaders-10.8.1/, .glfx and .fxh parsed at runtime by the OpenGL renderer"
-        source_ref: "src/core/FileLocator.cpp:223, src/renderer/Shader.cpp:1827-1828, src/renderer/Shader.cpp:2231-2234, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:637-647"
+        source_ref: "src/core/FileLocator.cpp:223, src/renderer/Shader.cpp:1803-1804, src/renderer/Shader.cpp:2207-2210, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:639-649"
+      - what: "plugins/<name>/plugin.cfg, the descriptor naming each plugin's library"
+        source_ref: "src/core/player.cpp:145, plugins/plugins/MsgPluginManager.cpp:425-436"
       - what: "plugins/flexdmd/assets/, the bitmap fonts UltraDMD names as FlexDMD.Resources.*"
-        source_ref: "plugins/flexdmd/UltraDMD.cpp:20-24,32-34, plugins/flexdmd/resources/AssetManager.cpp:103-109,252-272, make/CMakeLists_plugin_FlexDMD.txt:179-182"
-      - what: "plugins/scoreview/layouts/, the default score view layouts"
-        source_ref: "plugins/scoreview/ScoreViewPlugin.cpp:64-77, make/CMakeLists_plugin_ScoreView.txt:92"
+        source_ref: "plugins/flexdmd/UltraDMD.cpp:20-24,32-34, plugins/flexdmd/resources/AssetManager.cpp:103-109,260-280, make/CMakeLists_plugin_FlexDMD.txt:179-182"
+      - what: "plugins/nixie/layouts/, the default .nix score display layouts and their glass textures"
+        source_ref: "plugins/nixie/NixiePlugin.cpp:96-110, plugins/nixie/Nixie.cpp:45-65,104-129, make/CMakeLists_plugin_Nixie.txt:92-95"
+        note: >-
+          The last source each of the backglass, score view and topper windows
+          falls back to. Every .nix file in the folder is parsed, and a file is
+          kept only when it parses completely.
       - what: "plugins/inspector/assets/, the inspector web pages"
         source_ref: "plugins/inspector/InspectorPlugin.cpp:618-626, make/CMakeLists_plugin_Inspector.txt:96"
+      - what: "plugins/pinmame/memmaps/ and plugins/pinmame/gamedefs/, the NVRAM memory maps and game definitions"
+        source_ref: "make/CMakeLists_plugin_PinMAME.txt:115-122, plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:465-472, platforms/config.sh:12-13, platforms/linux-x64/external.sh:252-258,558-561"
+        note: >-
+          Copied only when the platform script has fetched them into
+          third-party/: index.json, maps/ and platforms/ from
+          tomlogic/pinball-memory-maps, catalog/, machines/ and controllers/
+          from vpinball/pinmame-game-defs. A table's own pinmame folder or the
+          PinMAMEPath setting takes precedence.
 
   shipped_without_a_reader:
     note: "Copied into the build output but unreachable in the desktop standalone binary"
     entries:
       - what: "docs/Changelog.txt"
-        source_ref: "src/ui/win/dialogs/AboutDialog.cpp:34, make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:542-543, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:634"
-        note: "The About dialog is in the Windows editor source list only."
+        source_ref: "src/ui/win/dialogs/AboutDialog.cpp:34, src/core/stdafx.h:36-40, src/core/AppCommands.cpp:14-18, make/CMakeLists_app.txt:636"
+        note: "The About dialog belongs to the Windows editor, compiled out of every standalone build."
       - what: "assets/web/, vpx.html and the files it pulls"
-        source_ref: "lib/src/WebServer.cpp:92-99, make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:819-825"
+        source_ref: "lib/src/WebServer.cpp:92-99, make/CMakeLists_sources.txt:837-845"
         note: "The web server is compiled into the iOS and Android library build only."
 
   user_supplied_paths:
     note: "Per table, keyed on the table folder or the ROM name"
     entries:
       - what: "PinMAME ROM sets, <pinmame root>/roms/<romname>.zip"
-        source_ref: "plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:322-367, pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1080"
+        source_ref: "plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:437-509, pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:86,1141-1143"
         note: >-
           One zip per machine. The root is the pinmame folder beside the table
           when it holds roms/, else the PinMAMEPath setting, else $HOME/.pinmame
-          on Linux and macOS. Batocera patches that last fallback to
-          <prefpath>/pinmame.
+          on Linux and macOS and <prefpath>/pinmame on iOS and Android.
+          Batocera patches the Linux fallback to <prefpath>/pinmame. On Windows
+          the last resort is the registered Visual PinMAME install folder, whose
+          rompath, nvram, samples, cfg and hiscore registry settings replace
+          the default subfolders.
       - what: "PinMAME game aliases, <pinmame root>/alias.txt"
-        source_ref: "pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:304-337,343-346"
+        source_ref: "pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:361-394,400-403"
         note: "Optional. Each line pairs a requested game name with the ROM set loaded in its place."
       - what: "NVRAM memory maps, memmaps/index.json and the map files it names"
-        source_ref: "plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:339,346-347, plugins/pinmame/Controller.cpp:183-241"
+        source_ref: "plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:448,459-460,468-469, plugins/pinmame/Controller.cpp:184-242"
         note: >-
           Optional. index.json maps the ROM name to a map file, whose
           _metadata.platform names the platforms/<platform>.json loaded with it.
+      - what: "game definitions, gamedefs/catalog/pinmame.json and the definition it names"
+        source_ref: "plugins/pinmame/PinMAMEPlugin.cpp:449,461-462,470-471, plugins/pinmame/Controller.cpp:244-284"
+        note: "Optional. The catalog's drivers array maps the ROM name to a definition file under gamedefs/."
       - what: "backglass, <table basename>.directb2s, else <table folder name>.directb2s"
-        source_ref: "plugins/b2s/B2SServer.cpp:33-45, plugins/b2slegacy/forms/FormBackglass.cpp:370-378,411-423"
-        note: "The legacy plugin checks the file version against the B2S server version on load."
+        source_ref: "plugins/b2s/B2SServer.cpp:317-323,446-463,487-491, plugins/b2s/B2SPlugin.cpp:76"
+        note: >-
+          Looked up in the table folder, or in the WorkingDir a table script
+          sets. Edits made in the plugin's backglass editor are written back to
+          the file through a temporary file renamed over it
+          (plugins/b2s/B2SServer.cpp:107-109).
       - what: "Serum colorizations, <table folder>/serum/<rom>/<rom>.cROMc or .cRZ, else the SerumPath setting"
-        source_ref: "plugins/serum/serum.cpp:49,561-602"
+        source_ref: "plugins/serum/serum.cpp:51,727-771"
         note: "A namespace folder may sit above the ROM folder, and PinMAME games are also looked up in <table folder>/pinmame/altcolor."
       - what: "VNI colorizations, <table folder>/vni/<rom>/<rom>.pal with an optional .vni, else the VniPath setting"
         source_ref: "plugins/vni/vni.cpp:39,326-376"
         note: "pin2dmd.pal and pin2dmd.vni are accepted in the same folder, and PinMAME games are also looked up in <table folder>/pinmame/altcolor."
       - what: "alternative sound packages, <table folder>/altsound/<rom>, else <table folder>/pinmame/altsound/<rom>, else the plugin's Folder setting"
-        source_ref: "plugins/altsound/AltSoundPlugin.cpp:28,110-143"
+        source_ref: "plugins/altsound/AltSoundPlugin.cpp:28,114-151"
+        note: "The library appends altsound/<rom> to the parent of the folder found, so that folder must be named altsound with this exact case."
       - what: "PUP video packs, <table folder>/pupvideos/<rom>, else pupvideos/ under the PUPFolder setting"
-        source_ref: "plugins/pup/PUPManager.cpp:129-157, plugins/pup/PUPPlugin.cpp:64,292-294"
-      - what: "score view layout, <table basename>.scv, else <table folder name>.scv, else the LayoutFolder setting"
-        source_ref: "plugins/scoreview/ScoreViewPlugin.cpp:23,46-62"
+        source_ref: "plugins/pup/PUPManager.cpp:136-164, plugins/pup/PUPPlugin.cpp:66,298-309"
+        note: "A namespace folder may sit above the ROM folder."
+      - what: "Nixie layouts, <table basename>.nix, else <table folder name>.nix, else the LayoutFolder setting"
+        source_ref: "plugins/nixie/NixiePlugin.cpp:23,60-113, plugins/nixie/Nixie.cpp:45-65,104-129"
+        note: >-
+          The setting names one .nix file or a folder of them. Each window walks
+          the chain on its own and stops at the first source with a layout
+          targeting it. Glass and picture images are read relative to the
+          layout file.
+      - what: "DOF configuration, <prefpath>/directoutputconfig/GlobalConfig_B2SServer.xml, else ./directoutputconfig/ under the working directory"
+        source_ref: "plugins/dof/DOFPlugin.cpp:288-293, libdof src/DOF.cpp:36-45"
+        note: "The global configuration names the cabinet and table configuration files libdof reads next."
       - what: "table music, music/ beside the table"
-        source_ref: "src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:122-136, src/core/FileLocator.cpp:267-377"
+        source_ref: "src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:120-134, src/core/FileLocator.cpp:267-398"
         note: "In the legacy layout, music/ under the installation folder, then the table folder, then the preferences folder."
-      - what: "textbox fonts, <table folder>/<FontName>-<Style>.ttf"
-        source_ref: "src/parts/textbox.cpp:701-722"
+      - what: "textbox and decal fonts, <table folder>/<FontName>-<Style>.ttf"
+        source_ref: "src/renderer/TextRenderer.cpp:116-153, src/parts/textbox.cpp:602, src/parts/decal.cpp:135"
+        note: "A font embedded in the table file is tried next."
       - what: "table sidecars, the .vbs script override, the per-table .ini and the legacy .pov"
-        source_ref: "src/parts/pintable.cpp:1325-1331, src/parts/pintable.cpp:1383-1399, src/parts/pintable.h:560-587"
+        source_ref: "src/parts/pintable.cpp:1495-1511, src/parts/pintable.cpp:1058-1110, src/parts/pintable.h:599-613"
+        note: >-
+          The .vbs is searched like a script library under the table's name,
+          then beside the table under its folder's name. The .ini takes the
+          table's name, then its folder's name, a settings profile variant of
+          each being tried first. The .pov is imported only when no .ini
+          exists, else autopov.pov when present.
 
   generated_files:
     - what: "VPinballX.ini, the settings file"
-      source_ref: "src/core/VPApp.cpp:270-284, src/core/AppCommands.cpp:533-539"
+      source_ref: "src/core/VPApp.cpp:293-307, src/core/AppCommands.cpp:543-549"
       note: >-
         Looked up in the preferences folder, then beside the binary. When
         neither holds one the preferences path is kept. -Ini names another file.
         Batocera seeds it from the assets/Default_VPinballX.ini its pinned tree
         carries and rewrites it before every launch.
     - what: "VPReg.ini, values saved by table scripts in the table's user folder, and vpinball.log in the preferences folder"
-      source_ref: "src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:527-557, src/utils/Logger.cpp:164-165"
+      source_ref: "src/core/ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:525-558, src/utils/Logger.cpp:160-161"
+    - what: "<table>.info, the frontend information file beside the table"
+      source_ref: "src/parts/pintable.cpp:1113-1124,1190-1215, src/parts/pintable.h:615-616, src/core/player.cpp:985,999"
+      note: "Only its VPX section is written, with the run count, the last run date and the play time."
     - what: "PinMAME state: nvram/, cfg/, hi/, inp/, memcard/ and sta/"
-      source_ref: "pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:1081,1083-1087"
+      source_ref: "pinmame src/libpinmame/libpinmame.cpp:87,89-90,1144-1146"
       note: "Written by PinMAME as the machine runs."