libretro/emulators/future-pinball.yml

emulator: "Future Pinball"
type: standalone
core_classification: game_engine
source: "https://futurepinball.com/"
upstream: closed-source
version_source:
  url: "https://futurepinball.com/home.html"
  pattern: 'The current version is ([0-9.]+)'
profiled_date: "2026-08-11"
core_version: "1.9.1.20101231"
version_basis:
  kind: package
  url: "https://futurepinball.com/home.html"
  artifact: "Future Pinball release labelled 1.9.1.20101231 on futurepinball.com, Future Pinball.exe"
display_name: "Future Pinball"
cores:
  - fpinball
  - future-pinball
systems:
  - fpinball
mode: standalone

notes: |
  Closed-source Windows pinball simulator and table editor written by Chris
  Leathley for BSP Software Design Solutions. Development stopped with
  v1.9.1.20101231, still served from futurepinball.com. Rendering is OpenGL
  (88 imports from opengl32 and 4 from glu32). ddraw is loaded by name only to
  call DirectDrawCreateEx while enumerating display modes. Physics come from
  Newton Game Dynamics, audio from FMOD 3, image decoding from DevIL and the
  script editor from Scintilla. The binary registers its own type library at
  startup through LoadTypeLib and RegisterTypeLib on its own path, which is the
  registration RetroBat checks under TypeLib\{FB22A459-4AD0-4CB3-B959-15158F7139F5}
  before deciding to relaunch elevated.
  ref: Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 import directory, .text:0x0042c7a2-0x0042c82e

  The release is named 1.9.1.20101231 but the executable inside it carries
  FileVersion 1.9.2008.1225 in its version resource and prints
  "Version 1.9.1.20091231" in its own banner. The executable unpacked from
  FuturePinballSetup_v1.9.1.20101231.exe has sha256
  da400d3b80ab855a6a6f63fd1b552cb9900cd3355925e6086a2d409df3b27a2d.
  ref: Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .rsrc version, .text:0x0043d288-0x0043d298

  Every relative path below hangs off one root. At startup GetModuleFileNameA
  fills a buffer, the code scans back to the last backslash and terminates the
  string just after it, and that install directory with its trailing separator
  is kept for the life of the process.
  ref: Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x00432af0-0x00432b49

  A table is an OLE compound document with the .fpt extension and it carries
  its own media. Every FMOD load passes FSOUND_LOADMEMORY (mode 0x8130 for
  samples, 0x4000a130 for streams) and images go through ilLoadL, the memory
  lump entry point, never ilLoadImage. So sounds, music and textures are read
  out of the table file and no external media is opened while a table plays.
  ref: Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x00457ede,0x00457f6f,0x00457fe6,0x0045805b,0x004417f6

  What a table can pull from outside itself is a resource library, an .fpl
  file that is also an OLE compound document. A library the table names is
  opened by StgOpenStorage on the name as written, which resolves
  against the table's own folder, and on failure against the install directory
  plus "Libraries\". Both failing raises "Unabled to Open Library - '<name>'"
  followed by "There will be some functions missing from the game." as a warning
  box, and the program carries on.
  ref: Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the name
  as written), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\, name, second StgOpenStorage),
  0x4e6e1c-0x4e6eb7 (string resources 149 and 150, MessageBoxA with MB_ICONWARNING)

  A table script reaches outside itself through LoadExternalScript, whose result
  is handed to VBScript's ExecuteGlobal. When the reference ends in .fpl the
  script is pulled from that library, otherwise the name is tried as given
  against the working directory, then under the install directory with the
  "Scripts\" prefix, then with "Tables\", and a miss reports
  "Unable to load external script". No Scripts directory ships, so what it holds
  is whatever a given table asks for.
  ref: Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004797c0 0x47985a-0x479881 (lstrcmpiA of the
  extension with fpl, then FUN_00478d20, which reaches the library opener FUN_004e6cf0
  through FUN_004ed9c0 at 0x4eda31), 0x479891, 0x4798a7, 0x4798bd (FUN_00478be0 bare, with
  Scripts\, with Tables\), 0x4798dc (the error string), FUN_00478be0 0x478c60 (CreateFileA
  GENERIC_READ OPEN_EXISTING)

  Settings live in the registry under HKCU\Software\Future Pinball, split into
  GamePlayer, GamePlayer\Joypads and Editor keys. There is no ini file.
  RetroBat writes resolution, aspect ratio, camera, render preset and the whole
  joypad map there before launching. Per table state is a compound file,
  fpRam\<table>.fpRAM under the install directory, holding one nvRam stream.
  Nothing in the program verifies a size or a hash on any file it opens, so the
  figures recorded below are those of the 1.9.1.20101231 release and are
  informative.
  ref: Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_0046fac0 0x46faf4-0x46fb65 (HKCU
  0x80000001, Software\Future Pinball\ plus the key, RegOpenKeyExA,
  RegQueryValueExA), 0x46fbbc-0x46fc32 (the same key, RegCreateKeyExA,
  RegSetValueExA), FUN_004362e0 0x43639b (GamePlayer), FUN_0043bc40 0x43bc6e
  (GamePlayer\Joypads), FUN_00431e30 0x431e55 (Editor), FUN_004755a0
  0x4755da-0x47562f (install directory, fpRam\, table name, .fpRAM),
  0x475752 (StgOpenStorage read, failure skips the restore at 0x47575a),
  0x475770 (nvRam stream), FUN_00475830 0x475892-0x475927 (same path,
  StgCreateDocfile), FUN_00439f60 0x43aa5f-0x43aab7 (same path, DeleteFileA),
  retrobat emulatorLauncher/Generators/Fpinball.Generator.cs:326-491

  Front ends drive it with the switches /Open "<table>", /Play, /Exit and
  /ArcadeRender, which WinMain compares beside RegServer, UnregServer,
  Minimise, DemoMode and TableNumber. ES-DE declares it for Windows only, as
  FUTURE-PINBALL finding "Future Pinball.exe" and as FUTURE-PINBALL-FPLOADER finding
  "BAM\FPLoader.exe", both invoked with /Exit /Play /Open. The fpinball system
  is a placeholder on its six other platforms. RetroBat maps the emulator keys
  fpinball and bam to one generator, one install folder and the same
  "Future Pinball.exe" presence check, swapping only the launched binary, and
  optionally starts dmdext against DmdDevice.ini to mirror the DMD. BAM is
  ravarcade's loader: FPLoader.exe starts the same executable with BAM.dll
  injected, and it names none of its own files from inside Future Pinball.
  ref: es-de resources/systems/windows/es_find_rules.xml:438-461,
  es-de resources/systems/windows/es_systems.xml,
  Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 WinMain FUN_0042c480 0x42c5f0-0x42c710,
  retrobat emulatorLauncher/Generators/Fpinball.Generator.cs:109-181

files:

  # -- Bound in the import directory, so the loader resolves them before any
  #    Future Pinball code runs. A cold start opens these six and SciLexer,
  #    nothing else, in the program directory.

  - name: Newton.dll
    sha1: f41672abeef6b9751b0ef4f341b973a60cb03a7a
    system: fpinball
    required: true
    bundled: true
    size: 446464
    description: "Newton Game Dynamics, the rigid body solver under the ball physics"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 import descriptor Newton.dll IAT 0x53f340-0x53f48b (83 functions, no delay-load directory, so loader-resolved), FUN_00455b10 0x4581c4 (status line Initialising Newton..), 0x45823d (NewtonCreate, world kept in [esi+0x2d08] and 0x5cc80c), 0x458250 (NewtonWorldSetUserData), 0x45825f (NewtonSetSolverModel)"
    note: >-
      83 functions are bound from it, the largest third party surface in the
      binary. The loader resolves the import before WinMain, so the process does
      not start without it. FUN_00455b10, reached from 0x4ede62, creates the
      physics world.

  - name: fmod.dll
    sha1: ee8f68d94645de24be930d6f453297d5b7b4d052
    system: fpinball
    required: true
    bundled: true
    size: 162816
    description: "FMOD 3 audio engine"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 import descriptor fmod.dll IAT 0x53f820-0x53f877 (22 functions, loader-resolved), FUN_0044a0f0 0x44a3ff-0x44a413 (FSOUND_SetHWND, FSOUND_SetOutput 2, FSOUND_SetDriver 0, FSOUND_SetMixer 4 through the thunks at 0x51b656-0x51b668), 0x44a420 (FSOUND_Init 44100 Hz, 32 channels), 0x44a425-0x44a434 (a failed init sends WM_CLOSE to the window at [esi+0xac])"
    note: >-
      22 functions bound, FSOUND_Init through the sample and stream calls. The
      import makes it a start condition. FUN_0044a0f0 is the startup routine
      WinMain calls at 0x42c8d8. Every sample and stream call passes
      FSOUND_LOADMEMORY, so it decodes the table's own buffers rather than
      reading files.

  - name: devil.dll
    sha1: 313a23600a169adbe130b1ae1784d8de437ce7d9
    system: fpinball
    aliases:
      - DevIL.dll
    required: true
    bundled: true
    size: 269312
    description: "DevIL image decoder"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 import descriptor DevIL.dll IAT 0x53f074-0x53f093 (8 functions, loader-resolved), FUN_0044a0f0 0x44a3ea (ilInit at startup), FUN_00463420 0x463430 (ilGenImages), 0x46343b (ilBindImage), 0x463485 (ilLoadL on an image held in memory), 0x463495 (ilConvertImage to IL_RGB, IL_UNSIGNED_BYTE)"
    note: >-
      8 functions bound, ilInit through ilLoadL, so the process does not start
      without it. FUN_00463420 is the decoder the texture and preview paths call
      (0x43f522, 0x4e6a7c, 0x4fb100). Spelled DevIL.dll in the import
      descriptors and shipped lowercase, which the case insensitive loader treats
      as one name.

  - name: ilu.dll
    sha1: d3534cd62d312fe28988c6229c47ab81a3ae1f9e
    system: fpinball
    aliases:
      - ILU.dll
    required: true
    bundled: true
    size: 27648
    description: "DevIL image utility library, scaling and canvas resize"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 import descriptor ILU.dll IAT 0x53f13c-0x53f14b (4 functions, loader-resolved), FUN_0044a0f0 0x44a3f0 (iluInit at startup), FUN_00463420 0x463519 (iluImageParameter ILU_FILTER), 0x463523 (iluScale)"
    note: >-
      4 functions bound: iluInit, iluScale, iluEnlargeCanvas and
      iluImageParameter, used to fit decoded artwork to texture dimensions. The
      import makes it a start condition.

  - name: ilut.dll
    sha1: 30566eda672fef3036fbd3998af3cc9fdcef38e7
    system: fpinball
    aliases:
      - ILUT.dll
    required: true
    bundled: true
    size: 16384
    description: "DevIL toolkit layer, image to Windows bitmap conversion"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 import descriptor ILUT.dll IAT 0x53f150-0x53f15b (3 functions, loader-resolved), FUN_0044a0f0 0x44a3f8 (ilutRenderer ILUT_WIN32), FUN_00463420 0x4634a3 (ilutConvertToHBitmap), 0x4634b2 (ilutGetBmpInfo)"
    note: >-
      3 functions bound: ilutRenderer, ilutConvertToHBitmap and ilutGetBmpInfo,
      which turn a decoded image into the Windows bitmap the manager windows
      draw. The import makes it a start condition.

  - name: libcurl.dll
    sha1: 8189136493d48adc2bdeff1e77297ab988ae789d
    system: fpinball
    required: true
    bundled: true
    size: 626688
    description: "HTTP client for the table feed"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 import descriptor libcurl.dll IAT 0x53f87c-0x53f88b (4 functions, loader-resolved), FUN_0043d300 (dialog procedure of resource 0x1f0, DialogBoxParamA at 0x449559) 0x43dd3c (curl_easy_init), 0x43dd4f-0x43dd8d (curl_easy_setopt user agent FuturePinball-agent/1.0, URL http://www.pinsimdb.org/fpreleases/backend_xml.php, write callback 0x46e450), 0x43dd90 (curl_easy_perform), 0x43d694-0x43d6ff (the same sequence for a screenshot not yet in feeds\\)"
    note: >-
      Only four functions are bound, curl_easy_init, setopt, perform and cleanup,
      and both uses sit in the latest tables dialog, the table list and its
      screenshots. The binding is static all the same, so the process still
      refuses to start without the file.

  - name: SciLexer.dll
    sha1: 661675f4d8539e14f2be10d144ab986fc5fccb46
    system: fpinball
    required: false
    bundled: true
    size: 407552
    description: "Scintilla, the editing control behind the table script editor"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 WinMain FUN_0042c480 0x42c4fc-0x42c501 (LoadLibraryA SciLexer.DLL), 0x42c511-0x42c524 (null handle: MessageBoxA The Scintilla DLL could not be loaded., handle stored as 0, startup continues at 0x42c528)"
    note: >-
      The one library taken with LoadLibraryA rather than the import directory.
      A null return puts up "The Scintilla DLL could not be loaded.", stores a
      null handle and falls through to the rest of startup, so the program runs
      and only the script editor is lost.

  # -- Resource libraries, resolved against the table's folder then against
  #    <install>\Libraries.

  - name: fpModels.fpl
    sha1: 81f809456ad9fba296eff46f035a607a3d2cfba2
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpModels.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 5166080
    description: "260 pinball part models"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the linked name), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\\, name, second StgOpenStorage)"
    note: >-
      A table that links a model from here instead of embedding it loses that
      model when the library is absent. The table still loads, after the warning
      box.

  - name: fpTextures.fpl
    sha1: 255cb14da5f49c7aaa210135638cfdc924130397
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpTextures.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 3495424
    description: "90 textures for the standard table objects"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the linked name), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\\, name, second StgOpenStorage)"
    note: >-
      Carries the surface art the built in parts expect, bulbs, triggers,
      plungers and the rest. Resolved the same way as every other library.

  - name: fpRamps.fpl
    sha1: 07f48f32a7a08cff94121908205b2f02fcf3724b
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpRamps.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 2813440
    description: "82 ramp models, keyed by profile, width and height"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the linked name), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\\, name, second StgOpenStorage)"
    note: >-
      Storage names encode the shape and the dimensions, ramp-pool-t1_w30_h20
      and so on, with a left and a right variant of each.

  - name: fpSounds.fpl
    sha1: ff2d159b4dcdb5ff9896b025288e40b76466eaa5
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpSounds.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 170496
    description: "20 machine sounds, ball release, bumpers, coin in and the rest"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the linked name), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\\, name, second StgOpenStorage)"

  - name: fpSphereMaps.fpl
    sha1: 04efb8fe46d0ba6381b160afa92b87bb213ba461
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpSphereMaps.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 223744
    description: "11 sphere maps giving metal and plastic parts their reflections"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the linked name), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\\, name, second StgOpenStorage)"
    note: >-
      Storage names are bracketed, [chrome-silver], [chrome-gold] and similar,
      which is how a material references one.

  - name: fpDmdFonts.fpl
    sha1: ec526ca156ae8c639aefcc2552914fc70950b69a
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpDmdFonts.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 58880
    description: "6 dot matrix fonts, named for their cell size"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the linked name), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\\, name, second StgOpenStorage)"
    note: >-
      dmd05x05p through dmd08x13p. A DMD display element with no font draws
      nothing.

  - name: fpPlayfields.fpl
    sha1: 9df8f5cca648e61cb1f92d6f3cfa150a9db58692
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpPlayfields.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 364032
    description: "3 playfield images, including the plunger cutout template"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004e6cf0 0x4e6d66 (StgOpenStorage on the linked name), 0x4e6d8d-0x4e6dd8 (install directory, Libraries\\, name, second StgOpenStorage)"

  - name: fpScripts.fpl
    sha1: 5a928b81cb1a3364605158e0c0b573c51b0f468f
    system: fpinball
    path: "Libraries/fpScripts.fpl"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 4096
    description: "Script library"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004797c0 0x47985a-0x479881 (a reference whose extension is fpl goes to FUN_00478d20), FUN_004ed9c0 0x4eda31 (FUN_004e6cf0, the library opener)"
    note: >-
      Reached by any LoadExternalScript reference whose library part ends in
      .fpl. What ships is a single storage named testscript.

  # -- Named individually elsewhere in the binary --

  - name: NewTable.fpt
    sha1: 6d9d44450b8d76791373b727b699cad4446abd07
    system: fpinball
    required: false
    bundled: true
    category: game_data
    size: 226816
    description: "Template opened by File then New"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004486d0 0x448ea9-0x448ed0 (install directory then NewTable.fpt into the table path buffer), 0x448edb (FUN_0043ec20, the table open, which calls FUN_004fc580 at 0x43ec67 for StgOpenStorage at 0x4fc650)"
    note: >-
      The install directory is copied into the default table path buffer and this
      name appended, then the result goes through the ordinary table open. It is
      a full table with a playfield and a plunger, not an empty document.

  - name: Future Pinball Manual.chm
    sha1: ce2fb04c3c68eb6874527821853c6180ddc237df
    system: fpinball
    path: "Help/Future Pinball Manual.chm"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    size: 8992653
    description: "Development guide, 79 topics"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_00478250 0x478477-0x4784ad (install directory, then Help\\Future Pinball Manual.chm when the command id is 0x8043), 0x4784be-0x4784c4 (ShellExecuteA open)"
    note: >-
      Opened with ShellExecuteA on the install directory plus this path when the
      help command carries id 0x8043. The program hands the path to the shell
      and reads nothing itself.

  - name: Script56.chm
    installed_on: [retrobat]
    system: fpinball
    path: "Help/Script56.chm"
    required: false
    description: "Microsoft Windows Script 5.6 documentation, the VBScript reference"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_00478250 0x47848f-0x4784ad (any command id other than 0x8043 appends Help\\Script56.chm), 0x4784be-0x4784c4 (ShellExecuteA open)"
    note: >-
      The script editor's help falls to this path for every command id other
      than 0x8043, again through ShellExecuteA against the install directory. No
      Future Pinball release ships it: table scripts are VBScript and this is
      Microsoft's own reference for the language.

  - name: fpLatestTables.xml
    sha1: bd9de21def48b65b5382c403971a9062928b9345
    system: fpinball
    path: "Feeds/fpLatestTables.xml"
    required: false
    bundled: true
    size: 752639
    description: "Cached table list from pinsimdb.org"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_0043d300 0x43dc46-0x43dca6 (install directory, feeds\\, fpLatestTables.xml, CreateFileA GENERIC_READ OPEN_EXISTING), 0x43dccf-0x43dd1e (GetFileTime against GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, a copy 7 days old or more is fetched again), 0x43ddbf (FUN_00470ff0, fopen w, UTF-8 BOM, the fetched list written back), 0x43e755-0x43e79c (DeleteFileA on command 0x17b)"
    note: >-
      Read with CreateFileA when present and younger than 7 days, fetched and
      rewritten otherwise, deleted by the refresh command. The code builds the
      path as feeds\ against a directory the installer creates as Feeds. A
      snapshot ships with the release, so the panel has something to show
      before any fetch.

  # -- Outside the program directory --

  - name: NPClient.dll
    system: fpinball
    required: false
    description: "NaturalPoint TrackIR client library, head tracking"
    source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_0045eff0 0x45f01a-0x45f08e (RegOpenKeyExA HKCU Software\\NaturalPoint\\NATURALPOINT\\NPClient Location, RegQueryValueExA Path), FUN_0045f100 0x45f16b-0x45f1cf (separator then NPClient.dll appended), 0x45f1d9 (LoadLibraryA, a null handle jumps to 0x45f35a), 0x45f1f2-0x45f1f8 (GetProcAddress NP_GetSignature)"
    note: >-
      The directory is read from the Path value of
      HKCU\Software\NaturalPoint\NATURALPOINT\NPClient Location, this name
      appended and the result given to LoadLibraryA,
      then NP_GetSignature and the rest are bound with GetProcAddress. A null
      handle jumps past all tracking setup. It comes from a TrackIR install, not
      from any Future Pinball distribution, which is why no path is given here.

analysis:
  shipped_with_the_binary:
    note: >-
      Present in the release and read by the program, but named at runtime rather
      than by a literal in the code, so there is no fixed filename to record.
    entries:
      - what: "Tables\\, four demonstration tables"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_0043ee20 0x43f1d1-0x43f223 (install directory, Tables\\, then the table name, into the table path buffer at +0x18b88)"
        note: >-
          DmdDisplayDemo.fpt, LightSequencerDemo.fpt, Ramp-VUK-Demo.fpt and
          SegmentDisplayDemo.fpt. The directory itself is the default table path
          and the last prefix the external script resolver tries.
      - what: "Feeds\\, 385 table screenshots"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x0043d60f"
        note: >-
          Named st_<id>_<n>_<n>.jpg from the entries of fpLatestTables.xml and
          fetched with the same libcurl path, so the set changes with the feed.

  user_supplied_paths:
    note: "Named by a table or written by the program, with no fixed filename"
    entries:
      - what: "external table scripts, tried bare then under Scripts\\ then Tables\\"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x004797c0-0x00479905, 0x00478be0"
        note: >-
          LoadExternalScript takes whatever name the table's script passes. The
          bare attempt resolves against the working directory, which is the
          table's own folder. No Scripts directory ships.
      - what: "fpRam\\<table>.fpRAM, per table persistent state"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 FUN_004755a0 0x4755da-0x47562f (install directory, fpRam\\, table name, .fpRAM), 0x475752 (StgOpenStorage, a failure skips the restore), FUN_00475830 0x475892-0x475927 (StgCreateDocfile on the same path), FUN_00439f60 0x43aab7 (DeleteFileA)"
        note: >-
          Built as the prefix, the table name and the .fpRAM extension, and
          created by StgCreateDocfile from play, so it is save data rather than
          something to obtain. A missing file only skips the restore.
      - what: "DmdFonts\\ and Models\\, editor working directories"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x00443595, 0x00443efc, 0x00516ba8, 0x00516d31, 0x00441fc8, 0x004429bb, 0x004317fa"
        note: >-
          Each site only fills the initial directory of a GetOpenFileName or
          GetSaveFileName call in the DMD font and model import and export
          dialogs, so nothing is read until the user picks a file. DmdFonts ships
          empty and Models is not created at all. Fonts carry .dmdf and models
          .fpm, both authored rather than distributed.

  named_but_not_read:
    note: "String literals that survive a path scan without ever reaching a file"
    entries:
      - what: "skin\\toolbar.bmp"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x00438ff5, 0x00448ba0, 0x00432240-0x00432290"
        note: >-
          Passed to the toolbar builder, which calls CreateToolbarEx with
          hBMInst zero and a bitmap handle held in a global as wBMID. The module
          has no resource under that name.
      - what: "tables\\ in lower case"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x00439e40-0x00439e79"
        note: >-
          Searched for inside a feed URL and skipped past to recover the table
          name, with the literal opps as the fallback. Not a path being built.
      - what: ".jlb"
        source_ref: "Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231 .text:0x004414d0"
        note: >-
          A second extension accepted beside .fpl in the library dialogs. No file
          with it ships and nothing opens one by name.