Yeah, you can have fun with it in MAME with a modern gamepad. The 49-way joystick it uses makes it tough for a real cabinet to approximate it (unless it is a real Sinistar, natch). Although people sell 49-way arcade sticks.

In THEORY this kit will save me the trouble of hunting down a working board, as well as be more reliable. Nothing is emulated, so it won't have that drawback. I'd like to just have the Robotron controls on it, but now I am wondering what to do. It's just one more button for Joust, for instance.

Man, when was the last time a Sinistar game was about?


I hated that game. Every time, it made me, MADE ME! Pull out another quarter and play it again. I even killed Sinistar once.

It was in a sit down version.

now I have to go find a PC clone...


THE
IT'S MAKING ME DO IT
RIGHT NOW!!!
AARDVARK

There is a new board being developed that will let you play a few Williams games in a JAMMA cab. The games are:

Defender, Stargate, Joust, Robotron, Bubbles, Splat, Sinistar and Blaster.

I've grabbed the marquee and joysticks for a Robotron, so I think I am going to go this route. The FPGA will be $150, and I think I'd make out going this route.

Here is the link: http://www.jrok.com/hardware/wsf/

(Now that I think about it, I wonder what is more economical, since there is a Robotron available for $650 locally. Certainly if I planned on having Stargate and Defender active, jrok's board is the way to go.)