You guys ROCK!! Direct X did turn out to be the problem. Re-installed, and I can now get past the copyright screens  OK still doesn't work, but up arrow does for whatever reason. Hey, I'm not going to complain about success.
Now I'm able to get into the games, but not play. Tried Pong and Star Fire, both load up beautifully. Star Fire loads up to an attract screen, I see the logo, then stars and tie fighters coming at my face (yikes!), and a prompt to insert a coin. Pong loads straight up to the game, paddles at the top and ball bouncing. Neither will let me play.
The tankstick hasn't arrived yet, so I'm trying with the keyboard, and I should be able to play with just the keyboard right? Neither seems to be liking the keyboard input. I have a feeling that it's not so much an issue of the rom not getting the input, but rather that something's not mapped right. I'm not sure what key would correspond to depositing a coin, but I assumed that arrows would be the way to go with Pong. Either way, I tried every key on the keyboard, and nothing seemed to respond. I looked through the options > default game options > Controller mapping, and everything is mapped to keyboard, but I don't see where to map which key corresponds to what type of joystick maneuver, or whatever.
I have this feeling in the back of my head like I'm staring straight past something completely obvious... Anyone know what that is?
Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
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OK still doesn't work, but up arrow does for whatever reason. Hey, I'm not going to complain about success.
