MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Astro Zone (1980,Taito)

>> the original PCB hasn't been obtained yet, so it isn't possible to emulate it yet?

>Of course this is the reason why it isn't emulated. The MAME team is not in the business of
hoarding.

imo Taito's Astro Zone is going to be one of those hard-to-find pcbs since it was likely only released in Japan.

At this time, either no one from DU community has this pcb and if anyone actually does have the game (ie: pcb and maybe a cabinet too), best odds are someone in Japan that collects games. There are still lots of Japan and other Asian region games that are owned by collectors wanting to make sure the game is kept to only a select few or only for themselves. Way, way too many past examples to mention, but unfortunately one of the recent notable examples was Nintendo's Monkey Magic.

A lot of the items that Smit announces regarding Dumping Union activities on front page usually get preserved in MAME within a reasonable amount of time even though there might be on occasional rare exception such as one of the roms might require a hard-to-find adapter to read out contents of rom or prom.

Besides Bobby Tribble's unMAMEd page, that I see you are already aware of...

unMAMEd site http://unmamed.mameworld.info/

....the most up to date is Undumped Wiki. Use that instead as primary search status.

https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Main_Page