Williams Multigame Emulation

[NickS]

Does anyone know if any of the unofficial mame builds (or any other emulator) emulates the roms used on the Multi Williams machines ?.

[Howard_Casto]

These unofficial builds would be "illegal" as the game is still in production.  Look for warez elsewhere.

[SirPeale]

I thought the MultiWilliams was a project by Clay Cowgill using unlicensed ROMs.  Grey area, as it were.

[Howard_Casto]

If it is then I apologize, but I thought it was one of the new comobo cabs.

[SirPeale]

There is a new commercial set available with two games to choose from (Robtron/Stargate and...the other I can't remember off th top of my head) but MultiWilliams AFAIK is a Clay project.

[CIA_Guy]

Williams Arcade Classics contains the ROMs for 6 Williams games:  Defender, Stargate (as Defender II), Robotron, Sinstar, Bubbles, and Joust.  

[paigeoliver]

Umm guys, actually ALL the Multi-Williams, Mega-Williams, and otherwise combo-Williams games are unlicensed bootlegs. Unless something has changed in the last week or two. The Mega-Williams "boardset" is a PC motherboard sitting on a JAMMA fingerboard that boots from a ROM, and apparently runs MAME, fact is, if you put a bigger flask disk (or whatever it is using for storage), then it could run 1000 games.

Multi-Williams is an add on to an original Williams boardset that lets it run all the games from that hardware.

As far as I know the only legal new Williams games you can buy are on the Ultracade.

Anyway, if the Mame devs or the Mame community actually cared one red cent about legalities then bootleg versions of games would not be in Mame.

Anyway, I am assuming you were actually wanting to emulate the Multi-Williams menu. If you had the ROM image of it then it should just about be a 30 minute project to add it to Mame (for a coder), since it just runs on basically unmodified Robotron hardware.

Guess what, all the new 3 in one and 6 in one Jamma combo boards are all Mame as well (except that they don't seem to be x86 based). The major supplier of them was on the newsgroup a while back talking with people about what games to add, none are licensed, and the boards will technically run ANYTHING.

[NickS]

I thought the MultiWilliams was a project by Clay Cowgill using unlicensed ROMs.

Sorry to reply so late to this thread.

I was always a fan of Joust and Defender and after coming across the Williams Multigame Artwork (http://www.phoenixarcade.com/art.htm#multiwilliamsat) at Phoenixarcade.com I thought I might build a dedicated Williams machine.
http://www.multigame.com/williams.html

[NickS]

Thought I would post a picture of what they look like. Located between the 2 Dragon's Lair machines.

[SirPeale]

Quite an old post, to be sure.  But work has been started on the MultiWilliams driver in MisfitMame.

Link to MameWorld

There's a skeleton driver in the source now, which unfortunately doesn't work yet.  You can get individual games to fire up if you edit the source and recompile, but the menu doesn't work.

[CIA_Guy]

I've had great luck with the licensed Williams Arcade Classics.  I even built a stand alone Multi-Williams with it and it felt just like the real games (which it should since it contains the ROM images). 

[Haze]

These unofficial builds would be "illegal" as the game is still in production.  Look for warez elsewhere.

They'd be fine, I encourage somebody to look at them infact. 

[Robbbert]

This is working in the next version of Misfitmame (0.127.E), which should be released fairly soon.

[SirPeale]

This is working in the next version of Misfitmame (0.127.E), which should be released fairly soon.

Good work, man.