A Pi won't work if you want to go with the full color LCD DMD, and given how much cheaper an option that is if your Plasma DMD ever fails, you should step up to a "real" PC. You'd do very well with a Shuttle DS61 book PC and a G540 celeron cpu. You're in Boston so I don't need to tell you how cheap those CPUs are at microcenter.

South Park is a fun layout. I used to play one in an arcade a ton back in "the day" rotating between that, TZ, and TAF (and SSF2T, if I'm being totally honest).

And, yes, join us at the pinballcontrollers.com forums. We have cake..?

Southpark is a stern whitestar; all the Sega pins of the mid-late 90s were I believe.

Also, if you want to drive DE/System 11, MarkS has a board that he sells as a kit or pre-built, based on Stephen's design. We've come a long way

True that non x86 can't run pinmame so running stock /williams/ roms via emulation is out. Now, since this is a Stern Whitestar, I have no idea what the emulation status of that is. My guess is non existent.

The pinproc/ pyprocgame environment works on the pi and isn't bad to set up at all. It is an option.

The beagle bone black is crazy sold out everywhere, so... That's a factor, too.

Thanks. We opted for no dots. There's a lot of videos but we haven't shared any software videos recently. I miss the
Dots a little...

If you want to see the same color/HD hacked framework, with dots enabled, check out Rosh's the Kugler Family Pin. Rosh is the only other person I know of using the HD/ color hacks and he's contributed a metric ton of code to that effort too. Plus his game looks really sharp.