From the game manual R56:
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ROBOTS must be controlled via one (1) programmable National Instruments roboRIO (P/N: am3000), with image version FRC_2016_v19 and firmware v3.0.0.
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So you need a roboRIO. As you've discovered, there is no version of the current control system for a cRIO this year (or last year either, I believe).
If you're a LabView team, you might be able to have your programmers practice on one of your old cRIOs, but if you're Java or C++, there are enough differences (particular in the development environments) that I wouldn't recommend it.
Presumably you have at least one roboRIO? Do you not want to take it off of last year's robot?