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Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: versapak on February 24, 2010, 04:03:59 pm ---Actually...

That isn't a quote from the thread starter/the guy who asked the question.


I wasn't paying attention to stupid commercial ramblings of other passerbys. :P

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Right, but that's what I was responding to, and then you questioned my response.
shateredsoul:
Seriously.. he does have a point.  If the whole idea is to not in anyway have mame be used for commercial uses, then it should be a goal should be to make every game auto freeplay. The potential to use mame as a commercial device is there. Don't put an escape key on the cp or any configure keys and you have something that can be used commercially.

I honestly think there is nothing wrong with being able to put in a quarter before choosing a game.  I would not see it as a negative thing if that was incorporated into some of the frontends out there.  I just don't see how adding that feature makes it any more prone to be used commercially. MAME as it is, can be used commercially.  

Still, I think we should respect the mame dev team's wishes because that's one of the rules that was setup for this forum, and to participate in the forum it would just be a respectful to follow the practices within the community. There's also a lot of activity we can't talk about because well, it just makes sense... you don't want to get yourself or others in trouble right?




--- Quote from: Firebat138 on February 24, 2010, 01:46:43 pm ---Man... Did I do this...?  :-)

Since we are on the subject...  when I was younger I worked at a comic shop and another local shop had either Xmen. or TMNT, cant remember which, but in any case, they rented the machine from somewhere  The manager somehow figured out to make it free play, which I didnt even know was possible... for the employees after hours...  I guess someone got wind of it and the company took the machine back, stating they violated the rules, which they DID.  But what is really stopping people from putting a mame cabinet in your local shop or whereever... hooking up the coin slot and NOT put a coin button on...  Then using whatever front end you want...  wouldnt you just pick the game you wanted, hit select and it would still need quarters right?  I wouldnt put it past people, but I wonder if there are any cases of exactly this.

It reminds me of the people who stole PONG from that guy and then made arcades to put in donut shops and stuff, I guess the owner called a couple days later and said the machine was broke... it wasn't...  I was FULL of quarters.  :-)

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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 24, 2010, 04:47:19 pm ---I honestly think there is nothing wrong with being able to put in a quarter before choosing a game.  I would not see it as a negative thing if that was incorporated into some of the frontends out there.  I just don't see how adding that feature makes it any more prone to be used commercially. MAME as it is, can be used commercially.  

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It requires changing MAME and, if such a patch were supported by the MAMEDevs, that would undermine the notion of MAME as a documentation project (whether people believe that it is or not) and push it more towards being a vehicle for copyright violation. If it was my project, that isn't something that I would want.
Kevin Mullins:
Me and my 3 year old daughter just polished off a 12 pack of mini moon-pies.......







shateredsoul:
I'm not asking the mamedevs to support it, i'm just saying... concerning the risk of it being used commercially, I don't think having that feature included makes it more or less likely.



--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 24, 2010, 05:06:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 24, 2010, 04:47:19 pm ---I honestly think there is nothing wrong with being able to put in a quarter before choosing a game.  I would not see it as a negative thing if that was incorporated into some of the frontends out there.  I just don't see how adding that feature makes it any more prone to be used commercially. MAME as it is, can be used commercially.  

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It requires changing MAME and, if such a patch were supported by the MAMEDevs, that would undermine the notion of MAME as a documentation project (whether people believe that it is or not) and push it more towards being a vehicle for copyright violation. If it was my project, that isn't something that I would want.

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