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Insert coin before selecting game? This possible?
sk8ersublime:
haha its all good
*inserts coin* chi-ching *GALAGA MUSIC*
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 24, 2010, 08:28:48 pm ---Out of curiosity.. has anyone ever seen a mame machine being used for profit? I'm rather new here, but I've heard about some guy having done that in the past? and being busted? apparently he posted in this forum but was frowned upon by the community?
other than that, have any of you ever seen a mame machine out in public? and if you did, what did you do?
If a shopkeeper had a machine in his store, but playing is free and you don't charge them to play (so no quarters needed).. is that still illegal?
I have never seen a mame machine in the US being used for profit, in Mexico I remember even as a kid seeing arcades being used (one in particular had a bunch of NES games, and a timer, it was pretty neat actually).
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The xx-in-1 boards are MAME-based and I've seen a number of them out there. They also show up at auctions.
The "NES with a timer" you refer to may have been a Playchoice-10, which was a legitimate cabinet.
shateredsoul:
oh yeah? It had well over 100 games
not sure if player choice cabs had that many games... maybe it was hacked to play that many?
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on February 24, 2010, 09:11:08 pm ---oh yeah? It had well over 100 games
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Nope -- that was something else.
Playchoice-10 only had 10 games.
versapak:
--- Quote from: Haze on February 24, 2010, 08:16:26 pm ---To your kids, none, you're exactly right, that's why we don't consider NOT supporting this feature to be a big issue, there is no legitimate reason to need it for your average user. Your kids know when they can insert coins because you told them and if they do it wrong, you can easily give them the coins back until they learn.
For a commercial on-location cab it's essential. Customers aren't your kids, with real customers they'll insert coins in the menu, and wonder why they don't transfer, they'll insert a coin in a game, quit the game, and wonder where their coin went. As I've said, the development team don't want to see MAME being used in this way, so by not supporting such features, and discouraging discussion of such features the ability for people to use the software in this way is limited.
Your kids don't care, and at the same time it prevents abuse of the software in a commerical environment. It's a win for you (and your kids), and it's a win for the development team. The only losers are the ones looking to try and abuse the software for profit.
Arcades are struggling, and people replacing legitimate arcade cabinets with illegal multi-game cabinets isn't helping the cause. Mamedev want *nothing* to do with that so discourage features which make it possible.
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Yeah, you're right.
It is something doesn't matter one way or the other to me and my kids, and doesn't really effect our use of our "MAME machine", but if it does matter to those that do choose to profit from MAME, then actively NOT supporting it does make sense.