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quick bootleg 48-in-1 type board question

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Turnarcades:

The irony of the situation is that the xxx-in-1 developers now have a taste of their own bootlegging medicine, as after breaking the encryption the MAME devs can easily decompile and emulate their own code. The danger now though is that operation of bootlegs back in the day became commonplace and even acceptable in legitimate arcade venues, and unfortunately this trend is now back as many folks, even those aware of emulation's grey areas, are not aware of these xxx-in-1 boards' legality.

Many at the Replay show last year turned their nose up at the notion of emulation and avoided picturing PC-driven cabinets like ours, yet happily played and photographed multi-game board running cocktail machines without so much as blinking. If these xxx-in-1 boards are now gaining acceptance through ignorance, and MAME now emulates them and their custom game selection menu, there is a potential danger for PC's driving MAME to be installed in innocent-looking JAMMA cabinets and be ran coin-operated, for much less than the cost of a multi-game board, directly using MAME, and with a single coinage system running efficiently (something current front-ends don't do to discourage commercial activity like this). Worrying?

BobA:

How can a PC running MAME and a multiboard emulation of MAME be less costly then a multiboard when the simple 60 in 1 used for cocktails and many other cabinets cost less than $100?  The multiboard emulation in MAME does not run well on my i3 so a faster motherboard would cost many times the cost of a cheap multiboard.



Hoopz:


--- Quote from: bradx on April 26, 2011, 08:49:12 pm ---yeah i know they are i was hoping for some sort of proof i could throw in someones face...

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