Hey guys first of all. Awesome site. Seriously. This site was clutch in helping me complete my arcade cabinet and I couldn't have finished it without the help of your tutorials and forums. Mad respect.
Let me give you guys a little background. Recently I decided to revamp my 4 year old cabinet with a new paint job, better software, more intuitive controls, etc. I decided in order help make my arcade feel like more legitimate and complete, I'd put in coin slots. Which worked out great except for that fact that people are dumb (specifically my roommates' friends who came over to hang out and didn't get briefed on how to use the arcade) and don't know to wait for MAME to finish loading before putting in tokens.
So I scripted a Coin Manager program to let people put in coins in the frontend. It's nothing special as I just scripted it using AutoHotkey but I'm still particularly proud of it.
I know there has been a lot of controversy with these coin management programs in the past because they may propagate commercial use of MAME. From what I remember I saw two different instances of this.
Anyways, I want your opinion if I should or should not do a private release and help people like me who want a better way to manage coinage. I figure I people could send me a tell and somehow prove that their arcade is for personal use only (however I'm not sure how to completely verify such a thing).
It keeps track of P1 and P2 coins. Has a GUI overlay. And is completely customizable. And also has some misc. additions like support for a free play switch, run game on P1 & P2 start when in frontend, and allow gamelist scrolling with the P2 stick.
Let me know yay or nay. Also, If I'm out of line here then delete this thread. I just wanted to help out in any way I could.
Edit: Send me a tell if you want to try the first release version.
Just be aware that you'll have to do a source code edit and recompile MAME to get authotkey scripts to work properly. 