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DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: MTPPC on December 17, 2011, 04:20:16 am ---On KLOV I notice they all look down their noses at mame conversions but froth at the mouth for 19 in one and 60 in one custom addon boards for their original pacman arcades. I wonder if the member producing those custom EEPROMS is paying his royalties.

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I'm only making an assumption here (I don't venture into KLOV), but their beef is with people who MAME classic cabs to fit Frankenpanels, computer monitors, et. al., and aren't concerned with the actual copyright issues.  It's not like their collection of original machines is putting money in the original publisher's pocket anyway.

The custom boards I would suppose is installed without any irreversible change made to their original cabs.

CheffoJeffo:
On KLOV they look down their noses at MAME for all sorts of reasons -- killing classics, frankenpanels, authenticity, whatever ...

I think MTPPC misunderstands what those boards are -- the 60-in-1 actually is MAME on an ARM chip and there are no custom EEPROMS to be burned.
CrazyKongFan:
I think he's confusing the 19-in-1 and 60-in-1 type boards with the multi kits some members have produced, like the 8-in-1, 96-in-1, etc for Pac boards, which actually use original hardware. Of course, I doubt they've gotten permission from the original rights holders to produce them, but at least they're more authentic, since they are running on original boards (usually just with a new EPROM, or maybe a daughter card)
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: CrazyKongFan on December 18, 2011, 11:14:30 am ---I think he's confusing the 19-in-1 and 60-in-1 type boards with the multi kits some members have produced, like the 8-in-1, 96-in-1, etc for Pac boards, which actually use original hardware. Of course, I doubt they've gotten permission from the original rights holders to produce them, but at least they're more authentic, since they are running on original boards (usually just with a new EPROM, or maybe a daughter card)

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The Exidy 440 kit did and, I understand, the MultiTaito is also licensed, but nope, not the rest.
CrazyKongFan:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on December 18, 2011, 11:17:05 am ---The Exidy 440 kit did and, I understand, the MultiTaito is also licensed, but nope, not the rest.

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Ah ok. I forgot about those (not having either), but I've thought about getting the Multi pac someone was recently selling...supposedly they work on the bootleg Pac-1/Pac-2 board that I have ;D :P
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