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| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: matsadona on June 11, 2012, 09:50:53 am ---What about the following scenario: If you have a dedicated arcade cabinet, with everything intact except a faulty PCB. If you replace it with a MAME PC/multi board (of any kind) should it then be considered illegal usage of the ROM or not? It is harder and harder to find spare parts, so this scenario is very much likely to happen. --- End quote --- Good question and I don't think anybody can give you a definitive legal answer as I am sure the issue has never been tested, but this situation accounts for some of the exceptions about MAME cabs that I mentioned. For my part, I had problems with the sound board on my Joust cocktail. No matter what I did, I just couldn't get sounds working properly. I own all of the original boards (and spares) and solved the problem by putting one of jrok's Williams Multigame boards into my Joust cocktail, playing just Joust. Legal ? I think so (kinda like using PBJ's cocaine spoon to put sugar in your coffee). I also have one of jrok's boards in my MultiWilliams upright. Legal ? Not a chance, but really fun and I don't expect to hear from the authorities anytime soon. |
| fascco:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 11, 2012, 09:55:14 am ---The ArcadeSD board is just as legal as a cocaine spoon. Sure, perfectly legal to sit there on the shelf, but you can't do anything legal with it. --- End quote --- And like a hooker. Sure, it's perfectly legal to sit there on the shelf, but it's not legal she's snorting my cocaine! |
| paigeoliver:
The 60 in 1 board was apparently made by more than one factory. As in one factory made it and then another copied it. That is why some are supposed to be better than others. The actual original sources of bootleg products like this seem to be kept fairly closely under wraps, as there tend to be multiple levels of people making huge markups on products like these. Not to mention the fact that they are technically illegal even in China. The closest you are going to get to talking to the makers is talking to a customer service agent with poor english skills at one of the exporters, whose supervisors have contact with the factory. They have zero interest in creating a quality product or in helping you customize yours. These boards (like most Chinese goods, legit or not) are designed at the lowest possible quality because the manufacturers just don't care what you are getting, because they will never see you and their company has no good name to protect. They lump games together on these units that have such widely varying control requirements that you would need a standard frankenpanel just to play them all, but usually even then you can't, because invariably some of the control schemes, buttons schemes or games themselves will be implemented in a manner that makes them unusable (like having the audio for one game 9 times louder than everything else on the board). The latest X in 1 board (128 in 1) actually shipped in mass quantities to America completely defective (controls only worked in a couple games, and the SD card holders were so bad that they stopped working right if bumped into). Now with the newest board (138 in 1) they have started adding in clone versions of existing games just to bump up the game number. They don't care that half the games don't work right. All that matters is that someone buys the thing. They have been doing the same thing since the late 80s with multi-Nes carts and assorted similar products right up to the current day. I have a Multi-Neo geo cart that has something like 40 versions of King of Fighters (only something like 10 versions in reality), but that completely missed one of the real versions. I have a 64,000 in 1 Nes system that has 32 unique titles on a supposed 64000 game list that only moves one game forward at a time. I have a 19 in 1 jamma board that didn't bother to map all the buttons on Defender and Stargate. |
| Malenko:
I have a KI 1 and had a dead KI1 board, I ran KI through MAME, and since I didnt charge any one to play, I felt it was within the spirit of MAME to use it that way. I eventually got the boards fixed and BAM, that machine doesnt run MAME anymore. However I am converting a busted Dynamo into my MAME machine and its gonna run games I dont own the PCBs for, but I plan on getting the PCBs anyway (I haz a ton of them) I can deal with the moral implications, and if I could legally buy the rights to play roms in MAME I would. |
| lilshawn:
all of those xxx in 1 boards are made by random Chinese companys. they get shut down...open up under a different name. here today...gone tomorrow. don't expect support. |
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