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McHale:

Another vote for a classic game - something like Donkey Kong, Centipede, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, etc.  When people start bidding on Nostalgia, there's no end to some of their wallets.  You can pick up one in good condition for less than what you would put into a good MAME cabinet.

Malenko:

to be legal, the only real way to do it is an arcade PCB. If you want multiple games, there's namco collections and things of that nature. A non arcadey alternate would be an XBOX with a couple of controller hacks and then a buncha XBOX games. Capcom has a couple of xbox collections, so did intellivision, and there are a ton of arcade control friendly games, like DoA and Soul Calibur (and things of that ilk)

jennifer:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on August 06, 2013, 12:03:24 am ---Buy a real arcade game on craigslist and spruce it up and then donate it to the auction.

Anything else will not only cost you a ton more but also runs into a bunch of legal liabilities and will likely end up as a dead machine in someone's house in a matter of weeks, ruined by a simple windows config problem, or stickykeys or a front end that stopped working.

You can't actually legally resell most PC games.

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Yes off the craigslist...Jennifer laughs and laughs...No really, Paigeoliver is correct here, the roms would be in question legally, so the only real option would be get OEM.

BadMouth:

I think you'd be safe to included the collections of PC ports and for good measure didn't install a coin door.

Would it be ok to auction off an arcade machine with a licensed windows PC that included no games? - yes
Would it be ok to auction off the CD-Roms in retail packaging? - yes

I know the games in midway arcade treasures can be launched individually (add -f to the command line for fullscreen)
I have a stack of others that came with my x-arcade tankstick, but I've never messed with them.
Others include Namco Museum, Atari Classics, Mortal Kombat Kollection, Metal Slug Collection
Some can be hard to find or expensive if they're out of print.

Including a xxx-in 1 board IS illegal, but I've never heard of anyone getting busted for it.
They're sold openly on ebay, amazon, arcade auctions and home shows all the time.

jennifer:

   You sure would think so... However, I was playing a mario bros (SNES) the game finally wore out from years of use, the console popped up a message on how piracy and copying is illegal... At the time I was mad cause the console blacklisted my licensed tape, but then It came to me, they Don't want you copying their games even back then... Today piracy laws are worse. and their stance on copies is pretty well documented.

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