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DeLuSioNal29:

--- Quote from: Haze on August 19, 2013, 02:37:19 pm ---In this case they've overcharged you for an underspecced recycled computer and a bunch of software (including MAME and frontends) that have strict NO COMMERCIAL licenses and shouldn't be sold under any circumstance.

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Not entirely true.  The guys at X-Arcade made a deal with Maximus Arcade to legally include it.  http://www.maximus-arcade.com/pages/free-maximus-arcade-license-with-x-arcade-joystick

That said, however, I agree with you about the MAME software.

DeLuSioNaL29
guitarman74:

--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on August 19, 2013, 05:44:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on August 19, 2013, 02:37:19 pm ---In this case they've overcharged you for an underspecced recycled computer and a bunch of software (including MAME and frontends) that have strict NO COMMERCIAL licenses and shouldn't be sold under any circumstance.

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Not entirely true.  The guys at X-Arcade made a deal with Maximus Arcade to legally include it.  http://www.maximus-arcade.com/pages/free-maximus-arcade-license-with-x-arcade-joystick

That said, however, I agree with you about the MAME software.

DeLuSioNaL29

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I think he was referring to the guys I bought the machine from... not X-Arcade...
guitarman74:

--- Quote from: 404 on August 19, 2013, 05:25:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: CoryBee on August 19, 2013, 04:14:45 pm ---
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--- Quote from: guitarman74 on August 19, 2013, 01:15:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: CoryBee on August 19, 2013, 12:54:16 pm ---Dream Arcades is my local competitor. I think I have been taking a lot of their customers lately......

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do you have a website I can take a look at what you offer?

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I told him some time ago to get his own page together or at least a facebook page in order for people to at least check out some of his past work. But noooooooo he said ::)  :laugh:

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Haha, I just didn't want to deal with shipping anything.....Although I still should have a page dedicated to showcasing my builds.

Also, I don't like the prospect of having a facebook......gives me shivers......

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Hard to blame you. I don't use facebook either.

I think i mentioned this before. I developed a small site for a local tattoo guy a few months back. just had an index, a contact page and a gallery. I linked his gallery using instagram and their API. All he has to do now is upload his photos to instagram and his site gallery is automatically updated. Flickr also has a gallery api you can use. was pretty cool.

If you ever end up wanting a small site with a gallery, I'm pretty sure i still have that old code around here. i can send it to you.


guitarman74 : Sorry about your bad luck. As some others have stated here, that machine is more than salvageable. I'm no arcade expert by any stretch of the imagination but If i were you, i would first start with identifying your monitor, pc specs and the type of controller encoder on your machine. You may need them later on for future reference as you essentially already have a completed cabinet.

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OK, I will investigate and post specs back here
Haze:

--- Quote from: guitarman74 on August 19, 2013, 06:21:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on August 19, 2013, 05:44:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on August 19, 2013, 02:37:19 pm ---In this case they've overcharged you for an underspecced recycled computer and a bunch of software (including MAME and frontends) that have strict NO COMMERCIAL licenses and shouldn't be sold under any circumstance.

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Not entirely true.  The guys at X-Arcade made a deal with Maximus Arcade to legally include it.  http://www.maximus-arcade.com/pages/free-maximus-arcade-license-with-x-arcade-joystick

That said, however, I agree with you about the MAME software.

DeLuSioNaL29

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I think he was referring to the guys I bought the machine from, Northcoast Customs... not X-Arcade...

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Yeah, the quoted text was about Northcoast, although I do find the X-arcade business rather shady, I believe there might have been a deal with x-arcade at one point for use of MAME*, but that would have been strictly limited in scope, for licensed ROMs only, not we'll throw in a bunch of PS2 discs then you can pretend you have the rights to the arcade roms too which it sounds like they are doing these days from your phone conversation.

I have raised questions over some of their advertising techniques in the past but that was over at MW, where they're one of the main sponsors, and unsurprisingly all such questions got deleted.  I suspect me asking was one of the contributing reasons towards me being banned there.

*before my time, will need to check, might have only been Hanaho / Hotrod due to their work with Capcom.  Back then Mamedev required exceptional levels of proof that you were only going to use it with licensed material before granting a special license, these days we simply don't allow any commercial use because it's not worth the hassle, too many people claiming to have licensed the impossible or trying to do exactly what X-arcade are doing here (including classic compilations then making people think they have permission to run the equivalent MAME roms)


BobA:
Sorry to hear of your problems but you can get it all working if you setup each console emulator alone by starting it without the front end (Maximus Arcade) and setting the keys for each emulator separately.  You cannot configure everything properly with just changing things in MA.   If you do not know how to do this then someone local to you who has setup console emulators on a MAME cab could probably do it quite easily.
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