has anyone else seen this?

[dirt]

possibly the worst cabinet i've ever seen.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3256883422&category=13716


dirt

[allroy1975]

he's only selling plans..but you'd think he'd want to put up a GOOD example of what you could build.  

Allroy

[APFelon]

He mentions this site, and so logically, he might visit this forum on occasion. But man, that thing is one big pile of ugly.

Of course, I didn't build my cab with aethetics in mind, either... But... Wow. It looks like a white hutch with a monitor where the fine china should be.

God, it pains me to be so insulting...

APf

[SNAAAKE]

That preview clearly tells me all the dimension anyway so why buy when you can just look at that and build....a..errm.. washing machine !

[Safron]

Why is he gutting a washing machine to be an arcade power?

[Minwah]

Why is he gutting a washing machine to be an arcade power?

LOL  

[JustMichael]

It looks like he forgot all about the controls...  

[RetroJames]

Yeeesh, you guys are brutal.  Give him a break, he gave BYOAC a plug and regardless of your opinion on look of the cab, it looks well crafted to me.  I have a feeling his plans and notes are pretty thorough.  That cabinet reminds me of the electro-mechanical arcade games, real old school.  I bet if you painted over the primer on that cab and got some good graphics going it would be worthy enough.  JMHO

[SNAAAKE]

Yeeesh, you guys are brutal.  Give him a break, he gave BYOAC a plug and regardless of your opinion on look of the cab, it looks well crafted to me.  I have a feeling his plans and notes are pretty thorough.  That cabinet reminds me of the electro-mechanical arcade games, real old school.  I bet if you painted over the primer on that cab and got some good graphics going it would be worthy enough.  JMHO

U sure its not you.... ?

[Sasquatch!]

WHAT THE F***??!?!?!

That's an in-progress picture of the first "Arcade Paradise" cabinet - the first MAME cabinet that I built back in 1999!

No kidding it's ugly:
1) It's the first cab that I did - like I said, back in 1999, when this hobby was pretty new
2) It's an in-progress picture.

This guy is selling the plans that I have on www.arcadeparadise.org for free!!!  What as a**hole!!!!  OOOO, I'M PO'D NOW.


edit:
HOLY F****ING S****, he even took the text from my webpage that I wrote as the "description"! AAAHGHAGD4;5U402

[Sasquatch!]

By the way, this is what the finished product ended up looking like:

[dirt]

WHAT THE F***??!?!?!

That's an in-progress picture of the first "Arcade Paradise" cabinet - the first MAME cabinet that I built back in 1999!

No kidding it's ugly:
1) It's the first cab that I did - like I said, back in 1999, when this hobby was pretty new
2) It's an in-progress picture.

This guy is selling the plans that I have on www.arcadeparadise.org for free!!!  What as a**hole!!!!  OOOO, I'M PO'D NOW.


edit:
HOLY F****ING S****, he even took the text from my webpage that I wrote as the "description"! AAAHGHAGD4;5U402

cant you get ebay to pull these auctions(he has about 5 of them) if he is ripping your info off?

dirt

[bluGill]

I'd make an arcade from a washing machine, but only because of all the funky controls inside that can be riged up.   Imanging how much better yourscore in pac-man would be if you knew that you will get sprayed with HOT water everytime you die.   Once you start there is no way to stop.  Or maybe in a fighting game everytime the bad guy gets a hit in you get sprayed.  
Interfacing all that to MAME is an exercise left to the reader, as they say about all the hard problems in text books.

On a more serious note, I think you have a good case for copyright violation if you want to look into it.  Requires lawyers though, and I'm not sure how much you would get.  

[Sasquatch!]

cant you get ebay to pull these auctions(he has about 5 of them) if he is ripping your info off?

I just wrote them.

On a more serious note, I think you have a good case for copyright violation if you want to look into it.  Requires lawyers though, and I'm not sure how much you would get.  

My plans aren't for sale to begin with - everything I've done is available for free download on my site.  This doesn't mean that OTHER PEOPLE get to profit off of it though!  So no, I"m not going to deal with lawyers...I have a much more sinister plan in mind.  

[RetroJames]

Holy cow!  An arcade plans theft ring!  That is pretty damn low, is that actually the seller's cab in the picks or is that yours?

[1UP]

Gawd, that's dirty.  It seems like it's impossible to sell anything MAME/BYOAC related unless it's bootlegged.  If it's not selling freely available information on where to get MAME and download ROMS, it's selling somebody else's plans.  I would blow a gasket if I saw someone selling my plans.  Maybe you should do some competing auction with the same title, but selling your web address for $.01 or something.  Go get 'em!  

BTW, that's really smart to use the same name (Arcade Paradise) for the cab.  God forbid anyone actually do a Google search on something they're bidding, and find out that it's available free or at least cheaper than they're bidding...

[Sasquatch!]

Holy cow!  An arcade plans theft ring!  That is pretty damn low, is that actually the seller's cab in the picks or is that yours?

That's an in-progress picture of MY cab that he took from MY site.  

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[paigeoliver]

Also, that design looks fine to me, it would fit right in with all the pre 80 cabs I already have (up to 4 pre-80 cabs now).

[allroy1975]

Yeeesh, you guys are brutal.  Give him a break, he gave BYOAC a plug and regardless of your opinion on look of the cab, it looks well crafted to me.  

I think Charlie Manson mentioned BYOAC in his last interview...does that make HIM OKAY!?  

Allroy

[knuttz]

I find it funny that his ebay name is "money-4-life".  Greedy  (and stupid) loser!

[pathdoc2]

Very strange.  Its not like he'd make more than a few bucks.  Slimeball.

[mkdevo]

possibly the worst cabinet i've ever seen.

here

[dirt]

possibly the worst cabinet i've ever seen.

here

i think we have a new winner.


dirt

[Jakobud]

possibly the worst cabinet i've ever seen.

here

i think we have a new winner.


dirt

Hmmm... I beg to differ.  Thats a cool and unique looking pre-80's cab.

[BLACK KNIGHT]

WHAT THE F***??!?!?!

That's an in-progress picture of the first "Arcade Paradise" cabinet - the first MAME cabinet that I built back in 1999!

No kidding it's ugly:
1) It's the first cab that I did - like I said, back in 1999, when this hobby was pretty new
2) It's an in-progress picture.

This guy is selling the plans that I have on www.arcadeparadise.org for free!!!  What as a**hole!!!!  OOOO, I'M PO'D NOW.


edit:
HOLY F****ING S****, he even took the text from my webpage that I wrote as the "description"! AAAHGHAGD4;5U402

You know I thought that picture looked familiar...I must've been to arcadeparadise and seen it there!  I just figured it was you who was selling the plans.  If not that is seriously wrong!!  That guy is a jerk if he's ripping you off like that!  

[SNAAAKE]

This moron here sells lucid's free plan...what the heck..
Its free....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3256609305&category=13716

[Sasquatch!]

Also, that design looks fine to me, it would fit right in with all the pre 80 cabs I already have (up to 4 pre-80 cabs now).

Thanks dude.  I was starting to get a complex here.  

[RetroJames]

I think both cabs are worthy.  I have seen a dog patch cab in person and I thought it was pretty funny.  I would say however that the game dog patch is crap.  Sasquatch, the cab was and is fine, hell it must be half good anyway if that boner thinks he can make a buck off of it.  I wonder if he sold any.

[Amra]

Isnt that the sides from Mamecast, SNAAKES cabinet?

That really fricking low....

Some people have no respect  

[RetroJames]

This moron here sells lucid's free plan...what the heck..
Its free....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3256609305&category=13716

Look at his past sales.  He is selling "plans" from every hobby under the sun.  Too funny.  I am going to start selling printed pages from various websites.  CNN.com...by snail mail...jeezus people will buy anything!

http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=bluedjinn2004

[bluGill]

If he is selling something (like plans) that you wrote, it is copyright violation.  Even if you give the plans away, I cannot mirror or copy those plans without permission, selling is even more illegal.  There is some fair use that might allow printing plans from a website for personal use.  (AFAIK this isn't coded into law, but courts have held similear cases)

However it would take a lawyer to prove a violation and get something done.  Fortunatly E-bay tends to make it easy to get copyright violations pulled - but you are required to see it and notify them.  Even then, in this case a smart person could re-draw your plans so the same box would result, but the plans are very different.

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You mean that I should call Daniel "D-Money" L. Adams II (AKA "Money 4 Life") at home?

Okay!

http://www.flavacountry.com/archive/2003-12/m4l.mp3

LMAO!!!

[slycrel]

  I'm looking forward to the call that you do when he doesn't "get around" to taking down the auctions.  =)

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You mean that I should call Daniel "D-Money" L. Adams II (AKA "Money 4 Life") at home?

Okay!

http://www.flavacountry.com/archive/2003-12/m4l.mp3

HOLY CRAP OMG!!!!!  I can't stop laughing dude!  Nice Sasquatch!  LOL

[Donger]

Great stuff!

Seriously, you should consider talking to a lawyer....even if nothing comes out of it, a simple 'cease and desist' letter could work wonders.

[Sasquatch!]

Great stuff!

Seriously, you should consider talking to a lawyer....even if nothing comes out of it, a simple 'cease and desist' letter could work wonders.

That's way more work (and money) than I can put into this.  For now I'm content with calling the guy and acting like an ass.

[RetroJames]

Great stuff!

Seriously, you should consider talking to a lawyer....even if nothing comes out of it, a simple 'cease and desist' letter could work wonders.

That's way more work (and money) than I can put into this.  For now I'm content with calling the guy and acting like an ass.

Holy crap Sasquatch!  Freakin' great.  PesticIIIIIIIIIIDDDDEEEE.  You remind me of a friend in Chicago named Gary.  Crap you sound just like him.  Very funny stuff.  I may need you to take care of some business for me...now where are those numbers....

You said, "PesticIIIIIIIIIIDDDDEEEE"  LMFAOROTFL!!!

[RetroJames]

For those of you who have not already, check out Sasquatch!'s site at: http://www.flavacountry.com

Then jot down a not-to-self not to f*ck with him in future...when your phone starts clicking you'll know why...yeesh LMAO again

[APFelon]

You gave it to him with barrel number one, but you forgot to pull the trigger on the second barrel!

He was having a bad day, was he? Did he find out that someone was selling his intellectual property passing it off as his own? Somehow, I doubt it.

You let him off too easy. Technically, you have this guy by his bunghairs and you should have pounded that fact into that tiny head of his.

As of this writing, he still hasn't bothered to take down the auction. What a fool.

APf

[STL_Steve]

HAHAHA   midwest-siiiiiiidee!!!!

nice one Sasquatch, I am listening to the recorded call and all I got to say to money-4-life is..

you just got  ownT

[patrickl]

Man, that conversation sounded like a Beavis & Butthead episode! Waaaaay cool!

[JamIt]

Sasquatch,
I feel its my duty to alert you on how you let all of us Chicagoans down.  "Midwest-side"  Cmon, what the heck is that?  Please refrain from using that phrase again.
 
--JamIt

[Frostillicus]

heh nice one sasquatch.  I'd be frikkin ticked too if someone were to cut and paste stuff from my site and then just sell a link to it.   That phone call was great - I thought you were gonna get all jerky-boys like for a second there.  

[SirPeale]

Great stuff!

Seriously, you should consider talking to a lawyer....even if nothing comes out of it, a simple 'cease and desist' letter could work wonders.

That's way more work (and money) than I can put into this.  For now I'm content with calling the guy and acting like an ass.

Very funny.

Checked  out your site.  You've got some dead links.  arcadeparadise links within flavacountry, so it 404s, and there are others.  google.yahoo.com doesn't exist...and that's all I can remember right now.

[NIVO]

yo 'squatch!.........you were waaaaay too nice. Nail this sucker, its just not right to do this kinda thing.

Also, were you wearing your big clock necklace when your were giving him crap? hehe

[CCM]

Great stuff!

Seriously, you should consider talking to a lawyer....even if nothing comes out of it, a simple 'cease and desist' letter could work wonders.

That's way more work (and money) than I can put into this.  For now I'm content with calling the guy and acting like an ass.

Isn't anyone here a lawyer, or have a friend that's a lawyer, that could write a letter for Sasquatch.  I'd love to see that jackass money-4-life squirm a little!

[grafixmonkey]

That phone call was awesome...  but you really were way too nice.  I doubt he cares that it was your stuff, I also doubt he cares that you caught him or that he'll have to take the auction down.  (the mind of a socially inept loser jackass is a twisted thing.)

However, I bet he would care if he got lots of phone calls from lots of people, and knew that there were large threads on arcadecontrols.com devoted to how much of a loser jackass he is.  

he might also like his email address signed up for a couple of free email services, with all of the "send me free subscriptions of stuff" boxes checked.    Maybe a couple of email porn sites too.    

[Zapper]

Ha, nice job Sasquatch. That call sounded like a Crank Yakers! "Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah"

[hyiu]

which email is his main email again ??  

this one ??     money4life@msn.com
any other emails ??

That phone call was awesome...  but you really were way too nice.  I doubt he cares that it was your stuff, I also doubt he cares that you caught him or that he'll have to take the auction down.  (the mind of a socially inept loser jackass is a twisted thing.)

However, I bet he would care if he got lots of phone calls from lots of people, and knew that there were large threads on arcadecontrols.com devoted to how much of a loser jackass he is.  

he might also like his email address signed up for a couple of free email services, with all of the "send me free subscriptions of stuff" boxes checked.    Maybe a couple of email porn sites too.    

[Donger]

Hm, I noticed that he STILL hasn't taken down the auction, even after that phone call.

I say someone calls paypal on both of these guys and yells 'fraud'.  They will freeze his account/funds ASAP, and they WILL investigate.

Is Lusid available for contact?

[hyiu]

for this kind of jacka$$....

sent him a letter from your lawyer...

tell him unless he took off ALL auctions and then respond with letter showing details of explain why he did it....

or else see him in court and he'll be sued with all damages, expenses, fees and loses....

this is the only way to deal with this kind of low life...

[mahuti]

New worst cab ever.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3062568812&category=187

[RetroJames]

New worst cab ever.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3062568812&category=187

Ok, now even I agree, that is just horrific...christ.  *shiver*

[Jakobud]

I think we need to stop insulting people's hard work here... it's not cool.  

[mahuti]

I would disagree. There's a difference between hard work, and shoddy work. That's shoddy. Selling shoddy work on eBay makes it open for mocking. I wouldn't insult people that are really excited by their cabs that post here, but passing off low quality product on eBay as a saleable object is ridicule worthy.

 

[soslo]

New worst cab ever.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3062568812&category=187

I never thought I'd see a mame cab that had to be vacuumed.

[soslo]

btw, sasqwatch - nice phone call - that was great.

[jerryjanis]

I think we need to stop insulting people's hard work here... it's not cool.  

Yeah, enough already.

[patrickl]

I think we need to stop insulting people's hard work here... it's not cool.  

Maybe you're right, but this thing is covered with the same stuff as on my cat's climbing pole. Besides, the best thing it has going for it is probably the HotRod controlpanel. Trouble is, the Joysticks are NOT included! My cat would love it though. A climbing pole with a built-in TV!

I also agree with mahuti. If you ask money for it, it's different. Then you are a manufacturer and no longer a hobbiist and thus subject to "reviews".

Besides, I'm building a cabinet myself and people make fun of me all the time! So what's new

[SNAAAKE]

http://www.flavacountry.com/archive/2003-12/m4l.mp3

HUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAA HHAHAHHHA ! !!  !
WEST SIIIIIIIDE !!

[size=20]OWNED4LIFE!!![/size]



"keepin it real up in the field" ROFL!!!

[SirPeale]

Snaake man...put some spaces in the laughter somewhere, it pulls the page all out of whack!

[dirt]

 the only reason i started this thread was because i thought "greedy-4-life" actual built the cab and it was finished minus controls.if i had seen the finished product "arcadeparadise" i would have never posted this.i think it turned out quite nice. well i guess it all worked out well because we exposed a f-ing fuad of the worst kind,someone with no tallent trying to scam people who don't know any better.



dirt

[Sasquatch!]

For everyone saying that I was too easy on the guy, and even suggesting that I get lawyers involved and whatnot: Bear in mind that this is the guy's first offense.  Quite frankly, I really don't care if he doesn't take the current auctions down, just as long as he isn't dumb enough to try it again.  If he DOES try it again, don't worry: I'll be sure to report back with more merriment!  

[originalself]

PesticIIIIIIIIIIDDDDEEEE
Hehehe, damn wish i had my own theame music when i call people.
Very nice. Probobly is still scrating his head trying to figure out what happened.

[allroy1975]

oh my god that phone call is funny....I did appreciate all the siiiiiieds, but what I really liked was the begining of the conversation when you say, "I got your number off your web site so I thought I'd give you a call"  lol!  you just call everyone who's number you can find on the internet...that's just hilarious.  

err...maybe it's just me.  

and by the way...each time there's a new "New worst cab ever" I freak out and think, OH GOD!  The Old lady put my machine on EBAY!

so far ....mine's not the new worst cab ever....

but there's still time.

Allroy

[Shieldwolf]

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