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| Token:
So do they really have licenses for all these games? Did they get permission from ReotroPie and MAME devs to include their software? From the MAME legal FAQ-- --- Quote ---Q. If I obtain a license from an original manufacturer to distribute the ROMs can I use MAME to run them? A. Generally, no, because it constitutes a commercial use of MAME. However, we have in the past made a couple of exceptions for this particular case. We will not consider making any further exceptions without proof that such a license has already been obtained. --- End quote --- Oh, and they met a stretch goal that BYOAC will love! :banghead: |
| vwalbridge:
Here is the answer Slippyblade got: --- Quote from: Slippyblade on November 30, 2015, 12:48:21 pm ---Well, I got a response in regards to my licensing question. --- Quote ---We are purchasing a license per game per Polycade. I can understand the confusion with my comment regarding commercial use. The Polycade itself is just an interface, and if you were to place a set of games to which you have a commercial license for, then it would be usable commercially. --- End quote --- So it looks like most of the cost of this urinal is licensing. --- End quote --- Of course they have included a keyboard drawer. Buyers are going to need it to type an email back to the builder inquiring how to return their mistake. |
| mgb:
Oh great, they added a keyboard drawer. At $100,000 I really hope they add cup holders. The 4 way stick looks an awful lot like a Happ style which leads me to wonder if it has true restriction or just a flipped actuator. Either way, the licensing will kill this venture. |
| monkeybomb:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on November 29, 2015, 12:42:42 pm ---I look like ass, myself. But the fact it's got backers already shows some people just wanna play Galaga, by any means necessary, to Hell with all the extra stuff we do here. --- End quote --- I would expect people with arcade cabinets to think this looks like ass, but there are a lot of rooms that that don't look quite right with a giant piece of 7 Eleven in the corner. My wife and I used to live in a 1 bedroom apartment with panton chairs, acrylic cabinets, modern artwork and that kind of thing. While this wall mounted game station isn't exactly what I would want, it would have fit in with that living room way better than the neo geo cabinet my wife let me add. It created a clockwork orange meets shakeys pizza vibe that lots of people wouldn't be willing to deal with. Having said that, a 4:3 screen would definitely need for me to ever consider anything like this. Regarding the license, a 14 game capcom cd was included with the HanaHo Hotrod and it included SFII. I think the disk used mame, but I can't find it to check. I believe the Arcade PC had far more licensed games and there are other examples like. So this wouldn't be the first project to get capcom on board. |
| harveybirdman:
--- Quote from: monkeybomb on December 10, 2015, 02:25:40 pm --- but there are a lot of rooms that that don't look quite right with a giant piece of 7 Eleven in the corner. --- End quote --- EVERY room looks better with a piece of 7 Eleven in the corner. |
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