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Tilzs:

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Point 1 - I'm not sure where you are going with this, but - if you just want a galaxian game in the gameroom without restoring the cab, that's fine.  If you want a "can't tell it's not original" galaxian cab to charge people to use, that violates at least the spirit of the MAME license.

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And running almost any roms in mame doesn't voilate the original game licence?  Pot meet kettle
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Tilzs on April 27, 2004, 03:31:27 pm ---
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Point 1 - I'm not sure where you are going with this, but - if you just want a galaxian game in the gameroom without restoring the cab, that's fine.  If you want a "can't tell it's not original" galaxian cab to charge people to use, that violates at least the spirit of the MAME license.

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And running almost any roms in mame doesn't voilate the original game licence?  Pot meet kettle

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It violates the original game license, but not the MAME license, b/c MAME tells you not to do this.

In other words, if TopCat doesn't own at least a broken Galaxian board, he could theoretically be sent to jail or be sued by (I guess?) Midway.

If TopCat charges a quarter per game to play Galaxian, with or without a broken PCB, the MAME team could be sued and MAME could be shut down.

This has all been hashed out in http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=17873 so let's continue it there, if need be.
SirPeale:

--- Quote from: Tilzs on April 27, 2004, 03:31:27 pm ---And running almost any roms in mame doesn't voilate the original game licence?  Pot meet kettle

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He's talking about charging for use, and this is getting off topic.
TopCat:
whoaaa!  I didn't mention anything about charging to use it !

I simply want to have a working cabinet without paying $100s for all the internals.

its simply for pleasure and I'm quite confident midway could not be bothered taking me to court for using it in my front room considering i could put a playstation in it with a licenced copy of galaxians from ebay.

I merely want it to act as original as possible and maybe buy another couple of trashed cabinets with a dedicated game which I can pick up for peanuts as I can't afford $1500+ for working original cabs.

and thanks to BYOAC artwork is freely available to give my cab a real feel

I would like to thank "Peale" for the great advice I have tried it and it works perfect cheers
TopCat:
I would also like to add that I have been usig mame on my computer for about 5yrs and enjoy it very much with my hacked gamepad joystick controller box and have played most games its just I only love the ones I played as a kid which are Galaxians,Phoenix (the best) and 1941 (although I now like 1943) so I am hoping to have these in my garage quite soon. If I can't get original cabinets I will build them from the plans on jackobuds great site
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