Mame machine on MTV

[GameDork]

My wife and I were watching the new Real World and they have what looks like a Mame cocktail set up in the house. The guy was playin it from the side and it had a keyboard setting on top of the machine.

     

[clanggedin]

I saw that too. When the girl was sitting next to it, it had Street Fighter II champion edition running on it. It was a different cocktail than what I have seen.

[Gunstar Hero]

You think, being MTV and all, they'd have an Ultracade(TM) cocktail in there "for promotional consideration."

Course, that Ultracade(TM and C all rights reserved) cocktail is SO brightly painted it might ruin every shot it's in! LOL.

[hulkster]

okay, so how will they not get in trouble for this?  im assuming they are mame roms...wont someone bust em for this?

[spystyle]

Has anyone ever been busted for having a MAME machine? Is there any instance of the Midway, Atari, or Namco secret police putting the smack down on MAMErs?

Do they send Mappy, the police mouse?

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Craig

[whammoed]

Has anyone ever been busted for having a MAME machine? Is there any instance of the Midway, Atari, or Namco secret police putting the smack down on MAMErs?

Do they send Mappy, the police mouse?

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Craig

Hilarious

[Industen]

One day on Wheel of Furtune they had an MAME Arcade spot on the wheel. The only time I ever watched the show and this came up...go figure. Pat explained it was possible to play any game on it. Interesting enough 16 were preloaded onto the computer and Street Fighter CE was one of them. Maybe one company has the rights to included some games with the cabinet.

[SirPeale]

One day on Wheel of Furtune they had an MAME Arcade spot on the wheel. The only time I ever watched the show and this came up...go figure. Pat explained it was possible to play any game on it. Interesting enough 16 were preloaded onto the computer and Street Fighter CE was one of them. Maybe one company has the rights to included some games with the cabinet.

Sounds like a Hanaho cabinet.

[saint]

HanaHo cabinet.

http://www.hanaho.com/media/Wheel_480.html

[spystyle]

Woah! It's Saint!

Look busy, the boss is back!

[Gunstar Hero]

Hey everyone, Pat says it's cool to posess MAME roms.

Bless you, Pat Sajak!

[pointdablame]

Woah! It's Saint!

Look busy, the boss is back!

* pointdablame minimizes PacMan

Don't worry Saint, I'll have those TPS reports to you ASAP

[Tahnok]

Ugh... I just came from watching X-play on G4/TechTV and they have a new set complete with arcade cab. It looks like it must be some sort of MAME, but I don't know the commercial cabs well enough to say which one. If this hobby gets too popular I may have to quite and find something else.

[spystyle]

Ugh... I just came from watching X-play on G4/TechTV and they have a new set complete with arcade cab. It looks like it must be some sort of MAME, but I don't know the commercial cabs well enough to say which one. If this hobby gets too popular I may have to quite and find something else.

Are you saying you're too cool for school?

[pointdablame]

O no, please not another elitist argument....

I've had enough of that with music, and computers, and blah blah.... like something cuz its fun, not cuz it's "underground"

[Tahnok]

Ugh... I just came from watching X-play on G4/TechTV and they have a new set complete with arcade cab. It looks like it must be some sort of MAME, but I don't know the commercial cabs well enough to say which one. If this hobby gets too popular I may have to quite and find something else.

Are you saying you're too cool for school?

Ha ha! No, I'm too much of a nerd to go with the crowd. I don't enjoy doing the same thing that everybody else is doing. What's the fun in that?

[clanggedin]

They showed the cabinet again last night and one of the guys was playing Commando. Still have no idea who built the cab.

[hulkster]

seems to me that there have been a lot more sightings of mame cabs recently....maybe im just paranoid, but i keep thinking that somebody (RIAA-ish except for mame stuff) will come along and find places where roms are distributed or whatever...and start filing lawsuits left and right.  am i worried over nothing??

[RayB]

...will come along and find places where roms are distributed or whatever...and start filing lawsuits left and right.  am i worried over nothing??

No, you're not worried over nothing. As markets open up for retro games (and look how big it has gotten already) the more $$ at stake the more alert companies will become over infringing materials. Best thing to do is grab what you can now. Never assume your favorite site will still be around in the future.

[javeryh]

...will come along and find places where roms are distributed or whatever...and start filing lawsuits left and right.  am i worried over nothing??

No, you're not worried over nothing. As markets open up for retro games (and look how big it has gotten already) the more $$ at stake the more alert companies will become over infringing materials. Best thing to do is grab what you can now. Never assume your favorite site will still be around in the future.

If and when it becomes an issue, the burners out there are really the only ones likely to get in "trouble" and even then it would probably just require them to stop burning.  I doubt it is worth anyone's time or money to go after their customers and chances are they don't even keep track of who they are...  this is all IMO, of course...

[DarkKobold]

You are also forgetting that, for the most part, 80's/early 90's emulation is mostly finished.

Even if the VGIAA (Video Game Industry Ass. of America fictional) cracked down, threw every mame dev in prison (heaven forbid), you, and millions of others, still have a copy of Mame. They can't throw Bob Roberts, or Happ, or Saint in prison. Just building a cab isn't illegal. This hobby won't die to VGIAA.

Mame could stop tommorrow, and I would still be satisified for decades.....

[AlanS17]

I think one of the reasons the hobby is so popular is because MAME is constantly being improved and it drives to the desire to improve cabs. If MAME were stopped and ROMs were no longer distributed, the hobby itself would (probably) slowly go downhill.

[Matt Berry]

seems to me that there have been a lot more sightings of mame cabs recently....maybe im just paranoid, but i keep thinking that somebody (RIAA-ish except for mame stuff) will come along and find places where roms are distributed or whatever...and start filing lawsuits left and right.  am i worried over nothing??

I wouldn't worry about emulation or roms disappearing. When emulators were new there were more dependicies on just a few sources for roms mostly 1995-96. Once emulators became more popular the great witch hunts by the IDSA began. Tons of websites were shut down, pulled and threatened, some of my favorites were among the casualties. Great changes  were on the horizon, many feared the worst as it became harder to find roms but they were still available. One that I thought was funny was nintendo teaming up with the IDSA to stop the spread of donkey kong, and other nintendo owned material. Did all of this stop the spread of roms and emulation, no, it has only gotten better and stronger.  It is a lot easier then ever to get complete sets of any type of roms. They also tried to stop MP3's when they first started, again they failed. The point is once something becomes popular the industry can do little to stop it, so fear not.