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Legal Question concerning StarROMs
Lilwolf:
Starroms is legit. Confirmed by many on the mame team. And the roms recently got 1/2 when their contract changed because of a new multi - pac cds and compitition..
As for mame being stopped. It wont happen. People have been talking for YEARS and it used to be worse. They used to drop roms sites on a weekly basis.
I'm guessing if they change the laws, it would just make it go underground a little more. But you would still see versions pop up here and there.
Also note... Most of the developers don't live in the US. So you would have to expect that the laws would have to change in some world wide format that would scare developers.
but then... I think you would just find more anomonous updates..
but last...
I think mame will stop development in a large point when the number of 2d arcades are fully emulated... Hopefully work will move to increase quality and fill in some gabs...
This depends on how hard it is to really incorporate a nice universal tools to get 3d emulation going.
AlanS17:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on September 23, 2004, 12:47:28 am ---Alan, also look at the mame EULA.
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Good point. Never thought about it from that angle. Still, if I wanted to buy those ROMs and have a dedicated multi-Atari ROM-based MAME machine, it would be totally 100% legal for my own use, right? (I'm not talking about charging people for it, of course).
That's pretty cool when you think about it. A Home-grown LEGIT arcade machine... Not that the cops would ever show up at my door to confiscate the thing, but it makes me feel better and in a sense, prouder that I didn't need to cheat.
whammoed:
Yep, thanks for the reminder. Just bought the ones I want to use. Hopefully if copyright holders see there is money to be made there will be more legal roms available. I certainly don't have a problem purchasing the rights especially when the price is reasonable.