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Is this MAME?
paigeoliver:
Ultracade is horizontal.
fredster:
Unless the Asians have come up with another batch of game boards past the 30 in 1's, I guess this guy is doing what he says.
He says he wrote the software himself. Maybe he made a custom z80 board that can run all that stuff. The old bootleg boards from the 80's were the first 'emulators'.
He has a good rep, 250+ with 100% good feedback. That's not a bad record.
After all, you could cook up your own mame pretty easy. I've seen some weird machines at the auctions lately I didn't know what they were.
Those games he has aren't public domain, that's for sure.
But I saw an arab guy in the mall selling a system that had a lot of those games, if not all of them, on a little hand held system (bigger than those walmart controllers) for $55 the other day. You just plugged it into the TV and that was it. It was running some kind of small board, but it wasn't a PC. It was a dedicated board for sure.
danny_galaga:
i think people are just getting too complacent about copyright infringement etc. they will just push and push until they attract someones attention and then the 5h1t will hit the fan...
maybe not these guys though. they are at the thin edge of the wedge. but the next guy that comes along might say 'well these guys are doing this and that, so i might just go just a little further. no one will notice'. and then eventually someone might notice...
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on November 25, 2004, 06:05:09 am ---i think people are just getting too complacent about copyright infringement etc. they will just push and push until they attract someones attention and then the 5h1t will hit the fan...
maybe not these guys though. they are at the thin edge of the wedge. but the next guy that comes along might say 'well these guys are doing this and that, so i might just go just a little further. no one will notice'. and then eventually someone might notice...
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Danny, they have been making 900 game mame based JAMMA boards in Asia for YEARS.
The smarter manufacturers don't acknowledge it because
A: There is little legitimate way to make money off most old titles, at least not for the manufacturer.
Case in point, Namco TVGames joystick. All Namco can manage to get for 5 A LIST titles AND the hardware is $15. Which tells me the rest of their library is largely worthless.
B: It costs money to pursue the copyright infringement people, and that is money that they are never going to recoup.
Case in point. Road Fighter. Decent little Konami conversion title, from around 1984. Wasn't a hit, they probably lost a little money on the arcade version, and made it back up with the NES port. Today that title is bootlegged on a 10,000 in 1 NES unit. Konami could do the smart thing and IGNORE IT, or they could waste money going after a game that wouldn't even be popular today if they offered it as a free download from Konami.com
Personally I think a lot of companies would best serve themselves and their customers/shareholders by public domaining their non-viable titles (which is 99 percent of them), and only defending their viable ones.
Namco wastes money defending crap like Mappy. I'm not really saying Mappy is crap, but it certainly isn't a viable product today. Mappy as a character never caught on, despite being in several games. Mappy's time is over, there aren't going to be any new Mappy games, so why waste money defending him.
danny_galaga:
what i'm getting at though is that ok, manufacturers might not be too concerned about some old title that didn't make much anyway, but what if because some smart arse starts selling heaps of bootlegs of CURRENT games (or even, like music, games yet unreleased). i think someone might get a tad annoyed and pursue them and then there might be a broader crack-down. just takes a whiney lars ulrich type to wreck it for all.
i acknowledge that its unlikely. but who knows what the future will bring?