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Ultracade had me pulled off ebay
spidermonkey:
Yeah,it seems Foley has been working his greedy little butt off lately as there's almost no MAME cabs for sale on Ebay. If you do come across one it usually disappears before the end of the auction. Probably due to threats from Foley.
MonitorGuru:
What foley does is bad (cancelling anything Mame--legal or not), however what you were doing was worse. The x-in-1 games are ALL illegal.
The only multi-games that are legal are the two Namco Classic Collections and Ms.Pac/Galaga combos.
The x-in-1's are nothing more than mame hacked into bios with a video adaptor board on some proprietary x86 processor board. They are loaded with game roms from mame and they try to hide the mameness, but it's still emulation--it's still outright theft.
It has nothing to do with competing with Dave Foley and his little crusade. It is selling a product without licence from the original game manufacturers, no better than selling a PC with Mame and 39 mame roms included.
Veinman:
I'm not going to comment on legal vs not legal, but it seems to me that Ultracade has a lot of time on their hands if they bother to interfere with ebay auctions.
sc1103:
--- Quote from: Veinman on May 25, 2005, 11:22:54 pm ---I'm not going to comment on legal vs not legal, but it seems to me that Ultracade has a lot of time on their hands if they bother to interfere with ebay auctions.
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Well they dont have to worry about answering questions on their forums ;)
paigeoliver:
I do place the X-in-1 in a slightly different class than the JAMMA Multiwilliams. Neither is "legal" but the owners of the Williams IP don't seem to CARE, while Namco does care.
Namco is still idiotic, they missed the boat, those bootleg boards outsold their Reunion machines like 50 to 1. They would have been a lot better of financially just to release an affordable JAMMA board/kit. There would be no market for the bootlegs if people could get a genuine Namco board for only a little bit more.