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Is Foley really the devil..?? (Previously: RetroBlast is a traitor..??)

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Voodooray:


--- Quote ---Quote from: quarterback on June 11, 2005, 07:34:55 PM
Quote from: saint on June 11, 2005, 06:38:18 PM
I, for one, welcome our new MAME(tm) overlords!

In Russia, MAME(tm) welcomes *you*


lol, that sounds so familiar, but I can't place it...I picture it coming from the four eyed alien evil genius on "lilo and stich', but that's not it, is it?
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I don't know if it came from there origionally but both quotes are from the Simpsons.

The first from where Homer goes into space and the second, where they go to Branson.
not that i'm in any way Simpsons obsessed you understand.

Voodoo Ray.

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 12, 2005, 05:28:20 pm ---As for the overly-positive reviews: yes, I get enthusastic. But have you considered the fact that I may have actually liked most the products I've reviewed? I realize that you may not agree with my reviews, but I've never claimed to be anything other than an arcade enthusiast sharing my opinions.

With any review you need to understand a bit about the reviewer, then filter the review through what you know about them.

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As someone who's been critical of Kevin being overly positive in his reviews in the past, let me give some personal experience that may help some of you out.  Look at my comments in the TOKN testing thread. (especially if you have been following it.).

My initial comments were VERY negative, because I was expecting it to allow all 16 inputs to be used simultaneously.  Then I figured out that the unit COULD be used to do basically what it claim.  Those posts were more positive on the unit than they should be.  Later I backed away and looked at the big picture, and came away with something like "Yes, you COULD use this in a basic CP, but when would it be your first choice."

My point is that in reviewing hardware, you generally want it to perform well, or want to make it perform well, and sometimes that clouds your logic.

KevSteele:


--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on June 13, 2005, 12:00:40 am ---By the way Kev,
Do you plan to ever do a review of the GP-Wiz49 ?
and possibly revise your KEYWIZ MAX 1.5 review?
I believe Tiger-Heli posted this for you some time ago:
http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/encoder/rebuttal.htm

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I'm making arrangements for someone else to do a review of the GP-Wiz49, since Randy wants nothing to do with me because of the KeyWiz Max review.

And no, I have no plans to revise my review of the KeyWiz Max. I just re-read it recently, and I stand by that review, Tiger-Heli's rebuttal or not (although I did fix the typos he pointed out  ;) )

Kevin

General Zod:


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this battle over the legalities of retrogaming stems soley from BYOAC, and those who decide to rake in huge profits from selling their custom cabs. !!  >:(

To act surprised or bitter against another gamer just because they've supposedly "made a deal with devil", is outright foolish. When the smoke clears, and the game is over, the only one's you'll be shouting devil to, are the greedy idiotic members who decided to profit from selling their MAME cabs.

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Whaaa????  You are so far out in left field it's crazy.  You're blaming the entire fiasco on people who sell cabinets???  Pass around some of what you're smoking Zod.  To point the finger at BYOAC is absurd, this board is DESIGNED to teach people to build their own cabs, so that they don't have to pay say $4000 for a pile of wood and plastic.

The rest of this thread is more or less a discussion, this is plain old trolling.



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WHOA !! Who the <censored> are you??? After glancing about your webpage, I can see why you made those comments towards me. You, like a handful of others, are only contributing to very problem that's being discussed here.

Schooltime, ol' Zakk goodbuddy!! A problem just doesn't arise, it builds gradually over time, then usually explodes right in your face. If you <censored> long enough to realize it's not only the $4000 cabs that ruined it, but also the $500-$2000 cabs from the so-called hobbyist of our community, you might actually hear a ring of truth from my original comments.

Blaming Foley, KevSteele, and or even the MAMEdevs at this point in the game is ridiculous. One has to look back to the beginning, the very reason we're talking about this right now.  My original post was only depicting the ROOT of the problem.

Passing the Foley's, and all other commercial co's, I seem to remember quite a few that started the ball rolling in the BST forum. Come on, you remember it too...." How much do you think I can get for said MAMEcab? "

Come on ZAKK, you've been here a while just like me, remember those posts? Who'da thunk they'd eventually ruin it for the lot of us ?  >:(

Go put that in your <censored> BLOG , will ya !!!  :D

Censored by saint. Three times in one message. This is the road to being banned - chill out and watch your language.

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Tommy Boy on June 11, 2005, 08:15:10 pm ---Sit down and think about the whole MAME(tm) fiasco that he started.  How was that *ever* going to do him any good?  Does pulling cabinets and marquee auctions off of ebay do anything to make his licenses worth more?  No.

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It doesn't make his licenses worth more, but it does make his cabinets sell better if they're still advertised and his competitors aren't.

--- Quote ---Here's one last thought: How is the iRoms idea any better of a money maker for him if he doesn't get the copyrights owners to enforce their rights.  Will the copyrights owners incur the cost of litigation to enforce their rights without a revenue stream from iRoms sufficient to pay the legal bills plus a profit?  I don't know the answer to this last question but I have my own theory...

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If the ROMS are $300 to $500 per game (as his current titles are) and if he actually SELLS any, that generates a pretty good revenue stream for litigation.


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