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Legality of Mame cabinets
Tiger-Heli:
It is a MAMETM trademark infringement to have a MAME cabinet. It is acceptable to have an arcade cabinet with MAME installed, or a generic emulator cabinet which runs MAME. :police:
SirPoonga:
If you really want to be legal have the company get an ultracade.
* SirPoonga puts on flame resistant suit...
Anyway, the only way to be legal is get starrom roms or buy a hotrod with the capcom games.
Like I said you can always get collections.
Atari
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Lactose:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on August 17, 2005, 07:26:40 am ---Basically no way to make it legal while accepting money.
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I never said it would be for-profit. The legality of that is obvious enough that I wouldn't bother to ask. I'm not even putting a coin door on the machine.
Crazy Cooter:
Think of it like playing a VHS copied movie.
RandyT:
I'm with CC. In any public setting, it's always best to play by the rules.
The last thing you want is a disgruntled employee making noise about the thing (and they will) and responsibility for it landing squarely in your lap.
Maybe there would never be a problem, but then maybe you could end up with no job, or worse, in court.
Is it really worth the risk?
RandyT