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Legality of Mame cabinets
StephenH:
Building or selling a home arcade cab built with legal hardware is legal. Including ROMs is another matter. Additionally, you cannot call it a MAMEcab, as MAME is now trademarked, although you can say "MAME Compatible". Selling MAME is also illegal.
So If you want to be legal, I would do the following:
1) Do not include any ROMs.
2) Do not use the name MAME to describe it.
3) Use only legal items on it.
4) It is OK to refer one to StarRoms, or to inform them about the Capcom Coin-op Classics CD-ROM, or to dump your own boards.