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CoinDrop v1.3 Released - Now you can insert coins from your front-end!
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SirPoonga:
No, it's the fact that the credits carry over when switching games.  Commercial systems do this.  It's not the fact that you can put in credits at the frontend.

Since credits are free for a home user there isn't a need for a program like this.  But if you want to fake a multigame system using mame a feature like this will make it much easier.  That's the argument against such a feature as it really doesn't do much for the home user but does quite abit for someone using mame commercially.

Also like I said before I don't care if he keeps the program up or not.  I'm just pointing out why people would be against it.
brian23:
If MAME was concerned about commercialization by allowing coin drops, then there wouldn't be a insert coin feature altogether. CoinDrop is simply a nice add-on to MAME that allows you to transfer your "keystrokes" from one game to the next. I actually find it quite annoying to have to use the i-pac shift function to put coins into a game everytime.
Necro:
I just brought it up so headkaze would know it was coming.  IMHO, if it's easy to do, some person/company could just do it on their own and sell MAME cabinets anyhow.

I plan on using this once I get my cab together.
SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: brian23 on December 27, 2005, 02:48:49 pm ---If MAME was concerned about commercialization by allowing coin drops, then there wouldn't be a insert coin feature altogether.

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Have you seen the EULA?  Do you know about what ultracade did?

Mame is very concerned about commercialization.  But it is a documentation project, inserting a coin is part of an arcade machine.
markrvp:

--- Quote from: RayB on December 27, 2005, 11:52:21 am ---Isn't that like asking if anyone has seen a car, while the combustion engine was still being invented?

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I don't think so.  Someone answered above that they have seen a lot of MAME cabinets in Mexico.  So the ability for a Front End to manage credits isn't the obstacle keeping MAME cabinets from illegal use.

I understand the argument against coindrop FE management, but I think if operators saw a fortune to be made in classic on-site arcade cabinets we would have already seen it.  It has already been pointed out the Ultracade machines have been poor earners in arcades.

I don't care either way. 

What I would like to see is someone figure out how the game STEPMANIA was written as it seems to be a really flashy type program that would look awesome as a Front End.  It doesn't crash and is very professional looking and allows selection of songs (i.e. ROMS) very easily.  I think a Front End that looks, sounds, and reacts as nicely as the FE that sets up games in Stepmania would be great for our community.
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