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Roms, Mame, what's legal, what isn't?
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Tiger-Heli:
My SUGGESTION (not legal advice) is to inform the customer of the legalities of various roms and provide links to MAME and maybe other sites.
subcriminal:
I wondered when someone would mention distributing MAME with a cabinet. I've had nothing to do with the development of MAME but it really pisses me off when I see junk cab's being eBay'd with the advertisment that 'MAME is installed but no winth ROMS so I'm not breaking the law' (Has the capability of playing 5000+ games etc) >:( Lets see how many buyers you get based on craftmanship!
Not dissing the quality of your cab's, I've probably never seen one, just based on general fleabay stuff but I think if someone wants to buy a MAME cab they should at least learn about the history of MAME rather than handing over a wad of notes and impressing people with their new toy.
elvis:

--- Quote from: subcriminal on February 19, 2006, 03:45:02 pm ---'MAME is installed but no winth ROMS so I'm not breaking the law'
--- End quote ---

It *IS* breaking the law.  MAMEDev own the MAME copyright.  The software is open source, but not free.  You are not allowed to bundle either the binary nor the source together with a physical computer without permission from MAMEDev.

It ain't rocket science.  If you want to use MAME, you need to ask permission from the people who own it.
SirPoonga:
starroms.com solved part of the problem today.
ArcadEd:
Thanks for all of the replies guys, I sort of forgot about this thread for a bit :).

Yeah, I will contact MAMEdev, but at this point I might not even bother putting MAME on the machines.  I'll link it, and all that stuff.

But with StarRoms gone, there is no reason for me to spend the time and effort to install and configure mame.  I'll just provide instructions.

SubCriminal-  I understand where you are coming from, and I totally agree.  Thankfully I have more morals than people like that. I respect all that MameDev has done.  And you can always click the link in my signature to see how the craftsmanship stacks up.  I take lots of pride in my arcade boxes, and no full well they would have never happened without Mame.
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