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MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on August 06, 2006, 09:00:05 pm ---No, that is bad thinking.  The rom is there, but embedded into the exe.  If you extracted the rom from the exe that would be altering the probram which oes against the EULA.

You paid to use it on your PC with their emulator with the rom embedded into the mulator.

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I don't think he was talking about altering anything. I believe he was talking about playing the same game he owns on the disc in MAME with the ordinary MAME ROM:


--- Quote ---and that i have, therefore, paid for the use of them on my PC, even if my actual use is in mame with an unofficially-obtained rom.
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Additionally, he implied that the correctness of his actions would be in regard to his conscience, not necessarily in regard to the law:


--- Quote ---and even if it were ruled to have violated the letter of the law, i'd at least have satisfied my conscience that i'd fairly compensated the copyright holder for the use of their intellectual property on my pc.
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It sounds like a legal grey area to me, but regardless of that, I can say with near absolute certainty that the copyright holders don't know RobotronNut from Adam's off ox, nor will they ever, and this particular case is not going to court.
SirPoonga:
What I meant was just to indicate that it isn't legal.  It doesn't matter if it was downloaded or extracted from the collection.

If it makes you feel better that you have bought the game somehow that's not my problem :)
ChicagoDave:
Thanks RobotronNut, I just got Midway Arcade Treasures from ebay.  This adds:

720 degrees
Blaster
Bubbles
Defender
Defender II
Gauntlet
Joust
Joust 2
KLAX
Marble Madness
Paperboy
Rampage
Rampart
RoadBlasters
Robotron 2084
Root Beer Tapper
Satan's Hollow
Sinistar
Smash TV
SPLAT!
Spy Hunter
Super Sprint
Toobin'
Vindicators
Dreamwriter:
See, there's an interesting thing.  I got Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe, and while it's a pretty cool collection, it uses crappy Starforce copy protection, requires the CD in the drive (and not even just one CD, but two, one per collection), and has its own annoying front end that HAS to play a video everytime you do something.  If I want to do the perfectly legal thing, I have to use it that way, right?

HOWEVER, Awesome Arcades (http://www.awecades.com/) uses Midway Arcade Treasures in their commercial arcade machines (gives you the CD's even), and claims to use the Digital Eclipse emulators, so it doesn't sound like they got special licenses (they *are* using Mame for Exidy games, but only those) - but their machines don't have a CD drive, and they are obviously using their own front end for all the games.

Any idea what they are doing?
SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: Dreamwriter on August 10, 2006, 11:51:07 pm ---Any idea what they are doing?

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Deamon tools or alcohol 120% to make a virtual cd drive from an iso image.

Are they using their own frontend for all games?  Or just to launch the midway menu?
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