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spacies:


--- Quote from: Flip_Willie on September 18, 2006, 04:58:26 pm ---     Just out of curiousity; don't you have to have an arcade licensed or something before you can legally use it for profit?  I mean, you can't just build a Jamma cabinet and drop it off somewhere and expect it to make money, can you?

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Not here.
We had an Arcade in the 80s and machines were supplied by a guy who owned them all, we just provided the site.

There are loads of companies who will supply a machine, for free, into your cafe or whatever and split takings 50/50. Not sure what the rules are in the states but here you can do what you like. As long as you pay tax the Government dont care.

There is an arcade just opened in the city I live in and all the machines, pool tables, air hockey etc are owned by 1 company. The shop is leased and all they do is run it. The owners of the machines do all the servicing etc.

Money for Jam.

Flip_Willie:


--- Quote from: spacies on September 18, 2006, 05:24:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: Flip_Willie on September 18, 2006, 04:58:26 pm ---     Just out of curiousity; don't you have to have an arcade licensed or something before you can legally use it for profit?  I mean, you can't just build a Jamma cabinet and drop it off somewhere and expect it to make money, can you?

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Not here.

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      Guess I need to move to New Zealand.   ;

spacies:


Don't move here! You might steal my market  :angry: LOL

Most of the time I use multi-game PCBs available from China. 4, 9 or 48 in 1 Vertical or 4, 9 in 1 Horizontal. Those have Defender, Robotron, Joust, Splat, Bubbles, Rally X etc etc.
Don't know if you have ever seen one but they have a plastic cover box on the PCB. I melted the little pins to remove the cover to see what was underneath and there is some hynix RAM, a Flash card and an Intel CPU. Crazy, but clever, Chinese! No guessing what that is running huh?

They also make new dedicated copies of some oldies, Bubble Bobble, Galaga, Ms Pacman, 1942, etc and I have built a few dedicated cabs using those. They sell for about $70 per PCB and support cocktail too. Nice.

 :cheers:


Flip_Willie:


--- Quote from: spacies on September 18, 2006, 05:53:44 pm ---They also make new dedicated copies of some oldies, Bubble Bobble, Galaga, Ms Pacman, 1942, etc and I have built a few dedicated cabs using those. They sell for about $70 per PCB and support cocktail too. Nice.

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      Where do you buy the dedicated games from?  ( I know you can get old ones on ebay, but generally they aren't around when I want them).

      Also, where can you buy the Chinese multi-game PCBs?
     
Thanks.

Haze:

Every single one of those Multi-game boards we've looked at has either been a) MAME, or b) NES versions of the games.

Running them is just as illegal as running MAME in a cabinet, some of them claim to be licensed with the original manufacturers (doubtful) but NONE of them are using MAME legally.

We've dumped the flash drives / hard drives off a number of them, in most cases, as pointed out they're advmame with a front-end, usually using a hacked up hiscore.dat system to transfer credits.  Keep that in mind.



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