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Is there a living to be made from arcade cabs?
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: RayB on September 19, 2006, 09:45:06 am ---What a great thread!
There's some truth to some of what Spacies has to say. We just don't want to hear it. In my opinion, there is much hypocrisy on all sides of the argument.
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Yes, there is some truth to what Spacies is saying and I'm not disputing that. The primary issue to me is the building of machines to put into commercial settings and his "enjoy it while it lasts" attitude. That kind of mentality will bring the gray area of this hobby to the front and center stage. And we all know how much friendlier the hobby will be if lawyers get involved.
Spacies also assumes this is a ROM driven hobby. This may be true for a large portion of the crowd, as Saint pointed out, it doesn't cover everyone.
With all this being said, Spacies is alright with me. He has some obvious building talent and seems like a good guy overall. What he's doing is neat, but I wonder what impact he (and others like him) are having.
horseboy:
Scabies, I have a few points for ya.
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 01:07:30 am --- :notworthy: to Saint.
I dont believe in God, not until he shows me his face. If there is an afterlife, I just hope it is has roms!
:P
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You, sir, are an idiot. If I was Saint (and 75% of the other people here would do the same), I would have already pushed that big glowing red button on his desk and jettisoned you back into obscurity. Saint is good enough to pay for and maintain this place for us to all discuss and help each other build our own arcade controls, and you should respect him for that. Just because he feels strongly enough not to use illegal roms is certainly no reason to mock him.
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 03:33:47 am ---
But maybe MAME should email China and Japan and explain it to them that what they are doing is illegal.
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My Outlook address book got erased, do you have their emails? :dunno
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 03:33:47 am ---
Or maybe you should look in your own back yard first as I could find 10 webistes selling MAME machines in the USA in 0.13 seconds using Google. Theres even one with Celebs playing them!
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How much do you want to bet that none of those machines come with the ROMs? If any of them do, a couple of well placed phone calls could end that in a hurry.
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 03:33:47 am ---I am sorry if I have come across the wrong way.
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You have, and I already knew you were sorry.
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 03:33:47 am ---I love what you guys have done but it has been exploited while you were sleeping.
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The only person freely admitting exploitation here is.........you.
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 03:33:47 am ---Also, if we didn't have a product to buy in the first place then this wouldn't be a problem. Not the other way around.
You stop the source you stop the problem. Because if the market was flooded then the price would drop and even more people would buy them.
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Wow, what a revelation. My outlook has totally changed due to this statement. So wise are you.
The U.S. government can't stop people in Mexico from making meth, if they could it would stop a huge portion of the meth problems here. Since they can't, though, I now feel the only thing to do is capitalize off of it. Well, I'd love to keep chatting, but I got to get to the school yard down the road. It's almost recess!!!!!
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Chris:
There's always someone who's going to take a look at the hard work of folks giving their work away for free and rub their hands and say "How can I make money off this?" I face it all the time with WinCab jukebox; people who build jukebox cabinets and "just give away" the software in violation of the license.
The bottom line, folks, is that he's just yanking our chains and laughing his ass off as we all get frothy. Spacies is a troll, the type we've seen come and go plenty of times before. Put him on Ignore and move on.
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jimmy_bored:
It amazes me that this thread is still open... I also enjoy the fact that these types of topics get the most posts and reads. Yet when I ask what a certain cabinet material is no one knows... :laugh2:
This thread is as good as the Hanaho one... Lets stay focused on arcade controls like the saint said... He pays for it and this is just wasting bandwidth.
BTW - I love you all! :notworthy:
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: jimmy_bored on September 19, 2006, 10:32:07 am ---Yet when I ask what a certain cabinet material is no one knows... :laugh2:
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OK ... I responded, but you may want to post pics for questions like that.
Cheers