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brian23:
The whole charging for gameplay while using MAME goes against the MAME license agreement. If you wanna charge your frat buddies for playing games, that should be cool except don't blame anyone if a MAME lawyer comes banging on your door.

You can register coin drops by attaching the microswitch that is located under your coin mechs, to your keyboard encoder. MAME registers keys 5 and 6 ( I believe) for one and two player coin drops. When a coin is dropped, it is checked mechanically if it is token, quarter, etc. If it passes, then it is passed through a smaller metal chute that has a wire. When this wire is tripped, it activates the microswitch and the coin drops into the coin bin. The microswitch sends the signal to the ipac (in this case) where the ipac translates the drop into the key 5 or 6.

_) (V) (-):
Why not get a whole room full of them? Then you can stand outside calling to the passers by "Hey Meesteer, you like my seesteer?" "How about you play some games with her?"  ;) ;)

Opps, I think I misread the title question? Oh what the heck, it'll still work about the same.
Space Fractal:
Just to say, you also voliate lincence for using it with I-Pac. Even Andy do not like it, and is only allowed for using with a button for the coin (personly I can see a problem with using tokens, as long you dosent changing them).

There are other thread, that have a hated debate about this one. Since I can see you are new, try to find these thread, so you can see, why it unpopular. I can
Howard_Casto:
I would be more worried about the actual manufacturers of the games themselves.  Midway and nintendo in particular will take legal action against you. 
Spaz Monkey:
Just spend the $700 on an actual arcade machine.
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