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Xam:
I'd be willing to donate the game disc that came with my X-Arcade.

It has Defender, Gauntlet, Joust, Rampage, Robotron, and Smash TV on it.
It also has its own basic launcher. You just gotta put the disc in when you want to play.

Let me know,
Xam
Tahnok:
If you don't want to use a PC, you could just put one of those 5-in-1 plug & play sets in there (assuming you're using a TV). It's about the same amount of games as the disk Xam suggested. Plus, you won't have any problems with game selection (they have their own joystick controlled menus).
Tiger-Heli:
Another quasi-legal option would be those 49-in-1 or 300-in-1 Jamma board that come up on E-bay and various other sites.

Also - this is a gray area, but I'm not sure what the legal consequences would be of having the games running under MAME itself, if the youth group were non-profit, the machine was set on free-play, and the machine was donated to the youth group . . .

For that matter . . .  I am not sure how much of an issue it would be even if it did violate the licenses.  I don't want to start trouble . . . And I know (suspect) it is a MAME license violation . . . And I won't publish the company name, but . . .

There is a local vendor selling the Hanaho Arcade PC.  It comes with a custom version of MAME and 15 or so Roms.  No problem.  However - the display machine is also set up with something like MAME32 0.59 and what looks to be a complete set of roms.

I didn't want to stir up trouble, so I didn't ask if the games were included or if they were removed when I bought it.  However, even if they were to be removed and the store said that they were only there to demonstrate what could be done on the machine, I suspect that is still a violation of the "non-commercial use" clause of the MAME license, as they are using MAME32 to sell the machine.

And I am just talking about MAME copyrights - (I didn't ask them if they have arcade boards for the 1,000 or so games, b/c frankly I am not convinced that owning the arcade board entitles you to use a copy of the rom from another same model arcade board that you obtained from a MAME set.)
RayB:
Cheapest LEGAL set up is actual used boards (1 game per cabinet).

You mentioned Win98 and think about it, to be LEGAL you have to have a legit copy for each machine you install it on.
Crowquill:

--- Quote from: RayB on April 27, 2007, 09:23:59 am ---Cheapest LEGAL set up is actual used boards (1 game per cabinet).

You mentioned Win98 and think about it, to be LEGAL you have to have a legit copy for each machine you install it on.


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But if you're like me you have a full retail version CD laying around whose license isn't being used on another computer. That's why I'm using 98 on my cocktail project.
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