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Restoring vs. Maming a cabinet - The complete rule book
MaximRecoil:
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--- Quote from: brandon on February 04, 2008, 06:48:17 pm ---The Atari version of ET comes to mind... :D
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The Atari version of ET was not commercial equipment costing thousands of dollars per unit. :)
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Plus it is about as coveted as a bootleg Mahjong machine.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on February 05, 2008, 09:47:14 am ---I get defensive when arcade collectors go on a tirade about MAME and how it's killing cabs... but damn, it's hard to be defensive when (it seems) so many people don't give two shits whether they destroy a classic arcade cabinet or not.
It seems that the arcade collecting community is right...
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This is what I've been trying to get through to them. That the collecting community literally hates the BYOAC and Mame, for all the destruction that goes on. So that's both of us that have been treated like shite elsewhere because we try to support and back up and defend this community with collectors, museums and preservation groups.
The Managing Director of a major UK Science and Technology Museum (while they were organising an exhibit on computer games history), was asking me for assistance. Over dinner I mentioned the BYOAC and that some members might be prepared to loan some machines. He turned to me and said: "Oh those are the people who rip game machines apart to make them play other games aren't they?" It's almost impossible to defend that perception of this community, when we have people doing exactly that and not giving a crap about it.
I too have had it with this nonsense! Do as you please.... So go ahead! Damage the reputation of this community, damage the reputatioin of Mame, rip machines apart all you like. After all you can do whatever you like with the property you own, right?!. Even if that destroys things for everybody else on the planet.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
TelcoLou:
Hmm. I'm confused. This site's acronym (and a quick check on the wiki) suggests to me, that it's about "Building you own" stuff, not "Restoring Beat-up cabinets back to their original luster" :dizzy:
stan2323:
--- Quote from: shardian on February 05, 2008, 09:09:29 am ---You have a link or something for that story? Is it recent or old? That is absolutely crazy, and I would think it could make national attention.
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No I do not it was 10 years ago. The flood in the area in 2006 destroyed the house along with quite a few others that were along the river.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 05, 2008, 10:19:28 am ---That the collecting community literally hates the BYOAC
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Uhm, maybe there, but definitely not here. People are intelligent enough to discern the difference between what was done with this Galaxian and building your own cabinet from scratch or MAMEing a Dynamo that has been converted 4 times already. The ones that can't are only going by "what I heard from someone who heard someone said that" or aren't really involved in this hobby.
Truth be told, I probably fall deeper into the "collecting community" than I do BYOAC. I have built zero cabs and have never MAMEd anything. I do restorations.