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Crazy Cooter:

--- Quote from: fuadramsey on June 05, 2008, 02:11:47 pm ---I just wanted to know if there was a way I could sell an emulator cabinet with licensed ROMS.

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Short answer = No.

That's why the multiboards are either sold without any ROM's on it (making you liable for the infringement), or they are imported from China with everything loaded (which you are liable since you imported an illegal product with intent to infringe).  Also, read the EULA on the emulator software and it'll say you can't sell anything with their emu preloaded.

Sooo... here's how to do it 100% legal:
1- Obtain proper authorization from the IP holder(s).
2- Obtain proper authorization from the emulation developer(s).
3- Obtain proper authorization from the front-end author(s).
4- Obtain proper authorization for any graphics you plan to use.

Anything else & you're taking chances of getting caught.  IP stuff gets expensive fast if you end up in a courtroom.

Outside the US, be aware that there are IP treaties that 99% of the countries in the United Nations have signed.  It's all messed up.
Lilwolf:
how you do it legally, is you install some of the windows classic applications on them  (midway collects ect).  Then you sell the cab with a few games.  Heck, you could write a frontend that moved between a few of these collection applications.

almost every other option requires you to do so much work, its not worth it.

NOTE:  there are a few legal roms out there... and you could sell cabs with those, after you get mame's permission.  If you ask, and show what roms you are going to send with it, they have given permission in the past.  It can be hard to get a reply I hear.

btw, there is very very little money in this.  Lots are doing it... and lots are trying hard to find people with a few extra K laying around who will shell it out... especially when the cab is in a legal form...  I would recommend just doing it for love of it, and for friends....  If you want to make money, consider moving to the component level.  I hear there is good money in reproductions (spinners ect) and encoders.  But there is a lot of choices now.  Not sure how easy it will be to get a nitch (without it being stolen away by the others in the group).

btw, the first person to come up with a cheap starwars controller will be working full time for 1/2 year filling orders.  If someone could do it for 100 bucks, they will be working full time for the rest of their lives. :)
kayoteq:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on June 07, 2008, 07:33:16 am ---
btw, the first person to come up with a cheap starwars controller will be working full time for 1/2 year filling orders.  If someone could do it for 100 bucks, they will be working full time for the rest of their lives. :)

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someone like This guy? although it looks like pre-sale is $200 with $235 as regular retail. (continues to bang head over not acting on $250 SW (bad screen) mid-90's)

Back to the topic; again, I'd like a legal variant on this 48 thing; blank. Comes with a pin connector >USB and enough storage for x roms. Let the violation occur with the home user. Just like iPods playing Beatles.

As an aside, has anyone managed to reprogram one of those things?

Lilwolf:
I would LOVE it if ramcontrols ever started shipping them.  He's had problems with some of the parts being powder coated for the last... two years or so?  (heck, maybe he will start sending them in silver... he might have all the parts for that now.)

As the legal side.  They STILL aren't legal.  MAME never gave permission to use their software.  Even if they where shipped without any roms, they are still a no go...  If they wrote their own emulator... then they would be in the clear...
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