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Would you PAY for new games for your MAME cabinet?

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saint:


--- Quote from: RayB on December 12, 2008, 02:37:18 pm ---Part of my livelihood is making small games and in the back of my mind I keep thinking about how cool it would be to make games that worked with arcade controls rather than crappy PC keyboard and mouse. (How many of you have wished Zuma or TumbleBugs had spinner support?)

The thing is, coding up a game just for my own cabinet is quite a chunk of time with no reward other than playing my own game (and possibly releasing a version that works with PC controls).

I was wondering if any of you would ever consider PAYING for some new games that were made for use in a MAME cabinet? or given how much in this hobby is "free", would you expect such new games to be free?

To help answer the poll above, this is what I'm proposing:

 - Early 80's style arcade gameplay
 - Could have retro graphics, but I'm more keen on delivering early 90's console style graphics
 - Emphasis on games that make use of arcade controls. (Spinner, trackball, 2 joysticks, etc)

Some examples:

- Spinner games
- Centipede clone with nice graphics and trackball support
- Joystick + spinner game
- 2-joystick game

We're talking small scale games, not big full-blown productions like Street Fighter IV (wink to Todd H ;) )

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I would, and in fact have.

Hamsterball
That claymation style space shooter, Platypus?
Best Friends (retro64.com, kids love it)
Jazz Jackrabbit series
many others.

--- saint


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--- Quote from: Todd H on December 12, 2008, 03:18:26 pm ---I have no problem paying. I'll be buying Street Fighter IV PC the day it comes out.



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High Five on that!  :cheers:

BASS!:

Now here is the million dollar question. How much would you pay to use the full mame 128 romset?

wbassett:

I also said it depends on the game.

As far as the entire rom set?  Yeah I'd pay for a set of tested and working games.  The problem I see is there are many different companies.  I could see a romset from say Midway, or Atari...  the problem with an all inclusive set is how to split up the royalties between all the companies?  They'd have to agree and I doubt they would.

I do have a disc of arcade classics, and I'm sure everyone has seen those bargain game discs at places like Walmart for under $20 that boast thousands of games.  I guess what I am saying is seeing these are old games it would be a small niche market, but I have no problem throwing some bones to the companies that developed or now own the games.  Since I own a disc with Atari games and also one with Midway classics, I don't feel I cheated anyone by playing them.   And don't forget you can buy some of the classics for the game consoles out there for around $10.

I certainly don't want to belittle any company that owns or developed these games, but they would have to keep the price reasonable or else it would invite people to 'do to the dark side'.  Hey though... any profit is better than none though right?

I guess for a full set of tested and working games including CHDs I'd pay $100 easy seeing we're talking over 6000 games (but a lot are pretty crappy knockoffs in my opinion too).  But I still think most people would feel $100 is a bit much and there lay the problem.  I seriously doubt the owners want to give things away, but then again we are talking about some games that are twenty years old.  Value and what someone is willing to pay depends on how bad a perticular person wants something.

Now for newer games.... if they use a keyboard can't they be mapped to MAME anyway?  I know Disney's Jungle Pinball can be mapped, and there is another thread devoted to games that work well on a cab with arcade controls.  For those that require special keys or more than a standard cp would have, there is always the MFP (Multi Function Panel) fropm CH Products.  http://www.chproducts.com/retail/mfp.html

I will someday build a sit down racing cab and I have ideas about a flight cockpit sit down cab that incorporates the CH MFP (but realistically those are probably a year or more down the road for me)  I do like the idea though of incorporating some of the MSN style games into my existing cab that my wife loves to play!  The only problem with that is unless I build her a cab of her own I'll never get to use mine!  Jungle Pinball was the reason she got her own computer in the first place! ;)

angryred:

Typhoon 2001 ( http://typhoon.kuto.de/  ) is an awesome and very faithful clone of Tempest 2000-- and playing Tempest 2000 with a spinner is INSANE.  I've been playing almost nothing but T2K for a few weeks now...

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