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| Turnarcades:
--- Quote from: cynos on February 25, 2009, 07:33:35 pm ---how are these companies getting away with selling the boards if they are illegal? site links removed as they sell copyright violations --- saint --- End quote --- Dunno, but I'll bet this quote and links will be removed quicker than you can fart. Links to these type of boards are not allowed. It's likely they have just stayed under the radar as they do not mention MAME or emulation in their descriptions. Only the big guns like Nintendo and Sony tend to snoop the net regularly for rom sites and activity like this. If it's not any of their games or not in their interest they just don't care enough. Early atari games and smaller, now-defunct game houses are less bothered by it all, and even mighty Capcom made a statement somewhere about turning a blind eye to the sprite rips people were using for MUGEN translation as it does not really dent their profits, but keeps interest alive in their games. If you've noticed on many rom sites in the last two years, certain games will have been demanded to be removed (ie Mario games, Sonic games etc.) yet other releases by the big companies remain and the sites stay open. It could be the case that even those taking a stand on piracy so forcefully like Nintendo are actually quite happy to allow other old games they create to be kept alive - possibly because the damage is small and in the long run they want to test the longevity of their games and have experienced gamers retain interest in their work, possibly helping future sales of new games. All purely speculation of course....... :laugh: |
| CathalDublin:
alrite understand, I think your best bet would be try figure out which boards are legal and ship with the most legal one :laugh: that way you will be shipping a fully jamma compatatable arcade suitable for the user to buy original boards and run a pc in if they want, you could even sell a pc to jamma rig aswell for extra so they can just plug their own pc in. Thats what I'd do anyway |
| Ummon:
--- Quote from: BeachRunnerJoe on February 25, 2009, 06:29:52 pm ---After looking into this some more over the last couple days, it seems like the game bundles are the best approach. I looked into other businesses that are making and selling cabs and they're either shipping with no games, freeware games, or these bundled PC ports. It looks like XArcade just plops a playstation console into their cabinets and ships with playstation games that include the arcade classics. It seems to me the best approach to take would be to build a typical mame arcade cab with a PC in it, but instead of installing MAME or any other emulators, just install these game bundles and be sure to ship with the original CD. I've looked into the many PC arcade game bundles on amazon, but does anyone know if somebody's already compiled a list of these that are currently available? If not, I might build such a list and post it on here for others to use. --- End quote --- You might look into both that and the PSX idea suggested above, and maybe offer whichever the buyer might want. |
| BeachRunnerJoe:
thanks for imparting the wisdom, everyone! I've learned a lot over the last few days due largely in part to this discussion and your help. I'm going to work on compiling a list of currently available and supported PC arcade game bundles and post it for others to use (if at all useful ;) ) |
| BeachRunnerJoe:
so does that mean this business is breaking the law? http://drinkngame.com how are they allowed to pre-load it with mame roms? |
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