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So how good is the Mame cabinet market?
vputz:
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on July 17, 2009, 02:15:33 am ---I'll admit it, if i sold a MAME cab I'd sell it with the ROMS fully installed. Why shouldn't I? They're just going to go and download them anyway.... I think selling a cab with the potential and intent for mass piracy is the same as selling one with the games already installed.
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Doesn't have so much to do with "of course the buyer would never download ROMS because he has a full legal set already". Sure, everyone knows they're going to get the ROMs, but it's legal to sell a MAME cab without roms and it's illegal to sell it with roms; that's pretty cut and dried.
Now, from a basic private-transaction point of view, there's probably no big deal either way. What you don't want to do is attract attention to the MAME project by blatantly selling "MAME plus thousands of ROM WAREZ!" and implying that using MAME means illegally using ROMs. To me, it's even less legality than politeness.
Emulation projects get a lot of flak from companies even when everything's totally above the board. As a simple courtesy to the developers, I wouldn't flaunt illegal activity.
Beretta:
vputz thats a very good way of looking at it i totally missed.
you're right it would shed a bad light on mame, and it's disrespectful to their efforts, i agree.
Todd H:
I had someone offer me a couple grand for my machine during a July 4th party. As tempting as it was I just couldn't part with the old girl. :)
garnerb350:
--- Quote from: Todd H on July 17, 2009, 02:10:35 pm ---I had someone offer me a couple grand for my machine during a July 4th party. As tempting as it was I just couldn't part with the old girl. :)
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YES!, I"M NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!!!
javeryh:
--- Quote from: Todd H on July 17, 2009, 02:10:35 pm ---I had someone offer me a couple grand for my machine during a July 4th party. As tempting as it was I just couldn't part with the old girl. :)
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Same. I've had people offer me a few thousand to build them one but I always decline. If this great hobby ever became WORK I'd just cry.