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Insert coin before selecting game? This possible?
Ginsu Victim:
Well, here (USA) it's illegal.
versapak:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on February 24, 2010, 03:15:10 pm ---When I asked about paying to play your MAME cab, I didn't mean this. I meant if you had to pay and you didn't get the money back. Why would anyone want to pay to play a MAME cab?
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What difference does that make?
The natural assumption, I would have thought for a MAME cab, would be that they did get the money back, and just wanted to have the coins for a more arcade feel.
MAME being MAME is what will cause someone to want to place it commercially. I certainly don't agree with doing so, but I don't think that a coin up software will change anything one way or the other about commercial use.
Select game from front end, then put quarter in.
Put quarter in, then select game.
Either way.
I do respect Saint, and will respect his policies having been a member here for about 5 and a half years now, but I think the MAMEdev policy on this is a bunch of crap.
They make software that is probably more than 90% used for copyright violation. Whatever their intentions are stated to be, it isn't what is.
Ginsu Victim:
It's one thing for us to use it for our own selfish needs, but it's entirely different for others to profit off of it.
Manre Boo:
If I understand right what versapak is saying. MAME can allready be used as commercial usage, and adding coin lock to menu wouldn't change anything?
Choose game insert coin works now. It would only be other way around, insert coin choose game.
So whats really the deal here?
And please could someone answer is it allowed to discuss about coin locking NES menu?
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: versapak on February 24, 2010, 03:32:09 pm ---Whatever their intentions are stated to be, it isn't what is.
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I'm not so sure -- if their intentions were to play games, then they wouldn't break games as often as they do by fixing the emulation and they would worry more about skipping parts of the emulation in the name of execution speed.
The fact that the vast majority of users use it for something different doesn't mean that the MAMEDevs have the same priorities.
I would wager that they are like many arcade collectors -- the joy is in the work and working out all of the little details are is more fun than playing.
--- Quote from: Manre Boo on February 24, 2010, 03:40:49 pm ---If I understand right what versapak is saying. MAME can allready be used as commercial usage, and adding coin lock to menu wouldn't change anything?
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MAME cannot be legally be used in a commercial setting. Period. That doesn't mean that it isn't done, only that it is illegal.
--- Quote from: Manre Boo on February 24, 2010, 03:40:49 pm ---And please could someone answer is it allowed to discuss about coin locking NES menu?
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