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ultracade help please
« on: February 14, 2013, 09:24:50 am »
hello everyone am looking for some one to help me out i have an ultracde i have been trying to upgrade it and no luck i would love to upgrade it me and my wife have foster kids and its in are game room we have had it for along time and all are lil ones love it they love the sound and graphics and i want to put some games on it for them so if any one can help us out it would be greatly appreciated here is my email adress juanito51375@yahoo.com so lets us know am willing to pay top doller and trust me to see them smile its worth alot to me so i know some one out there can help so please let us know

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Re: ultracade help please
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2013, 07:04:25 pm »
you cannot currently legally purchase game packs for the ultracade.

the original maker of the ultracade system did not obtain permission to use the intellectual property of the game makers to use them with the system. before the companies found out, he sold the business to Global VR, telling them that he had permission and paid licencing to use them. Global VR ended up paying a whole whack of money to the original game makers for stealing their games...even though they didn't do it.

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in a nutshell, any packs our there are illegal to sell, because there is no permission from the original game makers to use it.

Global VR obtained legal use of some games, and have since re-released the system under a different name. http://www.globalvr.com/products_gac.html They will not support the ultracade, they will not talk to you about it.

BUT you are in luck in another sense. The IO board used in the ultracade is simply pretending to be a keyboard. you can build a computer, install MAME and have whichever games you wish. all the controls are just button presses on a keyboard.

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Re: ultracade help please
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2013, 02:36:03 am »
you cannot currently legally purchase game packs for the ultracade.

the original maker of the ultracade system did not obtain permission to use the intellectual property of the game makers to use them with the system. before the companies found out, he sold the business to Global VR, telling them that he had permission and paid licencing to use them. Global VR ended up paying a whole whack of money to the original game makers for stealing their games...even though they didn't do it.

REPOST FOR VISIBILITY

in a nutshell, any packs our there are illegal to sell, because there is no permission from the original game makers to use it.

Global VR obtained legal use of some games, and have since re-released the system under a different name. http://www.globalvr.com/products_gac.html They will not support the ultracade, they will not talk to you about it.

BUT you are in luck in another sense. The IO board used in the ultracade is simply pretending to be a keyboard. you can build a computer, install MAME and have whichever games you wish. all the controls are just button presses on a keyboard.
« Last Edit: February 18, 2013, 08:46:47 pm by juanito51375 »