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Gray_Area:
Yeah, just don't bother. Everybody downloads stuff and uses flash media these days. Build the machine, let others worry about the games.

BobA:
You can include a legal collections disk to show that the cab works.  Legal Collection Link

Nitro0602:
Thanks Boba, I will look into the buying the PC version!! Great link!

Nitro0602:
Thanks Gray_Area!
I agree to many spazzes here!
But I think its easier for me just to sell the cabinet without games... to many issues, I could always tell them which sites to go on  ;)

paigeoliver:
I will go ahead and state the obvious, since no one else did.

Looks like an Xarcade stick on a tv stand. Sure, the monitor install looks sort of decent but that is the sort of thing everyone in the community laughs at.

You don't have a viable product there. You aren't adding any value. Your buddies might think you could sell that and they might pretend to be interested. But all of that will fall apart. I have been buying, selling, and building game cabinets cabinets since 2001 (over 300 to date). I have had countless friends and family express interest in them and ultimately not one of them every pulled the trigger on one of them, not even at cost. You can't count on any of those people to follow through, and what you are building there isn't competitive with anything else available in the marketplace.

Not trying to be a jerk, I am just stating the truth before you invest any money in trying to sell those things.

If you actually want to make some money selling game cabinets then you are going to at least have to learn how to integrate your own control panels and wire them up yourself. However even then competition is fierce and margins aren't all that high on anything that has a scratch-built cabinet.

Even if it was legal you don't want to sell them with a premade software setup. At some point down the road it will break and then they will be looking for you to fix it, no matter how long it has been. These days I normally only sell dedicated games, project games or parts. The only way I would sell a multicabinet today is either without a computer or using one of the JAMMA multiboards. The JAMMA multiboards may not be 100 percent legit, but nearly every arcade, pinball and jukebox retailer in America sells the things and you can buy the boards on Amazon. The copyright holders on the games on those things seem to have given up fighting them years ago.

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