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Legal Questions: Donating a Cab
Robedias27:
This is my first post here, I'd like to start a project aimed at donating a cabinet to a benefit auction.
Every year, Gateway Woods children's home in Leo, IN holds an auction to raise funds for operating costs. This year's auction raised almost $500,000. They auction off donated items from individuals and local businesses. It brings a huge crowd, and is quite the spectacle. My brother-in-law and his wife work there as houseparents...so I'd like to build an arcade cabinet for the auction next year. I've been interested in doing so for some time...but just recently got the idea to donate it.
LEGALLY...what type of software or games could I put on the arcade machine if I were to donate it to such an event? The proceeds go to the home, so there's no personal gain involved. Would I be limited to retail Windows games like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat (in which case, I would buy a boxed game and include the box/media with the machine)? would MAME and other such emulators be out of the question? My intention would be to make it as user friendly as possible because I wouldn't know who would be buying it. It would essentially be something fun and challenging to build, and I've got about a year to do it. Cabinet quality would be priority...but I'd just like to know what you "professional enthusiasts" would have to say.
I'm open to suggestions, any advice is much appreciated.
paigeoliver:
Buy a real arcade game on craigslist and spruce it up and then donate it to the auction.
Anything else will not only cost you a ton more but also runs into a bunch of legal liabilities and will likely end up as a dead machine in someone's house in a matter of weeks, ruined by a simple windows config problem, or stickykeys or a front end that stopped working.
You can't actually legally resell most PC games.
severdhed:
you may want to look into one of those xxx-in-1 multigame jamma systems instead. ( as for which one, i have no idea, but i'm sure there are those here who have used them).
Haze:
--- Quote from: severdhed on August 06, 2013, 12:11:33 am ---you may want to look into one of those xxx-in-1 multigame jamma systems instead. ( as for which one, i have no idea, but i'm sure there are those here who have used them).
--- End quote ---
He said he wanted to do it legally. Those aren't an option, there's nothing legal about them.
WindDrake:
I'd go the real machine route, using either a dedicated board or one of the licensed Multigame boards (Namco Classics, etc.).
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