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Malenko:
yeah, I THINK so. That's a legit Pacman board with a rom hack, the switches just go back and forth between which roms are loaded. Now the speed hack doesnt matter , but I dont know if they are using legit roms, but honestly, since only 1 game can run at a time it shouldnt matter. And there is always plausible deny-ability :)
When I suggested a reunion board, it was so a player can coin up then pick which game to play , which seemed to be your goal. The board you linked to requires the machine to be OFF when flipping a switch to change speeds/games
TurboC--:
Right, it's more desirable to have it a menu choice, I'm just looking at the various options. It would be nice to have Pac-man as an option since it's a fairly beautiful pac-man cabinet with all of the original parts (bezel, marquee, pristine CPO, etc.)
In the mid 90s, at an arcade I remember playing a cabinet with different Pac-man versions, Rally-X, I think Galaga... I thought it was like a 5 or 6-in-1. Sort of like the handheld Namco collections but it was a cabinet. I looked around but I can't seem to find it anywhere. It seemed legit and was being coin operated for profit among 100 other cabs, but now I'm not sure whether it was legit since I can't find it. Does that sound familiar at all?
Does the Ms.Pac/Galaga board have any option of running original Pac-man as well? Some kind of mode or switch?
* I see there is a code you can put into the reunion to play pac-man. That's cool, however, it looks like the controls for reunion require two ms pac start buttons, two galaga start buttons, as well as fire. I don't see how that would work without drilling into & defacing the CP. Hmm. It makes me lean toward the pac / ms pac switchable, or something like that. Would be even cooler if Jr. Pac was on there also...
Malenko:
you can get the 96 in 1 multipac mod:
http://home.everestkc.net/mdoyle/multipac.htm
The game you are thinking of are the Namco Classic Collections. 2 Volumes in the arcades if memory serves.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8824
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8825
TurboC--:
Thanks, yes it was Namco Classic Collection 2. Looks like that would be out since it needs 2 joysticks.
The 96-in-1 is interesting, that would be a $145 upgrade of an existing PCB but if I could get a cheap enough pac (or ms pac?) pcb set, it could be a good option. I imagine that would not be strictly legal commercially, but how strict is the enforcement for something like that? He would have to own at least a Pac PCB anyway so that's something better than MAME at least...
TurboC--:
Question - is it legal for someone to run a MAME game commercially IF they own a licensed copy which is not being used? For instance if he wanted to keep running MAME for profit, but purchased a set of licensed pac man, ms pac man and galaga chips, or something like that. If so, maybe that would be a good and legal workaround?
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