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AtGames Officially Unveils Legends Ultimate Home Arcade (full-size machine)
luizw81:
--- Quote from: JudgeRob on October 26, 2018, 08:16:06 pm ---I don't know man. Injecting profit and money into a hobby tends to incentivize those making the money to squeeze out and silence those who promote doing it for free (a hobby). Pulling interest into the hobby might be good, but pulling in straight up consumers is not all that great for products that were on the verge of being in the public domain.
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+1 to this. You can look no further than than the the rise of retro consoles and what that's done to rom sites. I equate it to a toddler who notices a cousin playing with one of their old toys they haven't touched in years..."Oh you want that? Give It! It's mine!"
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Haze:
I've be weary about this product given that AT Games are pulling a bait+switch scam with the recent collection they did that's sold in stores.
(They sent reviewers copies with arcade ROMs on to get good reviews, then sold a terrible NES based thing in stores instead. Products are completely identical from an external point of view, this isn't even subtle, nor do they care about the negative feedback from the scam)
Basically buy AT Games products at your peril
There are some claiming the Arcade stuff was pulled because it was MAME and they didn't have the proper license, but I've no evidence of that (technically it isn't a problem either, as long as they used 0.172 or above and provide full sources. All versions before that as well as other projects based on such versions like Final Burn Alpha / FBA and Mame4all / Mame4droid are strictly NO COMMERCIAL USE however)
nitrogen_widget:
Could it have one of those 400 in 1 Pandora's box's in it?
nipsmg:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 26, 2018, 03:32:40 pm ---I've been here far longer than most and I can tell you that a lot of the diy attitude back then came from the simple fact that you had no other choice. The earlier version of this site pre-dated (affordable) keyboard encoders... if you wanted to make a control panel you HAD to hack something. Pretty early on Andy started selling encoders and the jpac and many of the old guard was against this commercialized short-cut. Now we can all agree that is a bit silly. I for one am glad that people now have options as it means more people get to enjoy old games. I like to do it myself... hell I even write a lot of the software end of things as well, but someone that can't screw two pieces of wood together should be allowed to play as well.
My point is people byoac for different reasons.... for some it's the process and for others it's the end product and that's ok.
That being said, this is atGames. They couldn't even do a $20 hdmi stick right so I don't have any faith in this particular product.
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I agree. I remember buying a Hagstrom KE-24 early on for a keyboard encoder for some decent $$$, the only other option was people wiring into keyboard matrices, and having ghosting issues..
I have built and torn down 3 arcade machines.. This time around I'm planning on getting an empty cab and modding it. I would love to build it from scratch, but know I don't realistically have the time. Hell, I bought my SkeeBall machine a year ago and while I spent a little time on the software, I have barely done anything to it.
Sometimes convenience trumps DIY. I agree on a DIY forum it should be primarily about DIY, but it doesn't mean people can't discuss/get excited about commercially available options.
Haze:
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on October 31, 2018, 10:02:07 am ---Could it have one of those 400 in 1 Pandora's box's in it?
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Given that they're just completely unlicensed MAME (somebody has claimed 0.153) / FBA bootlegs running on a terrible ARM based SoC, that would be a new low even for AT Games (although based on current happenings, possibly)
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