Main > Main Forum

MAMEdev is Pulling Auctions!

<< < (60/62) > >>

Shape D.:

--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 09, 2005, 01:23:44 pm ---legal ROMs would be a godsend in this situation

--- End quote ---
There are, www.starroms.com    Not many but there are legal roms out there.

KevSteele:

--- Quote from: Shape D. on June 09, 2005, 01:41:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 09, 2005, 01:23:44 pm ---legal ROMs would be a godsend in this situation

--- End quote ---
There are, www.starroms.com
--- End quote ---

Crazy Cooter:

--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 09, 2005, 12:21:30 pm ---I hate to stir the pot here, but Foley did two things in his trademark grab: he got the phrase and the logo.

It can be argued that his grabbing the phrase MAME was possibly legal (unethical, but legal) since it was not being used in a commercial fashion.

The logo, on the other hand, was copyrighted material that was not his in any shape or form.

--- End quote ---

Kevin, read what I pointed out to you on the governments USPTO site.

Haze:
Yes, StarRoms having Atari Roms available and Hanaho with the Capcom Classics is undoubtedly good for Mame in that sense.  They do give people who wish to actually play the games a legal way of doing so without interfering with the actual development of Mame in any way.

Legal roms could end up presenting a little of a headache for the devs as people who have purchased roms seem to think they have even more right to expect them to work than others (although they seem to be more of a problem with those who have purchased them off illegally scumbags on ebay, I don't recall anybody complaining about their Legal roms)  We're not a support team, we're a development team, although so far, as mentioned, we haven't really had any major issues with this from legal buyers, despite making major changes to several Atari sets over time so fingers crossed things stay that way and that the people purchasing the legal sets remain more polite about things.

The DRM Roms issue mentioned in previous threads on this board is something more of a concern, thankfully nobody has attempted this yet, I don't think it could work anyway so theres probably no need to worry about that... To me it is a highly gamer-orientated idea which would seriously hinder development and make using the roms for other legitimate purposes (repairs etc.) and compatibility with other emulators impossible.  DRM, open source software and development projects don't really mix.

It would be nice to see more people like Star Roms, although people should keep in mind that in most cases these roms are being licensed for home use *only*.

Love him or hate him it will be interesting to see what Ultracade come up with because we're always glad to see legal sources of ROMs.

Crazy Cooter:
Take a look at the Ultracade site http://www.ultracade.com/, read the front page and point out what benefits us.

Look at the StarRoms site http://www.starroms.com/, read the front page and point out what benefits us.

Who would better serve our interests?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version