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CoinDrop v1.3 Released - Now you can insert coins from your front-end!
brian23:
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--- Quote from: brian23 on December 27, 2005, 02:48:49 pm ---If MAME was concerned about commercialization by allowing coin drops, then there wouldn't be a insert coin feature altogether.
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Have you seen the EULA?
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RayB:
--- Quote from: markrvp on December 27, 2005, 05:17:20 pm ---I don't think so.
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loadman:
I was up until now resisting entering this discussion instead just providing a link to a wav as the author of Coindrop requested..
youki:
Funny, it is same discussion we had few month ago when i introduced AtomicFe with this feature.
Concerning MAME Cab in a exploitation context. There are lot of in Spain and Italy too.
And i saw one in North Carolina in U.S.
Some PCB are sold including MAME and 400 or 900 roms too. They are JAMMA board with a Hardrive, you just plug to your Cab , and you boot up directly on a FE (Arcade OS , i think). And you can choose up to 900 games runing with mame.
The credit management is done by electronic.
These boards are called "900 in 1" , and "400 in 1" . You can find some of them on Ebay sometimes.
Boards are made in china.
So, i don't think credit management in FE will change something.
Personnally i decided to put in "stand by" the coin management from the FE in Atomic. Just to avoid polemic and be concentrated on others features.
I agree with lot of you. It is not necessary at all to have a coin management from the FE , but it is just for fun and for a little more "arcade" feeling in a mamecab.
And from my personnal point of view , it was more for the technical aspect i wanted to do that.
Grasshopper:
Headcaze, I think this is a great idea and I appreciate your efforts.
It's true that your program will make life slightly easier for pirates but I honestly don't think it will make a dramatic difference. I've seen a number of almost certainly illegal multigame machines in arcades and some of them already had polished front ends capable of tracking coins. Admittedly I've also seen others that simply had instructions on the bezel warning users that coins entered whilst in the front end would be lost. But let's face it many of the far east pirates are perfectly capable of hacking into MAME for themselves and have probably already done so. The bottom line is that 95% of the pirates' work has already been done by the MAME (and other emulator) developers. This Coindrop program is merely icing on the cake.
Anyway, I've never really bought into the idea that MAME is solely a "documentation project". Obviously that's part of it but I find it hard to believe that the MAMEDEVS don't also want to play the games. I think they stress the documentation side of MAME to try and give themselves some legal cover in the unlikely event they get sued at some point.
I haven't downloaded the program yet but one thing I'm wondering is whether any coins are lost if you enter coins in MAME and then return to the front end.
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