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CoinDrop v1.3 Released - Now you can insert coins from your front-end!

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Necro:
I think basically the issue is that it lets people use MAME cabinets in a commercial sense (since it can track coin inserts in the front end, you can have the thing sitting in a arcade/etc. and correctly track coin inserts all the time, etc.).

Don't let people get in your face about it though.  You wrote something to help others, and people will appreciate it.

Roughy:

--- Quote from: Necro on December 24, 2005, 05:47:38 pm ---I think basically the issue is that it lets people use MAME cabinets in a commercial sense (since it can track coin inserts in the front end, you can have the thing sitting in a arcade/etc. and correctly track coin inserts all the time, etc.).

Don't let people get in your face about it though.
--- End quote ---

headkaze:
Just because you see a way someone could exploit something doesn't make it bad. The old saying "guns don't kill people, people kill people" comes to mind. That's all I will say on the matter.

Basically, I would like a bit more feedback (if possible) on any problems, or bugs. Also any ideas on how to improve it would be nice. Don't be put off by all the people who bag it because their afraid of the bootleg boogieman.

Finally, I was hoping people could post some cool coin drop wav sounds.

headkaze:
If there is enough people who agree this program should not be released, I will remove it just let me know. I'm not about encouraging bootleg machines, and I'm not about upsetting a community who I respect. If the feature was removed from Atomic FE, then perhaps I should follow suit. It seems to me (after reading the lengthy post) that there is a great amount of distaste for such a program. Since my intentions are far removed from this sort of behaviour I would like to do the right thing by the community and take this opinon on board. How should I go about making a decision? Who's opinon should I trust? Please post your thoughts and I will remove this program if I believe it to be the right thing to do.

BobA:
It sounds like a good program for cab builders.  Now if cab builders want to  use it for parties or for their regular use it can probably be used by them but not be those with commercial desires if you put a time limit in it.   Run for a period of time and then loose the coin amounts or stop running.  Not sure what would be most effective but an anoyance would be enough to not have someone try to use it for commercial purposes.

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