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Kremmit:
I don't know about the legalities- seems like you can compile info about how to play a game withoug violating any copyrights, as long as you don't use any copyrighted art or screenshots. 

As to whether or not you can charge for it, well, everybody here always wants everything to be free.  Me included. ;)   But Saint charges for his book, and nobody complains about that, even though all the info in it is available here for free- the money is for the labor that goes into putting the book together, and for the convenience of having all that info in one easy-to-use reference volume.  You might not sell many copies here, but that doesn't mean that kids on fighting game sites wouldn't cough up a few bucks.  I'd definately go with a nice, cheap .pdf or ebook, though.  I can imagine somebody coughing up $2.00 via paypal and feeling good about doing it the right way, but if you're trying to charge $10, they're just gonna pirate it instead.

KenToad:
I'd love to see a sample page.  Have been thinking of creating a moves list book, as well.  A lot of my friends don't know the moves for many of the best games and only know a few from select games.  If the booklet was cool enough, those fighting games would probably get played more often.

Been thinking of it for a while, but I'm too lazy to do it, it seems.

Anyway, congrats if you have figured out a nice, original layout.  Post a sample to get us all drooling, plz.

Cheers,
KenToad

Ayrk:

--- Quote from: Kremmit on April 24, 2006, 03:34:20 pm ---I don't know about the legalities- seems like you can compile info about how to play a game withoug violating any copyrights, as long as you don't use any copyrighted art or screenshots. 

As to whether or not you can charge for it, well, everybody here always wants everything to be free.  Me included. ;)   But Saint charges for his book, and nobody complains about that, even though all the info in it is available here for free- the money is for the labor that goes into putting the book together, and for the convenience of having all that info in one easy-to-use reference volume.  You might not sell many copies here, but that doesn't mean that kids on fighting game sites wouldn't cough up a few bucks.  I'd definately go with a nice, cheap .pdf or ebook, though.  I can imagine somebody coughing up $2.00 via paypal and feeling good about doing it the right way, but if you're trying to charge $10, they're just gonna pirate it instead.

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The ~$10 price would be for a printed book, it is a rough estimate but we are talking a POD book at around 100 pages. PDF would of course be cheaper but until I'm done laying it out I won't know what to charge.

I was a little surprised at the reaction I got since in the past people here have thought it was a good idea. I'll finish laying it out and figure out where to go from there.

namedos:
By all means charge for it.  After all this is AMERICA the land of golden opportunity.  You probably won't make a bunch of money off of it but you should be able to recoop your costs.

You are putting your time and effort into it, even with the PDF version, so as long as people feel it has value they will be willing to pay for it. 

If it has a good layout and is easily understood I will consider it.

Dizzle:
Mark of the Wolves, Samurai Shodown V and SVC Chaos are all playable in MAME.  Perfect too from what I can tell.  If I remember correctly, I think Fallen Angels was playable too.

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