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How do coin slots work???
cpetzol2:
Here is the main question; How do coin slots work? Is it something that mame handles, your frontend, or is it the rom itself that is seeking coins.
My next question is this, does anyone know of any type of front end or piece of software that would allow for me to charge money for other emultators, such as a NES, SNES, or a SEGA emulator. I was thinking of something that was perhaps time based, like 30 minutes for a quarter.
The Ideal front end in my mind, is one that can open several emulators, including MAME,and other popular ones, cover up or cancel any payment within the ROMS themselves, and enforce its own payment scheme, such as a quarter for a certain amount of time, and when that time is up, you are prompted for more quarters or booted from the game, and sent back to a ROM selection menu where it awaited more quarters before any ROM can be started.
I know these are wierd questions, but I am just trying to learn more about charging money for games, but yet I want it to be a somewhat simple process, and something that is very consistent. I am donating about 700 of my own dollars into an arcade that is going to be in my frat house, and I would like to have some kind of income so I can improve the thing.
diverdown:
I may be wrong but isn't this against the whole philosophy behind MAME and BYOAC?
loadman:
--- Quote from: cpetzol2 on October 05, 2006, 01:05:55 am ---Here is the main question; How do coin slots work? Is it something that mame handles, your frontend, or is it the rom itself that is seeking coins.
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Each Rom
--- Quote --- I am donating about 700 of my own dollars into an arcade that is going to be in my frat house, and I would like to have some kind of income so I can improve the thing.
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You may have to ask for donations as you have potential legal issues selling other peoples work, and as 'diverdown' pointed out is frowned apon here big time.
NightGod:
If it's in the frat house, put a coin door on there and coin buttons and let people decide whether to drop in cash or just hit the button. Apply alot of guilt and call insult their manhood when the box shows up empty too often and people will eventually just start using it to dump their loose change.
Anything else is really against the whole MAME concept and likely to meet with ALOT of negativity in pretty much any MAME community you find.
Space Fractal:
Some frontend have features like this, but this got scraped, since mame developers and many of us diddent againt features like this.
There was a hated debate like this, so I can only recommede to use TOKENS for it.
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