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starting a business selling cabs with games
BeachRunnerJoe:
After looking into this some more over the last couple days, it seems like the game bundles are the best approach. I looked into other businesses that are making and selling cabs and they're either shipping with no games, freeware games, or these bundled PC ports. It looks like XArcade just plops a playstation console into their cabinets and ships with playstation games that include the arcade classics. It seems to me the best approach to take would be to build a typical mame arcade cab with a PC in it, but instead of installing MAME or any other emulators, just install these game bundles and be sure to ship with the original CD. I've looked into the many PC arcade game bundles on amazon, but does anyone know if somebody's already compiled a list of these that are currently available? If not, I might build such a list and post it on here for others to use.
CathalDublin:
Can you not ship with mameUI no roms installed
CheffoJeffo:
+1 to game bundles, but I agree with RayB's caution
FWIW, I believe that the MAME license is limiting for a reason -- it keeps the MAMEDevs out of too much trouble. At the end of the day, there seems to be a dog's breakfast of IP issues that the MAMEDevs probably don't want to deal with and who can blame them for all of the vast sums of money that they rake in ?
And, no, you can't just ship mameUI without ROMs ...
http://mamedev.org/legal.html
CathalDublin:
how are these companies getting away with selling the boards if they are illegal?
site links removed as they sell copyright violations --- saint
CheffoJeffo:
I would guess because the IP owners aren't yet interested in coming after the folks who would buy them (e.g. arcade geeks).
There are "legalish" emulator boards out there, but you need to understand what you are looking at with each board.
For example, in your second link, every multi board is running MAME (even those little bitty boards), in violation of the MAME license and without licensed ROMs and for WAY more than available from elsewhere.
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