Posted by Michael Bobroski on 22, 2000 at 8:52 PM:
In Reply to: Very good question. posted by Agent Davis on 22, 2000 at 8:45 AM:
Well, there is a machine out there (can't recall the name or link of it... Saw it here, though) that is pretty much an emu cab with a PC running in it. However, you purchase fully licensed ROM CDs for somewhere around $100-$200 per disc. Each CD has 10 games, and I believe you can run 3.
Being that this thing exists, and the CDs are license directly from the likes of Konami and Capcom, I'm assume it's legal...
Anybody recall that link?
-Michael Bobroski
: Hahaha. I like that one. You know, its a very good question indeed. On one hand I wanna say yes, but on another you must consider the following:
: Even if emultion were 100% accurate, nothing is as perfect as the real thing. I realize that a rom is the same as the data on a pcb but the fact remains that it is running through an emulator and different hardware than originally intended so it will not be 100% accurate if you know what I mean. Nothing is as perfect as the actual thing, but then again a rom is the actual thing, just on different hardware. Whether this has anything to do with legality I do not know. If an owner did such a thing maybe he would be required to post note of it in a viewable area, I don't know.
: Secondly, you'd never see this. What would be the point? Considering a pcb that mame could run pretty much costs $300 at most (maybe not even that much), it would cost at least that much to put a computer in to run the thing, so why not just buy a new board? Unless, the board had become extinct but I don't thing there are any extinct boards that mame supports.