redorlando101
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Is it legal to purchase custom arcade cabinets with official hardware for play in arcade locations?
What sort of issue will I encounter?
What sort of issue will I encounter?
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Is it legal to purchase custom arcade cabinets with official hardware for play in arcade locations?
What sort of issue will I encounter?
If someone customizes a cabinet to be ugly, then yes it is illegal. Generally, excess "stickers", LED rice-burner car light kits, and 6-feet long control panels will earn you the wrath of the Price Police.
So esentailly what you are saying is that you want to make an ugly ass generic home made jamma cabinet with 50 buttons all in strange places and use 5 or 10 joysticks that nobody will ever know what to use them for, insert two 4" track balls and call it your storecade? I say look for a nice dynamo cabinet and make the best of it.
Oh and for the love of god dont try and print your own multi-game marquee from home lmfao!
So, I could hypothetically design a long pedestal type arcade cabinet for a couple of jamma boards versus purchase several custom cabs? Granted, the long cab would be a permanent resident in its dedicated corner or wall but wouldn't that free up space and be more cost effective? Has this been done before?
Legally speaking that should be fine. There are no rules about having multiple boards in one cabinet or having a game in the wrong cabinet, most JAMMA games don't even have a dedicated cabinet to begin with. And if you're doing home use only and not charging for the games then there's no legal restrictions for anything about your cabinets at all. Go for it.
You can't tell me this isn't cool. It's a man toy afterall.
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