Legal Way to Upgrade MAME

[rikitheshadow]

Ok just to head up this thread lol, because it raised any excellent legal question.


This guy had picked up the cabinet free from a friend. For some reason he misunderstood what the friend had meant.

It is not a MAME cabinet. It is a Williams "Stargate" cabinet that was transformed into a JAMMA cab......


JAMMA..........customer was a little sad, but I told him though there are a lot of interesting 2 player JAMMA games you can buy and play easily just by plugging it in. He was hoping though that Galaga was a JAMMA game...........I was like nooooooo....not really.

Thing had that goofy game "DJ Boy" with marquee, but a Double Dragon capcom CPO. What was interesting was the cabinet's original wiring harness was hooked up to a hand built custom JAMMA connector with the original Williams Linear power supply still powering the whole thing.

I tried to offer rejuvenating the 19" CRT for him because the colors where pretty dull. Wanted to give my new 470 another go. I used it on my Sunset Rider's Cabinet the other day and surprisingly all the guns where in the bad range, 20 minutes later the thing was 10x more brighter and beautiful!

 

[CrazyKongFan]

Well, there are bootleg Galaga boards that have a JAMMA pinout, and you can also get JAMMA adapters for legit Galaga boards, but if it's a Stargate cabinet, the monitor is probably horizontal. I wish I had a horizontal JAMMA cab I've got a few JAMMA boards (Black Tiger, Klax, Trog) but nothing to play them in.

 

[rikitheshadow]

Well, there are bootleg Galaga boards that have a JAMMA pinout, and you can also get JAMMA adapters for legit Galaga boards, but if it's a Stargate cabinet, the monitor is probably horizontal. I wish I had a horizontal JAMMA cab I've got a few JAMMA boards (Black Tiger, Klax, Trog) but nothing to play them in.

Well the monitor was mounted Horizontally, I just called it a Stargate because it has those wooden sides around the CP and Monitor, unlike Joust or whatnot. He said he'd call me if he needs anything later on because he's turning his garage into a little man cave.

 

[trickman]

Well, there are bootleg Galaga boards that have a JAMMA pinout, and you can also get JAMMA adapters for legit Galaga boards, but if it's a Stargate cabinet, the monitor is probably horizontal. I wish I had a horizontal JAMMA cab I've got a few JAMMA boards (Black Tiger, Klax, Trog) but nothing to play them in.

You know you can always send that Trog over to me. I'd give it a good home.