andrewb
Well-known member
im not quite sure, this is why im asking to see if anyone knows, i presume the rom is the game and the board is just the carrier, like windows being on the hdd not the motherboard.
It's not really like that. The game boards are not quite as generic as PC motherboards, where they are made to be interchangeable. The ROMs typically can't just run on any other game board, and are really written for a specific piece of hardware.
If you truly wanted to be safe, I would think owning a copy of the board would be sufficient, since that can't be copied the way ROMs can. (And if you think about it, it's about as strong a case as you could have, given that these games and their hardware were designed and sold to be money-earning tools of business. If you buy one, you're inherently buying the ability to use it for that purpose.)
That's about as much as you *could* do, short of buying a whole physical copy of the entire cabinet.



