quick question about bootleg multi boards

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any proof these things (48-in-1, 60-in-1 etc) are using MAME? has anyone been prosecuted for selling them?
 
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well it makes sense since their objective is to preserve history, and right or wrong the bootleg boards are now part of arcade history. i do understand what youre saying though.
 
The ORIGINAL version of MAME, before MANY different coders' "projects" were merged, originally played Galaxian and the PAC games. It ran in pure DOS mode and was released in 1995, if my memory serves me correctly. That is WAAAY before ANY of the in-1 boards were conceived. Back then, memory chips big enough to hold the ROM images for multiple game images were way too expensive to make them viable for production. Also, a custom processor capable of emulating the Z80 and other CPU's used in "classics" was not available, or at least was not feasible either at that time. The first in-1 boards came out at least 10 years later.

I personally don't think that the in-1's use MAME simply due to the fact that all of the various issues (like sound problems) do not exist in MAME. If it were, then the sound issue (wrong sounds or missing completely) COULD be the result of a hardware issue, but I don't think that is likely. I think that they don't even REALIZE that there are problems because they don't even have access to the original boards/hardware. How else would you explain the obnoxious static noise that happens when you die in either Galaxian, Scramble or Super Cobra in BOTH the 39-in-1 AND 60-in-1 models? To make matters worse, when the 60-in-1 boards were released (and I suspect even to this day), the "fire/shot" sound that was present in the 39-in-1 version of Galaxian was COMPLETELY MISSING from the "new" 60-in-1. Again, if it were MAME based, I don't think these issue would be there...
 
It's been confirmed that they DO run an early version of MAME. I want to say it was around .040 to - .042 or something.
 
is there a discussion somewhere you could provide a link to? i am not trying to have you be my personal google, i did search on multiple boards myself...
 
I was wondering about this as well...I have a mame cab right now that is in a scratch built DK style cabinet. Everything runs great, but I wish I didn't have to sit through the bios loading and then wait for hyperspin to launch. I've turned off everything I could to make this look as little as a computer as possible...

How do the 60-in-1 boards boot? Do they post then u have to wait? Or is it power on and u are at them menu?
 
... Or is it power on and u are at them menu?

This.

No crappy Micro$oft garbage to load. Boots right to either a "choose your game" screen, or you can set it to boot to a certain game.
 
This.

No crappy Micro$oft garbage to load. Boots right to either a "choose your game" screen, or you can set it to boot to a certain game.

Still takes 60 seconds or so to boot up, if I remember right theres even a count down timer. Those with Mame should look into MicroXP and a SSD. I'm willing to bet it boots faster than the 60in1 :)
 
Still takes 60 seconds or so to boot up, if I remember right theres even a count down timer. Those with Mame should look into MicroXP and a SSD. I'm willing to bet it boots faster than the 60in1 :)

It's not really the os I'm worried about though, I just hate seeing the the POST screen then all tHe drive and hardware info.

Thanks for the info tho! :)
 
If you only have 1 game enabled, it pretty much boots right into it and stays in that game, and looks like a real game (except for the copyright info being removed). It's probably done booting before the monitor warms up. It takes about 1 second per game to load, so it takes alot longer the more you have enabled. At least that's how it works on the 48-in-1.
 
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