MAME: Popular Science

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:32 am

Some time ago I found this article in Popular Science that you might find funny. Take a look at their custom MAME "cab"

http://www.popsci.com/node/9549

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:39 am

Oh what the fuck?

Cost: $672

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:41 am

Yeah but you get all that wood and perforated steel....

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:25 am

I remember seeing this when it was printed but forgot just how ugly it was, that's not even mentioning that button layout.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:16 pm

Hahahhaha you have got to be kidding me

I mean, honestly, even for people who know nothing about this very nerdy hobby of home arcade... how can you think that is acceptable? It is just awful on every single level.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:14 pm

I am sure this is a joke.

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:12 pm

Fenrir wrote:I am sure this is a joke.

I am sure Popular Science is a joke.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:56 pm

I've seen much more ugly and far more expensive mame cabs that were genuine projects.

Some of these TRICKED OUT mame cabs end up costing more than a real arcade machine and a couple of PCBs.

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:10 pm

You can play on it while you're cooking chicken in it

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:15 pm

It also works well as a pasta strainer.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:30 pm

Those angles are just WRONG. You can tell these guys never play games for more than an hour. I mean, what kind of nerd would do that.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:40 pm

In their article they mentione that you can buy packs of ROMs for MAME how can that be? I'm fairly sure buying ROMs from a unlicensed middleman is HIGHLY illegal.

Phil12 · Post by **Phil12** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:56 pm

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:In their article they mentione that you can buy packs of ROMs for MAME how can that be? I'm fairly sure buying ROMs from a unlicensed middleman is HIGHLY illegal.

buying ANY roms for a MAME cabinet is illegal. But then you gotta think, "oh wait, this is the internet"

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:05 pm

Phil12 wrote:
Pixel_Outlaw wrote:In their article they mentione that you can buy packs of ROMs for MAME how can that be? I'm fairly sure buying ROMs from a unlicensed middleman is HIGHLY illegal.
buying ANY roms for a MAME cabinet is illegal. But then you gotta think, "oh wait, this is the internet"

LOL, *buying* MAME roms... what a joke.

BryanM · Post by **BryanM** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:25 pm

This isn't funny. It's horrifying.

Jesus..

PsikyoFan · Post by **PsikyoFan** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:05 pm

null1024 wrote:
Phil12 wrote:
Pixel_Outlaw wrote:In their article they mentione that you can buy packs of ROMs for MAME how can that be? I'm fairly sure buying ROMs from a unlicensed middleman is HIGHLY illegal.
buying ANY roms for a MAME cabinet is illegal. But then you gotta think, "oh wait, this is the internet"
LOL, *buying* MAME roms... what a joke.

They were perfectly correct, assuming they were referring to Starroms (who legally distributed most of Atari's back-catalog for MAME and has greater ambitions that never came to anything). Unfortunately they stopped trading before this article was published so they probably just cribbed that bit from somewhere out of date.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:48 pm

"A quick search will turn up hundreds of these ROMs, as they're called, on Web sites and in newsgroups, but since many are still copyrighted, downloading them from anyone other than their creator could be illegal. Fortunately, some companies now sell packs of legal ROMs, offering a dozen or more games for $20 and up. There are versions of MAME for any computer system (and even smartphones and PDAs), so you can simply play at your desk using your keyboard."

But I digress, Popular Science is a shell of the former mag. It is now 25% advertising. The content is always pushing the "green" agenda and there is very little discussion of science. The latest issue just talked about how fat people are getting. They always include at least 1 hybrid gas/electric concept car that will never see release and also pages of high resolution photographs of stupid subjects that just fill space.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:51 am

$68 for a CD drive is the joke here.