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Part 2: The Trademark What is a trademark? Like copyright and licensing, trademarks are part of Intellectual Property (IP). The purpose is to associate a symbol, word, or phrase to a product in a customer's mind. For example, Nike shoes have a slash that looks a bit like a checkmark. When a customer sees that symbol, he will associate it with Nike shoes. By registering the symbol (the "mark"), it legally prevents anyone else from using it to mislead or misrepresent another product as a Nike shoe, and thus depriving the Nike company of revenue. https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/trademark-faqs#type-browse-faqs_191016 In America, trademarks are registered with the USPTO, but this only gives protection within America. You can then register with WIPO, a Swiss registry that will apply your trademark to another 128 countries. The remaining 66 countries will need to be dealt with one by one. The total expense will be considerable. These registries do not protect your trademark from abuse; they are just registries. It's up to the trademark holder to defend himself in court - the registration simply serves to remind the judge of who really owns it. In the early days, although MAME had a name, a logo, and an icon, none of this was protected. Despite the "no commercial" clause in the old license, the selling of MAME cabs complete with roms was rife in the industry. On 2005-01-11, a certain David R Foley, a seller of MAME-equipped cabs, tried to trademark the MAME logo. You can see this at https://uspto.report/TM/76627578 . After an outcry, this application was cancelled on 2005-03-14. This prompted Nicola Salmoria to trademark MAME to prevent others stealing it. He began proceedings on 2005-03-02 and was finally granted the trademark on 2006-08-01. Eventually he decided to leave the scene and the mark was transferred to Gregory Ember on 2016-09-20 (although the document didn't get produced until 2016-11-29). But what was actually trademarked? Have a look at https://uspto.report/TM/78578919 and do you see it? Just those 4 letters "MAME" in that font. That's it?? Yep, that's it. No logo, and no icon. If you look for other registrations of those 4 letters you'll find 3 more by other people, although their "mame" is for other things. So, despite mamedev.org stating that the logo is registered and requires permission to use it, it isn't registered at all. A search of WIPO revealed no record of any MAME trademark. It must be assumed that the protection only exists inside America. Take a look at https://www.mamedev.org/logo.html - they state "Although this logo does not appear in the official MAME trademark filing, it is still covered by and governed by the rules of the MAME trademark.". Wrong, if it isn't trademarked, then you have no control of it. Copyright remains with "chemical" - whoever he might be. What do we have then? The letters MAME are trademarked in the USA only. There's no other trademarks anywhere in the world. If you're an American citizen you need to apply to the trademark holder for permission to use the mark. But if you're anywhere else, do as you please.

So, on to Part 1: About MAMEdev What is MAMEdev? A collection of developers of the MAME emulator. It isn't exactly known how and when the name came into being, but I'd estimate around the year 2000. At that time one person acted as a "coordinator", making the decisions and preparing the releases. The known people in this position were Nicola Salmoria, Mirko Buffoni, David Haywood, Aaron Giles, Angelo Salese, Miodrag Milanovic and finally Vasantha Crabb. What isn't MAMEdev? It isn't registered as a charity, a business or company anywhere that I could find. This means it is not a "legal entity", as such it doesn't exist in the legal sense. There's nothing wrong with that, but it means that it cannot be sued, it cannot sue anyone, it cannot send or receive C&D requests, and it cannot prepare legal documents or receive them. MAMEdev doesn't have a constitution, it has no address, it has no assets, it has no tax number, it doesn't have an annual meeting or prepare an annual report. Until 2016 it had no office bearers. What is a legal entity: https://www.diligent.com/insights/subsidiary-management/meaning-legal-entity/ Legal notices, C&D requests and lawsuits will need to be addressed to an individual who is a member of MAMEdev. Around 2015-2016 a number of changes occurred. These comprised: - merge of mess developers ("MESSdev") into MAMEdev; - merge of mess codebase into MAME's codebase; - transition from old mame license to GPL 2.0; - assign copyright holders to every piece of code; - elect a president and 5 "board" members; - change from SVN to GIT; - move private MAME repository to Github and make it public - this permits the use of Issues and Pull Requests; - each developer to choose a suitable license and agree to his code being transitioned to it; - any code that couldn't be assigned a license for whatever reason was stripped out. On 2016-05-24, Vasantha Crabb set up an election system with cornell.edu - each eligible member received a unique URL to permit voting. As such, Vasantha Crabb was both the returning officer and a candidate - a clear conflict of interest. I'm not suggesting he did anything wrong, but he shouldn't have been involved with the election process. On 2016-05-29 (5 days later), the election was closed and the results announced. You may view them at http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_e50bb608b05e915c Miodrag Milanovic ("Micko") became President and a board member, while Olivier Galibert ("OG", "Sarayan"), Vasantha Crabb ("cuavas"), "R.Belmont", and Gregory Ember ("Stiletto") became the other 4 board members. Almost immediately, Micko handed control of everything to the other 4, and disappeared. Stiletto plays almost no part in proceedings, while the other 3 are still active. Vasantha Crabb became release coordinator, probably because no other board member wanted the job. In the more than 6 years since, there has not been another election and it's certainly overdue. Now, while the idea of a "board" may have been seen as a good idea at the time, it made a 2-level structure of MAMEdev, where you have the bosses and the rest, and the bosses have more rights than the others. What was equal is no longer so. This has created numerous strains through the structure, and it needs to be reconsidered. Next, let's discuss the website https://mamedev.org - I believe it is "owned" by "OG". Our only interest is in the legal aspects. The front page says "Copyright (c) 2022 MAME", but who owns the copyright? MAME isn't a legal entity, so it must belong to whoever designed it. Who is that? https://www.mamedev.org/about.html - "Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes..." is entirely irrelevant - wishes have no legality. https://www.mamedev.org/legal.html - "Copyright (C) 1997-2022 MAMEDev and contributors" - MAMEDev is not a legal entity and cannot hold copyright on anything. It also insinuates that a member of MAMEdev who has contributed nothing has some kind of control over other people's code. It would be better to just say "contributors". - There's a number of references to the MAME logo being trademarked, but that is not the case (more on that later). - Some of the common questions say commercial use is not allowed - that is false. The license specifically allows commercial use. - Some more questions attempt to put limitations of roms with mame, but the distribution of roms varies from country to country with their own laws, and mame cannot abrogate that. Further, it is against the license to impose conditions. - The entire page is unsigned, so it's not known who is responsible for the content. I very much doubt that a lawyer was consulted. Most of the information there is unenforceable.

As most of you know, various members of MAMEdev like to expound on the legal situation now and then. Since nobody knows any better, everyone assumes that the statements are correct, right? Right? WRONG! Well, about half right. Nobody from MAMEdev has ever taken legal action against anyone, and most likely never will. It would need to be personally funded - there's no company account here. Who in their right mind would do that, for a hobby that has no income, and therefore no damages? Since legal action won't happen, they (the "3 stooges" in particular) resort to bullying, lying, trolling, influencing, cancel-culture, and doxxing to get their point across - even if it has no legal basis. Some of the things they do verge on law breaking in some countries. This series has 3 parts: 1. About MAMEdev 2. The trademark 3. The license Disclaimer: Like all of MAMEdev, I am not a lawyer. However, unlike them, I have spent the last month intensively researching the situation, and have uncovered a number of unpleasant surprises, both for me and for them. In some cases, the required information hasn't been found, and so I've taken the liberty of drawing a logical conclusion. You may wish to correct me, but you need to provide proof. Just saying something doesn't make it so. Trolls will of course be banned. Don't depend on any of this as legal advice. You should always get the opinion of your lawyer/attorney first, before using anything here.

OK, those things are in the dipswitches. So the game can be played and I'll add it now. So if you want to play single player, go to the dips and choose single player. Then it will all work as expected.

After a bit more button mashing I was able to get it to play. The first problem is there's 4 settings on the screen which can't be adjusted. One of the them specifies 2 players, so therefore you need at least 2 coins in. If you know how to adjust those settings, tell me. Another bug I noticed is when F3 is pressed it's supposed to reset the game but instead it goes completely black. If the settings can be adjusted then I'll add it.

HBMAME 0.245.9 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-11-17 0.245.9 New Games --------------------------------- - [dkong05-17,20] Donkey Kong (various hacks) - [futari15bc] Mushihime-Sama Futari Ver 1.5 (2006-12-08.MASTER VER. 1.54. BLK COLOR) - [futariblc] Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label - Another Ver (2009-11-27 INTERNATIONAL BL - ORIG COLOR) - [futaribljc] Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label (2007-12-11 BLACK LABEL VER - ORIG COLOR) - [grdians41] Denjin Makai II (LBS Edition, 2022-10-14) - [ibarablkcs] Ibara Kuro Black Label (2006-02-06. MASTER VER. COLOR SAT) - [ibaracs] Ibara (2005-03-22 MASTER VER.. COLOR SAT) - [mhavocpe] Major Havoc 1.0 (English/French/German/Tournament versions) - [ngmontst3] Neo Geo Monitor Test Tool v1.3 - [pacyuyu] Pac-Yuyu - [pandajump] Panda Jump - [sf2mkot01] Street Fighter II': Magic KO Turbo - Nightmare Crack (set 2)

I could never get that game to start playing. If you know how, do tell.

* Xebra (2022-11-06) [PSX] - http://drhell.web.fc2.com/ps1/index.html * RPCS3 0.0.25 [PS3] - https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/releases * WinArcadia 29.2 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * bsnes (2022-11-03) [SNES] - https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/releases * Sameboy 0.15.8 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/ * Wine 7.0.1 [Windows emulator for Unix] - https://www.winehq.org/ * GameEx 18.32 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

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It's ok, anyone who has more than 0 posts already has access (or should). If you don't have access let me know. Same for anyone else.

* SDLMAME for Ubuntu 0.249 - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * GroovyMAME 0.249 - switchres 2.002m - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases * NegaMAME 0.249-1 - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm * melonDS 0.9.5 [NDS] - https://melonds.kuribo64.net/ * PyBoy 1.5.3 [Gameboy] - https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/releases * Sameboy 0.15.7 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/ * Emulicious (2022-10-31) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/ * Pantheon 12.000 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm * ScummVM 2.6.1 - https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/ * GameEx 18.30 [Front-End] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

Due to harrassment and snooping by a certain individual, the ARCADE forum has been secured. To gain access, you firstly need to register, and then make one post in the Gossip Cafe to identify yourself. After that, access will be granted. Once that's done, there may be further info in the topic: If the security is modified, then this topic will be updated with the information you need. NOTE: If you make a new account, you need a real address so that you can receive a validation email (look in your Junk Mail / Spam folder). Using a throwaway address will not let you gain access, and is also not allowed. Users of gmail will still experience the issue that is explained here: We're sorry that it's come to this, unfortunately it's the way the world is these days. Enjoy your stay here.

Note: None of these links work, and have not for several years. This topic has now been unpinned.

MAME 0.249 was released * Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html * ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/ * For RPi - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * WolfMAME - https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases * Other * XRoar 1.2 [Tandy Color Computer, Dragon] - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ * Pyboy 1.5.2 [Gameboy] - https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/releases * ZEsarUX 10.2 [Multi-system] - https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases * Rom Vault 3.5.1 [Rom Manager] - https://www.romvault.com/ * GameEx 18.29 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

I tried ppmc2's 2 links, there was no problems, I was able to download the files with no trouble. I used Firefox 105.0.3, with uBlock Origin installed (you absolutely must have this, to be even halfway safe on the internet). Sendspace had a tick (I am not a robot), followed by a captcha. Uptobox has a premium or free download, you must wait 1 minute for the countdown to end then click the free link twice. I won't use Chrome, as I regard it as spyware, even though it runs a lot faster than Firefox..

Glad to see that you're still around.

* HBMAME 0.245.8 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ * Raine 0.94.7 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * ArcCab View_MAMEUI64_0.248_BGFX_Chain_V2.2 - https://houba-mame.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html * Mark5 1.9.0 [Hitachi BML3] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm * BGB 1.5.10 [Gameboy] - http://bgb.bircd.org/ * WinArcadia 29.12 [s2650-related] - https://amigan.yatho.com/ * DCVG5K (2022-10-20) [VG5000] - http://dcvg5k.free.fr/ * Retroarch 1.12.0 [Front-end] - https://www.libretro.com/ * mGalaxy 9.0 [Front-end] - https://www.mgalaxy.com/download/

HBMAME 0.245.8 has been released. https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-10-20 0.245.8 19YY now has full background music included. New Games --------------------------------- - [avengrgs01] Avengers In Galactic Storm (Boss Hack, set 1) - [avengrgs02] Avengers In Galactic Storm (Boss Hack, set 2) - [bgaregga02] Battle Garegga (Zakk version, set 2) - [cosmicw] Cosmic Wars (bootleg of UniwarS) - [cybots02] Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (950424E, Access Mod) - [dkong01-04] Donkey Kong (various hacks) - [dkonghh] Donkey Kong HeartHunt v1.01 (2022-10-15) - [emeralda01] Emeraldia (New Rotate) - [grdians19-40] Denjin Makai II (various hacks, 22 sets) - [hook10-15] Hook (various hacks, 6 sets) - [kingball01] King & Balloon (bootleg) - [mk2s06] Mortal Kombat II (SP4K, 2021-08-05) - [mk3s02] Mortal Kombat 3 (K, 2021-08-05) - [nbbatman10] Ninja Baseball Bat Man (1v8, 2020-01-08) - [nbbatman11] Ninja Baseball Bat Man (One Key Edition, 2020-09-06) - [strider01] Strider (US, fixes graphics and music) - [strider02] Strider (JP, fixes graphics and music) - [vs_urban] Vs. Urban Champion - [wbml03] Wonder Boy in Monster Land (bootleg) - [wwfmania01] WWF: Wrestlemania (Acid Clown Edition, 2020-12-02)

* HBMAME 0.245.7 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ * ArcCab View_MAMEUI64_0.245_BGFX_Chain_v2.2 - https://www.mediafire.com/?h0ro79h68xwt5fw * Raine 0.94.6 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * mGBA 0.10.0 [GBA] - https://mgba.io/

https://hbmame.1emulation.com/ What's new in HBMAME ==================== 2022-10-12 0.245.7 New Games --------------------------------- - [aburtest] Afterburner Test Rom (v0.1) - [aburtest1] Afterburner Test Rom (v0.11) - [frogtest2] Frogger Test Rom (2019-01-27) - [galxtest2] Galaxian Test Rom (2017-12-07) - [gyrutest] Gyruss Test Rom (2021-06-27) - [gyrutest2] Gyruss Test Rom (2021-09-29) - [hypetest] Hypersports Test Rom (0.5 test) - [moontest] Moon Cresta Test Rom (2017-12-07) - [mrdotest] Mr. Do! Test Rom (2017-12-07) - [pacmtest2] Pacman Test Rom (set 3) - [pbobble3s02] Puzzle Bobble 3 (Recarbonated, 2p only) - [phoetest] Phoenix Test Rom (2017-12-07) - [pooytest] Pooyan Test Rom (set 1) - [scobtest] Super Cobra Test Rom (2019-01-27) - [scratest] Scramble Test Rom (2019-01-27) - [senctest] Space Encounters Test Rom - [sinvtest] Space Invaders Test Rom (SMv1.0) - [sinvtest0] Space Invaders Test Rom (v1.0) - [sinvtest1] Space Invaders Test Rom (v1.1) - [sinvtest2] Space Invaders Test Rom (v1.2) - [sinvtest3] Space Invaders Test Rom (v1.3) - [spectest] Spectar Test Rom - [theglad104] The Gladiator (v104) - [trkftest07b] Track and Field Test Rom (0.7 beta) - [trkftest08b] Track and Field Test Rom (0.8 beta) - [trkftest09b] Track and Field Test Rom (0.9 beta) - [trkftest10b] Track and Field Test Rom (1.0 beta) - [trkftest11b] Track and Field Test Rom (1.1 beta) - [trkftest12b] Track and Field Test Rom (1.2 beta) - [trkftest11t] Track and Field Test Rom (1.1 test) - [trkftest12t] Track and Field Test Rom (1.2 test) - [trkftest12tu] Track and Field Test Rom (1.2 test, unencrypted) - [twinqixs01] Twin Qix (Japan)

* SDLMAME 0.248 for Ubuntu - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/ * MAME build for RPi 0.248 - https://stickfreaks.com/mame/ * Raine 0.94.5 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html * Gopher 0.19.3 [Atari 2600] - https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Gopher2600/releases/ * ARES v130.1 [Multi-system] - https://ares-emu.net/download * Emulicious (2022-10-01) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/ * Rebuilder 0.03 [Rom Manager] - https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

MAME 0.248 was released * Official - https://mamedev.org/release.html * ARCADE64 - https://arcade.mameworld.info/ * MESS, MESSUI - https://messui.1emulation.com/ * MAMEUI - http://www.mameui.info/ * NegaMAME - http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm Other * Applewin 1.30.12.0 [Apple II] - https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases * Xebra/Arbex (2022-09-24) [PSX] - http://drhell.web.fc2.com/ps1/index.html * Q-emuLator 3.5 [Sinclair] - http://www.terdina.net/ql/winql.html * Rom Properties 2.0 [Rom Manager] - https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties/releases * GameEx 18.25 [Front-end] - https://www.gameex.com/news/

There's been a few ppl asking about getting the code. It's being uploaded as an archived repository now. There's conditions though: 1. Wait for the "archived" mode to appear, otherwise downloading early means you'll miss out on some files - your download will be corrupt. 2. At the end of October it is planned to be deleted again, this time for ever. Same applies to the MESSUI repo. 3. If you decide to work on it, I cannot help you. You're on your own (or find a knowledgeable friend). 4. If you succeed, I will not host it. I don't want anything more to do with it.

It was deleted a bit earlier than it should have. Don't worry about it.