iRoms?

[Agozer]

To be quite honest, I wouldn't use a site like that. Sure, 90% of the stuff on my comp is more or less illegal, but do I really care? No.

[L.S.D]

To be quite honest, I wouldn't use a site like that. Sure, 90% of the stuff on my comp is more or less illegal, but do I really care? No.

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[Sturmvogel]

To be quite honest, I wouldn't use a site like that. Sure, 90% of the stuff on my comp is more or less illegal, but do I really care? No.

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Well said Agozer....this guy must be fooling himself if he thinks he can pull this stunt, giving the Mame team such hell. As already said, he alienated the wrong people, and the wrong crowd. I wouldn't give his company a year..

[Sultan]

I think the real problem is he's going after the wrong market. He seems to the think emulation is akin to mp3 downloading. There are tons more people who download mp3s, most of whom have little technical skill and so use pay services as much for the ease of use as the legality. Whereas in the emulation scene, everyone already knows how to find games and get them to work in random programs. You have almost no users without technical knowledge in the emulation scene.

 

I think a better business plan surrounding emulation would be to package a bunch of games together and sell them with the emulator integrated so nontechnical casual gamers (the sort who download games off yahoo) would be interested. There have been some best-of packs by different game manufactuers (konami, atari, etc) but there is still room in the market for someone who wants to put together 100's of arcade games from different manufactuers and sell it through yahoo-like sites. But if he just focuses on the dedicated emulation scene, he's screwed.

[Gryph]

I think his Ultracade machines are kind of like that, emulation machines for newbies.

[Sultan]

I think his Ultracade machines are kind of like that, emulation machines for newbies.

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Oh, I was under the impression that Ultracade was meant for arcade operators, not pc users. Like a big multiple game system in one cabinet. His competition was from people buying mame cabinets, and his trademark app that started all this was in order to keep cabinet makers from advertising with 'Mame' on ebay.

I was thinking the proper market for emulation marketing would be those sites that sell flash games like yahoo and real arcade.

[Gryph]

Meh, I don't know. Either way he's a jackass.

[Jaegermeister]

I don't think I'd ever use this service because I don't have a need to play these games that badly. I'd like to see it come out and see what happens. I don't know if this will a postive or negative impact on the community.

 

So everyone, better get your ROMs before this comes out!

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Yep , Last week on a Rom site - in a Forum , one "old mame'r " sayed :Grap quickly all the ROMs you want ...

I have allready my favorite games (... most of the 80's).

[Agozer]

Ultracades are arcade machines. At least the articles I've read claim that.

[Dooz]

Foley is scum. He does everything in his greedy little power to line his pockets with green. First he trys to trademark MAME and threatens people that they have to pay him royalties, now this.

[alexis]

me deep thought is: this guy is an idiot.

[Z-Neo]

Now that I think about it, there is an ultracade machine in an aracde in a nearby town. Just now hit me that it's probably of of mr. Foley's products. This whole ordeal is going to hurt him more than benefit him.

[Sultan]

Go try it and tell us all about it! Post a review on 1emu!

[Elazul Yagami]

son of a biatch filed:

 

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=...&entry=76627578

[Gryph]

son of a biatch filed:

 

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=...&entry=76627578

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Oh don't worry about that, he's said that he's filing it in Nicola Salmoria's name. You can basically detach this guy from anything MAME since that's not his focus, he just wants to keep it from being sold commericially which is what's being done by some arcade vendors. He's targetting a whole different demographic with his machines, not people like us.