Keep in mind tho, if it is being sold as 'MAME' but without properly licensed ROMs then the MAME trademark owners will not grant you permission to use the MAME name or trademark as they do not wish the project to be associated with commercial bootlegging.
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The name is trademarked in order to allow the developers control over where the MAME name and logo are used.Īs distributed it is a perfectly legal piece of software.Īs of version 0.172 the MAME license is also GPL, which means it can be sold as long as the terms of the GPL are adhered to.
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MAME is a piece of software like any other, it has a license, like any other, it has copyright owners, like any other. That's a logical fallacy because the original license of the media and the games are very different, plus its based on incorrect assumptions about the legality of format shifting. There's some erroneous claims that the court findings about time-shifting media made format-shifting media legal (it didn't), and that the legality of format shifting media (again, it isn't) meant format shifting the runtime environment of software was legal. At that point you're violating the terms of the original license to the exact same extent as you would be if you just downloaded them from somewhere - ie, its just as illegal from the sense of copyright to run downloaded ROMs in an emulator as running ROMs you ripped or "own" because you've got the PCB sitting in the closet. Its near universal that the original license for the software is bound to the specific board it was shipped on - you can't move them to another board, or run them in an emulator. I connected my gamepad (copy of Xbox 360) and ran.
RetroPie recognises that a gamepad is plugged in, but wont register an y of the buttons. owning the board does not give you a license to use the ROMs anywhere else. Currently Im trying to get RetroPie working in Ubuntu 20.04. Just so there's no confusion - because people get this wrong all the time in the MAME space, and its often repeated. The only way to put arcade games into a working environment is to have the original PCB, this is your licence to use this game.
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