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Thread: Free to own Roms List. Selling mame cabinet and want to load Free Roms for buyer.

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    Default Free to own Roms List. Selling mame cabinet and want to load Free Roms for buyer.

    I have a machine with all emulators on it and was wondering if there was a list out their that has a list of all the free ROMS people can own. I want to load as many games as I can for the future customer of my baby but do not want to give them games I can get in trouble for. I know there are a few games that are freeware out there that I can load for them and show them how to load their own games on there.

    Is there a list out there that exist that would help me?

    I found the ones on Mamedev.org from Exidy. Any others?
    Thank you
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    Only the arcade roms listed on Mamedev are "free".

    If your machines use other type of emulators like PC/NDS/SNES etc. you can start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ed_as_freeware

    But you'll be in trouble cause you can't "sell" emulator, or freeware roms...

    Anyway you break the mame license
    (from docs/mame.txt)
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    II. Cost
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    MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.


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    III. Image Files
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    ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all copyrighted material. They cannot
    be distributed without the explicit permission of the copyright owner.
    They are not "abandonware", nor have any of the games supported by MAME
    passed out of copyright.

    MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright
    infringement. Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes to
    sell, advertise, or link to resources that provide illegal copies of ROM,
    CD, or hard disk images.

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