MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Capcom Home Arcade CPS1/2 using FB Alpha

> So what was teased yesterday has now been announced, and it looks hideous. From their
> website:
> Featuring a pair of competition class Sanwa JLF-TP-8YT sticks with 8-way GT-Y
> directional gates and OBSF buttons for the finest precision, response times and
> durability. The 16 pre-installed games are from the original Capcom CPS1 and CPS2
> arcade ROMs with emulation provided by FB Alpha, delivering an authentic & accurate
> arcade experience exclusively for the Capcom Home Arcade.
>
> Break some high scores in single player, team up with a friend in co-op multiplayer
> or destroy them in a head-to-head battle. Then upload your best scores via the Capcom
> Home Arcade's onboard WiFi to a Worldwide High Score Leaderboard to see how you match
> up against other players across the globe.
>
> 16 games with this for £199.99/€229.99- can't really say it's a definite bad deal
> considering the prices of pre-built arcade stick units like this, but seriously?
> Shaped like Capcom's logo?
>
>
> source: nintendolife.com

and of course, the FBA devs haven't given permission for it (they can't really anyway, FBA is under a non-commercial license, and relicensing it would take a massive effort just as it did for MAME)

http://neo-source.com/index.php?topic=3344.msg26661#new

so it's a £200 bootleg product.

Hint, MAME 0.172 and newer are GPL licensed, and can be used. One of the reasons it was relicensed was so that products like this COULD be done in a legal way, so to see bootlegs like this is kinda insulting considering how much effort was put in to doing that whole re-licensing process which was meant to benefit them.