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>>10168220
Counter point.

>>10111767
The problem with a lot of
mame multicade cabinets is that very few people actually do a good job with constructing their own Mame cabinet. The people you are references are the tiny small minority. The vast, vast majority (at least 90%) of Mame builders are people who just slap together whatever spare parts they have lying around without caring if it looks good or matches.

Because Mame is "free" it largely attracts the poorest, cheapest, and entitled people into the multicade arcade cabinet community. The kind of freeloaders who go onto official Mame forums and demand to know why their favorite niche game isn't working, and for the Mame developers to hurry up (even though they donated nothing to the Mame project). Or go into threads unrelated to Mame and brag about being able to play the game for free, and make fun of others who pay for official copies.

They have largely ruined the reputation of the Mame multicade community. To them, it almost becomes a game in how cheap they could make their arcade cabinet with random spare parts. Like it or not, having SOME money invested in their arcade cabinet project makes people a little more careful and conderate of what they are making. You actually have some skin in the game and want your money to make something good.