It does for the publishers of the games, that still own the rights on the ROMs. Now they can package them with MAME and relatively easy bring out a PC port.
Or if they'd just sell ROM sets. Sell me packages of your ROMs at a reasonable price and I'll buy them and put the silly anxieties about copyright behind me. They wouldn't even have to do any work themselves to do this. They could download their own ROMs off Bitorrent and ROM sites and just sell them.
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The limits on legality have much more to do with the ROMs. MAME being truly open source doesn't change that in the slightest.
It does for the publishers of the games, that still own the rights on the ROMs. Now they can package them with MAME and relatively easy bring out a PC port.
Or if they'd just sell ROM sets. Sell me packages of your ROMs at a reasonable price and I'll buy them and put the silly anxieties about copyright behind me. They wouldn't even have to do any work themselves to do this. They could download their own ROMs off Bitorrent and ROM sites and just sell them.