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The site takes no money but where you do see donation links these are for separate sites: 1) freeforums.org adds a donate button to donate to them that does not go to the project 2) megaups is a private torrent site which we use for easy distribution because we have no hosting, any money goes to them, just like UG before. Anyone can create an account on it. No money at all goes to the CoinOPS community. No one wants money either. No one is in violation of Paypal's TOC. If you check my posts on the CoinOPS forum you will see that I've been contributing since before you started the first page of this thread. You do of course make a very valid point that the roms and copywrite are illegal. That is why I am not in favour selling CoinOPS and packs pre-installed on xboxes. I feel I made my point in my earlier post and readers can consider the tone and meaning of my post and your reply and come to their own conclusions.

Hello Mark, I'm one of the pack creators on the coinops forum. I see that you have downloaded the recent arcade update pack that I uploaded last month. There are about 6 of us making CoinOPS packs and we are getting rather despondent at the number of sellers who download and sell the stuff we put together but who do not contibute back to the project. I would like to invite you and your customers to join the coinops forum and help out with testing, video creation, pack creation, and so on, so that the project can continue to grow and succeed. We are considering making all our releases private and between contributors only due to the large amount of people who are selling but giving nothing back to the project in return. Of special interest to Atari Age forum members are the large amount of Atari 8bit games still to do for CoinOPS. The great benefit of the CoinOPS interface is that one the games are set up and distributed as packs, the enduser can play games across various systems with zero manual intevention, however creating packs takes a great deal of effort - this effort is not taxing in terms of difficulty but in terms of time - creating or ripping videos, converting them to xmv format, finding compatible roms, testing that every games loads and plays etc. Check out the packs sub forum and you can see new tested packs of Atari XL games, Atari ST, Amiga, etc. http://coinopsproject.freeforums.org/coinops-game-packs-addons-f36.html I'm looking forward to seeing your contributions!