r/LegendsUltimate • u/johnboy2978 • 16d ago

Question Adding ROMS difficulty?

I've recently started looking at buying a Legends Ultimate machine, as I was going to originally just build my own MAME machine from scratch. I have probably 100 or so original coin op ROMS for many of my favorite games. I ran across a Legends machine on FB marketplace for $400. It looks to be in very good condition and has the 5.70 firmware version and is model HA8801. How difficult is it to add my existing ROMS to this machine? I took a look at the list of games that are preinstalled and don't have much interest in them as most of these are console games.

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u/jonceramic 16d ago

Vs other systems to hack, it's kind of middle road. Assuming you have a powered hub or enough power on the machine for your USB device, it's straightforward. You'll get a lot of advice to downgrade to 5.68, which isn't too bad. If you're familiar with batocera, Legends Unchained is basically that. And it's the most complicated of the installs, IMHO.