Bell Fruit - Bugs Money £5/£15 Jackpot Classic (MUTE) 1.1

Here's a couple of layouts for Bug's Money. It's a weird late 90's 'Psycho Cash Beast' inspired machine from Bell Fruit Games, on the Scorpion 4 hardware.

As I mentioned in the WIP thread, I had one of these locally - it disappeared after the first time I got a chance to play it - where it went a bit mental on £5 jackpot. I think it was on 10p play but could have been on 5p play. In any case, you can change the stakes and percentages easily enough. I figured £5/20p would be a fun stakes and prizes ratio, make it a bit more lively.

Unfortunately it is currently mute. Hopefully at some point in the future sound ROMs will appear, and also some good artwork. I'm happy for this to be used as the basis for a DX layout - I have kept unpublished versions of the layouts and will happily pass them on to trusted people.

Not much else to say, hope you enjoy this odd curiosity. Thanks to @andy-1 for giving it a play test for me, finding the 'lose' gamble lamp, correcting the 'take cash' lamp (I realised a minute ago I'd pasted the 1st knockout button lamp into it by mistake haha), among other stuff. Thanks to @hitthesix for uploading a photo of the machine to Pinterest, and thanks to @johnparker007 for his ROM hoard

Layout notes attached below :

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Bug's Money by Bell Fruit Games, running on Scorpion 4 hardware.

** NOTE - Currently a mute layout, as no sound roms as of 2025.
                                             
Classic Layout set to £5 jackpot, 20p play and 78% payout.

** Keyboard Shortcuts : 

1, 2 and 3      Hold 1, Hold 2 (Hi) and Hold 3 (Lo)
6, 7, 8, 9 & 0  Insert 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p and £1
Spacebar        Start / Gamble
` (tilde)       Cancel
C               Collect
M               Bell Man (for 'cheats', like Mr Barcrest)
E               Exchange
T               Take Cash(meter)
B               Use Bonus
A, S, D, F & G  Knockout zones 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

** Notes : 

Interesting machine this, I played one around the turn of the millennium in a long-since bulldozed pub. It was on £5 jackpot, 10p play and went on a mental streak. Next time we went in it had been replaced

Bell Fruit's take on Psycho Cash Beast, but with a few curious twists. Rather than the number reel moving you around the board, it spins the base game reels and uses the overlaid numbers on there. This means it can give 'let em spins' and similar whilst playing the feature. Also means you can use nudges during the feature to move to different positions on the board.

** Thanks : 

Wizard (RIP) for MFME and the previous emulators. Cheers Chris.
Reg for Desert Island Fruits, and all the members there.

hitthesix @ DIF (photo used for organising layout).
johnparker007 @ DIF (hosting the ROM repository).
andy-1 @ DIF (playtesting and suggestions).