JPM Fantaztec

I see some ROMs available, but no layout ever made, so maybe misidentified ROMs:

1 hour ago, johnparker007 said:

I see some ROMs available, but no layout ever made, so maybe misidentified ROMs:

@WonkySausage has named the machine wrongly here. Pantaztec, when it should be Fantaztec lol. The Ebay listing has it as Fantaztec.

I remember when these machines in the new JPM cabinet, were emulatable, it all got a bit controversial. They were all newer, than the 3 year emulation rule and so it was frowned upon, them being released. I remember it annoyed Wizard and Tony, when some were.

Are we sure these are emulatable though and not released on some tech not emulated or possibly a tech that wasn't emulatable until the newer MFME released from 2016.

16 minutes ago, wearecity said:

Are we sure these are emulatable though and not released on some tech not emulated or possibly a tech that wasn't emulatable until the newer MFME released from 2016.

Latest MFME looks like it only emulates up to Sys5, unless there's some other name - looks to be Jpm Sys 7 according to MAME (and since they do actually do some of the boot process, I think MAME has it right here).  Shows 3 messages on alpha the last of which is 'Initialising'.

For future use then  

13 minutes ago, johnparker007 said:

Latest MFME looks like it only emulates up to Sys5, unless there's some other name - looks to be Jpm Sys 7 according to MAME (and since they do actually do some of the boot process, I think MAME has it right here).  Shows 3 messages on alpha the last of which is 'Initialising'.

For future use then  

No JPM machines are emulatable beyond that. Impact tech was the newer tech that their machines ran on from 1995, until I'd say 2004 towards the end of the £25 jackpot era, JPM were sold in 2004. After that I'm not sure they produced anymore AWP machines. But these may have been produced on another tech used in the early 2000's, such as Heber or Stealth, which aren't emulated.

Edited August 17, 2023 by wearecity

1 hour ago, wearecity said:

@WonkySausage has named the machine wrongly here. Pantaztec, when it should be Fantaztec lol. The Ebay listing has it as Fantaztec.

I remember when these machines in the new JPM cabinet, were emulatable, it all got a bit controversial. They were all newer, than the 3 year emulation rule and so it was frowned upon, them being released. I remember it annoyed Wizard and Tony, when some were.

Are we sure these are emulatable though and not released on some tech not emulated or possibly a tech that wasn't emulatable until the newer MFME released from 2016.

oops haha, me and my eyesight

50 minutes ago, wearecity said:

But these may have been produced on another tech used in the early 2000's, such as Heber or Stealth, which aren't emulated.

Yeah that seems to be Haze's take, back when he started the 'sys7' driver in 2011 - Pluto 6 is a skelly driver, and this sys7 one does actually start the boot process, but doesn't have devices/input set up, so it's just a somewhat booting skeleton.
 

```
/* only Ker - Chinq has sound roms, they seem to map in cpu space, sound roms are probably missing from the rest? */

/* seems to be Coldfire based (but not the MCF5206E, it writes to peripheral registers that would be invalid?) */
/* Could be Pluto 7 or 8?, doesn't seem to be Pluto 6 based on Coldfire register use, P6 is apparently 5206e (although I should check if all sets use registers in the same way) */
/* todo - split sets */

/*

Info found online

Pluto 5: 68340
Pluto 6: ColdFire 5206e
Pluto 7: ColdFire 5271
Pluto 8: ColdFire 5475

*/
```
 

This machine is Pluto 6 so unemulatable