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Work continues on the MAME internal layout stuff, here's a different one (as it shares the same reels with Adders & Ladders and they're just hardcoded for the mo): Police lamps aren't working properly here, this is just a snapshot of what I'm currently looking at

I'm working on leveraging my Arcade Sim MFME tools to build MAME 'internal' layouts from MFME Classic layouts. Also, the configs (for instance, the police lights aren't working in the video above due to the Small MPU4 extender board not being set up in the Road Hog drive in MAME, lots of these minor config issue to sort out in some semi-automated way). And yes, these will be the standard base layouts in MAME (in some cases replacing the old mfme2mame ones I did back in 2016, and in some cases being new layouts)... I do have ulterior motive of course to try get the latest MAME working in a tightly integrated way, so I can continue to improve/expand FME experience in AS

Wait are you working on an automated layout creator in mame bud? This look well impressive. So these will be standard base layouts in mame at some point? All very impressive mate and great to see these running in mame. J

Wow, they do look pretty similar! If the ROM turns up and we make a layout, it should be able to be integrated into @SomeRandomGuy's MPU1 driver (and if a DX were made that could then ultimately run in Arcade SIm as a 3d machine with MAME running the emulation). Sorry, it's going to be a while yet All the MAME work will benefit Arcade Sim though in terms of instant start ups/ solving the On/Off alarm issue, multiplayer, potentially also 'rewind machine', user save states (not ram saves but instantly starting save states), potentially cross platform, so Mac/Linux/Android etc... plus occasionally small parts of it (wrt. missing parts of MFME extraction like 7seg blocks, band reels, £ signs etc) directly benefits Arcade Sim as I need to write them anyway... there will be a future point when this MAME work is done, but it's just a lot of work to be honest! Gotta keep on trucking, it'll be done at some point Haha it's not a bad idea ...but due to how the MAME layout renderer works, I can draw triangles at a later point on the layouts themselves (via SVG), but due to grouping/bloat, I can only really build up stuff from rectangles/ellipses for the reels (the MAME layout system is very different to how MFME layout works). These are just very abstract representations of something, so it's not just pure text... all the cool kids will be playing them thru Arcade Sim 3DX's anyway

cool, Lite a Line has an undumped (?) brother: https://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/topic/25490-club-bonanza-jpm/#comment-372780

Interesting stuff, I thought Lucky Casino/Club Casino was the only club SRU machine, guess I was wrong Haven't seen any dumps for this one. Well looks like the whole thing is coming together now, that is great! Very nice facelift overall Also I think most of the MPU4 lamp extenders have been sorted now in the current code. Road Hog at least has the correct one.

EHHHH just thowing in my 5 pence... maybe a triangle fo the bell>

Cant wait for some arcade simulator updates lol!

Ah cool So I guess the (slightly convoluted) path to a polished classic MAME layout would be building in MFME v20.1 and get non-extended lamps/reels/buttons/coinslots/labels/frames correct, leave a copy of the extended lamp matrix on there for debug. I can then build a MAME .lay from that, that anyone can run (placing in their MAME Artwork folder), they could then figure out which lamp numbers map to what by testing in MAME, and copy those correct numbers back to the MFME layout (and remove the temporary debug matrix). Then I could reconvert through AS, and that final .lay would then be good. All doable, if a bit of a faff! At least you've already put together a working basic layout for it to be going on with