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Made quite a bit of progress with the Oasis MfmeTools layout extractor. Now extracts basic background/reel/lamp images, along with data

Smidge more progress Not got my Delphi pixel font scraper in from Arcade Sim converter yet, but have got useful debug output set up of my new capture system in MfmeTools - so for the previous post where I was monitoring component numbers, it's just monitoring for changed pixels, now I can output the current capture area (a simple test of the red value; <128 black, >128 white)... Here is the initial component number in the test Andy Capp layout (161) - if you squint you can make it out ...and here is the final (first) component number when we've clicked all the way back until no more pixels changing: It's a bit grainy, as the 'Z Order' number on the Properties window in MFME is in an aliased font, but that is not the case for most other test that will be processed by the delphi pixel font scraper to be ported in next. Example of the aliased Z Order: 0 text: Now I have this handy debug output, it should be much less painful to try get everything aligned with my new scraper, since I'm not working blind The source comparison image I use for scraping ASCII Delphi font characters:

More prettying up of the MFME Import window in the Layout Editor - more correct reel scaling, and reel overlay images: Technically not necessary to make this stuff look that accurate, as this is just to store imported MFME layout so when a layout artist (or someone working on converting layouts to 3d machines) saves a Layout Editor 'project file', this can be stored along with the actual 3d Oasis views of the full panels and individual panels. That said, it's bothersome if it looks scruffy, it should kinda resemble the imported MFME layout! So I'll prob also do reel lamps, and maybe even the odd 'fake perspective' vertical 2d reel scaling effect that MFME does (so symbols at top/bottom be squished vertically to approximate a 3d effect)... just so things look vaguely correct, for this Import preview view

All bare bones and buggy, but have now successfully importing (and running) an MFME layout in the Layout Editor, extracted using the 'MFME Tools' standalone Oasis component (previous tests had been done using an old Arcade Sim extract I already had lying around).

I found some sort of low-rent version of Degsy Degworth skulking out in the bathroom at a local restaurant the other day.

A little hacked in for initial test, first successful scrape of the delphi font characters from a text box with the new scraper etc under MfmeTools

Thank you so much guys for welcoming me into this community, I cant wait to get to know you and share in this experience together

Yeah, I was going to say. Most of my games were pirated and passed round school so I've played a shit ton of games but not always a clue how to play them. I think pirating games when you was a kid in the 80's was part of the computer scene in general, I almost enjoyed that part compared to actually playing the games. J

Spent many a day running round searching and not knowing what to do in this game

So finally finished my small bartop icade conversion. The cabinet lent itself perfectly for the job although was certainly tough trying to squeeze everything in! So I bought off Ebay an ION Icade off eBay for £18, a HP 15" 4:3 touchscreen monitor for £12 and a Dell micro PC for £40. I ordered an Ipac, Pac drive and a load of buttons from Arcade World along with a Barcrest button and 5v leds off eBay. I had to cut the top pieces of the side panels off the icade to accommodate the monitor which I stripped out of it's casing. I wanted the sound to be pretty good as that's the best part for me, the nostalgic machine sounds and music so I fixed a 2.1 edifier PC speaker system to it. The sub on the top and the satellite speakers in the back as didn't want them sticking out. I simply used sticky back metal effect plastic on the sides. I replaced the control panel for a nice bit of wood. I used 10 main buttons, an exit button on the left side and a coin one on the right as well as 2 small buttons I use for volume under the fake coin slot which I wired to a USB on the PC. I am very pleased with the way it turned out

Just WIP stuff at the mo

Its also what happens when you buy a game and have no instructions included for a pound pre internet days

A little bit hacky, but more progress on the MfmeTools Extractor. Usually when right-clicking the left side of the layout to pull up the Properties window, we land straight on the first component (the background). This isn't always the case though, sometimes there might be a component like a checkbox there. So we must get back to the first component... I've added a large 'dummy test' lamp on the left of this Andy Capp layout I'm testing with, so we can test getting back to the first component. Here is the new window scraping code getting its first use, watching the component number change while clicking left, until it sees it has successfully reached the first component:

Thanks for the update, great to see you on this again

A small tech update on this project I have the general custom window scraping written (so it can grab the RGB value of specific pixels from the various MFME windows). Currently working on integrating that functional scraping code into MFME Tools - the first use of which will be to simply scrape the component number from the properties window (so we can 'rewind' back to component #1 after getting into Properties - this is how I found it best to do under the Arcade Sim Layout Scraper). The plan is that this custom scraping code, whilst also being complete independent of Unity (MFME Tools is written in C# as a Windows executable), will also provide missing stability, as the scraping system I used under Unity to drive Arcade Sim and also the layout extraction, had a tendency to crash! So hopefully when this is fully developed, I can leave it with a massive batch of DX layouts, and it will not crash even after many hours of extracting... Commits are all here for those interested in the code, this is all open source: https://github.com/johnparker007/Oasis/commits/main/

Took a gambling awareness sticker off my old reel king machine today. Cut it up and slapped it on my little cab to finish it off nicely