Reg

...don't worry, I have plenty of surprises!!!! ...nice work on your tidy up but once that is done, you've got the cabinets and flyers to worry about ! So, piece of advice, try to keep a directory structure and naming such as... Club Desertislandfruits - DX -- clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.gam -- clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.ram - DX1 -- clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.gam ---clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.ram - Classic -- £250 --- clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.gam --- clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.ram -- £250 --- clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.gam --- clubdesertislandfruits_epoch.ram ...so what I am showing here, is regardless of the type of layout keep the naming convention excatly the same across ALL OF THEM. When you then drop flyers or pictures onto the Game Manager the you would only need to drop one instance on one of those layouts and it would appear on all four as it pulls it from either the Cabinets or the Flyers directory that is in the same folder as your MFME. Staying tidy early saves you a lot of work later.

Nope, you get it all by the time it's done. The only time I am generally not releasing is if I think my work is shit or somebody else is working on it or done it.

The below screen shows the Game Manager, take a look at the bottom panel for the game entry. Here you will see lots of details about the game. This is something new ( as with the game manager ) with this version of MFME and ideally all layout releases should have this filled out. This creates a .DB file within the released game as shown below that the game manager reads from. This is shown above for the entry at 17:41. A very small file, but when filled out offers the icing on the cake when viewed as above. To complete this is very easy, from the game manager go to Add / Edit Notes and the screen pops up as below, click Save when done.

Ah but this is because you have not fully embraced it. Put it in your car, place it on your phone and ipod - be at once with the rainbow of sounds as they wash over you sending you on a peaceful sleep.

One thing I've always liked is the background sounds of arcades, if you want to immerse yourself a little more in MFME, play this sound file in the background while playing whatever layouts you enjoy. You'll feel just like you're in an arcade and also want to punch the person next to you who is contstantly chattering on the machine to your side. Have fun and enjoy... ( Background Sounds ) ...this is so much cooler now that we can actually probably play a lot of the machines you hear !

Let's look at the below example of two sets of lamps, the yellow row at the bottom is the primary lamp and the unlit lamps are the red super features. The goal is to merge the lamps so they look like this. This would make the lamp properities look like below. Rather than do this by going into the Properties of each lamp, you can do this in about 20 seconds for the entire row while on the main editor screen with the following key. Hold the CTRL key down while dragging the source lamp to the destination lamp as shown, note that your key maybe not this size depending on your keyboard. The mouse pointer will change to the following icon to indicate that the lamp has been "grabbed". Using this method you can quickly setup multi lamps. Note: If there is text on them such as some of the Barcrest's where the red trail lamps can have different names, you have to manually edit those details on the right text box for the lamps. In cases such as this, it is highly recommended that you have NO TEXT in the "Off" lamp and put the right text on the "On1" and "On2" lamps.

Indeed and also Epoch, so I found this on Subbuteo - just thought ah, don't see that everyday lets post about it.

So techs had dual bulbs on the machine buttons so you could for example have a Hold / Hi or a Hold / Lo. It's not often used, but in cases where it exists MFME now supports dual lamped buttons. This is how to set it up with an example of what they look like.

Absolutely brilliant - thank you very much.

Hi All, Just a request, does anyone have the sound roms for Subbuteo available ? Many thanks.

Many thanks to renoufchr for providing this information on the Monopoly - Boom or Bust thread. Default switches for S4 are as follows:

Yeah it's chaos, but worth it when you sort it. My structure is basically this: Tech / Machine This then goes into say DX1, DX2, DX3, CL1 and CL2. In each of these, I call the game a generic name, say wheelofwealth_a5 for the .gam and .ram file. This way, when you drag pictures or cabinets into the panel that will work with each one. It is work, I've got a live directory and to be move - it's going to take a very long time.