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Yeah, always maxed out cashpot is just potentially hiding how much the much the machine has been played, most players would give a low cashpot a swerve I’d imagine. With a progressive you have decent info to look at, very high cash pot and a player is more likely to get involved, hiding this just puts off the seasoned player I guess, a regular punter might not care if they just play for the entertainment. I do wonder if the static maxed out cashpot was to fend off those pros targeting the club machines? Sounds feesible J

Whichever way they did it it’s dodgy. That feature to change them should never have been there in the first place. I wonder if that’s still a thing. Are there even reeL based clubbers released any more? J

I think a lot of machines could be set up to have a static maxed out cash pot. If a club was manually doing this to their own machine, wouldn’t it result in a ram reset state, which would mess up all coin in and out and potentially leave the machine in a worse state than after a cashpot!! J

I have a soft spot for the Laser disc games, the technology was fascinating for 1983, I remember being totally blown away by Dagon’s Lair, the game was rather frustrating for me to play but still amazing watching someone else. I only ever one Space Ace. J

I’m out of the loop with mame dev, are LD’s coming to mame? J

Astra Pure Gold runs on Pluto6, which is currently unemulated as far as I’m aware J

Isn’t there any info about the sound in mfme? Changelog entries etc? J

The video tech isn’t emulated as far as I can remember. J

It’s probably best to go for something that’s been tried and tested. Maybe a laptop with a gtx or rtx gpu, I’m not sure whether the Intel gpu can cut it to be honest. J

Yeah usually each revision on these Barcrests will have a different CHR. So a version v1.4will have a different CHR to a v2.0. Same with the BWB games on MPU4 I imagine. J

Oh not used it in situ. Mine were removed from machine. Sorry I misunderstood. J

I’ve used my works a3 scanner for my Miami Dice fruit machine glasses. I’ve still got the scans, they’re huge!! J

Ah man, I got a htc vive elite cosmos v2 here you could have borrowed from young jaye. He never uses it. Though I could use it to help with any testing J

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

It's best to have a screen in portrait mode and just edit the layout to suit you, most layouts tend to be released in a standard landscape orientation. J

I had a decent broadband connection when I found fme. Think it was around 2001 that I had the SB4100 Surfboard with 20mb service from NTLWorld. That was an insane difference compared to dial-up that I had in 1999!! J

Just to add, it has to be a layout made in mfme though. A JPeMU layout will only work with JPeMU. MFME covers pretty much all fruit techs from 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. J

Fantastic work !! J

It will never work in mfme as the reel control chip isn't emulated. MAME should be able to crack it, but far into the future I imagine. J

@SomeRandomGuy From a purely selfish here but I would love to see Pluto 6 emulated. I believe you could buy the development boards from Heber? Not sure how feasible the tech is to emulate though. I imagine the game roms are encrypted. J

There may never be a public toolset to build layouts easily in mame. Is it still viable to create them via the .lay format? J

It all depends, but I’d say those things are years away, as JP points out it’s dependent on those skilled coders who are also interested in fruit machines enough to get involved. FME is ultra niche unfortunately. J

Definitely, MAME will be the future of fme as it's currently the only one being actively worked on. I can't imagine anyone else out there is working on a fruit machine emulator. J

@Altharic None of those were open source either to be fair. It is a shame but we still have the amazing mfme that pretty emulates everything we could ever wish for. J

@nails That won't really make any difference, nothing will really. There's always going people that simply don't mind paying for a full setup. I've paid for emu discs in the past. Mame, Visual Pinball, full rom discs, there's no real difference. That's why I don't mind my layouts being uploaded to archive.org. At least it's being offered for free. J