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38 minutes ago, Road Hog Mad said:
Good find, and meow. I love cats, do you have any cat videos?
... Far too many cat photos and videos
In other news I finally got a double jackpot on the leaderboard game. I say double jackpot, I got a jackpot in the first minute or so from a £252 feature win (11 guaranteed wins, first 5 of those included a £100 and 2x£40) - which gambled out, and then a feature which paid £482 and I collected as if I'd gambled it and lost I'd have probably thrown my keyboard at my TV
(I had only just changed my strategy on the leaderboard, I decided gambling all wins was making it too slow, so just had gamble wins over £5 on. I also collected the 3 symbol trigger when the gamble came in, and that is the one that paid £482 albeit from 'luckily' picking 3 hotels. You don't have to gamble for the 4x/5x symbols, you can get decent bonuses from the standard 3 symbol. I've actually had plenty of absolute crap bonuses from the hotels when I've gambled out to 5 symbols.)
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16 minutes ago, superl33ch said:
I've always had Grease marked internally as the worst community 3-reeler with pots, no wonder it didn't transition to T8. The community features are incredibly boring.
The stake / prize ratio did it no favours. It's technically a B4 / £400 jackpot, but at only £1.40 max per spin, compared to the £2 of most others.
It probably does offer more 'dings' than a lot of games, and possibly more of them result in features, but the feature value seems pretty low for a 'greater than £1 per play' community slot.
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13 minutes ago, superl33ch said:
I have the same issue. HH 250 has stopped working the same way as yours.
Also @HongKong Phooey
So it looks like an issue with coordinates, if you see the attached video I can use the touchscreen but I have to click miles off to the right
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Minor issue - I played about £350 through Hammer Horror B4 (£250 jackpot) last night, worked absolutely great.
Just turned my PC on, loaded the same game, and the on screen buttons are not working. The hardware I/O in the other window works, and the game isn't frozen, but all I can do is use space to spin the reels.
Closed it down, tried other games - they all seem to work fine - it's just the Hammer Horror £250 layout that seems to be affected at the moment
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1 minute ago, stevedude2 said:
All the community 3-reelers are compensated - they have to be because if you messed up wild picks that money would be lost and the game wouldn't achieve RTP%.
I get that logic... but then why do we have gambles on our random slots? They should just pay what they will pay, end of. Instead you end up with what we have now, random games you have to have a pre-game gamble on (the Premium Play / Fortune Spins), to get a crap feature, which will have a choice to gamble to improve the feature... to then get a crap win at the end of the feature, which you then have to gamble for a decent win.
The industry basically fucked itself with the over-gamblification in my opinion. Would have been much better to just go back to the older Sec 16 and similar, or perhaps have a single end-of-credit pie-gamble, rather than gamble upon gamble upon gamble.
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Just now, thealteredemu said:
Are there any of those fortune spin games that may be emulated. I’m likely thinking of a different system, maybe the blueprint ones?
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Nope. No Barcrest / SG / L&W content on the T7 or T8 had them as far as I'm aware (although I'll confess I'm at least a year out of date on the T8 content now!).
For Barcrest stuff with Premium Play you'd need Equinox cabinets or above, and for Bell Fruit you'd want Astra / Novomatic / Bell Fruit content that runs on either Firefox II, or QuNo. Although again I'm at least a year out of date with them as well, having smashed my cabinets up last year
I do recall seeing that that MVFME was teased with an iPub looking photo or screenshot in the development thread... so perhaps those games may run at some point?
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56 minutes ago, Graham the goldfish said:
One thing I noticed was that wizard of oz implies you get a better % by using the autoplay. There's no mention in the help file of higher % for autoplay, though.
I'd always hated that. I'd be absolutely amazed if auto play made any difference whatsoever.
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1 hour ago, cliffc said:
I would think this info gets stored in the bpk file rather than a ram file so if this is the case i would assume that the rellivent bpk could be uploaded and then put in your bpk folder and the emu would read in the pot data when it loads this bpk. However i am not sure about this so I would wait until Hong Kong Phooey (you could have picked a shorter name Phooey) to confirm this
Nope, nothing to do with BPAKs. Once a game is installed on a T7 the BPAK is redundant.
Think of BPAK as just a secure zip file. It contains the game, but once you install a game on a T7, it 'unzips' the game into it's own folder. You can delete the BPAK after.
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1 hour ago, Jamie28J said:
Absolutely love this. Massive thanks to all involved. Not my era and quite disturbing how quickly you can burn through £500, but good fun to play and has kept me busy this weekend.
If you think these are bad, try the more modern slots... same £2 play, same £500 jackpot, but with things like Ultra Spins and Fortune Spins. They remove the base game entirely, and it's possible to go hundreds of spins with no win. I'm not talking 'no big wins', I'm talking zero wins. Losing spins in a row. It's been discussed before but as volatile and nasty as these can be they are tame compared to the dross out there now.
I think as bad as they are, there is some nostalgia for them as arcades - despite being less busy than ever - seem to be hell bent on skinting the player ASAP. I assume they want to tilt the player as quicky as possible, to find those susceptible to addiction quickly. Just rinse the addicts, don't bother catering to casuals.
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43 minutes ago, Chopaholic said:
It retains the pots properly from one emulator session to another (i.e. completely closing MVFME down and reopening it again).
I've got all the pots maxed out on Ruby Slippers on £1 stake, takes £4000 from a factory reset at 2p per £1 spin for the Bronze, which seeds at £20
Did that on one of the T7s I owned, was somewhat gutted when it turned out the next bonus forces the pots on you - unless that is software version specific? Nice to see though
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2 hours ago, Geoffers1 said:
Got most of the stats off top trumps from ATEI in 2009ish, then got told off by barcrest and asked to stop by a big cheese!! Even with stats it loved to bin you off with radiation monster 100 against your 99 frankenstein creation!!! Base game compensated but top trump game random.
Tell tale signs it was behind % was starting streak columns with few cards already and the bonus showing mcs card every time.
Bognor mr ps top trumps not there any more--wonder why??
It's the problem with a 'doable' machine like that. Those who don't know won't go back to it as it'll always be dead, and those who are clued up will only play it if ready, which it won't be if casuals aren't playing it as they get shafted every time.
Unless it was a genuine empty, in which case he probably got sick of losing money on it
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2 hours ago, Mort said:
Agreed, whilst I appreciate everything done to emulate these it's sad to see how the fruit machine progressed into the 2010s. So glad I got older and stopped playing. I would be amazed if any of these machines have any tricks or manipulations on them (although I do note what is being said about Top Trumps) as they are so devoid of player interaction, the machine just fully dictates. It's a shame a company doesn't try and get real AWP machines with small stake and JPs back into pubs/clubs.
There have been plenty of tricks on digitals from all manufacturers, although I heard about them well after they were patched out.
Typically things like the machine losing track of stake switching, allowing you to get a £2 spin for 10p, that sort of thing. Less about game manipulation, more about the front end being exploitable.
Don't ask me for any examples, I can't remember them
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6 hours ago, spa said:
Top trumps for me! So glad it's there on release! Not so much the B4 version, but the cat c is class!
I'm looking forward to a video of @Chopaholic beating it. I already know you can do it blindfolded and with your arms tied behind your back, but I want to see him attempt it
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1 hour ago, vectra666 said:
I’d say money mad Martians , did they release the original rainbow riches on this platform Also the £35 edition if so you’ll have the early monty python and the like most newer ones are basically the same, wasn’t there a Star Wars me too, just checkout jackpot bros older videos for ideas
I'm sure there's a few £35 games. One of my T7s had a licence for Rocky Balbonus which I think was a £35. I feel like they also had the early Rainbow Riches 3 reeler on these as in convinced we had it on our test T7 - but can't remember if it was set on £35 or £70 jackpot. I feel like it was £35. As said above if you wanted eRio games ported on to T7, they normally have the number '7' in the filename. I don't have a list of files but if there is for example a BPAK called 'Rainbow Riches7' it'll be the eRio game ported across
Are you referring to the £500 MMM or the community £70/£100 game?
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49 minutes ago, Mort said:
What's considered the best games on this platform ?
I really don't know if there is a definitive 'best games' list. Unlike with MFME you don't have games with much in the way of skill, player interaction or anything. It really boils down to which themes people like, or games people feel like they 'understand', or have had good results on.
I was a fan of WMS slots brought over to the T7.
Spartacus £500 (two reel sets, pie gambles, up to 100 free spins from gambles)
Black Knight £500 (the original 5 reel version which is closest to the WMS casino machine, but also the 3 reel community on £100, £200, and then given a £250 + repeat chance version on the later Equinox terminals was always popular).
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Runs better than expected, many thanks!
I thought a game or two played worse than I remembered, but having looked at the configs the games seem to be set the same as my own T7s at home when I had them - typically 94% on £2. Cost me £750 for a bonus on Ooh Aha Dracula, which paid £22. Mind you the next bonus £30 later paid £85 which did gamble out for the £500.
Thankfully not real money this way
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Just now, cliffc said:
Do we know if the Rainbow riches 3 reeler is a T7 game its the only game on video terminals that i like to play
It is, I'm sure
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45 minutes ago, Mort said:
Anyone know when T7 got released, and how long it lasted out in the wild? It's just a Barcrest tech right?
We had a pair of Cat C T7 on test in 2008. Barcrest themselves came out to check in on it. From memory they both had the same 3 games, all lifted from Rio. I remember Monty Python's Holy Grail, and convinced the other two were Rainbow Riches (I think the lo-tech 3 reeler, but could have been the early 5 reeler POG?) and that Gold Rush / Lucky Strike or whatever it was called - 4 reels with dynamite?
Yes, just Barcrest, although T7 is really just a cabinet type with an industrial PC and an MPU5 or MPU6, with a Barcrest games dedicated to it. I've seen rebuilds running software from other manufacturers that used the original PC (why?!!) but didn't use the MPU5 or 6. I've seen rebuilds that replaced the original PC with something much more recent and reliable.
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2 hours ago, nails said:
sombody here actually coded a concept red hot fever for me. damn cant remember who it was, but they told me to not release it. anyway the original roms surfaced here anyway. did concept actually help the release ??
I probably know who you are on about and they if so it is probably the same person who coded the Bar X Random Repeat machine for Mr P's amusements. I believe their first machine at Concept was either a £500 or £675 random machine, can't remember if it ran on Electrocoin or Bar X Z80 hardware. One did turn up for sale as faulty and I showed him and he stated it was his first machine he coded for them.
Never did get around to buying it, as at that point my days of buying knackered machines were pretty much over. But I do wonder if the Bax X Hot Stepper at Mr P's was the same faulty one I was looking at (no ROMs), and if the same coder either had the original source, or wrote new software for it
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3 hours ago, niallquinn said:
Red Hot Six is just playing one credit, on different stakes, in a set order. So a JP costs you a few quid,
"Anon", showed me how to do it on the emu, 5/6 years ago?
I thought that was the old Concept coded 27 winline machine? Red Hot Fever? Something like that. Might not be even be Concept based but I feel it was.
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33 minutes ago, nails said:
someone probably saw the emptier on here !
22 minutes ago, Bozzy said:You are kidding......I did not know that!!!!
Not sure Red Hot Six had an emptier? There was definitely a method on Grand Slam and Hot Six as had been covered before, but not sure about the JPM / Reflex Red Hot Six versions.
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3 hours ago, phayes911 said:
Back in the 80's I was a fruit machine engineer in Liverpool.
I used to love a machine called Millionaire.
When you won the jackpot it played "were in the money".
Anyone remember this machine and where I can get the rom from
Hopefully someone will remember it, until then can you provide any more information?
What sort of machine was it? Did it have a feature trail (that you move around), or was it simple Hi-Lo or turbo gamble based? Or was it even simpler, a lo-tech machine with just simple reel wins, nudges and hold but no real feature?
Don't suppose you can remember the jackpot amount?
Details like that might help narrow it down a bit
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Hmm... My old HP Envy Touchscreen convertible laptop doesn't get a lot of use these days. I've just realised it could be ideal for the T7 stuff!!!
I'd make a case like this but I think it's a bit beyond my skillset
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4 hours ago, spa said:
Ive been pretty lucky with digi cabs, just looked up my interplay, have owned that for 12 years next month! It has had a new pc in that time.
I did break my first T7, damaged the hard drive and got over 30 read errors and it locked the hasp. £500 for a hasp at that time!
Your garage must be warmer than mine
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MVFME V1.0 Released
in Emulator Chat
Posted · Edited by slotsmagic
Somewhat irrelevant probably, but Windows 11 wouldn't let me install Cheat Engine at all (which I use mainly for speeding up gameplay in MFME) unless I disabled SmartScreen. In a weird move, once you disable it you can't re-enable it, without wiping Windows and starting from fresh.
Luckily years of being a cynical bastard means I'm well versed in spotting fake / dodgy files and stuff, and can't imagine it'll cause me any issues.
I think I have the standard Windows AV stuff still running, but have had to make plenty of exceptions and add lots of rules to stop it from disabling mods and cracks
I wouldn't recommend disabling it if you are the sort of person who believes that you can get a full, AAA game released in 2026 in the form of a 1MB exe file you got off a Google search