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Right then, I've scrapped 3 machines so far this week, one of which was my Vegas Strip cabinet. Before I attempt to sell the bits elsewhere, I'd rather see if someone here could be interested? Either for the lot or just part of it. Available with or without woodwork / metalwork if preferred 1 x iPAC (for buttons / switches, coin mech inputs and hopper opto input) 1 x PACdrive Special (for turning lamps on, hopper motor on). 1 x Lepy 2020A amplifier and PSU 1 x SR5 coin validator - takes all current coins. 1 x Azkoyen Parallel £1 hopper - runs great from 12V ATX computer PSU so no need for separate PSU. Full working order. Also got the looms and bits I made for the cabinet, 7 micro switches wired in and fitted with 5V LED so can be driven direct from the PACdrive or from 5V output of computer PSU. Thought it might save someone from making their own, or at least saving them a little work?

Interesting cabinet, would suggest (unless you are running lo-techs) that it might be an idea to remove and sell both screens, and fit a single monitor in portrait orientation (pref touchscreen) in their place.

Sorry, it never occured to me to check the date. Seems to be a pattern occuring.

I haven't done since the old days of Norton, probably around the DOS/Win95 days. I used to love Norton Disk Doctor in DOS when I was a kid. Used to have benchmarking and all sorts built in. But modern AV is really just a subscription scam designed to play on people's fears!

I tried giving away a copy of McAfee recently that came with a new laptop. Nobody would take it even for free. There really isn't any need for McAfee, Norton or similar these days, but I do get why people might feel more comfortable using it.

I assume that was how the online updating was delivered? So that when you loaded MFME it would communicate with the fruitemu.co.uk site (same owner as this site, DADsfme, DXcellent, the MPU Mecca, e.t.c.). to see if a new version had been released. Obviously it isn't going to be updated any more due to the passing of the emulator author, but the software will still check anyway.

As a non techie type currently miles away from a PC, I'd wonder about the following... ROMs possibly hacked / modded to work in BFMulator OR vice versa - some game-specific hack in BFMulator that never made it in to MFME?

Rings a bell, feel like I might have seen it in one of Dave's old warehouse videos but could also be wrong! BAS did Stop The Clock, a 2p/5p £5 jackpot machine (possibly lower jackpot too?). It was a 27 way machine with gamble so similar, but not sure it's the one Spa is after.

I run a Dell workstation in the garage, it's a Xeon CPU but architecturally is basically the 6700K. Pretty sure it is a Quad core part, as is yours! Obviously not as efficient or as good IPC as more recent CPUs, especially those from AMD, but still plenty capable of general computing. Not sure why it has been blacklisted! It isn't connected to the internet at all though, it's mainly used as a repository for various images for my (dwindling) digital slot machine collection, as well as an oversized MP3 / FLAC player

Unless you have a ridiculously old version, then you'll want to play it using MFME v20 or higher.

I love CCNR for nostalgia reasons but my god it can be a frustrating game. Played the 10p £100 version in ReelFruits a long while ago. About £80 in and I get MR up to something silly like £98.60. Now I know I know I should have taken it, but someone I was with (no, not a shark) suggested it had to give the £100. I knew it would fine me, and fine me it did. Luckily only about £20 I think, so broke even and it was fun to do. But seriously... for the sum of £1.40 why not just award the jackpot?!

The only source code I ever saw was from smaller manufacturers - rebuilds and the like - and while I was allowed a glance at it - I was never given a copy (nor would I dream of 'stealing' it). What I saw was in C or C++. Would be amazing to see some source appear for download. The logic behind the ROMs, but also the ability to (I assume) make changes - bring older code up to date with higher jackpots, conversely take modern games and mess about with them. I know some work has been done to implement stake / prizes changes via ROMhacks - which blows my mind - but having the source code and being able to dissect things would be incredible.

It's a little lazy of them to leave the names of the zones as they were, I'm not sure that people in other counties would get 'Ivor Biggun' or 'Lovett Knightly'!

Hi Andy, All the information you need should be covered in the top pinned post of the forum area you are currently in, but here is a link : Any specific issue you are having?

I run dual screens in vertical orientation on my Vegas Strip MFME cabinet and I know others who do similar. The main consideration is that the screens will be evenly split - at least in the case of screens with the same orientation and resolution. I've never tried to use say a small ultrawide as a button panel, with a portrait mode screen above for the machine artwork. It probably would be doable but I've not tried it!

Afraid I'm not sure, but I've tagged him so once is on online and has a chance I'm sure he'll approve you. I don't know if any iPAC is capable of driving lamps from within MFME, as I've only ever used a PACdrive which is a separate board for powering outputs (lamps, hoppers, e.t.c.). But it's a long winded process that has probably been covered better in the MFME Cabinet Building subforum. You basically need to connect your button micro switches, with a daisy-chained ground, to the iPac, and then the same for your lamps, but to the PACdrive. You then need to assign the lamp numbers used within MFME to the corresponding physical output of your PACdrive - this is done via the Config screen with a layout loaded (there is a PACdrive tab when in Config). Again, for in-depth instructions, there's the Cabinet Building subforum with loads of examples of things myself (a bit bodged and unfinished) and others (some utterly amazing) have done.

Once the site admin ( @pete_w ) applies it to your account

Just checking the obvious but assuming you are aware that all layouts already have keyboard shortcuts, so you can use keyboard instead of mouse? If you wanted to run inside a cabinet, or build your own MFME specific keyboard, then yes you can use any USB keyboard encoder, but most of us use the Ultimarc iPAC. If you want the buttons to be illuminated you'd also want something that can drive 5V LEDs or similar. I use a PACdrive to do that as MFME has PACdrive support built in. Most layout use the same buttons for holds (1, 2 and 3), start (spacebar) and cancel/collect (tilde a.k.a. 'grave' in iPAC software) so it's just additional buttons that might require the shortcuts changing in the layout. My 7 button Interplay cabinet I was using last night has the buttons set up to press the following from left to right - is set up for ' 1 2 3 4 5 Spacebar ... covers the basics, then I change the keyboard shortcuts in MFME to 4 and 5 depending on the layout. If you are using a coin mech with 6 coin insertion then it's possible key press 5 could cause a conflict and insert 5p on some layouts.

If not it wouldn't be too hard to make a re-imagining, even if not a perfect, 100% accurate redraw. Apart from the snake head, and body, the actual artwork is pretty basic.

I shouldn't laugh but I'd hate to be someone trying to chronicle the history of FME and work out all the aliases and whatnot that people have had over the years! Would be a complete nightmare lol.

I'm genuinely shocked you have only just hit 1000 subs? Unless it's due to past account closures? Cracking content though. I watched the Reflex special before bed last night. Glad I wasn't the only person who couldn't get their head around the crap profile of the later ones!!

Nice, I love a bit of Bubble Bobble even if it's potentially a hack of sorts The character with the big eyebrows looks like Crayon Shin-chan, and the cat looking character is definitely Doraemon

It'll vary between machines and manufacturers. Some machines are very easy to overload with coins and cause an error, some have massive credit limits. Also some machines are very sensitive and require you to slowly insert credits with a teeny tap of the button. Hold it a nanosecond too long and the machine will alarm. Also, clearing the error can be a pain or easy depending on the manufacturer. Some machines will clear themselves with a reset (Ctrl +R), some will time out but keep saying alarm for a long time before clearing. Some I've messed up so badly I've resorted to a RAM clear!