Road Hog Mad

Yep, I'm selling my home build and looking to build another, I thought a smaller one would be better but I think I'll prefer a bigger one made from an actual fruit machine cabinet. Anyway, it's here if anyone is interested... Home Made Fruit Machine (MFME) 100's of games!!! | eBay

@MPU_FIVE If you can suss the buttons you can suss the payouts. The coin mech is like a big button push, insert £1 and 0 is represented, 50p a 9 etc. Just follow the wire diagrams!!

I've caught the build virus @Reg, so I was thinking I wanted to build another one. But in a 3/4 cab, the type of cab the Fair Games bar 7's are in (attached pic), this size will fit under my stairs. Open to suggestions for another cab style of around this height (about 5FT 5"). After seeing @No1Stoney cab build in an old mpu5 cabinet, I like the idea of two screens. Has anyone had the emulator running in two screen mode? one screen in landscape at the bottom and the top screen in portrait. I'm thinking the bottom screen could be like the interaction point or something or for playing pac-man on for example. So first thing would be a cab, as these machines aren't that popular I'd probably need a different cab, again.. suggestions here are welcome. I'm thinking an old £30 i3 off eBay will handle the computer side, I can always double up on RAM and install an SSD along with a DUEL graphics card, X2 VGA, 512MB would probably be enough, I do recall playing an emulation once, Viz I think and it was using 20% of a 2GB card so 512MB would probably be fine. A decent monitor for portrait mode, not a TN monitor as they go dark if you change your viewing angle. Taliban Express sell touch screen addons for around £7, not that i've ever tried them but this would just be for selecting BIG icons to load a game so wouldn't have to be that accurate. Any suggestions apart from 'don't tell the wife?'

Good idea how the game selector could be at the bottom. @Monk3yboy1985 Stop now or i'll be buying empty fruit machine cabinets lol

If I had the room I would make one like that @No1Stoney, it really does look brill!! The hopper I use for 10p's still keeps paying out too much, I asked the seller (e-service) to send me a new sensor as a bit of investigation turned out it was faulty, they did, it improved it but it's not perfect (It was one they had lying around apparently). Anyway bit the bullet and ordered a new one off eBay for a couple of quid but will have to heat shrink it to the existing wires/terminals. Anyone else had problems with 10p payouts?

That's pretty cool, loads of room inside for hoppers, a PC etc. I wonder what games you can play duel screen?

It seems one 10p payout game screwed all the others up, trying another game and a reboot later it works fine. ThAnk god! So we now know for sure if you make a laptop build and are using the original power supply and powering the hoppers off a separate supply, connecting the winipac ground to the seperate power supply earth common grounds it all. Thank you to all that helped me!

Update, connected ground on ipac to separate PSU that creates common ground, hoppers work but.. 10p hopper pays out continuosly. Any ideas? @No1Stoney @Reg

I thought I had already done this in the pictures above?

Must be software related, hopper powered up as confirmed with a bulb, wire connected to 16 and other wire connected to winipac ith a [

Getting power... connected right,I don't get it

If I do a bulb test between the the psu live and laptop earth no bulb lights up. Bear in mind the laptop powers the laptop and the psu powers the coin mech and hoppers. The coin mech still works.

That doesn't work either

Hmm nothing doing it like this....

@cja272laptop PSU and separate old pc PSU, I have cut in to a usb wire for the earth like No1 said, gonna test it now

Is that the silver earth wire wrapped around @No1Stoney

Erm how do you do that lol @No1Stoney

To add I attached a spare side light bulb from a car to the psu and is lighting the bulb up for the wires connected to the hopper

Any suggestions on this? Wired up a hopper as per @No1Stoney instructions (which has worked twice before on previous machines) and nothing is happening. @Reg. IN the winipac setting I have set it to [ on 2START and plugged it in to 16 on the ipac. Underneath the hopper is a little jumper plug I have tried this in various positions to no avail. How can I tell if the hopper is getting power as I can't see anything lit up? I have double checked everything, the hoppers are azkoyen universal 12v. help!

Ehhh what..... Just awaiting hoppers to arrive then it's done and I'll do a video.

You can use a MARS ME126 OR ME129 as well, I have a diagram for that (2 less wires).

Also 5v led bulbs and not 12v that's probably in them

I'd be interested if these work too as I'm getting close to buying 2. Obviously we'll need a wiring diagram also.