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For the kids hacked money box way, I use 2 timer relays. One controls the timing for the motor that pulls the note in, and another one times the hopper to pay out 10 coins (in milliseconds). I might have posted more info somewhere? The other note changer I built, I used a JY-142 timer board and a note accepter. Quick vid of the timers.

You can always add a couple of 2 way switches. One that swops the opto outputs over from one hopper to the other (] to [), and another that swops over the Pacdrive hopper outputs over (15 to 16). I have done this on my cab.

There is a "Dual Screen" mode in MFME check box in preferences.

I don't think the ROMs are with any of the legacy layouts? Stick this in the folder. rbow0_2K.zip

Ahh! So there was a released 6.1. Quite a few upgrades since then:)

V6.1 sounds like the illegal Aristocrat emu that was leaked, nothing to do with MFME.

This happens to me too. Sometimes I do "ctrl alt del" (Task Manager) and left click the ">" and right click on "Maximise".

Really cool layout:) Nice job with them buttons!

Hi Guys. Last week I bought a tiny wall cupboard, and kitted it out with an external hopper for 2p payouts, using everything I did above. The bad news, is that the switches on my breadboard were a different way round to what I drew! (Them switches are black, square and unmarked!). I have asked Pete to swap the big diagram in my first post for the updated one, but have had no reply, so here is the updated circuit diagram: Everything is working perfectly on all my installed 2p games, and this set up can be reprogrammed any time. Obviously the hopper has to be primed, and have enough coins in the hopper, as triac payouts are pulsed. Here is the finished project working.

They should all work... However there are a few layouts where the buttons are actually hidden or tucked away off screen.

The shortcuts can be anything you want. There are 2 fields for each button that can be populated. Click Design, then click Edit Mode. Right click on a button and left click Properties. You will see 2 boxes for shortcuts.

Hi Guys. This thread is for anyone who already has two hoppers on their MFME cabinet, and want to add an extra 1,2 or 3 hoppers for the older fruities. - The older ones with 2p/10p/50p/token solonoid/tube payouts After planning this months ago, I finally got round to experimenting with my Arduino Uno (regarding Pacdrive Triac outputs to hopper). (Thanks to getting some quiet during the daytime!) So as a newby to Arduinos, I literaly took the simplist code there is for the Arduino (https://docs.arduino.cc/built-in-examples/basics/DigitalReadSerial), and built on it for my test. The idea was to take the 5v output generated by the Pacdrive for triac payouts, and make a hopper spit out a coin, and stop when the coin has paid out. Here my diagram of set up. Here is what I altered the (public domain) code to: //pins const int pulse = 2; const int opto = 4; const int motor = 12; int relaya = 0; // off int relayb = 0; // off void setup() { // output: pinMode(motor, OUTPUT); // input: pinMode(pulse, INPUT); pinMode(opto, INPUT); } void loop() { relaya = digitalRead(pulse); if (relaya == HIGH) { digitalWrite(motor, HIGH); } relayb = digitalRead(opto); if (relayb == HIGH) { digitalWrite(motor, LOW); } } And here is a quick video example of it running it with a blue hopper. https://youtu.be/JTeSdhvOSsg (The button being pressed, is only to demonstrate what happens when the Pacdrive 5v output sets a relay off) Here is a pin diagram for the opto circuit on a blue hopper as they are never labeled, and a diagram is hard to find. My next test was to run 2 separate hoppers both at the same time, by duplicating some of the Arduino code. //pins const int pulse = 2; const int opto = 4; const int motor = 12; const int pulse2 = 5; const int opto2 = 7; const int motor2 = 13; int relaya = 0; // off int relayb = 0; // off int relayc = 0; // off int relayd = 0; // off void setup() { // output: pinMode(motor, OUTPUT); pinMode(motor2, OUTPUT); // input: pinMode(pulse, INPUT); pinMode(opto, INPUT); pinMode(pulse2, INPUT); pinMode(opto2, INPUT); } void loop() { relaya = digitalRead(pulse); if (relaya == HIGH) { digitalWrite(motor, HIGH); } relayb = digitalRead(opto); if (relayb == HIGH) { digitalWrite(motor, LOW); } relayc = digitalRead(pulse2); if (relayc == HIGH) { digitalWrite(motor2, HIGH); } relayd = digitalRead(opto2); if (relayd == HIGH) { digitalWrite(motor2, LOW); } } Here is another quick video of both hoppers running. Here is a pin diagram for the opto circuit on a common black serial hopper too. Feel free to add anything that may help others below.

I used to play this on my C64. It was a twat of a game!

Nice button box! Printable acetate seems to be the answer. I tried normal acetate, and it ran too much. A friend of mine did my decals (No longer with us) on a bog standard inkjet printer, and they are still good to this day, so that may of been what he used.

This brings back some memories:)

Best bet is to read through the cabinet building threads, as everything is covered there. IPac controls inputs.....Button presses, and opto circuit (signal generated when a coin is spat out of a hopper). Control Interfaces :: I-PACs :: I-PAC2 (ultimarc.com) PacDrive controls outputs IE: LED bulbs, and hopper power (using a 5v relay to connect power to the motor). Output :: LED and Output Controllers :: PAC Drive (ultimarc.com)

I have bought all mine off aliexpress, shopee & lazada. Ebay ect were too expensive.