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1 hour ago, slotsmagic said:
If anything, didn't it encourage the rise of the rigged SWPs in kebab shops? The ones at 30% payout with jackpots of £40/£50 quid, where you had a 'skill button' to press, and normally had to (for example) fill in missing sections of a roulette wheel / pizza or similar.
Not sure if any of you have ever looked inside one of those buttons. It's normally a plastic rod with about 3 holes cut in moving between an optical sensor, much like the opto sensor / tab arrangement on a fruit machine reel.
I could almost accept it if they used a proper analogue controller with wide range (say 0-255). But those buttons are garbage and I'm sure the machines are rigged as F**k. So they plastered 'skill', 'this is a game of skill' and similar stuff on the cabinets but I bet the skill is absolutely minimal, or people would have been emptying. Note I'm not referring to question based SWPs which were sometimes emptyable as discussed before!
If we have any running in the emulator (mind you accurately emulating the opto button could be tricky) then it would be great to see just how bent the bloody things were.
And, unless I am very much mistaken, SWP as opposed to AWP could be set as low as 30%!
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2 hours ago, Chopaholic said:
Roller Coaster started on 20p/£6, remember
The skill stop doesn't slip, and always goes forward one square first which you can hit by wedging it.
I think he means the the question marks say "skill stop bonus" when you land on them - which is a blatant lie....
Skill stop itself was a fun challenge to hit the best square.
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Hi and welcome.
In terms of all the uk "feature" based machines, so ones with trails that lead to feature games, or nudges, its important to remember that these are compensated, so the machine knows (mostly) what it is doing and what it is prepared to offer.....
So a machine which is behind its target percentage is more likely to trail hold as it is looking to pay out some money, whereas one that is on its percentage or even ahead will play "tighter" making wins harder.
Machines like to pretend that the offering of nudges or trail helds and the like are random, its not - all controlled by the game software so no real discernable pattern as such.
If you collect nothing from your Red Dwarf game, you should see it get happier, more bonuses from the postion 4 (and the better ones as well), more trail helds and the more regular offering of wins. Conversely, if you collect everything, it will be less "happy"
I almost wish I was brand new to the scene, cos it would be a whole new learning experience!
Good hunting and have some fun.
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2 hours ago, thealteredemu said:
So these tests just prove that these machines are compensated, which we already know.
Have you found any that don’t get happier with extreme forcing? Be interesting to see any that have some anti-force mechanism, though it sounds like you are pushing them well beyond real world parameters.
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The Betcom / Blue print Andy Capp game can be screwed with - if you try to all out force for £100 from the end of trail cash shots it WON'T pay it - ever. I think @Chopaholic put £1000's in it - emulator obviously. My version is currently 2k behind its payout, and it does not give this back through continuous JP boards or anything.
He has also done a JPM Big Wheel vid where this can get astonishingly behind if played on full force.
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Have one on me - your work is amazing and you are sorely missed.
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On 10/01/2025 at 08:02, Boulderdash said:
It's a fair amount of money in real life, that's true, but when there's over £200,000 left in the game it isn't.
Yesterday's game was amazing. The woman wiped out almost exclusively blues in the first three rounds, then picked 100,75 and 50k boxes in succession. Don't know what she went home with but that's just horrendous luck. What are the odds?
if 11 boxes left - just about 1 in a 1000 (11 x 10 x 9)
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On 10/01/2025 at 07:55, dondplayer said:
The second ITV series started way before Xmas, took a break, and is now back on. Assuming it's a series of 50 we have another weeks worth.
For the first few rounds the banker may aswell offer 10 pence as nobody is going to deal in the vast majority of cases.
Id like to see some rich person who DOESN't need the money, take offer 1.....
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I will always be a gambler, I am resigned to that and can keep my losses in check (mostly - occasional blow outs happen)
For me though MFME is a real boost, it does satisfy me, and I can equally happily play old slots rather than deposit online.
If I had never had MFME though, would I have been able to just quit entirely? Possibly, but i'm not convinced.
Having said that, my days of playing IRL are definitely numbered. I have lost fortunes on randoms down the year, and they, and the digital cabinets hold very little interest for me now. I have one arcade with a few £5 machines which I enjoy - but the pub days, I reckon are in their final 12 months.
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I had one one the Dragon 32 - wasnt any of these pictured, but it did have a feature trail which would give nudes or (i think at least) some sort of win streak.
I used to love my Dragon 32 - 1st home computer with proper keys
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Hello and welcome to The Greatest Show on Earth - only without Hugh Jackman. Or P T Barnum for that matter.
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Got my five year badge today, and what a pleasurable five years it has been.
I love this site and the memories of yesteryear it contains and would just like to say a huge thank you to all who contribute, be it layout releasers, video releasers or just those (like me) who comment on the more fun and informative posts we have had down the year.
Keep up the awesome work
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This is a really interesting post - but WAY above my technical level - me just bash buttons.
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Hahah - got my Hot Shot running a pretty Brutal ( but not zero paying) auto play set up.
Its just double repeated on the JP - who would have thunk it?
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On 10/08/2024 at 09:17, stevedude2 said:
This thread is reminiscent of the sort of 'warm welcome' that was dished out on Fruit-Emu back in the day when a new member joined who hadn't quite followed the 'rules', despite the fact they probably wouldn't have known they existed in the first place. I say life's too short for bickering, so either help the guy out or get GTFO of this thread.
@Danny C - I don't know what version of MFME you've got, or what games you have, but the best place to start is to
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install MFME on your PC and run it, or simply run the .exe if that's all you've got
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go to game Manager
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then Database and Set Main Game Folder
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then point to the folder where all you games are
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you'll need to make sure all your games are unzipped first, otherwise MFME won't see them - so check for that first
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once you've done that, go back to Database and Scan all
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You should see a green list of games for you to choose from
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Simply click on a game you want to play, and it should load up for you
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Enjoy
If this doesn't work, I might be about this afternoon if you've got any questions. Or maybe some others will be willing to help...?
The things you learn reading random posts... despite being a member here for a few years..... I have always loaded each game from my downloads - I never realised MFME had linked them all for me! I officially feel stupid, but @stevedude2THANK YOU!!
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install MFME on your PC and run it, or simply run the .exe if that's all you've got
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It takes some fiddling with, but I just use some very basic profiles to ram some money into games. This is my rather basic one for mega Deal or No Deal - surprisingly, cos of the number of boards which will hit Mega Streak on the shots, although this will get the machine owing a good chunk on % its not as high as you might expect. (It should be a 0 where it says insert - I must have knocked it taking the image)
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Welcome
You may want to consider a small donation to the site - this will give you unlimited downloads for the year - and is unbelievably worth it.
If you remember any of these games from the 80's on (possibly even 70's) you are in for a world of pleasure.
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19 hours ago, johnparker007 said:
I love necroing a thread as much as the next man, but I think he's gone
I had to look this up
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2 hours ago, slotsmagic said:
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 have never used any security on my home laptops and never had any issues.
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7 hours ago, Boulderdash said:
The only beat the clock I know is a bell fruit from the post-Noel era.
Very flat profile, and I think there was some naughtiness on the first chip.
Naughtiness?
On a DOND??
Surely not......
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10 hours ago, leedavid2606 said:
is there a way to make games harder to win by adjusting percentage payout??
Harder?!?! They pretty much all take your pennies in the end...
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2 hours ago, BarXQueen said:
I have a Bar X £10 that is £4k behind percentage (using Autoplay) - it makes NO difference to the game play! I'm fairly sure it will never pay it out
Thats mental - or one HELL of a streak building up
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12 hours ago, Boulderdash said:
Presumably it cost you £180+ for a flat ton? I'm my experience forcing bellfruits was a losing strategy every time
Certainly on DONDs - there were some other Bellfruits which were exceptions though.
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15 hours ago, slotsmagic said:
Funny you mention that. I was bored recently and decided to brute force (with zero finesse) my digital DONDs on my iPub.
No end of them gave a JP or full cash pot off the base, often from a 'bonus' like Win Spin. Quite funny really, glad to see that modern machines could still give a JP off the reels, even if you had to put a few hundred in and refuse all wins to get it!!
I presume, this was some sort of anti-player measure - cos lots of machines in the past have been in a lot of trouble once they too much behind percentage and over compensate like crazy. So to prevent this, they put a forced JP in the program.
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6 hours ago, Boulderdash said:
Presumably you had the reflex about £400 behind for it to do that?
I know normally they just go invincible when more than £200 behind
I dont know how far behind the reflex was - i had it fully on auto play, so no boards - just gambling through the cash ladder. As I recall, it would do it consistently every £230-£240 afterwards - so sticking rigidly to percentage - but may well need to be behind to start with.
That was probably back in the joys of lockdown.........
Not MFME specific - general Fruit Machine procedures/rules/features?
in Newbies Help Area
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They go online though. I work in a call centre... all the 18-25 year olds have online accounts and are there spinning away on breaks. Its insane.