Boulderdash
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Yeah, what Tommy said.
I tried it a while ago with BFM Club Explosion and even though the pot is a paid for win it simply refused to go to the top, reversed or otherwise, until it had taken the same amount of money that would have built up that win.
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2 hours ago, slotsmagic said:
I've seen Pluto 6 ROMs for MYMY, but not Scorpion 5. They probably are out there, but nobody has either shared them publicly, or nobody has dumped them yet.
Never heard of winner bakes all? I know there's Live and Let Pie and Baking Bad, they are the only baking machines I can think of for the last few years. Doesn't surprise me if there are more baking themed machines though
sorry. winner bakes all is the megastreak on LALP
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On 05/08/2020 at 21:59, logopolis said:
Ah but I did find a Moo Moo York on reset reels at least 3 times towards the end of last year. I found out it wasn't worth playing so I didn't bother with it after that. It was in a bowl where the owners probably neglect to maintain the machines properly. There's a few lights out and other little things.
Why don't we have the rooms for MYMY? I quite like that. And WinnerBakesAll
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2 hours ago, logopolis said:
Unless you can trap it from add again!
True. But it still never goes past £100
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2 hours ago, woodsy said:
i used to like the play2win arcades around china town and old compton street...
I went in the Chinatown one because I used to like the 5p games downstairs, but they've all gone. Basically Bar X and poker machines down there now.
Mostly 500s upstairs.
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43 minutes ago, Sarkymark77 said:
Is there a mega streak anywhere on star paws? Is it on the dond bonus gamble wheel??
Yes. It's the Streak Walker feature art the bottom left of the top glass, earned by filling all the paws.
It's capped at £100 though, which is rather dull as it usually costs at least that.
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16 hours ago, wearecity said:
Yes.
I got Royley screwed over by one of them in the Crystal Rooms Leicester Square.
I believe there's an emptier or similar for it, it took about £30 off me before it even gave me a board.
The Crystal Rooms is now all boarded up and part of the Hippodrome casino.
Sad times.
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17 hours ago, logopolis said:
Another game from this era that definitely needs a makeover is Royle Family.
He he he heyyyy
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On 26/04/2022 at 17:10, MPU_FIVE said:
Aww yeah, am desperate to see my what a carry on emulated, as the poor actual machine does'nt work properly & I'm too thick and stupid to know how to fix it... Mr P once said he'd fix it, but time passed for whatever reason, then i contacted him again and he wanted to buy it off me, but i'm never selling... EVER. So unless i can find someone else who'll fix it, it sits in the corner, sadly...
Would love to see Mr. Do emulated too, and Pennies from Heaven... Electrocoin had some lovely hi tech's back in the mid to late 90's.
Dreamland in Margate had a Mr. Do, remember playing it loads... it played a tune every time you span the reels, and to get the most time out of my money, i'd listen to the tune completely before spinning the reels again, lol.
As you say, hopefully, MAME may come to the rescue one day, or maybe a new fruit machine emulator may come about... I wonder what happened with Guitar and his Amber project?... or maybe when JohnParker007 has finished his arcade simulator project he may make an emulator all of his own! - well it's nice to dream!
Gary.
Never ever saw a Mr. Do fruity. Played the video game for hours and hours though
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1 hour ago, Zippy said:
Emptiers are not defined by "rips", professional gamblers back in the 90s (ahem yes I was one of them if truth be told) exploited fruit machines like it was going out of fashion. I have had debates about this off the grid about what a "true emptier" is, Dond for starters was and never will fall in that category regardless of the contempt I have for that machine (still and never have tried it in emulation and never will).
If Bell Fruits like Dond and others that had rips/exploits, if it held £500 in the hopper/tubes you wouldn't be able to empty it so that settles that discussion. Making money is one thing but there is a fine line between true emptier and walking away with profit.
An emptier is simply a method of play that will allow you to take every last coin from a machine. This will be because there is an issue with the code and it doesn't realise it's paid too much.
A rip is an exploit that means you can get more than the machine would like to pay, but generally once you've had it the machine will clam up, stop phoning for example, preventing you doing it again. An example would be banking £140 on Banker's Bonus.
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I was going to say 'Dave'.
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On 22/04/2022 at 12:54, infection said:
Nothing afaik don't think we have roms
Is Andy from G² part of this forum? Or does @slasherhave a contact that could get them?
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On 02/09/2019 at 07:44, infection said:
Machines i think that can be emulated are corn of the dead MIB Popeye Donds plunder and lightning Plumbers payday I think mainly G squared machines
Did anyone do anything with plumber's payday?
There's one in my local and I've never seen it pay £150.
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I always disagree, politely of course, with @Chopaholicon this one, but I really don't think emptiers had anything at all to do with the death of the AWP.
The reason in my mind is simple - they became gambling machines rather than amusement machines.
As soon as this happened, the jackpot had to keep up with that available first in clubs, then bookies and casinos and now the almost unlimited jackpots online. People simply aren't interested in putting beer money into a pub fruit as they know there is no amusement and £20 could last less than five minutes.
So the only people putting any money in them are addicts and a dwindling band of players.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the random digitals. Most pubs are simply getting rid, but they infest every spoons.
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On 28/03/2022 at 16:17, woodsy said:
I’ve touched on this several times in the coinslot magazine thread, bacta already have licenses and government approval for completely cashless arcades and machines, I must am terrified of that, if I were to relapse badly in the bookies of the future using my linked bank accounts etc the losses don’t bear thinking about, at the very least with cash you physically feel your losses, and if you have to run to a cash point you get a last gasp chance to stop, but virtual balances not physical coins removes the common sense aspect. The simple addition of pressing a button to hide your balance while playing is shockingly blatant proof that they know this is more profit than sense.
You're simply describing an online casino, but one where you have an actual machine rather than your computer.
It will happen whether you like it or not, because actual cash will disappear altogether.
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23 hours ago, vectra666 said:
Aren’t most of those S16 video £500 slots I flooded the site with random
pooks tornado layout random spinner
and there’s a few classic £500 layouts which can now be dxed thanks to @spas flyer uploads
I've played tornado, but the weather vanes are wrong and that bothers me!
They go NWSE, whereas every schoolboy knows it's 'Never Eat Shredded Wheat'
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2 hours ago, woodsy said:
Every victory counts buddy. As for virtual stuff @Robsonmeg46 helped me get some and I have a folder of s16 stuff from I think n Quinn but can send that to you if it will help not hinder
and the casino section on this site has a few good ones stream tower is good
Casino section?
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Do you know how much of a cock I am?
The thing that stopped me playing was the £1.99 charge on the nearest cashpoint to the pub!
I'd still like to know what other randoms are emulated apart from the cops and robbers safe cracker AWP and FOBTy
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Is there a way to filter for digitals?
I'm back in London today and there are dozens of digitals blinking at me all around the office. I need to scratch my itch, so wondered what digitals are emulated...
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14 hours ago, MikeP said:
When I found out about the Ace lines emptier, admittedly shortly before they were all re-chipped!, there were no less than 11 such games in Keele services on the M6 (including north and southbound). They were all nearly empty, by the way - no easy money for me there.
Yeah that was me, sorry.
I was a student at Keele from 89-93 and made a small fortune at the services. They used to have pinball games in there too, and some like Super Mario Bros didn't seem to be clever enough to raise the replay score, so once we got good at it we could spend all day on it for £1, constantly getting free games.
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If it's Indiana Jones font you remember them that's your machine.
This one was also amazing...
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13 hours ago, Chopaholic said:
Thanks everyone I do genuinely appreciate all the comments. It was a bit of a wrench to delete the channel as (1) I'd put so much time and effort into all the content on there and (2) Whilst it was a small, niche channel, the videos were viewed many hundreds of times on average, with some getting quite a bit more than that, and I didn't want to 'let down' those people.
(As an aside, the more popular videos were managing over 1000 views, with some getting to 1500+ or even 2000+, such as the Psycho Cash Beast Club video. The most watched video on the channel was 'Roshtein - fake money streamer?', which last time I'd checked was around 175,000 (!) views.)
Ultimately though it's supposed to be a hobby, and when a hobby has started to cause you a degree of stress and worry, it's probably time to change things.
@wearecity is quite correct that the channel ended up going in directions I really wasn't expecting when I started it, once I began dropping little anecdotes and stories into the videos - (which I did very early on, and it was very well received) - they morphed into something far more personal, culminating of course with the first Gambling Low Ebbs video, which became a series.
(I remember recording the first Gambling Low Ebbs video, it was late one evening and I'd had a small sherry or two, and the idea of getting some of this horrible stuff 'out of me' had been percolating in my head for a while, so I went downstairs and just recorded it, it all just came out. It was a bombsite and the footage sat on my hard drive for months, I didn't think it was salvageable but I decided to try and edit it together one evening and managed to get it into a coherent state, and the first Gambling Low Ebbs video was born, it got a really positive reaction in the comments (as well as here at DIF) and I leaned more into the personal story/anecdote/feelings side of things going forward.)
The simple truth is though, that many of those videos contained a lot of personal stuff, including descriptions of activities that were flat out illegal, and we all know how stuff can 'reach through time' to bite you on the arse these days, and I didn't want that to happen.
(I'm not going to go into specifics here, and nothing horrible happened, but I will say that my online name and channel, crossed paths with my professional real life in a way I really didn't like, and it made me realise that a genuinely malicious actor could make serious trouble for me if things had gone in a different direction. (It's not just that, there's some other stuff too.) Oh yes and there was also an attempt to hack my Google account, that came as a result of the Online Slots stuff, mutil-factor authentication FTW there. Oh and the guy who threatened to track me down and beat me up over the Alien method video, which was nice. Ultimately though it was the IRL crossover, along with some of my changing circumstances, that made me go ahead and delete the channel.)
This is not the exact scenario, but imagine you're working with a new customer on a big project, there's a lot of money at stake and you're a key resource on this project, and your online identity and YouTube channel are known to the customer, something goes wrong and/or someone decides they don't like you, and they're also aware of (multiple!) videos where you graphically describe taking drugs, dealing drugs, abusing alcohol, stealing, and being utterly consumed by gambling to the point of self-harm, hospitalisation, hunger and desperation - are you potentially compromised by those videos?
I did consider doing a 'sanitising sweep' on the channel to leave behind only the 'safest' videos, but that idea was dead in the water because the personal stuff was woven so much into so many videos, plus I really hated the idea of butchering my own content, to me it either had to be 100% genuine or not at all. I also considered self-censoring future videos either during the recording or editing phase, but again, that felt totally alien to me and I knew I wouldn't be able to do it and not hate what I was making.
It wasn't a rash or impulsive decision to delete the channel, it's actually been bothering me for a while now, and whilst I am genuinely sorry to those who watched and enjoyed the channel because it's no longer there, I can't lie, it's actually a weight off my shoulders now, so I know I made the right decision. I know it sounds harsh, but as wearecity notes above, it's a big risk to take for videos that are often only getting a few hundred views and generate no income. (The channel would have only earned pennies even if I did monetise it, but I was adamant that it should purely be a passion project so never went down that route, or asked for donations on Patreon or anything like that.)
When I started the channel I had no earthly idea if anyone at all would watch it, so it was nice to see it grow into a reasonable little channel, and I'm delighted to have been able to introduce new people to fruit machine emulation, Arcade Simulator, and of course the community here at Desert Island Fruits or elsewhere such as The Mecca and Dad's FME.
Please note that I did a hard-delete on the channel, it doesn't exist on YouTube anymore so the content is gone in that regard, thus I do not have the option of sending out private links to anything such as @Boulderdash asking above if he can have a link to the Ebbs videos. However, I have got backups of every video I made for the channel, so if there's anything anyone wants a copy of I'm sure we can work something out. (I'll PM you about the Ebbs videos Boulderdash, and @dad you're welcome to have a copy of the DAD Tribute video
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Google deletes nothing, no matter what they pretend
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7 hours ago, Chopaholic said:
Morning folks it wasn't the easiest decision to make but it's been on my mind for a while now, a few things have changed for me IRL, including professionally, and I was uncomfortable with so much of me being 'out there' as it were, it was no great secret who I was and there was a lot of personal stuff on the channel.
On a wider note my enthusiasm for making videos had been rather on the wane, the death of Chris really hit me and cast a shadow over things that I tried my best to combat, but ultimately didn't succeed in doing.
I'm glad I got all but one of the Gambling Low Ebbs series done, and was able to cover the birth of Arcade Simulator into a public release.
There was the option of simply leaving the channel in stasis rather than deleting it, but it had started to 'cross the streams' in some ways I wasn't entirely comfortable with, and quite frankly was becoming a source of worry.
Thanks to all who watched and commented, I hope you enjoyed the videos, the channel had a run of almost exactly four years, in which time I produced hundreds of videos that received many hundreds of thousands of views in total, and it was a pleasure to have the chance to make something that so many people connected with.
Hi Alex
I understand your reasons and hope the new job is a success.
Would it be possible just to leave the low ebbs as private rather than delete everything? They are a real help to me when I have the occasional relapse.
Cheers
Ed
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Just like Star Wars and Star Trek, the scripts that rely on politics rather than stories have ruined Doctor Who for me.
Re-Seeding Cash Pots
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This could well have been a reaction to players on ferries.
In the late 80s I caught a ferry to France and collected £75 from a club attraction on the cash trail exchange because the pots were low.
Other machines were clearly being covered by players would pay something stupid like £1 for a return trip on foot and empty them.
Didn't catch a ferry for a few years by which time the boats were full of Cops n Robbers all with maxxed pots at £200. Did my buttons on the way there and back believing they were winnable.