[Grandslam £250/£500]

22 hours ago, vectra666 said:

The roms aren’t a problem it’s the resources or images if any depends if they’re good enough there’s plenty of these types emulated to keep us happy till then

Is there, where, as far as i know theres no scorp 4 versions of this machine on 250 or 500 about and even the original scorp 2 version theres only a really old classic layout that runs with the bfmulator and doesnt really work properly anyway, is there anyway you could put the 250 roms into dads 1000 version and slap it in the downloads for us please

[Grandslam £250/£500]

Hi, it seems this machine hasnt been covered, certainly not the scorpion 4 version of the £250jp anyway, the nearest we have is the superb HOTSIX layout that vectra666 made last summer, obviously i am clueless how to design and make these layouts but i have a vague idea of the components that are needed for them such as the roms and photos etc anyway i had a quick browse online and came across a site called coolrom and there is certainly loads of different rom sets available for the 250 scorp4 version (couldnt see any for the 500) and i know DAD made a great dx for the 1000jp version of grandslam, i was thinking maybe something could be done here and more to the point would any of you design genius here consider making the layout running the earliest roms possible PLEASE, many tia!!

[Lock N Load]

15 hours ago, locknload said:

the £15 Roms on Fruit Emu are 007s but they are locked to £15 and even Magik couldn't do anything with them (trust me we tried), machine wasn't even released as a £15er.  So frustrating, if anyone can help it would be truely awesome.

I used to go round doing these with my mate craig from liverpool, maybe you heard of him, we made a packet around the northwest, he used to do all the playing on this particular one, i would probably struggle if you put one infront of me now so i certainly wont be playing it like a piano if you find the correct roms, hope you get them i wouldnt mind a blast on it again myself.

[world of mfme you tube]

6 hours ago, dad said:

Yeah, if you've not been on the site for a quite a while, or were a zero poster then your account would have been deleted.

Nothing to stop you setting up another though

ok mate i will certainly be setting up a new one, thanks again!

[world of mfme you tube]

5 hours ago, dad said:

That's a really old one!  Anyway I've given it a quick update so it works on MFME 20.1

 

Grand Slam DX £1000.rar 4.54 MB · 2 downloads

cheers dad much appreciated, i couldnt get into your site my log in details wouldnt work for some reason, my username was steve howard it just kept saying unknown or invalid username?

[world of mfme you tube]

Hi, i have just been looking at this channel on youtube and there is a video of a dx layout for a club machine called club grandslam (1000jp) by bfm but i cannot find this layout anywhere to download it, can anybody help me with this please, tia !

[The Saddest Day]

So sad, rest in peace wizard X

[YOUTUBE]

Just a quick question, i watched a few videos recently of mfme layouts being played on youtube and the owner of the channel did not make any reference to the layout designer or to wizard for making the mfme or anybody else that would be relevant AND i had to endure numerous adverts in the video which i know earn money for the channel owner, surely this is not permitted or am i wrong, if i am wrong just ignore me but if this is against the rules i will happily provide the channel name(call me a grass i dont give a sh*t)

[roms]

10 hours ago, vectra666 said:

It’s on its way soon maybe by weekend see how it goes

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you X1,000,000 ........thats my whole weekend sorted lol

[roms]

17 hours ago, vectra666 said:

There is roms for hot six (Scorp4) and I think there’s a decent flyer for this , would you like a dx made then?

I tell you what yes please, its my fave club machine, would you be prepared to do it??

[roms]

hope i posted this in the correct section but does anybody know if there are available roms for grandslam(scorpion 4) £250 hopper version or hotsix(scorpion 5) £150/250 versions, obviously both bellfruit club machines, many thanks!!

[Emptiers!!!!!!!!!]

10 hours ago, Boulderdash said:

Awesome memories.

I am no pro, but it was just common sense to streak the ace machines on actual wins before leaving it with a few quid in so that people would play it and fill it. If there were two machines side-by-side and one wasn't an Ace I'd switch that off so the Ace got all the play. But as you say a lot of 'players' at that time were just pikeys on the rob rather than professionals making a living. 

Manipulations are far better than plugging or tooling, because no-one can ever accuse you of doing anything illegal. As far as you are concerned you are just pressing the buttons on the front and are getting lucky. I didn't get barred from a single pub for emptying on lines or spot the ball - in fact my only barring was a gentle 'don't come back' after collecting the money for a Donkey Kong I left with a £50 IOU, but that was because the manager had also sussed it and was taking money out at night. 

I don't think I ever saw a Surprise Surprize. I remember Flashback and Barcode from about that era, but I really don't recall ever seeing a BFM with winlines like the Ace ones. Presumably the developer that left that particular hole in the program was inspired by the Ace chap that went to jail! 

Pretty impressive to play them side by side. I could barely do it with two hands on one machine! 

there was tons of surprise surprise about, like J said the bingos and quiksilvas loved them and nobles aswel, rank leisure which owned quiksilva and toprank bingo must of bought or hired a shed load of them, i like the way you said you would switch the other machine off so the ace got all the passing trade because i have done that myself many times over the years and have done it recently aswel, i didnt really know anybody who would bother doing that strangely....

[Emptiers!!!!!!!!!]

23 hours ago, Big J said:

Too many people had big mouths when it came to the lines emptier that is when all the back street pricks found out so they took every penny out of it which made no sense, as all that would happen is a change of program. Imagine playing a machine that only has about a tenner in it just to get the tenner, how fucking pointless, these were not professionals that wanted it to last, they were addicts, the lowlife kind, so I fucked them over by making a fair few owe which sped up the process with the engineers. With my hidden ones I always left at least £15 cash mix and £15 of tokens just in case, my backstreet pubs were rarely touched and they lasted much longer as use to always be on either on buses or on foot, searching. A few of my Ace machines lasted near three years in the pubs.

When Spot the Ball came in amongst a lot of other stuff especially Surprise Surprizes that was it, I was off out of London and travelled around the Midlands on a Rail Rover and stayed in B&Bs, they were mainly in Bingo Halls Gala, Top Rank (name changed to Mecca) and a fair few Quicksilvers had them too, think they loved their BellFruits One Top Rank had FIVE IN A ROW had to play two at once felt like Data out of The Next Generation but started to get insomnia so had to take breaks as did start to get obsessed with these manual emptiers, they are the best imo as it takes a lot of thought process to empty them more than any other machine on here. Don't think many knew these as when I found out most of them were full (except a few I walked into where a lucky bastard got the streak), had it not of been an old dear I would of been suspicious but didn't feel bad emptying it as firstly I didn't give a shite and anyone who gambles has to expect to lose unless you have an edge, that is how I was back then but was a dog eat dog scenario.

At one point I had near a few grand of fucking tokens stashed as didn't have time to play anything else other than emptiers and only needed to take a minimum of £20 of them to get a token version buzzed. It was a mad era which is why I was ecstatically happy on finding that £4.80 Surprise thread at The Mecca which Geddy shared and ended up in Pook incorporating the £8 version into DIF. What a great fucking day!! 

 

 

 

yes i hear you mate and i agree aswel, i suppose i was one of them backstreet mongos on the lines cheat because that was basically what i started out on, i was only 17 years old lol i think i got around 3 weeks on them before the majority got fixed(3 weeks on an mtr is still not bad especially compared to nowadays) so yeah i was a backstreet rat but i tell you what though i didnt start iou them until the final week when i was finding them already done, accumalated a lot of tokens myself i used to bomb them all through the likes of adders and ladders to convert them to cash aswel as buying drinks and ciggies with them, after the lines i was early on spot the ball and early on just about all info throughout the 1990s, the only one i didnt make much of was party time and suprise suprise because i didnt like them and as you know there was plenty of other stuff to play, they were the days..

[Emptiers!!!!!!!!!]

9 hours ago, Boulderdash said:

Sounds a bit like me. A couple turned up in Keele student Union looking for Ace machines. I watched them for a while as they were being fairly obvious about exchanging everything for the lines. Paid them £40 for the list of emptier programmes and we teamed up for a while as I had a car, but they were pretty pikey and we didn't really get on!

After then I had limited success with stuff like Donkey Kong, Bling King Crazy and DOND WIYB but basically focused on my actual job(s). It all got too competitive, and when the machines got hooked up to the internet most manipulations didn't last more than a few weeks, unlike the Ace thing that was live for well over a year. 

keele near stoke, i know a kid from round them ways who plays still, ive only ever spoke to him a couple of times ages ago his name is mike, my mate from stockport knows him quite well i think.

[club class 1000]

16 hours ago, Tommy c said:

Yeah press f12 when you have loaded your game up.

ok thanks mate i will give that a try!

[club class 1000]

Any chance somebody can help me, i play this layout a lot but it wont hold the long term figures, ive made sure the long term meters box is ticked in the preferences but evrytime i close the layout and then load it back up again the figures are just reset to zero, can this be fixed? thanks 

[8 bit game music]

33 minutes ago, nails said:

jeez some of those took me back 30-35 years!  thing on a spring was particularly awesome??

 

i had a rubber key 16k spectrum, then c64, then amiga500, b2000 and lastly a1200 in a tower 030 with squirrel cd rom etc.

 

now a 8/16 core intel water cooled blah blah..   where will computers be if i last another 30 years? 

the rubber key speccy lol could you just simply bang one of them DKtronics memory packs on the back and run all the 48k games?

[8 bit game music]

2 hours ago, Plastron said:

Hi All,

i had the pleasure to makes games for the Atari 8-Bit and was fortunate enough to work with Richard Munns who was making fantastic music. Plastron and Heart Brake where two games i wrote. There may be some news on Plastron shortly will let you know when i can

 

wow yes i remember that line of computers it was the 400/600/800 XE/XL wasnt it, i never owned one i had an amstrad but i do remember these well, did you move on to making stuff for the ST when it came out?

[8 bit game music]

On 22/01/2019 at 02:05, fatdad said:

Fruit Machine Simulator Spectrum Title Music

 

 

a real toe tapper

blimey i had this for the amstrad it was great think it was by codemasters, the other fruitmachine game i had actually came free with the computer and was a complete bag of shit lol

[8 bit game music]

On 21/01/2019 at 16:35, stevedude2 said:

Yie ar Kung-Fu title music on the C64 was just absolute class - a rendition of Jean Michel Jarre's Magnetic Fields 4 by Martin Galway.  I could listen to it for hours.

 

I often listen to a selection of my favourite SID tunes on Sidplay.  Some of them have very little musical merit whatsoever and simply take me back to the days of  being a kid and playing the actual game.  Others are both nostalgic and superb to listen to in their own right, such as these -

Arcade Classics - Rob Hubbard

Armalyte - Martin Walker

Firelord - Ben Daglish

Flying Shark - Jim Evans

Forbidden Forest - Paul Norman

Fruit Machine Simulator (LOL) - Matt Gray - reminds me of Love Missile by Sigue Sigue Sputnik!

Glider Rider - David Whittaker

Hyber Blob - Steve Barrett

Lazy Jones - David Whittaker

< All of the Ocean Loaders were superb, as was Platoon by Jonathan Dunn >

R-Type - Chris Hulsbeck

Super Cycle - Bob Vieira

The Way of the Exploding Fist - Neil Brennan

 

Great days :sniff:

 

 

I had a cpc464 as a kid and after reading those names i can remember now for a fact that both hubbard and whittaker made the best music on some of the games for this machine by a country mile they could work wonders with that crappy AY sound chip

[8 bit game music]

On 27/11/2018 at 19:13, swanyofrug said:

Thinking back to the good old days, what games in particular did you used to play that had awesome game music. My all time stand out was the last ninja level 1 even though I guess when last ninja 2 and 3 came out you could argue they were pushing the boundaries of the SID chip further. 

I must add that although the Spectrum 48 was limited with its sound there could be some pretty amazing tunes done with it.

 

yes being an amstrad cpc 464 owner i hate to admit the C64 was an all round better machine especially were the sound chip is concerned, thats not half bad for the speccy though is it lol

[Emptiers!!!!!!!!!]

20 hours ago, Big J said:

Possibly a fair few of use may of bumped into each other. As I said to A:E it is good to know others that have experienced things first hand on the emptier side or even being too knowledgeable when it came to playing. Whether you call it addiction or professionalism everyone has there own ideas. I went out to hit specific machines and even use to get on Double Decker buses go up top and at the front. I'd look down through the windows of pubs, kebabies and other places that had any sort of machine and if it was one i could make money off then i was off. I use to start finding a few Aces that were fixed when they started to upgrade to £6 and if I had found a £4.80 I would find a way to turn it off and find out what program it is. If it was fixed then I fucked off simple.

bit of a mixed bag for me addiction and profession if i am honest, did you do the 10p collect trick on the 777heavens & jackpot7s and if so did you ever go to rhyl in north wales doing them?

[Emptiers!!!!!!!!!]

On 05/07/2020 at 22:58, Big J said:

That was my work, travelled the country then more and more emptiers started to surface like Maygay, Ace and BellFruit, then BWB got thrown in the mix, that is why I love the emulators as it takes me back to a nostalgic part of my life. You must of made a few quid though

exactly the same as you mate, done everything or 99% of stuff anyway from about 1991/92 onwards to the present day and again same as you i love the emulators and the nostalgia also especially the early to mid 90s, i may of bumped into you somewere back in the day i would mainly graft around the wirral and chester and the north wales coast 

[Emptiers!!!!!!!!!]

12 minutes ago, Big J said:

Yes, most early £4.80's but Barcrest only. I did mention this to an owner of one on You Tube a while back but doubt if he tried it, why would he?!

This was how I emptied Cloud 999, Blue Moon and others before the ram reset flick on a win. There was also a way to try and get more than one hold on the win with Joker/Taverner. Had it hold on a win three times at one point but it wouldn't happen everytime but had to have 2 or 3 Jokers on one of the two winlines.

very very interesting and i thought i knew all there was to know back in 1992 lol, which areas were you working back then?

[Emptiers!!!!!!!!!]

6 minutes ago, Big J said:

I called plugging flicky as it was flicking the switch off and on. The term flicky which I made up years ago all started when I was switching off and on really quickly to get a free nine credits on the early Barcrests like Jolly Joker/Taverner, Eighth Wonder, Big Chief and a fair few others, some did multiples of nine and credits would just shoot up but for it to have given it to me I would need to hear the "ticking" when I put my ear against the side. I had to put some coins in now and then and buy a drink and never had to carry ID even at 15 as I was fairly big and looked much older.

 

7 minutes ago, Big J said:

I called plugging flicky as it was flicking the switch off and on. The term flicky which I made up years ago all started when I was switching off and on really quickly to get a free nine credits on the early Barcrests like Jolly Joker/Taverner, Eighth Wonder, Big Chief and a fair few others, some did multiples of nine and credits would just shoot up but for it to have given it to me I would need to hear the "ticking" when I put my ear against the side. I had to put some coins in now and then and buy a drink and never had to carry ID even at 15 as I was fairly big and looked much older.

wow i never knew that , i used to play eighth wonder back in the day just for a streak if it was backing, i was emptying cloud9 and blue moon though via the plug, did your credits trick work on these aswel?