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1 hour ago, slotsmagic said:
I don't want to be seem like I'm stereotyping but the Japanese do seem to like their horse racing. They have proper horse racing arcade games (much like the car and motorcycle ride-on arcade games... but with horses.)
That looks like a nice bit of equipment, but clearly in the casino environment it's destined as a proper gambling machine and not the old 2p versions we had, which (while still not cheap back in the day I guess), weren't full-on gambling
Yes, I used to do that too, as a young lad, as well as a bit of spread betting
Despite running a Whittakers roulette in the arcade I never really had much to do with it. I don't think it ever broke down so I never had a need to go digging into it.
I'd be inclined to say it actually uses a random maths model based on the amount / size of winning segments rather than any sort of computerised compensators. But it's been so long since I played one!
I'll probably end up owning one at some point just for nostalgia
Had to be random where the ball landed like standard roulette as the metal ball bounced around not magnetic so the odds of landing on white were probably the same as landing on “0” on real roulette
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Great machine this roulette and horse racing one
bets on blue win!! And their off!!!
loves roulette running around the machine shoving 2p on white for 32p and having it land on white the noise of the six machines paying out 16 2ps (if they weren’t empty!) then running around again white three times on the trot a good £6 in 2ps lol
the horse racing was 50p on 2p/ £1.50 on 10p
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2 hours ago, TheDr83 said:
Hi everyone.
I have been looking but cannot find a machine called grid runner by Global. Does it exist as a download as it used to be a popular machine in a few pubs in a few towns.
Is it possible to request machines, if enough people request them for example. Excuse me if i am out to lunch on that last question, this is all new but exciting for me.
thanks everyone
Alex
I suggest before you download anything have a mooch around this site the new release section this contains a sub category section for particular companies brands as fruitsnappa states the legacy section
choose wisely as Agm you only have a set amount of downloads per week, if you decide to donate you’ll then get unlimited downloads and on that score wait till Jan 1st as you’ll get a full years worth
enjoy the site and keep commenting on stuff that Interests you
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The like s of mpu4 flash cash and clones
they’d take a age to fill action cash up and most features you win 10p repeat for another 10p but I still played em but lost loads unless you catch the flash cash feature apart from that they were shit
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31 minutes ago, infection said:
So my images useful now for queen as ill prepare for vecs dxs?
Would love to see a emulator for the likes of party games/ double decker/ even oldie astra three player locomotion that was a good one with a video screen what tech does that run on?
also treasury
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16 minutes ago, dondplayer said:
Sound ROMs seem correct to me - I am guessing there is some issue with the feature board because the demo shows a collect immediately on entry - not even one press of start on the feature board.
We had that with some “open door” layouts on here pre mfme 5 the ones in mfme 9.4 scorp4 can’t remember what layouts but sure some did
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30 minutes ago, dondplayer said:
The cobra emulator is featured on a channel that also previews a couple of scorp6 emulations- this queen one seems to have issues but is getting there.
I’d say it has wrong sound or part sound roms everything else appears to Run including the inner video screen
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2 hours ago, Blinky3i said:
Just watched a video on YouTube for the first machine featured (Barcrest Wild King), did a quick search in the Barcrest section of the downloads and I cant seem to locate it.
Perhaps its not emulated yet or no resources available?
I’m sure this is emulated in “classic” form if it is it’ll be in the legacy section
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And a short video for us all to drool over lol
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1 hour ago, WACKYRACERS said:
Hi All,
Thanks for the replies, that isn't the one unfortunately, the one I'm looking for has the same name but is an older version as per below.
Thanks
Colin.
i do have the version you want but mine isn't converted to fml which is odd one may off escape i think its in the legacy section though
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2 hours ago, Mort said:
Don't worry, the aliens are already on the way
https://futurism.com/astronomer-interstellar-object-alien-turing-test
Can’t wait maybe they’re exterminate the knob heads in society basically all of us
if we plan to visit mars in 20 odd years time why haven’t we put more on the closest rock to us since ‘69’
all it takes is a civilisation just 500 years more advanced than us and more resourceful towards each other. Who knows what could be achieved I never get why all these countries of ours each spend billions of their own space programs when they could pool the funds into a world wide space fund
suppose it’s down to that old word again
Greed and ownership of something that technically isn’t ours to own
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16 minutes ago, Chopaholic said:
LLMs are a technological evolutionary dead-end and will not develop into AGI. It's like having a car and saying that if you just strap enough rockets to it, you'll be able to fly to the next solar system.
Rockets are so last century id give it 100 years max and we’ll travelling to the edge of this galaxy or should I say the robots will
its only a matter of time and time is an illusion made up by mankind to give us order out of chaos.
is there life on other planets, he’ll yes millions of them, most of which are thinking the same as us “this betcom is rigged to hell , shove another credit in it might change?”
back on subject lol
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5 hours ago, Boulderdash said:
Fortunately nuclear war can't happen, because nuclear weapons don't exist.
And the Earths flat and the universe revolves around it
and one day they’re be world peace
let’s put this in simpletons terms
machines are invented by humans to do the job a human can’t be bothered with, or to make money quicker easier and cheaper
A program not matter how secure will always be hacked or broken into (mfme will or probably already has been hacked somewhere if you’ve the knowledge and “want” to do it, so n terms of programming it’s probably a very primitive program to some highly skilled hackers!)
rules are there to be broken that’s why they’re there so the powers that be can fine , inforce more rules and control!
every rule and program rules that can do this or that has loop holes design flaws again it’s in the humans dna as a species to have these design flaws it’s how a species evolves
End of the day the machines are there to make more money Not to give it to the peasants that play them, there was never any Amusement in gambling there never is, it’s only “fun” when you’re winning as the greed emotion takes over same as when you’re losing it takes over in the opposite way.
human always want more and are never satisfied with just enough
This Russia / Ukraine war is exactly the same. Putin won’t stop till he gets want he came for. Total control of Ukraine and beyond. Hasn’t he got enough land he doesn’t actually own (no one actually owes land, it’s free we’re just made to think this way, control from birth to death!) it’s all greed
mankind ls downfall is greed. And the planets downfall will become of it,
thats until the machines take over the human race (terminator) which I do believe that will happen in the next 50-100 years
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On 09/08/2025 at 11:31, palms said:
i just donated
You got settled quickly knew it wouldn’t take long lol welcome
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46 minutes ago, Cavey said:
I also think there's an important distinction to be drawn between how people play these games now, in the emulator, as opposed to how they played them for real, with actual, real money etc., back in the late 90s or whenever (when a tenner was worth a lot more than it is now as well).
It's easy to be blasé and to rabidly force these games to death when you're not actually doing your bollocks in somewhere. Back in the wild, if you were offered £4 on a bad number, you took it (as a casual player at least).
Very true you’ll never play the emulated machines as if you were playing them for real, take a dond on a layout you just force the shit out of it but in reality if you’re a casual like me you’d play on 25/50p and take the winnings say a tenner up and off to the bar. Back in old days on the £4-6 token jackpots if a shitty hi lo number on a feature trail you take the feature
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1 hour ago, Cavey said:
This is a good question. I remember pumping £60 at a time into machines where the most you could win was £2.40 (in actual cash) plus a repeat chance. How does that make any sense whatsoever?
Even then, I was on half decent money (ish); winning a tenner or twenty quid on AWPs wasn't going to make any difference either way.
There's no logic to compulsive gambling - whichever way you slice it, applying any sort of common sense or logic: it's a mug's game, stop doing it. The psychology of it all is counter-intuitive; it's a perverse, destructive, "press the fuck it switch" compulsion just for its own sake, once you're "in the pit".
I suppose the best analogy is smoking addiction - even when you're wheezing like a squeeze box, coughing your guts up with asthma, emphysema or even worse and there can be NO illusion of "enjoying" a cigarette that actually does nothing for you at all - the addict still sparks up first thing out of bed notwithstanding.
I have nothing but sympathy in both cases because I've been there. In both cases.
It becomes a habit, the enjoyment side of things long gone, the thrill of the chase to get thet elusive jackpot or streak’
smoking like drug taking, effectively the same as gambling you always want more the “kick” wears off or gets less affective.
i bet in the harshest of gambling addiction days if there was a machine completely fucked as in broken buttons only one lamp lit literally and someone just walked off winning say £20 up, as long as the reels sort of span you’d still play it!
same as a homeless man scrounging for dog ends off the streets, I’ve been there walking around the pushers several times in the hope of a few 2ps or even better 10”s in the trays. For me Fme suppresses the need to gamble it scratches that itch-
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14 minutes ago, Projectgilda said:
Nah, Robin Hood was JPM. The pirate game (can't remember it's name) but it has a pirate ship with values in the cannon bays, and you died by being Castaway it Ship Wrecked. Damn! I can't remember the machines name but it was a Popeye rip.
Not Hagar
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19 minutes ago, slotsmagic said:
If you boil it down, fruit machines we are discussing here really aren't much different to old video games.
I love Final Fantasy 7, it's a game from 1997.
Even now, people are finding new glitches and exploits on it to make speed running faster and faster. Finding new ways to break the game to allow them to skip certain things.
Not things that the programmers intentionally put in - rather things they never thought to protect against.
(I know, we are comparing a video game to a gambling machine, so you would think a gambling machine would be more protected - but as with video games they are both written by real people).
I'm sure that in fruit machines there will be some of the same. Oversights, mistakes, things that just hadn't been accounted for. There will have been some examples of honest oversights and I'm pretty sure anything left in by @Projectgilda would have fallen in to that category.
I'm absolutely no industry apologist - you all know my stance on it. But there will be times that things simply weren't considered during normal play. Not talking about the obvious shady stuff, but more nuanced things that players may have worked out as the best ways to extract value from machines.
I think the video of the Pie Factory that @Chopaholic put up recently is a good example. I don't think a coder said 'lets give people a method that can knacker the average player', more likely - as with something like Just The Ticket, it was a case of a flag staying on when it shouldn't have been cleared (allowing you to bank an invincible board, that sort of thing).
The fact the last chip on those made it obvious they had been chipped is definitely suspicious, but still hard to say if the original 'method' was definitely intentional, or if someone worked out an exploit.
Exactly my point, I mentioned earlier in the topic about sonic for instance the up down left right ABC - infinite lives trick. People didn’t complain nor did the companies that made the game, infact they made more money from it by allowing the cheat/games magazines to publish such cheats. Probably selling more games in the long run.
you used to get “bonus tracks” on records and cds making the customer “think” they’re getting something for free or extra where infact these were already meant to be put in there, but made the customer think there a bonus.
same Is said for fruit machines, they’ve deliberately left the ‘cheats’ in, like the cancel slowing the bonus down or hold reels upto Respin! Even numbering reels to make the player think they’ve got an advantage over the game (As fruit machines are effectively a game, the jackpot meaning top level!).
The more people know these exploits like the partytime “tricks” the more people will play it m, the more played the arcade will get more of the same in, more money for the manufacturers as producing more then they make a clone like bullion bars, people think they’re different as different colours or names, and so the cycle continues
same goes for computer games.
was there any glitches in pinball as still a games program
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4 minutes ago, Boulderdash said:
I've got a couple of capital As and three full stops I'll trade you for a DX of Pinnacle...
I ain’t got time for grammar and punctuation’s
As for pinnacle wasn’t there a topic somewhere about that one?
messing about with a full deck of cards, dean martin, Sinatra and co first, Vivid making a remake…-
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Intentional or not we all make mistakes and slip up were human we make mistakes plenty of them throughout history
also most companies are corrupt one way or another rhe gambling industry is no different probably worst now but done legally with the shitter machines where 90% of the time you win your money back on a board if you’re lucky
and the machines were talking about are over 30 years old now so n point moaning about this n that and what a roller coaster did or didn’t do, you won you lost all part of gambling! If you knew back then the program may of been corrupted would you have still played it? Yes of course you would’ve as you’re gamblers plain n simple
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9 hours ago, infection said:
https://picclick.co.uk/Bell-Fruit-Scorpion-4-Fruit-Machine-Program-Card-317064511101.html
This is one we need i think its this machine if it not this one im not sure
It is reflex got hi res image of it too somewhere
there’s still a few reflex’s to do infact loads of older scorp4 ones I should’ve got my old jackpot jewels roms done
trail of riches reflex scorp4 further down the list under the listing Snow White and the seven tenners
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7 minutes ago, Projectgilda said:
Thanks Mort for your response. Rollercoaster was originally a £6/£3. This was what I initially designed and where it played it's best. Personally this was my favourite stake to prize ratio. I could give you a great game with lots of frequency and skill features that weren't too restrained. £8/£4 handled my games well, but £15 was difficult for the older machines to handle. You need to design from scratch for £15. A more gambling experience. £35 fucked it for everyone, particularly me who wanted to create games as opposed to pure gaming machines. Cash Attack 2 and Psycho Cash Beast 2 were my only successful machines of that era. I left the industry shortly after.
great to have you aboard and this gives us an insight to the makings of these classic games
don't suppose you've the program roms for roller coaster £6 kicking around on a old floppy disc or any other gems or even other resources for emulation
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3 minutes ago, RobneyBadMan said:
Thank you so much sir! You were mentioned above & then came to my aid. It’s very much appreciated & I shall give it a go.
I think it is an MPU6 module in the back of the machine I have. So when a machine is cloned do they just use all the same coding? I may have misunderstood the cloning thing. Grimmacing smiley head.
my emojis don’t work. Soz.
Let us know if it works
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