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Ah good because I only got half way through one of them

If you search for Deal Or No Deal What's In Your Box ? Wdx 1.0.0 it is apparently the early ROMs for the Winstopper empty.

@Chopaholic does a red cash value (the one that wouldn't give the £100) give the chance of repeat of the actual value or repeat of another dapple ? If it's the value you could have taken the £50 red far earlier ? because that would be £100 (if landed) and that came before the MS went red. Also we know these don't do £200 so no chance of the £100 giving a repeat. Back to it not landing on the £100 - yeah that has to be a bug - all I can say is "NO WAY !!!" I played one of these once and got stuffed - the worst of that layout type IMO

So the other day I reached over 4000 up on Banker's Bonus. 8401 in for 12469 out. It's actually surprising that you can profit on this empty as it needs so many things to go your way.Firstly you need Deal or No Deal open (or something like super streak) which in itself is not a problem. Secondly you need to land on the Bonus square and then you need that bonus to be Activate Bank It. Once on the square you can use hi/lo to get another bonus but on a bad number that may end your game. Lastly when you finally select Cash or Bust you actually want it to Bust, else everything you did was a waste of time. The program on this is a bit weird is it can suddenly decide it's not going to open Deal or No Deal for like £20 even though no value has been taken. Then let's say you don't get your Activate Bank It bonus. Now you need another board and let's say you get as far as Cash or Bust but the bust lands. A few times I'd put £50 through without even getting a chance at Cash or Bust. Another I'd put over £100 through before a Cash or Bust landed on Bust. So this can be really expensive. Had I tried more than one of these in the real world I would have been so frustrated, particularly with the Cash or Bust NOT landing on Bust. I would have put my fist through these I'm sure. Some observations: Ideal setup is double Deal or No Deal, Activate Bank it lit again (after the bank), Swap box lit, Message from the Banker lit. I found taking Message from the Banker after first Deal or No Deal Banker's offer can be quite useful - it can eliminate more blue values (upping the offer), actually up the offer (only usually a couple of quid though) or best is change the box. Now the problem here is it can swap for a worse value so only do this on a really bad box. Single Deal or No Deal isn't very good even with ammunition - in one round it can take out all the decent values and then your stuffed as you haven't got the other side to bail you out. Swap box can be very handy - unlike a swap from Message from the Banker Swap box will always swap to the best value possible. So a double Deal or No Deal board with £10 / £20 on one side and £10 / £35 on the other will always swap to £35. The 140 trick - never worked for me in the real world as never gave the next number message - had the option to try this about 4 times throughout - it actually worked but only once. Board entry GATW or auto 70 collect - not a problem - don't need bank it - these are more or less free wins so don't need to come out the bust pot. Streak vs Deal or No Deal - although connected there is some separation so once well into this you can take the streak to retrieve some cash if you land on ? without your bank it. You will find that the Deal or No Deal comes back within the award of the streak. e.g. get a £15 streak - will cost less than £15 to get Deal or No Deal again. Streak awards £10, £15 usually - also £20, £25 Super Streak awards £15, £20 usually - also £35 Do it too often in succession and the streal won't get awarded again for a while though. Busts that are OK - there are things the bust can land on and not all is lost: Cash Falls - just keeping hitting start so it says 'too early' - it will award zero and hence you get the banked Deal or No Deal. Turbo Cash - just keeping gambling down to zero - again you get the banked Deal or No Deal Cashpot - a more or less free win so that's fine. Like a lot of Deal or No Deal's of the era on repower it takes £15+ for the Deal or No Deal to return - this hinderd me as every time I fired this up the first £15+ was automatically a waste. It's difficult to know what to do when you are on the Bonus square with a bad number (5/6/7/8) - I've carried on hoping to land on h/l shuffle - then gambling that in the hope of a 7 or 9. Message from the Banker on a ? (when no bank it option given) - it often saves you, even indirectly, but nearly always just results in another ? two moves on. I think it's actually given me the chance for a bank it twice throughout.

Well looks like we are re-opening on the 19th July. Assuming pubs go back to normal at least you will be able to get in easily enough and won't be forced to find a table. It looks like the personal details taking might last a bit longer though. Back on topic: About 3700 up now - will post at about 4000 up but not played it for the last week or so.

Been playing this emulation for half an hour or so most days too - will do a write up when I'm 3 grand up - currently at about 2700. To give you a heads up this can be so frustrating - I'm so glad I only did one in the real world (and lost).

It better NOT be - I would say I'm 100% confident we'll open up fully but my worry was a new variant would come along and they will play the 'oooh we cant open up because this variant may be super transmissable / vaccine defeating' card - and guess what there's talk of the delta PLUS variant now

@Big J what's happened to your recent videos

This !!! Hmmm I wonder what it is ripping off

Not watched it all yet mate but this is a great emptier seemingly based on the 'force the tokens' idea of BFM machines of that era. Some great tactics to get the unlimited nudges and hence the JP. Best one I've seen so far. Keep 'em coming.

A few comments @Chopaholic You could have made much better use of hi/lo shuffle several times throughout the video. Once you said we will just take the 'current pot' now you had double DOND but were playing for the 'bank it' bonus - you didn't need it at that point. Of course you got GATW shortly after On a personal note I lost money on this empty - because the engineer entered the pub as I was doing it and I was in defecit at that point - 10 mins earlier I was still in profit. The main hardship I had (which you didn't in the video) was the bust kept landing on low values and not bust.

OK so another IM board out of the blue Today on Fort Boyard so this was my strategy: First - Play each board collecting as low a win as possible as soon as it moved to the inner board until I got my second IM - I did this because there can be a big gap between the first and second IM. Second - just throw 12 quid through - killing (collecting as low a win as possible) any board forced upon me straight away. Third - let it give me the cash streak (if it should go IM kill that board too but take next non IM cash streak). So end result of that (did kill a third IM at stage 3) was 30 through for 60 back

Couple of questions regarding Lotta Luck / Fort Boyard / etc: Can it go IM if you get skill challenge ? What I mean is would a board that was due to give IM ever offer something you could lose like the skill continue ? Do you need to go to the bother of playing the boards to see if they are IM and knocking them back - say after the first two IMs ? I mean why not (after say first two IM boards) just plough through say a tenner killing off any boards straight away ?

It's the build Dx02_15jp from the legacy section

So basically I've been playing this as a casual player would more or less - taking decent wins, etc. Anyway about 290 in it gave an IM out of the blue so I decided to do the method again. 5 IMs later (the second took ages to come in) I took a cash streak for 55 I think it was. With the odd small wins I had to take I probably came out less than 20 up on that session. I can't see how you can do these without probably needing the plug at some point. One board i had went into the middle pretty quick (not IM) and I never got the chance to nudge away a JP symbol and didn't have many nudges but the cash repeater was active. I had to take a £4 win that time.

It amazes me too - the clocking up wins is a gimmick - all they had to do was write the win to memory first which even in those days would have took like milliseconds - then go ahead with clocking up the win gimmick which for example goes up say 20p every 5th of a second. If you take e.g. a Maygay that coughs the money when it powers back up then that would have been correct. i.e. the cough equals the write to memory.

Found the £15 version of Fort Boyard so I had a play from reset. 70 in and knocked back 5 IMs - went for just over 50 - with knock back wins 59 out. Next two boards were dead but I played on to see what Chop meant about nudging in nothing when cash repeater active - yeah I see the issue But whilst I was doing that got a cash streak followed by an IM board so another cash streak - neither of which were above JP. Anyway 84 in for 98 out and remember that's from reset - had someone else played the first 20 quid would have been quite a win. But as Chop said with a grand through it running roughly percentage there could be some good profit on these. Love the Fort Boyard sounds - brings back some memories. 'one minute you're up, next minute you're down'

As Slasher says but you might need to go into Design > Edit Mode to be able to tick the 'trusted' options. Also when it says read meters just Cancel.

Ah yes it's only the triple bars and jokers that are 8 way wins. The lower wins are on a line only.

Regarding little devil it would be impossible to nudge in 3 devils if they counted as wild unless you could nudge more than one reel at once. You would have to have multiple wins to obtain JP rather than 3 devils.

Or make your phone a wi-fi hot spot

Good thinking

Hellraiser I wasn't playing that much in the £25 days but there was a pub that had Hellraiser and Hot Stuff literally next to each other - had some good times on those

Yeah a miserable day here in the midlands. Started off with a walk and got drenched as I was coming back. Did some cleaning ... boring !! I know. Went out in the car and did a bit of shopping. Just eaten a chilli - soon be time for the weekly zoom call with mates that's been going on since April - along with plenty of booze of course Also have a cat - when I am on the settee he jumps straight on me and would sit there all day but as I will be in the other room the smart money says he'll jump on the seat behind me.

As I understand it Scorpion 6 is not emulated because the encryption has not been 'cracked'. If it were would it run on the latest MFME or would that need changes too (or in fact does that do the 'crack' itself so would deffo need changing) ?