johnparker007

You will need to install MFME v20 on the new PC, and then update it. Then run Arcade Sim and the fruit machines should hopefully work

It's a provisional input system, it will be replaced later with a better one that'll be configurable for 'non-standard' pads etc. Standard pads like PS4/Xbox should currently just work I think... there are also 'zx spectrum' style keys set up; QA for up/down, OP for left/right, Space/M/N/B for the fire buttons.

It's a known issue and is already on the bug tracking sheet, glad you're enjoying the sim

Thanks, glad you're enjoying it so far! And also thanks for any donation you make, they're always very welcome, there is a public sheet here with details of donation methods, and tracking all the money in/out of the project: https://tinyurl.com/yzvgl4xo

Finally can work on the reels again So now have added a little more to the reel data save file I'm building per layout, along with some automated reel background color detection: A demo shot of that working above, so the very light grey reels have been auto-mapped pure white, and the blue dice reel has auto-mapped to an average of the blue pixels from the corners. All values can be quickly overridden in the edge cases where needed. So where the reel background appears: Black to dark grey -> Make pure black Dark grey to white -> Make pure white otherwise, use raw average sampled color

I was missing one of the settings from the guide, but otherwise, after rebooting it does indeed look good, in that checking Windows Update status, and it looks like it can't connect So Perforce is working correctly, and hopefully the server PC is now 'frozen' in terms of Windows Updates, so Microsoft shouldn't be able to push something out that breaks it, fingers crossed: This computer is purely for running Perforce server, and acting as a low end rig to test bare minimum specs for running Arcade Sim. Other than that it does absolutely nothing else at this stage So not really worried about missing security patches, since it's rarely even switched on, except to commit codelines to Perforce.

After 'resetting' the PC, seemed to be pretty much a clean install of Windows 10, Perforce server can again be logged into (for now)... Now to try lock down the infernal Windows updates that seem to have recently broken everything; paused Updates for 7 days, and going to try @Altharic's Group Policy settings idea to hopefully stop it updating ever again and breaking the server

Thanks, if the PC reset I started last night means the Perforce server is now working once I reinstall everything I'll give these steps a shot, to try lock down the config! https://businesshelp.avast.com/Content/Products/AfB_Management_Consoles/PatchManagement/RecommendedWindowsUpdateConfiguration.htm Back in the day, you could simply click 'disable Updates' and that would disable Updates... simpler times...

I need to keep all the PCs in the house on Windows really, for various reasons. Just that Windows is a nightmare now, since they push out mandatory security/feature updates that break stuff, as I suspect is what is happening here. In the old days you could disable the updates, and maintain a stable system, now you're just at the mercy of Microsoft (as we saw recently with a Windows update that temporarily stopped some games running on MFME)...

Ok will try full server PC 'reset' first, then reinstall the Perforce server on it. That might work, but I suspect it'll break again down the line, if windows installs the same updates (if that is in fact what this weird issue even is):

Ugh well this is just a never-ending nightmare. Finally got some time, so tried to use the Perforce server that needed to be fixed, and ultimately started working again after uninstalling a Windows update on the server, described above. Started up server and dev machine again can't log into it: FFS. I can't do any more work until this server works. Windows is a nightmare (have tried uninstalling updates (some immediately resinstall on next startup). Disabled firewall + realtime virus protection on client and server machines. Both machines can ping each other. Uninstalled server+client Perforce software multiple times. Can log into perforce server from the server itself (i.e. localhost), just not from the dev PC where the actual work is done. This is just such a ballache, as I don't really know what else to do - even if I reinstall everything I don't see how it'll help once Windows reinstalls the updates. Sigh, so I can't do any work, again. I'm thinking at this stage, I just download a copy of Windows 11 from the high seas, and do a clean install of that on the server machine, then reinstall Perforce server on that new OS. I guess I can do that tomorrow since the Perforce server is sat next to my work PC, so it can install in the background. Maybe it'll happen again one day, but I can't face simply reinstalling Windows 10 again, as once it gets caught up with the updates I think I'll be back to square one.

Nice Game made by Retrosouls / Denis Grachev, he's a whizz with the multicolour techniques on the Speccy!

Thanks for all the work, it's a long way off right now, but am looking at implementing a lot of MAME-driven MPU4 fruit cabs in Arcade Sim when the time comes (after the internal MAME reference layouts are done on all platforms) - all this MAME FME dev is very welcome

Do you think these Cirsa machines shouldn't be moved to the Neptune driver? If you have some good knowledge that the change is wrong, I can get in touch with the relevant devs to fix If it's just general buzz about MAME FME dev, apologies - and there is more MPU4 related improvements on the way from others...

Sometimes it really is one step forward, two steps back! ...frustrating as hell, but so long as it's a part of the overall plan, it's still progress. So easy to get disproportionately stressed with those stages

Thanks man, this problem was super stressing me out! Gonna try work on that in general, with big projects you've got to accept that you're occasionally in what clearly feels like a backpedalling phase, but it's all part of moving forward in the overall process

Obviously I just carried on trying toget it working... and finally it is working again. So it was a Windows Update that broke it, and no amount of uninstalling/reinstalling/reconfiguring of the Perforce stuff would make it work. Bloody Microsoft and their updates that just trash software! This seems to have been the cause of all the problems: And now my Windows Updates list looks like this (partly posting as a backup for myself, I'll need to try block that Update from reinstalling) So all this means I can now log into this again So I can carry on with the actual work, what a nightmare lol Now I've got to feel like a bad person, and make up lies about why I'm returning the router to Amazon - I'd convinced myself it was to do with internal IP address forwarding, as that Windows Update happened the same week as the new BT Smart Hub router...

Ugh, well got the new router, got it up and running with a few PCs, and it didn't make any difference I've now spotted that I don't have Perforce service running on the server, assumed Helix was enough but apparently not when compared to dev PC Fed up with this now - it stopped working after BT guy swapped out the router, and I must have spent over 6 hours trying to get it working again. Hate networking stuff, going to have to take a break for a few days - I just want to get back to the actual work, but I can't, so everything's on hold.

Well I've spent all day on and off trying to get the Perforce server PC working again (that I used to store the Arcade Sim code revisions, and other Arcade Sim support projects etc). It was all working fine until around a month ago, when the BT engineer came and installed fibre. Now I am on a 'Smart Hub 2'... and I can no longer log into the server from the dev PC After many hours, I've tried every option in that crappy Smart Hub 2! and I cannot get it working again.. I've winged it without it for a month, but the next code is a lot of changes, and I just need to get this server stuff working again, before I can really continue with any more work. So I've decided the best course of action is to get a replacement router that can jack directly into the fibre optic cable from the wall - so the the BT Smart Hub 2 will be completely out of the picture... if that doesn't work I am really stumped! But I've run out of things to try lol, and just replacing it seems to make sense if it just instantly fixes this seemingly unfixable issue After some research, as I really don't want a fancy one, but I absolutely do need the Perforce server to work so that I can continue development - I think this one looks like a reasonable choice, not too expensive at £75. If I plug it in, and then Perforce is simple working again, then it was the right choice, and if not, I will be a little naughty and return it to Amazon for a refund. https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Next-Gen-Gigabit-Wireless-1201Mbps/dp/B089YXY2YH Reeeally hope this sorts it out I could run the Perforce server truly 'locally' (and used to), but this leads to critical problems - if the dev PC crashes for some reason (and I do abuse it writing Arcade Sim on it, I've filled up the 32GB RAM and crashed Windows plenty of times) - then after the crash, the Perforce repository can be corrupted. This has happened to me multiple times, for a serious project it's best to have a dedicated PC just for the Perforce server. Not very exciting, but all part of the process I guess!

This is focused on Dual Shock controllers I believe, so other controllers probably wouldn't work: For cases where the gamepad presents itself differently than the official one to the system (most DS4 replicas) then DS4Windows will not recognize them. DS4W detects controller by their Vendor and Product Identification (VID/PID), so if a controller's VID/PID is not already on DS4W code then it will just be ignored So I would still recommend trying Joy2Key first, as I remember using it before for something and it worked as expected (configuring any USB controller inputs to simulated keypresses).

Shout out to @Zippy who has provided a bunch of overall cabinet dimensions for cabinet models planned for the future - thanks very much man! Added to the CabinetsV2 sheet in the Fruit Machine Database (link in sig), and will be used to tune overall proportions of 3d models so everything looks 'right' relative to each other.

Hiya There is a full overhaul of the controls/inputs systems, but this will likely not be for a 12-18 months. I know that's not great! But I am currently working on fruit machine emulation side of things for prob 3+ more months yet. This will ultimately allow for more advanced fruit machine experience features such as: - instant startups on things like Scorpion 5 DES machines (which currently take like 90-180 seconds to start depending on how fast the PC is) - in/out money tracking via meters (if the user exits the machine while the meters are still counting up, the emulation will continue accelerated in background until the meters have stopped firing, so you can exit straight after all bank display is zero, without having to wait for meters) - more advanced approach to save states, which will be for driving multiplayer arcades - other stuff In the short term, I think yes, something like this (I haven't tried this but should hopefully work): https://joytokey.net/en/ I think there's a free version, so you could give it a shot - and then you'd set up your USB fightstick so (I believe the keys are): Up -> Q Down -> A Left -> O Right -> P Fire1 -> Space Fire2 -> M Fire3 -> N Fire4 -> B 1 Player Start -> 1 Insert Coin -> 0 (zero) Hope that helps, and apologies in advance if this doesn't work! But it kinda looks like it should - perhaps download it and just try setting up a single input like UP first, to see if it works, then if so, fill out all the other buttons - good luck

Been chipping away at more R&D work - so for some layouts (Alphabet included), a simple count of the number of pixels is enough to auto-identify the base symbols... as Alphabet, the symbols 'leak out' of the symbol onto the reel background. So here we can see the base symbols on the left, symbols with overlays on the right: Won't work for others though, but I've at least one more technique to develop that should work on most of those (total image histogram 'diversity'). More trying stuff out required there... Also, I've set up a structure to start breaking the stages of the process per layout into 'save points'. Very early testing with this, so now this identifies the group index for each reel, and also guesses the reel symbols type on that reel (Standard / Numbers / Custom)... which will then be used to inform other auto-processes from the previous research plus some more to do. On Alphabet it's initially incorrectly guessed the 'Custom' reel as a 'Number' reel, this is fine and expected though, no biggie: Adders & Ladders, it has them correctly identified as Numbers / Standard: For ordered 1-12/1-16 'numbers' type reels, there is another technique planned, so that for reels that are in ascending/descending order, it should be able to guess and pre-label e.g 8,9,10,11,12,1,2,3 etc... This will be initially relying on the width pattern of the numbers, so 10/11/12 are generally pretty wide, and then 1 is much less wide, usually the least wide... so from that it should be possible to derive a lot of number reels I'm hoping (regardless of ascending/descending order, and where the loop point is) The idea is that I'll build up the stages of data, where I can override the initial guesses / change estimation algorithms, then save those settings and results including overrides, per layout. It will then feed into an exact match database, so symbols reused in other layouts can be 100% confidence identified as they are encountered.