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10 minutes ago, MikeyMonster said:
Red box is £3 on Showtime....so in its early days - in Arcades you always collected red or pink (£3 is odd - did this launch as a £3/£6?)
I loved this game as well - often fire it up in the emulator for forty or fifty quid.
Anyway....... next up from me is... is osmething very slightly different - 25p £5 all cash.....Haunted House 25p £5 1440p WDX Ross.zip
This machine is way behind RTP (and i not been knocking it back - this is through proper play!) so should be lively
£20 from this starting point hopefully.....
EPIC CHOICE!! love this game but can i still hit my ghoulettes and great choice of stake prize... may get a few webs in!!
AND AWAY
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2 minutes ago, MPU_FIVE said:
This machine used to be in the Ship inn , Sittingbourne back in the mid 1990's...
The PINK box is Jackpot... they are always the same value... think Blue box is £2 for example.
i took every box for the fun of it, got a pink a green and a blue i think.. great fun... looking forward to the next challenge!!
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What a game! i put in £20 profit £11.40
had no idea what to do but took £5 on the cash ladder* twice instead of kicking on as played as a casual with intent to win our comp haha, then got offered a pink box which had a jp in it** was incredibly lucky to get a skill stop off betty's bonus*** that i hit the top level on (fluke) and the only square was a 1 to lucky numbers for higher then onto jp, no repeat.
* so as i've never had any real experience of this game i thought that the cash ladder start amount and play kinda reminded me of how donkey kong played??
** is this the first example of hidden boxes? and did they always have the same amount in in the arcade so once you had them you knew them?
*** this also reminded me of donkey kong as much of the game did in some part.. also of course similarities to doctor who but thats more understandable of course.
anyways i bloody loved it.
so @MikeyMonster i do believe it's your turn to choose a game for the £20 challenge or similar if you have a challenge in mind..
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2 hours ago, MikeyMonster said:
The link above is the same.... (mostly mute!) Back in the day - when all Spoons machines had the volume turned off.... Bubble and Squeak would still play the JP jingle (nothing else at all). I streaked one and the manager came over and asked why a muted machine was making sounds - he thought I had done something to it!
Its not that Addams family had tricks per se... but if not playing from same file..... you could just lose a couple of hundred first before starting the £20 challenge clock.....
tbh addams is my fave one to mess around with and see how badly you can empty it haha
as for bubble and squeak, wasn't there a trick as it couldn't see the £5 exchange or something like that, never did it or had it just at the end of my days that..
i'm getting on showtime now thanks guys.. loving this thread and hopefully some more people will join in.. thinking maybe it's one that should be restarted with a all caps title saying?? CALLING ALL NEWBIES AND CASUALS?? maybe we can get some new forum blood into the game challenge thingy.. or maybe now i'm over caffeinated haha!!
either way i'm surprised @Sarkymark77 isn't having a blast at this bit of fun..
here's my start point maybe we eventually will decide on the best judge factor haha.. my drift from start point is shown, im playing @dad's excellent version of which there are also other greats too!! it's actually a game i mistook for the lottery themed one with the wheel whose name i cannot recall!
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the mind boggles.. but it's epically awesome
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9 hours ago, MikeyMonster said:
We do really need to be doing this from same state.... I could pretty easily manipilate an Addams family so its 20 in - £75 to £120 out.... but.... will do it with my current program and see what occurs....
Showtime spectacular - There is a working one in the legacy (Or maybe i got it from DADS) but no sounds as far as i recall.
agreed on addams @MPU_FIVE. manipulatable. but i'll try mine and see what happens of £20.
please post showtime i can't bloo min find it and have a lack of caffeine at present
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2 hours ago, MikeyMonster said:1 hour ago, MPU_FIVE said:
At first i was thinking, bloody tight arse machine, lower than 9 got an 11, played feature board and got the dreaded "Terrible weather - go home" square, but in the end,all I can say is thank you to "Joes Pub" which turned out to be a nice little earner!
beaten at my own game... next up??? winners choice.. £20 in seems a fair punt for £6/8t jp games, maybe different for others but gary gary give us a game!!!
sadly carry on not possible eh
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well my profit/loss is £0!
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here's one that i myslef am just about to embark on..
£20 in - 100 credits... biggest bank wins.. (note i only remember this from childhood and there may well be tricks i'm unaware of so fair play)
thanks to @Tommy c for the layout.
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3 hours ago, wearecity said:
I like the idea of MFME challenges.
This was one of my favourite machines, back in the day, but definitely better roms than the one with the release are available, as pointed out by someone called Chopoholic many many many years ago.
YESSSSSSSSSSSS I AGREEEEEEEEEEEEE
lets please do a dedicated challenge thing.. some can be skill, or credit etc...
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just picking my jaw up from the floor
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jpm £6/8/10/15
barcrest the same but upto £70 reds etc
impulse deserve a shout too for the £15 era of awesome streak and playability
global old school
ace done well too
empire £5/10 games were also really well made
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On 12/10/2022 at 17:26, johnparker007 said:
Well that does fix most of them, but a few still actually still have the error, I would've though 5x would've been fine! Well this can be looked into further, here's some working ones anyway, there's a couple of 'textless DX' conversions too (that will get text manually populated later).
holy hand grenade!!!! BOOOOOOOM
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2 hours ago, dad said:
That site has been there for donkey's years and contains nothing new whatsoever.
you tell them dad
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52 minutes ago, MikeyMonster said:
Right theough the all cash era from £10 to £70- you would walk into pub machines happy for no reason at all and spewing thier guts first board. So a trap may not have made any extra money the value was always there. You would play a £15 Barcrest and it would flash 1st board - cos someone had worked after the JP and it was streaking............
So many examples down the years... one of the best being a 5 reel red (with a cashpot) me and my mate went to play.... he was parking up.... i walked in to get drinks..... no one behind bar.... £1 in machine for £70... another £1 in for the £35 repeat and walked out b4 my mate had made it to the door, he asks no good then? ....."nah..... cashpot full but i though the £103 profit was good enough!" We went back for the CP that night.... annoyingly it took a whole £20!
In the busy busy busy and sorely missed arcade days - Ive seen JP's left on line that then hold...... Red hot Rolls with Jp's on the line... credit in and it goes Roll Em! Auto pay roller coaster - on fill up day - exactly £10 off full.... Odd... so watch the lights it seems to be impyling last win roller coaster....20p for a tenner... 20p for £9.60... 20p no repeat - RUDE! (I was tight in those days - didnt want to even waste the 20p unless i was sure...:):))
Plenty more like this when the money was flooding into these things.
Nowadays so much less casual play - its not really happening.
i spent 10/11 hours a day on the palace pier and can't begin to tell you how many profits were just left by the casuals day in day out. made huge money for years then it all started getting a bit more pub based to gamble and in town it's dead reels galore back then, once the jp's got to 70 and being out of the scene it was really unappealing to play at all really, besides the reds of course. now it's more contactless i don't really have cash to lose when drinking which is the only benefit i've found from the changes, it's equally why i'm set against the virtuals soon to be taking contactless in situ etc, that's on way to being the norm and for me and my drunken foolish abandon i fear many morning afters of regret!!
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On 02/10/2022 at 19:39, johnparker007 said:
Currently working on MAME stuff, there's a lot of steps involved in this, will ultimately be used to drive the emulation in Arcade Sim with various advantages. When it's finally done from my end, I'll be looking at getting mame to work with AS then back to JPM Electra machines.
holy smeg.. sounds incredible!! just remarkable
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been away @johnparker007 can you do a little highlight recap for the adhd people please?
just amazing work
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I hope you got in to silicon heaven my friend along with all the calculators..?
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Truly remarkable patience and determination you must have! Good on you, and the others that are also working to assist, create, complete projects together or alone in the efforts to secure the internet will always have something other than cats and porn
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5 hours ago, vectra666 said:
I live in the south west and what upgrade you talking about??
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5 hours ago, SomeRandomGuy said:
Well as far as feasibility goes there aren't any blockers for sp.ACE really, it's pretty well documented and all relevant ROMs should be dumped. The reel MCU is not a problem, there's a version of the ACE one dumped and the PCP one as well (which is the problematic one for MFME in the first place). Unfortunately actually emulating it would not be a quick job, not much existing code to work from that some of the techs have in MAME. Currently I'm still committed to doing all the older techs first and slowly moving up to the newer ones, simpler that way. So not right now, sorry, maybe one of the other guys might look at it once MPU4 is dealt with though, you never know
Been a while without progress reports so here's one: Black Box work has advanced so far that I now have a driver going, as of right now 21 Up is very close to 100% working
. The plan for now is to get all the older EM reel games going, then I can do the stepper games sometime later. Bellfruit used the tech for quite a while so there's some expansion stuff I've gotta implement later on. Fair amount of mystery ROMs I've found as well, wonder if any Dutch games are going to pop up again
Well I’m just gobsmacked that you can do it and that sone regardless of the time is such a welcome post!! I really respect you guys for doing the work you do and really admire your tenacity and patience with the details you must face on the way! Thanks for the update and good luck as always
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8 minutes ago, vectra666 said:
I’d love my laptop to work correctly let alone partygames the bloody thing is so slow haven’t been able to go online via lappy to snag some images for a jpm classic now it’s finally woke up to do a 16 hr update then it’ll update again tomorrow. Gonna smash it up in a mo, not been able to open photoshop either
ah mate that really does suck.. i do recall with great hatred the blue screen of update for eternity!! shame your a northener or you could have a upgrade on me
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i missed the original version of this but also think its limited a lot at 50 credits. that's why i went for the 100/£20 which of course isn't rigid either to allow for casual andfun to be had on a bigger variety maybe????? who knows, but i am LOVIN IT