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There's always a video, and a story Very much what's being described by BarXQueen, a near 'scripted' series of events from the same RAM reset position, that happened to me, (profitably!), on a real machine (Spoiler alert, the battery for the battery backed RAM had gone flat, so if you were the first person to play it every day, you got it from a RAM reset, when it had a few quid profit in it on a repeatable cycle.)

I believe it was AC Games, I have a small amount of footage from back in the £35 jackpot days, (direct timestamped link below), you can see it uses the same jackpot symbols as Poker Face and also has the standard 'THATS YOUR LOT' (sic) at the end of the mega streak. It'd be a nice one to see emulated, even though it is basically a standard Betcom.

I covered this in a video, direct timestamped link.

Thanks chaps that's all very useful, a screwed up CHR definitely makes sense for why the earlier ROMs have their lamps scrambled in Tommy's DX, I'd really hope that 0.3 (and certainly 0.2) would be workers. TBH I think it's still a decent machine to play even on the 0.5 ROMs (and probably made for a much better game for casuals, of which there were still plenty in the £15 era). but in terms of making a video about the machine and its method - having the earlier ROMs running would be a bonus. We never had that many over here and they were all chipped by the time they arrived, a couple got upgraded to £25 before they finally disappeared. Here's what the CMA put on their Golden Pages for it back in the day, for the method to have made it onto this page meant it was dead and well chipped out in the wild

Hi folks, do we have anything earlier than 0.5 available for this? I was looking at the CMA Archive and it's talking about a rechip on 0.3 that removed the red ToT force and made the streak a lot more random, which says to me we'd need 0.2 (at least) for ROMs that responded to this playstyle. Tommy's DX is running 0.5K (arcade) ROMs. Reason I ask is it's one I want to do a video for. I can still do the video with the ROMs we have but it'd be more of a tell don't show Also, were knockbacks a thing on the earlier ROMs for this, or was it just wait until it finally offered a red ToT? Cheers!

There are still a few of those on the IOM, running that game

The new channel has hit the 'jackpot' number of subscribers.....

Hello! My channel is here @davew3 Plenty of tricks/emptiers/traps and other shenanigans on there https://www.youtube.com/@DegsyDegworth Stuff like this, for example.

The original PvZ game is fantastic, I bought it back when it was new and still have it in my Steam library, and completely maxed it out. Unfortunately it only runs in full screen mode, which makes it incredibly hard work on a 32 inch screen you're sat quite close to, to the point of being pretty much unplayable, very tiring with the mouse. (There are some hacks out there to try and get it to work windowed but I didn't get very far with them.) PvZ2 was a microtransaction filled travesty, as slotsmagic notes above.

First off I'd say get a good chunk of cash through it from a factory reset using autoplay (video linked below), then learn which features can actually pay something decent. (I'm not being obtuse there, I genuinely don't know for this machine, and JPM had really gimped the skill aspect of their games by this point.) Even on these later era JPMs, it was all about trying to drain the value from the machine by whatever means possible, rather than running all out for the jackpots. I remember kicking these about a lot in the JPeMu era days (before autoplay in MFME was a thing), and their machines would generally play a bit 'weird' until they'd had about £1000 or more through them.

Ahhhh yes good shout, that got redone for MFME didn't it? It was definitely a thing on BFMulator. Away from my main PC at the moment so can't check.

The only match I have in my entire FME collection (i.e. from 2001 to the present day) is this old layout for Club Gameshow. Modified date on the layout suggests it was released in 2006. Have to be honest I can't remember who 'dB' was? It's attached below, to get it over to the 'new world' of MFME you'll have load it into MFM£ V5.1, then close the emulator, and that'll update it to a V20.1 compatible version. Optionally you could run it with the old V3.2 from back in the day. gameshowdx.zip

I really need to keep more up to date with this thread, an awesome read there JP, thanks for taking the time to post it

Hi @PACMANIA new channel is here, it's mainly reuploads of old videos but there is a small amount of new content and re-edits (sorted into playlists). https://www.youtube.com/c/DegsyDegworth

I've put 234 hours into the main game + DLCs - so yes, would definitely recommend