Chopaholic
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Thanks John more wonderful work on this project
Video from me on this, sorry it's a bit of two things in one but my head's a bit all over the place at the moment.
Thanks once again for the time and effort you put into this.
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Thanks for the update John - I've made a follow-on video, although this was done before I'd read your most recent post
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Mind blown!
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I guess Untouchable.
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31 minutes ago, Dougsta said:
Good find. Some of the early Red games even credited eJay on the machine, somewhere around the area where the usual 18+ and disclaimer info was placed. I remember a Red machine with a Western theme that had an eJay badge on it. I'd completely forgotten about this until now.
I don't recall ever seeing that on a Red, although it's possible I saw it back in the day and it never registered as 'something to remember' as it were.
Either way it's nice to have definitive information about where the music came from, I had to do a proper double take when I heard the music in the FF14 guide video 'cause I was like, 'Hang on, that's off a fruit machine!'
Here's the full guide video, this should be a direct timestamped link.
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Something slightly random here, but I was watching a video guide for one of the dungeons in Final Fantasy 14 the other day and thought I recognised the music in the background, specifically it sounded like the feature music from Red Gaming's Snakes and Ladders. Intrigued, I left a comment on the video and the guy who made the video got back to me
Here's a short unlisted video I made comparing the two side-by-side.
By all accounts Red were using a bit of software called 'EJay's Music Creation Software' which comes with a load of royalty free music that you can arrange for yourself into whatever sort of tracks you want. (It's been around since the year 2000 so could absolutely have been used by Red for machine of their machines!)
I'm inclined to purchase it and see how many other Red machines use music from it!
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My Fairplay video is here, but it's essentially an extended trailer for Fishsta's Fairplay video (both linked below).
A wider theme that I've been expanding on in some of my recent videos is that compensated machines have never been done 'properly', they've been vulnerable to manipulation forever, to the benefit of a small number of 'pro players', at the expense of everyone else.
I don't blame the players, they were just playing the machines that were put in front of them, the companies that released them and the alleged 'regulators', I have less kind words for.
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Here's my video to mark the anniversary.
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Wonderful words Reg, honest and from the heart - I have to confess I sprung a leak as I read down your post.
I still feel very sad when I think about Chris having passed, and every time I load his emulator in (which is every single day), I quietly say thank you to him.
I'll be putting a video on the channel tomorrow to mark the anniversary.
Thank you for those words Reg, I think you speak for all of us.
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Alas no DX has been made to date Jimmy although I have been more than happy playing the classic
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I made a video about it, there's some footage of the real machine in the video too.
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Second video on this machine (I did one back in late 2017), but this time I try to do the emptier properly!
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A follow-on video to try and put this one to bed.
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Hi folks I decided to set autoplay about this and today it managed to lump over £7000 through it, the autoplay profile was configured to never exchange into the feature or collect anything, it just played straight for the end of the trail.
£7000 in and it didn't hit the red £100 a single time, and once it'd taken the first £100 or so it never hit the WHERE'S THE RENT square either, so by all accounts it could take an infinite amount of money and never pay anything out.
I was just making a follow-on video and once I'd explained the above, I was going to move onto collecting some of the other amounts at the end of the trail when red, and see what it wanted to do in terms of kicking back.
Alas I collected a red £15 and the machine hung after adding it to the bank. Following a reset it booted normally, but had lost the £15 bank but remembered I had £2 in credits, but was completely unresponsive. Opening the doors works insofar as it goes through the boot cycle again, but you can't get into any of the menus or anything like that - I appear to have broken it.
I have attached the layout here, can anyone bring it back to life but leave the RAM intact? In total it's had nearly £8000 through it!
Thanks
(Actually, you can still put money in it, and after a reset the credits put in will register in the display. It is in a very strange state.)
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43 minutes ago, logopolis said:
Does the machine think the red £100 has to repeat, which means it cannot give £200. The highest win as we know is £150 which is obviously the best win on the red Mega Streak.
That sounds plausible but then again red things have been able to not repeat forever, I mean, even the red mega streak can still do a flat £100.
I'm genuinely interested to see how long the machine could keep that up for, as it seems locked into a cycle where it won't land on the WHERE'S THE RENT square (i.e. no forced collect prize), the £100 at the end of the trail is always red and seems to be blocked when it's red, and it has no way to force wins through the reels or a feature exchange.
From a factory reset you'd get a few WHERE'S THE RENTs, but once it got into the state above, how much could it take and effectively run at 0% RTP?
Compensated machines folks, just say no, they've always been fucked.
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2 hours ago, wearecity said:
There's no way, that isn't a bug in the code.
Reminds me of years back, when I remember someone saying that the M1a/b version of Club Pink Panther, could never be hi-lo gambled out for a jackpot, as the code wouldn't allow it. So it could run at virtually 0% pay out if that's all the player did.
I'm going to have another crack at that, I'll set autoplayer going at it and let it get way, way, way behind percentage and see it still hard blocks the red £100 at the end of the trail.
Shonky coding though either way, there's really no reason for it not just to allow the win.
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How much can it possibly take to force out the red £100 at the end of the feature entry trail on Andy Capp?
Also features a look at Corn Of The Dead and Bullseye Pounds For Points
Thanks to @vectra666 @Multi Retro Man @Pook
for the layouts featured
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Chico The Bandit, no methods or emptiers for this one, just me determined to get the streak out of this great old AWP.
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8 hours ago, Boulderdash said:
Not as badly hurt as the nation of addicts growing up with supposedly innocent video gaming, like FIFA Ultimate team packs or other games' ways to steal your money, graduating to online gambling with still very loose controls on spending.
Well yes but that's a whole other topic and outside the scope of my videos, FIFA Ultimate Team in particular is abhorrent, absolutely gambling aiming directly at children in a game rated as suitable for ages 4 and up.
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4 hours ago, Boulderdash said:
Interesting video thanks Chop, although I watched it feeling rather guilty wondering how much of your cash I pocketed on my road trips to empty Ace Coin machines in the early-mid 90s...
I don't blame other players, at the end of the day they were only playing the machines in front of them. The manufacturers and especially the regulators however, I have rather less charitable feelings towards.
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This is an online slots video but the main game I feature is very much a UK fruit machine style design (albeit in a random online game), in particular it has a strong Lite A Nudge vibe about it.
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I can still remember it so vividly, seeing this pretty young lass holding up my shit-filled boxer shorts and swearing like a proper trooper demanding to know which dirty fucker had stuffed their soiled underwear down the side of the toilet cistern.
That whole time period was a complete fuck-up in all sorts of ways, but the core of it all was fruit machines. The drugs and the drinking weren't great in terms of lifestyle choices, but they were a sideshow compared to the fruit machines, it was the fruit machines that were capable of stealing day after day, week after week, month after month - and leaving me feeling, time and time again, like a total piece of shit.
I stick by what I've been saying in some of my recent videos that people were failed on a biblical scale by the manufacturers and the regulators, by a systemic and ongoing inability for them to get these machines right over many decades.
People got hurt, badly hurt, I'm lucky because I'm still here to talk about it.
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Yes I think that'll be one of the arcades char, I do remember one of them being adjacent to the bus station.
Excellent detective work on finding some pics of the area and the video too!
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Latest Gambling Low Ebbs video has been added to the channel.
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Development Updates
in Arcade Simulator
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Thanks John I was wanting to find a straightforward 'good news item' as it were to put something positive and uplifting into the video whilst also explaining why there'd been nothing new on the channel for 11 days, but also not stretch myself too much in terms of doing a method or an online slots session or something like that (which really isn't in me at the moment), so I hope you don't mind me featuring the update to Arcade Simulator in the video as an entirely positive development in the context of what's a very sad time with us here at the moment.
I will parse this thread and get as much information as I can out of it, and then I will reach out to you for some specifics and some more personal input from yourself if that's OK, to try and do my little bit to give your work the credit it deserves.
I still feel really sad about the loss of Chris, I have three instances of MFME running on my PC at this moment in time (currently the DAD Star Wars collection as all three of them run side by side on a 4K monitor), just because I like to see fruit machine emulation 'in action' and I still find it magical every single day, and seeing the work you've done with Arcade Simulator is incredible, whilst also acknowledging the brilliance of Chris and what he did with MFME.
If you walked way from this today I would simply thank you for all you have already done, but I would also be thrilled to see what you can achieve in the future.