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Ha ! Yeah, lots of vpin ppl here, been there from the early beginnings, now a major part of the Arcade. Link to Cab build over at vpforums https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=21820 And with the sudden demise of vpinball.com i have much more appreciation for ALL niche sites.

Man, i just had to make a thread out of this, i just want to thank Laylow and all others for making Dutch machines come alive on my cab. I spend lot's of hours on this thing and im LOVING the machines Laylow makes, thanks man for all your hard work. Also very cool to see some of the old names from the era of fruity.nl on my screen again, Patje PSV comes to mind. Ahhhh 80's & 90's bliss. Bedankt mannen voor AL jullie werk, ik waardeer het ENORM !!

Nope some resizing is still to be done, but some real life crap got in the way. Have some time on my hands to enjoy this machine, it's just great !

So a few days further......and some observations... *1 : This is fun ! I'm having a blast with making the layout of Goldrun, soooo satisfying when you get the first sounds out of it ! *2: This is frustrating ! Resources are extremely scarce (and not only for Goldrun), pictures are few and things like the reelbands are unobtanium. I am now more aware that this is very much a quest for resources, my initial plan was to recreate some older Dutch slots, but the fact is that not much has survived. And to make things worse: not much to find on the i-net either, there are just NOT a whole lot of people into this hobby. So the hunt for good quality pictures is on ! I have some contacts with people who deal with slots and when they get something in that's suitable i'm invited to take pic's and scan the reelbands, maybe even dump the rom's .

Yeah, you are absolutely right, this however is still a quick and dirty version, i just want to see if i can pull it off and if so i can always do a nice cleanup afterwards. Now struggling with finding the bands for this machine, bit one thing's all to apparent: this is a FUN hobby for sure, very creative ?

Yes, Photoshop is a bit expensive, but i got a 2012 Cs2 version for as little as €10 with the original key. (found it at a sale clearance dirt cheap) A few years later i was offered an upgrade to Photoshop CC 2015 version for as little as €85, and i'm still using that one. (maybe Adobe offers me an upgrade again ?)

So a few weeks further, and my back is shot again, sitting home with time to spare. Ideal for some fruity action ! So i looked at how others make their slots within the editor and i have a (very) basic understanding how it's done. Started with Goldrun and sourced some pic's, i'm mediocre with Photoshop but managed to stitch something together that has some reasonably resolution to it (except the buttons). Now if this goes well i'm most certainly planning on doing a whole lot more Dutch slotmachines, but i need to learn this first. FHD 1080x1920, should do the trick. To be continued....

Anyhew, i did some initial shifting through the different slots and have around 30 installed now, all setup to make full use of the Pacdrive. If you tackle one slot at a time with setting up the lampnumbers and keycode's it takes about 10 minutes per slot including some minor graphics adjustment. Not too bad....and very addictive once you get a slot done. I also made a diagram with all relevant info on it, makes it a lot easier !

Hahahaha classic !

Well it's Friday !! YAY....... anyhew while Popeye is still bragging about his garden lights ?? i made some progress..... Did install some new buttons with new inserts, looks much better now ! And made some headway into installing the coinmech & hopper unit, this is a very small form factor mech, ideal for the vslot ! Also made a custom cashbox ready to be filled up .......an arduino will be used as interface and pulsedriver for the mech.

Ohhh man i will give this a shot, it seems reasonably straight forward, just have to invest some time ! Thanks all for getting me started with Goldrun ?

Got ALL buttons & lights sorted ....... it's been game on for a few hours now ?? https://youtu.be/fGsAytH3g2o Damn addictive ! I have a whole week of job related crap coming my way, making me wish it was friday again ?

Solved the ` <GRAVE> key input issue, apparently windows installs 2 keyboard layouts as it sees my location being the Netherlands. Sure enough it's US international as primary, but Dutch (aught to be the same) as a secondary, guess what the i-pac emulates.....??? That took me two hours........

Ahhh yes the cardboard test layout, did see that in your well written manual, it's GREAT that you document stuff so well. It's just the nudge beginners need to build themselves a MFME cab, this hobby should be more widespread, and your site/buildlogs/sticky's/how to's are helping with that. For instance on the vpin forums we had a boom in pinball cab builders some 5 years ago, this was all possible through people detailing their build process, it's THAT important. Ahhh i would love to see a a HUGE boost in cabbuilders here, the software sure is up for the task, wizard did a great job, heck, ALL of you peeps are top ! I did build 20 or so MAME/Pandora machines for customers, so no stranger to emulation and companion hardware ie Leddrive and such. Have two arcade machines in the gameroom alongside my vpin and that one sits next to my racesim (also known as the vomit comet ). Now when i get the hardware ready and MFME is correctly setup with all buttons fucntional & hopper/coinmech installed, i would like to do some slots myself. I just got to have some Dutch machines on there, they are not emulated yet (at least not in a DX form). Yup i would like to be able to produce some layouts myself and give some back to this community, problem as always is time ......

Now completely wired 15 buttons and have them all setup correctly, except for `<GRAVE> i just can't get it to function as cancel in MFME, it sure registers normal in the i-Pac setup utility, but no-go in the emulator (even keypress on the keyboard itself does NOT give cancel). Not sure what's going on there..... Also have setup the Pacdrive correctly with a few slots, i must say that MFME is rock solid, not one crash, just very stable software. Nothing beats playing MFME on a real cab.......now back to work again, have to tackle that cancel problem.... To be continued....