No1Stoney

Glad its working well for you mate.

Thanks @Reg You're probably right, I will probably regret it. But I have kept another of my cabs with the same functionality which is far more portable and takes up a lot less space. As for giving it plenty of thought, I have, for a good few months. Even though I've not gambled in many years, it destroyed my life when I was in my teens/20s and I find myself wondering why I still surround myself in the things that did that to me and have for the past year, sold off all of my fruit machines and related bits and pieces. Also a couple of years ago I found a new hobby (in retro video game collecting) which I now invest a lot of my time in. I'm also really happy where it has gone to and know it will be looked after and enjoyed.

I have 2, this is the larger (albeit more functional and more like a real fruity) and im keeping the other for now.

Thanks everyone. I am very proud of it i must say. I only said it needs 2 people as its the size of a normal fruity (perhaps a tiny bit heavier?) But yes a sack barrow would be fine to move it. Also I'll be here this end to help. So no need for 2 people to turn up

Thankyou mate. I still have another to hang on to for now but I just have no room for this one now.

Hi everyone, I've come to the decision to put one of my home made MFME cabs up for sale. Sadly, I don't have the time to play on it like I used to as fruit machines are not really a big hobby of mine these days and need to make room for other projects. It is the same size as a standard fruit machine and was made from a donor Barcrest Genesis cab. It is on castors but will requires 2 people to move. The machine takes all coins, and pays out from a £1 hopper. All other coins go into the original coin tray at the bottom of the machine. Easily accessed from the front. It runs on a slim PC inside the cab, and has 2 Pacdrives, 1 iPac and 1 keyboard encoder to control the lamps and buttons. There are 3 screens. It currently has well over 150 games installed but if there's any issues surrounding me including MFME and ROMs pre-installed then I will remove these before selling, and let he buyer know how to put their own games on. It's pretty maintenance free. Press the button on the PC inside the main door and windows loads up, and my custom front-end loads automatically. Then the machine can be completely controlled using the buttons on the machine. Select a machine using the buttons, and then click the play button. MFME loads up, wait for the machine to boot, and you are ready to play with coins. Click Exit when finished and you are ready to choose another game. I will include a wireless mouse and keyboard with the machine. To play a game without coins, you can use the keyboard to insert coins instead. When you have finished playing, press the PC power button again and windows will shut down on its own. Each machine displays a running total of your IN and OUT amounts when playing so you can keep track, and shows you much more information on the bottom screen such as the button mapping for the machine you are playing. It also shows a running total of your IN/OUT amounts for your entire session across multiple machines. I have put a lot of work into this machine and getting it working mostly fault free. It's been sprayed black inside and out and has a caron fibre style wrap around the button panel. I am looking for £350 for this, which I think is a very fair price as all the parts & materials alone cost me more than this. This will be collection ONLY from LN4 area. Here is a video I made showing how it all works: If anyone is interested, either reply here or PM me. At this moment, the price is firm as I am in no particular rush, and would like it to go to a good home.

I have one of these phones wired into my fruit machine cab. The dial turns when dond is active on dond games. In its original form the dial spins and the phone shakes on top. Also has lights around the dial. Here is a photo I found when I was modifying it. Hopefully someone can work out where the plugs would go on the scorp 4 from the pic.

This is why I stuck to non-touchscreen. I needed to keep the costs down Thankyou so much!. Long time no speak. Yes it was awkward at times but working in a front opening cab was far better than working with my old one. Can't wait to see your new cab

After many weeks of finishing my cab, I thought I'd share a quick video of it with some commentary for those that are interested.

MFME works and looks great with a monitor in portrait mode. Just set your desktop settings to portrait mode and fire up MFME. Then put mfme in full screen mode. Nothing else to it. As for having another monitor in landscape thats fine too just goto desktop properties and arrange the monitors how they are on your desk.

Sounds almost like some wires are bridged somewhere ? If there's nothing in the way of the coin out sensor and its still pressing the [ or ] key and its from the wrong hopper then I'm not sure why else it would be doing that. I'll have a think.

Most freshly downloaded 3 players should load up everything automatically, just open the topbox first. If it doesn't, load all the slaves and topbox individually and move all the windows around until they are in the right position (press ESC on a window if the window is borderless to be able to move it around and resize, and F1 to revert once in place) now make click onto the topbox and press ALT+L to link everything together. Now they should all work as intended and when you close any window it will close them all. Also when you now reopen the topbox, everything else should load in how you left them last time

Take your time. Have a go at redraw. For the reasons in the OP, this deserves some time putting into it to get it as good as it can be. You're not going to be it 100% without extra sourxe images and I'm no expert in this area but maybe remove the area with the guy and maybe use some of the cobbled bricks from the flyer @dad posted and add those to that area, and then overlay a red magic carpet image as close to the proper one. Then its just a case of adding text as close to the original art. Not easy but there's no rush.

Is the blokes head part of the cab or is that something added from a flyer ? Looks like something is supposed to be behind him? Hopefully there's other images to use for reference so he can be edited out. Good luck @woodsy I'm sure you will do it justice

I have the game selector on the bottom screen. Thats what those buttons are for at the side of that monitor. They are used for scrolling through the menu. Top screen shows a video of the machine in attract mode before clicking to play, then the top screen is for the actual machine in play. As for 10p hopper, I never have a problem with mine, it always paid what it was supposed to. Definitely check the sensor.

Hi mate long time no speak. Thanks for the feedback. Updates will be slow for now as I'm on holiday for 2 weeks from this weekend and haven't got time to work on it even though I'm itching to. I'm still unsure of the exact implementation of the small top screen. I've got a few idea in mind. As for the focus issue I'm hoping I code a quick app that will return focus to the main front end or mfme after say 500ms of no touch on that screen. If that fails I'll look into a downloadable app for it. Thanks for your suggestion. @Road Hog Mad you would think there's loads of space but in reality not so much as I want to use the original payout tray and coin mech entry which restricts things to the far right of the cab. the other constraint is the bottom monitor as its recessed into the cab and that takes away another 2 inches or so of space at the front. I have a few suggestions on how to route my coins but if all else fails I'll reduce to 1 hopper instead of 2 to increase the space I have to play with.

The plan is to use the bottom screen as a sort of information screen for the machine being played which will include money in/out & percentage for the current session. And a graphic showing what the buttons do in relation to each machine. Also something I did think about, but not convinced it will look right, is use the bottom screen as the topbox for some 3 player machines. This is very much still developing as I go so I am not exactly sure how it will all look in the end.