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12 hours ago, Nab Fox said:
Hi There, Is this still available anywhere just says no longer available when i click the link. I seem to have a ton of non runners which am hoping to maybe fix lol
You'll find it probably at www.dadsfme.com or Dad may send it to you.
Keep going you can have a great looking Game Manager, if you put some real effort in
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The DX is deluxe and the phrase was coined by Gary when he did the first DX which was Viva Espana way back in 2001.
Before the DX, we just called classic layouts, layouts. I guess after the DX, we had to call non DX's something, so classic became a term for them.
I only do classics and they can take tens of hours to do, particularly if you put some real effort into them. But even I don't keep any of my classics in my main collection, I keep them separate from it. I'd also be happy to see a machine I've done a classic for, get a DX ASAP.
Back in the day though, I guarantee you if you wanted to play FME, you would have had more classics than DX's. But nowadays we are so spoilt, we can be very choosy.
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3 hours ago, Unemulate said:
interesting... so basically google dip switch settings and hope you find something, or else just flip them one by one, restart and see what they do? Are there dip switch 'trends' per manufacturer?
You really need the machines manual to see what they do and sometime several machines on the same tech, by the same manufacturer may do the same thing.
Very very very rarely, a machines layout producer has used the emulators ability to have tags added to the dip switches, which when you hovver over them, shows a pop up message with what the particular dipswitch does.
I'll see if I have a manual for an emulated machine and you can switch them and see what happens.
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6 minutes ago, Matt said:
Hi All
What do the dip switch setting do in configuration?
It depends on the machine.
They can alter the stake and/or jackpot, turn the machines attract mode off or put it to low level, so it doesn't distract in a small venue. They can sometimes make the machine auto pay out after every win.
And other things in addition to the above.
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22 minutes ago, jono3000 said:
thank you ill try that updates are all up to date the newer games works fine i just tired king kerberb and austin powers and it loads up and just sits on the £25 display then crashes ill try and download mfme again otherwise ill just have to find a old windows 10 machine
That is very weird.
If it doesn't work, then I can send an updated version of the emulator that works fine on Windows 11 for me in a PM.
I know this has helped when others have had issues after downloading v20 from here. So might solve any issue.
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3 minutes ago, jono3000 said:
when i load up games on my pc it keeps crashing im not sure as ive now got windows 11 is there a setting where i can clear this
Have you tried deleting and reinstalling the emulator?
Make sure graphic and sound drivers are upto date as well as Windows itself.
Also the emulator doesn't seem to like being renamed or moved, if you've done that at all.
There was a while back when for a very brief time, people had issues, after a Windows 11 update, but I don't know of anyone with Windows 11, having permanent issues.
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13 hours ago, Matt said:
is there an amount that should be donated or is it up to me ?
The minimum looks to be £5 from the drop down menu for donations.
Dont forget to check out the gallery of layouts. It's a great way to find machines you may have forgotten about, as well as it covering at least 90% of layouts available.
https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/gallery/category/5-mfme-layouts/
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Wizard knew all the pleasure he gave to members. The members got together to show him how much we appreciated him a year or so before he past.
Sadly he did leave the world far too early, but MFME would have always been a WIP for his lifetime as he was a perfectionist. MFME will live on and keep his memory alive, until every last machine that it can emulate, is emulated.
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App producers panicking and can't really blame them.
But these things are still on the Internet and millions of computers/phones etc.
As I said NDS emulation is extremely advanced with what's already out there and Wii, Gamecube also. Even Wii U is very good also.
Most emulators for systems pre these are extremely advanced and/or highly unlikely to be affected. XBOX systems and Vita being exceptions.
Its definitely changed emulation though, but hopefully will also give a better insight into what is acceptable by law and what isn't.
Yuzu in particular pushed it too far IMO and Citra is a victim because of it.
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I'm sure these emulators will live on.
Of course updates may not happen, so we are left with under counter updates or accepting some games, won't work properly or at all.
Not sure about cores in Retroach and others like Dig.
But frontends allow for standalone versions of emulators to be used. And these emulators will still be downloadable somewhere or other as well, in apk files for Android
Thankfully Drastic is extremely advanced, and Dolphin and even Cemu are very advanced.
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Absolutely superb stuff.
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Enjoying reading about these experiments.
Hard to explain, but it takes me back to the early days of FME, when layouts got played significantly and people would post their experience of playing the layout and how they have done.
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23 hours ago, johnparker007 said:
Regarding this are you saying there is a machine where it does output in stereo, but the L/R channels are flipped? And so you can tell in a sound test mode, if it says "Left" out of right speaker, then says "Right" out of left speaker?
In that case, that sadly would be a bug, as he would have needed a fourth setting: Stereo (Swap).Yes, the stereo is reversed on some Scorpion 4 layouts.
It was a bug that I believe occurred in v20, as it wasn't present in v19.8 IIRC.
Talk about it in this thread
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7 hours ago, ChunkaMunka said:
Ah ok, thank you. I will most likely be donating soon for unlimited downloads.
You got your rep needed yesterday, with 5 welcomes from us, so you should be able to download MFME now.
You can download a limited amount of machine layouts for free, every month, but even a small donation can get you access to over 1500 machines to download.
Take a look in the gallery for a good idea of what's on here.
https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/gallery/category/5-mfme-layouts/
There are also at least 50-100 other layouts not shown in the gallery.
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So sorry to hear about your mum. As you say, the best place for her.
To me the most important person in the world, is my mum.
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Just to be aware, even if setting to stereo, that sound on Scorpion layouts, can come out reversed I.E. Left, comes out of right and V.V.
It's an emulator bug, that of course sadly won't be fixed now.
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58 minutes ago, partee said:
Thank you so much for your words i feel a little bit more confident now. you know what's the best part of this? that i enjoyed alot doing it, and knowing that i will be able to create my own games or at least modifie them that is just so great, of course none of this little progress wouldn't have been possible without your help and of course thank's to Wizard that created this great emulator
It can be very addictive.
The issue after 20 + years of FME, is finding new stuff to do, as we already have so many machines emulated.
But DX's of machines where we only have classic layouts are always welcome. Also the odd new machine resources occasionally still pop up.
Plus we have a lot of older DX's that could do with a modern makeover.
Of course all this is dependent on resource being available.
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3 hours ago, partee said:
Yes i know, i wrote the wrong platform it is (S4) lol
. ok this is where i am at right now and also stuck, i need a little bit of help on lamping that's my next step
i have all the lamps mapped out but i don't know how to apply them to the layout here is a screenshot of how it is
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Well done on getting this far.
It looks like you are going beyond the book and aiming to complete what we call a DX (deluxe version) of the layout. There are several people here, who will be able to assist with that, possibly by sending you videos or a written guide.
You basically now have a classic layout nearly done. If you were aiming to complete a classic layout, you'd just need to size, colour and place all the lamps and buttons out as they would be one the actual machine.
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16 minutes ago, partee said:
Oh ok yes that's the guide i am following right now to make my first project i must be missing something in there
Make sure the meter bar is showing press F9 if not.
Then tick the S Door (service door).
Then click on configuration across the top bar and on that screen you can set the stake/prize and %.
Then untick the S Door.
Pressing Ctrl R, will reset the machine.
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The easiest way to learn, is to follow the layout creation in the book TBH.
After about 16 years, it was how I finally learnt how to create a layout and have done 50+ since.
As for what machine to start with, well TBH, there's not a huge amount left, that hasn't already been done.
But it's best to start with a machine on a technology, that has good test modes, such as Epoch. Those test modes, will indicate, what symbols are on the reels and will name what is written on the lamps, such as 1 Nudge etc....
At first, you may need to look at other people's layouts on the same technology to see some other settings, if the machine, you are creating is alarming.
But if like me, when I started out, you don't have the first idea, the book is or similar to get started.
Perhaps @Reg will send you the book or allow it to be sent to you in a PM, because of this on the download page for it " I do not give permission for this to be hosted or shared in any form apart from direct download and you are downloading this on the understanding that you will not post / share this elsewhere."
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There is no one size fits all. The emulator, emulates exactly what you would need to do on a real machine. It will depend on the machine, the tech of the machine and the manufacture of the machine.
On the more modern techs, normally you can alter it in the configuration menu.
On these machines, you need to open the machine door/s, normally just the S door. To open the door, make sure the meter bar is showing, by pressing F9, then check the S door button. Then go into the configuration screen, from the top menu bar and you'll see the Stake/Prize and %. You can alter the % and then close the door.
Of course if the roms, don't allow a certain cost of play or %, the machine will error. Or it may alarm and show an indication, the % has changed, but still boot.
Don't forget, you may wish to ram clear on the configuration screen to reset the machines memory of ever being on a different %. BUT doing that particularly on Scorpion 5 machines, can break the machines and the whole configuration for that machines, needs resetting back up.
On older techs, where it can't be done that way, it's a matter of flipping the dips and seeing what it brings. Unless you have a manual for a machine, you'll never know, what each dip does, without trying.
An example, my Circle Line layout, I discovered it defaulted to 78%, but by putting dip switch 8 to the on position it changed it to 88%. That of course won't be the case for all machines. Another member found another dip which altered the %. Some dip switches, don't change %, but do other things, like auto pay out on any win, disable the attract mode or change the price of play.
One handy screen which shows good info, is the diag screen, again selectable from the top menu bar. Open it and check all the boxes. When machines boot, you will often see the price of play and % information. If any error occur it will also show what the error is.
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Certainly not the best Outrun machine, but could be fun, in 2 player mode.
My only experience of this, was on a lads holiday in Lloret de Mar back in 1998.
The hotel had one and we had a few goes on it. But then we found a 4 seater, Daytona USA in a nearby arcade, so that was it, we never bothered with it.
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Dreadful game, but one I used to load up on the C64 just to listen to the music.
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Not watch the video yet, but when I saw the name, immediately I remembered this was on a coverdisk of a mag.
Was quite a decent, considering it was free, but eventually a repetitive game.
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Full Set Of MFME Roms (23/01/22)
in Layout Layout and Legacy Rom Support Area
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I've attached it to this post.
alfk.zip