wearecity
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16 minutes ago, niallquinn said:
Just an idea, you press shift or whatever, and it makes you run quicker, bit like all FPS.
That's the reasoning behind it...............the real reason is I'm too impatient when roaming around a large room.
Thanks!!!!
Or running for the last bus or train, cause you desperately are trying to claw back some money.
Or maybe kicked a machine in anger and are trying to escape from the manager.
I guess overtime the arcade will be configurable so we can create areas of machines. Love to see other user created ones too.
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12 minutes ago, MPU_FIVE said:
Just tried running Fairground in MFME 20.1 and the dice reel does'nt show the dice when it spins... always lands on the blank red as in picture... also reels are pissed... (winning symbols are below the winline in the pic) - did this happen to you @Chopaholic? - and if so, how can it be fixed?
Cheers -
Gary.
Go into edit mode, right click on each reel choose properties and on the left hand side of the properties screen adjust the reel band offset until the reels line up.
If at 0, adjusting them by just a couple either way usually - 2 or +2 works.
It happened to many sys5 layouts in the later versions of MFME.
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Another enjoyable video.
Loved, Hot Dogs, me and a girl I worked with, played it many times in a few arcades. I sent a picture of the layout to her, a little while back on Facebook and she instantly remembered it.
We used to go for Butch 9/10, with the odd time for Fritz. but never Flash.
All the features were worth an exchange, because they could all give £3 +, even Money Belt and Spin A Win.
Fairground, is another one, I played many times in many places, but always found it quite frustrating, so never pushed it for the anything beyond £3 repeat. Always felt the feature board was a bit too short.
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When travelling, I play FME on v20.1, on a Surface pro bought in 2015, without any issue.
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Fuck me
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2 hours ago, woodsy said:
Don’t know if we we’re in buttons at the same time but I was there every day seeing how I lived round the corner and could climb trees haha, I had a lot of love for jpms hot dogs! And maygay screen play, but they also had lots of bwb big match, pcp road rage which I loved so much too and of course nudge gambler and its friends! They were great value for enjoyment games. Sad we won’t see those days again
I assume you meant Butlins lol.
I used to go on a weekly family holiday to Butlins Bognor yearly normally in April or September every year from the early 70's until the mid 90's. So no doubt, we would be playing in the same arcade a few times.
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Great to see the 2p machines featured.
It's strange, because I remember playing these PCP machines at Butlins when I was late teens/early 20's, due to the fact that a couple of quid could last you ages.
30 years later, when playing them in the emulator, I always had it in my head, that these machines were from the early 80's because of the stake and prize. But they were actually new machines when I was playing them and not a bunch of old machines that had been bought up by Butlins, due to the amount of kids who would be able to play them.
Also played them in seaside arcades, but never really saw them in town arcades in Cities.
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1 hour ago, niallquinn said:
Anyone got the link to the spreadsheet?
Just played Indiana Jones for over an hour. Got it down to about 10% payout. A token win is not possible. Even on leap of faith it disables the cancel as if there's no tokens in it. I've been to the end of ther trail at least 20 times, one bullet, dead. Oh, and it curiously pays wins in 20p's??
Token dipswitch not right?
@Chopaholic@serene02You two must have played it - any ideas? Thanks.
Look in John's signature for the link to the known issues spreadsheet.
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On the portal page, you will find the donation link.
Yes MPU3 layouts are available. I have 58 in my collection, which doesn't include the numerous layouts that are not graphical DX ones, but in classic form.
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Had a quick look, to get rid of the alarm, you need to select serial from the hopper drop down in the configuration screen.
Hopefully you or someone can sort the rest out as I don't have time today now
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16 hours ago, Chopaholic said:
I've replied to you on YouTube but I'll say again here, I'm definitely going to do more videos on these £4 era machines, Loads-A-Money in particular I really remember as being one of those early examples of how we all learned how rechips can totally change the nature of a machine.
Have you got a link to the thread over at The Mecca @wearecity - I'd like to do a bit more of a deep dive into the earlier era of AWPs, when the stakes and jackpots were small.
Barcrest churned out a lot of crap in the £4 era though, that I played in arcades in the early 90s, constant forced two of a kind wins, and those horrible 'nudge bank' things that could cost a fortune to finally get the nudge bank to pay something decent.
Some talk with you, me, vectra and Wizard with others.
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Just watched it, on night shift in work ATM.
Commented on YouTube.
Glad to see you planned some more £4 videos.
There are still plenty of £4 machines, that were great. Particularly Barcrest, who released a lot of clones, Action Bank/Flash Cash etc. Then there's, Cash Counter which had a replay option, to encourage you to put your winnings back in, rather than collect (which I'm sure I read once, they were told off for and so never put it in any other machine).
Then unless I missed a machine, Loads A Money, was unique and is a machine we had some discussion back on The Mecca years ago, because the roms released in the layout, shows how a fun machine, was turn crap by different roms.
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Great stuff.
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6 hours ago, fits said:
Hi John just played a few dnd and when i played the deal no deal feature the value in the box is showing. Sorry if this as been mentioned before.
This is known, the value is covered by a lamp and reel lamps are not yet implemented in the public release.
The bug list is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UY-db_6bdyJBV9MonUFRwvl5dP4GvtosG8GemPuB7i4/edit?usp=sharing
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Decided to do my quarterly clean up of my PC. Cleaned it all up (my word grateful for dust guards keeping most stuff on the outside). Inside a few specs of dust but nothing major. Put it all back together, switched on, tv complained of no connection, so told it, it's a PC connected to the HDMI and screen came on, but it was in the bios.
It's a gaming PC costing £2700 and I never fiddle in the BIOS, so wanted to get out of it straightaway, so just exit. Complained, so said don't save, just exit.
Get into Windows, the graphic card, showing up, but Windows using the Intel onboard. Usual fiddling to get it to use graphics card, drivers, disable/enable devices etc.. but to no avail.
Back in the BIOS, graphic section showing onboard, so change it to auto and the PCI option. Still not working, back to BIOS, and onboard showing again.
Thought sod it, just reset the BIOS back to standard settings, thought, I'm, sure it won't matter, a RTX 3080, will still achieve 60FPS, without any system overclock anyway. Computer complained about CPU fan error. Mine has an AIO device, so no fan present as such, so disabled, error disappears.
Windows now won't load though. Tried the quick standard Windows repair from the recovery, error can't do it, it says after trying.
Decided to do reinstall but keep files. Fairly quickly done and yes back in Windows, rebooted, yep Windows loads fine.
Oh, still using onboard graphics, more fiddling, nope not having it.
Though sod it, have to take card out, reconnect everything and try, so go to pull HDMI cable out of the back of the card, ah it's in an HDMI slot, but there's another one lower down.
Long story short, I'd plugged the HDMI cable into the port for the onboard graphics and not the graphics card itself.
Looking at the list of stuff, it uninstalled (list attached if anyone has any interest), apart from the games (most which I probably won't play again, due to bored or completed), I suppose a Windows reinstall wasn't a bad idea anyway.
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I can't comment on anything posted since the video.
All I can say is, that I wish when FME was in it's early years, that I was more interested in seeing older machines emulated, than the latest Scorpion 4 and MPU5 machines of the time.
One day these, will be old machines, with some memories for people, but it won't make them any more entertaining.
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Great to see the reel lamps working.
Many of the older tech machines in particularly need them for several features.
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10 hours ago, woodsy said:
@vectra666 where’s the lockout thing please mate, checked config out but no sign of it. Thanks
As Vecs said, tick the lockout tab in the coin input.
I.E. The properties window for the coin input.
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10 hours ago, Chopaholic said:
I wasn't aware of the even money thing not working on earlier versions of the emulator @wearecity - have you got any more information about that please?
I remember it not working, I think it alarmed the machine in the emulator or the reel didn't stop spinning.
You'd have to go back to the original release thread (possibly on MSN board) or perhaps try the res layout in v6 or v6.5 of the emulator and take the feature.
I would have a go myself at seeing if I could find details, but I'm away from home for the best part of two weeks, so probably won't have much time to search around looking for it.
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I've mentioned it before, but I have clear memories of Winner Takes All, turning up in one of my regular haunts in the Edgware Road near Paddington Station.
If you ever played it, you would remember the mystery being absolutely brutal.
A little bit of FME trivia for this machine, the even money feature didn't work in early versions of the emulator.
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3 hours ago, chrimbobells said:
This is absolutely incredible and elevates the experience of playing the machines massively, not only does the arcade feel like a proper arcade (complete with the awful carpet
) That's not to downplay the beauty of MFME at all, but this just creates a level of immersion that is just a joy.
I do have a question, there are a number of duplicate machines dotted about - am I right in thinking that these will disappear as new machines are added to the arcade?
Also, in the options there are 'Library' and 'Create' - but nothing happens when you click on them. What are the plans for these buttons in future?
Keep up the awesome work, because this is a delight!
Have a watch of Degsy video on it and his follow up video as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCmsHvp3eYA&ab_channel=DegsyDegworth
Basically at the moment there is no function to create user arcades or put our machines in. Everything is put in by John manually, including layouts, which need cabs to be drawn, because of course in MFME nothing is actually in a 3D cab and John currently has to make the cabs himself.
In the future, the plan is, we will be able to create our own arcades and put our own machines in them.
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Rip Sir Clive.
A man who came into and influenced my life from an 11 year old boy.
A chance meeting with a ZX81, as I didn't really want to go, but went with my mum to her friends house for the evening. My mums friend Beryl, said to a bored 11 year old me, go upstairs and ask Tony to look at this new computer thing he's got.
Over the next few hours, I genuinely don't think I had been that excited or captivated by anything so much in my short life up to the time.
That led to a ZX81 of my own, then a ZX Spectrum 48k later and my fascination with computing/electronics/gadgets and computer games still lives with me 40 years later.
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Posted · Edited by wearecity
To stop the reels going out of sync, go into design, edit mode, then right click on reel 1, choose properties, then on the left hand side put a 2 in the Opto Tab box and apply the change. Come out and then do that for the other two reels.
It will instantly stop it happening, then just save the changes when finished playing.
There are several layouts for this machine, some have the 2 into the Opto Tab box, for anyone else, thinking it doesn't do that on my version.