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I don't do side art, but there will be plenty around here who can advise you.

The .dat file, is an older layout format, that can only be loaded in emulators up to v5.1. It was replaced by the .fml file format, when v5 was released. From v6, you can't load them into the emulator. If you load a .dat file, into v5.1, when you exit and save it will auto convert into a .fml file, but it also leaves the .dat file in the folder. As long as you have a .fml layout file, then the .dat can be deleted. Anything created in v20.1, will be saved as a .fml file.

Press esc will take you back out of full screen mode. In your MFME installation folder you find a tips.txt file open it, it contains all the shortcut information.

F9 shows the meter bar on/off With the bar showing F12 Toggles between current session in and out meters and the long term in and out meters. F11 Toggles between profit/loss and drift and shows the profit/loss and drift stats, for both the current and long term meters. Inside your MFME installation folder is a tips.txt document. It contains shortcut information.

Go into the configuration screen and change the character to Barcrest. Version v6 of the emulator broke it as I think coinworld was added to the list of characters available.

If not untick both hoppers. Many Scorpion 4 AWPs do the same and it's a case of unticking both hoppers. If you open the diag window and check all the boxes in that window, you'll see the hoppers constantly going on and off.

Nice tribute video.

Very nice words. So glad we can now donate to a cause, that Chris would have liked.

Good news, I managed to load Give Us a Break and it played. Only issue, when I went to collect it threw up an IOU £2 error. Not sure if that's a known issue.

You are correct I have an I9 Extreme processor, 32GB Ram and a 3800GTX. For me it's pretty much just attract sequences that run slower, mainly the sweeping lamp part of the sequence, where tons of lamps are present and particularly blended lamps. It also largely depends on the size of the layout. MFME reduces the size to desktop resolution, if you have the option set, but if you go into edit mode, you'll see some layouts are in excess of 4K resolution. It's a bit like, a video game, where shadows and shaders are a real drain on even the most powerful systems at high resolutions. Eventually everyone will be using a powerful enough PC with 16K res or higher screens lol.

I was pleased to see the first dice entry machine because it was another first for FME. Give me a £4 to £6 machine over the £100 machines any day of the week for entertainment.

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.

When you click about on the top menu, what does the version number say v20 or v20.1

When you say, you can't get the £100 DOND working, are you referring to one machine, or every £100 DOND layout? Give us some names of ones not working.

An update. After pressing enter, the machine appears as though it's going to boot up, like the reels move slightly and the alpha light. EDIT....The alpha changes to all ????????? and the 7 segs show 888 Then nothing. If I then alt/tab, MFME is running with the machine loaded, but only with the very top of the cabinet in the layout showing. Attached a picture, which I've reduce the quality of to save mb's

Just tried it, can move around etc, press enter then nothing happens. Did the alt/tab thing and no other windows were open or error messages etc...

I've not been able to play anything like CJA. Not done the alt tab thing yet, but upon closing the simulator, I've not had any message about program terminations or access violation. Will try again later when at home.

I don't know the spin me right round baby site, but it did remind me of the internet sensation, the dancing baby, that went what we now call viral back in the late 90's. http://www.dancing-baby.net/BabyMus1.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby I seem to remember I even bought a disk where you could get the baby do different dances, also with screensavers/backgrounds etc on it.

EDIT......Do as Dad says first, if it doesn't work, then do the below. 1/ Open the emulator and load the top box. 2/ Then open the emulator again (just click on the mfme file again and it will load another instance of the emulator) and load a slave. 3/ Repeat step 2 twice more to open up the other 2 slaves. So you have the top box and the 3 slaves loaded. 4/ Left click on the top box and hold down the ALT key on your keyboard and while holding it down, press L on the keyboard. 5/ You will see a message saying 3 games linked on the top box and game linked on the slaves. 6/ Press CTRL Q on the keyboard to close everything down. 7/ Open up the top box and the 3 slaves should load, as well. Once you have the top box and 3 slaves open, then follow the instructions in my previous post about resizing and moving everything in place.

What's interesting, is I remember Chico and I remember playing it a lot. But when it comes to the gameplay, I would have never have remembered anything about it. I actually thought it was another Fun On The Run and The Heat Is On clone.

Glad you're enjoying it. It's quite unbelievable people are still discovering FME for the first time, some 20 years on from when the emulator was available for free, to anyone who searched for fruit machine emulation.

Sometimes the % is determined via the dip switches on older machines. Sometimes it's worth trying to turn them on in the configuration screen. It can also other do other settings, like auto payout and price of play. Otherwise it could be worth trying others roms. Most machines I remember back from the £4 era, had payouts of no greater than 78% and in many cases more like 70%-74%. I certainly don't ever remember seeing a machine in the 90% area, low 80s at best.

Another sad story that no doubt members can relate to in parts. But it's great to see you're on the right road now. There is always a reason behind gambling, boredom and stress being the two main culprits imo. But on the other hand it can be because it can be fun and even thrilling. The key really is to prevent the reason/s why someone turns to gambling and because it's not always possible to prevent these reasons from happening, to have an alternative to gambling, when it does.

Part of the issue I think maybe for you, was I believe you really liked Watch For My Hidden Treasure machines a lot. Even on a £4.80 jackpot, these could be brutal, as they seemed to be the first machines, that would actually build up for streak in a brutal way. People think Red Gaming machines, could be brutal, but these machines, could also take £10-£15 off you, before even offering a win, which I don't remember any machines doing before the WFMHT machines. They could take £20-£30 before they dare give you a £2.40 and £30-£40 before you might get a jackpot. It always seemed risky to play them, unless you had £30-£40 minimum on you. Of course on the other hand, you could get the up to £40-£50 streak out of them, but then a lot of the time, at least 3/4 of the pay was in tokens. Which of course would probably just go back in other machines, for a lot less cash out. As for Scratch Card, I get more pleasure out of scratching something else lol.