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  1. 30 minutes ago, Dawlish09 said:

    I guess I got the wrong impression.😂

    Just saw the negative comments regarding Fruit-Emu and assumed it was a kind of rivalry or dispute that may be wider. Should have remembered that assume saying of it makes an ass out of you and me.

    Good to know the community as a whole is actually very cooperative, I did hear it was a bit wild west back in the day.

    As for members of Fruit-Emu, have many came over to here? I'm amazed there is'nt a far bigger community than there is, deserves a far bigger following, its an interactive museum.

    I plan to make Youtube videos at some point, not about tricks or methods, Degsy and Cheerful Pessimist are infinitely more knowledgable on that front, watching their videos makes me feel like a complete cluey.😂 I plan on making vdeos kind of reviewing the machines and just playing them while talking in a standard fashion like the majority would play. Idea is to make videos whereby its a look back to the times that were different and also focus on the tourist industry and seaside as well, kind of a trip down British seaside holiday memory lane. I want to try and drum up interest in those that would'nt actively seek out emulation and appeal to those with fond memories of the seaside holiday from their youth etc. Obviously I will check for permission before using any layouts.

     

    All the FME forums, have at one time been the main focus of the scene.

    Everyone has had their favourite. 

    The now gone MPU/Fruit Forums, was the biggest for years. It's downfall was the leaked emulator. But not overnight, but over a few years. 

    Then when the new era of FME started in 2016, the MPU Mecca, came to the front, when development of MFME was there. 

    Fruit-Emu, which had been around, had a noobs reputation, because of the amount of requests for Crazy Fruits and Deal Or No Deals, well before they were emulated. But for years, a close second to Fruit Forums and it came to the front, when Wizard started posting there and the vast majority of releases were released only there. 

    Then when Wizard chose here for MFME development, this site became the most focus. 

    Should this site close, then in a flash I'd suspect it would largely be fruit-emu, where releases were made. The Mecca crowd, are more into real machines than emulation. 

    Dads has nearly always been there, but largely in the background. I'd imagine only if the other 3 sites were to close, it would be the forums of choice. Mainly because I still don't think some people know it exists and has several exclusive releases. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, edwardb said:

    Hi Everyone

    Sorry for my long absence. I've got a lot going on at work, and I've also got some health issues which means I'll be in hospital in January. So not much time for anything at the moment. Please bear with me!

    Hope everyone is OK :)

    Ed

    Sorry to hear that, your health, is much more important. Hope everything goes well in January.

  3. I like the idea of MFME challenges.

    This was one of my favourite machines, back in the day, but definitely better roms than the one with the release are available, as pointed out by someone called Chopoholic many many many years ago.

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  4. Just now, serene02 said:

    @wearecity

    Ah, apologies for my duff info.  I thought even those earlier versions only worked in Win10.

    J

    Well you're not wrong as such v19 onwards won't work.

    There's still over 1000 layouts that can be played on v6.1, so not a small amount.

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  5. Get version v6.1 from this page. The last version that works with Windows 8.1.

    https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/files/category/71-legacy-releases/

    Most layouts released before July 2019 will work with V6.1, unless they were updated after that date.

    So check out the DXcellent section of the forum, for lots of layouts. All layouts in the re-release section of DXcellent should work fine with v6.1. The downloads are in the threads.

    https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/dx/dxcellent/

    Other than that, if you go to the release forums both on Dxcellent and on the main site and look for release threads started before July 2019, you should find links to layouts that will work.

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  6. Yes search has to be more than 3 letters. 

    There are advantages to both ways of searching and downloading from here and fruit-emu. 

    Fruit-emu contains a lot of fme and fruit machine history, I hope even if it is going to close, the whole lot is at least preserved. 

    It also contains older versions of MFME, plus bfemulator, jpemu and Project Amber emulators and layouts. 

    Although I guess some members will have layouts and emulators archived, so mainly the forum stuff.

    As for supporting it, well there's still a lot for your money.

  7. 1 hour ago, WonkySausage said:

    will say as well on the fruit emu thing, that a few things I tried to download that weren't in the legacy section here  brought up an error after waiting the 100 seconds - like the file has been removed. As said, i think fruit-emu is done. Dunno if anyone else has this issue at all

    Are you a donator and have more than a couple of posts.

    They are the likely reasons, for that message.

    I'm a gold supporter, renews annually automatically. Just had my £20 leave paypal the other day and never ever have that message.

  8. 8 hours ago, Dawlish09 said:

    Would you say it's worth me signing up at fruit-emu? Do they have much that DIF doesn't?

    Originally I was going to join there, but this place seemed far more together and organized with a lot more forum activity and sense of community.

    That place is dead when it comes to new layout content and has been pretty much for years.

    Even new forum posts are extremely rare. 

    But for a donation you can still access the downloads without restrictions. 

    99.9% of the content is available here, though the legacy section.

    Here if looking for a layout I'd suggest looking at the gallery for machines by sorting it into caption to get it alphabetical and then visit the legacy section where you get all the layouts for a particular machine.

    At fruit-emu you search via technologies, but the downloads are individual layouts.

    Because a lot of layouts at fruit-emu are from older emulators, a lot will need converting in V5.1 to work in v20.1

     

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  9. Never was much into club machines, although I've played quite a few through the 80s and 90s in snooker halls and working men's clubs. 

    Normally club versions of AWPs I'd played, such as Super Blackjack by Barcrest, Cops n Robbers by Bell fruit and the last era I played were Give Us a Break, Casino Crazy by JPM. I do remember once playing an Empire Games, Wild Thing as well in the early 2000s.

    For me, it's aways been about AWPs, my playing days from 10p £4 jackpots until £35 jackpots.

    My favourite era £4-£8, at 10p or 20p play depending on the jackpot. Played them for fun as much as addiction.

    But for the best gameplay, always machines of that era, should be played on their native stake/prize. None of this 5p play malarkey, blrugghh.

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  10. A couple of important bits also, any layout that has been produced in a later version, than v6.1, will not work with v6.1, even if it's a fml file.

    Also if a layout that has been produced in v6.1 or earlier, is loaded into a later version, it will no longer work, in v6.1. 

    While there are over 1000 layouts that work in v6.1, if you want to play FME at it's best and largely have a trouble free experience, you need to have Windows 10/11 and v20.1.

  11. V20.1 only runs on Windows 10 or 11.

    V6.1 is the last version for Windows 7

    Both V6.1 and V20 require files in .fml format and older .dat file will not run.. Gam files are present with both fml and dat layouts. 

    . dat files are easy to convert using V5.1, simply load the layout into 5.1 and when you close it, it will save as a fml file. 

    But all downloads from the main section are in fml format and all files in the Legacy section have been converted to fml from dat files already. 

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  12. 7 hours ago, haywire48 said:

    Hi guys . First of all i want to say thank you to the ones who have helped so far with my rep points . And secondly when would i be able to make a donation to the site .Its not so i can hammer downloads iv already got a large collection of games from over the years well up until fruit-emu went dead . Its to support this site as i have just read the post reg put up on the donations info bit from a few months back .This site is a really good site reminds of fruit-emu back in its prime days so i am more than happy to put some cash towards keeping it up and running .so if someone can let me know when i can donate and how to go about it would be great .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  with thanks wullie.

    On the portal page, you will find the support site link, on the right hand side, You needed 4 rep before you could donate, which you now have.

    https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/portal/

  13. 4 hours ago, serene02 said:

    Yeah, I’ve decided to just get some semi decent pc components and build into a slim console type case that way I can have it run pretty much anything ;)

    Maybe my question could have been worded better as I think I’m after an all in one frontend fully loaded already with roms, no setup required.

    I do have Big Box license but I just don’t want to mess around configuring stuff.  I guess I want a plug and play pre configured install…. I don’t want Hyper Spin though, it’s just too bloated.

    J

    That is an issue, with multi emulation.

    You do really need to cherry pick what you want and set it up yourself.

    Or you end up with dozens of Japanese language rpg games and 10 versions of the same game with foreign variants. 

    Some of the systems in the video above, would have come with a front end, emulators and games already on them and set up.

    Myself I look on YouTube for a system, then look for an emulators for it and then look at videos of top 50 games, a certain genre or hidden gems for that system. Of course if it comes to something I've owned, I'll know some games I want. 

    Then I move onto the next and build up my collection gradually.

    I'm into Wii, Dreamcast and Gamecube emulation at the moment.

    I've got a Hyperspin collection, I don't use it the way intended.

    But it came with some many roms, I can generally just transfer a game I want to my much smaller collection, without the need to source it and download it.

     

     

     

     

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  14. TBH, it's a bit of a minefield when it comes to these sorts of things.

    You'll never get a perfect device. There's always something that isn't 100% emulated correctly or certain games, that will be totally unplayable.

    On the surface it's simply plug and play, but in reality, it's never that simple.

    But having said that, if you are happy that 90% of stuff, will generally work and be completely playable, then there are some great cheap devices out there.

    This video is excellent for explaining things.

     

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  15. I don't believe that thread contained Hysteria sound roms at all, just the program roms. They are the g files in the Hysteria folder in the Impulse Zip file.

    Sound roms are normally labelled something like S0, S1 files, or snd.bin for Epoch.

    I think Mr X thought the sound roms were in the zip.

    If they were in the zip and/or do become available, following my instructions in the first post of this thread would add them successfully to the layout.

  16. 3 hours ago, reggert48 said:

    A while back i got a hold of a layout, which unfortunately was mute, for Hysteria. Now after some searching i found the sound rom for this layout here on the forums, but no explanation how to add the sound rom to the layout. Can anybody explain how to add the sound rom to this layout or does the layout need to be remade to activate the sound ?

    Thanks in advance,

    Reggert48

    It's very easy to do.

    Open the layout, click on design, edit mode or CTRL E to go into design mode.

    Then click on design again and Rom loader.

    On that screen hit stop, then where it says Sound Roms, click on load and browse to where you have the sound roms to add them.

    Then you can hit start on the rom load screen and come back out of design mode.

  17. I often read the tribute threads to Wizard. Even have a reminder in my diary regarding hearing about his death and funeral.

    It's great to see the scene continuing and new machines being emulated, including some very old machines. I'm sure Wizard, would love to see these in particular being DX'd.

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  18. 2 minutes ago, supercom said:

    Already a donator mate - Downloading now, cheers...

    All good then. 

    Just noticed if I turn the phone in landscape mode, I can see if a member has any badges like donator. 

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