niallquinn Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 Pointing out the obvious, but that's not Sphinx, the layout is using Pyramid roms, I think. It says welcome to the Pyramid upon feature entry! Sure Sphinx said welcome to the Sphinx. Can anyone else remember? NQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 21 minutes ago, niallquinn said: Pointing out the obvious, but that's not Sphinx, the layout is using Pyramid roms, I think. It says welcome to the Pyramid upon feature entry! Sure Sphinx said welcome to the Sphinx. Can anyone else remember? NQ. Well it says "Sphinx V1" on the display when it starts up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearecity Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 (edited) 47 minutes ago, niallquinn said: Pointing out the obvious, but that's not Sphinx, the layout is using Pyramid roms, I think. It says welcome to the Pyramid upon feature entry! Sure Sphinx said welcome to the Sphinx. Can anyone else remember? NQ. Plus as pointed out in the video, there are differences in the machines, such as nudge squares on the feature board, so definitely Sphinx running on the DX. Edited August 17, 2018 by wearecity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niallquinn Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 Fairy muff. I mean, fair enough. NQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearecity Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 I guess it says pyramid because it is still a pyramid or because Electrocoin couldn't be bothered or forgot to change it. Welcome to the tomb or crypt perhaps would have been a good alternatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niallquinn Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 1 hour ago, wearecity said: I guess it says pyramid because it is still a pyramid or because Electrocoin couldn't be bothered or forgot to change it. Welcome to the tomb or crypt perhaps would have been a good alternatives. I think you're right, they forgot or couldn't be bothered to change it. Anyway, I'm wearing my orthapedic shoes now, and stand corrected. NQ. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy c Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 Yeah deffo sphinx running,plus the £8 Rom used is v1 so plays excellent really. All cash too not a token jackpot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 We have a proper £6 token rom for this machine if you want me to post it up fella J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy c Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 For sphinx? If so Deffo I will amend the artwork and post it on Sunday when back from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy c Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 What about pyramid I have art prepped for that but not releasing a 5p dx a waist of time imo. Thanks for the heads up about the shpinx roms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 I'm sure the 5p roms are switchable, I don't know the DIL switches but will look into it for you, I will post up the Sphinx roms a little later fella J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Yes, I will post the rom later this evening, We do have 'switchable' rom for Pyramid, viewing the file in a hex editor I can see 5p play, 10p play and 20p play, so I assume it is switchable. Not sure if the phoenix dil switches are set up correctly, I don't have access to a machine manual. Maybe someone who has one can relay the dil option switches. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 I know for sure that one local to me was £6 token and later it was switched down to 5p play £6 token jackpot. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 I found a Pyramid manual from Spa's google drive. No option to switch, going from that manual, but these roms came out after the initial release so I believe they are switchable, though I've tried all dips with no luck. These were definitely switchable back in the day I pretty certain. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy c Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 I did look in the hex editor some time ago and seen the same info. I've tried all dips and multiple combos of check boxes and couldn't get the pyramid roms to switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mort Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Really enjoyed watching the Electrocoin video this evening. Keep 'em coming when you can Choppers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Yes, I've tried everything, maybe these roms aren't switchable after all :(. Maybe Chris could take a look, looking at an actual switchable rom (labyrinth £10), you can see in the hex editor as you switch the dip, the byte at a certain location changes corresponding to the price of play in hex... 0A - 10p, 14 - 20p and 19 - 25p. Maybe they could be hacked but I don't have the time to look into it at the minute. Anyway here is Spinx £6 token roms, these are switchable via bank 2 dip. Switch 6 is 10p play, switch 7 is 5p play. Default is all off for 20p play. J Sphinx V4_2__5_10.bin 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy c Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Cheers will take a look this afternoon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy c Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 Cheers for the roms mate,loaded them in and they are version 14,surely these must be shite and flat as a pancake? Just testing them out now,they didn't half do some tweaking with these games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 If you changed the roms it will cause ram reset, these don't seem to play well from a ram reset. Maybe they start at %? J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy c Posted August 19, 2018 Report Share Posted August 19, 2018 42 minutes ago, A:E said: If you changed the roms it will cause ram reset, these don't seem to play well from a ram reset. Maybe they start at %? J Stopped for tonight currently paying at 92% machine is set to 88% will see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 20, 2018 Report Share Posted August 20, 2018 It was a pretty decent skill machine this for a decent player back in the day. This one won't cheat on reel skill, not sure if there is a flag that will make it cheat if unable to afford jackpot. But I hit reel skill 4 times without it slipping, I did skill cash once for the jackpot, not sure if that can cheat but the last one does go pretty fast. Great machines though. They didn't have a streak, they could pay a fair bit but they never had a pronounced streak, shame as it would have made it an even better machine. J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo1 Posted August 20, 2018 Report Share Posted August 20, 2018 Thank you again Degsy for another 50 mins of pleasure. Only ever seen on one of these back in the day and as with any machine from the token pre cash some much more enjoyable than like you said the £70 shit that are about today. You made me laugh about the bit were you've put your money in and getting down to your last bit of money and the cold clammy sweats, getting hot rush thing going on !!! had that many of time and trying to contain myself from dragging the thing outside and smashing it up cause you dont wont to get barred,cause guess what? your coming back again tomorrow to do it all again. Classic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopaholic Posted August 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 If you're subscribed to my channel and have notifications turned on you'll have had a bit of a blizzard of notifications about new videos over the last few days, (well, four notifications over four days, specifically), but they're all online slots videos. (I was trying to prove a point for the folks over at Casinomeister, it went rather better than I was expecting.....) However, I have not forgotten about my true love which is fruit machines and fruit machine emulation - so here's this week's new video Thanks to my 'mysterious benefactor' for sorting out the layout config so this would work in the emulator. (He doesn't want any limelight in particular, but a lot of my 'emptier' style videos wouldn't have happened but for his input, advice, explanations, and patience!) Also a bit a of FME history in this video 1 1 Fruit machine emulation content from the artist previously known as Degsy Degworth and the odd new thing here and there too - https://www.youtube.com/c/DegsyDegworth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Cheers Al, great commentary as usual... it really isn’t a fun machine to play at all. Jiggin, which could be done the same seemed the much better machine, saved massively by its funny and adult themed sound package J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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