YouTube Emulation Extravaganza

[serene02]

I imagine no auto play on a mobile phone isn’t too bad, but if you play with a desktop that would be a pain, though I’m sure you could get an auto clicker app to help with prolonged play.

The trouble is nowadays a lot of slots seem time intensive to get anywhere.  Imagine BGT with no auto play, complete torture, Bonanza especially.

J

Edited November 7, 2021 by serene02

[woodsy]

3 hours ago, Dougsta said:

Watched @Chopaholic's latest video on Autoplay and reducing RTPs. I reckon that banning Autoplay will cause a significant, but not disastrous reduction in volume from UK players. Addicts will always gamble, almost regardless of what conditions they have to do it in. Sad but true.

Same with the reducing RTPs. Obviously people who are active at Casinomeister are a far more informed breed of gambler. Joe Public probably isn't even aware of the fact that RTPs can vary like this, and this is why more and more casinos are just dropping their RTPs. They see only positive effects, since the vast majority of customers are completely blind to it and carry on regardless.

With all that said, it is a clear race to the bottom. Once RTPs are screwed down to the absolute minimum, players are going broke quicker, and regulations are tightening faster, the industry will have run out of options.

If only they weren’t so diabolical with regards to the license cost for small venues, bring back lower prizes and stakes. Sad really and I was at times a sick addict as much as a profitable player, even with that factored in I still believe the days that got me started in a world of bad consequences from addiction they are still far better than the options I’d become addicted to today!

[vectra666]

23 hours ago, vectra666 said:

added amended layout

thanks to razorback for the layout

Sidewinder £10 Dx.zip 6.45 MB · 6 downloads

redone the layout as watched @Chopaholic and just noticed the cancel button wasn't added it is now on the file below, i simply added the button (shortcut - `) converted to lamp made it transparent / graphic and placed it directly on top of the existing collect button

Sidewinder £10 Dx.zip

[Chopaholic]

I have already linked this video in the relevant threads, but I'll put it here as well to keep this thread up to date  

 

 

[Chopaholic]

Latest videos on the channel.

 

 

[Chopaholic]

Quite a rare £15 jackpot Barcrest for this video - Cash Run. Really good game!

Thanks to @Tommy c for the layout and @Pook for Blue Streak whose role in this video was to sit there looking glamorous. (I will feature Blue Streak properly in a future video.)

 

[Chopaholic]

Time for some hardcore 2p play machines, I do have a very big soft spot for these  

Big thanks to @Pook for all four layouts featured in this video!

 

 

[woodsy]

1 hour ago, Chopaholic said:

Time for some hardcore 2p play machines, I do have a very big soft spot for these  

Big thanks to @Pook for all four layouts featured in this video!

 

 

interesting suggestion video panel... are they saying you're an alien or your profile pic looks like eddie izzard???

[Chopaholic]

I have no idea how the analytics for advertisements I might be interested in are so bad on YouTube.

It's pretty good at suggesting videos I might like but the other stuff is laughably bad.

[woodsy]

1 hour ago, Chopaholic said:

I have no idea how the analytics for advertisements I might be interested in are so bad on YouTube.

It's pretty good at suggesting videos I might like but the other stuff is laughably bad.

Yeah I just had a brief moment of feeling Alan partridge like and in my head it seemed quite a funny Coincidence as I don’t use YouTube the suggestion has to link to you over me somewhere maybe 

[jasonc]

On 07/11/2021 at 11:56, Dougsta said:

Same with the reducing RTPs. Obviously people who are active at Casinomeister are a far more informed breed of gambler. Joe Public probably isn't even aware of the fact that RTPs can vary like this, and this is why more and more casinos are just dropping their RTPs. They see only positive effects, since the vast majority of customers are completely blind to it and carry on regardless.

One of the observations Degsy mentioned in the video was that the old ones hadn't been nerfed from 96% yet - and that's because they have to formally communicate that change to all players.  We are very much a frog in the boiling pot at the moment: some operators are only launching new games at 93-94%, some are nerfing the back-catalogue as well (and sending out hideous emails trying to hide the evidence - the William Hill one was a shocker as the links were broken!), some are even going full speed and nerfing again from 94% to 91-92%.

Casual players are definitely noticing autoplay has gone, whether they care enough to change their habits I don't know - but the UKGC trying to force it from a secondary or passive activity (as it is for many of us - watching YouTube on the side or similar) to an active one (because that's the only way to be responsible in their eyes) does seem to be a blunder, and we'll only see changes if it causes a massive reduction in play or an increase in dangerous behaviour (e.g. average stakes increase). 

[jasonc]

On 20/11/2021 at 12:53, Chopaholic said:

Time for some hardcore 2p play machines, I do have a very big soft spot for these  

Big thanks to @Pook for all four layouts featured in this video!

Thanks for the videos as always.  

I was thinking about the Compensated or Random thread, and one of the comments there was the distortion of stake to jackpot - a point mentioned here as a key part of the 2p era as well.

It's a curious comparison to the £1/£100 era, because those machines despite the (slightly) better percentages are much more aggressive in the compensator.  To the point nobody really plays the game itself - they force it for jackpot.  

I know the 5p/£6 era gets a bad reputation - and as someone who used to play them at the arcades on holiday, it was a double-edged sword.  Machines that could be fully converted (where the minimum prize was 20p or 40p) allowed for a reasonable game, but those that couldn't (where the minimum reel win was £1, and most feature boards were itching to pay £2+) were going to be the equivalent of watching paint dry while you wait 50+ spins for a feature board that wouldn't kill you at the first opportunity.

 

 

[wearecity]

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.

[woodsy]

On 22/11/2021 at 01:21, wearecity said:

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.

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

[Chopaholic]

On 22/11/2021 at 00:29, jasonc said:

One of the observations Degsy mentioned in the video was that the old ones hadn't been nerfed from 96% yet - and that's because they have to formally communicate that change to all players.  We are very much a frog in the boiling pot at the moment: some operators are only launching new games at 93-94%, some are nerfing the back-catalogue as well (and sending out hideous emails trying to hide the evidence - the William Hill one was a shocker as the links were broken!), some are even going full speed and nerfing again from 94% to 91-92%.

Casual players are definitely noticing autoplay has gone, whether they care enough to change their habits I don't know - but the UKGC trying to force it from a secondary or passive activity (as it is for many of us - watching YouTube on the side or similar) to an active one (because that's the only way to be responsible in their eyes) does seem to be a blunder, and we'll only see changes if it causes a massive reduction in play or an increase in dangerous behaviour (e.g. average stakes increase). 

It's done me a favour in a way, I wasn't spending big money on online slots, £100-£150 here and there, but since Unibet nerfed their RTPs I haven't deposited a penny anywhere.

No great loss in the grand scheme of things, hopefully too many people won't get taken down by the new lower RTPs without realising what's happened.

[Chopaholic]

On 22/11/2021 at 01:01, jasonc said:

Thanks for the videos as always.  

I was thinking about the Compensated or Random thread, and one of the comments there was the distortion of stake to jackpot - a point mentioned here as a key part of the 2p era as well.

It's a curious comparison to the £1/£100 era, because those machines despite the (slightly) better percentages are much more aggressive in the compensator.  To the point nobody really plays the game itself - they force it for jackpot.  

I know the 5p/£6 era gets a bad reputation - and as someone who used to play them at the arcades on holiday, it was a double-edged sword.  Machines that could be fully converted (where the minimum prize was 20p or 40p) allowed for a reasonable game, but those that couldn't (where the minimum reel win was £1, and most feature boards were itching to pay £2+) were going to be the equivalent of watching paint dry while you wait 50+ spins for a feature board that wouldn't kill you at the first opportunity.

 

 

The thing with the 2p machines is they were often built around modest 40/50p repeaters, with the £2 as the 'halo' top prize that was generally kept separate from the normal run of gameplay.

I suspect that £100 jackpot machines save more of their RTP for jackpots and big DOND games, stuff like that, so there's not as much left for general gameplay as the old 2p machines would have.

5p games are alright but as you say, they really have to have the wintable adjusted to match, the ones where £1 is the lowest win are awful.

[wearecity]

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.

[jasonc]

8 hours ago, Chopaholic said:

The thing with the 2p machines is they were often built around modest 40/50p repeaters, with the £2 as the 'halo' top prize that was generally kept separate from the normal run of gameplay.

I suspect that £100 jackpot machines save more of their RTP for jackpots and big DOND games, stuff like that, so there's not as much left for general gameplay as the old 2p machines would have.

Which makes it similar to the clubber mentality - most of the time you're playing (e.g.) a £25-capped machine, but when it's ready it'll offer you a shot at a bigger prize from the secondary pot.

I do wonder how AWPs would have fared if they went that way - e.g. plenty of gameplay with a £20 cap, with the occasional chance at £70 or £100.  The players would have hated it (or would have had inside knowledge of how to rip them, and we'd be back to square one) but it would have given the casuals a bit more of a chance... who wants to put £10 or £20 into a fruit machine with no realistic prospect of being offered more than £2?

[Chopaholic]

Going for the ambitious triple jackpot on the old 2p PCP machine Fruit Cracker - which is 300x stake if you can get it!

 

[vectra666]

1 hour ago, Chopaholic said:

Going for the ambitious triple jackpot on the old 2p PCP machine Fruit Cracker - which is 300x stake if you can get it!

 

Good video gotta love these 2pers!! 
remember my early gambling days I worked in a couple of holiday camps in ‘93 down burnham on sea played the arcades down there and in town and bream , unity farm. Played all the 2p ones as the money lasted a lot longer good value 

try cash explosion 2p at a mighty £1.00 jackpot great slot for the skill stop I think it’s 50p repeater I used to do well on them then lose it all in the higher 10p/£4 variants 

great days back then trouble is that was my downfall great slots meant I was hooked, doubt I’d be the same if I started out now with todays shite!!

[WonkySausage]

On 23/11/2021 at 22:02, Chopaholic said:

Going for the ambitious triple jackpot on the old 2p PCP machine Fruit Cracker - which is 300x stake if you can get it!

 

Hey Chops, I downloaded Fruit Cracker as it's a game i've never heard of and fancied a punt at it myself, however all the reel lamps are wrong, don't suppose you could upload the version you have which has the correct ones please, or let  me know what lamp numbers need to be for them to be correct so I can edit them manually. Cheers in advance!

EDIT: I'm using 20.1 if that's any bother  

Edited November 25, 2021 by WonkySausage

[Chopaholic]

Here you go, it's converted over to work in V20.1, I've changed the coin input from £1 to 10p, and it's got a good 'infinite' autoplay profile that will (99.9% confident) work forever if left to its own devices.

Thanks to @Tommy c as this is his layout from back in 2013  

 

 

Fruit Cracker.zip

[WonkySausage]

cheers for that

[CasinoFruits]

Hi.  @Chopaholic, Im still going through your YouTube videos, and enjoying every minute.  Almost caught up now!

Just have a quick question if I may.  I've seen in some of your videos that you re able to display the session stats at the top of the emulator screen, instead of the lifetime machine stats?   Is there a way to do this for us mere mortals?!

Thanks

[WonkySausage]

press F12 to flick between session and lifetime stats