Mdm - Beat The Clock

[spa]

Now i'm pretty sure this was the name of the machine. Im certain it was made for bfmulator many years ago.

It was a double/nothing style machine, £3 jackpot. The 27 way symbol was a blue star...

Had a search and I seem to have found a copy here,

https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Arcade/Fruit-Machines/Layouts/BFMulator

But I cannot find it anywhere else! Be great to have this game made on mfme, but at the moment i'm having a hard time locating the layout! Don't really want to sign upto a random website.

Does anyone have this?

@Geddy maybe?

[infection]

I've only heard of a BAS machine called this  I think

[slotsmagic]

13 hours ago, spa said:

Now i'm pretty sure this was the name of the machine. Im certain it was made for bfmulator many years ago.

It was a double/nothing style machine, £3 jackpot. The 27 way symbol was a blue star...

Had a search and I seem to have found a copy here,

https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Arcade/Fruit-Machines/Layouts/BFMulator

But I cannot find it anywhere else! Be great to have this game made on mfme, but at the moment i'm having a hard time locating the layout! Don't really want to sign upto a random website.

Does anyone have this?

@Geddy maybe?

Rings a bell, feel like I might have seen it in one of Dave's old warehouse videos but could also be wrong!

9 hours ago, infection said:

I've only heard of a BAS machine called this  I think

BAS did Stop The Clock, a 2p/5p £5 jackpot machine (possibly lower jackpot too?). It was a 27 way machine with gamble so similar, but not sure it's the one Spa is after.

[andy-1]

We have roms for best the clock and after a search on the Mecca Ploggy said there was a layout for it in BFMulator but apparently no sounds available, although it was a few years ago.

[infection]

1 hour ago, andy-1 said:

We have roms for best the clock and after a search on the Mecca Ploggy said there was a layout for it in BFMulator but apparently no sounds available, although it was a few years ago.

Weird I can't find layout anywhere  

[andy-1]

Neither can I, just the information that Ploggy posted.

It may have been hosted on websites such h as the hovel that is now no longer available.

So may well be that only the older members such as Geddy may have it in their collection.

[logopolis]

Does this site theoldcomputer.com have any roms that we don't have in our collection?

[Ploggy]

Here's the BFMulator version of Beat The Clock.  It'll need converting for it to work on MFME.  It should be easy enough to do. 

MDM Beat The Clock.zip

[Boulderdash]

The only beat the clock I know is a bell fruit from the post-Noel era.

Very flat profile, and I think there was some naughtiness on the first chip. 

 

 

[Ploggy]

The name has been used on a few machines which complicates things a but.  The £4 version of Stop The Clock is also called Beat The Clock.

[spa]

1 hour ago, Ploggy said:

Here's the BFMulator version of Beat The Clock.  It'll need converting for it to work on MFME.  It should be easy enough to do. 

MDM Beat The Clock.zip 2.08 MB · 2 downloads

Thanks mate!

Hope you are well

[Geddy]

This one?

[Ploggy]

1 hour ago, spa said:

Thanks mate!

Hope you are well

As fine as ever, mate.

Tried converting the layout over to MFME but the converter didn't like the layout for some reason.  Complaining about the button's .BMP files. 

Plus it might not even work without the converter issues.  Tried loading a fresh set of roms into MFME but I can't get anywhere with them.  Makes a little tune when loading, but nothing else.

[Ploggy]

3 minutes ago, Geddy said:

This one?

That's the one I posted, mate.  Don't think there are any other versions.

[spa]

I tried too. No joy, same error.

It actually freezes up in bfmulator 2.07. Got the feature, and that's all she wrote!

[Ploggy]

I originally thought the lock-up was because of the missing sound roms.  But it must have worked without the sound roms at one point otherwise there wouldn't be a layout made in the first place.  Weird.

[slotsmagic]

As a non techie type currently miles away from a PC, I'd wonder about the following...

ROMs possibly hacked / modded to work in BFMulator OR vice versa - some game-specific hack in BFMulator that never made it in to MFME?

 

[Ploggy]

Scorpion 1 MDM machines have always been a mystery, emulation-wise.  Smokey Vs The Bandit also has issues on MFME, but Crazy Crocs (which is also a S1 MDM machine) runs fine!?  Some weird protections going on that haven't been fully worked out on MFME I would guess.

[MikeyMonster]

7 hours ago, Boulderdash said:

The only beat the clock I know is a bell fruit from the post-Noel era.

Very flat profile, and I think there was some naughtiness on the first chip. 

 

 

Naughtiness?

On a DOND??

Surely not...... 

[spa]

 

[johnparker007]

Works in MAME but missing sound roms.

Appears to soft lock (a couple of blocks of light flashing), after playing enough credits to get either Nudges or a Feature board (I am unfamiliar with the game). This is likely due to the fruit machine's program awaiting a signal from the emulated sound chip that a sample has finished playing.

This may be fixed either by sourcing the original sound roms, making some substitute sound roms from another game, if after that the issue still persists, then the issue will be fixed by implementing the correct feature in the sound chip emulation (to provide the 'sample finished playing' signal or 'sample is playing' status).

When fully working in Mame, and Oasis project is at that level (1+ years!) the layout can be converted from BFEmulator -> MFME... then hopefully improved with high res artwork etc... then extracted and imported to Oasis Layout editor, and built to be played in the Machine Player app or Arcade Sim v2 (though it can be played now in the Layout Editor, but that's not really the nicest way to play).  So one day it will be playable  

 

Edited August 17, 2024 by johnparker007