Causing a bit of a stir.

[Projectgilda]

Anyone played this? Just been moved into my local club.

[Chopaholic]

23 minutes ago, Projectgilda said:

Anyone played this? Just been moved into my local club.

All I would say is don't force it, there are some videos on hypalinx's channel of him absolutely doing his plums in it on the force.

It seems to be one of those that's just a £25 jackpot machine most of the time.

Batman Power Up is the one you need to be really careful of, as that was a clone of Powerplay, and Powerplay was one of the most famously fuckable machines of the £100 era. BFM keeping it all screwed up like absolute champs right into the death throes of the compensated fruit machine era.

[dondplayer]

6 hours ago, Projectgilda said:

Anyone played this? Just been moved into my local club.

Nothing particularly good about this machine but I'll send you a PM

[Cavey]

That machine looks a complete, charmless mess - with an overcrowded glass absolutely littered with tat, the classic case of trying to do too much. Compare this to the much more focused, aesthetic classics of the early 90s (for me, this was the era when fruit machines peaked) - it's almost a parody of a fruit machine; Heath Robinson-esque, even.

I find it easy to understand how I and others got hooked into playing the machines, with all those player-focused great games that were around then - whether Super Adders & Ladders, Line Up, Reel Crazy and Razzle Dazzle in my day, or Cash Counter, Indy, Rollercoaster and Double Chance later on. Who is seriously going to get into this thing off the bat, as their first ever brush with fruit machines? You'd need to have some serious folding paper for a start!

[Boulderdash]

4 minutes ago, Cavey said:

That machine looks a complete, charmless mess - with an overcrowded glass absolutely littered with tat, the classic case of trying to do too much. Compare this to the much more focused, aesthetic classics of the early 90s (for me, this was the era when fruit machines peaked) - it's almost a parody of a fruit machine; Heath Robinson-esque, even.

I find it easy to understand how I and others got hooked into playing the machines, with all those player-focused great games that were around then - whether Super Adders & Ladders, Line Up, Reel Crazy and Razzle Dazzle in my day, or Cash Counter, Indy, Rollercoaster and Double Chance later on. Who is seriously going to get into this thing off the bat, as their first ever brush with fruit machines? You'd need to have some serious folding paper for a start!

That's a pretty good description. So many ways to supposedly win £100...

Reel wins 

Cashpot

Feature/Cash Knockouts

DOND feature

Mega meter

Reward meter

...but in reality there are none unless it owes so much it just HAS to pay (i.e.Hypalinx has put £200 in it). 

 

[thealteredemu]

AWP… Rest in pieces.

It’s so sad that we went from those golden 90’s, actual fun and often fairly engaging games to the likes of this abomination.

So you could scale this down to compare it to a 10p £10 jackpot machine.  Those don’t play too well even back then.  

Honestly the sweet spot for me was 4.80 and £6 token era.  Nothing has really excited me like those times.

[Cavey]

I know what you mean, J, and I agree that £4.80JP/20p play really was the sweet spot - but let's not forget there are really, really good clubbers of the same vintage that still play a great game on 10p play and a HUNDRED QUID jackpot.

The great old clubbers ranged from soft-edged Barcrests that were AWPs at heart, like Club Adders & Ladders and Club Hyper Viper (these play awfully on the emulator but were much, much better in the wild - and usually gave the JP or repeating CP off simple hold set ups or even holds after nudges), harder 'Crests like Blackjack Club, JPMs like Royal Flush/Club Give Us a Break/Casino Crazy with frequent feature boards (and great sounds) - and pretty much any BFM (the undisputed king of clubs IMO).

It's demonstrably the case that even £1 play/£100JP doesn't HAVE to be crap - if it is, then it's just a lack of imagination, lousy programming, vulnerability or whatever.

[thealteredemu]

@Cavey Yeah, I can’t really comment on clubbers is wasn’t my main love.  Though I have some fond memories of OG Club Cops n Robbers and a few more, but they were very simple compared to some of the £100 ones you see.

I guess a lot of those forceble £100 AWP ones could be seen as club machines in disguise.  I didn’t play enough clubbers to comment there, but I know a fair amount of clubbers could be gambled out and those often had signs the cashpot is due.

You might be able to name this one but my mate often played out a club machine that had a nice tell as when the cashpot reached like 150 it would pay it out.  It could well be that it was something that got fixed on later revisions but I’m sure this was pretty early 90’s.

J

[Boulderdash]

5 minutes ago, thealteredemu said:

@Cavey Yeah, I can’t really comment on clubbers is wasn’t my main love.  Though I have some fond memories of OG Club Cops n Robbers and a few more, but they were very simple compared to some of the £100 ones you see.

I guess a lot of those forceble £100 AWP ones could be seen as club machines in disguise.  I didn’t play enough clubbers to comment there, but I know a fair amount of clubbers could be gambled out and those often had signs the cashpot is due.

You might be able to name this one but my mate often played out a club machine that had a nice tell as when the cashpot reached like 150 it would pay it out.  It could well be that it was something that got fixed on later revisions but I’m sure this was pretty early 90’s.

J

Most Barcrest clubbers of the late 80s and early 90s would reliably pay the cashpot as a jackpot when the reserve was around three quarters of that value. 

 

[thealteredemu]

I distinctly remember this certain one that would roll it in as soon as it reached the limit.  I don’t think I’m mistaken, maybe @Caveywould know the machine?  I believe it was £150 but it could potentially have been £200.

I’d love to know as it might be emulated just to try it out

J

[Boulderdash]

34 minutes ago, thealteredemu said:

I distinctly remember this certain one that would roll it in as soon as it reached the limit.  I don’t think I’m mistaken, maybe @Caveywould know the machine?  I believe it was £150 but it could potentially have been £200.

I’d love to know as it might be emulated just to try it out

J

If the triple bars were red, it would have been something like Celebration Club, Club Connect, Jackpot Jump, Club Pontoon which all paid the pot that way. If they were yellow could have been super blackjack club, adders and ladders club and clones

[Cavey]

38 minutes ago, thealteredemu said:

I distinctly remember this certain one that would roll it in as soon as it reached the limit.  I don’t think I’m mistaken, maybe @Caveywould know the machine?  I believe it was £150 but it could potentially have been £200.

I’d love to know as it might be emulated just to try it out

J

Hey J, if we're talking early 90s, this could be BFM Cashino. It had a cashpot and reserve meter - when the reserve hit £56.80 (on 10p play/£100JP at least), you could reliably go all-out for bells on the lower game (these paying the cashpot). Once you had the cashpot, you knew the jackpot would also come out in the afterplay as well (just keep away from the bottom 20p/play top reels stake, otherwise it's only £50).

I'm over simplifying to a degree; the machine also had a "normal" JP (off the top reels) in it that was nowt to do with the cashpot, and various other tells like two rows of pineapples holding for £40 on the middle top reels stake, which meant it was time to walk as you were nowhere near a JP-ready state.

Great old machines that really paid to get to know them in detail. (As an aside, it was actually emptiable a la Grandslam et al, but that's not what I'm talking about here).

[Projectgilda]

Well I played Batman. £10 in fuck all out, not even a feature. I walked. Me and my dad had £20 each to play on it but it doesn't even gives us a sniff. Nothing. If we'd have got 30 mins for £40 we'd have been happy. But £10 with no feature! Sorry, but that's poor. I'm a frequency fan, just let me play a bit win or lose, gimme a game at least.

[slotsmagic]

Just now, Projectgilda said:

Well I played Batman. £10 in fuck all out, not even a feature. I walked. Me and my dad had £20 each to play on it but it doesn't even gives us a sniff. Nothing. If we'd have got 30 mins for £40 we'd have been happy. But £10 with no feature! Sorry, but that's poor. I'm a frequency fan, just let me play a bit win or lose, gimme a game at least.

Last time I played one, about a year ago, it was £15 for a board, which gave the basic DOND feature. Took that and somehow spawned £50 in my box. 

Took it and ran. I really didn't get involved on this era, too many tricks I didn't know!!

But yes, pretty much all modern games are too much for a feature.

[Boulderdash]

2 minutes ago, Projectgilda said:

Well I played Batman. £10 in fuck all out, not even a feature. I walked. Me and my dad had £20 each to play on it but it doesn't even gives us a sniff. Nothing. If we'd have got 30 mins for £40 we'd have been happy. But £10 with no feature! Sorry, but that's poor. I'm a frequency fan, just let me play a bit win or lose, gimme a game at least.

And that's why no one plays them any more. 

[thealteredemu]

That's seems to be the thing nowadays, they are designed for hapless addicts who will get involved, they are generally designed for forcing, (though it has been said this one might not be).  Regular punters don't get a chance.  £10 without a board, even a losing board or capped, is very poor.  Was it £1 a go?  I mean if so £10 is maybe not quite enough to summon a board lol.

J

[Projectgilda]

I played it on 25p play. Sod 50p/£1 play. Was prepared to take anything it threw at me and not lose a board. Didn't get on so not much choice was given.

[Boulderdash]

1 hour ago, Projectgilda said:

I played it on 25p play. Sod 50p/£1 play. Was prepared to take anything it threw at me and not lose a board. Didn't get on so not much choice was given.

Utter bullshit isn't it. Almost as if it was designed to be crap so pub chains would demand the digital cabinets instead. 

And tbf for the publican and the operator, the digitals are much better. Far fewer things to go wrong, make a much bigger cash box. Can be updated remotely if there's an issue. 

[woodsy]

On 09/08/2025 at 14:28, Hamsun said:

Can you elaborate on what you mean by free tenner?

I've been giving the Arcadia DX quite a bit of play and I have to say that it is one of the worst, least playable versions I have come across. I reckon it blocks gambles to SEU at least 80% - 90% of the time, even when numbering like crazy.  It's more likely to give you enough swaps and bonuses to gamble to the top.

It can play dead for dozens of spins at a time, even when well under percentage.

it spins in a 1, you nudge to have blue bars on winline and hold for next spin free tenner.

the rom we have is harsh yes, so i play hi impact to get the fun factor back

[Hamsun]

Is that 'free' as in 'unaccounted' or just something it can offer when it can't really afford it?

[thealteredemu]

I don’t think it’s a free win per se.

Great machine, one of the last decent JPM player machines :).  Shame about the later mind.

J

[Projectgilda]

Ok I need your help? Where the best place to download MFME? I've tried a few sites but they either want money or the version I found for free doesn't load games off this site. I downloaded Jpm's  'Fast?Trak' and it states missing artwork and sound files yet they're in the folder?! Is MFME the only one out there, or are there specific emulators per manufacturer? I really want to play my old games again but I'm new to the scene. Any help is greatly appreciated ✌

[Graham the goldfish]

4 minutes ago, Projectgilda said:

Ok I need your help? Where the best place to download MFME? I've tried a few sites but they either want money or the version I found for free doesn't load games off this site. I downloaded Jpm's  'Fast?Trak' and it states missing artwork and sound files yet they're in the folder?! Is MFME the only one out there, or are there specific emulators per manufacturer? I really want to play my old games again but I'm new to the scene. Any help is greatly appreciated ✌

Everything, including mfme from this site. 

[Projectgilda]

Must have been looking in the wrong sections. Cheers

[Chopaholic]

14 minutes ago, Projectgilda said:

Ok I need your help? Where the best place to download MFME? I've tried a few sites but they either want money or the version I found for free doesn't load games off this site. I downloaded Jpm's  'Fast?Trak' and it states missing artwork and sound files yet they're in the folder?! Is MFME the only one out there, or are there specific emulators per manufacturer? I really want to play my old games again but I'm new to the scene. Any help is greatly appreciated ✌

Easiest way to get going, download the attachments on this post. Unzip 'MFME_DOWNLOAD' and you'll have a folder that looks like this. Double click on MFME to load the emulator. Windows might complain about untrusted publishers and whatnot, tell it to piss off.

EDIT - there are two MFME folders, use the one called MFMEV20_1

Also unzip 'BIG DRIFT', this is Fast Trak where it owes the player loads of money so it'll give you a good game.

Go to File > Load in MFME and point it at the .GAM file in the 'BIG DRIFT' folder, and Fast Trak will load in. Off you go!

MFME_DOWNLOAD.zip BIG DRIFT.zip