Bell Fruit Cobra3 emulator ?

[Road Hog Mad]

35 minutes ago, Chopaholic said:

Sorry, having a blonde moment even though I'm not blonde but bald.

[slotsmagic]

32 minutes ago, TommyH said:

The only time I've hacked a video game's code was Player Manager on the ZX Spectrum to allow me to have 14 players on the pitch at once and add two zeros to my bank balance. BASIC FTW

I had to 'poke' my way through many Spectrum games, but in my defence many required pixel perfect jumps and had limited lives. Plus I was very young. No doubt the keyboard wasn't that responsive either. And my eyesight was garbage and that was probably not diagnosed til after.

Not that I'm making excuses or anything  

Edited October 29, 2025 by slotsmagic

[TommyH]

25 minutes ago, slotsmagic said:

I had to 'poke' my way through many Spectrum games, but in my defence many required pixel perfect jumps and had limited lives. Plus I was very young. No doubt the keyboard wasn't that responsive either. And my eyesight was garbage and that was probably not diagnosed til after.

Not that I'm making excuses or anything  

Aye, many a MERGE"" and POKE away.

At least one game made it easier with 6031769, a number lodged permanently in any true Speccy lover's brain.

[slotsmagic]

12 minutes ago, TommyH said:

Aye, many a MERGE"" and POKE away.

At least one game made it easier with 6031769, a number lodged permanently in any true Speccy lover's brain.

Funny thing is, I can't remember if I ever completed it, if I did it certainly would have been with cheats

I do still 'cheat' a little these days when emulating some old console stuff - but via save states, not actual 'cheats' - so more a case of being able to keep redoing tricky bits until I get them right, rather than giving myself invincibility, infinite lives, e.t.c.

Edited October 29, 2025 by slotsmagic

[TommyH]

33 minutes ago, slotsmagic said:

Funny thing is, I can't remember if I ever completed it, if I did it certainly would have been with cheats

I do still 'cheat' a little these days when emulating some old console stuff - but via save states, not actual 'cheats' - so more a case of being able to keep redoing tricky bits until I get them right, rather than giving myself invincibility, infinite lives, e.t.c.

I don't consider that cheating. It's simply something that should have been in the original game that we've had in PS3 games etc but they probably didn't have the capacity for back then. Back then you had things like the level codes for Lemmings, where I'd consider using level codes achieved by someone else as cheating.

[wearecity]

5 hours ago, TommyH said:

The only time I've hacked a video game's code was Player Manager on the ZX Spectrum to allow me to have 14 players on the pitch at once and add two zeros to my bank balance. BASIC FTW

Not sure if you know, but on the Spectrum, Kevin Toms Football Manager, during the highlights part, if the opposition had a chance, you hit break, so it would go to the basic command prompt, then you type, goto 292 and they don't score.

So once you went 1-0 up, you could just do the above and never lose. Or even if all the highlights were the opposition chances, you'd end up 0-0 doing the above.

[dondplayer]

5 hours ago, TommyH said:

Aye, many a MERGE"" and POKE away.

At least one game made it easier with 6031769, a number lodged permanently in any true Speccy lover's brain.

I completed that particular game without knowing about that although I think I used infinite lives to do it. As I recall level 19 was a git time wise.

[TommyH]

21 hours ago, dondplayer said:

I completed that particular game without knowing about that although I think I used infinite lives to do it. As I recall level 19 was a git time wise.

The Bank? Skylab Landing Bay was a lot harder imho. 

[dondplayer]

On 29/10/2025 at 21:08, dondplayer said:

I completed that particular game without knowing about that although I think I used infinite lives to do it. As I recall level 19 was a git time wise.

 

2 hours ago, TommyH said:

The Bank? Skylab Landing Bay was a lot harder imho. 

Solar Power Generator - it wasn't that hard but you only just had time to do it. So waiting for any 'monster' to pass and pass back more than once would stuff you.

[TommyH]

15 hours ago, dondplayer said:

 

Solar Power Generator - it wasn't that hard but you only just had time to do it. So waiting for any 'monster' to pass and pass back more than once would stuff you.

Ah yes, those rays of light were a nightmare.

On a similar subject, here's something to behold, a Jet Set Willy walkthrough. Guy actually does a commentary:

 

[TonyC1971]

Thanks for the heads up that the link is live again.  Having a go at Telly Addicts and TOTP and realised I'm crap.  Doesn't help that Telly Addicts didn't age well.

[Matty.n]

Looks like they've been busy

 

 

[wearecity]

I'm probably being thick but what's the connection between quiz machines and Scorpion 6 fruit machines. 

[dondplayer]

15 minutes ago, wearecity said:

I'm probably being thick but what's the connection between quiz machines and Scorpion 6 fruit machines. 

The cobra emulator is featured on a channel that also previews a couple of scorp6 emulations- this queen one seems to have issues but is getting there.

[vectra666]

30 minutes ago, dondplayer said:

The cobra emulator is featured on a channel that also previews a couple of scorp6 emulations- this queen one seems to have issues but is getting there.

I’d say it has wrong sound or part sound roms everything else appears to Run including the inner video screen

[dondplayer]

8 hours ago, dondplayer said:

The cobra emulator is featured on a channel that also previews a couple of scorp6 emulations- this queen one seems to have issues but is getting there.

 

7 hours ago, vectra666 said:

I’d say it has wrong sound or part sound roms everything else appears to Run including the inner video screen

Sound ROMs seem correct to me - I am guessing there is some issue with the feature board because the demo shows a collect immediately on entry - not even one press of start on the feature board.

[vectra666]

16 minutes ago, dondplayer said:

 

Sound ROMs seem correct to me - I am guessing there is some issue with the feature board because the demo shows a collect immediately on entry - not even one press of start on the feature board.

We had that with some “open door” layouts on here pre mfme 5 the ones in mfme 9.4 scorp4 can’t remember what layouts but sure some did

[agemame]

There is a faint connection between the later Scorpion boards and Cobra 3, like pretty much every British manufacturer at that point they're all using some form of the Cold fire CPU, and making something very close to Pluto. It's why Betcoms got so weird, the hardware got close enough that with tiny adjustments you could run games built for one tech on another.

[wolf676]

New video with better music here: https://archive.org/details/qkom_20251121

[dondplayer]

28 minutes ago, wolf676 said:

New video with better music here: https://archive.org/details/qkom_20251121

That's looking better, still a couple of issues but almost there.

[dec1962]

On 21/11/2025 at 09:00, agemame said:

There is a faint connection between the later Scorpion boards and Cobra 3, like pretty much every British manufacturer at that point they're all using some form of the Cold fire CPU, and making something very close to Pluto. It's why Betcoms got so weird, the hardware got close enough that with tiny adjustments you could run games built for one tech on another.

Betcom really where the tarts of the industry, didn't matter what the tech was they'd always put something in it.

They realised quite early on the benefits of a good HAL. Didn't some of the software guys become INNOV8 or is that wrong ?

 

[dec1962]

7 minutes ago, dondplayer said:

That's looking better, still a couple of issues but almost there.

Where are the faults ?, I can't see/hear them

[slotsmagic]

Absolutely epic stuff! Although as I posted on his YT recently, my main interest in Scorpion 6 would be the potential for the latest Electrocoin lo-techs. Given that the older £25 ones don't quite run correctly on MFME (they soon lose track and go into a win-every-spin situation) - being able to run the Scorpion 6 versions would be incredible

I am surprised he chose the Queen machines to show his work off, simply as I'd be worried about copyright and whatnot from Queen  

[fruitsnappa]

These may already be available but for anyone interested here are a load of Scorpion 6 files. They may be of use to this project.

https://mega.nz/file/H8AHDQoI#LllFYA7Q3APa-CMddra0haOtxUQNax-CDFdKPU3l7Z0

[infection]

On 20/11/2025 at 22:20, Matty.n said:

Looks like they've been busy

 

 

So my images useful now for queen as ill prepare for vecs dxs?