HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 --- **MVFME v1.0 — It's Here. Finally.** Where do we even start. Some of you have been waiting a long time for this. Too long, honestly. We know that. We've teased, we've gone quiet, we've come back with "nearly there" more times than we care to admit. So before anything else — we're sorry for the wait. Genuinely. We know how frustrating it is to be told something is coming and then hear nothing for weeks. Life got in the way, the project got bigger than we ever imagined, and there were times we honestly thought about walking away from the whole thing. But we didn't. And we hope what we've got to show you was worth the wait. **So what is MVFME?** MVFME stands for Multiple Video Fruit Machine Emulator. It's a Barcrest T7 emulator that runs real T7 slot machine games on your Windows PC. We're not talking about recreations or lookalikes. These are the actual games, running from the original game files, displaying on a dual-screen cabinet layout just like you'd see in a pub or arcade. Credits, stakes, wins, gamble features, collect — the full experience. Version 1.0 ships with support for 9 games across B3, B4, and Category - Monopoly Big Event - Ooh Aah Dracula - Rainbow Riches Pick N Mix - Cashino Deluxe 7 - 500 Challenge 7 - Grease - Top Trumps Hammer Horror (B4) - Top Trumps Hammer Horror (C) - Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers And that's just the start. There are hundreds more T7 games out there and the groundwork is laid to support them. But we wanted to get something solid into your hands first rather than keep you waiting for perfection. Oh, and keep reading. There's something else we've been working on that we think you're going to love. **The Journey** We won't pretend this was easy. It wasn't. Not even close. The T7 platform was never designed to run outside of a real cabinet. Every part of it assumes it's talking to real hardware — screens, buttons, doors, hoppers, licence dongles, the lot. Making it work on a normal PC meant figuring out how every single piece communicated and then building replacements for all of it. From scratch. There were breakthroughs and there were disasters. We'd get something working beautifully on one game and then watch it completely fall apart on the next. There was a period where we broke something fundamental and every game we tested just sat there doing nothing. No error message, no crash, just silence. We spent days chasing that one down. There was another stretch where we had the logic completely backwards on a critical piece — everything looked right on paper but the games just wouldn't spin. Turned out we'd inverted a single value. One bit. That cost us weeks. There were moments where things went wrong so consistently that we genuinely questioned whether it was possible at all. Hong Kong Phooey would be up at stupid hours, convinced we were one fix away from cracking it, and Marvin would be right there alongside trying everything we could think of. Some nights the fixes worked. Some nights they made things worse. More than once we had to throw away days of work and start again from scratch because we'd gone down the wrong path. But the testing crew kept us honest. Every time we thought something was done, they'd find another issue we'd missed. Games that worked perfectly on our machines would misbehave on theirs. Display scaling, screen layouts, timing issues — all the stuff you only find when real people use your software on real machines. Their patience and detailed reports are a massive part of why this works as well as it does today. **Getting Started** Right then, enough of the sob story. Here's how to get up and running: 1. Download MVFME v1.0 from **https://mvfme.com** — head to the Downloads page 2. Extract the zip to a folder on your local drive (e.g. C:\MVFME). Don't use OneDrive or a network drive — keep it local. 3. Run the two VC++ runtime installers included in the folder (vc_redist.x86.exe and vcredist_x86_2010.exe). You only need to do this once. If they say already installed, that's fine. 4. Run **mvfme.exe** **Installing Games:** MVFME uses .bpak files — these are the original Barcrest game packages. You'll need to source these yourself (you know where to look). The supported BPAK files for v1.0 are: - B3 500 Challenge7 5.0(Build 103).bpak - B3 CashinoDeluxe7 1.1(Build 30).bpak - B3 T7 Monopoly Big Event 1.1 (build 04).bpak - B3 T7 Ooh Aah Dracula 1.0 (build 7).bpak - B3 T7 RRPickNMix 1.2 (Build 1).bpak - B4 T7 Grease 200GBP 1.1(Build 69).bpak - B4 TopTrumpsHammerHorror 0.8(Build 40).bpak - C T7 WoZRubySlipper 100GBP 1.4(Build 27).bpak - C TT_HammerHorror 70GBP 0.2(Build 31).bpak Copy these into the **bpaks** folder inside your MVFME directory, then in the launcher go to **File > Scan for Games**. MVFME will extract, decrypt, and set up each game automatically. You'll see a progress bar while it works. Once done, the games appear in the launcher grid — just click one to play. You only need to install games once. They're remembered between sessions. To add more games later, just drop new .bpak files in the folder and scan again. **Playing:** Click a game to launch it. Use the on-screen buttons or keyboard shortcuts — Space to spin, C for £1 credit, V for £5 note. The full list of controls is in the README. You'll need Windows 10 or 11. Any display scaling works (100%, 125%, 150% — we made sure of that, it was one of the last things we fixed). No internet connection needed to play. For questions, discussion, bug reports, and general chat about the emulator, come find us at **www.desertislandfruits.com** — that's home base for all things MVFME. **And Now... The Big Reveal** We said there was something else. Something we've been quietly building alongside the emulator itself. Something that, as far as we know, has never been done before in fruit machine emulation. We are proud to announce the **MVFME Online Tournament System**. Live. Competitive. Real-time leaderboards. Here's how it works: we set a game, a starting credit, and a time limit. Everyone plays the same game with the same balance. When the clock runs out, your final credit is your score. Top of the leaderboard wins. Scores are verified to keep it fair — no tampering, no exploits, no arguments. And to mark the occasion, the very first MVFME tournament will be on a game that feels rather appropriate given the moment... **Monopoly — The Big Event.** Because this IS a big event. Head to **https://mvfme.com**, create your free account, and get ready. Tournament details will be announced shortly. It's been a long road to get here. Thank you for sticking with us. — Hong Kong Phooey & Marvin --- and we can’t leave without saying thanks to Chris Wren for creating this scene. Without his work we would not be here. Such a shame you could not see this, I know it’s video stuff but hope you would have appreciated it anyway 20 5 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ross Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Absolute legend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 This is unreal. After all the pain we had I think the website went down the second I hit post lol please hold on or can anyone let me know if they can get on the website 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 fine for me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 1 minute ago, Ross said: fine for me It’s my end then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spa Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Have quickly bundled the current compatible games, correct me if I have these wrong @HongKong Phooey Many thanks for this, now grabbing Torrent file added. MVFME set 2 (25).zip.zip 14 10 3 https://www.facebook.com/groups/264122764904452/?epa=SEARCH_BOX Fruit Machine Discussion - Facebook Group. Please Join! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzZMCJWHMHMBR3ZTMTBIQTdwWUU?resourcekey=0-r05o9PhddyeqWBP_32I0LQ&usp=sharing My Google Drive. Lots of Fruit/Digital machine files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 Paging @Road Hog Madwe are waiting for you to say why isn’t this game included lol 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 In all seriousness though we honestly don’t know how many games work on it. Because of the way we built it there could be games that will just work when we install them but as there are over 400 bpaks to get through this would have pushed release back to next year lol we went for a good mix of old and new for initial testing. If you do get a crash let me know via a pm and include the log files at the time of the crash in the emulator folder. We have left debugging on for this reason and we can look at them and try and get an answer as to what’s gone wrong but we were digging out old computers and doing clean installs at one point to find out why something didn’t work so we have tested on a few systems the plan will be monthly releases as and when we get more games running but for this release we just want to know the codebase is stable on multiple machines. Then we can start the fun 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damici Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Absolutely brillant! It runs very smooth. Amazing work. So great to see that there are still people actively working on new emulators. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niallquinn Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 I'll say it again.................fanriffic!!! Many many thanks!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
always_eight Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Thank you so much for these fruit machines. Im amazed how far its all come, Well done all involved and well done to wizard RIP. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 13 minutes ago, niallquinn said: I'll say it again.................fanriffic!!! Many many thanks!!! Come on then. You have signed up. Give the tournament a go lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niallquinn Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 I'm just about to. Along with upping 330 TB of Redump fills!!!. A rom collectors life is 24 hours a day!! Cheers! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 1 minute ago, niallquinn said: I'm just about to. Along with upping 330 TB of Redump fills!!!. A rom collectors life is 24 hours a day!! Cheers! I think all the test builds of MVFME came to about 330tb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superl33ch Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 (edited) This is amazing, jackpotted Big Event third press lol! Congratulations on the release... and THANK YOU Oh and Top Trumps £70 claims to have an RTP of 0% in the help screen Edited April 8 by superl33ch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niallquinn Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Oh aye, max pie as Tronno would say, RR Pick and Mix~~~ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 19 minutes ago, superl33ch said: This is amazing, jackpotted Big Event third press lol! Congratulations on the release... and THANK YOU Oh and Top Trumps £70 claims to have an RTP of 0% in the help screen That’s the same fault as why WPT doesn’t show the percentage at the bottom of the screen. It doesn’t affect the gameplay but we are working on it. shame you were not in tournament play when you did that, you would have been top 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayfinder Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Thank you to everyone involved in this project, well done ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealteredemu Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Many thanks to all involved. J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKong Phooey Posted April 8 Author Report Share Posted April 8 1 hour ago, HongKong Phooey said: This is unreal. After all the pain we had I think the website went down the second I hit post lol please hold on or can anyone let me know if they can get on the website Seems when I uploaded the file and site update I broke a security rule on the server and it locked me out of my own server lol so while I thought it was down it was just me locked out. Now trying to find out what I did wrong lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niallquinn Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Come on, get round, squeeze it Change! Deff! Max pottage etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markhh Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Absolutely brilliant! Well done guys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superl33ch Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Had a few lock ups on Pick n Mix, don't know if this error message helps guys? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealteredemu Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 I’ve also had the above error when trying to exit that particular game. J 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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