MVFME V1.0 Released

[always_eight]

1 hour ago, vectra666 said:

Can’t play that one yet due to the screen sizes are too big for their frames which is a shame as liked that slot

@HongKong Phooey maybe in a future update the screens could be resized to make he screen resolution or an option of left n right 

also rainbow riches sometimes the screens are ok as in see everythjng other times they go like ruby slipper oz..

You have the exactly the same problem as me vectra666. Its anoying because i can play grease and WoO but i can't see all of them lol

[Road Hog Mad]

1 hour ago, slotsmagic said:

 

Also @HongKong Phooey

So it looks like an issue with coordinates, if you see the attached video I can use the touchscreen but I have to click miles off to the right

 

https://youtu.be/jn5b73Nyt9Q

Good find, and meow. I love cats, do you have any cat videos?

[slotsmagic]

38 minutes ago, Road Hog Mad said:

Good find, and meow. I love cats, do you have any cat videos?

... Far too many cat photos and videos 

In other news I finally got a double jackpot on the leaderboard game. I say double jackpot, I got a jackpot in the first minute or so from a £252 feature win (11 guaranteed wins, first 5 of those included a £100 and 2x£40) - which gambled out, and then a feature which paid £482 and I collected as if I'd gambled it and lost I'd have probably thrown my keyboard at my TV 

(I had only just changed my strategy on the leaderboard, I decided gambling all wins was making it too slow, so just had gamble wins over £5 on. I also collected the 3 symbol trigger when the gamble came in, and that is the one that paid £482 albeit from 'luckily' picking 3 hotels. You don't have to gamble for the 4x/5x symbols, you can get decent bonuses from the standard 3 symbol. I've actually had plenty of absolute crap bonuses from the hotels when I've gambled out to 5 symbols.)

Edited April 13 by slotsmagic

[Road Hog Mad]

31 minutes ago, slotsmagic said:

... Far too many cat photos and videos 

In other news I finally got a double jackpot on the leaderboard game. I say double jackpot, I got a jackpot in the first minute or so from a £252 feature win (11 guaranteed wins, first 5 of those included a £100 and 2x£40) - which gambled out, and then a feature which paid £482 and I collected as if I'd gambled it and lost I'd have probably thrown my keyboard at my TV 

(I had only just changed my strategy on the leaderboard, I decided gambling all wins was making it too slow, so just had gamble wins over £5 on. I also collected the 3 symbol trigger when the gamble came in, and that is the one that paid £482 albeit from 'luckily' picking 3 hotels. You don't have to gamble for the 4x/5x symbols, you can get decent bonuses from the standard 3 symbol. I've actually had plenty of absolute crap bonuses from the hotels when I've gambled out to 5 symbols.)

I just noticed that you Fffff.... I thought I was in with a chance with the MEGA, plus I figured out when you have a 'sneak peak' you can select the others first so you get more picks, it went for £90 then I lost the gamble, ended up with £10 overall. My time will come

[GeorgeJG]

Well I've just downloaded MVFME, incredible achievement. I can't imagine the levels of frustration trying to get things to work properly. It sounds nightmarish. 

Intel HD graphics 630 4G128MB + NVIDIA Quattro K1200 4GB, Windows 10, 3.6Ghz Intel Processor. This PC is getting on a bit now 7/8 years old at a guess, was pretty decent spec when I bought it, not sure how it stacks up now but all games ran very smoothly, no throttling issues. The titties still bounce on Oh Ah Dracula so I know it's genuine software.  

 

I've not actively tried to break anything, you can fire in fivers (v) pretty quick, no issues. Only slight gremlin was on exiting Oh Ah Dracula I had to use Ctrl+Alt+delete to get to task manager as it just hung when I clicked exit. However killing the bpak worked fine and we got back to game selection screen. 

 

So far pretty much flawless so massive thank you for this exciting development and powerful springboard to the future of FME. Loving the nostalgia of Top Trumps. 

 

I'll check out the tournament in a bit, food shopping awaits. Current challenge for myself, get the £500 on WPT. All in.  

[Fishsta]

4 hours ago, slotsmagic said:

Nope. No Barcrest / SG / L&W content on the T7 or T8 had them as far as I'm aware (although I'll confess I'm at least a year out of date on the T8 content now!).

For Barcrest stuff with Premium Play you'd need Equinox cabinets or above, and for Bell Fruit you'd want Astra / Novomatic / Bell Fruit content that runs on either Firefox II, or QuNo. Although again I'm at least a year out of date with them as well, having smashed my cabinets up last year

I do recall seeing that that MVFME was teased with an iPub looking photo or screenshot in the development thread... so perhaps those games may run at some point?

Ooh Aah Dracula had £20 and £30 Mega Games, would that version be non-T7?

[Graham the goldfish]

I think the most underused facility on the t7 games was the odd option to be able to cancel a repeat chance. I never did it in the wild, but now its emulated it seemed to pay more with additional picks and features.

I had a decent bash at the new emulator today. It worked flawlessly for me, so good work! One feature that would be nice, that is on mfme, would be a cash in/out stats to keep count of how much virtual anxiety and depression i need to induce.

[spa]

13 minutes ago, Fishsta said:

Ooh Aah Dracula had £20 and £30 Mega Games, would that version be non-T7?

Yes, they were in bookies, Nevada cabinets I believe. Used to love a go on pure pots mega spins!

[Fishsta]

2 minutes ago, spa said:

Yes, they were in bookies, Nevada cabinets I believe. Used to love a go on pure pots mega spins!

Blimey pal, good to see you still around. So did I. I'm sure the earlier versions of that Wizard of Oz game that had mega spins were in older cabinets in some arcades. But I could be wrong.

 

Do you have any idea how to or if you can access Demo Play / Feature Test / Door Open mode? I can see graphics for the door open in the emulator resources.

[spa]

Good to see you too

I can't see a way of getting a game into demo, even a door open. Would be nice to get a door open so we can look at the game options, change %s, turn gambles on etc. Saying that, i've not looked to hard, might be worth pulling up a game and looking in the test files and see if a 0 can be changed to a 1 maybe? Sort of an on/off thing....? I will go and have a look.

Back then, most games had a big spin option. Golden Dragon had one, ment you just needed 2 scatters for the feature. Ladbrookes and Corel used Barcrest games, Hills and Betfred used Bluerpint and Inspired (or whatever they were called back then). The blue print games also had big bet fortune spins, can remember playing wish upon a jackpot on £20 spins.

[spa]

Looking at the optsEditable file,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<GEEditableGameOptionSet>
  <editableValues>
    <GEEditableGameOptionValue name="FEATURED_GAME_OPTION" value="0" defaultValue="0" minValue="0" maxValue="1" inc="1" dec="1" />
    <GEEditableGameOptionValue name="EnableHideCredit" value="1" defaultValue="1" minValue="0" maxValue="1" inc="1" dec="1" />
    <GEEditableGameOptionValue name="Gamble Default Setting" value="1" defaultValue="0" minValue="0" maxValue="1" inc="1" dec="1" />
    <GEEditableGameOptionValue name="Gamble Button Active" value="1" defaultValue="1" minValue="0" maxValue="1" inc="1" dec="1" />
  </editableValues>
</GEEditableGameOptionSet>

I changed the Gamble Button Active from 1 to 0, but it's still there. That stood a big chance to taking the gamble option away lol
         

[Ginge]

13 hours ago, superl33ch said:

I have the same issue.  HH 250 has stopped working the same way as yours.

I had the same issue,I  deleted the game and then reinstalled and has worked ever since. Might be worth a try.

[nails]

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Edited April 14 by nails

[nails]

14 hours ago, stevedude2 said:

 that lost money stays on the compensator and doesn't get lost.

 

 

Posted just now

Hey Steve, and thank you for your reply.

i apolgise but im confused here. your reply says the money doesnt get lost, however your inital post say - `if you messed up wild picks that money would be lost and the game wouldn't achieve RTP%.`

in not having a go at you, im just confused as either the money is lost or not?. ive also spent way over 30 years in the business, but not at your level.

all the best stevedude2

[Ze Frog]

16 hours ago, vectra666 said:

Can’t play that one yet due to the screen sizes are too big for their frames which is a shame as liked that slot

@HongKong Phooey maybe in a future update the screens could be resized to make he screen resolution or an option of left n right 

also rainbow riches sometimes the screens are ok as in see everythjng other times they go like ruby slipper oz..

Have you tried "automatically hide the task bar" setting in Windows? 

Only I have that set which allows the window to overlap the task bar, if it wasn't set, I would imagine there would be an issue as it does overlap a bit.

[I have finished]

Hi. Mainly for HongKongPhooey, Is it possible for MVFME to make the little attract sound effects like real T7s do? So when you're on the menu, it randomly goes through the installed games making noises like the hahahahahaha of rainbow ritches and the funny martion guy in money mad martions says something, also boogie nights did a little clip of the song or is that going to be in a future version?

[MikeyPosh]

Still struggling to get this going

Had a clean slate this morning, re-downloaded it, and the bpaks too, and after installing, this happens to a few of them, the others, nothings happens

Followed all instructions

[Ze Frog]

4 minutes ago, MikeyPosh said:

Still struggling to get this going

Had a clean slate this morning, re-downloaded it, and the bpaks too, and after installing, this happens to a few of them, the others, nothings happens

Followed all instructions

That looks like the file to be installed the first time before running MVFME hasn't installed properly. Might be worth retrying that part and checking for any permissions that might be preventing it's install.

[stevedude2]

1 hour ago, nails said:

 

i apolgise but im confused here. your reply says the money doesnt get lost, however your inital post say - `if you messed up wild picks that money would be lost and the game wouldn't achieve RTP%.`

in not having a go at you, im just confused as either the money is lost or not?. ive also spent way over 30 years in the business, but not at your level.

No worries - it should be me apologising because I was a bit vague

If you messed up wild picks - for example you had £20 there but chose the wrong reels and ended up with £10 - and the game was random, there would be no way of returning that 'lost' £10 to the player at some point in the future, because by definition each spin on a random game is independent, which means it doesn't know or care what has happened previously.  The game would only achieve the stated RTP% in the help pages if no player ever messed up wild picks.  You'd have to show a percentage range in the help pages instead, or have a statement along the lines of 'THIS GAME RETURNS 92% WITH OPTIMAL PLAY' or something, which is a bit shit and would alienate a lot of players.

By using compensation you can make the game remember that lost £10 and modify future play to ensure that money is given back to the player somehow.  There are loads of different ways this can be done.  Therefore the game will return the stated RTP%.

Similarly, if the community feature is triggered and one of the slaves gets disconnected and the player doesn't get taken in, the money they would have won from the feature (or the fact that they have missed a feature when they were eligible) will be remembered and that 'value' will remain on the compensator.

 

Edited April 14 by stevedude2

[Archstered]

8 minutes ago, stevedude2 said:

No worries - it should be me apologising because I was a bit vague

If you messed up wild picks - for example you had £20 there but chose the wrong reels and ended up with £10 - and the game was random, there would be no way of returning that 'lost' £10 to the player at some point in the future, because by definition each spin on a random game is independent, which means it doesn't know or care what has happened previously.  The game would only achieve the stated RTP% in the help pages if no player ever messed up wild picks.  You'd have to show a percentage range in the help pages instead, or have a statement along the lines of 'THIS GAME RETURNS 92% WITH OPTIMAL PLAY' or something, which is a bit shit and would alienate a lot of players.

By using compensation you can make the game remember that lost £10 and modify future play to ensure that money is given back to the player somehow.  There are loads of different ways this can be done.  Therefore the game will return the stated RTP%.

Similarly, if the community feature is triggered and one of the slaves gets disconnected and the player doesn't get taken in, the money they would have won from the feature will be remembered and will remain on the compensator.

 

So effectively you can kind of 'force' the communities to an extent, by dud picking wild picks and refusing repeat chances, but it's far easier for these games to chuck you a big win rather than a traditional machine.

[stevedude2]

4 minutes ago, Archstered said:

So effectively you can kind of 'force' the communities to an extent, by dud picking wild picks and refusing repeat chances, but it's far easier for these games to chuck you a big win rather than a traditional machine.

Messing up wild picks doesn't necessarily make the community feature more likely.  It might just give Bonus Spins more often after wild picks, or give 2 wild picks a bit more often.

[thealteredemu]

I’ve purposely messed up those wild picks and in my experience, which is extremely limited, it will often throw 2’s or do a respin.

J

 

Edited April 14 by thealteredemu

[superl33ch]

I forced Grease for a bit and it gave over 80 !! bonus respins off a single wild pick for over £100 total.

[thealteredemu]

1 hour ago, MikeyPosh said:

Still struggling to get this going

Had a clean slate this morning, re-downloaded it, and the bpaks too, and after installing, this happens to a few of them, the others, nothings happens

Followed all instructions

Did you install these as outlined at start of the thread?

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.

 

Might be worth a punt.
 

J

Edited April 14 by thealteredemu

[wearecity]

The other thing with the runtimes, I uninstalled the versions I had installed, when it gave the option to repair/uninstall.

Then I installed them from fresh.

Worked afterwards on my Windows 11 PC, but still didn't work on my Windows 10 Laptop, after doing that.

There's so many configurations out there, it seems to be touch and go, whether it works or not. Frustrating but understandable, with it being the first public release.

As a last resort, I'd switch off all Windows protection and Anti-Virus programs, when installing and running the first time and watch out for any pop ups, about accessing networks. I had one of the slots, ask for network permissions.

Edited April 14 by wearecity