My online slots videos (plus UK AWPs)

[Jono777]

Sorry Chops, over tired and memory sh*t lol...

Can you remind me where I can download the Arcade (for free?) please.

Cheers

 

[dunover]

A magnificent update to the arcade!

Got the terrible arcade carpet right, plus subdued lighting, but:

Missing huge amounts of lo-tech slots, the 1980's & 1990's would have only had a minority of board games.
Too much space, the arcade would never have all that spare floorspace without plonking some crappy old Bar-x's on them, audited in their accounts with a capital value of £1.
No upright ash trays, or ash trays on machines, there would have been a fug of smoke in there always.
Paper coffee cups should be strewn everywhere too.
A stone-faced fat attendant in a change kiosk is absent, or some mutant wandering around with the coin bag around their waist ready for you to call them over as you spunk yet another £20 note.
Some shopping trolleys missing from the aisles.
No air conditioning/heating blowers or vents on the ceiling - a must to make it comfortable enough to ensure the mugs don't have any reason to leave until broke.
Same with the toilet - no toilet door in any of the gaps between machines against the wall. Same as above, you want to keep people captive plus it's somewhere discreet (out of view of the CCTV cameras, again missing!!) for players to buy bagfuls of shoplifted goods from the alchies/smackheads, a kind of trading floor with the whiff of stale urine.

Apart from that, brings back a few memories.

P.S. Oh yeah, where's the video screen units like Red Hot Poker (BWB?)

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Sorry Chops, over tired and memory sh*t lol...

Can you remind me where I can download the Arcade (for free?) please.

Cheers

Register at Desert Island Fruits -

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Once registration is complete, download MFME from here and install it (Windows 10 only) -

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Then download Arcade Simulator, install it, and let it update itself -

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Then launch Arcade Simulator, it does some clever stuff to find MFME and configure itself, once it's finished doing all that, you'll be in the arcade.

 

[Jono777]

Thank you very much!!

On it right now

Edit: Sorry @ChopleyIOM - Ran into some issues already, apologies, can you help me past this point please

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Got the terrible arcade carpet right, plus subdued lighting, but:

Missing huge amounts of lo-tech slots, the 1980's & 1990's would have only had a minority of board games.
Too much space, the arcade would never have all that spare floorspace without plonking some crappy old Bar-x's on them, audited in their accounts with a capital value of £1.
No upright ash trays, or ash trays on machines, there would have been a fug of smoke in there always.
Paper coffee cups should be strewn everywhere too.
A stone-faced fat attendant in a change kiosk is absent, or some mutant wandering around with the coin bag around their waist ready for you to call them over as you spunk yet another £20 note.
Some shopping trolleys missing from the aisles.
No air conditioning/heating blowers or vents on the ceiling - a must to make it comfortable enough to ensure the mugs don't have any reason to leave until broke.
Same with the toilet - no toilet door in any of the gaps between machines against the wall. Same as above, you want to keep people captive plus it's somewhere discreet (out of view of the CCTV cameras, again missing!!) for players to buy bagfuls of shoplifted goods from the alchies/smackheads, a kind of trading floor with the whiff of stale urine.

Apart from that, brings back a few memories.

P.S. Oh yeah, where's the video screen units like Red Hot Poker (BWB?)

A lot of that 'grungey real arcade stuff' is actually on the development list

In terms of specific machines, it's incredibly resource intensive to build cabinets and develop the conversion routines for a new tech/cabinet, and this is basically one guy doing it in his spare time - TBH what he's achieved so far is incredible, and he has a lot of plans for the project going forward!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Thank you very much!!

On it right now

Edit: Sorry @ChopleyIOM - Ran into some issues already, apologies, can you help me past this point please

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It's a very good way of keeping bots out The questions are dynamically generated too.

 

[Jono777]

Thanks Chops

For some reason I cannot pass security check and even with the 9:28 info, it is telling me its wrong.

I don't want to take up any more of your time so will try again tomorrow, maybe just a temp glitch.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Thanks Chops

For some reason I cannot pass security check and even with the 9:28 info, it is telling me its wrong.

I don't want to take up any more of your time so will try again tomorrow, maybe just a temp glitch.

Hmmmm OK is it still the same question Jono? It does change on a regular basis. I know the site owner pretty well so if needs be I can ask him to manually sort out your registration.

As a collective scene we just really don't want robots or spammers signing up, hence a rather stricter than normal signing up process!

 

[Jono777]

Hmmmm OK is it still the same question Jono? It does change on a regular basis. I know the site owner pretty well so if needs be I can ask him to manually sort out your registration.

As a collective scene we just really don't want robots or spammers signing up, hence a rather stricter than normal signing up process!

Hey mate, yes I get the stricter sign up process, in fact its rather welcoming to see something unique to stop the unwanted sign ups you describe (well apart from me not being able to join )

Question remains the same, I searched it up on YT before asking you and that one is 8:50, so I tried that, also tried the one you showed me and also tried it with both full stop and colons, sadly no luck.

If (and only if) it is not too much trouble then I'm happy to supply the details to you via PM that the registration form asks for, there is nothing too personal in that form. Its just blocking my registration at the very first page for some reason.

Edit: Video question has now changed, found it on YT but not allowing access again, did finally successfully complete the Captcha thing though

 

[mack341]

You have to travel to the IOM with an attache briefcase handcuffed to your wrist, and meet a shadowy figure at midnight by the harbour, then you will receive further instruction

 

[Jono777]

You have to travel to the IOM with an attache briefcase handcuffed to your wrist, and meet a shadowy figure at midnight by the harbour, then you will receive further instruction

Funnily enough IOM is the ONLY place I have been to outside of England / Wales.

T' was a dark stormy night and a 3 3/4 hour journey from Heysham to Douglas on a rocky club machine filled ferry.

No shadowy figure was awaiting but there were a bunch of crooked croupiers who destroyed my pot in less than a couple of hours.

Not one of my better trips

 

[Jd666]

Brilliant.
Cant wait to have a play with this, might be the only arcade we can play in soon lol.
Long weekend down Bognor again next weekend, Boris permitting

 

[ChopleyIOM]

First online slots video for a little while, extended play session on the two new games over at 3Dice. (The primary session was just over fours condensed down into an hour, and also highlights from around seven and a half hours of play in a montage at the end.)

Watch on YouTube if you want the timecodes, and there is quite a nice pay in there!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Thanks Chops

For some reason I cannot pass security check and even with the 9:28 info, it is telling me its wrong.

I don't want to take up any more of your time so will try again tomorrow, maybe just a temp glitch.

Hi @Jono777 can you try it with 9:29 please?

 

[Jono777]

Sure, will try it now Chops, give me 2 mins please....

Edit: Seems to have changed the name of the video required?

Read Terms of Use and then answer what is the legnth of the video called: Iron Horse / MiSTer FPGA / Arcade Core

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Sure, will try it now Chops, give me 2 mins please....

Edit: Seems to have changed the name of the video required?

Read Terms of Use and then answer what is the legnth of the video called: Iron Horse / MiSTer FPGA / Arcade Core

I've talked to the site owner about this, it appears that YouTube can show the length of the video ever so slightly differently depending on if you're looking at the preview or the video itself, he's put a +/- 1/2 in for the required answer, so hopefully it should work now whichever one you put in.

For that one 12:29 or 12:30 should work.

 

[Jono777]

Thanks so much @ChopleyIOM

Seems, I am almost there now

 

[paul7388]

Thanks so much @ChopleyIOM

Seems, I am almost there now

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Wow people still use yahoo email addresses.

Thanks for sharing email addy tho .

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Thanks so much @ChopleyIOM

Seems, I am almost there now

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No problem Jono the fruit machine emulation scene is all about sharing the joy of the hobby but we're also a small scene and no one makes any money out of it (quite the opposite!), hence stuff like stricter than normal sign-up processes for the forums and suchlike.

Approval of new accounts is a manual process so give it 24-48 hours at the outer edge, but it may be a lot quicker than that, once approved you'll need to make an introduction post and get a little bit of rep up to access the downloads, and from there you'll be good to go in the arcade.

The introduction sub-forum is here -

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[Jono777]

Wow people still use yahoo email addresses.

Thanks for sharing email addy tho .

You're welcome

Did notice straightaway but CBA to edit photo ..

Had that email addy for as long as I can remember.

 

[Jono777]

No problem Jono the fruit machine emulation scene is all about sharing the joy of the hobby but we're also a small scene and no one makes any money out of it (quite the opposite!), hence stuff like stricter than normal sign-up processes for the forums and suchlike.

Approval of new accounts is a manual process so give it 24-48 hours at the outer edge, but it may be a lot quicker than that, once approved you'll need to make an introduction post and get a little bit of rep up to access the downloads, and from there you'll be good to go in the arcade.

The introduction sub-forum is here -

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Cool, thanks again, understand the strict process and respect it.

I have been asking myself all weekend why it took me so long to join up, it has been a hobby of mine for years (although cannot recall last time I actually played an AWP)

Have plenty to share and learn so thinking this was a great move, with your help of course.

Looking forward to being part of another awesome community.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

It'll be nice to see you over there Jono, if you get into the emulator you might really find yourself enjoying it, knowing that you're playing the exact same code as ran on the real fruit machines means it's an entirely authentic experience, and we have quite a lot of old interesting ROMs that've turned up over the years so you'll be able to do a lot of the emptiers and tricks you used to do back in the day!

The reversing of gambles on Up 'N Over for example, for ages we only had chipped ROMs but then someone turned up an earlier ROM set where the reversing worked

 

[Jono777]

Hey @ChopleyIOM

Sorry to bother you (again)

I am now able to download over at Desert Island Fruits (YAY!) and hence also in the arcade!!!!!!!!

It has downloaded in full and done the Mame rip and I can walk around seeing all the machines.

Trouble is I can't play any, I press enter to chose a certain machine but then they don't start up as I've seen in your videos, can you advise what I am doing wrong or need to do next please?

Cheers in advance

JM

 

[kidgloves]

Got the terrible arcade carpet right, plus subdued lighting, but:

Missing huge amounts of lo-tech slots, the 1980's & 1990's would have only had a minority of board games.
Too much space, the arcade would never have all that spare floorspace without plonking some crappy old Bar-x's on them, audited in their accounts with a capital value of £1.
No upright ash trays, or ash trays on machines, there would have been a fug of smoke in there always.
Paper coffee cups should be strewn everywhere too.
A stone-faced fat attendant in a change kiosk is absent, or some mutant wandering around with the coin bag around their waist ready for you to call them over as you spunk yet another £20 note.
Some shopping trolleys missing from the aisles.
No air conditioning/heating blowers or vents on the ceiling - a must to make it comfortable enough to ensure the mugs don't have any reason to leave until broke.
Same with the toilet - no toilet door in any of the gaps between machines against the wall. Same as above, you want to keep people captive plus it's somewhere discreet (out of view of the CCTV cameras, again missing!!) for players to buy bagfuls of shoplifted goods from the alchies/smackheads, a kind of trading floor with the whiff of stale urine.

Apart from that, brings back a few memories.

P.S. Oh yeah, where's the video screen units like Red Hot Poker (BWB?)

That sounds like an Arthur Holland arcade near me in the present day!

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Hey @ChopleyIOM

Sorry to bother you (again)

I am now able to download over at Desert Island Fruits (YAY!) and hence also in the arcade!!!!!!!!

It has downloaded in full and done the Mame rip and I can walk around seeing all the machines.

Trouble is I can't play any, I press enter to chose a certain machine but then they don't start up as I've seen in your videos, can you advise what I am doing wrong or need to do next please?

Cheers in advance

JM

Hi Jono is MFMEV20.1 installed and working independently of Arcade Simulator?

Arcade Simulator by itself doesn't actually emulate the machines, it relies on MFME to provide the core emulation. when you're walking around the arcade and seeing the machines in attract mode what you're actually seeing is a kind of clever 'cheat' that the simulator does to make it look like there are a load of working machines there, when you walk up to a machine and press ENTER, that's when Arcade Simulator will try to invoke MFME to begin the actual emulation of that machine.