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The bug will be the layout John. When people make the layouts it can be a bit of a guessing game to get those belly glass lamps assigned correctly, especially without a reel lamp guide from the machine manual. Awesome work on this stuff mate J

Phew - it's all ok I used the original layout, with the emulated Chr chip data and the original unpatched ROM - the lamps are still jumbled on that bottom Blue Moon logo! So it's a either a bug in the layout, or in the 8x 'magic' values set up for this machine. If someone has a real Blue Moon they need doing, and the lamps are wrong with the CPR rom, we can quickly enough (by trial and error in MFME), get it sorted on both the layout and the resultant Rom. But it's not a bug with the patcher itself (I also did a couple more test machines that use this system, and didn't notice any lamp issues).

I've been working on a different project, but got side-tracked onto this - a friend said I should post over here, since it's for real fruit machines It's an early proof-of-concept of an auto-rom patcher, that means you wouldn't need a Chr chip any more, even for the 'scrambled' lamps, in at least some mpu4s (just done a Barcrest as a test). Here's a quick demo using MFME, you can see the characteriser is completely clear (zero'd out, just like when it is missing). This has been tested on real hardware - by another guy who is working on a cool project to potentially make replacement Chr chips (it's what inspired me to make this). So it adds the code that decodes the lamps direct;y into the rom itself, so the rom no longer talks to the chr chip, but instead does the decoding internally in 6809 code.

I'm wondering if it could be a difference in the Italian Job cabs, I know it came in the original tube based cab and also in the hopper based front opener. Maybe the wiring is slightly different so you may need to match the correct rom to the cab type. If you have a tube based cab try burning a £10 rom or if you have the hopper cab try a £15 rom. Just a thought but worth a try.

Have you checked whether the plug on the reel loom is burned up at one end? Very common problem....

One of their many Bf conversions, This one fitted with the Up & Down nudge. Good auction start. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393553150684?hash=item5ba19882dc:g:dgMAAOSwFy9hLi9x

Wow, thanks so much for that. On switching on ths morning it now shows the E902 and sometimes changes to E202 or 203 and I can see reel activity and after a while it does bleep too so all very odd. I'll try that other file and see what happens. I've compared the two files and they are fairly similar so not sure what the last three digits signifies?

Slightly different method required for Cash Counter - vid of it running with no Chr chip via MFME: