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Well just for fun I popped a £100 bid on this one and I won it lol. Was not expecting much but in parts alone its worth that all day long so I was happy to win it, and its good to get to fix problems AND see a machine I have never played before and can't find much about on the web either. It landed yesterday (courier) and on powering up just alarmed. I spent a bit of time checking the obvious and soon uncovered the 3 issues to get it working (having other MPU4 spares and machines is invaluable in this fault finding thats for sure!): PSU had no 34v (yet to diagnose) Reel power lead had a bad connection Reel 1 was rubbing The machine is really tidy, ALL instructions, decals were with it (thank god as this is NOTHING like a normal Barcrest machines, even to test!). Main thing value wise is a fully working clean MPU4 mod 2. Not sure how far I go on this one, or if it becomes parts (don't shoot me I will keep it all in a state to rebuild if ever needed). We shall see after some play once I am finally sorted with room to house my growing collection lol Here is a quick vid on youtube, I will post more if its worthwhile when I explore more features and gameplay time permitting.

Cool! Great work on the JPM driver I did some early tests a while back where I drove Arcade Sim fruit machines using MFME and MAME, this shows switching between the emulators (shows current emulator in top right): I need to do more work but I can get it more tightly integrated now I think (using libRetro MAME) - MAME will probably end up being the default emulator for fruits due to much tighter integration, save states, rewinds, all that good stuff (MFME is done via window capture, it's kinda flakey), with MFME for enthusiasts to run machines not yet working in MAME... Any plans for further drivers..? I'm going to perhaps revamp those internal layouts other than the MPU4 ones for David, so there should hopefully be layouts for some... plus I may do another version of the converter to generate these internal debug layouts for Sc5/MPU5 and other newer techs...

That all sounds amazing Well anything I can do to help your work in terms of batches of configs etc, or missing/sparse internal layouts (one of the main things I'm looking at over next couple of weeks), gimme a shout and I'll prioritise it - all new/improved fruit machine techs in MAME very welcome - keep up the awesome work man And yeah, those early efforts were also window capturing MAME as a separate process, same as MFME - it's kinda grotty, plus various other hacks going on, especially for MFME. With the current arcade sim, if you play MAME video games, it's running a libRetro MAME core, and it's all far better and reliable as a system (plus cross platform possibilities for later).

Yep, saw that. Cool stuff there, can't imagine that hacking MFME & MAME to run in Unity must have been very pleasant Not quite done with SRU yet, got a club machine to add and the sound needs slight fixing, definitely not stopping here though. I'll probably be sticking with the 1st-2nd gen techs for now and may or may not be doing fruit stuff all the time, but I'm certainly interested in MAME development. Now that Haze is focusing on fruits again, we should see quite a bit over the next few months

Yep that's me , you can find me on DIF as well, made an account there recently

That would be OK although it only needs to be 50v, probably the same price though.

Received a message from Frank for the forum.... Hi guys, I know I have to finish the history but I have had to look for a new employment. Unfortunately the Williams formula one team took my previous employer for a few quid, like £30 million. I didn't want to wait around, and to be honest they just may brave the storm but I wasn't ready to sit back and be thrown on the scrapheap as I am not ready to put my feet up. I have a new task as Project manager to develop 17 acres of development land and 3 WWII Aircraft hangars so that should see me through to retirement. Promise to come back. Regards to all, best wishes, stay safe!