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[jellybaby]

Was in a near local arcade n observed an elderly lady who had just pumped in over 60 pound into a multi player party time (the one where the top board is a video n a dice is thrown n the lil guy lands on squares with values n bonuses etc) i noticed that any time she got a win the unit would delay for about 5 seconds...anyhow she left n i put in a tenner n got a few pound n 5 pound wins but no top feature and still the delay.. i left it then witnessed a guy put over 100 in it n no feature but the delay was still there.. So was the unit just dead or was it faulty.....??? i have my suspicions

[cardie]

the machine might of had a faulty connection or it wasnt connected 2 the computer that runs the top board or it just didnt want 2 go up

[jamesb99_1999]

Not going up top shouldn't affect machines overall percentage payout as far as I am aware anyway - would just mean you get more lower board wins?? Is that right lincs/ Baz?

[lincs1]

Not going up top shouldn't affect machines overall percentage payout as far as I am aware anyway - would just mean you get more lower board wins?? Is that right lincs/ Baz?

correct james well done!!

all 3 machines are interacted with the top motherboard within the top cabinet.



lincs1

[kjhudson]

Well a similar thing happened to the party time arena in our local arcade and I mentioned it to one of the blokes I knew who worked in there. Later that day I noticed it was working again so I asked my mate what the problem was and he said the connector to the top box had come loose. I can only assume the slight pauses were the machines efforts to go to the top box. With this fault the machine would blackout for a few seconds every now and again also.

[cardie]

I thought all the party times turn off automatcially and say no comms to master .... or is that wen there all switched on ??

[kjhudson]

Think that is the message that displays across the screen when the machine blacks out every now and again. It was in the 3 player party time deluxe that i have seen this happen, not the 'arena' as i stated previously.

[cardie]

one of my mates kicked one of them on the party time bingo areana and the all sed no comms 2 master apart from the top board then non of them went up 4 the rest of the day an the arcade manager had it turned off for the next week or so