When it loads I get a game key not found error..
The dongle that was supplied fits in the parallel port and has spaces for two ibuttons, but only has one.
Any advice on the dongle would be great or if someone knows of a software hack

Thanks
Posted 13 September 2010 - 09:56 AM
Posted 13 September 2010 - 11:52 AM
Edited by Darienne, 13 September 2010 - 11:59 AM.
Posted 13 September 2010 - 12:33 PM
With certain machines you have to purchase a dongle which have credits on it to be able to play the games.............
etc
Posted 13 September 2010 - 12:38 PM
Oh.....
Thanks for your reply... the ibutton dongle i have is black......
Where would i get these dongles from (in case I suddenly have nice lottery win!!)
Thanks again.
Posted 13 September 2010 - 07:19 PM
Posted 13 September 2010 - 10:00 PM
Posted 14 September 2010 - 08:41 AM
Posted 14 September 2010 - 12:37 PM
I bought the machine knowing that it didn't boot... (Cant really moan at £47 though
)
If I cant get it to work then i'll just convert it to MAME or a jukebox.
(Would REALLY love to get this working though)
The dongle is not loose ive removed it and put it back (even moved the ibutton from one space to another)
As it happens it says GamesWarehouse as it boots.... looks like I might have to save up £200!!
Thank You both for your help so far!!
P.S. How do I tell what gamebox it is 3,4,4+ etc.....
Posted 14 September 2010 - 05:35 PM
I bought the machine knowing that it didn't boot... (Cant really moan at £47 though
)
If I cant get it to work then i'll just convert it to MAME or a jukebox.
(Would REALLY love to get this working though)
The dongle is not loose ive removed it and put it back (even moved the ibutton from one space to another)
As it happens it says GamesWarehouse as it boots.... looks like I might have to save up £200!!
Thank You both for your help so far!!
P.S. How do I tell what gamebox it is 3,4,4+ etc.....
Posted 14 September 2010 - 06:45 PM
Posted 16 October 2010 - 08:35 PM
Thank you all for your help!!
Cliff C that is fantastic thanks very much!! I won't go crazy just a few things to get me started (I've just signed up)
I have bought a Who Wants to be a millionaire kit from Ebay (I will not give in easily!!)
Once again thanks again for your help so far.![]()
Regards
Darren
Posted 23 October 2010 - 01:39 PM
Edited by LemmingMad, 23 October 2010 - 01:39 PM.
Posted 27 October 2010 - 06:21 PM
Hi Lagertop,
I've been playing with the idea of a better pc and even purchased the seprate IO boards of ebay to see if i can still have full coin functions (The PC mine came with has the IO stuff built onto the board).
I haven't touch it in ages (work getting in the way and the missus getting ticked of).
Your frontend looks really nice. I use HyperSpin on my homemade arcade machine and was gonna (try) adapt that to work for the SWP games.
But I think i'm sold on the one you've got!!!
Could I pick your brains on something.... When I load WordUP the monitor can't handle the resolution. Is there a way around this or is this game a no-go?
Thanks for your help
Posted 30 October 2010 - 01:57 PM
Dual core!!Word Up runs at 800x600 I believe (there's a sub folder in there called 800600) as do quite a lot of games, I decided therefore to put Windows at 800 x 600 so the monitor would not be constantly switching resolutions. Luckily Simpletouch is scalable down to that resolution.
BTW I needed a dual core for the front end due to the 9 .avi files playing at once, fortunately I had a spare as it maxed out my original P4 2.4Ghz. I could have went the .bmp route but the .avi's make it more like a pub machine
Posted 31 October 2010 - 01:21 PM
Edited by carnagecolimq, 31 October 2010 - 01:22 PM.
Posted 31 October 2010 - 10:59 PM
Posted 31 October 2010 - 11:08 PM
Posted 01 November 2010 - 04:34 PM
Posted 01 November 2010 - 05:00 PM
On mine the white interface is actually a serial port connection (9 pin), pretty much every PC I've ever seen has a serial port on the motherboard so it will interface fairly easily, in your case it could be that the motherboard does not have a serial port protuding out the back but requires something like this attaching to pins on the mobo itself.
Extension
Also without opening my case up I think it was a 3M Microtouch controller which has an XP driver and software over here somewhere:-
http://solutions.3m....eenControllers/
It installed no problem on XP and the calibration software works fine. The only annoyance is that it does not work with MAME touchscreen games very well (Megatouch collection) and that really bugs me as I also have a Megatouch which uses exactly the same touchscreen controller
A thing to note is that the controller on my machine also needed hooking up to the PSU on the PC with a 4 pin molex.
Posted 01 November 2010 - 05:05 PM
Wow i cant tell you how glad i am that i came accross this site and even more this post!
i recently purchased an proteus gamebox millionaire with 9 games on for me and the older kids to have a laugh with after using the one at the local its great fun but im never fully happy unless i can pull it apart and mess about with things so when i saw this topic i was so thrilled i had to sign up and ask if anybody could provide a little bit of guidance on getting my machine running like the one pictured further up !
I think looking at the cabinet that my machine is the exact one i just want more games
thanks in advance for any help offered
this is the machine i havephoto.JPG 292.44KB 15 downloads
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