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[Jaz]

Has anyone had the misfortune of playing Ice Burger by Maygay?
From looking on their website, it's a variation of Jurassic Pork (Eclipse tech)

It plays ok as a £5 Jackpot machine, normally pays Jackpot after 2 quid.

As a £25 machine it's awful - the features are few and far between, and very dull. The only way to really play it is to high/low gamble the nudges/cash ladder.

Oh, and it's a 5 - 7 - 10 - 25 machine too - no £15 win.

Our machine in my pub went totally tits up on me tonight.
Put the best part of 40 quid in it, so I knew it would pay me a jackpot very soon.
Sure enough, got to the 9 Reel Knockout's feature, with a jackpot symbol in view.
On about the 5th Knockout landed on Jackpot, pressed Collect, and it went belly-up.

The cash ladder stop filling up on £2.40 (Melons) instead of going all the way to the top, the reels duely spun to melons, except the 3rd reel, which stuck with Grapes just below the winline.
So the machine informed me I had won £3 quid.

I turned it off after asking one of my regulars to witness the cock-up for me, and shall be getting Leisurelink out in the morning.
It's also been robbing £2 coins off punters.

From past experience with Leisurelink engineers, all they'll do it lookup the last win, which I reckon will be the £3 instead of £25, and say "there's nothing I can do about it guv".

Suffice it to say I shall be asking for another machine to be installed pronto!

[lincs leisure R us]

well i don't know alot about ice burger i have never seen it but from what u say about the tits up thing that just sounds like maygay that was 1 of there problems they used to have about reels going ape shit below the winline. give me a sledgehammer and i'll fix it!!.

:roll:

[lincs leisure R us]

if leisurelink are the 1's that installed the machine then its part of bass brewery AND THEY ARE TIGHT THEY WIGGLE OUT MORE THINGS THAN A WORM ON HEAT...LOL

[Zoltar]

Welcome to the world of sub-standard coding! Actually, come to think About it, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this 'tits up' mode is actually programmed in deliberately.

On a machine that awards a feature that can offer a win of any value on the cash trail, say reel blasts, cash knockouts or even pick a fruit, the machine is programmed to seek out the lowest possible value win and award that. I can see a situation where only a forced machine would throw a wobbler. The casual gamer could well have taken his knockouts or reel blasts much earlier so getting 9 blasts, obviously made the machine nervous.

When a machine is 'on-test' prior to release, it has to be tested for real. None of that back door open and put it on test mode. It has to be tested in the same mode as it will be played in the wild. The game plays totally different with the door open and test mode selected. So in a real situation, maybe getting the 9 blasts was a situation that was never reached in the test procedure. Lets face it, getting all 9 reel blasts is probably less likely than getting a £125 streak.

At the end of the day, it's just bad coding by the manufacturers. If a re-chip is put into action, you can bet good money that all they will do is change the shitty melon win you got, and change it for a cherry win and leave the origional problem intact.

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[ziggy]

I witnessed a big brother try and do "the dirty" on me.Got a jp followed swiftly by another.Next board i set up seven stepper for the red sevens,it then said "step up" and the reel lights showed "step down" (which looks reeally confusing).Anyway i stepped up............ and it stepped down.prompting a juicy £2 win ! CHEATING B'STARD !.That annoyed me too.Very dodgy programmimg barcrest- sort it out !!

[Jaz]

Getting to the 9 Reel Knockouts on Ice Bugger is quite common, but you'll rarely have anything above £7 in view.

I was lucky enough to get a respin bonus just before I landed on it - and this is where the machine messed up.

I've concluded that the 3rd reel went bonkers, and didn't stop where it was supposed to - it thought a melon should be on the top right, but the reel showed a JP.
So I collected what I thought was a JP, but it really should have been a Melon, and that's what the machine paid.

Typically when the engineer turned the machine on this morning, the reels corrected themselves.
As predicted, he couldn't give a damn, and claimed that Ice Burger has never gone wrong, despite my problem, and the fact that it has been taking £2 coins, registering it internally, but not giving any credits.

He reluctantly gave me a £10 credit note when I threatened to take our account to a rival supplier.

[lincs leisure R us]

one of maygay's common machine faults is the reels going outta line this was famous for it on the old monopoly's maygay don't seem to have corrected this problem at all not even on upto date machines its all to do with a revision sorftware fault.


c'mon maygay pull ya fingers out ur ass and get this problem sorted once and for all.

[fruitymad2003]

No?

[ziggy]

There is no point in using "that" trick on Ice Burger, it was rechipped out months ago.