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[Balar]

Thinking as you do over lunch, lets say there weren't any Fruit Machines - just how many £1 wouldn't the Royal Mint have to make??

There's obviously a fair number that are just sitting in hoppers around the country doing nothing but being replenished each week.....

anyone good at giving a estimate?

[kingkallum82]

A Hell of a lot.... you think of all the arcades and pubs and stuff all over the uk!!!

Id say £100,000,000 easily. Think of all the casino machines. Usually a note changing machine holds a grand (correct me if im wrong)

What does everyone else think?

[ady]

British Royal Mint - One Pound Coin

Quote from above:-

As at 31 December 2003 it is estimated that there were 1,380 million £1 coins in circulation

Now how many machines lol

[Zoltar]

But how many of them have been 'licked' or spat on by frustrated players because the machine doesn't accept them?

Soooo. How much spit has entered all the acceptors on todays machines? Gallons??? Hmmm

[Bencrest]

More beer than spit. Mind you from some of the coin mechs I've had the pleasure of cleaning theres been :

1) Tomato ketchup / random kebab type sauces
2) Beer (obviously)
3) Chocolate

Yum

Obviously you are more likely to find beer / lager in a pub machine, and ketchup / kebab sauces in fast food places

[CrAzYbAr]

The generation of gamblers around here will scratch the paneling with the buttons on it on to get the coins working...Mixed outcomes, but heres one...WHat FAKES have people put into machines? Plastic money? Chocolate money? Perhaps a fake coin woth a string that got dropped...

[grantfruity]

does any 1 know how, on the MFME emulator, to get the screen full size? all i can get on most of the roms is half the machine in view i cant see the start buttons ect. please help cheers.

[Dr DX]

does any 1 know how, on the MFME emulator, to get the screen full size? all i can get on most of the roms is half the machine in view i cant see the start buttons ect. please help cheers.

for a start your in the wrong thread, download MFME v 3.2 that shud resize it to your screen size if you have the Auto Shrink option ticked in the options.

And welcome to the Site, any questions just ask i'll be happy to help. (in the right thread tho )

aint help great?

Dr

[todd1970]

Aint changing your screen res or buying a bigger moniter great ?

[ady]

for a start your in the wrong thread, download MFME v 3.2 that shud resize it to your screen size if you have the Auto Shrink option ticked in the options.

And welcome to the Site, any questions just ask i'll be happy to help. (in the right thread tho )

aint help great?

Dr

In addition.............

You may be running 1024's on a 17" Screen...

If you have a 17" One (watch the jokes now!) use 1280 Layouts

[Nudgeman]

Going back roughly to the original thread, this has got me wondering again....

How many pound coins would you have to put in a fruit machine before it explodes?

I mean there are 1,380 million of the bloomin' things around here somewhere, how many of those 1,380,000,000 coins could you fit in say a Genesis III cabinet?


Bencrest I'm sure you'll be able to make an intelligent guess...

Bazpeeb, what happens when a machine gets too full in the cashbox area? I've never seen that happen!



If I ever own my own machine, I'll make it my mission to fill it up so much that it explodes and showers me with pound coins! BOOOOOM!


Any ideas on this?> Could it potentially fill up to the level of the payout tray and thereby the % payout would dramatically increase?

[Bencrest]

Going back roughly to the original thread, this has got me wondering again....

How many pound coins would you have to put in a fruit machine before it explodes?

I mean there are 1,380 million of the bloomin' things around here somewhere, how many of those 1,380,000,000 coins could you fit in say a Genesis III cabinet?


Bencrest I'm sure you'll be able to make an intelligent guess...

Not sure. Standard AWP Compact hopper (£125 / £250 float) will probably hold about £350 to the brim (just a guess!).

Bazpeeb, what happens when a machine gets too full in the cashbox area? I've never seen that happen!

I know I'm not Bazpeeb, but because there is no coin level sensoring in the cashbox area, and because the tube from which the cashbox coins fall ends with 'free space', I'd assume that falling coins would hit the top of the full cashbox container, and bounce elsewhere in the cashbox area - maybe another container, or maybe just the wood of the cabinet base.

It's a different story on my Japanese machines. They are bartop, but have a small cashbox container, and it has a metal bar which sticks out from the back of the machine through the cashbox container when it's in place. Using this it knows when the cashbox is full, and calls an attendant

Having said that, it can be disabled, as the cashbox containers have 'pushouts' on the bottom. If you push out some of the 'almost cut out' bits, and have the machine sat on top of a larger container, it would just dump overflow coins into that.

If I ever own my own machine, I'll make it my mission to fill it up so much that it explodes and showers me with pound coins! BOOOOOM!

Any ideas on this?> Could it potentially fill up to the level of the payout tray and thereby the % payout would dramatically increase?

Nice idea

[Bencrest]

Oh, just to expand on the full cashbox idea, obviously if both containers and in fact the whole 'cashbox' area were full, coins would back up into their tubes. Because theres no opto sensors in the tubes, the coins would actually back up all the way to the coin sorter (attached to the bottom of the coin validator) and would stop coins from being routed. Not sure if the sorter itself can send an error code, but obviously if the sorter jams up, coins would soon back up through the validator, and you'd probably get a STRIM alarm of sorts.

So there you have it - stick enough shrapnel (and pound coins (if it's backing)) into your machine and it'll eventually give you a strim alarm, and a lot of mess when you open the cash door