John Galt

Enchanted forest MK4 works fine with MAME at present.

Arctic Wins though I have not seen.

I know the MAME emulation for MK4 is supposed to be 'done' but to be honest, there's only a fraction of the full suite of roms out there on the web that I've seen to test this out.

Is Arctic Wins even out there atm?

What's wrong with the one already around here?

Nothing, except that the emulated slots / fruit machines are not the ones we get in Australia.

Australia is almost purely aristocrat machines and the like, the classic 'fruit machines' like you get in the UK and the Vegas three reel slots are almost non existant here.

Australian law concerning private ownership of aristocrat machines are a joke (disgustingly oppressive to almost no option at all) and even access to the software for 'fun' is kept under lock and key. That includes old slot machines as well (you can't even own one privately in this country without a licence). In fact, it's easier to get a GUN in Australia than it is to get your own slot machine, that's how moronic, corrupt and archaic our laws are here!

The Australian government makes an absolute killing on slot machine tax revenue (in fact, it's addicted to the income) and so in conjunction with Aristocrat, they maintain a stranglehold on access to these machines in any way, shape or form other than what the government can get it's own slice of the action of and whilst Aristocrat in an Australian company, they won't even release the ipod versions of their games in the AU version of i-store for fear of taking away potential customers.

It's a sad, pathetic joke the way the Australian government essentially locks down and bleeds it's citizens and for a democratic country, we're a long, long way behind the rest of the world on rights, freedoms and other similar virtues.

So with that all said, Australian slot enthusiasts are pretty much forced to either waste their cash down at the local to play these machines, or we have to rely on people online to supply software for us to enjoy.

The amazing previous leak of the MK6 emulator from an insider (Indian Dreaming, Atlantis, 50 Lions and Orchid) are the first and really only options for us to experience aristocrat games here down under.

But it also should be noted that about 10 of the MK4 machines have also been successfully emulated to work under MAME, but it's still a long way off solid emulation of the entire MK4 catalogue, yet alone anything more recent.

So until then, Aussies are (for the want of a better term) a little pushy with the emulation community to focus more on the Aristocrat line of games. It's our home grown and what we're all used to and it would be great to see more effort thrown into emulating a much broader range of their machines so Aussies can stay at home and have fun without the bastages in power slipping dirty hands into their back pockets every chance they can get.

So to the people responsible for emulating the Aristocrat line of games and from all Aussie players, I say thank you for your hard work and if you bring us anything more in the land of Aristocrat emulation, you'll have the eternal thanks of the Aussie citizens!

Hence why ANY news of an Aristocrat leak or EMU on the scene has us like minded individuals all over it asking for more info...

Don't think so freddy1, if you look at this and the other youtube vid the interface is completely different.

I am inclined to think the first one is the real deal, the guy who posted the original vid isn't replying though to PM requests for a link.

He's either dead (aristocrat got to him!), not logged into YouTube, or just an asshole who loves to tease.

If I get a further update though, I'll let you know.

They both look ridiculously fake, look at videos of the original ones for comparison. They probably just ripped the graphics from the Bet365 version, or an EPROM dump if they actually had the game, and made a simulator around it.

I'm not so sure mate. I have the MK6 leaked EMU for Indian Dreaming, Atlantis, 50 Lions and Orchid and that's the real deal.

When working inhouse, the Aristicrat Devs have adhoc, 'dodgy' looking emulator front ends to test the game software on PCs.

These new ones look very similar to the previous MK6 EMUs, just updated to operate with the latest games.

If I can find a copy of these, I'll PM you and let you know. So far though, I haven't have any replies from the guy who originally posted them up on YouTube.

Also I noticed someone has put up a video on youtube of a MK 6 emulator with games Lucky 88 and 5 Dragons. These arn't the Ipod or Bet365 versions, but programs on the computer. Can anyone shed some further light on this program?

They look legit, leaked emus from Aristocrat too!

I've PMd the clip posters to see if we can get access to their EMUs... love these games!