Nudgeman

Hello.
Just a quickie.

Is anyone able to recommend a GPS sat nav system that could be used with an R4 card on a Nintendo DS? I have seen these 'Ranger' systems for £50ish, just wondered if anyone knew of any other systems on the market that had been tried and tested.

Ok the clock is ticking, time to test the technical knowledge of Fruit Emu.

Q. I have a Flashback fruit machine. There is a switchable % key, but alas it was supplied with a non switchable stake key. The stake key is a 9 hole D plug. At the moment a 'piece of coathanger' is soldered from hole 1 to hole 5.

Note: There is probably some electrical standard way of describing this, but I don't know it. So you have five holes at the top and four at the bottom. I'll call the top holes 1-5 from left to right. The bottom holes I'll call 6-9 from left to right.

Hole 1 to hole 5 is 5p play and £5 jackpot. This makes for rather slow play. I do not have an EPOCH manual, so the question is really

"What is the best way to resolder the coathanger for 20p play/£5 jackpot and also 20p play/£15 jackpot?"


I picked up a stake key today and it was the wrong sort, pin to pin. ARRRGH!! I was all ready and set to get some exciting 20p per spin action, but now I'm all GRRRRR!!! BAAAAH!!! BOOOOOM!!!

I've tried pin 1-3 and all I got was an invalid setting alarm. WOOOP! WOOOP! WOOOP! WOOP! I don't want to hear WOOOP! WOOOP! WOOOOP! again, so bar disconnecting the speaker, I throw the question to the good community of Fruit Emu.

I'm now going to eat a jackpot potato and some chicken madras. Hope that helps. Cheers. There will also be peas.

Ok this is very generic, I hope to be more detailed in a bit.

When the machine is powered up, nothing on the outside lights up. I have a buzzing noise and a faint swooshing coming from the speaker. I'll post up some pictures of which LEDs on the boards are lighting up and which aren't. There are all lights on the power supply in the cashbox, bar the 'sync' one. When I switch it off, the LED lights up briefly.

When you switch it on, it makes that 'Vvvffffong' noise that very old wooden teles used to make. There's a buzzing which resonates the whole cabinet. The metal around the cashbox locks is starting to rust in places, I would imagine it has been stored in damp, dusty conditions for a while.

I probably shouldn't go on Ebay whilst playing poker and whilst drinking waiting for the Calazaagagzagzgazgzgagazhe fight, but errrm any clues?


More exciting pictures and maybe a video to follow. I've got to pop over my Mums first, haven't seen her for a bit.

Back soonish.

This is actually a slightly odd query in that it relates to a real machine. I have a Grand Golden Game (Scorpion 4?) that pays out £3/time. On pressing collect it paid out two coins as normal and there was a slight gap, only a slight gap, whilst the hopper whirred and then the LED came up with PAY UNIT ERR 17 and alarmed. I didn't hear any stutterring from the hopper and it didn't whirr for as long as it would do when empty. After the slight pause it went straight into this alarm. It definitely has the funds in to pay.
Switching the machine off, opening it up and shaking the hopper have not cleared the alarm on reboot. I'm assuming pay unit relates to the hopper, but have any of you clever people got any ideas on what to do to clear the alarm and allow the machine to be played?

I know this happens in emulation at times and usually, it'll go away after while, not quite sure of the trigger, although going into test and testing coin payout will sometimes clear it, but not always. Sometimes they just disappear after a few minutes, other times they never go away.


Cheers,

JG

Now look here, I know this is closed but I did a long reply and I think it'd be awfully wasteful not to post it up here. So heave ho, here goes.

BOOF!


Some of the videos may be lame, but I'll admit I've watched some of these and never thought the people responsible were sad. They may be obsessional, hell 500 videos in such a short space of time, someone has been busy, but each to their own.
At the end of the day we're all obsessives. Think about it, we're all here because at some point in our lives we've been suckered in by the flashing lights and the appeal of £3+a repeat chance.
The thing is none of this is normal. Imagine you're on a quiz show and as part of the introductions you're asked what are your hobbies?
If you say 'playing football', fantastic, it's healthy, a very popular sport, a subject of many conversations, well done! you're normal!
If you say 'fruit machines', oh dear, oh no, you obviously have no self control, you lose money for enjoyment and have a dysfunctional personality. Oh dear, what a freak, what a wierdo! Get a life for f***'s sake!

There is of course an exception. The James Bond. The Q. The mysterious. The shady character, slipping from pub to pub, the knowledge, the know how, the gambler, the cad, the bounder, the maverick. Someone like Gary Chandler would fit this description.

At school you always used to get the nerdy kids who liked those role playing games. They'd go around with thick glasses and peculiar voices, unashamed of the fact that they dressed up as a pixie at the weekends. The thing was, they seemed genuinely happy. I would feel self conscious dressed as a pixie, perhaps that is an issue I have to come to terms with. I'm just booking myself in for some hypnotherapy now, as we speak.

To cut a long story short, we're all a bit wierd. We've all liked fruit machines in their purest form at some time. That is hours of ill gotten pleasure sticking coins into slots, blanking out the inalienable truth that we'll be walking home potless and sick as a pig. It was a lovely, naive, innocent pleasure, a peculiar cocktail of entertaining and frustrating. Now many look back with sageness and smiley wisely at their youthful folly. For others the hate, the vitriol and the venom still burn passionately.

Sub normality is generally regarded as a bad thing. In terms of pack survival this is true. The unusual members of the pack are often singled out by predators and devoured. This is basic survival instinct. This very thread is proof that this concept is still in existence.

It is safe to be 'normal' and castigate the freaky wierdo nutjobs posting their fruit machine videos. Look at the freaks! Let them be thrown to the wild wood where they will get their guts torn out by Chelsea supporters and hungry elephants. Let them be trampled by grumpy Anteaters and savaged by ravenous normal people all reading the Daily Mail and driving their Landrover Sprouts.

Gordon James Ramsay, OBE, (born November 8, 1966) is a chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 12 Michelin Stars, and in 2007 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time. Ramsay currently ranks 2nd in the world in terms of Michelin Stars behind Alain Ducasse.

Ramsay is known in the United Kingdom for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food.

Anyway, enough about Gordon Ramsey for f***'s sake, that is not the issue here, although some of you seem to think it is.

In essence some of the videos are lame, some are more interesting. Which of you oldies didn't like Castle Corner at night? eh? Who didn't enjoy watching crazybar777 getting a £25 roll from a £5 Bullseye thing? Who didn't enjoy the winstopper sound effects on the 500th video of someone or other? Who didn't enjoy seeing PMK's monkey paying out?

There we go. Methods. Result. Discussion. Summary. Weather. Gordon Ramsey. Football results and now the concussion. Ouch.

Concussion.

In short. To cut to the quick. Long story, reduced in length. Quick synopsis.

Altharic, you love these bloomin' videos really, stop pretending you don't because you do and if you don't admit to that then you better give me your mobile number and I'll phone you up from a call box somewhere and say "Now just look here! You better watch this video of Crazy Bar putting a crazy pound in Crazy fruits and winning some Crazy money! Bloop! I'm crazy!"

Nails, stop pretending you don't like these videos. You're a secret subscriber to nearly all of them and when it's quiet and Brighton Bob has busted badly on the B3s in your bookies/arcade then you load up your computer and check out the latest on Youtube.

Each to their own. And relax. Bloop!