Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The heart of the machine.
Fruities are a lot more sophisticated now than in the olden days, long gone are the mechanical machines, no more machines stuffed to the brim with relays and cranks/pulleys/gears.
Now, they have a nice tidy, modular motherboard that controls things. To be honest they can be compared to a games console that takes cartridges. The pie factory machine, and others from the same group of manufacturers use MPU 5 technology (MPU=Main Processor Unit) into which the "program" is plugged in. The program, or how the game plays, including sound effects is stored on a cartridge that plugs in to the main board. If it wasnt for the fact that the machines have different graphics on the glass, different reel designs and lamp layouts, changing a machine from one type to another would be as simple as swapping the cart.....
A photo of the MPU is shown below, to make it more interesting I have removed the top cover, and program cartridge.
The board is nicely laid out, and has connectors for the wiring looms which take the signals to the lamps/reels etc.
With these machine, the reels and lamps also have their own microprocessor controlled boards to look after them, and these are controlled from the MPU via the "BARBUS" loom which is basically a set of wires containing the power and a serial rs232 like signal to the other boards.
As you can also see, these machines are clearly computer controlled, so remember when it says 78 percent payout (or whatever) then you are playing a COMPUTER PROGRAM that is designed to keep 22 percent of the profits in the long term......
I will go into more details about the MPU in a future post, as this is just a quick overview of whats inside the machine to start with.
On the subject of the MPU, a lot of people are selling "RF Manipulators" and "Machine Manipulators/Hopper emptiers" etc on ebay.
There are two main types on sale, and BOTH are designed to steal money not from the machine, but from the idiot that purchases them..........
The first type looks like a car alarm keyfob (the thing you turn your car alarm on and of with). The reason it looks like one, is because that is what it is.....
These unscrupulous people on ebay sell these claiming it will affect the computer in the fruit machine, and cause you to get financial gain from the machine.
There are many reasons why this will not work, not least of which is
1. The device is a car alarm keyfob.
and
2. You would need something a lot more sophisticated to crash the machine, and
if it crashed why would it always "crash" the same way like they claim?
and
3.The machines will have a watchdog built in, so even if they do crash, the watchdog will not receive an "ok" signal and will just reset the machine.
The other type is a infra-red light basically that is supposed to be shone into the machine to make it pay out more. I will go into more detail onto why this wont work these days when I post about the payout system in fruit machines.
The best way to empty a machine, and this ALWAYS works, is to OWN the machine, and collect the takings that other people have put into it. Buying a device on ebay to empty a machine, will just result in you emptying your pockets for peice of junk.
After all if YOU had a device that could easily earn you hundreds of pounds a night, would YOU sell it on ebay?
Now, they have a nice tidy, modular motherboard that controls things. To be honest they can be compared to a games console that takes cartridges. The pie factory machine, and others from the same group of manufacturers use MPU 5 technology (MPU=Main Processor Unit) into which the "program" is plugged in. The program, or how the game plays, including sound effects is stored on a cartridge that plugs in to the main board. If it wasnt for the fact that the machines have different graphics on the glass, different reel designs and lamp layouts, changing a machine from one type to another would be as simple as swapping the cart.....
A photo of the MPU is shown below, to make it more interesting I have removed the top cover, and program cartridge.
The board is nicely laid out, and has connectors for the wiring looms which take the signals to the lamps/reels etc.
With these machine, the reels and lamps also have their own microprocessor controlled boards to look after them, and these are controlled from the MPU via the "BARBUS" loom which is basically a set of wires containing the power and a serial rs232 like signal to the other boards.
As you can also see, these machines are clearly computer controlled, so remember when it says 78 percent payout (or whatever) then you are playing a COMPUTER PROGRAM that is designed to keep 22 percent of the profits in the long term......
I will go into more details about the MPU in a future post, as this is just a quick overview of whats inside the machine to start with.
On the subject of the MPU, a lot of people are selling "RF Manipulators" and "Machine Manipulators/Hopper emptiers" etc on ebay.
There are two main types on sale, and BOTH are designed to steal money not from the machine, but from the idiot that purchases them..........
The first type looks like a car alarm keyfob (the thing you turn your car alarm on and of with). The reason it looks like one, is because that is what it is.....
These unscrupulous people on ebay sell these claiming it will affect the computer in the fruit machine, and cause you to get financial gain from the machine.
There are many reasons why this will not work, not least of which is
1. The device is a car alarm keyfob.
and
2. You would need something a lot more sophisticated to crash the machine, and
if it crashed why would it always "crash" the same way like they claim?
and
3.The machines will have a watchdog built in, so even if they do crash, the watchdog will not receive an "ok" signal and will just reset the machine.
The other type is a infra-red light basically that is supposed to be shone into the machine to make it pay out more. I will go into more detail onto why this wont work these days when I post about the payout system in fruit machines.
The best way to empty a machine, and this ALWAYS works, is to OWN the machine, and collect the takings that other people have put into it. Buying a device on ebay to empty a machine, will just result in you emptying your pockets for peice of junk.
After all if YOU had a device that could easily earn you hundreds of pounds a night, would YOU sell it on ebay?
# posted by fruityarcade @ 10:16 AM 
