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Ah glad you got sorted

Thankyou so much for looking , Nick as found one for me :)) appreciate your help tho 👍

Sorry Phil, only got a green start collect button

h many thanks for the file i have passed it on i think the guy im trying to help has 3.17 so it might be a case of trying to find the 3.17 bootstrap file

Here’s the file, if I remember it’s was also hidden, I’m sure it’s mapped to the USB. what version do you have on the MPU6? MPU6CLR.MEM

hi digby its a strange fault we have tried the normal route like ram test and self test and we have tried different mpu6 boards but it seems the pc in the t7 is telling the mpu6 the battery is flat but its not metered at 3.25 now the strange thing is we put the mpu6 in a reel based machine and ram cleared it loaded file on and all good but as soon as you put in the t7 its telling it that the battery is flat 2.5

I have the file but the problem is the USB is generated so the file only works on 1 USB, I’m guessing it has the ID somewhere within the bin. you can clear by powering on the MPU with the up and down buttons pressed then going to ram test

So the real VFD came in to the workshop as dead, and it was. These devices are quite pricey and I did warn the owner it might not be repairable. However trusty soldering iron in one hand and meter in the other I dived in casting caution to the wind. It has 3 electrolytic caps, 2 x SMD and one through hole. Both SMD caps were effectively open circuit but all three were changed to 105° types. Once these were done and the device powered up the screen was still blank so I needed to drive it with something. Looking up the spec sheet it showed that the SIN/TO pin, if grounded, would switch to test mode and by jove it did, displaying the whole character set. Sending it back for testing expecting a glowing report proved a bit premature. The device was still dead and the machine would only boot up without the VFD connected?? When it arrived again at the workshop I swear it was poking it's tongue out at me. Anyway not to be outdone it was time for a bit more researching. Next to no info on the web, no diagrams or fault repairs on Youtube. So first step was to find out why it was stopping the board from booting. This VFD connects to the 14 way DIL connector via the little PSU board. The only wire which goes directly from the VFD to the board is the BUSY link. I assume this is used to slow the main board logic when it needs to print lots of text to the screen. When this connection was removed everything burst into life! Checking with a meter showed it to be permanently HIGH. Here's a pic of the board so you can see what I was dealing with... Did the BUSY line go direct to one of the LSI chips because if it did that was goodnight Vienna! Trying to trace tracks on this was no easy task either but the BUSY line did appear on the O/P of IC2. This was a single OR gate and the output was stuck high. Checking the I/P showed a nice waveform but nothing on the O/P. I managed to find some replacements on Ebay at a reasonable price and slipped in a new one and bingo, nice waveform on the O/P and with the BUSY link re-connected everything burst into life. You have to take precautions when reworking these boards due to the proximity of other components and plastic parts. Best thing for this is Kapton tape to shield the bits you don't want melted.

HI looking for mpu6 clear down file if anyone has it many thanks in advance

https://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/files/file/924-max-a-million-manual/ Not had a look myself, just going by the title as i noticed it the other day looking for something else.

What are you looking for? And are you still looking?

Does anyone have this manual please?

Thankyou so much 👍

Will have a look Phil prob later in the week

Evening all , I have been building a reel crazy for the last couple of weeks but I am missing the yellow start button 🙄 I don’t suppose anyone as one spare happy to pay plus postage many thanks

Hi i am andy, nice to meet everyone! Looingforward to being able to play and chat about fruit machines old and new!

Hi Everyone thank you for letting me join the site Id like to introduce myself Im ibmxc05 and ive been emulating for a few years now and looking forward to getting back into fruit machine emulator I have a couple of arcade machines , light gun setup , vitrual pinball machine and a fruit machine stored elsewhere which i intend to join the family soon I did have a simpsons fruit machine but it got dropped during a house move so not useable in its current state Just before covid hit I lost my dog due to old age and then lost my mum to cancer so was lost for a while and ended up delving into collecting robots and at one point I had over 100 , still got a few lying around still working away Also into crypto so full nerd mode and a big kid all over Anyways cant wait to get back into fruit machine emulators If have any questions dont hesitate to ask

Hi Everyone thank you for letting me join the site Id like to introduce myself Im ibmxc05 and ive been emulating for a few years now and looking forward to getting back into fruit machine emulator I have a couple of arcade machines , light gun setup , vitrual pinball machine and a fruit machine stored elsewhere which i intend to join the family soon I did have a simspons fruit machine but it got dropped during a house move so not useable in its current state Just before covid hit I lost my dog due to old age and then lost my mum to cancer so was lost for a while and ended up delving into collecting robots and at one point I had over 100 , still got a few lying around still working away Also into crypto so full nerd mode and a big kid all over Anyways cant wait to get back into fruit machine emulators If have any questions dont hesitate to ask

What a great find phil .is the base missing? Would really love to see a good long vid of this one in action

Thanks for the Reply Bob. I thought about it and do you reckon it could be a .hex if its like a copy of original software rather than a Rom dump? Yeah mine seems like it doesn't display .hex files- im still on the ole xgpro software for the TL866ii Chinese programmer so its obviously not as good as the Dataman... it gets me by though

Not one I have seen before!

Well this is another one I picked up yesterday, conversation from exchanges unlimited i believe,, had a count up on the rear lamp mask some bulbs holders are not used but it seems to add up the to the exchanges unlimited,, ?? Does anyone remember this machine ?

No idea why it would have been stored as a .hex but whatever you loaded it into maybe thought a .hex was a text file. I suppose it depends on what file formats the program will accept. With my Data I/O programmer it just assumes everything is binary no matter what the extension is.

Hi ive never come across this one before. Im programming a sound Rom for JPM GuabClub. The rom folder has a sound .bin file thats 128kb which is the incorrect size for a 4mb Eprom... which all impact sound cards are set up for. There's a 512kb .hex file that looked totally empty in my programmers software. I renamed this as a .bin and could now see all the data displaying and that file programs ok and the audio works. Any ideas why this would be a stored as a .Hex file and why the data doesn't show up when its viewed as a .hex? Thanks

Hi all, would anyone be able to reprogram a Mars me126 coin mech for me. I just need the £1 changing to the new one. Obviously i will pay for it but would rather give the money to someone on here. Many Thanks Jim