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[No1Stoney]

File Name: Reel Good Time DX

File Submitter: No1Stoney

File Submitted: 14 Jan 2017

File Category: Epoch

Here we have Reel Good Time by Global Gaming. Running on Epoch - £25/30p/86%
 
This DX was created using photos of my own personal machine which were taking by a former fruit-emu member on their professional camera. I've not had a lot of practice stitching photos together so this was a challenge for me. I'm not very good at using the skew/perspective/warp tools on photoshop. But I have given it my best shot here and I think it looks OK. Luckily the photos were of good quality to start with.
 
As mentioned, I used to own this particular machine and really enjoyed playing it when I owned it so am glad to see it running in the emulator now. 
 
I hope everyone enjoys this release, it may be the last from me for a little while as I have some personal commitments elsewhere which will see me getting limited time creating layouts for the time being. I was also due to release a £5 version of this but I just don't have any more time to work on it, but I will get to it eventually. IMO £25 was the better option anyway.
 
I hope everyone enjoys what I have released so far. I am very fond of creating DX layouts as it is a buzz to see your hard work come together. Even better is to see your work played by others.
 
If there is anything wrong with this layout let me know.
 
Hoppers topped up / volume is up / meters are working.
 
Many thanks for looking and everyone's comments on all of my layouts to date.

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[andy-1]

Thank You

[richy1976]

Thanks

[prizeguy2005]

cheers used to own the machine cracking sound package

[brucegeorge]

Thank you soooo much mate I look forward to playing this when I get home tomorrow I really did enjoy this machine in the wild I will also look forward to the £5 jackpot when its ready

 

Thank You again

 

Bruce

[Geddy]

Many thanks

[wearecity]

A machine, I remember playing many times, in a Weatherspoon, that is now sadly a Sainsburys.

 

Never really got ahead with it, but then I always played the collect £3 or £4 game on machines in this era. I seem to remember if you played cautious you could have quite a bit of playtime for £20.

[vectra666]

thanks for this played this a fair amount 

[gemini17]

File Name: Reel Good Time DX

File Submitter: No1Stoney

File Submitted: 14 Jan 2017

File Category: Epoch

 

 

Here we have Reel Good Time by Global Gaming. Running on Epoch - £25/30p/86%
 
This DX was created using photos of my own personal machine which were taking by a former fruit-emu member on their professional camera. I've not had a lot of practice stitching photos together so this was a challenge for me. I'm not very good at using the skew/perspective/warp tools on photoshop. But I have given it my best shot here and I think it looks OK. Luckily the photos were of good quality to start with.
 
As mentioned, I used to own this particular machine and really enjoyed playing it when I owned it so am glad to see it running in the emulator now. 
 
I hope everyone enjoys this release, it may be the last from me for a little while as I have some personal commitments elsewhere which will see me getting limited time creating layouts for the time being. I was also due to release a £5 version of this but I just don't have any more time to work on it, but I will get to it eventually. IMO £25 was the better option anyway.
 
I hope everyone enjoys what I have released so far. I am very fond of creating DX layouts as it is a buzz to see your hard work come together. Even better is to see your work played by others.
 
If there is anything wrong with this layout let me know.
 
Hoppers topped up / volume is up / meters are working.
 
Many thanks for looking and everyone's comments on all of my layouts to date.

 

 

Click here to download this file

Fantastic release and cracking quality from photos.

Many thanks to all involved with the release.

My first download of 2017!!

Whole family have had bug after bug-just getting over chest infections now-bloody horrible.

 

Happy new year to one and all.

 

Jay

[Chopaholic]

Ooohhh one of my favourite EPOCH machines, and indeed one I was really hoping there'd be a layout for in the MFMEV5 era

 

Only ever played a single real one of these, but it had a surprisingly long tenure in a local pub - (they got their machines from an independent local operator as they weren't a brewery pub, so machines that made a decent cashbox were sometimes left onsite for ages) - so I played that one Reel Good Time machine on many occasions.

 

This to me is a perfect example of why Global were so good at £25 AWPs, managing to inject a very healthy dose of the 'AMUSEMENT' aspect into the proceedings, at a time when you had absolutely feral machines like Reds doing the rounds. (Not that there was anything wrong with Reds, I liked them back then and I love them emulated, but you'd have a hard job suggesting they offered much in the way of 'amusement', being as they were pretty hardcore f***ers where everyone knew the true jackpot was the big tops that could be £100 even in the £25 era.)

 

Reel Good Time was a machine I very much looked forward to playing on a session (back then there were about fifteen AWPs in town, so a good all-dayer of beers and gambling was entirely possible), you'd never come too far unstuck on it, and there was always the possibility of it doing (an admittedly rather rare) £50. It also liked to do curious amounts off the mega series, going past £25 didn't guarantee another £25, going up past £25 in blocks of £5/£10 instead.

 

Basically, you'd never really win that much, but never lose that much either, it was if you will, a sort of 'friendly' AWP.

 

(The block at £15 can be quite amusing, especially if you can reliably hit the ROLL EVEN and suchlike off the mystery on the top board, as it begrudgingly lands on a 10px2 (with all the REEL GOOD TIME logo filled making it x2), bins you back down to the bottom board, get back to the top with a key, straight to a mystery, hit ROLL EVEN, move to another 20p, mystery, and so on. Even if you miss the ROLL EVEN to a 1, you can just gamble higher on the bottom board on they key again, to have another go. It'll do this until everything's capped out at £15 (super series, £15 cashpot, £15 cash stack and the £15 feature, and then finally kill you off, almost like it feels sorry about doing so ).)

 

One of the best things this has going for it is a great sound package, with some really nice tunes. The one I played was one of that rather rare breed of pub AWP where the volume was turned up a reasonable amount, so if the pub was fairly quiet it was possible to hear it somewhat clearly, and the splendid music added nicely to whole experience.

 

So all that said this is a fantastic machine to see emulated, particularly so with a Stoney DX. Many thanks for this release Stoney, your layout output for MFMEV5 has been superb and in all honesty I haven't given a lot of your work the time it deserves, but I'll get round to it in due course, however Reel Good Time was worth making some extra time for, and it was brilliant to play this machine again, after so many years since I've been able to play a real one

Also I really like photo DXs, they have a unique look about them that isn't necessarily 'better' than flyer based DXs, but does confer a certain realness to the experience that I'm very fond of.

Thanks for a wonderful release

[letmein]

Nice one Stoney, many thanks.

 

 

M

[chasnbons]

TY

[Chopaholic]

This seems to work pretty reliably for getting a true skill repeat on the jackpot, although obviously you have to get it invincible (i.e. jackpot) happy in the first place.

 

Not something I ever thought to try on the real thing!

 

Edited by Chopaholic, 15 January 2017 - 02:48 PM.

[No1Stoney]

This seems to work pretty reliably for getting a true skill repeat on the jackpot, although obviously you have to get it invincible (i.e. jackpot) happy in the first place.

 

Not something I ever thought to try on the real thing!

 

 

No must admit, I never played it this way and always went for the mega streak knowing it didn't have to 'commit' to paying £50 and instead it could pay £40 for example if its not quite ready for £50. Thanks for your lengthy review earlier, very much appreciated and I enjoyed reading it.

[Johnnyafc]

Thankyou

[TommyC]

Nice one,cheers for the layout.