One arm bandits ARE bandits
 

Not sure if right place for this but still...

Surely most of us thought they were fixed, but its seem the proof is emerging
Here

Shows there is a valid use for those emulators after all !

Thats terrible. I'm glad that I stopped playing those things 20 years ago.

jeez are u telling me that they weren't doing it for charity all this timehttp://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Thud.gif

Nice one Bob, as an avid " player " when in pubs I've known for years that this was the case, proof or no. It all depends on the bandit as you say but they do go through " cycles " , after all they have to pay out a percentage although when and what that percentage is, is again as you say down to the program.

This " news " wont deter me from " investing " the odd pound or two...lol, but thanks for the link.. busy d\l ing some bandits now so as to play at home :) :) :)

EDIT :- £4.00 stake & £9.60 out...lol, as Russ D says below, some times there are ways and means..lol

There are always ways to 'play' them though...I used to be quite successful at exploiting the cheats found in most machines :)

Even though I know this I still play them;) Mad or what!!:)

Why is it terrible? The people that operate fruit machines do so because they want to make a profit, not to give money away.

Having read that article, it seems that it there is a chance you will lose on a fruit machine. You may not have the 70% chance of winning inferred by the labelling on the machine, but you still have a chance of winning.

Also that, article is actually wrong in some parts. It says that in any gamble, you have zero chance of winning. This is bull, as almost anyone who has played a fruit machine will tell you. It also seems to infer that any machine with hi and lo buttons decides you are going to lose before you push the button. This is wrong as well.

Also, they are basing their findings on an emulator. The emulator may or may not be accurate..

just worked it out have you ;)

Scastle : you don;t work for the gaming board do you ?

""An interesting response is received from the Gaming Board, the supposedly regulatory body for fruit machines in the UK. In it, they say that the machine behaviour alleged by this site would be "undesirable" if true, but that they suspect the emulation is not accurately reproducing real machine behaviour. (We weren't aware the Gaming Board was home to emulation experts...) We have alerted them to further evidence, and await their reply.
"

As ususal the relavent industry watchdog sticks its head up it ar*e

Its one thing to think they are fixed,

its another to have the proof !

I am desperate to get one of the emulators working but cant any one got an idiots guide

Easy d\l both the emulator and the eastenders files, ( from the links ) put them into a folder, and unzip them into that folder, you can put sub folders ie eastenders etc etc folders inside the main one ( one for each machine you d\l ) then crank up the emulator and click on file load game and choose from your machines.

good luck :)

When i down load it and others it only seems to find eastenders and also where do you get other emulaters from as my machine is quiet old

Elaborate please......:)

:D ... or so you'd like to think!!! :D Whilst I'd agree that there are "ways to 'play' them", at the end of the day, if the machine don't want to pay, then it won't ... which was for me, the essence of the original article... It really doesn't matter what buttons you press, the machine only lets you get as far as it wants you to... There are certain 'cheats' but they can really only be classed as features of the game... if you chose to just slap the start button each time without giving any thought to any other part of the gameplay - cash would roll in eventually, but only if the machine says so :D