Cool stuff you've found on the web

Post by **PaulH** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:35 am

A great site with emulated fruit machines:

http://www.fruit-emu.com/

You can play fairly recent ones that you have seen in pubs and clubs, or the oldies. You know, the ones you played when on a weeks holiday in Skegness when you were little, in a caravan, pissing down with rain, no tv, bugger all to do... but your dad would give you a handful of coppers and send you to the arcade and tell you 'not to come back for half an hour...'. Those were the days.

Des · Post by **Des** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:34 pm

I downloaded a few machines and had a play today. I found it much more entertaining than I thought it would be with no real wonga on the line. The challenge of making a profit is still there, but I haven't succeeded yet. For example I couple I played on the JPM emulator where "Impulse" and "Monopoly 60th Anniversary". I got absolutely stuffed on Impulse finishing well down after a 20 minute session, then I thought I'd won handsomely on Monopoly but I was actually £1 down.

Post by **PaulH** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:04 am

Yeah, I know the feeling! You tend to be a little more adventurous I think than RL. Most machines can have their payout percentages altered.

Fantastically, my local snooker club had one of the machines that I downloaded! I learned how all the features worked, went down tho the club... and still lost. Still need that lucky break. Both at snooker and on the fruities hehe.

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:14 am

I remember when these were first made available online (about 10 years ago or so). Someone decoded some of the ROMs and discovered that you *CAN'T* win. Not just statistically the odds are stacked against you, but that the machine actually ensures that you lose.

For example, there were some games where you had an (alleged) 50:50 choice between two buttons (say A and B). If you selected A then the code would highlight B as the "correct" choice and you'd lose. If you selected B then it would highlight A and you'd still lose...

Obviously when you were playing against a real machine you never knew this and just thought you were unlucky, but it wasn't until the code was examined that the fact that you couldn't win was discovered.

(From a libelous point of view, I should point out that this only applied to some machines; most of course were completely "fair", just that the odds are stacked against you so you were just unlikely to win!)

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:31 pm

what about that tilt thing ? you can toss the odds in your favour.
Maybe that helps in winning?!

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:54 pm

Tilt doesn't apply to fruit machines, I think you're mxing up two different threads...

Post by **PaulH** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:32 pm

You can try tilting fruit machines, but generally an alarm goes off and you get ejected by a bouncer.

The 'no chance of a win' scenario has recently come to light again, with the new 'fair play' movement. I believe new machines MUST by law place a notice on the machine stating that there 'may be circumstances where a win is not possible'. Yes we have all been there... high/low on an 11 seems to suspiciously roll in a 12 more times than it would by chance.... BUT! We don't complain when the machine rolls us in bonuses, no lose situations, guaranteed wins, invincible modes. I guess these would be taken away if all machines had to operate on just chance, and the 'playability' of the machine would drop. I have more than once won over 100 pounds with these super modes, and all for just a couple of pounds in. I hardly bet anything, just tend to be incredibly lucky!

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:46 pm

See: http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/evidence.htm for some examples.

Post by **PaulH** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:53 pm

I remember seeing that page before. The scenarios can generally be recreated on any of the machines with the emulators (it allows you to save your position!). The biggest 'cheat' I saw was when I went low on a 12. It spun me a 12 and I lost...

Also, machines that are full of money are more likely to pay. On one particular machine I knew (another version of the infamous monopoly) you could peer in between the reels and look how full the money hoppers were. If they were high, with coins in the feeder tubes, it almost always paid a big win!

Post by **Ameena** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:49 am

Something a friend just linked to me on Messenger...
http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

Des · Post by **Des** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:34 pm

I rather liked that but I'm not sure why - perhaps it is supposed to allegorise the futility of life? This one just proves that our brains have a severe design flaw...

http://feed.proteinos.com/item/3806

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:10 am

Someone already linked that one. It's good though

.

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:45 pm

Empire Strikes back in mini pixels!

http://x2.putfile.com/10/29700173131.gif

Post by **Ameena** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:26 pm

I've seen Star Wars IV done like that too - was someone's sig on a forum I visited recently. I wonder if there's RotJ done like that too...

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:57 pm

Anyone seen the John Cleese star wars thing - both very crude and abusive, but occasionally very funny

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:03 am

Nope, where can we see that?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:07 am

Don't know, never been able to find it again. It's basically a set of movie stills with dialogue written underneath. It's a combination of crude and not funny bits with some hysterical bits - like everyone says 'peeow' when they fire their guns.

Post by **Zyx** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:39 am

And now meet Chewbroccoli...
http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:44 am

Old news! I think that's a few pages back....

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:30 am

For all the Star Wars Pixel mashes, go here:

http://timchez.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_ ... chive.html

A Sony ad not made by Sony:

http://www.makevisual.com/movies/sonystyle1.html

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:10 pm

Now this is just amazing: Coloured Bubbles with Disappearing Colour.

It's a long article but well worth the read. It really made me feel quite emotional -- something about the persistence of the human spirit. And potentialy thousands of fantastic new products to boot.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a ... drcrd.html

Post by **linflas** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:39 pm

http://blogdamned.free.fr/images/savemefinal2.swf

i hate this childish tv serie btw... except when kristin kreuk appears on screen

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:59 pm

odd, I must be a big kid then

oh and @gambit.. those bubbles are fantastic!! I wonder if I'll see them on our shelves this year or if our chemical ban people will keep them over the border untill they've had 5 years to examine them for safety

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:26 am

Christmas lights: http://homepage.usask.ca/%7Eamn076/lights.wmv

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:02 pm

I think this is pretty amazing - Piano Balls!

http://www.tdfun.com/video/view.php?sec ... eo&id=1886

Post by **linflas** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:17 pm

omfg !!! fake or not ?

Post by **Ameena** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:48 am

Wheee that is cool

. Doesn't look fake to me...hehe must have taken so long to master the skill properly. Great stuff

.

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:29 am

Here's a roundup of web found goodness:

Alive In Joburg [Quicktime]
The Japenese Segway
X Men 3 Trailer (yummy) (actually, this one's broken, can anyone see it?)
Ninja Monk!
Rude Place Names

If you like the JoBurg clip, check out the guys other work. You might recognise some of it:

http://studio.adbeast.com/ReelManager/S ... GVMZFFNRUw

(It will resize your browser unfortunately)

cow_not_logged_in · Post by **cow_not_logged_in** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:25 am

you need to install quicktime 7 first.. it doesn't auto update. So you have to do it manually.. then it may give you an error on the first load just close and load again.. it will work.

moo

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:26 am

Gaah, I hate Apple and their damn iTunes installer. Have to install it just to to get QT, then uninstall iTunes. Bollocks.

Anyway, nice trailer. My yummy was not wasted!