Pulsation flatline shocker

kidgloves · Post by **kidgloves** » Sun May 11, 2008 8:50 pm

So there I was last night tootling around various pubs with the wife (decoy) along to muster up some friendly conversation with any bar staff that didn't take kindly to their machines paying out and giving us -ev karma for future visits.
Tootling along nicely, the weather really does give you a +ve edge and all was well with the world.
We arrived at location x but knew extra friendliness is required here as the pub has been fairly recently taken over by an Irish lad who has also brought along his mate to work for him who has more than a passing interest in fruit machines.
That's reason 1 to be wary, he really doesn't know much stuff, but has the eyes and ears of a hawk where the machines are concerned and duly reports back to his boss.
Reason 2 is last time we entered I caught this guy giving the owner a sidelong glance as we entered that all fruit machine players know to be the "watch out, there's a player about" kind of look.
So all in all, good reason to play the nice friendly couple and reinforce a few boats before they got burnt.
No hurry, so a couple of J.D.'s for good measure with not even a glance in the machines direction and some off topic banter with the landlord and his mate to set the social scene well.
Wander over to the Pulsation and start playing, good vibes all round as it's offering regular 99 nudges for the £10. Cue lots of losing gambles to the top before it relents and gives one £35.
Still lively as you would expect afterwards, although I must admit that I always get to this point and wonder whether to start taking the notations straight off or force for another top which could well do £10 anyway..hmm...not happy with my options here...but I digress...eventually got a board where arb1 was on with a crappy number on nudges side at 1 nudge and mystery win available.
Decide to opt for the win and try to prise in the final green feature which it gives. A few heart stopping moments to the next gamble with a bonus and it awards features to give the top. Flashes all the red notes briefly then alarms on me for 5 seconds and resets. Cheers.
So glitch ?? Obviously...but why I wonder...the machine happily offers the top so many times when flying as it knows it can use the 1 blue £10 note as a get out clause...did it fly along to an all red feature board then suddenly realize "oh fook I can't award a tenner here" and have a loony tantrum as a result ?? Annoying as fook anyway.
To add insult to injury the alarm made me look like a class 1 criminal as the pool players stared over in that accusing way marking me for the tooling twat that I appeared to be. The machine also played dead after the reset for the best part of £30 before relenting to a flurry of notations and I ended up roughly evens.
The whole incident ironically served as a good topic of conversation afterwards at the bar so diplomatic relations are at their best at the moment. I didn't get the £35 off them but a bad luck story will always make you appear human and not just a machine robbing pub raider.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 11, 2008 10:24 pm

This is one of the worst bits of programming in current fruities. I've seen it happen and others on here have had the same thing.
Although when I saw it, it just landed straight on stop first press.

Notice how this 0pound top doesn't get chipped

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sun May 11, 2008 10:38 pm

have they fixed the megaspins button on the holy moley Kidgloves??

ob · Post by ob » Mon May 12, 2008 1:19 am

yep had the £0 top once myself, spin first shot... lovely.... better than it alarming and causing uneccesary heat though I suppose!

darren · Post by **darren** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:20 am

Yes its rediculous. I have had it on two seperate ocassions on a legal tender....

Both times i hit stop and was rewarded.... With an alarm

It is indeed 'strange' how they havnt chipped it. Dont see the machines problem with it anyway. Not as if it cant afford to pay pot when its redding is it.

Lazzzzyyyyy.

ob · Post by ob » Mon May 12, 2008 1:55 am

thing is I had it when it was stone, that's why I thought it did the spin, very harsh if it does it when it is actually redding and there for a pot anyhow!

blackmogu · Post by **blackmogu** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:09 am

indeed.. having coerced a stone legal tender into a corner with red features (almost like playing a fruits u sir!), I was rewarded with a top, where I won the hidden prize of the mystery error code ! Sloppy.

pickareel · Post by **pickareel** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:35 pm

have had this,wasnt top ready,span nudges for green hiddens,arb2 got both green features nudged in fruit win got features on the bonus hit a 25 note then alarmed,lucki3y when 5t s6rted 5tse3f 64t the 25 was 5n the bank

kidgloves · Post by **kidgloves** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:44 pm

Extreme Eddie wrote:have they fixed the megaspins button on the holy moley Kidgloves??

It'a gone now...to be replaced by ..well...not quite as good but worth a visit.....

Dunhamzzz · Post by **Dunhamzzz** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:47 pm

something makes the machine kinda payout a bit more then is supposed to, but not an emptier ( Im pointing to cluedos ) but something that makes the punter NOT win doesn't get fixed.

They're out to get us :/

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:51 pm

Of course, but GUAC doesn't really make it payout any more....just puts it behind so that the next players get done over with 2nd hit deaths. Ouch. £40 of flat gameplay.

anfield road · Post by **anfield road** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:59 pm

Mattb wrote:Of course, but GUAC doesn't really make it payout any more....just puts it behind so that the next players get done over with 2nd hit deaths. Ouch. £40 of flat gameplay.

and make sure you leave your half of coke next to it!