The extra option has helped on my PC both of the games are now running much faster so i can now play the games ok i am off now to do some videos for my you tube channel

Thank you

I must say that when loading double decker for first time, there is an alarm. I have never heard the pluto alarm before and it's horrible especially when all 3 stations alarm. Interesting terminology when I've heard of stations as "slaves" and the top box as the "master", classic horrible astra display being no coms to master. Never had that emulated thank goodness. Just want to let people know how loud that alarm is. I know A1 machines have a worse alarm than that lol. Talking of stations, what are the max stations you can have, as I know again that A1 machines have 8 plus top board, party time arena, bingo and others.

Quote from: radar on Aug 21, 2026, 04:44 PMHi BarXQueen,
Thanks for your hard work. Tried Party Time Player with the new release 0.28. Using the recompiler engine definately faster. Payout sound & reel speed ok. The other sounds nudges, wins and feature sounds are still very slow. Was unplayable on initial release. I still cannot play Double Decker at all on my pc

Another option you can try is to remove Player 2 and 3 from the layout. Just click on the cabinet menu and choose "Remove station" and remove player 3 first - if that doesn't help enough then remove Player 2 as well

Double decker and ptp play fine now! Thanks BXQ

Hiya, many thanks for the updates. One thing I noticed though, is when I updated it, it deleted the existing games. I changed the default folder for the games. Would that be why it deleted them?

Quote from: BarXQueen on Aug 21, 2026, 02:14 PM

Quote from: fruitsnappa on Aug 21, 2026, 08:58 AMAwesome, many thanks for this. Is it staying at Lo-tec Pluto 6 games or will it advance into the Hi-tec stuff also?

What games are Hi-tec on the platform?

lets get kraken
jailbreak
 Ones I know of top of my head

A few of you have reported the emulator running slowly on your PC, update to v0.2.8 and see if that helps. If not, go into settings and Emulation, then select "Use the recompiler engine (experimental)". Restart PFME and see if that helps. Please feedback any observations below, i.e. does the new engine help? What in particular is slow? Is it reel spin, loading, etc?

PFME 0.2.8 - sound fixes, and a faster engine
Second build. Mostly this one is about sound, which two separate faults were spoiling.

Sound

• The click at the end of a sound was not the sound at all. It was the space left over at the end of the file on the card image, being read as audio and decoded at full volume. Empty space on a real card is erased flash, and it reads as silence now.
• The crackle on a machine with several boards was the opposite problem: silence was being dropped out of the stream rather than played. The sound chip's clock does not stop between one sound and the next, so the gap has to be carried like everything else.

Also in this build

• An optional engine can be activated in settings that may help users who are having speed issues on their PC.
• The machine costs about half of what it did to run before either engine is chosen, which is what makes a four-board cabinet keep up.
• Option added to settings that will tell George to use the Party Time method of nudging (lining up reels then waiting for them to move into position).

Updating
If you are already running 0.2.7 you should not need to download anything. This is the first release the built-in updater has had anything to offer, so a copy with update checking turned on will find it by itself within a day and install it for you. If you would rather it did not, the setting is in Settings.

I will update the original release thread with the latest version and list build/version changes here