EFME - Release

[BarXQueen]

I have been waiting for 25 years for someone to release an emulator for Electrocoin machines such as Bar-X 7even and Magic 7. These machines are becoming more and more rare and so, in the interests of preserving some fruit machine history, I decided to release EFME

It emulates a wide range of older Electrocoin flat-top and casino machines up to £35 jackpot, and support is growing. The emulator offers the following features:

- Design tools for creating your own DX (or classic) layouts.
- Each layout bundle supports multiple skins, so one Bar-X 7even £25 bundle can hold every artwork variant.
- An Arcade function, you can specify how many machines to open on screen and it will fill your screen with Bar-X machines
- George - George will play machines for you. Ctrl+G to activate
- Punters feature. One downside of FME generally is that the machines are always dead. This feature will play multiple machines in the background and at random so you then don't know what has paid and what hasn't. No looking at the meters though!
- Extensive help files

The emulator doesn't ship with any layouts, when you install the application it will create an EFME folder in your documents folder with a subfolder called Layouts - just drop the layouts in there and you are good to go. You should only use the emulator to play ROMs you own the actual machine for.

Tested on Windows 10 and 11, any issues post them here and I will try my best to fix them. You'll need the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime, the installer will point you at it if it's missing.

To install, download the zip, right-click it and choose "Extract All", then run the EFME-Setup file inside and follow the prompts; it installs to your user account only and creates the Documents\EFME\Layouts folder for you.

Windows may warn that the publisher is unknown, which is normal for free, unsigned software; just click "More info" then "Run anyway".


BXQ

[spa]

Brilliant, thank you for doing this!

[DAD]

This is one fantastic Emulator and it's been an absolute honour to be involved in its development.  Many thanks to BXQ for reaching out to me in the first place.

At the time of writing there are TWO layouts available to download from the Release Area.  Many more layout releases are planned in the coming weeks so please keep looking in.

[EDIT] Make that three with Pooks RedBar DX....

https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/topic/21894-super-red-bar-dx-electrocoin-for-efme-1025/

Cheers

[ayeastra]

This is going to be amazing, thank you so much

[mainjohn]

hi i cant get it to open comes up with error saying no layouts even though ive done what it says on read me

[mainjohn]

ignore my last comment me being an idiot great work thankyou for this release

[fruitsnappa]

Great stuff, many thanks for this.

[evo]

Nice more happy times for MFME...Many thanks for this

[jamie28J]

Huge thanks to all involved.  Honestly the last few months have been an amazing time for FME.

[cliffc]

Thank you for this emulator i have been waiting to play propper electro coins with the hidden extra nudges and of course those bar x seven types on there real roms.
The layout i would like to see is either Super Red Bar Or Big Bar 7 in the casino cabs on the £5 £10 £15 £25 jackpot as these are electrocoins i have played the most, oop here in the north east we have many electro coins out there we have some of the magic 7 bat x 7s on £25 jackpots at 10p play and we have one casino big bar 7 on £1 £2 £5 £15 Jackpot also on 10p play, we used to have some Bar X on £2 £10 jackpots 20p play in the mini cabs but they got removed and replaced with shitty video cabs. Boo

[MultiRetroMan]

Thank you for this one Would there be anything like the Partytime Double Decker or would this be the newer hardware that's not emulated yet? Is that MPU6?

[DAD]

Thank you for this one Would there be anything like the Partytime Double Decker or would this be the newer hardware that's not emulated yet? Is that MPU6?

Nah, that's Astra Pluto 6 which isn't emulated as yet.

[WonkySausage]

this is fantastic news! Thanks so much for getting this emulator

[innfection]

👀👀👀

[Amusements]

Holy Mama!!

Thanks for this:)) Super red bar was always my go to game in any arcade, and them Magic Bar 7s must of cost me a fortune to play, so I can not wait to try this on my brand new cab.