Megatouch ML-1

[MasterOfNone]

Happy turkeytime all!
So, I'm on my 3rd ML-1, and with or without NOS boards, maxed-out ram, and ssd, they all have the same crappy annoying pauses during game play and other quirks that make it seem like a step-down from ion. How many of these could they have sold new like this?  The fancy cabinet, big screen, h2h multi-touch and updated menu/attract aesthetics are nice, but nowhere near enough to cancel out those glitches for me. What do you guys think?

[lilshawn]

good idea...bad implementation. all a matter of money.

for probably 50 or 60 bucks more cost on their end they could have had a decent motherboard/cpu combo with an SSD (even if it was a small 64gb SSD.) but no.

windows embedded so they can crypto lock the drives and prevent operators from swapping/cloning drives amongst machines... they should have stuck with linux OS instead of the windows embedded since they know that's what works. but no, screwing operators is more beneficial to them.

all basically in order to try and lock operators into ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- hardware that fails and locked out the ability to replace the drive except buying a new one from them.

personally i'm glad it was a failure.

[mahkeymike]

Yeah, Mobo is comparable to running Force 2011 running on the same old 2002 ECS mobo with 128mb of ram.
ML-1 runs great on a 3rd Gen I7 with 8gb of ram though.

[MasterOfNone]

Thanks guys. Maybe the same kind of thing that makes a formerly great company like Boeing start making planes programmed to nose down and crash. At least Megatouch hasn't caused any fatalities..., as far as I know! I'm sorry I bought these ML-1's, because the pauses are too annoying when I could just play a smooth-sailing linux, but I also feel bad selling an annoying game to anyone else. Guess I'll have to try a different mobo if I can ever get caught up on projects and find the time. Happy holidays!

[MasterOfNone]

Hey Mahkey, Any specific I7 3rd generation you'd suggest? And, would the onboard video be good, or will it still require a video card/daughter board? Thanks!

[mahkeymike]

dunno, it came in my 22 inch multitouch dell aio. 

[pinballvideojuke]

dunno, it came in my 22 inch multitouch dell aio. 

Are you saying that you're running this on a Dell PC?

Also, I'm currently advertising an ML-1 for sale locally, and this may be a mistake, but I'm offering tech support to the buyer. In your opinion, should I buy a spare, used hard drive (eBay?) to have on hand, before they are unavailable anymore?
Thanks!

[lilshawn]

i mean it's windows...if dump in your own drivers for stuff you can run it on anything.

windows embedded is basically windows...but with driver support for exactly what you need and nothing more... keeping the install size low and load time little better than normal windows.

Also, I'm currently advertising an ML-1 for sale locally, and this may be a mistake, but I'm offering tech support to the buyer. In your opinion, should I buy a spare, used hard drive (eBay?) to have on hand, before they are unavailable anymore?
Thanks!

even a clone of the drive you have won't work cause the encryption is tied to the hardware (motherboard, hard drive, serial numbers, ETC.) so unless you change your cloned drives serial number to match the original... or somehow un-encrypt the drive, clone it and then re-encrypt it with the new hardware in place... another hard drive wont work.

you were SUPPOSED to buy a drive from megatouch by providing your machine serial number so they could make you a drive for your machine... locking you into them being the sole provider for parts.

it is apparently possible to make copies if you know the machine serial number...but i know nothing about that.

[Megatouchmike]

i mean it's windows...if dump in your own drivers for stuff you can run it on anything.

Shawn's right. A few years ago I replaced my ML1 motherboard with a low power mini itx board with only passive cooling. The performance difference was night and day. Took a couple hours of installing drivers and hacking together the audio connections but was worth the effort

[mahkeymike]

dunno, it came in my 22 inch multitouch dell aio. 

Are you saying that you're running this on a Dell PC?

Also, I'm currently advertising an ML-1 for sale locally, and this may be a mistake, but I'm offering tech support to the buyer. In your opinion, should I buy a spare, used hard drive (eBay?) to have on hand, before they are unavailable anymore?
Thanks!

I wouldn't offer tech support. There is literally nothing you can replace if it breaks other then getting a used hard drive on ebay like you mentioned. I don't think anyone has any old stock of the motherboards or ioboards. Even the PSU is specific to ML-1. And if the touchscreen goes, forget about it.

[action76]

I came across a couple of these is a warehouse and got them for free.  Unfortunately they apparently have the internet only version of software on them and they just try to find the servers and reboot. Is there any way to get and put the stand alone software on them and get them to work? If so where can I find it?  Thanks for any help.

[Megatouchmike]

I came across a couple of these is a warehouse and got them for free.  Unfortunately they apparently have the internet only version of software on them and they just try to find the servers and reboot. Is there any way to get and put the stand alone software on them and get them to work? If so where can I find it?  Thanks for any help.

Yes me or Mahkeymike can help. You'd need to ship your drives, can't do it yourself

[action76]

Thanks for the response Megatouchmike!  Please send me the details about this. I would love to get these up and running.  Also, might like to do the MB swap upgrade if it runs alot better.

Thanks.

[Megatouchmike]

Sounds good, pm coming