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RayB:
With power off, there's no solution. Basically, if someone was dumb enough to drop a quarter into a machine that's turned off, too bad for them.

But with power on, there is a solution. Some coin mechs come with an electro magnet that when activated will catch the coin. But I don't know much more about this, and I really don't think MAME could control them anyways.

tetsujin:

--- Quote from: RayB on January 20, 2006, 03:06:03 pm ---With power off, there's no solution. Basically, if someone was dumb enough to drop a quarter into a machine that's turned off, too bad for them.

But with power on, there is a solution. Some coin mechs come with an electro magnet that when activated will catch the coin. But I don't know much more about this, and I really don't think MAME could control them anyways.


--- End quote ---

<sigh>

Yes, that's the lockout coil I was referring to.  And when there's no power being fed to it (like when the machine is off) the coin will be rejected, so the player dumb enough to feed a coin into a dead machine still gets his money back.

Comp1demon:

--- Quote from: tetsujin on January 20, 2006, 03:31:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on January 20, 2006, 03:06:03 pm ---With power off, there's no solution. Basically, if someone was dumb enough to drop a quarter into a machine that's turned off, too bad for them.

But with power on, there is a solution. Some coin mechs come with an electro magnet that when activated will catch the coin. But I don't know much more about this, and I really don't think MAME could control them anyways.


--- End quote ---

<sigh>

Yes, that's the lockout coil I was referring to.  And when there's no power being fed to it (like when the machine is off) the coin will be rejected, so the player dumb enough to feed a coin into a dead machine still gets his money back.

--- End quote ---


Does my Coin Door have a lockout coil?  IF not how and where can I get one.  I just want to make my project as authentic as possible. 

AS for remapping games to regester button pushes 7 and 8 - thats a great idea - though it requires alot of work - but i will get there eventually.

BASSOFeeSH:
Like what was said earlier, you'll just have to adjust your MAME config.

Since there's more games that DON'T have more than two players, simply setup the two left chutes(1 & 3?) to both act as coin 1 & the right two to act as coin 2.  THEN go to any 3 or 4 player games & undo it so that each slot only works for the specified player.

RayB:

--- Quote from: tetsujin on January 20, 2006, 03:31:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on January 20, 2006, 03:06:03 pm ---With power off, there's no solution. Basically, if someone was dumb enough to drop a quarter into a machine that's turned off, too bad for them.

But with power on, there is a solution. Some coin mechs come with an electro magnet that when activated will catch the coin. But I don't know much more about this, and I really don't think MAME could control them anyways.


--- End quote ---

<sigh>

Yes, that's the lockout coil I was referring to.  And when there's no power being fed to it (like when the machine is off) the coin will be rejected, so the player dumb enough to feed a coin into a dead machine still gets his money back.

--- End quote ---

OH! So it works opposite of what I was thinking. Ok, that makes alot more sense than my dumb thinking.

So he needs lock-out coils that he could activate for certain games.
How about this cheaper method: masking tape on the slots.
 ;D

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