RameGoom wrote:Personally, I would just hard-wire it, making *any* coin flow thru to the coin box, and switch without regard to slugs or worn coins. You won't ever need to worry about slugs, or any cheats for that matter, in a home environment.
Sort of like disabling a check sensor on an old slot machine; odds are you'll never need to use them anyway. Unless you insist on absolute purity, then leave it. But it seems all the anti-cheat mechanisms put in place on any old coin op machine eventually find a way to hamper its simple function, cause jams, and make you have to remove the mechanism to clear the malfunction. I'd bet at least some of the machines owned by avid collectors are temporarily "non-functional" because of the hassle in tearing into the mech to unjam it.
Future generations likely will prefer to have a smooth running machine as opposed to an occasional jammed mechanism.
**Disclaimer** This is only my personal opinion. Feel free to disregard it as a short-sighted collector not "getting" it.
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