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I'm running a 3902 with Game King 5.3.  Anybody know how to adjust the TITO volume?  I think this problem happens with igames too.

I can set all volumes correctly for everything else, but TITO is always crazy loud!

Thanks
Jason

Hey Jason, I'm always crackin' up at your latest avatar!   :72-

I know the tito sound is often a problem in GK's.  I'm not sure anyone has solved it.

The way I worked around was to do the OHM mod where you put a resistor on the speaker wire.  That levels all the sounds to pretty much the same volume.  You have to then turn the volume all the way up.  As you know, on a GK, there are 3 speakers.  I put in only one resistor leading into the amplifier to filter the sound before it's amplified, but you could also put 3 in, one at each speaker end.

[add] I should add that I don't have a ticket printer.  I added the resistor as an equalizer to level out all of the sounds.  For example, Super 8 Race was extremely loud.  With the resistor, it's close to the same volume as other sounds.[/add]

That's the only fix I know. :103-

:Dave

Gotta love good ol John Candy.  Dave, do you recall which resistors that you used?

Jason

It was the 47 OHM.   :89-  Here's the details ...

http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=17295.0 (http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=17295.0)

Wow, can't believe that was six months ago already!  Seems like just last month  I was blowing up a Game King.  Oh wait, I was!   :200-

What would REALLY be cool is if somebody could chime in and say whether or not a 3903 board fixes that issue or if it a problem with the software.

Jason

I would say that the software was designed to play the ticket out sound at that volume.
It would a bloody genius to bust through the coding in the chips and adjust the volume for those bytes.
That's my 2 cents...

I assume it's louder so people remember to grab their tickets even if all other volumes are turned really low

Yeah, I had just figured it would be like the S2000 volume control.  But if it's like where I work, different product divisions don't always follow the same standards.

Jason

 :266-

Here's a moral question ... if you find an unclaimed ticket in the casino, do you keep it? 

I was playing a year ago and kept hearing a very loud, "beep beep beep", meaning, a ticket was waiting to be retrieved.  So, I followed the source of the beeping and found a ticket handing out.  The ticket was for $350. 

What would you have done with it? :103-


Anecdote: Another time, I had too much to drink and left a machine.  When I got to the next machine, I couldn't find my $100 ticket.  I went back to the machine I had left and it was still in the machine as credits.  Fortunately, no one found that machine before I returned!

Keep it.

Jason

The "unmoral" answer ( for some folks) to that question is that some casinos consider those unclaimed tickets "Casino Property".
They instruct the hired help to confiscate every loose ticket in the house during their rounds
and are brought back to the backroom.
If you are found trying to cash in on "Casino Property" in some places - you face criminal penalties.

I learned the hard way with doing a good deed by turning in found money at the casino -- you would have thought I was a criminal by the way I was treated by security.  Keep it, and play innocent if you get caught (and turn it over to them only at that time) ("I thought it was mine, sorry, here you go...").