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Hopefully they'll have the Smash & Grab up and running soon, although it seems bizarre that I really want to play a real one despite it having been emulated for years and years already.
Can't belive there is still one of those in the wild! Didn't Barcrest get into trouble with this as the £3 Jackpot could be exchanged for £1.50 cash and a chance at unlimited nudges, which if won didn't cost you a credit so the JP in this case was £4.50?
No it still cost you a credit but ment that the jackpot was £4.50 for a 20p stake
These were also 'banned' (or to be more accurate the feature was no longer allowed to be used) for the nudge bank as well as you could not incentivize a next game - it works in two ways depending on the chip
It will occasionally (every few credits) drop a nudge into the nudge bank on the top of the piggy bank and if you can make a win with it you offered a 'smash and grab' to get it (hit the button - smash you lose - grab you get the nudges) - this means you can hold near to jackpot or high win symbols to get those potential big wins
On the first version you can also trade any win for nudges , and those go into the bank to be used later (either via smash n grab or by filling the trail)
On the later versions the nudges you get from trading go onto the nudge ladder and those are then smashed or grabbed on the very next spin
The £4 jackpot also messed up some of the other tricks around saving / unsaving nudges - saved nudges before you lost the gamble go back into the pot , saved nudges after you gamble and lose are still on the nudge trail - there was also some really weird stake around the gamble for unlimited nudges (which went back to 7 if you lost instead of the next lowest value) on early versions of this when you had plenty of nudges the trick was to get the trail filled , save all but one into the bank and then just gamble that 1 , if you win save it back in - when you have the bank filled 'cancel' the saved nudges back out and you have the jackpot
The chips we have for this in the emulator are very late ones and have a lot of the features smoothed / fixed / changed from what they were if you played them at the time.