The amusement machine, a method and program for certification

Abstract

It is an object of the invention to detect an unlawful action such as replacing a main control board mounting a lawful main control unit with an unlawful main control board, and to alleviate a processing load on CPU constituting a surrounding unit. The disclosed pachinko game machine comprises: a main control unit 201 for outputting control commend; an identifying unit 202 for identifying the main control unit 201; and a surrounding unit 203 for performing a predetermined processing in accordance with control commend. When control commend is a predetermined commend, the main control unit 201 adds to the predetermined control commend an identifying data for identifying the main control unit 201, and supplies the sane to the identifying unit 202. The identifying unit 202 identifies the main control unit 201 using the identifying data added in the predetermined control unit, adds identifying result to the predetermined control commend, and supplies the same to the surrounding unit 203. The surrounding unit 203 performs a processing in accordance with the identifying result added in the predetermined control commend.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a game machine such as pinball game machines, mahjong pinball game machines, Arrange Ball and other pinball game machines, chip game machines and other return-type game machines installed in game halls such as pinball rooms, and Authentication methods and authentication procedures implemented on these gaming machines. Background technique [0002] In the illegal act of forcibly paying game media such as medals and game balls to a game machine irrespective of the game, the following acts are related to the main control board on which the main control unit is mounted and the peripheral board on which the peripheral parts are mounted. Several: [0003] (1) Replace the legitimate main control board with an illegal main control board; [0004] (2) Replace the ROM storing the legitimate program executed by the CPU mounted on the main control board with a ROM carrying an illegal program that tampers with the above-mentioned ...

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Therefore, the possibility of occurrence of the above-mentioned adverse phenomena increases

[0014] However, when electrical noise or mechanical vibration is applied to the game machine from the outside, malfunctions may occur

For example, when the control command is sent from the main control unit to the peripheral unit, when noise such as electromagnetic waves and static electricity is applied from the outside of the game machine, a bit error will occur in the control command data due to the influence of the noise, and the control command will be changed.

At this time, although the control command that should be sent to the peripheral part is originally a control command other than the command for winning the jackpot, if the control command is changed to the command for winning the jackpot due to a bit error, even if the above-mentioned illegal behavior is not carried out In some cases, many game media (such as game balls and medals, etc.) will be inappropriately paid to the players, which will cause great losses to the game hall.

However, in the above-mentioned first and second previous examples, no countermeasures were taken against such a situation, so it was impossible to solve this undesirable phenomenon that caused great losses to the game hall.

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