JP5612362B2 - Distribution management method and game system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to gaming machine fraud prevention technology, and more particularly to a technology for discovering fraudulent alterations and the like made to gaming machines in the distribution process.

  There is known a gaming machine in which a winning lottery is performed every time a predetermined lottery opportunity is established on condition that a game medium is inserted, and the player can increase the number of gaming media by winning. In this type of gaming machine, there is a problem of an illegal act of replacing the board that controls the winning lottery with an illegally modified board, and various countermeasure technologies have been proposed. For example, the board that controls the winning lottery is installed in a technology (for example, see Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2) for verifying the validity of the board by authenticating another board provided in the gaming machine. A technique (for example, refer to Patent Document 3) that inspects the legitimacy of the unique identification information registered in advance in the gaming machine by an inspection device and detects unauthorized modification has been proposed.

JP 2002-263340 A JP-A-2005-21330 JP 2001-137516 A

In the techniques of Patent Documents 1 and 2, there is a problem that unauthorized modification cannot be detected when all the boards involved in authentication are replaced with unauthorized boards. Further, the technique of Patent Document 3 has a problem that an illegal gaming machine cannot be detected if the inspection device is illegally modified.
The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and provides a distribution management method for a gaming machine and a gaming system that can detect unauthorized modification and the like performed on a gaming machine during a distribution process or the like. For the purpose.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a gaming machine main board for controlling the occurrence of a special gaming state by a game using a gaming medium, and a dispensing control board for controlling the dispensing of the gaming medium. In a distribution management method for gaming machines connected to a gaming medium lending device that controls lending of media so that data can be transmitted and received, the shipping source stores authentication information on the gaming machine main board and the payout control board, and the authentication Information is stored in a server that can be referred to from the shipping destination, and the shipping destination that receives the gaming machine is based on the authentication information stored in the gaming machine main board and the payout control board in the gaming machine. to execute the authentication, and outputs the authentication information using the result the authentication of the authentication to the game medium lending device, said game medium lending device, when the authentication is established, The authentication information output from the serial gaming machine, and judging the validity of the made authentication with the game machine based on the acquired authentication information from the server.
The present invention is configured in an enclosed ball type that encloses a predetermined number of game balls and circulates and uses these game balls for games, and each time a predetermined condition is satisfied by the game balls launched on the game board, a special game state A game machine main board and a payout control board for managing the number of game balls that the player can use in the game, and lend it to the player based on the game ball rental instruction sent from the game ball lending device In a distribution management method for gaming machines that manages game ball number data, a shipping source stores authentication information on the gaming machine main board and the payout control board, and stores the authentication information in a server that can be referred to from the shipping destination. Then, the shipping destination that received the gaming machine causes the gaming machine main board and the payout control board to perform authentication based on the authentication information stored in each other in the gaming machine. And the authentication information used for the authentication are output to the gaming medium lending device, and the gaming medium lending device outputs the authentication information output from the gaming machine and the server when the authentication is established. The validity of the authentication performed in the gaming machine is determined based on the authentication information acquired from the game machine .

  According to the present invention, in the distribution management method, authentication of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board is performed based on the authentication information at the shipping destination, and an authentication board to be notified when authentication is not established is provided in the game It is provided in the machine.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a gaming machine main board for controlling the occurrence of a special gaming state due to a game using a gaming medium, and a gaming machine having a dispensing control board for controlling the dispensing of the gaming medium. the gaming machine is data transmission received connected to, stored in a game system comprising a game medium lending apparatus, the controlling lending of the game medium, the game machine main board, and shipper to the payout control board And the gaming machine executes authentication of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board at the shipping destination based on the authentication information stored in each other. and outputs the authentication information used for the authentication result of the authentication to the game medium lending device, wherein the said game medium lending apparatus installed in a shipping destination, the authentication is established That case, the authentication information output from the gaming machine, and judging the validity of the made authentication with the game machine based on the acquired authentication information from the server.
The present invention is configured in an enclosed ball type that encloses a predetermined number of game balls and circulates and uses these game balls for games, and each time a predetermined condition is satisfied by the game balls launched on the game board, a special game state A game machine main board for generating a game machine, a game machine having a payout control board for managing game ball number data that can be used by the player in the game, and the game machine connected to be able to send and receive data. In a gaming system comprising a gaming medium lending device for controlling lending of gaming media, the gaming machine main board, and a server that makes it possible to refer to the authentication information stored by the shipping origin on the payout control board from the shipping destination. The gaming machine executes authentication of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board at the shipping destination based on authentication information stored in each other, and uses the authentication result and the authentication. Authentication information is output to the gaming medium lending device, and the gaming medium lending device installed at the shipping destination receives the authentication information output from the gaming machine and the server when the authentication is established. The validity of the authentication performed in the gaming machine is determined based on the acquired authentication information.

The present invention, in the gaming system, the gaming machine, the gaming machine main board in the shipping destination, and the authentication of the dispensing control board, while performed based on authentication information stored together, the authentication It is characterized by providing an authentication board for informing when the above is not established.

  In the gaming system, the present invention is installed at a shipping destination, and a set of authentication information of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board of the gaming machine installed at the shipping destination is acquired from the server and stored. Further comprising a gaming machine ID management server, wherein the gaming machine ID management server acquires the gaming machine main board from the gaming machine via the gaming medium lending device when authentication with the gaming machine is not established. And the set of authentication information of the payout control board, the gaming machine main board acquired from the server, and the set of authentication information of the payout control board, the gaming machine main board of the gaming machine, and the payout It is characterized by authenticating a set of control boards.

  Further, according to the present invention, in the gaming system, the gaming machine ID management server transmits and registers information on the gaming machine in which the authentication is not established to an unauthorized information server that can be referred to from each of a plurality of shipping destinations. It is characterized by.

  According to the present invention, in the gaming system, the gaming machine encrypts and transmits authentication information to the gaming medium lending device.

  According to the present invention, at the shipping destination of the gaming machine, authentication of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board is executed, so that the unauthorized exchange of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board can be detected by the authentication. In addition to this, even if the authentication is successful, the validity of the authentication performed in the gaming machine is determined based on the authentication information held in the server and the authentication information of the gaming machine. Therefore, even if all the boards involved in authentication are illegally exchanged in the gaming machine, the authentication can be found illegally. In particular, by configuring the authentication information to be registered on the server by the game machine shipper, all authentications performed outside of this authentication information are determined to be unauthorized. Can be found in.

It is a figure showing the whole game service system composition concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the electrical structure of a game system. It is a flowchart of the registration process of the gaming machine ID of the pachinko machine. It is a flowchart which shows the authentication process of a pachinko machine. It is a flowchart which shows the authentication process in the pachinko machine based on 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a game service system 1 according to the present embodiment.
The game service system 1 includes a game management system 3 introduced in a game store 2 and a service providing server group 4. The game management system 3 is a system that acquires and manages game information from a pachinko machine 5 that is an example of a gaming machine, and includes a plurality of pachinko machines 5, a CR (Card Reader) unit (game ball lending device) 6, and the like. Configured. The service providing server group 4 is a server group that provides various services such as a distribution management service of the pachinko machine 5 to the game management system 3.

The service providing server group 4 broadly includes a vendor server group 4A belonging to the vendor system and a data center server group 4B belonging to the data center system, each of which includes a wide area network 11 such as the Internet. The game management system 3 is communicably connected to the game management system 3.
The vendor server group 4A includes an amusement machine manufacturer server 12A, a dealer / used machine server 12B, a card company server 12C, and a content provider server 12D.
The gaming machine manufacturer server 12A is a server owned by a gaming machine manufacturer that manufactures the pachinko machine 5, and the sales company / used machine server 12B is a sales company that sells the pachinko machine 5 or a used pachinko machine 5 that is used. It is a server owned by a machine operator. The gaming machine manufacturer server 12A and the distributor / second-hand machine supplier server 12B have the identification information (for example, the serial number) of the pachinko machine 5 manufactured or sold, and the game as the authentication information used for inter-board authentication described later. The machine ID (for example, the CPU unique ID 61 (FIG. 2) of the gaming machine main board 40) and the shipping destination are transmitted to a gaming machine ID management center server 13D, which will be described later, and are associated with each other by the gaming machine ID management center server 13D. Managed.
The card company server 12C is used by a card company that manufactures and sells a prepaid medium 14 (described later) for lending game balls, and provides a prepaid medium manufacturing number and serial number inquiry service. The game store can use the inquiry service to find an illegal prepaid medium that has been forged.
The content provider server 12D is used by a provider that distributes content and is a server that distributes various types of content. Examples of the content include PR (Public Relations) content of the pachinko machine 5 registered by the gaming machine manufacturer, explanatory contents such as gaming performance and gaming method, and the like. Such content is distributed to, for example, each CR unit 6 of the game management system 3, displayed on a touch liquid crystal module 27 described later, and provided to the player.

The data center system server group 4B includes a content distribution data center server 13A, a prepaid management data center server 13B, a third party savings data management center server 13C, a gaming machine ID management center server 13D, and an unauthorized information monitoring center server. 13E.
The content distribution data center server 13A is a server that distributes entertainment content such as videos and music such as TV and movies, and such content is distributed to each CR unit 6 of the game management system 3 and displayed on the touch liquid crystal module 27 and the like. Is done.
The prepaid management data center server 13B is a server that provides a recording / inquiry service for the remaining value of each prepaid medium 14 used in the game store 2. The third party stored data management center server 13C is a server that provides a record / inquiry service for the number of stored balls of game balls for each player who becomes a member of the game store 2. The game store side can verify the consistency between the data recorded by the prepaid management data center server 13B and the third party savings data management center server 13C and the data managed by the game management system 3. It has become.

The gaming machine ID management center server 13D manages data in which the identification information of the pachinko machine 5, the gaming machine ID, and the gaming store 2 to which the pachinko machine 5 is shipped are associated with each other. This is a server that enables inquiries from the management system 3. That is, which pachinko machine 5 of which gaming machine ID is installed in which gaming store 2 is managed by the gaming machine ID management center server 13D, and can be referred from each gaming store 2. The data is registered from the gaming machine manufacturer server 12A or the selling company / used machine dealer server 12B every time the gaming machine manufacturer, the sales company, or the used machine dealer ships the pachinko machine 5 to the gaming shop 2, and the gaming shop 2 Each time the pachinko machine 5 is removed, the data of the corresponding pachinko machine 5 is deleted. In addition, in order to limit the persons other than the data registrant who can refer to the data to the shipping destination gaming store 2, the shipping destination gaming store 2 refers to the gaming machine ID associated with the shipping destination. A data access ID and password are assigned. The gaming store 2 side uses these to access the gaming machine ID management center server 13D, so that only the gaming store 2 can acquire it by referring to the gaming machine ID.
The management data of the gaming machine ID management center server 13D can include other arbitrary information, and may include, for example, information on the gaming machine manufacturer name, the model name of the pachinko machine 5, and the like.
The fraud information monitoring center server 13E is a server that manages the identification information of the pachinko machine 5 that has been recognized as fraud for some reason so that it can be referred to. The game store side can confirm whether the owned pachinko machine 5 is unauthorized by making an inquiry to the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E.

Next, each device constituting the game management system 3 will be described in detail.
The game management system 3 includes a plurality of pachinko machines 5 and a CR (Card Reader) unit (game ball lending device) 6, a settlement machine 7, and a management computer group 8. The CR unit 6, the settlement machine 7 and the management Each of the computer groups 8 is connected to be communicable through an in-store LAN 9 or a dedicated communication line 10.
The pachinko machine 5 is a game machine that uses a game ball as a game medium. This pachinko machine 5 is a so-called CR in which a player purchases a prepaid medium 14 as a value medium, or charges the prepaid medium 14 with cash and borrows a game ball at the price of the remaining value of the prepaid medium 14. A gaming machine called a machine, which is connected to the pachinko machine 5 and communicably connected to the pachinko machine 5 and includes the CR unit 6 that reads the prepaid medium 14, and constitutes a gaming system 15. The pachinko machine 5 The game ball can be launched on condition that it is electrically connected to the unit 6 (is energized).

  The pachinko machine 5 includes a pachinko machine main body 18 provided with a front glass 17 on the front surface of a game board (gauge board) 16 so that the game area of the game board 16 can be visually recognized through the front glass 17. The game area of the game board 16 includes a start opening 19 and a winning opening 20 through which game balls can be obtained when passing the game ball, a normally closed large winning opening (so-called attacker) 21, the starting opening 19, the winning opening 20 and a large A game port (a so-called “out ball”) that has not won any of the winning ports 21 is led from the gaming area to the back side of the gaming board 16 and collected, a number of obstacle nails 23, and a game to the starting port 19 A gaming machine liquid crystal display 24 is provided as a symbol display unit that displays symbols in a variable manner as a ball is won (passed).

On the front side of the pachinko machine body 18, a lending switch 25A for lending operation of the game balls, a return switch 25B for returning the prepaid medium 14 (instruction for ending the game), a display effect on the liquid crystal display 24 of the gaming machine, etc. Various operation buttons such as a push button 25C for performing operation input are provided.
A game ball launching handle 26 is provided at the lower right of the pachinko machine main body 18 for launching game balls one by one into the game area of the game board 16 at predetermined time intervals. The pachinko machine 5 performs a lottery winning of a special prize when the game ball launched in accordance with the operation of the game ball launch handle 26 passes through the start port 19 and displays a pattern to be described later on the game machine liquid crystal display 24. It is displayed in a variable manner along with the performance, and the winning lottery result is notified to the player by the stop symbol. At the time of winning, the pachinko machine 5 gives the player the opportunity to increase the number of balls by opening the big winning opening 21 so that the game ball can easily win.

Here, the pachinko machine 5 is a sealed ball type game machine in which a predetermined number (for example, 25) of game balls are enclosed in the pachinko machine body 18 and these game balls are circulated and used in the pachinko machine body 18. It is configured. Specifically, the pachinko machine 5 launches game balls (so-called safe balls) that have been launched into the game board 16 and won the prize opening 20 or the like and game balls (so-called out balls) collected at the collection opening 22 respectively. 16 has a circulation channel (not shown) that is collected on the back side and recirculates to the launch position. A predetermined number of game balls are enclosed in the circulation channel, and the enclosed game balls are repeated in the game area. It is configured to play a game by firing. In the enclosing ball type pachinko machine 5, it is not necessary to replenish the game ball from the outside of the pachinko machine body 18, so a so-called upper plate or upper plate for temporarily storing the game ball in front of the pachinko machine body 18. The pachinko machine main body 18 is not provided with a ball catching port for catching a game ball, a discharge port for ejecting a prize ball on the upper plate, etc. A touch liquid crystal module 27 is provided under the front glass 17.
The touch liquid crystal module 27 is a display unit that can be touch-operated incorporated in the frame of the pachinko machine body 18, and functions as an operation unit and a display unit of the CR unit 6.

  The CR unit 6 is arranged on one side of each pachinko machine 5 and is connected to be communicable with each other, and on the condition that the residual value of the prepaid medium 14 is not zero, a lending operation signal indicating the operation of the lending switch 25A is transmitted to the pachinko machine. When received from 5, the game ball lending instruction signal is output. The residual value of the prepaid medium 14 is managed by the management computer group 8 (more precisely, the prepaid management server 35B described later), and the CR unit 6 rents a ball with the management computer group 8 when the ball lending is completed. Processing for reducing the remaining value of the prepaid medium 14 according to the number is performed. The CR unit 6 is a unit of remaining value at the time of lending a ball (for example, 100 yen unit, 500 yen unit, etc.) and a lending unit price per game ball (for example, 4 yen / ball, 1 yen / ball, etc.) ) Can be set in advance, and the amusement hall can be set and changed as appropriate according to the business form.

  As the prepaid medium 14, a coin-shaped IC coin 14 </ b> A with a built-in IC and a card-type member card 14 </ b> B are used. The member card 14B is a recording medium that is lent to customers who are registered as members of the amusement shop, and the IC coin 14A is a recording medium that is lent to other customers (so-called visitors). The prepaid medium 14 is provided with identification information assigned by the card company for uniquely specifying, and the identification information and the residual value are associated with each other and managed by the management computer group 8.

This CR unit 6 has a function of issuing a prepaid medium 14 and has a bill insertion slot 28 for inserting bills (for example, bills such as “10,000 yen”, “5,000 yen”, and “2,000 yen”), IC A coin insertion slot 29 for inserting the coin 14A, a coin discharge slot 30 for discharging the IC coin 14A, and a member card insertion slot 31 for inserting the member card 14B are provided.
When a banknote is inserted into the banknote insertion slot 28, the CR unit 6 communicates with the management computer group 8 and performs a process of giving a value corresponding to the face value of the banknote to the prepaid medium 14. Specifically, when the membership card 14B is inserted as the prepaid medium 14, the CR unit 6 inputs the identification information of the membership card 14B to the management computer group 8 that manages the remaining value of the membership card 14B. Notify that the amount of value will be given. As a result, the prepaid balance is charged to the member card 14B. When the membership card 14B is not inserted, the CR unit 6 issues a new IC coin 14A and also manages the remaining value of the IC coin 14A against the management computer group 8 that manages the IC coin 14A. Notify that the value for the input amount is added to the identification information. Thereby, an IC coin 14A as a prepaid medium 14 is newly issued to a player who does not have the membership card 14B.

While the prepaid medium 14 is inserted, the CR unit 6 displays the remaining value on the touch liquid crystal module 27, and subtracts and updates the remaining value each time the ball lending is performed by operating the lending switch 25A. The remaining residual value is displayed on the touch liquid crystal module 27. In addition, when the return switch 25B is operated, the CR unit 6 ejects the prepaid medium 14 and transmits the identification information and the residual value of the prepaid medium 14 to the management computer group 8, whereby the CR unit 6 The final residual value of the prepaid medium 14 when discharged is recorded in the management computer group 8.
The settlement machine 7 is a device that settles the remaining value of the prepaid medium 14. The settlement machine 7 is provided with a coin insertion slot 32 for the IC coin 14A and a card insertion slot 33 for the member card 14B. When the prepaid medium 14 is inserted, the checkout machine 7 inquires of the management computer group 8 about the remaining value and pays out an amount corresponding to the remaining value. The settlement machine 7 notifies the management computer group 8 of the completion of the payment of the amount, and the management computer group 8 clears the value recorded as the remaining value of the prepaid medium 14 to complete the settlement.

  In this game management system 3, a data display 34 is provided for each pachinko machine 5. The data display 34 has a display panel 34A that displays game information such as jackpot information for the past business day of the corresponding pachinko machine 5, the number of jackpots of the day, and the number of symbol changes (start count) from the previous jackpot. In addition to the display panel 34A, the data display 34 notifies a predetermined game state such as a call button for calling the hall staff of the game hall, a big hit state of the pachinko machine 5, a probability variation gaming state, a short-time gaming state, etc. A lamp or the like is provided. Each data display 34 is connected to the CR unit 6 that communicates with the corresponding pachinko machine 5, acquires game information output from the pachinko machine 5 from the CR unit 6 and displays it on the display panel 34A.

The management computer group 8 includes a gaming machine counting management device 35A, a prepaid management server 35B, a possession management server 35C, a member / premium management server 35D, a content server 35E, and a gaming machine ID management server 35F. Yes.
The game table counting management device 35A is a so-called hall computer ("Hallcon" in the drawing), and is provided in the pachinko machine body 18 of the pachinko machine 5, including the number of balls and the number of hits in each pachinko machine 5, the error situation, and so on. The game information related to the gaming machine such as the opening of the door and the information on the payment and replay to each CR unit 6 and the consumption of the prepaid residual value are acquired from the CR unit 6 and managed centrally. The gaming machine counter management device 35A acquires the various information from the CR unit 6 instead of the pachinko machine 5. In other words, the game table counting management device 35A and the CR unit 6 are connected to each other through the parallel signal line 10A and / or the serial signal line 10B provided with the hall-con I / F device 36 in the repeater. Sequentially receives information from the pachinko machine 5 and outputs it to the game machine counter management device 35A.

The prepaid management server 35B is a server that stores each identification value of the IC coin 14A and the membership card 14B as the prepaid medium 14 in association with the residual value, and manages these residual values. When the prepaid medium 14 is inserted, the CR unit 6 inquires the prepaid management server 35B for the residual value corresponding to the identification information of the prepaid medium 14, and displays the residual value obtained by the response on the touch liquid crystal module 27 in frequency. .
The remaining value of the prepaid medium 14 increases due to charging by the CR unit 6 and decreases due to ball lending, and the prepaid management server 35B updates the remaining value according to these charges and ball lending. That is, when the CR unit 6 charges the prepaid medium 14 with the residual value, the prepaid management server 35B acquires the charged residual value together with the identification information, and adds and updates the residual value. When the CR unit 6 performs ball lending according to the operation of the lending switch 25A, the prepaid management server 35B obtains the compensation value of the ball lending together with the identification information of the prepaid medium 14 and subtracts and updates the residual value. .
The payment machine 7 is connected to the prepaid management server 35B via the in-store LAN 9. When the prepaid medium 14 is inserted into the payment machine 7, the payment machine 7 prepaid the remaining value of the prepaid medium 14. The server 35B is inquired and the amount paid according to the remaining value is settled.

  The possession management server 35C is a server that manages the number of possessions of the player. Specifically, the possession management server 35C acquires and manages the number of possessions of the player from the CR unit 6 via the in-store LAN 9 together with the identification information of the prepaid medium 14 that has been inserted. The player can use the ball for the game only on the day of acquisition, and the CR unit 6 has the number of balls corresponding to the identification information of the prepaid medium 14 when the prepaid medium 14 is inserted. The management server 35C is inquired, and the number of possessed balls obtained by the response is displayed on the touch liquid crystal module 27. At this time, the CR unit 6 displays on the touch liquid crystal module 27 a ball use button (not shown) for receiving a payout of a game ball using the ball, and when the ball use button is operated. A game ball payout instruction signal for a predetermined number of balls is output to the pachinko machine 5, and the number of used balls is transmitted together with the identification information of the prepaid medium 14 to the ball management server 35C. When the possessed ball management server 35C obtains the number of used balls, the number of possessed balls of the corresponding prepaid medium 14 is subtracted and updated. Further, when the prepaid medium 14 is discharged, the CR unit 6 transmits the final number of balls together with the identification information of the prepaid medium 14 to the possession management server 35C, and the number of possessions is sent to the possession management server 35C. To be recorded. In addition, it is good also as a structure which records the player's number of possessions also in the prepaid medium 14 in preparation for the communication failure between the possession management server 35C and CR unit 6. FIG.

The member / premium management server 35D is a server that manages the exchange of free gifts with customer members. The management of the customer member will be described in detail. The customer's name, age, gender, occupation, mobile phone number, membership number, PIN for service use, identification information of the membership card 14B, and the customer's deposit at the playground. Information relating to the number of game media that can be played (so-called number of stored balls) and game history is managed. Customer members include not only customers who have registered their membership by notifying their name and age, but also so-called visitor members who play games without registering as a member. That is, the visitor member is issued a dedicated membership card 14B that is valid only on that day, and the membership card 14B is inserted into the CR unit 6 to play a game.
When the member card 14B is inserted, the CR unit 6 displays a password input screen on the touch liquid crystal module 27 to prompt the user to input, and confirms the validity of the input password and the identification information of the member card 14B. An inquiry is made to the management server 35D. However, if the membership card 14B is for a visitor member, such an inquiry may be omitted. The CR unit 6 acquires the number of stored balls from the member / premium management server 35D and displays it on the touch liquid crystal module 27 only when the validity is recognized by the member / premium management server 35D. The CR unit 6 transmits the number of stored balls used to the member / premium management server 35D every time the stored balls are used, and the member / premium management server 35D thereby subtracts and updates the number of stored balls of the customer.

In the game management system 3, the player can exchange his / her balls for prizes or storage balls, and the member / prize management server 35D has a management function for exchanging prizes.
That is, when the player exchanges the possession balls for a prize at a prize counter (not shown) or the like, the fact that the possession balls have been exchanged from the POS system 37 including the POS terminal installed at the prize counter indicates that the prepaid medium 14 The exchange is completed when the coin management server 35C is subtracted and updated with the number of coins corresponding to the identification information of the prepaid medium 14 and input to the coin management server 35C together with the identification information. At this time, when a customer member who has played a game using the member card 14B exchanges a free gift, the free gift exchanged by the customer member may be recorded and managed in the member / free gift management server 35D.
Further, when a customer member exchanges his / her own ball for a stored ball, the number of stored balls is transmitted to the member / premium management server 35D together with the identification information of the prepaid medium 14, and the stored ball is managed in association with the member card 14B of the customer member. The number is added and updated. Similarly, the data on the number of stored balls managed by the third party stored data management server 13C is also updated.
In addition, when the membership card 14B having a non-zero possession is recorded in the possession management server 35C at the end of the business day of the amusement hall, the possession management server 35C transfers the record to the member / premium management server 35D. Then, it may be automatically transferred by adding the possession balls to the stored balls of the member card 14B managed by the member / premium management server 35D.

  The content server 35E acquires various contents from the content provider server 12D and the content distribution data center server 13A, and distributes them to each CR unit 6.

The gaming machine ID management server 35F accesses the gaming machine ID management center server 13D using a predetermined data access ID and password, and based on the identification information (manufacturing number, etc.) of the pachinko machine 5 installed in its own store, The gaming machine ID and shipping destination information are acquired from the gaming machine ID management center server 13D, and can be distributed to the CR unit 6 for the pachinko machine 5.
Further, the gaming machine ID management server 35F receives an authentication request from the pachinko machine 5 via the CR unit 6 and acquires it from the gaming machine ID management center server 13D when the pachinko machine 5 fails in mutual authentication described later. A function of authenticating based on the gaming machine ID is provided. In addition, information on the pachinko machine 5 that has failed in both the mutual authentication in the pachinko machine 5 and the authentication with the gaming machine ID management server 35F is transmitted from the gaming machine ID management server 35F to the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E. And registered. At this time, information on the pachinko machine 5 that has failed in authentication may be transmitted not only to the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E but also to the gaming machine ID management center server 13D.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the electrical configuration of the pachinko machine 5 together with the CR unit 6.
As shown in FIG. 2, the pachinko machine 5 includes a gaming machine main board 40 and a payout control board 41 that are classified as main boards, and an effect sub board 42 and a launch control board 43 that are peripheral boards to the main board. ing. The main board is a board on which a circuit having a function that affects or may affect the winning lottery and the acquisition of the game ball is mounted.
The gaming machine main board 40 is a board provided with a main control CPU 40A for drawing lottery of prize ball payout instructions and winning special prizes when winning. Specifically, the pachinko machine 5 includes a winning detection sensor 44 that detects a winning of a game ball at each of the start port 19, the winning port 20, and the big winning port 21, and a detection signal is output to the gaming machine main board 40. The Each game machine main board 40, starting port 19, winning port 20 and grand winning port 21 is provided with a winning ball number storage unit 45 for storing the number of winning balls in association with each other, and winning to the winning port is detected. Each time, a prize ball payout instruction signal for instructing the payout of the number of prize balls corresponding to the winning opening is output to the payout control board 41, and the prize ball notification lamp 46 provided on the game board 16 according to the number of prize balls is turned on. To do.

  In addition, the gaming machine main board 40 performs a winning lottery of a special prize in response to detection of a winning at the start port 19 and displays a winning lottery result on a symbol display unit (so-called special symbol display) 47. When the special prize is won, the gaming machine main board 40 shifts the gaming state to a special gaming state (a so-called jackpot gaming state, a probability variation state, a time shortening gaming state, etc.), and the normal gaming state when the termination condition for the special gaming state is satisfied. Migrate to The symbol display unit 47 is provided on the game board 16 so as to be visible. For example, the symbol display unit 47 is composed of a 7-segment display and a large number of LED lamps. indicate. In the symbol display section 47, a display symbol indicating the winning lottery result is displayed through a time variation display determined by the gaming machine main board 40 each time. Further, the gaming machine main board 40 designates what kind of effect is to be performed in order to perform the game effect according to the winning lottery result by the gaming machine liquid crystal display 24, the sound source, the lamp, and the like, and the variation time ( An effect instruction signal designating a winning lottery result display timing) is output to the effect sub-board 42 together with a jackpot generating signal indicating the winning lottery result. Further, when various abnormal information such as opening of the front door provided in the pachinko machine main body 18 is input to the gaming machine main board 40 from the payout control board 41, voice, lamp, gaming machine liquid crystal display 24, etc. Anomalies are reported using various means provided for the production.

The payout control board 41 is a board provided with a payout control CPU 41A for managing the payout and launch of game balls. The payout control board 41 monitors the connection state based on the energization state with the CR unit 6 and is not normally connected (non-conduction). In the case of (Status), the launch of game balls is prohibited.
Here, since the pachinko machine 5 is configured as an enclosed ball type gaming machine as described above, the gaming ball is not thrown in from the outside of the pachinko machine 5 during the game, and the actual gaming ball Instead of throwing in, the thrown game ball is thrown on the digital data. That is, the payout control board 41 includes a game machine management launchable ball number storage unit 48 that stores the remaining number of game balls that can be launched by the player (hereinafter referred to as “the number of balls that can be fired”). On condition that the number is not “zero”, a launch permission signal for permitting the launch of the game ball is output to the launch control board 43 described later. When a lending instruction signal is input from the CR unit 6, the payout control board 41 adds the predetermined number of lent balls to the number of balls that can be fired instead of inserting the predetermined number of game balls, and the addition result is obtained. Reply to CR unit 6.

  In addition, the payout control board 41 has an out-ball detecting sensor 49 for detecting an out-ball collected at the collection port 22 so that an increase / decrease in the number of balls that can be fired can be managed, and a game that has not reached the post-launch game area. Detection signals of a foul ball detection sensor 50 that detects a foul ball that is a sphere, and one or a plurality of shot ball detection sensors 51 (one in the illustrated example) that detect a shot game ball are input. The payout control board 41 can be fired whenever a prize ball payout instruction signal is received from the gaming machine main board 40, whenever a foul ball is detected, and whenever a lending instruction signal is input from the CR unit 6. The number of balls is updated by adding the number of balls, and the number of balls that can be fired is updated by subtracting and updating the number of balls that can be fired every time the detection signal of the firing ball detection sensor 51 is input, In addition, the number of balls that can be fired is always displayed on the gaming machine management fireable ball number indicator lamp 52 so as to be visible from the outside. The number of balls that can be fired during the game is also displayed on the touch liquid crystal module 27 provided in the pachinko machine 5 under the control of the CR unit 6. In addition to this, the gaming machine management launchable ball number indicator lamp 52 is provided so as to be visible from the outside, so that even if the touch liquid crystal module 27 breaks down, the player can grasp the number of balls in the game. It is like that. The outputs of the out ball detection sensor 49 and the foul ball detection sensor 50 may be input to the gaming machine main board 40 and output from the gaming machine main board 40 to the payout control board 41. Further, the lending instruction includes not only lending using the residual value of the prepaid medium 14 as a consideration but also an instruction based on replay using a stored ball and use of paying out a ball. At this time, an upper limit can be set in the CR unit 6 or the like for the number of balls per loan for the purpose of preventing fraud.

  The number of balls that can be fired managed by the payout control board 41 is settled at the end of the game. That is, when the player operates the return switch 25B of the member card 14B in order to end the game, a fireable ball number transfer request command is output from the CR unit 6 to the payout control board 41. When the payout control board 41 receives this fireable ball number transfer request command, the payout control board 41 performs processing (payment processing) for transferring the number of fireable balls to the CR unit 6 and clears the number of fireable balls to zero. The value transferred to the CR unit 6 is output as the number of balls from the CR unit 6 to the ball management server 35C, and recorded together with the lending unit price of the game ball set in the pachinko machine 5.

The launch control board 43 is a board that controls the launch of a game ball on condition that a launch permission signal is input from the payout control board 41, and a launch state signal that indicates whether or not the game ball can be launched. Is output to the payout control board 41. A launch device (not shown) is controlled by the launch control board 43, and a game ball is launched with a resilience according to the operation amount of the game ball launch handle 26.
Further, a ball polishing control board 53 is connected to the payout control board 41. The ball polishing control board 53 is a board that controls the ball polishing mechanism of the game ball enclosed in the pachinko machine 5. The payout control board 41 performs control while acquiring the ball polishing state from the ball polishing control board 53 so that game balls that can be launched when the game ball is launched are not lost.
Further, the payout control board 41 outputs detection information of various sensors (front door opening sensor, ball number abnormality detection sensor, etc.) provided in the pachinko machine body 18 to the gaming machine main board 40 as abnormality information.

  The stage sub-board 42 controls the gaming machine liquid crystal display 24, the sound source (not shown), and the frame lamp based on the stage instruction signal of the gaming machine main board 40 to perform the gaming stage according to the winning lottery result. It is a board on which a circuit is mounted, and does not output a signal to the gaming machine main board 40, and its operation does not affect the winning lottery result of the gaming machine main board 40. The effect sub-board 42 stores image data used for each display effect, sequentially reads the image data in accordance with the effect instruction signal of the game machine main board 40 and the progress of the effect, and the image signal based on the image data is used as the gaming machine. The data is output to the liquid crystal display 24 and displayed on the gaming machine liquid crystal display 24.

In addition to the above-described members, the pachinko machine 5 includes an external terminal board 54, a CR board 55, and a game machine-mounted encryption board 56, as shown in FIG. The touch liquid crystal module 27 described above is incorporated.
The external terminal board 54 is a terminal board that outputs an external terminal output signal Sout indicating game information to the CR unit 6 in one direction, and signal input from the CR unit 6 to the external terminal board 54 is prohibited. The game information output from the external terminal board 54 is information managed by the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41. This game information includes a jackpot signal indicating the occurrence of a jackpot in the pachinko machine 5, a symbol stop signal (start signal) indicating a stop of symbol variation on the symbol display unit 47, a prize ball signal indicating the number of winning balls, and the number of balls out. The out ball signal indicating the number of foul balls, the foul ball signal indicating the number of foul balls, and the like are included. The CR unit 6 obtains this game information to identify the jackpot occurrence, jackpot occurrence number, symbol fluctuation number (start count) based on the jackpot signal and the symbol fluctuation stop signal, and also the out ball signal and the foul ball signal. The difference balls are managed separately from the payout control board 41 based on the prize ball signal and the information is output to the game table counting management device 35A.

  The CR board 55 is a board that outputs switch operation signals of the lending switch 25 </ b> A and the return switch 25 </ b> B to the CR unit 6. The CR board 55 is connected to a frequency display 57 and a rentable lamp 58. The CR board 55 displays a frequency indicating the remaining value of the prepaid medium 14 input from the CR unit 6 as a frequency display 57. 7 segments and the like, and the lendable lamp 58 is turned on according to the presence or absence of a lending permission signal from the CR unit 6.

  The game machine-equipped encryption board 56 functions as a serial communication interface with the CR unit 6 and encrypts / decrypts communication data transmitted / received to / from the CR unit 6 by a predetermined encryption communication system. This game machine-equipped cryptographic board 56 is configured as a so-called black box in which internal processing operations, processing contents, etc. cannot be specified from the outside of the board. On the game machine-equipped encryption board 56, a security chip 60A, which is a dedicated semiconductor chip for performing encryption / decryption of communication data, and a general-purpose CPU 56A are mounted. The encryption key used for encryption / decryption of communication data with the CR unit 6 is input and held from the CR unit 6 to the security chip 60A when the power is turned on for the first time or each time, for example. Note that the CR unit 6 inputs information for generating the encryption key to the security chip 60A instead of the encryption key instead of the configuration in which the encryption key is directly transmitted from the CR unit 6 to the security chip 60A of the pachinko machine 5. The security chip 60A may generate an encryption key based on this information. Further, since the CR unit 6 can acquire the gaming machine ID that is the authentication information of the pachinko machine 5 from the gaming machine ID management server 35F, the CR unit 6 and the pachinko machine 5 are each based on the gaming machine ID that is the authentication information. The encryption key may be generated. The gaming machine ID is an ID uniquely assigned to each pachinko machine 5, and in this embodiment, the CPU unique ID 61 of the gaming machine main board 40 is used.

  Communication data transmitted / received between the pachinko machine 5 and the CR unit 6 through the gaming machine-equipped encryption board 56 is data that has the possibility of affecting the ball due to tampering or the like. For example, the CR unit 6 Indicates whether or not the ball lending / dispensing that the lending instruction signal input to the pachinko machine 5 (the payout instruction signal when using the holding ball), the gaming machine ID, and the payout control board 41 are normally completed. Lending (payout result signal), a switch pressing signal for the lending switch 25A and the return switch 25B output from the CR board 55 to the CR unit 6, and the like. Note that the external terminal board 54 and the gaming machine-equipped encryption board 56 may be provided on one relay board.

  The gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 classified as main boards are each mounted with security chips 60B and 60C for mutual authentication between the boards. Each of the security chips 60B and 60C holds a gaming machine ID (described later) as authentication information in advance. At the time of mutual authentication, the security chips 60B and 60C exchange gaming machine IDs, and the mutual authentication is performed by authenticating the validity of the opponent's board based on the received gaming machine ID and the gaming machine ID held by itself. To do. Such authentication will be described in detail later.

  Here, the pachinko machine 5 is generally configured by attaching the game machine main board 40 to the game board 16 and attaching the payout control board 41 to the main body frame of the pachinko machine body 18. In this configuration, the body frame of the pachinko machine body 18 is commonly used for each model, and a plurality of models are configured by providing the game board 16 for each model. When replacing the game board, it is common to replace only the game board 16. In such a case, even if another gaming board 16 different from the original is accidentally attached to the pachinko machine body 18, mutual authentication of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 is not established. Therefore, the operator can easily detect the erroneous attachment as described above, and can prevent the pachinko machine 5 from operating in an incorrect combination state.

  The touch liquid crystal module 27 incorporated in the pachinko machine body 18 is controlled by the CR unit 6 and functions as a display unit and an operation unit of the CR unit 6. That is, the CR unit 6 corresponds to the device body of the game ball lending device, and the touch liquid crystal module 27 corresponds to the display unit and the operation unit of the game ball lending device, and the game ball lending device 65 is configured by these.

  The touch liquid crystal module 27 is communicably connected to the CR unit 6 which is the main body of the game ball lending device 65, and includes a liquid crystal display unit 66 having a touch panel, and controls a display image of the liquid crystal display unit 66. An image display control signal Sg is input from the CR unit 6. The touch operation on the liquid crystal display unit 66 is output to the CR unit 6 as a touch operation input signal St, and the touch operation is input to the CR unit 6. That is, the touch liquid crystal module 27 is incorporated in the pachinko machine 5, but its display operation is controlled by the CR unit 6, and the input operation is output to the CR unit 6. And an operation unit.

  Further, operating power is supplied from the CR unit 6 to the touch liquid crystal module 27 via the power supply line 67 of the touch liquid crystal module 27. That is, the touch liquid crystal module 27 communicates directly with the CR unit 6 without passing through the pachinko machine 5, and the operation power is also supplied from the CR unit 6, so the pachinko machine 5 is provided. There is no need to change the electric circuit, and manufacturing and the like are easy.

The CR unit 6 has a lending device control board 68, a value medium R / W 69 for reading and writing the prepaid medium 14, and a player ID recorded to provide services such as content distribution to a predetermined player, for example, ID identification medium R / W 70 for reading / writing a player ID to / from a mobile phone with a settlement function, a bill validator 71, a remote control light receiving unit 72 for receiving a remote control operation, and sensors for detecting various abnormalities 73, a lending device mounting encryption board 74, and a power supply module 75.
The power supply module 75 supplies power to each part of the CR unit 6 and also supplies power to the touch liquid crystal module 27 as described above. In addition, the power of the power supply module 75 is output to each of the game machine mounted encryption board 56, the payout control board 41, and the CR board 55 of the pachinko machine 5 as a lending I / F power supply. The gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 and the CR board 55 are driven by using the lending I / F power supply as a driving power supply, and the payout control board 41 detects the input of the lending I / F power supply to detect the CR unit 6. Detecting the continuity state with. That is, by blocking the input of the lending I / F power supply to the payout control board 41, the pachinko machine 5 and the CR unit 6 are brought into a non-conducting state, and the launch of the game ball in the pachinko machine 5 is prohibited. Note that the gaming machine-equipped cryptographic board 56 and the CR board 55 may be driven by using the power source provided in the pachinko machine 5 as a driving power source as long as the supply of the lending I / F power source is detected.

  The CR unit 6 includes a connector CA for connecting a communication line between the external terminal board 54 and the gaming machine-equipped cryptographic board 56 as a connector for connection with the pachinko machine 5, and a communication line between the touch liquid crystal module 27. Are respectively provided separately from the connector CB.

  The lending device control board 68 has a CPU 76A for main control that controls each unit and a CPU 76B for high-speed I / O (Input / Output), respectively. The CPU 76B mainly controls processing that requires high-speed data I / O, such as image processing for displaying various types of information on the touch liquid crystal module 27 and processing for accepting touch operations on the touch liquid crystal module 27. It is something to execute. That is, the lending device control board 68 includes a high-speed I / F 77 that is a communication interface with the content server 35E as a high-speed I / O component and a one-segment broadcasting (one-segment broadcasting: one-segment partial reception service for mobile phones and mobile terminals) The image display control signal Sg is transmitted / received between the one-segment unit 78 that receives and displays the image on the touch liquid crystal module 27, the image / video temporary storage unit 79 that functions as a cache for images and videos, and the touch liquid crystal module 27. A high-speed communication I / F 80 that is a communication I / F and a serial communication I / F 81 that is an input interface for touch operation signals from the touch liquid crystal module 27 are provided, and these are controlled by the CPU 76B. Thus, by providing the dedicated CPU 76B for processing that requires high-speed I / O for data such as image processing, processing delay is prevented.

The two CPUs 76A and 76B are connected so as to be capable of data communication with each other via inter-CPU communication I / Fs 82A and 82B, respectively, so as to cooperate with each other.
The CPU 76A for main control controls the reading / writing of data of the prepaid medium 14 and the membership card 14B, the data transmission / reception with the management computer group 8 and the data display 34, the ball lending control for the pachinko machine 5, and the game. The remaining value of the prepaid medium 14, the number of possessed balls, and the number of replayable balls (the number of balls stored) are managed.
Specifically, the CPU 76A includes a cache memory, and the cache memory is stored in the prepaid remaining value storage unit 83, the lending device management possession ball number storage unit 84, the replayable ball number storage unit 85, and the gaming machine management remaining ball number storage. The unit 86 functions.
The prepaid residual value storage unit 83 stores the residual value of the prepaid medium 14, stores the residual value acquired from the prepaid management server 35B when the prepaid medium 14 is inserted or issued as an initial value, and performs a ball lending operation. Accordingly, the residual value is subtracted and updated, and added and updated in accordance with the charging operation.

The lending device management possession number storage unit 84 stores the number of possessions of the player. That is, when the prepaid medium 14 is inserted into the CR unit 6, the number of balls managed by the ball management server 35 </ b> C is read and the lending device management number of balls managed is stored in the lending device management ball number storage unit 84. And is displayed on the touch liquid crystal module 27. The number of balls managed by the lending device is subtracted and updated each time the player uses a ball. In addition, the number of balls managed by the lending device is added and updated when the player performs an operation of shifting the number of balls that can be managed by the gaming machine recorded from the pachinko machine 5 to the holding ball from the pachinko machine 5. . In this embodiment, the operation of the return switch 25B for ending the game is regarded as a transition operation, and when the prepaid medium 14 is returned, the number of rental device management balls is added and updated with the number of balls that can be managed by gaming machine management, and the updated rental The number of device management balls is notified to the ball management server 35C, and is recorded in the prepaid medium 13. With this transition operation, the number of balls that can be managed by the gaming machine is cleared to “zero”.
The number of balls managed by the ball management server 35 </ b> C is not limited to the configuration in which the number of balls managed is stored in the lending device management number-of-balls storage unit 84. The number of stored balls managed by the server 35 </ b> D may be stored in the lending device management number of balls storage unit 84.
In addition to the above, as a trigger for the transition from the number of balls that can be managed by the gaming machine management to the possession ball, for example, a touch operation on a button for a transition operation provided in the touch liquid crystal module 27, or a pachinko machine 5 during a break When the break button to lock the button is operated. The lock of the pachinko machine 5 when the break button is operated will be briefly described. When the lock is locked, the CR unit 6 does not transmit the lending instruction signal so that the pachinko machine 5 is not lent out. In addition, the number of balls that can be managed by the gaming machine is transferred to the holding ball and cleared to “zero”, so that the game using the game ball cannot be performed (locked state).

  The replayable ball number storage unit 85 stores the number of balls stored by the player, and stores the number of balls acquired from the member / premium management server 35D as an initial value when the password authentication is normally completed after the insertion of the member card 14B. Then, the number of stored balls is subtracted and updated with the operation of paying out the stored balls. The number of stored balls is displayed as the number of replayable balls on the touch liquid crystal module 27, and the number of stored balls stored in the replayable ball number storage unit 85 is transmitted to the member / premium management server 35D when the return switch 25B is operated. To be recorded.

The CPU 76A controls I / O components that may be slower than the CPU 76B that controls high-speed I / O components. That is, the lending device control board 68 includes a serial communication I / F 88 that is a communication interface with the management computer group 8 via the in-store LAN 9 and a gaming machine counter management device 35A via the hall control I / F device 36. A serial communication I / F 89 that is a communication interface, a serial communication I / F 90 that is an input interface that is a communication interface with the external terminal board 54 of the pachinko machine 5, and a serial that is a communication interface with a cryptographic board 74 equipped with a lending device to be described later. A communication I / F 91 is provided, and these are controlled by the CPU 76A.
Further, the lending device control board 68 is provided with a parallel port 92 for connecting to the game machine counting management device 35A via the parallel signal line 10A, and the output from the parallel port 92 is a drive of an optical MOS relay or the like. The signal is converted by a signal converter 93 having a circuit, and is output to the gaming machine count management device 35A via the parallel signal line 10A connected to the parallel output connector 94.

  The lending device-mounted encryption board 74 encrypts / decrypts communication data input / output via the gaming machine-mounted encryption board 56 of the pachinko machine 5 using the same algorithm as the security chip 60A of the gaming machine-mounted encryption board 56. A security chip 60D and a general-purpose CPU 95. A security chip 60E is also mounted on the lending device control board 68, and each of these security chips 60D and 60E previously holds an authentication key for mutual authentication. The lending device-equipped cryptographic board 74 is configured as a so-called black box in which internal processing operations, processing contents, etc. cannot be specified from the outside of the board, similarly to the gaming machine-equipped cryptographic board 56.

  The lending device-equipped cryptographic board 74 and the gaming machine-equipped cryptographic board 56 are driven by the power module 75 of the CR unit 6 and the power source of the pachinko machine 5, respectively, in order to reduce electrical noise in the communication path between them. In addition, the lending device mounted encryption board 74 and the gaming machine mounted encryption board 56 may be electrically insulated from the CR unit 6 and the pachinko machine 5. In other words, the CR unit 6 may be provided with a dedicated DC power source of a predetermined voltage provided for the communication path of the lending device-mounted encryption board 74 and the gaming machine-mounted encryption board 56. Moreover, it is good also as a structure which supplies the electric power for producing | generating a predetermined voltage with respect to a dedicated DC power supply from the pachinko machine 5 side via the power line PL.

  Then, at a predetermined timing such as when the CR unit 6 is turned on, the security chip 60D of the rental board mounted encryption board 74 performs the mutual authentication with the security chip 60E, and the authentication result is displayed on the gaming machine counter management device 35A and the touch. Output to the liquid crystal module 27. At this time, when the mutual authentication is not established because the rental device control board 68 is illegally replaced or the like, the rental device mounted encryption board 74 blocks the output of the rental instruction signal to the pachinko machine 5 or the like. To make it impossible to lend. Thereby, it is possible to prohibit lending in a state where the lending device control board 68 is illegally exchanged. In addition, since the lending device-mounted cryptographic board 74 leads the mutual authentication, fraud to the lending device control board 68 can be easily detected.

  Here, as described above, also in the pachinko machine 5, mutual authentication is performed between the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41, and the mutual authentication result is output to the CR unit 6. The CR unit 6 is provided with an ID determination unit 98 that determines the validity of mutual authentication. When mutual authentication is established in the pachinko machine 5, the validity of the mutual authentication is determined by the ID determination unit. 98. This legitimacy determination is registered in the gaming machine ID management center server 13D by whether or not the authentication information used for mutual authentication in the pachinko machine 5 is legitimate, that is, by a gaming machine manufacturer, a sales company, or a used machine dealer. This is done by determining whether it is a thing.

  As the authentication information used for mutual authentication, a gaming machine ID uniquely assigned to each pachinko machine 5 is used. In this embodiment, in addition to the CPU unique ID 61 of the gaming machine main board 40, a pair of gaming machine IDs of the CPU unique ID 61 of the payout control board 41 is used as authentication information. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the gaming machine manufacturer stores the CPU unique ID 61 of the main control CPU 40A of the gaming machine main board 40 in the security chip 60B of the gaming machine main board 40 when the pachinko machine 5 is manufactured and shipped. Further, the CPU unique ID 61 of the payout control CPU 41A of the payout control board 41 is stored in the security chip 60C of the payout control board 41 (step Sa1). Also, the gaming machine manufacturer sends the CPU unique ID 61, which is the gaming machine ID of the main control CPU 40A and the payout control CPU 41A, to the gaming machine ID management center server 13D, the identification information of the pachinko machine 5, and the shipping destination (information of the gaming store 2). (Step Sa2), whereby the gaming machine ID is registered in the gaming machine ID management server 35F and can be referred from the shipping destination gaming store 2 (step Sa3). Then, the gaming machine manufacturer ships the pachinko machine 5 (step Sa4) and is transported to the gaming store 2.

  However, when the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 are shipped at different timings or individually from different manufacturers, the security chips 60B of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41, There is a case where the gaming machine ID for mutual authentication cannot be stored in 60C. In this case, each shipping source of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 is sent to the gaming machine ID management center server 13D, and each gaming machine ID (CPU of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 is CPU. By registering the unique ID 61) individually, a valid combination is managed by the gaming machine ID management center server 13D.

  When the CPU unique ID 61 is stored in the pachinko machine 5, the CPU unique ID 61 of the main control CPU 40A of the gaming machine main board 40 is stored in the security chip 60C of the payout control board 41, and the payout control CPU 41A of the payout control board 41 is stored. The CPU unique ID 61 may be stored interchangeably, such as storing the CPU unique ID 61 in the security chip 60B of the gaming machine main board 40. The storing operation of the gaming machine ID may be performed when the shipment of the pachinko machine 5 is determined. In addition, the registration of the gaming machine ID to the gaming machine ID management center server 13D in steps Sa2 and Sa3 is performed before the pachinko machine 5 arrives at the shipping destination, and further before the pachinko machine 5 performs mutual authentication at the shipping destination. If you want, you can always do it.

  When the used pachinko machine 5 or the movement of the pachinko machine 5 between stores, the shipping destination and the gaming machine ID are already registered in the gaming machine ID management center server 13D. At the time of the movement, the registration information of the shipping destination is changed. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the shipping destination information of the destination where the used machine ship the pachinko machine 5 is already registered to the gaming machine ID management center server 13D from the sales company / used machine server 12B. A request for changing the shipping destination information is transmitted (step Sa5). Then, the gaming machine ID management center server 13D changes the shipping destination information of the pachinko machine 5 on condition that the request is from a legitimate used machine supplier (step Sa6). Thereafter, the second-hand machine dealer ships the pachinko machine 5 or moves between stores (step Sa7).

On the other hand, when the pachinko machine 5 is received and installed at the shipping destination, an authentication process is performed in order to confirm that the pachinko machine 5 has not been tampered with such as unauthorized modification or substrate replacement in the distribution process.
That is, as shown in FIG. 4, in the gaming system 15 at the shipping destination, when the pachinko machine 5 is installed (step Sb1), the gaming machine ID management center server 13D is accessed using the data access ID and password, The CPU unique ID 61 as the gaming machine ID of the pachinko machine 5 is acquired and stored in the gaming machine ID management server 35F (step Sb2). The acquisition and storage of the gaming machine ID may be performed before the pachinko machine 5 is installed.
Then, when the power of the pachinko machine 5 is turned on, inter-board mutual authentication is performed between the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 (step Sb3).

  In the mutual authentication process between boards, the main control CPU 40A of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control CPU 41A of the payout control board 41 output their own CPU unique IDs as gaming machine IDs (authentication information) to the other party. Then replace. Each of the security chips 60B and 60C of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 is used for authentication using the CPU unique ID 61 stored in itself and the CPU unique ID 61 received from the opponent board. Mutual authentication is performed by determining the legitimacy of the partner's board based on whether the calculation result is a predetermined result. This mutual authentication can detect when either the gaming machine main board 40 or the payout control board 41 is illegally exchanged in the distribution process of the pachinko machine 5.

  Further, when mutual authentication is established between the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 (step Sb4: YES), the pachinko machine 5 performs mutual authentication with the CR unit 6 in order to perform inter-device authentication. The gaming machine ID used in the above (that is, the CPU unique ID 61 stored in the security chips 60B and 60C) is output to the CR unit 6 by cryptographic communication through the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 (step Sb5).

On the other hand, the CR unit 6 acquires the gaming machine ID (CPU unique ID 61) of the pachinko machine 5 from the gaming machine ID management server 35F, and collates the gaming machine ID (CPUID 61) acquired from the pachinko machine 5 by encrypted communication. Inter-device authentication is performed (step Sb6). As a result of the inter-device authentication, when the gaming machine ID acquired from the pachinko machine 5 matches the gaming machine ID registered in the gaming machine ID management server 35F and the inter-device authentication is established (step Sb7: Yes), the pachinko machine 5 and the gaming system 15 composed of the CR unit 6 is normally activated, and the pachinko machine 5 becomes playable (step Sb8). If the inter-device authentication is not established (step Sb7: No), in the distribution process, both the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 of the pachinko machine 5 are replaced with boards different from those registered by the shipping source. In order to show that it has been modified, etc., the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E is notified as an unauthorized gaming machine via the gaming machine ID management server 35F (step Sb9), and the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E is registered as an unauthorized pachinko machine. (Step Sb10). This notification includes the gaming machine ID of the pachinko machine 5, so that the current unauthorized gaming machine ID can be referred from each gaming store 2.
The gaming machine ID management server 35F notifies the gaming machine ID management center server 13D of the unauthorized gaming machine ID of the pachinko machine 5, and the gaming machine ID management center server 13D deletes the registration and the unauthorized information monitoring center server. It is good also as a structure which reports to 13E as an unauthorized gaming machine.
In addition, the timing at which the gaming machine ID management server 35F reports to the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E or the gaming machine ID management center server 13D is either promptly received when a request is received from the CR unit 6 or temporarily held and illegal. Any appropriate timing at which the information monitoring center server 13E or the gaming machine ID management center server 13D can be connected may be used.

Now, in the mutual authentication between the boards of the pachinko machine 5 (step Sb3), when the mutual authentication is not established (step Sb4: No), either the gaming machine main board 40 or the payout control board 41 of the pachinko machine 5 is Indicates that unauthorized exchanges have been made in the distribution process. However, when the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 are shipped from individual timings or from individual shipping sources, the gaming machine ID ( CPU unique ID 61) is not stored, and mutual authentication may not be established. In such a case, a set of gaming machine IDs (CPU unique ID 61) stored in the security chips 60B and 60C of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 is transmitted to the gaming machine ID management server 35F to request authentication. (Step Sb11). The gaming machine ID management server 35F determines whether the set of gaming machine IDs received from the pachinko machine 5 matches the gaming machine ID set acquired from the gaming machine ID management center server 13D. If the pachinko machine 5 is authenticated (step Sb12) and the two do not match and the authentication is not established (step Sb12: No), the gaming machine ID of the pachinko machine 5 is assumed to be illegal and the unauthorized information monitoring center The server 13E is notified (step Sb13), and the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E registers as an unauthorized pachinko machine (step Sb10).
On the other hand, if the two match in step Sb12 and authentication is established (step Sb12: Y), a legitimate gaming machine ID set is transmitted to the pachinko machine 5 (step Sb14), and the gaming machine main board 40, And the gaming machine ID of each security chip 60B, 60C of the payout control board 41 is updated (step Sb15). Thereby, the mutual authentication between the board of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41, which is performed each time the power is turned on, is established. Also, activation permission is output from the gaming machine ID management server 35F to each of the pachinko machine 5 and the CR unit 6 (step Sb16), whereby the gaming system 15 comprising the pachinko machine 5 and the CR unit 6 is normally activated, and the game A possible state is reached (step Sb8).

  In step Sb12, if the set of gaming machine IDs managed by the gaming machine ID management server 35F does not match the gaming machine ID set of the pachinko machine 5 (step Sb12: N), the gaming machine of the pachinko machine 5 When the validity of the ID set is clear, it is recorded that the set of the gaming machine ID of the pachinko machine 5 is valid only for a predetermined number of times (for example, once), and depends on the set of the gaming machine ID. At the time of subsequent authentication, it may be configured to respond to the pachinko machine 5 that the authentication has been established. In this case, the gaming machine ID management server 35F transmits the set of gaming machine IDs recorded as legitimate to the gaming machine ID management center server 13D.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, in the gaming store 2 to which the pachinko machine 5 is shipped, the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 perform mutual authentication. , And unauthorized exchange of the payout control board 41 can be detected.
In addition, even if mutual authentication is established in the pachinko machine 5, the gaming machine ID (CPU unique ID 61), which is the authentication information used by the CR unit 6 for mutual authentication, is used as the gaming machine ID management server. In order to determine the legitimacy of the pachinko machine 5 by collating with the gaming machine ID held in 35F, even if all the boards involved in authentication are illegally exchanged and mutual authentication is illegally established in the pachinko machine 5. , You can definitely discover this.
Further, since the validity of the mutual authentication of the pachinko machine 5 is determined by collation with the gaming machine ID registered by the shipper of the pachinko machine 5, authentication performed other than the gaming machine ID registered by the shipper is performed. All are determined to be illegal. Thereby, even if illegal modification etc. are performed with respect to the pachinko machine 5 in the distribution process, this can be surely detected.

In addition, according to the present embodiment, a set of gaming machine IDs of the gaming machine main board 40 of the pachinko machine 5 and the payout control board 41 installed in the shipping destination gaming store 2 and the payout control board 41 is set as the gaming machine ID. A gaming machine ID management server 35F obtained and stored from the management center server 13D is provided. When the mutual authentication of the pachinko machine 5 is not established, the gaming machine ID management server 35F is connected to the pachinko machine 5 via the CR unit 6. A set of gaming machine IDs of the acquired gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41, and a set of gaming machine IDs of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 acquired from the gaming machine ID management center server 13D. Based on this, the pachinko machine 5 is configured to be authenticated.
With this configuration, for example, the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 are shipped by individual timings or by individual vendors, and the gaming machine ID necessary for mutual authentication is stored in advance in the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board. Even if it is not stored in each of the terminals 41, the authentication of the pachinko machine 5 can be established as long as it is a set of valid gaming machine IDs registered in the gaming machine ID management center server 13D.
In addition, since the authentication is performed not by the CR unit 6 but by the gaming machine ID management server 35F, even if the CR unit 6 is illegally modified, the pachinko machine 5 is authenticated and unauthorized modification is discovered. can do.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the gaming machine ID management server 35F transmits the information of the pachinko machine 5 whose authentication has failed to the unauthorized information monitoring center server 13E installed so that it can be referred to from each of a plurality of shipping destinations. And registered.
With this configuration, an unauthorized gaming machine ID can be referred to from each gaming store 2, and each gaming store 2 can easily find an unauthorized pachinko machine 5 to which this gaming machine ID is assigned.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, when the authentication information is output from the pachinko machine 5 to the CR unit 6, the pachinko machine 5 and the CR unit 6 are configured to be encrypted and output by the gaming machine mounted encryption board 56. It is possible to prevent the gaming machine ID that is the authentication information from being known to a third party by intercepting the communication between the two.

[Second Embodiment]
In the above-described embodiment, the configuration in which the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 of the pachinko machine 5 authenticate each other so that they are authenticated in the pachinko machine 5 has been described. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the configuration is different in that the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 authenticates the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41.

  Specifically, when the gaming machine manufacturer ships the pachinko machine 5, the CPU unique ID 61 of the main control CPU 40A is assigned to the security chip 60B of the gaming machine main board 40, and the payout control CPU 41A is assigned to the security chip 60C of the payout control board 41. CPU unique ID 61 is stored as a gaming machine ID (authentication information). In addition to this, the gaming machine manufacturer assigns the CPU unique ID 61 of the gaming machine main board 40 and the CPU unique ID 61 as the respective gaming machine ID (authentication information) of the payout control board 41 to the security chip 60A of the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56. Also store and ship.

Then, in the gaming system 15 at the shipping destination, when the pachinko machine 5 is installed and the power is turned on, as shown in FIG. 5, the gaming machine-mounted cryptographic board 56 detects the power-on as an authentication start trigger (step Sc1). ), An authentication request is transmitted from the security chip 60A of the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 to the security chip 60B of the gaming machine main board 40 and the security chip 60C of the payout control board 41 (step Sc2). In response to this authentication request, each of the security chip 60B of the gaming machine main board 40 and the security chip 60C of the payout control board 41 uses the CPU unique ID 61, which is the authentication information stored in itself, as the security of the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56. The data is transmitted to the chip 60A (step Sc3).
The security chip 60A of the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 determines by comparing the legitimacy of each CPU unique ID 61 received from the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 with the CPU unique ID 61 held by itself. Authentication is executed (step Sc4).

Then, the security chip 60A of the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 determines that the authentication is not established when the CPU unique ID 61 of either the gaming machine main board 40 or the payout control board 41 is different from the CPU unique ID held by itself. (Step Sc5: Not established). In this case, since there is a possibility that the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 have been illegally exchanged, the gaming machine installed cryptographic board 56 notifies the abnormality by, for example, a lamp point or a display (step Sc6). ). Thereafter, the gaming machine-equipped encryption board 56 advances the processing procedure to step Sb11 shown in FIG. 4 described in the first embodiment, whereby the pachinko machine 5 is based on the gaming machine ID held by the gaming machine ID management server 35F. Will be authenticated. As a result of this authentication, for example, when the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 are shipped from different manufacturers, the combination of the CPU unique IDs 61 of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 is regular. Only when combined, the system will start up normally.
On the other hand, when the authentication by the gaming machine mounted encryption board 56 is established (step Sc5: established), the gaming machine mounting encryption board 56 advances the processing procedure to step Sb5 shown in FIG. Will be determined.

  Thus, according to the present embodiment, the gaming machine-equipped encryption board 56 authenticates the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 and notifies the abnormality when the authentication is not established, so that the security is further improved.

In the present embodiment, a circuit for resetting the CPU unique ID 61 stored in the security chip 60 </ b> A of the gaming machine mounted encryption board 56 by the gaming machine manufacturer may be provided in the gaming machine mounting encryption board 56.
That is, as described in steps Sb11 to Sb15 of FIG. 4 of the first embodiment, the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 of the pachinko machine 5 are authenticated by the gaming machine ID management server 35F, and the gaming When a set of CPU unique IDs 61 whose validity is ensured is notified from the machine ID management server 35F to the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 via the CR unit 6, the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 has the set of CPU unique IDs 61. The old CPU unique ID 61 stored in the security chip 60A is discarded only when it matches the set of CPU unique IDs 61 of the currently connected gaming machine main board 40 and payout control board 41, and the current connection Hold the CPU unique ID 61 of the gaming machine main board 40 and the payout control board 41 that are correct. It made.

  Each embodiment described above shows only one aspect of the present invention, and can be arbitrarily modified and applied without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

  For example, in each of the above-described embodiments, the timing for performing the authentication in the pachinko machine 5 and determining the validity of the authentication is not limited to when the power is turned on, and may be performed at regular intervals. Or the like may be performed at a timing instructed by touch-operating the touch liquid crystal module 27 as an operation unit of the CR unit 6.

Further, for example, in each of the above-described embodiments, when the authentication in the pachinko machine 5 is not established, the gaming machine-equipped encryption board 56 or the CR unit 6 sets the continuity between the pachinko machine 5 and the CR unit 6 in a non-conductive state. It is configured to disable the game by prohibiting the launch of the game ball in the conductive state, or the lending operation is prohibited by invalidating (shielding) the lending instruction signal by the game machine mounted encryption board 56 or the CR unit 6. It is good also as a structure.
In particular, in the enclosed ball type pachinko machine 5, since it is impossible to insert the game ball from the outside, the game lending operation is prohibited, so that the game can be surely prohibited.

  Also, for example, in each of the embodiments described above, each of the gaming machine main board 40, the payout control board 41, and the gaming machine mounted cryptographic board 56 of the pachinko machine 5, the lending device control board 68 of the CR unit 6, and the lending device mounted. The encryption board 74 may be configured to encrypt and transmit communication data between boards in the pachinko machine 5 and the CR unit 6 by using the encryption / decryption functions of the security chips 60A to 60E.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, the encapsulated ball pachinko machine 5 is illustrated as an example of the game machine. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the player refills the game ball from the upper plate, for example, from the outside of the pachinko machine 5. It may be a pachinko machine. Furthermore, the present invention can be applied to any gaming machine as long as it is a gaming machine that performs a winning lottery when a predetermined lottery opportunity is established on condition that a gaming medium is inserted. Examples of such a gaming machine include a pachislot machine that uses a game medal as a game medium and performs a winning lottery when an operation lever is operated on condition that the game medal is inserted. In this case, the game medium lending device of the present invention is applied to a game medal lending device that lends game medals to pachislot machines.

1 Game service system 2 Game store (shipping destination)
3 Game management system 4 Service providing server group 5 Pachinko machine (game machine)
6 CR unit 8 Management computer group 13D Game machine ID management center server (server)
13E Unauthorized Information Monitoring Center Server (Unauthorized Information Server)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 14 Prepaid medium 15 Game system 24 Game machine liquid crystal display 27 Touch liquid crystal module 35A Game stand counting management apparatus 35F Game machine ID management server 40 Game machine main board 40A Main control CPU
41 payout control board 41A payout control CPU
56 Encryption board (authentication board) mounted on a gaming machine
60A-60E Security chip (encryption means)
61 CPU unique ID (game machine ID, authentication information)
65 game ball lending device

Claims (8)

A gaming machine main board that controls the occurrence of a special gaming state due to a game using a game medium, and a payout control board that controls the payout of the game medium, and data in a game medium lending device that controls the lending of the game medium In the distribution management method of gaming machines connected to be able to send and receive,
A shipping source stores authentication information in the gaming machine main board and the payout control board, and stores the authentication information in a server that can be referred to from the shipping destination.
The shipping destination that received the gaming machine causes the gaming machine main board and the payout control board to perform authentication based on the authentication information stored in the gaming machine, and the authentication result and the authentication are used. Output the used authentication information to the game medium lending device,
When the authentication has been established, the gaming medium lending device, the validity of the authentication performed in the gaming machine based on the authentication information output from the gaming machine and the authentication information acquired from the server The distribution management method characterized by determining. A game that encloses a predetermined number of game balls and circulates and uses these game balls for the game, and generates a special game state each time a predetermined condition is met by the game balls launched on the game board Game ball number data lent to the player based on the game ball lending instruction sent from the game ball lending device, having a machine main board and a payout control board for managing the game ball number data that the player can use for the game In the distribution management method of gaming machines that manage
A shipping source stores authentication information in the gaming machine main board and the payout control board, and stores the authentication information in a server that can be referred to from the shipping destination.
The shipping destination that received the gaming machine causes the gaming machine main board and the payout control board to perform authentication based on the authentication information stored in the gaming machine, and the authentication result and the authentication are used. Output the used authentication information to the game medium lending device,
When the authentication has been established, the gaming medium lending device, the validity of the authentication performed in the gaming machine based on the authentication information output from the gaming machine and the authentication information acquired from the server Determine
A distribution management method characterized by that . A gaming machine main board for controlling the occurrence of a special gaming state by a game using gaming media, and a gaming machine having a payout control board for controlling the dispensing of the gaming media;
The gaming machine is data transmission received connected to a game media lending apparatus for controlling lending of the game medium, in a game system having a,
A server that allows the shipping machine to refer to the authentication information stored by the shipping source on the gaming machine main board and the payout control board;
The gaming machine is
At the shipping destination, authentication of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board is executed based on authentication information stored in each other, and the result of the authentication and the authentication information used for the authentication are rented out to the gaming medium Output to the device,
The gaming medium lending device installed at the shipping destination is
When the authentication is established, the validity of the authentication performed in the gaming machine is determined based on the authentication information output from the gaming machine and the authentication information acquired from the server. Game system to play. A game that encloses a predetermined number of game balls and circulates and uses these game balls for the game, and generates a special game state each time a predetermined condition is met by the game balls launched on the game board A gaming machine having a machine main board and a payout control board for managing the number of game balls that the player can use in the game;
In a gaming system comprising: a gaming medium lending device connected to the gaming machine so as to be able to send and receive data and controlling lending of the gaming medium to a player,
A server that allows the shipping machine to refer to the authentication information stored by the shipping source on the gaming machine main board and the payout control board;
The gaming machine is
At the shipping destination, authentication of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board is executed based on authentication information stored in each other, and the result of the authentication and the authentication information used for the authentication are rented out to the gaming medium Output to the device,
The gaming medium lending device installed at the shipping destination is
When the authentication is established, the validity of the authentication performed in the gaming machine is determined based on the authentication information output from the gaming machine and the authentication information acquired from the server.
A gaming system characterized by that. The gaming machine is
An authentication board is provided that performs authentication of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board at the shipping destination based on authentication information stored in each other , and notifies when the authentication is not established. The game system according to claim 3 or 4 . A gaming machine ID management server that is installed at a shipping destination and that acquires and stores a set of authentication information of the gaming machine main board of the gaming machine installed at the shipping destination and the payout control board from the server;
The gaming machine ID management server
When authentication in the gaming machine is not established, the gaming machine main board acquired from the gaming machine via the gaming medium lending device, and a set of authentication information of the payout control board and the server acquired from the server 6. The set of the gaming machine main board and the payout control board of the gaming machine is authenticated based on the gaming machine main board and the set of authentication information of the payout control board . A gaming system according to any one of the above. The gaming machine ID management server
7. The gaming system according to claim 6 , wherein information on the gaming machine for which the authentication is not established is transmitted and registered to an unauthorized information server that can be referred to from each of a plurality of shipping destinations. The gaming system according to any one of claims 3 to 7 , wherein the gaming machine encrypts and transmits authentication information to the gaming medium lending device.

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