JP2002028342A - Game machine managing apparatus and recording medium having game machine management program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate instantaneous starting of alarm outputs or the like whenever the supply of service balls is carried out. SOLUTION: The CPU 120 performs a specified notification (Yes at step S530) when the frequency of winning exceeds the predetermined allowable values respectively for scoring slots in the winning made at each of the plurality of scoring slots which the game machine 300 has with a glass door thereof opened (Yes at step S520). This facilitates the determination of fraudulence in the supply of service balls, for example, excessive supply of the service balls.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gaming machine management device for enabling a player to immediately recognize a winning when the front door of a gaming machine installed in a game arcade is open due to fraud. And a recording medium for recording a gaming machine management program therefor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Since various kinds of misconduct may occur while the glass front door of a game machine is opened, proposals have been made to prevent such misconduct. For example, it has been proposed that a game machine be provided with a detection sensor for detecting the opening of a glass front door, and a video camera be automatically followed based on a detection signal from the detection sensor to photograph the game machine with the glass front door opened. I was

[0003] Further, a detection sensor for detecting the opening of the glass front door is provided in the gaming machine, and based on a detection signal from the detection sensor, abnormal occurrence information is output as an alarm in the hall, and a message to that effect is sent to the hall computer. A display or the like has also been proposed. There has also been proposed a hall computer that performs such an operation only during the jackpot period.

Problems such as clogging of prize balls, clogging of nails between nails, etc. have occurred, and the hall staff has opened the glass front door to take measures against the trouble to provide service balls (balls are inserted into the winning opening). ) Is generally performed, but the hall staff supplies an unusual amount of service balls only to the gaming machine of a specific player when supplying the service balls (violation of rules).
However, it is difficult for a conventional fraud detecting device to accurately grasp the situation even if the above is performed.

The present invention has been made to solve such a conventional problem, and has recorded a gaming machine management apparatus and a gaming machine management program for easily grasping the impropriety of hall staff when supplying service balls. It is intended to provide a recording medium.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to an apparatus for managing a plurality of gaming machines provided in a game arcade, wherein the apparatus has a front door opened. A processing unit for notifying a predetermined notification when there is a winning number for each of a plurality of winning ports included in the gaming machine that exceeds a predetermined allowable value for each of the winning ports. A gaming machine management device characterized by the above-mentioned.

[0005] According to the invention, the processing means determines in advance for each of the plurality of winning openings provided in the gaming machine with the front door of the gaming machine being opened, for each winning opening. If any of the service balls exceeds a certain allowable value, a predetermined notification is issued, so that it is possible to easily grasp that the supply of the service balls has been illegal, such as an excessive supply of the service balls.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine management apparatus according to the first aspect, the processing means includes a total prize which is a total of the number of prizes for each of a plurality of prize ports provided in the gaming machine. The present invention is characterized in that a means for notifying the predetermined notification is provided even when the number exceeds the second allowable value, so that the hall staff put service balls in each winning opening evenly so that fraud is not noticeable. Even if you try to, you can grasp this.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine management apparatus according to any one of the first and second aspects, when the processing unit performs the predetermined notification, a plurality of the processing units are connected. It is characterized in that it is means for driving a predetermined one of the peripheral devices for each gaming machine, so that it is possible to more easily grasp that the illegal operation has been performed by driving the peripheral device.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine management apparatus according to the third aspect, a display device for displaying and outputting a warning message to the plurality of connected peripheral devices,
A printing device for printing out a warning message, a sound output device for outputting a warning sound, and a photographing device for photographing the vicinity of the gaming machine are included, and when performing the predetermined notification, the processing means It is characterized by a means of driving a predetermined one for each gaming machine in the device, so that it is easier to display fraud messages, print out, output warning voice, shoot, etc. Can be grasped.

The invention according to claim 5 is based on claim 1,
In the gaming machine management device according to any one of 2, 3, and 4, the processing means may determine, for each of the plurality of winning ports provided in the gaming machine, a winning port for each of the winning ports. Means that can determine whether or not there is a value exceeding a predetermined allowable value. Can be grasped.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine management device according to the fifth aspect, the processing means includes a front door of all gaming machines arranged in the gaming arcade for a predetermined period. The total number of open gaming machines and the total number of gaming machines that exceed a predetermined allowable value for each winning port among the winning numbers for each of the plurality of winning ports provided in each gaming machine. This is characterized in that it is provided with a means for outputting so as to be able to understand.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium storing a gaming machine management program for operating a gaming machine management device for managing a plurality of gaming machines disposed in a game arcade. When the number of winnings for each of the plurality of winning ports provided in the gaming machine with the front door of the gaming machine open is greater than a predetermined allowable value for each of the winning ports, And a recording medium for recording a gaming machine management program for executing a process including a predetermined notification process.

According to the present invention, when the computer executes the gaming machine management program, each of the plurality of winning awards for each of the plurality of winning openings provided in the gaming machine with the front door of the gaming machine opened is provided. When there is a mouth that exceeds a predetermined allowable value, a process of performing a predetermined notification is executed, so that a service ball is excessively supplied.
It is possible to easily grasp that the supply of the service ball is fraudulent.

As a recording medium, for example, a magnetic recording medium such as a flexible disk, a semiconductor recording medium such as a ROM and an IC card, an optical recording medium such as a CDROM, an MO
And other computer-readable recording media such as magneto-optical recording media.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Configuration) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system including a gaming machine management apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. This system includes a plurality of gaming machines 30
, 300 and the gaming machine management apparatus 100 are connected by a communication cable 400 so that necessary information can be communicated with each other.

Each of the gaming machines 300,..., 300 has a plurality of winning ports on a gaming board (not shown) on the front side thereof, and a glass front door (not shown) so as to cover the winning ports. Are provided to be freely opened and closed. And each control unit 3
10 is a glass front door (hereinafter also simply referred to as a glass door)
Is configured to be able to transmit a signal to that effect to the gaming machine management device 100 when the state changes from the closed state to the open state, and when the state changes from the open state to the closed state, and when there is a prize in the winning opening. In such a case, information indicating the number of winnings for each winning opening can be transmitted to the gaming machine management apparatus 100.

Each of the gaming machine management devices 100
An I / O port 110 for receiving information transmitted from the communication cable 400 via the communication cable 400;
A CPU 120 for performing various operations described later and a gaming machine management program storage unit 172 capable of storing a gaming machine management program 179 describing a processing procedure of the present invention are formed. A storage device 170 for storing the table 173 and the winning number table 174) in a nonvolatile manner, a RAM 130 for storing data read out from the storage device 170 and the like, and a calculation result required in a calculation process performed by the CPU 120; Input device 150 for inputting, selection data, etc.
And

The gaming machine management apparatus 100 further reads the gaming machine management program 179 recorded in the CD ROM 200 as a recording medium and stores the gaming machine management program 179 in the gaming machine management program storage section 172 in accordance with a command from the CPU 120. CDROM drive 16
0, a display device 180 for displaying and outputting a warning message and the like
A printer 190 capable of printing a result of processing executed by the CPU 120, a warning message, and the like, a sound output device 192 capable of outputting a warning sound, and a video camera device 194 that tracks a gaming machine and shoots the vicinity thereof when necessary. Has,
Each component can transmit and receive necessary information mutually.
Connected by

A clock 125 is provided inside the CPU 120.
Is provided, and the CPU 120 can always grasp the time. The input device 150 can be realized by an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse.
0 can be realized by a display device such as a CRT, a liquid crystal display device, an EL display device, and the storage device 170 can be realized by a storage device such as a hard disk. It can be constructed with one computer system such as a workstation.

Next, referring to FIG. 2 and FIG.
Each table constituting the table group 171 of 0 will be described. The table 173 for the number of permitted prizes shown in FIG.
A gaming machine number of each gaming machine arranged in the gaming arcade and a plurality of winning ports (3 in this example, A, B and C in this example) of the gaming machine.
), The total which is the allowable value for the sum of the winning numbers for the plurality of winning ports, and the control mode of the peripheral device control when the allowable value is exceeded are stored in association with each other. In the column of peripheral device control, “〇” indicates driving, and “×” indicates non-driving.

In the example shown in FIG. 2, the permissible values for the winning slots A, B, and C of the gaming machine having the gaming machine number "1" are "2", "0", and "1". The allowable value (total) for the total number of winnings is “2”.
When the glass front door is open, the winning openings A, B,
When there are winnings exceeding the allowable values “2”, “0”, and “1” for each of C (or when the total number of winnings for those winning openings exceeds “2” of “total”), the display device 180 is turned on. Drive to display and output the warning message, drive the printer 190 to print out the warning message,
Further, it is set so that the sound output device 192 is driven to output a warning sound.

In the winning number table 174 shown in FIG. 3, a glass door opening flag which stores a change state of a flag indicating a glass door opening state described later and a glass door opening are started for each gaming machine number. The opening start time, which is the time, the opening end time, which indicates the time at which the glass door was closed, and the winning opening winning number, which is the winning number of each winning opening (A, B, C) in the glass door open state, are calculated. They are stored in association with each other.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, the glass door of the gaming machine number "1" is opened at "11:30" and "11:45".
Minutes ", indicating that three gaming balls have been won in the winning opening A during that time. At this time, the glass door open flag is set to “0”.
(Closed) ”to“ 1 (open) ”to“ 0 (closed again) ”.

(Operation of the Gaming Machine) Next, the operation of the gaming machine will be described with reference to FIG. Control unit 310 determines whether or not the glass door has been opened based on an output signal of a detection sensor that detects the open / closed state of the glass door (not shown) (step S400). If the glass door does not open (No), it remains in the wait state, while if the glass door opens (Yes).
In step S410, a glass door opening signal indicating that the glass door has been opened is transmitted to the gaming machine management apparatus 100.

Next, it is determined whether or not there is a winning for each winning opening (step S420). If there is no winning (No), the process proceeds to step S440, while if there is a winning (Yes), the process proceeds to step S430. In step S430, control unit 310 uses information indicating the number of winnings for each winning opening as a winning signal as a gaming machine management device 1
00 (step S430).

Then, in step S440, whether or not the glass door has been closed is determined based on the output signal of the detection sensor. If the glass door is not closed (No), the process returns to step S420 to continue the process, while if the glass door is closed (Yes), the process proceeds to step S450 and the glass door is closed. A glass door closing signal indicating the state is transmitted to the gaming machine management device 100.

(Operation of the Gaming Machine Management Apparatus) Next, the operation of the gaming machine management apparatus 100 will be described. CPU 120
When the glass door opening signal transmitted from the control unit 310 is received, the flag “1” is set in the glass door opening flag column corresponding to the gaming machine that has transmitted this signal in the winning table 174. The flag is "0" in the initial state
Therefore, the glass door open flag changes from “0” to “1” (step S500). The CPU 120 grasps the time at this time with reference to the clock 125 and stores the time in the corresponding opening start time column in the winning table 174. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the glass door of the gaming machine number "1" is opened at "11:30", and "11:30" is stored in the opening start time column.

Next, reception processing of the winning signal transmitted from the control section 310 is performed (step S510). In the process of receiving the winning signal, the winning reference table 174 refers to the information indicating the winning number for each winning port indicated by the winning signal, and the winning table corresponding to the gaming machine which has transmitted this signal in the winning table 174 is displayed. The number corresponding to the winning number is stored. For example, in the example shown in FIG. 3, winning of the gaming machine with the gaming machine number “1” indicates that “3” gaming balls have been won in the winning opening A.

Next, the CPU 120 determines whether or not any of the winning numbers of each winning opening exceeds a predetermined allowable value for each (step S520).
To this end, the CPU 120 compares each allowable value for each winning opening in the allowable winning number table 173 with the winning number of each winning opening in the winning number table 174, and determines a winning in any one of the winning openings. If the number exceeds the allowable value (Yes), the process proceeds to step S530 to perform peripheral device control.

For example, the CPU 120 determines that the winning number “3” for the winning opening A exceeds the allowable value for the gaming machine with the gaming machine number “1” (exceeding for the winning opening B and C). No), the process proceeds to step S530. Then, the CPU 120 sets the allowable winning number table 173.
For the gaming machine with the gaming machine number “1”, an alarm output of “display”, “print”, and “voice” is performed with reference to the peripheral device control column. Specifically, the CPU 120 drives the display device 180 to display and output a warning message, and drives the printer 190 to print out the warning message.
Further, the sound output device 192 is driven to output a warning sound. In the peripheral device control for the gaming machine with the gaming machine number “2”, the video camera device 194 is further driven to shoot an image near the gaming machine, and the shooting information is sequentially stored in the empty area of the storage device 170. It can be stored and played back after going.

On the other hand, the CPU 120 compares each allowable value for each winning opening in the allowable winning number table 173 with the winning number of each winning opening in the winning number table 174, and determines the winning number in any winning opening. If none of the values exceeds the allowable value (No in step S520), the process proceeds to step S540, and it is determined whether a glass door closing signal has been received from the control unit 310 (step S540).

While the glass door closing signal is not received, (N
o) Returning to step S520 and continuing the process, if the glass door closing signal is received (Yes), the process proceeds to step S550 and sets the corresponding glass door opening flag in the winning number table 174 to "1". "To" 0 ". Thus, once the glass door is opened and closed, the glass door open flag is changed from “0” → “1” →
It changes to “0”. Further, the CPU 120 grasps the time at this time with reference to the clock 125, and
4 in the column of the corresponding release end time. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the glass door of the gaming machine number “1” is “1”.
1:45 ”and closed in the opening end time column.
1:45 "is stored.

In the above operation example, it is determined whether or not any of the winning numbers of each winning opening exceeds a predetermined allowable value for each winning opening. Judge whether the total number of winnings in the game exceeds the total,
If it exceeds, the peripheral device control in step S530 may be performed. For example, the gaming machine number "2" shown in FIG.
In the gaming machine of No. 1, the winning number of each winning opening does not exceed the respective allowable value, but the total (the winning opening A1, the winning opening A1,
The total number of C1 (3) exceeds the total “2”, so that the CPU 120 may perform the operation of step S530.

Therefore, according to the above operation description, C
The PU 120 is one in which the number of winnings for each of the plurality of winning openings provided in the gaming machine 300 in a state where the glass door of the gaming machine is opened exceeds an allowable value predetermined for each winning opening. In a certain case, since the predetermined notification is performed, it is possible to easily grasp that the supply of the service ball has been illegal, such as an excessive supply of the service ball.

The CPU 120 also makes a predetermined notification when the total number of winnings, which is the sum of the number of winnings for each of a plurality of winning ports provided in the gaming machine 300, exceeds the total (a second allowable value). Thus, even if the hall staff tries to make service balls in each winning opening evenly so that fraud is not conspicuous, this can be grasped. Further, since the CPU 120 drives a predetermined one of the plurality of peripheral devices connected via the bus 140, it is possible to more easily recognize that the illegal operation has been performed by driving the peripheral device. Can be.

More specifically, the CPU 120
A display device 180 for displaying and outputting a warning message, a printer 190 for printing and outputting a warning message, a sound output device 192 for outputting a warning sound, and the vicinity of the gaming machine, which are peripheral devices connected via a plurality of devices 40. Of the devices of the video camera device 194, the display output, the print output, the alarm sound output, the photographing, etc. of the alarm message are performed by using a device predetermined for each gaming machine, so that it is easier to perform illegal operations. Can be grasped.

(Other Operation Example) In this operation example, when the input device 150 is operated to select the tabulation processing mode, the CPU
120 is a tabulation process as shown in FIG. 6 (step S60)
Perform 0). The CPU 120 clears the area other than the gaming machine number in the winning number table 174 within a predetermined period such as one day, and based on the information transmitted from the gaming machine 300, wins as described above. Information is stored in each area of the number table 174.

Then, when the above aggregation mode is selected,
The opening start time (occurrence time in FIG. 7) of the winning number table 174 at that time is displayed on the display device 180 in association with the gaming machine number (unit number) (X, Y in FIG. 7). Next, the winning number winning number for each gaming machine number in the winning number table 174 is displayed in association with the machine number (gaming machine number) (Z in FIG. 7). At this time, if the number of winnings in a certain winning opening exceeds the allowable value, a highlighted display such as displaying the number of winnings in a specific color, for example, is displayed so that it can be determined that the winning number does not exceed the allowable value. Do. As described above, the CPU 120 compares the allowable value for each winning opening in the allowable winning number table 173 with the winning number of each winning opening in the winning number table 174, as described above. Is determined.

Therefore, the CPU 120 controls the game machine 30
Among the winning numbers for each of the plurality of winning ports (A, B, C) provided in 0, whether any of the winning numbers (A, B, C) exceeds a predetermined allowable value for each winning port (A, B, C). Since the display is output to the display device 180 in such a manner that it is possible to determine whether or not the illegal operation has been performed, it is possible to more easily understand that the illegal operation has been performed by looking at the display output screen. Note that such output is output to the printer 190
May be used as the print output.

Next, the CPU 120 sets the glass door open flag to “0” from among all the gaming machines arranged in the game arcade →
The total number of gaming machines that have changed from “1” to “0” (the total number of open glass doors) is obtained. Next, as described above, the number of gaming machines (the number of abnormal cases) in each of the gaming machines in which the number of winnings in each winning opening exceeds an allowable value is calculated. Then, the CPU 120 displays and outputs the total number of opened glass doors and the number of abnormal cases as indicated by a symbol T in FIG. In this example, the display example in the case where the total number of gaming machines whose glass doors are opened is “5”, and among them, the number of gaming machines whose winning number exceeds a specified value is “2” is shown. Is shown. In addition, CPU
120 performs the processing shown in the other operation examples above every predetermined period.

Accordingly, the CPU 120 determines, for a predetermined period, the total number of gaming machines having front doors opened among all gaming machines arranged in the gaming arcade, and the number of winnings for each of a plurality of winning openings provided in each gaming machine. Of the gaming machines, the output will be displayed so that the total number of gaming machines that exceed the predetermined allowable value for each winning port can be found, so it is important to grasp the frequency of fraudulent acts in the gaming hall Can be.

Note that, as in the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the CPU 120
All of the gaming machine management programs 179 read from 0 and recorded in the CDROM 200 may be downloaded to the storage device 170 at a time, and the downloaded gaming machine management program 179 may be executed by the CPU 120. In addition, the CPU 120
Gaming machine management program 170 recorded in M200
May be read out by a predetermined amount, and those temporarily stored in the RAM 130 may be sequentially read out and executed.

In any case, the processing of the present invention can be executed by causing the CPU 120 to execute the gaming machine management program 179 recorded in the CD ROM 200. Note that at least a part of the processing according to the present invention is installed in the gaming machine management apparatus 100 in advance.
It may be executed by S, middleware, another application, or the like.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, various modifications and changes can be made to the above embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, the number of winning ports is set to a number other than three, only those having a winning value exceeding the first allowable value and less than the second allowable value are treated as abnormal, And performing a tallying process only on the front end. Further, the present invention is applicable not only to pachinko machines but also to other game machines.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the front door of the gaming machine is opened, the number of winnings for each of the plurality of winning openings provided in the gaming machine is increased with respect to each winning opening. When there is a value exceeding a predetermined allowable value, a predetermined notification is issued, so that it is possible to easily grasp that the supply of the service ball has been illegal, such as an excessive supply of the service ball. The effect that it can be obtained is obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a gaming machine management apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a system that includes a “0”.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an allowable winning number table 173;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a winning number table 174.

FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory diagram on the gaming machine 300 side.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory diagram on the gaming machine management device 100 side.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a tallying process.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen in another operation example of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 gaming machine management device 110 I / O port 120 CPU 125 clock 130 RAM 140 bus 150 input device 160 CDROM drive 170 storage device 171 table group 172 gaming machine management program storage section 173 allowable winning number table 174 winning number table 192 voice Output device 194 Video camera output device

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A device for managing a plurality of gaming machines provided in a game arcade, wherein the number of winnings for each of a plurality of winning holes provided in the gaming machine with the front door of the gaming machine open. A gaming machine management device comprising a processing means for performing a predetermined notification when there is a winning port exceeding a predetermined allowable value for each winning port. 2. The gaming machine management device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit sets the total winning number, which is a total of the winning numbers for each of a plurality of winning ports provided in the gaming machine, to a second allowable value. A game machine management device comprising means for making the predetermined notification even when the number exceeds the limit. 3. The gaming machine management device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit, when performing the predetermined notification, includes a gaming machine among a plurality of connected peripheral devices. A gaming machine management device characterized in that it is means for driving a predetermined one for each. 4. The gaming machine management device according to claim 3, wherein a display device for displaying and outputting a warning message, a printing device for printing and outputting a warning message, and outputting a warning sound to the plurality of connected peripheral devices. A sound output device and a photographing device for photographing the vicinity of the gaming machine; and the processing unit drives a predetermined one of the peripheral devices for each of the gaming machines when performing the predetermined notification. A gaming machine management device, characterized in that it is means for performing a game. 5. The gaming machine management device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit comprises: a processing unit configured to calculate a winning number for each of a plurality of winning ports provided in the gaming machine. A gaming machine management device comprising means for outputting in a form capable of determining whether or not any winning opening exceeds a predetermined allowable value. 6. The gaming machine management device according to claim 5, wherein the processing means comprises: a predetermined number of gaming machines having a front door opened among all gaming machines arranged in the gaming arcade; Means for outputting so that the total number of gaming machines that exceed a predetermined allowable value for each winning port among the winning numbers for each of the plurality of winning ports provided in each gaming machine can be known. A gaming machine management device comprising: 7. A computer-readable recording medium storing a gaming machine management program for operating a gaming machine management device that manages a plurality of gaming machines provided in a game arcade, comprising: a front door of the gaming machine. When the number of winnings for each of the plurality of winning ports provided in the gaming machine in a state where is opened is greater than a predetermined allowable value for each winning port, a predetermined notification is performed. A recording medium on which a gaming machine management program for executing a process including a process is recorded.