JP6814689B2 - Amusement park system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a playground system.

In the amusement park, as disclosed in FIGS. 1 and 2 of Patent Document 1, for example, in order to manage game information, a so-called stand terminal provided corresponding to the game machine and a so-called island terminal for managing the stand terminal And, by transmitting the game information input by the stand terminal to the so-called management device via the island terminal, the game information input by the stand terminal can be managed by the management device.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2006-334252

Conventionally, as disclosed in the known example, the game information input by the stand terminal is collected via the island terminal, so that when a failure occurs in the island terminal, the game information can be collected by the management device. There was a risk that it could not be done. Regarding this point, in the publicly known example, it is proposed to provide a plurality of island terminals corresponding to the stand terminals, but even in this case, if a failure occurs in the plurality of island terminals, it cannot be dealt with.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to reduce the risk that the management of game information in the management device will be delayed even if a failure occurs in the island terminal. Is to provide.

According to the invention according to claim 1, the first communication for transmitting the game information managed by the first management means to the third management means via the second management means and the third communication without going through the second management means. Since the second communication to be transmitted to the management means is switched, even if a failure occurs in the second management means such as the island terminal, the risk that the management of the game information by the third management means such as the management device is delayed can be reduced. Can be done. Further, when the game information whose source is the first management means such as a stand terminal provided corresponding to the game machine is the management target of the third management means, the game information managed by the first management means is the first. Since the first communication to be transmitted to the third management means via the second management means is enabled, the third management means does not directly communicate with the plurality of first management means without going through the second management means. By indirect communication between the third management means and the plurality of first management means via the second management means, the communication load of the third management means can be reduced.

Schematic diagram showing the whole system for the amusement park in one embodiment Diagram showing the data flow when the island controller is normal Diagram showing the data flow when the island controller is abnormal The figure which shows the data flow when the 1st system controller is normal Diagram showing the data flow when the first system controller is abnormal Diagram showing offline data The figure which shows the mode of serial number management of offline data (the 1) Diagram showing the mode of serial number management of offline data (Part 2) Diagram showing how to collect offline data The figure which shows the mode of performing the data communication amount control of offline data. The figure which shows the mode corresponding to the long-term offline state Diagram showing the timing of collecting and reflecting offline data Diagram showing the timing of creating hall data and fan data from offline data

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing the overall configuration of the amusement park system. A large number of game machines 1 are installed in the game hall, and game devices 2 are installed corresponding to each game machine 1. These game machines 1 and game devices 2 are connected to a stand controller (hereinafter, referred to as a stand controller) 3 (corresponding to the first management means and communication switching means), which is a so-called stand terminal that functions as a relay device by two. The stand controller 3 is connected to the LAN 4. In addition, an island controller (hereinafter referred to as an island controller) 5 (corresponding to a second management means), which is a so-called island terminal that manages a plurality of platform controllers 3, is also installed in the amusement park. Is also connected to LAN4. A considerable number of platform consoles 3 are provided corresponding to hundreds of game machines 1 installed in the amusement park, and a plurality of island consoles 5 are provided under the control of about a dozen platform consoles 3. There is. Further, a POS and a balance settlement machine (none of which are shown) are also installed in the amusement park, and these POS and balance settlement machines are also connected to LAN4.

A business terminal 6 is installed in, for example, an office in the amusement park. The business terminal 6 is a terminal operated by a game hall manager or an employee to make various settings, and is connected to a LAN 4 by connecting a keyboard 7, a monitor 8, a printer (not shown), and the like. Further, in the amusement park, the first system controller (hereinafter referred to as the first system controller) 9 (third management means, communication switching means, first determination means, second determination means, main management means, sub-management means) Corresponds to), 2nd system controller (hereinafter referred to as 2nd system controller) 10 (corresponds to 3rd management means, communication switching means, 1st judgment means, 2nd judgment means, main management means, sub management means ), A common system controller (hereinafter referred to as a common syscon) 11 (corresponding to a third management means, a communication switching means, a first determination means, and a second determination means) are also installed. The common system controller 11 is also connected to the LAN 4. Further, the first cis-con 9 and the second cis-con 10 are directly connected to each other without going through the LAN 4.

The business terminal 6, the stand syscons 9, 10 and the common syscon 11 each function as a so-called management device for managing game information, and receive a game signal transmitted from the game machine side (game machine 1, game device 2, etc.). And manage the game information. By mirroring the data, the Sister Complexes 9 and 10 periodically collate the game information managed by each of them at a predetermined cycle, and synchronize the managed game information. Although not shown in FIG. 1, in reality, for example, several hundred game machines 1 are managed by the management device.

In the above configuration, the stand controller 3 enables transmission / reception of game information and the like with the island complex 5, the stand syscons 9, 10 and the common syscon 11 as communication targets. In this case, the pedestal complex 3 transmits and receives game information and the like to and from the pedestal ciscon 9 and 10 and the common ciscon 11 via the island con 5 (corresponding to the first communication), and the pedestal complex 3 does not go through the island con 5. It is possible to switch between 9 and 10 and the common sister complex 11 and a mode for transmitting and receiving game information (corresponding to the second communication).

The game machine 1 is a CR (card reader) pachinko game machine, and has an operation handle 13, an upper tray 14, and a lower tray 15 that constitute a launching device that launches balls on the board surface 12, and a liquid crystal display unit on the board surface 12. 16. It has a general drawing winning opening 17, a first starting opening 18, a second starting opening 19, and a large winning opening 20.

The game machine 1 operates as shown below.
(1) The first starting port 18 is a winning opening (so-called navel winning opening) in which the winning rate does not fluctuate, and the second starting opening 19 is a winning opening (so-called electric chew) in which the winning rate fluctuates. A big hit lottery is performed according to the winnings (starting winnings) to the starting ports 18 and 19, and the lottery result is notified by the symbol variation performed on the liquid crystal display unit 16, and the jackpot is obtained according to the fluctuation result.

(2) If a start prize is won during a symbol change, the symbol change is cumulatively held up to a predetermined holding upper limit value (for example, 4 each), and the held symbol change is started after the symbol change is completed. If the starting prize is won while the number of pending symbol fluctuations (number of pending symbols) is the upper limit, the symbol fluctuations are not suspended.

(3) The winning probability (big hit probability) of the big hit lottery is 1/260, and the probability change rate, which is the ratio of the big hit to the big hit (probability change big hit) that becomes the probability change state (probability change) after that, is (both normal state and probability change state). ) 66.6%. When a big hit occurs, the big winning opening 20 is opened by the corresponding round (R). The maximum number of winnings in 1R is 9, the maximum opening time is 30 seconds, and 1R ends when either the maximum number of winnings or the maximum opening time is satisfied.

(4) The corresponding round is also drawn in the same way as the big hit lottery, and the distribution rate is 55% for 4R and 45% for 15R when the first starting port 18 is won, but the second starting port 19 In the case of winning a prize, 4R is 10%, 15R is 90%, and the priority of pending digestion of the symbol change according to the prize is set higher in the second starting port 19 than in the first starting port 18. There is.

(5) During the probability change, the jackpot probability is improved to 1/74, and the winning rate for each of the starting ports 18 and 19 is increased, resulting in a time saving state (time saving). Since the probability change continues until the next big hit, it continues until a big hit (normal big hit) that becomes a normal game state (normal state) that is neither a big hit nor a probability change occurs after the big hit, and then a predetermined number (for example, 100 times). ) Will be shortened until the symbol changes.

(6) The second start opening 19 is in an open state with a high winning rate when a normal symbol (general figure) that fluctuates according to the winning of the general drawing winning opening 17 is hit. In this case, the fluctuation time of one normal figure is 30 seconds in the normal state and 3 seconds in the time saving state. Further, the opening period is 0.3 seconds once in the normal state and 5 seconds twice in the time saving state. That is, in the short time state, the fluctuation time of the normal figure is shorter than in the normal state, while the opening period is lengthened or the number of times of opening is increased, so that the winning rate of the second starting port 19 is increased. The above is an example of model A among a plurality of models of game machines 1 installed in the amusement park, but for example, model B has various specifications depending on the model, such as different jackpot probabilities and round distributions. Become.

The game machine 1 and the peripheral devices attached to the game machine 1 transmit the following game signals as the game progresses, such as the player driving a ball and starting a prize at each of the starting ports 18 and 19. ..
Out signal = A signal that can specify the consumption value (out) transmitted from the out BOX that collects the consumed balls. Since one pulse is transmitted for every 10 consumed (used, driven, collected) balls, "the number of out signals x 10" is specified as out. The signal transmitted from the game machine 1 may be used.

Safe signal = A signal that can identify the winning value (safe) transmitted from the game machine 1. Since one pulse is transmitted for every 10 payout balls, "the number of safe signals x 10" is specified as safe. The replenishment signal transmitted from the replenishment device may be used as a safe signal. In addition, there are an actual safe signal that is output when the ball is actually paid out and a winning safe signal that is output when the payout is reserved according to the winning, but in order to minimize the time lag from winning to output. It is desirable to adopt the latter.

Start signal = Start processing (design variation, character operation, unit game) and start (start processing) in the liquid crystal display unit 16 (feature) that fluctuates (operates) according to the start prize (specific prize) transmitted from the game machine 1. It is a signal that can specify the number). Since it is output when the symbol variation is confirmed, the start process is specified according to the signal input, and the "start signal x 1" is specified as the number of starts (number of start processes). It may be used as a signal indicating a prize to the first starting port 18 or the second starting port 19.

Jackpot signal = A signal that can specify the jackpot period transmitted from the game machine 1. Since it is a state signal that is level-transmitted during the jackpot, the reception of the jackpot signal is specified as the jackpot.
Special state signal = A signal that can identify the special state (sweet) transmitted from the game machine 1. Since the level is transmitted during the special state (during the time reduction (including the probability change)) in which the winning rate of the second starting port 19 is improved, the reception of the special state signal is specified as the special state. Further, the period during which neither the jackpot signal nor the special state signal is received is specified as the normal state.

The game device 2 is a so-called lending machine with a counting function for each machine, and is a status indicator 21 indicating the game state of the game machine 1, a money slot 22 into which money (money value, valuable value) is inserted, and a player. A touch-sensitive liquid crystal display unit 23 that accepts the operation input of and displays game data such as the number of symbol fluctuations (number of starts) and jackpot probability as the game progresses, and possession balls (including stored balls if a member), earned value , Valuable value) payout button 24, payout nozzle 25 through which the paid out balls pass, card insertion slot 26 into which general cards and membership cards are inserted, and located below the lower tray 15 of the game machine 1. It has a removable counting tray 27, a camera 28 that captures an image of a player playing the corresponding gaming machine 1, and the like.

The game device 2 has the following functions.
(1) When money is accepted (money acceptance processing), the deposit amount is displayed on both the game machine 1 and the game device 2, and the loan ball (value added) for one unit of loan (for example, 500 yen) is displayed on the game machine. It is paid out from 1 (compensation granting process), and the deposit amount is displayed according to the consideration granting process as the balance excluding the consideration of the loaned coin. Money can be accepted for multiple times of consideration grant processing (for example, up to 10,000 yen).

(2) When the lending button of the game machine 1 is pressed (lending operation, granting operation) while there is a balance, the lending ball for one unit of lending is paid out from the game machine 1 and the consideration is deducted from the balance. .. In addition, it is also equipped with a so-called counting function for each machine, and it is possible to count the acquired balls acquired by the player and refund the balls again with the counted acquired balls as consideration, excluding the consideration for the refund. It is also possible to specify the number as a ball.

(3) When the return button of the game machine 1 is pressed (issue operation) with the balance and the balls remaining, a general card that can identify the balance and the balls is issued. It should be noted that split issuance that targets a part of the balance or possession balls is not possible for the sake of simplification of explanation, but it may be possible.

(4) An imaging signal that can identify the image captured by the camera 28 is output.
(5) Serial communication (output of sales signal) with the unit 3 is used for money reception processing, consideration grant processing, balance and number of loaned balls, deposit amount, number of loaned balls, and consideration for loaned balls at the business terminal 6 etc. It is possible to specify the sales amount, counting ball, possession ball, refund ball, and reception and issuance processing of general cards, but these are pulse signals (for example, 1 pulse for every 1000 yen deposited, 1 pulse for every 100 yen sold, etc.) But it can be identified.

2 and 3 schematically show the flow of data (game information, etc.) of the stand-con 3, the island-con 5, and the first-unit syscon 9. In addition, in FIGS. 2 and 3, the illustration of the second Sister complex 10 is omitted. As shown in FIG. 2, when the first syscon 9 transmits / receives data to / from the platform 3 and all the island controls 5 are normal, the island control 5 polls the platform control 3 corresponding to the island control 5 and the like. By transmitting the inquiry signal of the island control and transmitting the data managed by the stand control 3 to the island control 5 in response to the inquiry signal, the island control 5 manages the data of the stand control 3 under the control. (See a2, a3, a5, a6). The same applies between the first cis-con 9 and the island con 5, the first cis-con 9 transmits an inquiry signal to the island con 5, and the island con 5 manages according to the inquiry signal. By transmitting the data to be performed to the first cis-con 9, the first cis-con 9 manages the data of the island con 5 under its control (see a1 and a4). The data transmitted from the platform controller 3 to the island complex 5 and the data transmitted from the island controller 5 to the first sister complex 9 are substantially the same data although the range of the target gaming machine 1 is different. ..

Here, a case where a failure occurs in a part of the island con 5 and an abnormality occurs will be described. As shown in FIG. 3, when some of the island cons 5 are abnormal, for the normal island cons 5, the same communication as in FIG. 2, that is, the pedestal con 3 under its control is the first via the island cons 5. One unit performs communication to transmit data to the syscon 9 (corresponding to the first communication), while for the abnormal island con 5, the unit 3 under its control is the first unit without going through the island con 5. Communication (corresponding to the second communication) for transmitting data to the syscon 9 is performed. That is, when the first syscon 9 identifies an abnormality in the island con 5 due to no response from the island con 5, an inquiry signal is sent to the platform 3 under the control of the island con 5 that has identified the abnormality. Is directly transmitted, and data is directly received from the stand controller 3 (see a11 and a12). In this way, the 1st Sister Complex 9 communicates directly with the Sister Complex 3 without going through the Island Sister Complex 5, so that even if the Island Sister Complex 5 fails and becomes abnormal, the 1st Sister Complex 9 manages the data. The risk of becoming impossible is reduced. It should be noted that the mode in which the first cis-con 9 directly communicates with the pedestal 3 without going through the island con 5 may be any mode as long as it communicates without going through the island con 5. It also includes communication such as sending and receiving data by specifying such as, and communication via a hub. In addition, although the data flow of the 1st unit syscon 9 has been illustrated above, the data flow of the 2nd unit syscon 10 and the common syscon 11 is also the same, and the 2nd unit syscon 10 and the common syscon 11 are the unit 3 The same applies when a failure occurs in some of the island complexes 5 and an abnormality occurs in the case of transmitting and receiving data.

4 and 5 schematically show the data flow of the stand-con 3, the island-con 5, and the stand-syscon 9 and 10. In addition, in FIGS. 4 and 5, the illustration of the common sister complex 11 is omitted. The Sister Complexes 9 and 10 can operate by switching between two operation modes, an active (hereinafter referred to as ACT) mode and a standby (hereinafter referred to as SBY) mode, and one of them operates in the ACT mode. Sometimes the other operates in SBY mode, and as described above, the data is directly communicated without going through the LAN 4 to mirror the data. That is, the Sister complex operating in the ACT mode updates the data by the communication shown in FIG. 2, and the Sister complex operating in the SBY mode updates the data by mirroring with the Sister complex operating in the ACT mode. To do. As shown in FIG. 4, when the first cis-con 9 operates in the ACT mode, the second cis-con 10 operates in the SBY mode, and the first cis-con 9 operating in the ACT mode is normal, it is described above. The same communication as in FIG. 2 is performed, and the first cis-con 9 communicates with the dai-con 3 via the island con 5 (see b1 to b6).

Here, a case where a failure occurs in the first Sister complex 9 operating in the ACT mode and an abnormality occurs will be described. As shown in FIG. 5, when the first Sister complex 9 operating in the ACT mode is abnormal, the second Sister complex 10 operating in the SBY mode operates in the ACT mode. That is, when the second sister complex 10 operating in the SBY mode identifies an abnormality in the first sister complex 9 due to no response from the first sister complex 9 operating in the ACT mode, it sets itself in the SBY mode. To switch to ACT mode. As a result, the second Sister complex 9 communicates with the Sister complex 3 via the island complex 5 (see b11 and b12). By switching between the SBY mode and the ACT mode, respectively, the Sister Complexes 9 and 10 reduce the possibility that even if one of the Sister Complexes 9 and 10 has an abnormality, the data cannot be managed by the other. In the above, the data flow when the 1st Sister Complex 9 operating in the ACT mode becomes abnormal has been illustrated, but the 2nd Sister Complex 10 is operating in the ACT mode and the 1st Sister Complex When 9 is operating in SBY mode, when the second cis-con 10 operating in the ACT mode is abnormal, the first cis-con 9 operating in SBY mode operates in ACT mode. Also in this case, when the island controller 5 becomes abnormal, the same communication as in FIG. 3 described above is performed.

Next, a case where the abnormality is resolved and recovered will be described. In the following, the data flow of the first sister complex 9, the island sister complex 5, and the first sister complex 9 will be described on behalf of the first sister complex 9, but the second sister complex 10 and the common sister complex 11 or the island sister complex 5 The same applies to the case where the abnormality is resolved and recovered, and the data flow of the stand-con 3, the island-con 5, the second stand-con 10 and the common syscon 11 in this case is also the same.

The platform 3 manages various data shown in FIG. 6 as offline data, and assigns a management number (corresponding to an ID) as history information every time the data is updated to perform serial number management. That is, for example, the serial number management of the data is performed because the table state change system data, which is the data related to the change of the state of the game machine 1 according to the start or end of the special prize (big hit or special state), is not completed by one data. Do. The unit 3 manages serial numbers regardless of whether or not it is in an offline state where data communication is not possible with the first syscon 9, and manages serial numbers in an online state where data communication is possible with the first syscon 9. By transmitting the data to the 1st Sister Complex 9, the serial number management of the data is also possible in the 1st Sister Complex 9.

7 and 8 exemplify a mode in which data serial number management is performed. When the unit 3 receives the data of the control number "106" in the state where the data of the control number "104" has been received, it confirms the existence of all the data up to the previous one and the data of the control number "105". Is missing, so the reflection of the data of the control number "106" in the history information is suspended, and the reception of the next data is waited for. When the platform 3 receives the data of the control number "105", it confirms the existence of all the data up to the previous one and reflects all the data up to the control number "104". Therefore, the control number "105" Is reflected in the history information, and it is determined whether or not the data of the reserved management number “106” can be reflected in the history information. Here, the stand computer 3 confirms the existence of all the data up to the previous one, and has already reflected all the data up to the control number "105", so that the data of the control number "106" can be added to the history information. Since the reflection is performed and the next data has not been received, the reception of the next data is awaited. When the stand computer 3 receives the data of the control number "107", it confirms the existence of all the data up to the previous one and reflects all the data up to the control number "106". Therefore, the control number "107" The data of "" is reflected in the history information, and since the next data has not been received, the reception of the next data is awaited. The stand controller 3 manages the serial number of data by repeating such processing. In addition, as the history information, it is illustrated that a record is created every time data is updated, but for example, history information in units of a predetermined period (for example, 5 seconds), history for each event occurrence such as so-called jackpot history, etc. are adopted. Regardless of what kind of history information is created, arbitrary history information such as history information for reference such as jackpot history may be separately created on the management device side based on the created history information.

FIG. 9 shows a mode in which the first sister complex 9 receives and collects data from the sister complex 3 via the island complex 5. The first Sister Complex 9 collects data from the Sister Complex 3 via the Island Sister Complex 5 at the timing of connection processing and game console data reception. That is, the first Sister Complex 9 transmits a status confirmation request to the Sister Complex 3 via the Island Sister Complex 5 at the timing of connection processing, and sends a status confirmation response (corresponding to transmission ID information) from the Sister Complex 3 to the island. By receiving via the computer 5, the management number information is acquired from the computer 3, and at the timing when the game table data is received, the game table data notification is received from the computer 3 via the island complex 5. The game console data that can specify the management number is acquired from the sister complex 3.

When the first cis-con 9 acquires the game table data from the table control 3, the acquired game table data is set as the latest game table data, and the management number of the latest game table data and the management that has already been received by itself Compare with the latest management number of the game console data, determine whether or not the game console data is missing, and identify the missing number data (corresponding to the lack history information) of the management number. That is, the 1st Sister Complex 9 identifies that the game console data is not missing if the management numbers of both are consecutive, while it identifies that the game console data is missing if they are not consecutive. Then, identify the missing number data of the control number. In the example of FIG. 9, the first cis-con 9 has the latest game console data management number "100" received from the pedestal 3 and is the latest game console data that has already been received and managed. If the control number is "80", it is specified that the game console data whose control numbers are "81" to "99" are missing.

When the first Sister Complex 9 identifies that the game console data is missing in this way, it sends an offline data request capable of identifying the missing number to the Sister Complex 3 via the Island Sister Complex 5, and the Sister Complex 9 is used. 3 transmits the missing number data to the first sister complex 9 via the island complex 5 as a game console data notification. In this case, the unit 3 transmits the missing number data to the first cis-con 9 via the island con 5, and transmits the latest data to the first cis-con 9 via the island con 5. By receiving the missing number data and the latest data in parallel, the first system controller 9 can reflect the missing number data while reflecting the latest data.

When the 1st Sister Complex 9 collects missing data in this way, it is assumed that a large number of Sister Complexes 3 transmit the data to the 1st Sister Complex 9 all at once, and the 1st Sister Complex 9 Since there is a concern that the communication load will increase sharply and hinder sales, an upper limit will be set for the number of data requests, and the Sister Complex 3 will transmit data according to the upper limit, thereby increasing the amount of data communication. Take control. FIG. 10 shows an aspect of controlling the amount of data communication. When the offline information indicating the control number and the number of offline cases is notified to the offline collection control process from the other internal process, the 1st Sister Complex 9 manages the offline collection of all the units and keeps track of all of them at that time. Monitor the number of data items in a unit at a predetermined cycle (perform regular cycle monitoring). In the first syscon 9, an upper limit is set for the number of data requests for each unit and for each unit, data communication volume is controlled in descending order of priority, and a large amount of data is not received from the unit 3 all at once. Data traffic control is performed.

In the example of FIG. 10, the upper limit of the number of data requests for each unit is set to "6". The management number of the latest (immediately before) game console data received from the unit 3 of the unit number "1" is "210", and the first unit syscon 9 is the latest managed data that has already been received. If the management number of the game console data is "200", it is specified that the game console data whose management numbers are "201" to "209" is missing, but the upper limit of the number of requested data for each machine is set. Since it is set to "6", an offline data request capable of identifying a missing number whose management number is "201" to "206" is transmitted to the unit 3 of the unit number "1". Similarly, the first unit syscon 9 has the latest game console data management number "150" received from the unit number "5" unit 3 and is the latest managed unit that has already been received. If the management number of the game console data is "120", it is specified that the game console data of the management numbers "121" to "149" is missing, but the management numbers are "121" to "126". An offline data request that can identify the missing number of is transmitted to the unit 3 of the unit number "5". In addition, the management number of the latest game console data received from the unit number "8" of the first unit syscon 9 is "290", and the latest game console that has already been received and managed by itself. If the data management number is "270", it is specified that the game console data with the management numbers "271" to "289" is missing, but the management numbers are "271" to "276". An offline data request that can identify the data is transmitted to the unit 3 of the unit number "8".

The upper limit of the number of data requests is divided into open and closed, and the upper limit of 1 second is 10 for each game machine during opening and 50 during closing, and all units are covered. In that case, there are 100 cases during the opening and 700 cases during the closing. Since the total history information of the data described in FIG. 6 is about 200 in one hour, when the recovery for one hour is performed for 3,500 gaming machines, 3,500 × 200. = 700,000 cases are assumed, and if the store is open, recovery in 7,000 seconds, that is, less than 2 hours is a guide, and if the store is closed, recovery in 1,000 seconds, that is, about 17 minutes is a guide. It becomes. The upper limit of opening the store is smaller than that of closing the store because the communication load during opening is higher than that during closing due to the update of the latest data.

In addition, since the data storage area of the stand computer 3 is secured for a maximum of about 1 day and the data that can be guaranteed is for a maximum of about 1 day, the offline state has continued for a long period of several days. In that case, the new data is overwritten with the old data to erase the old data, and when the untransmitted data is deleted, the deletion of the untransmitted data is recorded as a log. Since the management numbers are numbered in a cyclical (cyclical) serial number, if the management number of "65535", which is the maximum number, is assigned to the data, the management number of "1" is managed for the next data. Numbers are assigned, and there is a concern that the range of data managed by the unit 3 will be unknown in the 1st unit syscon 9, so the unit 3 always manages the connection processing described in FIG. Get the data management number.

FIG. 11 shows a mode corresponding to a case where the offline state continues for a long period of time. The management number of the latest game console data that has already been received and managed by the 1st Sister Complex 9 is "65500", and the management number of "65501" to "5000" is added to the data of the 1st day in the Sister Complex 3. When the data is restored with the management numbers of "5001" to "10000" assigned to the data on the second day, the management number of the latest game console data from the first unit syscon 9 is changed from the unit control 3. The game console data that can be identified as "10000" is acquired, and it is specified that the game console data whose management numbers are "65501" to "10000" is missing, but it is specified by the status confirmation response. After specifying the control number that can be transmitted by the Sister Complex 3 from the control number information, an offline data request that can identify "5001" to "10000" as a missing number is transmitted to the Sister Complex 3 via the Island Sister Complex 5. The daikon 3 transmits the missing number data to the first ciscon 9 via the island con 5.

FIG. 12 shows the timing of collecting and reflecting data. In both collection and reflection, business status change data, platform status change data, and event notification are treated as data with relatively high priority, and 1,000 yen start data, slump data by out, slump data by start, quantitative Data and scheduled data are treated as data with relatively low priority. If the data includes the past business day, the data of the past business day is collected with priority over the data of the current business day.

FIG. 13 shows the timing for reflecting the data. The data is reflected at any time or when the screen is operated, but it is not reflected during the processing that is excluded on the management device side such as during the opening process. Also, in consideration of data maintenance that changes data, the data for the current day will be reflected and the data will be restored, but the data before the previous day will not be reflected and will not be restored. The amount before the previous day is managed separately from the normal game information adopted as sales data, and is reflected as a recovery target when a recovery status established by a separate operation or the like is established.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the following effects can be obtained.
In the amusement park system, when a failure occurs in the island con 5, the game information is transmitted from the daicon 3 to the daisyscon 9, 10, etc. via the daicon 3, so that the daicon 3 does not go through the island con 5. Since the mode is switched to the mode in which the game information is transmitted to the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like, it is possible to reduce the risk that the management of the game information on the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like will be delayed. Further, when the game information to be transmitted by the daicon 3 is to be managed by the daisyscon 9, 10, etc., the game information managed by the daicon 3 is transferred to the daisyscon 9, 10, etc. via the island con 5. Since it is possible to transmit the information, the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like do not directly communicate with a plurality of Sister Complexes 3 without going through the Island Sister Complex 5, and the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like communicate with the Island Sister Complex 5 via the Island Sister Complex 5. By performing indirect communication with a plurality of Sister Complexes 3, the communication load of the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like can be reduced.

When the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like communicate directly with a plurality of Sister Complexes 3 without going through the Island Sister Complex 5, the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like communicate indirectly with the plurality of Sister Complexes 3 via the Island Sister Complex 5. Although the number of communication destinations as seen from the stand syscons 9, 10 and the like is larger than that in the case of performing, the communication load of the stand syscons 9, 10 and the like can be adjusted by adjusting the transmission destination of the inquiry signal. That is, in a state where the communication load of the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like is relatively low, a relatively large number of games of the Sister Complex 3 can be played by increasing the number of destinations of the inquiry signals transmitted by the Sister Complexes 9, 10 and the like. While collecting information, when the communication load of the Sister Complex 9, 10 etc. is relatively high, the number of destinations of the inquiry signal transmitted by the Sister Complex 9 and 10 etc. is relatively small, so that the Sister Complex 3 to some extent It is possible to reduce the risk that the communication load will become higher than necessary while collecting the game information of.

Since direct communication and indirect communication are switched in units of island cons 5, indirect communication is performed for normal island cons 5 and direct communication is performed for abnormal island cons 5, so that the communication load of the sister complex 9, 10, etc. Can be reduced more than necessary.
By directly communicating between the daikon 3 under the control of the abnormal island con 5 and the taisyscon 9, 10 etc., the game information of the daikon 3 under the control of the abnormal island con 5 It can be properly managed by the Sister Complex 9, 10 and so on.

By mirroring the data on the Sister Complex 9 and 10, even if the Sister Complex operating in ACT mode becomes abnormal, the Sister Complex operating in SBY mode will switch to ACT mode and manage game information. It is possible to reduce the risk of stagnation.
At the time of recovery, since the data of the missing number of the management number is requested to be transmitted in the history information unit associated with the management number, the possibility that the communication load becomes higher than necessary can be reduced. Further, since the data is transmitted in units of history information, even history information for data reference such as so-called jackpot history can be appropriately recovered by referring to the history based on the history information unit.

Since the missing number data is identified by comparing the management number of the latest game console data transmitted from the stand computer 3 with the management number of the latest game console data managed by the stand system computers 9, 10, etc., at the time of recovery. The missing number data can be specified regardless of whether or not the recovery data is separately transmitted from the stand computer 3. Further, since the latest data is to be transmitted even when the communication failure does not occur, it is possible to specify the missing number data regardless of whether or not the abnormality is determined.

The stand controller 3 needs to be provided corresponding to one or two small number of game machines 1, that is, more than the stand syscons 9 and 10, for example, one business day is set as the upper limit of the history information. There are restrictions such as inevitability, and it is not possible to secure a large storage capacity, but in this embodiment, a missing number is sent by sending an offline data request that can specify the management number of history information that can be transmitted. Even if the data of the above exceeds the storage capacity of the stand computer 3, the missing number data can be appropriately specified.

Since the missing number data and the latest data are transmitted in parallel, the latest data can be referred to by the Sister Complex 9, 10, etc. even while the game information is being restored.
Data before the previous day is not subject to recovery, but data on the day is subject to recovery, so even if data is recovered during so-called data maintenance such as changing data, the data changed by recovery will be erased by overwriting. It is possible to reduce the risk of this. In this case, the data is not subject to recovery separately from the data on the business day, which is unlikely to be subject to data maintenance because it is updated as needed, but it can be reflected as a recovery target when the recovery conditions are met.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be modified or extended as follows. It should be noted that any combination of the illustrated configurations including the following modified examples may be used, it may not be appropriately adopted, and only one of a plurality of illustrated configurations may be adopted.

Although data communication by polling has been illustrated, data communication other than polling may be adopted, such as data communication in which data is transmitted every time data is updated without requiring an inquiry signal.
By exemplifying the offline request, it is illustrated that the request for insufficient history information is performed at the time of communication recovery, but since the latest history information is transmitted at any time even if a communication abnormality is not specified, the shortage is insufficient due to the latest history information. Insufficient history information may be requested regardless of whether or not a communication abnormality is specified, such as specifying history information.

An example of a configuration in which indirect communication is switched to direct communication when the island controller 5 becomes abnormal has been illustrated. For example, even when the island controller 5 that operates normally is excluded from the communication target for inspection, it is excluded from the communication target. It is possible to switch from indirect communication to direct communication by designating the island controller 5, and it is not always necessary to switch from indirect communication to direct communication only when an abnormality of the island controller 5 is identified.

Each setting value can be set by downloading the setting information from an external server (for example, chain store headquarters, etc.) regardless of whether the administrator arbitrarily sets it by operation input or the manufacturer of the management device sets it in advance. Is also good.
All the illustrated game information may be specified directly by the input signal or indirectly by using the calculation formula. Further, although the card is exemplified as the recording medium, another recording medium such as a coin may be used as long as information that can specify the valuable value can be recorded.

All the illustrated game information may be specified directly by the input signal or indirectly by using the calculation formula.
Either of the above and the excess may be adopted, and the expression such as "reached" corresponds to either the above or the excess. The same applies to the following and less than, and expressions such as "not reached" correspond to both.

As the target gaming machine 1, a pachinko gaming machine, a slot machine, or the like other than the so-called enclosed type pachinko gaming machine that manages the gaming medium only with data can also be adopted. In consideration of the so-called enclosed type and the like, the game medium is expressed as a game value as necessary.
The illustrated process may be performed by any device such as a game device as well as the stand controller 3, the island complex 5, the stand syscons 9, 10 and the common syscon 11.

In the drawing, 1 is a game machine, 3 is a stand computer (first management means, communication switching means), 5 is an island control (second management means), 9 and 10 are stand computers (third management means, communication switching means,). The first determination means, the second determination means, the main management means, the sub management means), and 11 are common sister complexes (third management means, communication switching means, first determination means, second determination means).

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A first management means that is provided corresponding to the game machine and manages game information that can be identified by a game signal transmitted from the game machine side.
A second management means that targets a plurality of the first management means and manages game information transmitted from the first management means that is the management target.
A game information in which a plurality of the second management means are managed, and one of the second management means to be managed and the first management means to be managed by the second management means is the transmission source. Even if there is, the third management means to be managed and
The first determination means for determining whether or not normal communication with the second management means is possible, and
The game information managed by the first management means is transmitted to the third management means without going through the second management means and the first communication for transmitting the game information to the third management means via the second management means. It is possible to switch between the second communication, and the first communication targeting the second management means determined that normal communication is not possible is the first communication to be managed by the second management means. A system for amusement parks, which comprises a communication switching means for switching to the second communication for a management means . A first management means that is provided corresponding to the game machine and manages game information that can be identified by a game signal transmitted from the game machine side.
A second management means that targets a plurality of the first management means and manages game information transmitted from the first management means that is the management target.
A game information in which a plurality of the second management means are managed, and one of the second management means to be managed and the first management means to be managed by the second management means is the transmission source. Even if there is, it is possible to make it a management target, and a third management means composed of a main third management means and a sub-third management means,
A second determination means for determining whether or not the main third management means is capable of normal communication, and
The game information managed by the first management means is transmitted to the third management means without going through the second management means and the first communication for transmitting the game information to the third management means via the second management means. It is possible to switch to the second communication, and the switching target is the main third management means when the main third management means is capable of normal communication, but normal communication is not possible. Yu Move-field system that is characterized in that and a communication switching means to said secondary third management unit in some cases. The first management means can transmit game information in response to the inquiry signal regardless of which of the second management means and the third management means is the transmission source.
The second management means can transmit an inquiry signal to the first management means, while can transmit game information in response to an inquiry signal from the third management means.
The third management means can transmit an inquiry signal to any of the first management means and the second management means.
In the first communication, the second management means transmits an inquiry signal to the first management means, so that the second management means receives the game information transmitted from the first management means. This is a communication in which the third management means receives the game information transmitted from the second management means by transmitting an inquiry signal from the third management means to the second management means.
The second communication is a communication in which the third management means receives a game information transmitted from the first management means by transmitting an inquiry signal from the third management means to the first management means. The amusement park system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the system is characterized by the above. Before SL communication switching means, said second management means units, gaming facility for the system described in any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that for switching between the second communication with the first communication.

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