hardware/spc revoke notice

[wizeone]

has anyone heard of this or understand what it means?  what is a daughter board for these games




anyone able to enlighten me a bit on this?

[rickhunter]

It was a vulnerability that was being exploited. Russian hackers figured out how to calculate the seed on these affected games, thus they were able to reproduce the RNG values a machine would use.  They would have a player with a smartphone showing them a video of spins in general and from there, they were able to figure out the sequence. So they then intructed the player when to hit the spin button on the machine, and thus they got a much higher chance at hitting wins (it wasn't perfect, but it was a significant advantage, enough where the casino's took notice).

Read the story here, it is an interesting read.

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-alex-the-russian-casino-hacker-who-makes-millions-targeting-slot-machines/

[Heihachi_73]

Still don't know how it would ever work, given that the player would basically need TAS-like reflexes to hit the button at the exact frame every single time without fail, not to mention the machine lags when taking a win (e.g. playing on while it's still counting up) or when there are many animations and/or flashing symbols happening at the same time (and/or any music that was still playing). Miss the timing by even a millisecond and it's going to be a completely different outcome. Even on a 1980s machine it would be next to impossible to cheat like that. Never mind the amount of time it would take for the human brain to acknowledge the guy on the phone saying "now" or whatever and then performing the action.

If anything, it was genuinely advantage playing - finding a slot which wasn't set to a crappy amount like 87% (otherwise known as variation 99) by checking the reels. Of course you'll win more frequently if it's set to 95% or even 97%. Set all of your home machines to variations 3 or 4 and you'll notice they become a lot looser than the casinos too.

[wizeone]

wow didnt know about all that, seems the gaming control board or aristocrat would have let people know with more then 6 months to buy/implement the fixes.


guess the market is gonna be flooded with old mavs soon

[Stayouttadabunker]

I can't get over the pricing tho....$2,000.00 for a friggen daughterboard?  WOW!