Interesting Article in Wired Magazine about Game King Cheating

[Ash100]

Here's a pretty good read for those of you who haven't read this article before.


I found it really interesting, almost to the point of trying it myself if I could locate the original Game King software. Lol.


Enjoy,


Curtis ash100


https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/

[John6072016]

Here's a pretty good read for those of you who haven't read this article before.


I found it really interesting, almost to the point of trying it myself if I could locate the original Game King software. Lol.


Enjoy,


Curtis ash100


https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/

But the casino had been suspicious, and Kane didn't collect the last win. For one thing, Kane, now 54, had enjoyed a lot of big payouts that day: in about an hour he’d scored five jackpots large enough to require a hand pay and IRS paperwork. The GCB engineers yanked the machine’s logic tray and EEPROM and took them back to the lab.

Sounds like a great way to get charged with a felony. Defense lawyers in gaming charges are mega-expensive.

Please keep us informed on your progress.

[rickhunter]

The eproms or images of it are probably floating somewhere, just not present in casino machines I bet, LOL. 

[Ash100]

I'm definitely curious about the sequence and how it plays out on a test machine with that particular game set installed in it.


That article was written long ago, which I didn't realize until after I shared it, but I'm sure those early game sets can be found somewhere.


I just really enjoyed reading about it. Casino stories and cheat tactics have always fascinated me.


Curtis ash100

[Heihachi_73]

I did a naughty thing to a bunch of machines in front of casino staff once, but it was harmless. Around early 2004(?) the first Konami game to feature an ℹ button* had a bug where attempting to enter a certain menu (may have been "Electronic Game Information") would cause the machines to crash. One of the staff thought I was just having a joke with them (luckily it was someone I had known for a while by then), until I walked up, pressed just the two buttons and put the entire row of 4 or 6 machines out of order one by one! No-one was playing them as it was around 3AM at the time. Now that I think of it, I was probably lucky I didn't get banned from the casino!

The game was a Wild Fire jackpot version of Ocean Pearl in the then-brand-new ES500 cabinet (which had a factory LCD monitor compared to the older CRT-based Endeavour cabinets), and the bug only affected the very first release of this game, and it was fixed very quickly as the next time I came in the crash no longer happened! The "local" (non-casino) versions of the game did not have the bug, nor did any other Endeavour/ES500 game.

*As required in Victoria Australia from circa 2003. The ℹ button replaced the more typical Help button which shows the game rules, paytable etc. (the ℹ menu still has these options so the Help button had become redundant).

[sirius7]

I'm definitely curious about the sequence and how it plays out on a test machine with that particular game set installed in it.


That article was written long ago, which I didn't realize until after I shared it, but I'm sure those early game sets can be found somewhere.


I just really enjoyed reading about it. Casino stories and cheat tactics have always fascinated me.


Curtis ash100

This is the sequence that worked on the old version Game King:



1. Locate a Game King video poker machine configured for multi-denomination play.


2. Flag down a slot attendant and ask them to enable the Double Up option. Say thank you and smile until they walk away.


3. Insert money or a voucher and select the lowest denomination level offered by the machine—for example, $1 per credit on a $1, $2, $5, $10 machine.


4. Choose your favorite game variant—Triple Double Bonus Poker is fun—and start playing.


5. Keep playing at the $1 level until you win a big hand. An $800 royal flush is perfect.


6. With your royal flush showing but not yet cashed out, hit the More Games button on the touchscreen and select a different game variation. Play it until you score a win.


7. Insert more money or a voucher into the machine.


8. Touch the More Games button again, and change to the maximum denomination—in this case, $10 per credit. Then return to your original $800 royal flush.


9. Press the Cash Out button. “Jackpot! $8,000” will appear on the screen and the light on the top of the machine will illuminate. Congratulations!

[jstaniev]

6. With your royal flush showing but not yet cashed out, hit the More Games button on the touchscreen and select a different game variation. Play it until you score a win.

7. Insert more money or a voucher into the machine.

8. Touch the More Games button again, and change to the maximum denomination—in this case, $10 per credit. Then return to your original $800 royal flush.

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[/size][size=78%]There are a few more steps than this around these steps, but you seem to have captured the basic flow of the double-up bug.[/size]

[sirius7]

What steps are missing?

6. With your royal flush showing but not yet cashed out, hit the More Games button on the touchscreen and select a different game variation. Play it until you score a win.

7. Insert more money or a voucher into the machine.

8. Touch the More Games button again, and change to the maximum denomination—in this case, $10 per credit. Then return to your original $800 royal flush.

[size=78%]There are a few more steps than this around these steps, but you seem to have captured the basic flow of the double-up bug.[/size]