Quoted from BrianZ:Everyone and their dog has WIFI.
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Quoted from jrivelli:And they'll be out of business in a few years. Can't wait to buy their pins cheap. Most ops I know are going electronic payments and making triple or more
I have to disagree. Our location games are cash only and many bill acceptors don't even work because you can't find parts for them. They are rarely used anyway as most people just drop quarters. They are earning just fine.
Quoted from anthony691:The problem is, when >60% of the games are going straight into basements, it barely makes sense to put a coin door on them
Quoted from anthony691:If Stern rolled this sort of thing out, I'd route a couple of NIBs for fun. I'd enjoy getting to pour through the data and checking up on the machines remotely, because I'm a dork like that.
See, you just gave a great example of how manufacturers can expand their customer base by making the hardest part about routing a machine, the maintenance, a lot more manageable.
Quoted from KenLayton:My friend uses bill acceptors on the pinball machines on his route. They all work and no trouble getting parts. We use Mars bill acceptors exclusively.
Yeah Mars acceptors are the best.
Quoted from ecurtz:It's almost as cheap to get a cellular network breakout as wifi these days and a lot less to configure. Then the machine can just text you if there's a service issue.
Plus you will not be relying on the locaton having WiFi, which most of the time will not be available.
Quoted from Jasontaps:As some have mentioned, adding wifi to a pin would open the machine up for all kinds of hacks, even if it were just to do audits.
It wouldn't be long before a virus was written or malware just to mess with the machines.
Can you imagine buying Norton Pinball Anti-Virus (Stern Spike edition) (JJP WOZ edition) etc. LOL.
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Just think back to switch 28 in Jurassic Park...
Quoted from ChadH:But why does triggering Switch 28 cause the game to freak out? Because the code actually tells the game to go to an illogical place in the program when that switch is activated. So the game basically freaks out until the ball drains.
At least JJP is finally including AppArmor in their machines to lock down something. All you need is a flash drive and some bad instructions to infect a JJP game. Literally.
Quoted from vid1900:My malware would find a frequency to overheat the coils, starting fires everywhere at once.
**AND LET THE EVIL GAMBLERS AND THEIR INFERNAL MACHINES BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**
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