Well ... maybe I'm exagerating a tad. Anyway, Fox news reported
about the power failure at the Bellagio, and it included video from
inside the casino, including a large sign with the words "Video
Poker" with the darkened casino in the background.
On a somewhat related subject ... what happens to the credits on the
slot/video poker games when the power fails? Is there a permanent
record of these credits stored anywhere?
brumar_lv wrote:
On a somewhat related subject ... what happens to the credits on the
slot/video poker games when the power fails? Is there a permanent
record of these credits stored anywhere?
I was playing in an AC casino when power went out for about 10
minutes. When the machine came back up my credits were still on the
machine. I assume that game info is constantly copied to non-volatile
memory (i.e. memory that doesn't need to be powered to store info).
If I remember correctly, I was in the middle of playing a hand and the
machine came back up with that hand on the display.
- H.
You remember correctly, Harry. The games are required to accurately
resume any game that is in progress at the time of a power failure
(and of course hold your credits as you have pointed out).
-Larry
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@v...>
wrote:
brumar_lv wrote:
> On a somewhat related subject ... what happens to the credits on
the
> slot/video poker games when the power fails? Is there a
permanent
> record of these credits stored anywhere?
I was playing in an AC casino when power went out for about 10
minutes. When the machine came back up my credits were still on the
machine. I assume that game info is constantly copied to non-
volatile
memory (i.e. memory that doesn't need to be powered to store info).
If I remember correctly, I was in the middle of playing a hand and
the
machine came back up with that hand on the display.
- H.
That's good to know. However, it raises another issue if hours (or
days) pass until power is restored ... which is to determine who was
playing and what they are owed. Most of the players have left town.
If the player card was inserted ... probably OK. But if not, the
player has to make sure the casino knows which machine they were
playing (and the credits) when the power failed. I wonder if the
floor people remembered to record this information.
Later, the casino will have to carefully restore power to verify the
credit count (so the player can be payed) before someone else starts
to play with those credits. All in all, quite a tricky matter!
Bellagio has a lot of work to do to resolve the unusual problems
caused by this lengthy outage.
Another possible problem ... will the RNG's in each machine all
reinitialize simultaneously (with identical values) when power is
restored? I suppose this isn't a problem ... or is it?
You remember correctly, Harry. The games are required to
accurately
resume any game that is in progress at the time of a power failure
(and of course hold your credits as you have pointed out).-Larry
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@v...>
wrote:
> brumar_lv wrote:
> > On a somewhat related subject ... what happens to the credits
on
the
> > slot/video poker games when the power fails? Is there a
permanent
> > record of these credits stored anywhere?
>
> I was playing in an AC casino when power went out for about 10
> minutes. When the machine came back up my credits were still on
the
> machine. I assume that game info is constantly copied to non-
volatile
> memory (i.e. memory that doesn't need to be powered to store
info).
>
> If I remember correctly, I was in the middle of playing a hand
and
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Larry218" <larry@L...> wrote:
the
> machine came back up with that hand on the display.
>
> - H.
This is a very interesting situation. I'd appreciate
any LV residents who post in this forum to let us know
how The B handles all these issues.
carlos
PS I'm speculating here, but I don't think the RNG
thing is a problem. If I understand how they work,
they get a "seed" number from the internal clock chip.
Even if you had one great big switch to turn on all
the machines at once (which they don't, because that's
not how power wiring is done) all the machines would
not power up at the exact same millisecond.
--- brumar_lv <brumar_lv@yahoo.com> wrote:
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That's good to know. However, it raises another issue
if hours (or
days) pass until power is restored ... which is to
determine who was
playing and what they are owed. Most of the players
have left town.
If the player card was inserted ... probably OK. But
if not, the
player has to make sure the casino knows which machine
they were
playing (and the credits) when the power failed. I
wonder if the
floor people remembered to record this information.
Later, the casino will have to carefully restore power
to verify the
credit count (so the player can be payed) before
someone else starts
to play with those credits. All in all, quite a
tricky matter!
Bellagio has a lot of work to do to resolve the
unusual problems
caused by this lengthy outage.
Another possible problem ... will the RNG's in each
machine all
reinitialize simultaneously (with identical values)
when power is
restored? I suppose this isn't a problem ... or is
it?