Talk:Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA- Arcade Future Tone/@comment-5108329-20190316144415

I'm sure someone can be interested in technical details and here's what I've got, some service menu screenshots.

In the input list the TEST, SERVICE, SW1, SW2 are located inside the cabinet itself. The others are outside and accessible by user. The input test shows OFF when the button is released and ON when pressed. The touch zones are also indicating the "coordinate" kind of thing, but FWIW the game seems to treat them as boolean inputs, which kinda explains why I sometimes get a Max Slide Bonus even tho I didn't do a really full slide.

Output test does the reverse, essentially controls all the lights and things as well as the coin mechanism.

Game Assignments is pretty much the venue's settings (price, coin lockout etc)

The rest is unknown.

Game Assignments also seems to be reset whenever entering service menu as the coin lockout had to be reenabled after that. (Coin lockout is pretty much that once you put a coin in, you can't get it out if you decide you don't wanna play; I'd not call enabling it a good decision for a venue where they have to write "If there is someone waiting to play, please don't put next coin in" on the machine but thats their business :p)

The menu responds to touch screen with a wave animation and a "refused" sound as if you were touching a disabled button in the game menu, the controls for the menu are inside the cabinet.

There seems to be a bug in the game (or an intended test feature?) where once the menu is exited, you put in a coin and select the simple mode (the one with 2 songs per play, dunno) and you get a GAME OVER after just 1 song BUT your credits are retained, so you can start again and play further as usual.

Also IIRC the platform is something X86 based which makes me wonder if it's possible to backport the game/OS onto a conventional home computer.

But then again it uses a license key and phones home over the internet and probably has encryption all over the place.

If anybody knows where to get a hold of one of these (preferably second hand as that's likely the only way to get it for below 10k bucks :p), I'd love to one day get one and research the internals :D