acestark / yacardemu

Software emulator for the Sanwa CRP-1231LR-10NAB (Leuco card) card reader.

YACardEmu

YACardEmu (YetAnotherCardEmu) is a program to emulate the Sanwa CRP-1231LR-10NAB card reader that's found on Wangan Midnight Tune 1, 2, 3, 3DX, and 3DX+ arcade machines by Namco. A longer goal of this project is to be compatible with similar models that line of readers (such as 1231BR).

Checkout some gameplay videos here!

Building

Prerequisites

Ubuntu / Debian / Raspbian

sudo apt install build-essential cmake pkg-config libserialport-dev

Windows

Precompiled Windows binaries can be found here.

1. Visual Studio 2022
   • C++ desktop development
   • Windows Universal CRT SDK
   • C++ CMake tools for Windows
   • Git for Windows
     • Optional if you already have Git installed

Build

Ubuntu / Debian / Raspbian

git clone --recursive https://github.com/GXTX/YACardEmu
cd YACardEmu
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build .

Windows

1. If you don't have CMake installed, open ___ Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 20##.
2. git clone --recursive https://github.com/GXTX/YACardEmu
3. cd to the YACardEmu directory.
4. Run these commands.
   1. mkdir build & cd build
   2. cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
      • VS2022 17.0 or later is required.
5. cmake --build . --config Release
6. All the required files will be in build\Release

Running

You must have a USB to RS232 (or a physical serial port) connected to your machine. Configuration is made via both a config.ini file & via a web portal / API. To access the web portal point your browser to http://YOURIPHERE:8080/, this web page is where you'll choose your card and insert your card.

Editing config.ini to point to where you want your cards stored is required.

Ubuntu

cp ../config.ini.sample config.ini
./YACardEmu

Windows

cd Release
YACardEmu.exe

Info

If you're wishing to run this on hardware there are some settings you'll need to be aware of.

MT1: CRP-1231LR-10NAB     | 9600b none
MT2: CRP-1231LR-10NAB     | 9600b none
MT3/DX/DX+: CR-S31R-10HS3 | 38400b even
F-Zero: CRP-1231BR        | 9600b even