We are a Guangzhou-based maker of arcade anti-cheat detection equipment, and we know this field because we build the machines themselves — and we study how people cheat them. ArcadeShield is run out of my own factory in Panyu, Guangzhou, the manufacturing base where a large share of the world's arcade and amusement machines are produced. I am Engineer Wang, and I have spent 14 years on the hardware-security side of these cabinets.
I did not come to anti-cheat from a sales desk. I came to it from the bench. Over the years I have worked on the protection retrofits for most of the mainstream score-review and fish-game (fishing) cabinet types on the market — the kind of work where you open a machine, see exactly how it was rigged, and figure out how to make the next one harder to beat. My team runs an attack-and-defense research group: part of us thinks like the people cheating your floor, the other part builds the devices that catch them. That is the only honest way to do this work. If you only understand the machine, you miss the trick; if you only understand the trick, you cannot protect the hardware. We do both.
That background is why this site reads the way it does. When I describe how score theft, coin-acceptor tampering, or a fish-game cheat code works, it is not theory copied from somewhere — it is what I have seen inside real cabinets that came to us already compromised. And when I tell you a particular device is or is not right for your machines, it is because we make those devices and we know where their limits are.
We build three lines of protection equipment for venue operators, and we are careful about what we claim each one does:
Score Theft Detection Units (Gen 1 and Gen 2) monitor a cabinet for physical score-theft methods and abnormal credit activity, and alarm the moment they detect it while keeping a record.
The AI Cheat Code Interceptor targets the trojan-style attack where someone enters a specific cheat-code sequence through the joystick and buttons to force a payout; it recognizes that known illegal input sequence and scrambles it at the machine's own input layer so the board cannot act on it — no radio transmission is involved.
The V5 and K8 Result Integrity Monitors monitor the area around a cabinet for suspicious wireless and data activity linked to result-leakage attacks, and they alert and log evidence. They detect and warn — they do not transmit interference and they do not block anyone's communication.
Everything we sell is designed to be placed without wiring or opening the machine, to run unattended 24/7, and to leave normal gameplay untouched. We stand behind it with genuine product guarantees, proper invoicing, and one-on-one technical and installation support.
I write it, in plain operator-to-operator language. There is no marketing team putting words in my mouth. If something here is an estimate from experience rather than a hard number, I say so — I would rather under-claim and keep your trust than quote a fake detection rate. The whole site exists to help you recognize and stop cheating, whether or not you ever buy a single device from us.
If you want a straight answer about what is happening on your floor, tell us your machine types and what you are seeing and we will give you an honest assessment. And if you landed here mid-problem, the ArcadeShield home page maps out every topic — from spotting the warning signs to choosing the right equipment — so you can start where your problem actually is.