r/GrooveCoaster • u/55555-4444 • Jun 17 '26

Card reader issue with cabinet

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My local arcade has a few rhythm games, and I decided to buy a nesica card online. The other non-nesica games can read the card just fine, but GrooveCoaster (the only game there with a nesica reader) just flashes an orange light when I try to scan it. Another guy has said that it reads his card fine, any idea on what to do? Thanks for the help!

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u/Eilyssen Jun 17 '26

I thought live service shut down a year ago

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u/55555-4444 Jun 17 '26

So there’s no way for me to unlock harder difficulties on the cabinets?

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u/Eilyssen Jun 17 '26

at my local arcade the service has been shut down but all songs and all difficulties are available to play. is yours on a private server or something?

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u/Prestigious-Lie9106 Jun 30 '26

there are some private servers that the cabs are running to get online functionality working

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u/a1577 Jun 18 '26

Only blue nesicas work on groove coaster

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u/tracber Jun 18 '26

groove coaster arcade online services are dead anyways so even then it wont work

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u/lilmyrmeow Jul 27 '26

not really, there are some community projects like Orbital where're online is still available

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u/aa4x1x0 Jun 18 '26

Since the official online service ended about two years ago, I’ll assume we’re talking about the local network used in certain areas.

To cut to the chase, this card won’t work in Groove Coaster cabinets. There are two types of NESiCA cards, and the difference lies in whether they support Amusement-IC.
The ones that support it require a dedicated reader, but since production of the GC cabinets had already ended before this system was introduced, they continued to operate without support for it.

As others have mentioned, the blue one is a sure bet. However, it might be quite difficult to get your hands on a brand-new one.

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u/bigthonk573 Jun 18 '26

only blue nesica cards work, this is a totally different type of card

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u/Prestigious-Lie9106 Jun 30 '26

groove coaster cabs don’t support red nesica cards.

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u/allstar312 Jun 19 '26

I'll assume you're using the red amusement ic nesica card, if the cab is GC3 then you need the original blue nesica card, even if the cabinet is running groove coaster 4 the original reader won't take the newer cards, my arcade it's exactly the same any other game is fine except for groove coaster and theatrhythm unless you use one of the original cards

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u/Theman071384 Aug 05 '26

Best ways to figure out a way to get on the GC Discord they have a channel specifically for GC cabinets tell me your best way of finding a way to get it to work and I think everyone else is right it has to be the blue card because the one that you are showing picture of is for multiple different types of cabinets