Manly Fast Ferry
Manly Fast Ferry has a smart-card ticketing system in use in Sydney, Australia. It is a private operator ferry ticket (different to Opal).
This is an ERG MIFARE Classic card. Early cards had an ERG logo on the reverse side.
Farebot M implements support for this card in v2.9.22.
Some cards are Mifare Plus in Classic 1K emulation mode. These are resistant to some Mifare Classic cracking tools (mfoc). Older cards (Mifare Classic) are trivial to crack.
| Generation | Year | Tech | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | ~2009 | Classic | Cards have white border on logo side, "ERG" logo on reverse side, serial in Arial font |
| 2.0 | 2009 - 2014 | Classic | No border on logo side, no ERG logo, serial in Arial font |
| 2.1 | ~2012 | Plus | Identical to generation 2.0 cards, probably used in a short production run |
| 3.0 | 2015 - present | Plus | Same as generation 2.0 cards, except with serial printed in a dot-matrix type font |
The system was formerly used with credits based on a number of trips. Since it's introduction, the fare structure has changed to a simple stored value card. Fares vary based on time of day, and can be used to buy items from the on-board café.
Because of this, it is not possible to know which purchases were a fare, and which were at the café. Metrodroid only supports the stored value transactions.
For full details, see ERG MFC.
Note: Some old cards have no serial number printed in the preamble record. These can be identified when bytes 10-12 are 0x00 (byte 13 is not used and sometimes not 0x00)