My first Pachinko arrived. Here's my Review.

[nwojedi]

Finally recieved my first Pachinko machine (LOTR). Played it, very awesome looking, great sound and very nice setup.

As far as being a game of skill in comparison to real pinball. There isn't any. Pinball definately takes more skill to master. Pachinko is a lot of fun, don't get me wrong, but most of it has to do with luck. And when you find the sweet spot, you only have to sit there and not move. Not exactly a game of masterful technique But the machine is awesome, and i'll probably get more. I love it, not as much as pinball, but it's up there.

Also, is there a device that can take the balls that come out the bottom and feed them back into the hopper? Sucks having to put the basket in the back all the time and reload.

[Tulsa]

Do a search on "cyclic". You'll find many references and a few how-to's to make your machine cyclic and only need about 100 balls to play it. There is also semi-cyclic that does not feed into the top but the bottom tray and only the balls that would be lost in the back. To me, this is the best of both worlds because straight cyclic does take a bit away from the feeling of winning when you never have to reload the top hopper or feed balls. You simply shoot.

[nwojedi]

So it will fire the balls the normally would fall out the back, back up to the top? I heard people talking about that cyclic thing, but didn't know what they were talking about. I saw your little discussion about installing a mod that you had. Is that all there is to it? If so, who sells those. Google was not my friend to find out anything about it.

[johntofva]

I think he meant to search pachitalk for that info......

[nwojedi]

Ok, Maybe i'm not seeing it or maybe I didn't describe what I wanted to accomplish. From what i'm reading, that cyclic system, puts balls in your shooter tray. Is that correct? If so, that's not what I want to do. I want the back run off stuff to go directly back to the top of the hopper. So the payout tray, will always have balls in it. But I want to always have to empty a bucket into the feeder tray to start playing. I think I'm confused now.

[johntofva]

You will have to buy a ball lift for that....

Arby is the man to talk to about those......

Here is a thread on it...

http://www.pachitalk.com/forums/show...ight=ball+lift

[slotter]

The best, non-cyclic, way to handle balls is to have the machine mounted in a cabinet which allows you to funnel extra balls into a top hopper and then collects them at the bottom for easy refill via the top. With this method, you can easily keep up with fever rounds as well as tracking the wins and losses.

[arbycoffee]

I decided to work on my "Phase III Sphere Lifter" which is on the same vane as "Phase II Sphere Lifter". Other than using a steel frame. The funnel will hold back the extra Spheres that are in use. I think a wider funnel would hold more Sphere overage. I used Velcro to hold the tube upright against the back cover, and the spring tube holder on the frame to hold the spring tube. It works pretty flawless as set up. I am using about 1,500 Spheres to run this, in a bonus rounds it works well, I haven't had bonus rounds back to back yet to see how it handles that with only 1,500 Spheres.

I put it on my "Red Prototype" Spider Man 2 NEO. Four speaker full stereo sound.

This machine came from Japan wrap in a double layer of bubble wrap put in a cardboard box the size of the machine with some foam peanuts filling the open spaces. tape crisscrossed over the glass. What you see is how the machine arrived. All I did was dust and pull off the tape. I mounted it and added the transformer with wiring.

Now it was wrapped and taken to the Japanese post office, than airport, loaded on plane, flew the O'Hare Airport, off loaded, moved to Customs and checked, load back to air services, than on a plane, flew to Cedar Rapids Iowa, off loaded to post office trucks, hauled to post office, checked in and processed, loaded on carrier truck, delivered to me. NO DAMAGE.

Put the same machine in a larger box (200 lbs. rated double wall) with 2" of foam all around it. Glue all the flaps closed, fully tape all edges closed, mark with stickers "high value, over weight, this end up, and electronics". Wrap the machine in skid wrap twice with three layers of card board in front of glass. Than wrap that in four layers of bubble wrap and put in box. peanuts in all the open spaces.
Now give it to UPS, FedEx and the damn fools use it as a battering ram.

This is one kick azz machine, the red does it just right
Phase III Sphere Lifter set up.

The back of the machine, filling the tube from the funnel into the base unit.
Red Spiderman 2 NEO #2

The Spheres filling the top reward tray.
Red Spiderman 2 NEO #3

Still filling the top reward tray and coming to an auto stop Also showing the Funnel that catches the spent Sphere.
Red Spiderman 2 NEO #4

Showing the base unit and how the funnel is matched in.
Red Spiderman 2 NEO #5

Showing the base unit at eye level and the motor is run.
Red Spiderman 2 NEO #6

Showing the base unit from the front (a little dark) panning up on the machine.
Red Spiderman 2 NEO #7





That enough fun for me for awhile, back to the grind.

[nwojedi]

that system looks great. I think that is exactly what I need.

[chaz70]

Here is my Yamato cyclic mod in action. The way I did the mod, I only need about 30-40 balls.

I do prefer a top hopper to hold a great many balls and have the machine dump them out during the bonus rounds. :-)

http://www.geocities.com/chazbeenhad...eup_cyclic.avi

[arbycoffee]

S u p e r C o o l s t e r !