Help Picking My First Pachinko!

[kkentert]

Hey guys!
Everyone has been o helpful on here, I figured I'd ask for some more opinion. I'm looking into buying a pachinko (I've never even played on)
I just got two pachis - Devil May Cry and Exhaust for my bar/basement/game room.
What Pachinko would you guys recommend?
I've been thinking of:
007
Tomb Raider
Looney Tunes
or Indiana Jones

Opinions? More suggestions? I want something with a lot of action, and fun.

Thanks in advance!

[luckydog]

Bond seems hot right now, but I would suggest Indie

Slot Machines-Pachinko Machine Sales, Parts and Service

[ironworkerdalton]

Thats a websight that I would recomend. If I get more, I will buy from them again. I bought all 3 of my pachinkos from them. Julie the pinball, The Mask and Garfield.
There are two things that you have to get to make your gaming lots, lots more fun. First is a ball lifter, they can handel up to 5-6 pachinkos. They are extremely hard to find. For now you can get one from here. Grab one while they still have them in stock. Here is the sight.
Pachinko
The other thing you realy nead to get is Daverob's card reader emulatr
dongle. You can get one from the auction part of this sight. I have one on each pachinko. Here is the sight.
Card Reader Emulator dongles. (Auction ID: 2339, End Time : Jun. 01, 2009 18:30:53) - PachiTalk.com

[kkentert]

What is a ball lifter? I see them for sale here and there, but what are they?

[ironworkerdalton]

When you play, all the balls go to the bottom hopper box. With out a ball lifter, you have to stop every 3 minits and transfer the balls back to the top of the machine. If you hit a feaver, you will nead to stop and refill the machine every 30 seconds. Just when you start to have fun, you have to stop.
With a ball lifter, you can keep playing nonstop. When the top hopper is low of balls, it auto fills the top from the balls from the lower hopper. It comes with a switch that you put in the top hopper, that turns on the lifter when it getts low. You can play with 300-500 balls with a ball lifter installed.
The other way you could play with out a ball lifter, like some of the members here. Is to make a Huge hopper box that sits ontop of the pachinko that holds around 5000 or more, balls. Very very top heavy. And have the balls restocking the top hopper.
Here is a video showing a pachinko ball lifter.
YouTube - ball lifter
Look at the 5 pic, to see one installed.
http://www.pachitalk.com/forums/mode...-purchase.html
If any one has better pics or vids, info., ext. can you post them.

[kkentert]

Ball lifter does look nicer...geez..the price on this machine is rising fast!

So- how about the card reader emulator. I just looked at that link and read through it, but somehow I must be missing why that makes the machine better...Doesn't seem like that big a deal to me. The ball lifter seems a lot more useful. Also, how would you rig a ball lifter to more than 1 machine?

[BigBearSteve]

Here's a 007 on ebay from Texasauction (slot pachinko)

JAMES BOND 007 PACHINKO PINBALL MACHINE - HI DEFINITION - eBay (item 260406061281 end time May-13-09 10:58:18 PDT)

[ironworkerdalton]

Here is one setup feading 4 pachinkos.
PachiTalk Research Center - FAQ - Pachinko - Custom Four Game Pachinko Ball Management System - PachiTalk
Look at the top part of this sight, click on Search, and do a search on ball lifter, or any thing else. Under Research Center, is lots of very good info that you can only find here at this websight. The people that come to this websigth are from all over the world.

[pinball wizard]

those ball lifters look like the coolest pachinko item.if the one i bought and paid for ever shows up at my house,i will be building a cabinet and ordering some dongles.