Dragon Chance Mizuho VR

[calgarynewf]

Just bought this dragon chance pachinko (my first one) from a garage sale. Most everything seems to be working. The Pay out hopper is full, but i have ran hundreds of the balls through it and have not gotten any payout. Does anyone have a manual for this machine. Or does anyone have any experience with it that can offer some help?
Thanks.

[hanabi]

Hi there

Welcome to PachiTalk!!


Presume it is this one from 2002, our RC shows 2 variations

PachiTalk Research Center - Mizuho - Dragon Chance - PachiTalk

If you are very new to pachinko then you may find this link helpful, it explains modern gameplay and setup

PachiTalk Research Center - FAQ - Pachinko - Modern Pachinko Game Setup, Playing Troublehooting FAQ - PachiTalk

You may not have hit a fever round yet, but have you tried manually placing balls in the pockets to see if they are triggering a payout?

If not then you may want to check that there are no ball jams in the back and that balls are reaching the payout motor

[calgarynewf]

Hanabi. Thank you very much. Very helpful stuff. I had been feeding this machine with the glass open for what seemed like an eternity trying to hit something. And had stopped to do some research which led me to this page. After I read your post, I decided to get back at it. And BAM! three spins later...Fever Mode!!! Pretty exciting stuff. But it still wasn't paying. So I was messing around back there and this lever in the payout hopper was sticking on something. I pressed down on it and boy did it start paying. think I over did it, cause I have been switching from payout back up to the hopper for about 15 min now. Just to keep letting it pay out. I def need to order some more balls. (ebay the place for that?)

I do have another question or two tho. Is the only time it will pay is in fever mode? Also there is the main slot with the fins on it. then 4 others 2 on each side. I have been slipping balls into the 4 other slots, but they don't seem to be doing anything. Do you know what, if anything they do?

Thanks again for the speedy and informative response!!

[calgarynewf]

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Picked it up for $35. Seemed like a steal.

[Card Shark]

Welcome to PachiTalk!

Looks like you got a great deal to me.

[calgarynewf]

So I'm curious if you know, how the machine pays. I hit the fever earlier and i paid a whole whole lot. Hit it twice since and nothing. Do you always win something when you hit fever mode? Or may I actually have a jamming problem now?

[calgarynewf]

ok, sorry, I read more, and it says you win 10-15 per ball that enters that gate that opens on the bottom. But I did notice that a few of the balls are darker and a small amount bigger. Are all the balls in your machines the same size?

[MrGneiss]

All balls should be 11mm.. You should try to remove any discolored, damaged or wrong size balls..

Wrong size balls can jam things up quick.. If you have any balls with engravings on them those will be real pachinko balls and you could use those to compare to other balls to make sure you are only using the right size balls..

It looks like your machine has a 5 & 15 payout (if its the same spec as the one in the link Hanabi posted) That means you should be getting a 5 ball payout every time you get a ball in the start pocket or any of the other pockets and 15 balls for any ball that goes in to the bonus door during a fever..