my first modern pachinko: 2015 Ranma 1/2
Shout out to lotsaballs for heeding my request and showing me the auction for this game on Yahoo Japan. It came to Canada expertly shipped without any damage.
Game cost 16,000 Yen, shipping was 34,000 yen. 50k Yen all in sounds pretty good. Then I think it was $38 CAD in duty at the door.
I have 5 other pachinko machines but this was my first modern one, which I consider any machine with an automatic shooter on it.
I was not ready for heavy the darn thing was.
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There was an info sheet in Japanese included and I was able to read most of it using my phone and Google Translate.
I took about 30 balls, placed them in the upper back tray, and immediately half fell into the front tray and half fell out the back. Ooops.
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Whatever goes in the above thingy, it was missing. It seemingly controls if balls from above go out the back or to the front. Doesn't matter, it's not there.
turns out the game was setup for home play, where the balls get recycled out to the front. When the paper said "load balls into the top tray", they meant the FRONT top tray, not the rear top tray.
I did not know the game would be like this, but really I don't mind. There is an odds counter included, so wins can be tracked on that display. And it's one more machine that doesn't require the ball levels to be maintained.
The 100v transformer and cord were clearly marked on the unit. I verified with an electrical friend that 100V is fine for 120V in North America, it just might run hot after being on for extended periods of time.
Game volume knobs (2 of them) were set to zero, but even with them at max I don't find the game too loud at all. I assumed the sound and music would blare more.
Playing the game, I am innately frustrated by the automatic shooter knob. Does it detect having 2 fingers pressing on it? I swear my knob is flakey without 2 fingers... is that by design?
I play a lot of earlier pachinkos and I find the speed for autoshooting to be just kind of slow. Perhaps easier of the long term, but for a hanemono there is an advantage to being able to fire well-timed flurries.
The game has a type of layout I've seen in a few other machines. left and right pockets: 1 pulse of the opening. Center pocket: 2 pulses.
Get inside the hanemono mech and there are multiple ways to the Victory hole. Once in Victory, a 3, 7, or 16 can be awarded.
What these translate into in regards to ball wins I don't know. Anyone?
there are pockets on the left and right, and I'm unsure what they do
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And what does the central joystick do?
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