CR Evangelion 9 - first impressions

[Chumsize]

Fedex dumped off an Evangelion 9 from yesterday along with a new Daichi battle counter. Quite a fancy machine... bought from Rakuten online seller "Mekapit" via FromJapan. The machine was superbly clean, well packed, etc. Original price was ¥16000 (exchange rate ~120¥/$) for a no-balls/no-stand/+volume/+transformer setup. Battle counter was ¥8500 (yes... more than half the cost of the pachinko). Anyway, for both shipped with fedex economy to California plus blah blah blee boop fees and the purchase price etc - about US$420. An about 10 days from order to my door. Pretty cool.

SO - abou the game. Some notable points:

* Game flow is similar to Eva 8 pachi, but with mostly new content pulled primarily from the latest "Rebuild of Evangelion 3.xx" movie
* Monstrously huge LCD - the playfield with pins area is smaller than ever.
* LCD can go selectively transparent at times to show what seems like a lenticular 3-d lit picture behind the video. Sometimes the whole thing goes transparent, with the LCD showing flames or whatever as an animated overly. A very cool effect I don't think I've seen anywhere before.
* The cell has a few points of animatronics ... no chomping Evangelion unit 1 head this time... replaced by that 3d thingie I guess. Buuut... the frame has a couple animatronic thingies on it too. Some core or entry plug things that spin and extend/retract.
* I don't recall ever seeing this before in a pachi - but it has a cooling fan running all the time.
* there are directional buttons for menu's and stuff.. plus a giant pulsing core on the front you can smack around at times during the game.

Anyway, only got a couple hours into it... I'll update this thread with any interesting new findings.

a few pics:

IMG_4824.jpg < daichi de-taro lamp 8
IMG_4821.jpg throbbing red globular item
IMG_4820.jpg a couple machine pics
IMG_4819.jpg those white thingies on the upper corners spin and move in&out... yow!

[luckydog]

Awesome light show

[stampeed valkyrie]

Nice
I have yet to get an Eva Pachinko.. Was looking for an 8... I like the Rei on the side.

[mandoman]

Most impressive!
Great deal for a recent machine and counter.

[mandoman]

Found a bad scan of the manual for your counter:
http://1drv.ms/1TAK82R

...and I'm sure you already have the terminal block connections:
http://daiichi.net/jp/pdf/bisty/48.pdf

I like the Meal Break graphic (at least I think that's what it is).
http://www.daiichi.net/jp/products/dlp-8.html

img10.gif

[Chumsize]

Thanks - had them. Gotta find a way to trigger the meal break graphic... I did figure out how to get it to spit our the graphs and stuff.

[rubberratt]

you need a remote to change the settings


This lets you get to the meal breaks and about 300+ other config items (light shows, big hit graphics, default colors &c.)

[Chumsize]

Thanks. They got those on YJA.

Finally hit hit a couple jackpots... That ain't a 3d picture behind the screen. It's the usual screaming/chomping Eva face. Animatronics behind a selectively-transparent LCD... Very cool!

[Spyder138]

I saw this today and can confirm it is a beautiful machine. The LCD is HUGE. On my short list of must haves.