Re: strategy and skill stopping
I'm interested in how this thread will go. I'm of the opinion that the machine decides when a win is due and if you press the stop buttons somewhere around the right time, you're going to hit a big bonus. If a win isn't due, you could be 100% accurate with your timing and still it'll miss out. It's definitely the case with pachinkos, as there is a hardware random number generator that is used to determine what you're going to get. Haven't been inside a pachislo, so I'm not familiar with the electronics used in them.
It does lead in nicely to an experiment that I'd love to have a try at. I'm sure you could attach a single board computer (raspberry pi or beaglebone, maybe even an arduino), to the reel drive signals and optos, so the computer knows exactly where each reel is, and then use outputs to trigger the stop buttons, with the right software you could make it capable of 'eye shooting' a 777 on every spin. Then you can see exactly how 'honest' the machines are.
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