JP2002052194A - Display system for game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To present a display over a suspending state and to easily change display contents. SOLUTION: Since a random number in addition to an advance display announcement command is reported to a sub board beforehand (step S105 and step S207), the presence/absence of an advance announcement and a character can be decided. Thus, a winning advance announcement over holding is possible. Since the display is presented correspondingly to the random number stored on the sub board, the display is presented continuously without interruption and not only the degree of freedom of the display by the change of the sub board but also the degree of freedom of the display itself can be enhanced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an effect system for a gaming machine, and more particularly to a system for performing an effect such as a notice of a lottery result in the gaming machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of effect system, when there is a prize in a start chucker (start prize), a lottery is performed on a main board and a notice is given in accordance with the lottery result. In this lottery, a hit or a miss is determined by the value of a random number. And hit,
It is common to perform an effect corresponding to each loss.

In recent gaming machines, it is extremely important to perform these effects in order to attract the player's interest. For example, effects such as appearance of a character on a liquid crystal screen are often performed. However, when performing a complicated effect such as making a character appear and move on the liquid crystal screen, the burden on the main substrate is large. Therefore, in order to reduce the burden on the main substrate, a method of providing a sub-substrate for production may be considered. In this method, a fluctuation pattern designation command (hereinafter, command) according to a random number is used on the main board.
Is transmitted, and effects such as graphic processing are performed on the sub-board according to the command. By providing a sub board that receives commands from the main board in this way and adopting a method in which the sub board takes charge of the effect, it is possible to change the contents of the effect just by replacing the sub board without changing the main board at all Can also.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a relationship between a main board and a sub-board. Referring to FIG. 1, on a main board 1 side, a random number generating unit 11 for generating a random number, a determining unit 13 for determining a hit / miss of the random number generated by the random number generating unit 11 and randomly selecting a variation pattern are provided. , A command generator 12 for generating a command. The command 100 generated by the command generator 12 is sent to the sub board 2.

On the other hand, on the sub-board 2 side, a table 22 for storing and holding various data necessary for the production, and a command 100 sent from the command generator 12 are received. And an effect processing unit 21 for performing an effect process such as graphic processing. When receiving the command 100, the effect processing unit 21 randomly selects a plurality of effect contents prepared in advance for each command, and performs the effect.

The random number generated in the random number generation section 11 on the main board 1 is generated when a winning start is made. If there is a consecutive start winning, the next random number may be generated before the current effect is finished. In such a case, the generated random numbers are stored in the main board, and the apparatus enters a waiting state. In general, the number of random numbers is not stored indefinitely, but is generally stored with a predetermined number (for example, four) as an upper limit. The stored number is generally notified to the player by the number of lights of the lamps provided on the game board. Since it is not possible to store more than the predetermined number, a normal prize irrelevant to the lottery will be obtained for the number exceeding the predetermined number.

Here, the operation of the main board and the sub-board will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the operation of each board when an effect is produced by the configuration of the main board and the sub-board. First, on the main board, when a winning is started (step S101), it is determined whether or not the number of stored random numbers is smaller than 4 (step S102). If the number of stored random numbers is four or more, the process returns to step S101 as a normal winning. On the other hand, if the number of stored random numbers is smaller than 4, a random number value is obtained (step S103). The obtained random number value is stored in the main board (step S10).
4).

[0008] Apart from the above processing, the main board waits for a symbol to stop (step S106). When the symbol stops, a random number is determined (step S107). Next, a variation pattern is specified, and a command is transmitted to the sub-board side (step S108). Furthermore, the main board is on the left with respect to the sub-board,
Each symbol in the middle and right is designated, and a command is transmitted to the sub-board (step S109). Thereafter, the main board transmits a symbol stop command to the sub-board (step S11).
0).

In the sub-substrate, the aforementioned step S108
When a variation pattern designation command transmitted from the main board is received (step S201), it is determined whether or not to give a notice (step S202a). When giving a notice, the designated fluctuation is started (step S203),
A preview effect is performed during the symbol change (step S204). If no advance notice is given, the designated fluctuation is started as it is (step S202a → S203 ′). in this case,
The announcement effect is not performed during the symbol change.

Next, according to the command transmitted in step S109 described above, the left, middle, and right symbols are stopped (step S205), and in response to the command transmitted in step S110 described above, Stop processing of all symbols is performed (step S206). After the stop processing is completed, a command for the next notice effect is sent from the main board to the sub-board. As a result, effects are performed in the order of winning.

[0011]

By the way, in the state where the random numbers are stored and held, if the random number for the winning effect is stored (hit holding), the random number for the outlying effect is stored. However, it is considered that a winning announcement effect can be performed across the loss suspension. For example, after two consecutive misses are held, the hits are stored in the order of the hits and the announcement effect is to be performed on the sub-board. Instead, as soon as it is found that the winning announcement effect is to be performed, the winning announcement effect is performed (straddling the off-hold).

However, as described above, when a random number is generated on the main board, and only the command is sent from the main board to the sub-board to control the sub-board, it is not possible to straddle the suspension and to follow the random number generation order. You must perform the outing. There is a drawback that it is difficult to increase the player's expectation if the performance of the outlier without notice is continuously performed.

On the other hand, since random numbers are stored in the main board, it is conceivable that, considering the stored contents, it is possible to straddle the loss. However, in this case, the main substrate side, instead of the sub-substrate, directly performs the effect, and the burden on the main substrate increases. Further, when changing the effect contents, the main board must be replaced, and it is difficult to change the effect contents.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and an object thereof is to provide a gaming machine capable of effecting a game over a hold and easily changing the effected content. Is to provide an effect system.

[0015]

According to the present invention, there is provided a game machine effect system comprising: a main board for generating a random number; and a sub board configured to be detachable from the main board and to perform an effect corresponding to the random number. Transmission means provided on the main board for transmitting data related to the random number to the sub-board, and a random number storage provided on the sub-board and storing data related to the random number transmitted from the main board. Means, and effect means provided on the sub-substrate for effecting in accordance with data stored in the random number storage means. Further, the random number storage means stores a plurality of data related to the random numbers, and the production means rewrites data indicating that no notice is to be made among the plurality of data stored in the random number storage means with data indicating that a notice is to be given. Thus, the announcement effect is performed continuously.

In short, in the past, the next command was not sent until the effect was started after the effect was started, whereas in the present invention, a random number was previously sent to the sub-board side in addition to the command. Since the information is notified and stored, the presence or absence of a notice and the character can be determined before the command is sent. As a result, it is possible to notify the player of a hit over the hold, the player's expectation can be maintained, and the effect contents can be easily changed by replacing the sub-board.

[0017]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the drawings referred to in the following description, the same parts as those in the other drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a game machine effect system according to the present invention. As shown in the drawing, the rendering system according to the present embodiment is different from the configuration in FIG. 5 in that a random number storage unit 23 and a random number determination unit 24 are provided on the sub-board 2 side. Then, the random number 200 is transmitted from the random number generation unit 11 on the main board 1 side, and the random number is stored in the random number storage unit 23 on the sub board 2 side. The stored random numbers are determined to be hit or missed by the determination unit 24, and are stored in the storage unit 23 again. When stored in the storage unit 23 again, the content of the data may be rewritten by the determination unit 24 as described later. As described above, in the present system, the random number generated on the main board side is sent to the sub-board, and the random number is stored on the sub-board side. Therefore, even if the random number of the loss is held, if the random number of the hit is stored thereafter, it is possible to perform the notice effect of the hit over the hold of the hit.

The effect processing unit 21 on the sub board side receives the random number 200 sent from the main board side, reads out data from the table 22 according to the content thereof, and determines effect processing such as graphic processing. Further, it receives the command 100 sent from the main board and starts the designated variation pattern. At that time, an effect determined in advance is executed.

The sub-substrate is configured to be detachable from the main substrate. Therefore, if the sub-substrate is replaced, the table 22 storing the rendering process and the like at the time of graphic processing can be replaced, so that the rendering can be changed. Therefore, even if the sub-board is exchanged, random number data can be received from the main board. You can do it.

A processing example of the effect system having such a configuration will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a processing example of the present system. In the drawing, the processing on the main substrate side and the processing on the sub substrate side are shown. First, in the main board, when a winning is started (step S101), it is determined whether or not the number of stored random numbers is smaller than 4 (step S102). If the number of stored random numbers is four or more, the process returns to step S101 as a normal winning. On the other hand, if the number of stored random numbers is smaller than 4, a random number value is obtained (step S103). The obtained random number value is stored on the main board side (step S104), and further transmitted to the sub-board side (step S105). Thereby, the sub-board side can detect in advance whether it is a hit or not in a suspended state.

Separately from the above processing, the main board waits for a symbol to stop (step S106). When the symbol stops, a random number is determined (step S107). Next, a variation pattern is specified, and a command is transmitted to the sub-board side (step S108). Furthermore, the main board is on the left with respect to the sub-board,
Each symbol in the middle and right is designated, and a command is transmitted to the sub-board (step S109). Thereafter, the main board transmits a symbol stop command to the sub-board (step S11).
0).

In the sub-substrate, the above-described step S108
In step S20, when the command for designating the variation pattern transmitted from the main board is received (step S201), it is determined whether or not the command is a memory for giving a notice (step S20).
2). If the command is to give a notice, the designated change is started (step S203), and a notice effect is given during the design change (step S204). If the command does not give a notice, the designated change is started as it is (step S202a → S203 ′). In this case, the announcement effect is not performed during the symbol change.

Next, according to the command transmitted in the above-mentioned step S109, the left, middle and right symbols are stopped (step S205), and in response to the command transmitted in the above-mentioned step S110, Stop processing of all symbols is performed (step S206). The sub-board receives the random number transmitted from the main board in step S105 described above (step S207), and stores the random number (step S208). Then, the stored random number is determined (step S209).
Thus, by receiving the random number from the main board and storing it in the sub-board, it is possible to detect a hit or miss in advance.

The random number determination processing in step S209 will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure,
The character pattern is set according to the value of the random number. First, it is determined whether the random number is any of a, b, c, d, e, and f (step S301). If not, the random number is stored as it is (step S301).
308). It is determined whether the random number is a or b (step S302), and it is further determined whether the random number is c or d (step S303). For random numbers other than these (that is, random numbers e or f), a single-shot notice is set as a gas notice (step S304). If the random number is e, the character pattern 5 is set and stored (steps S305 → S306 → S308). Random number is e
If not (ie, the random number is f), character pattern 6 is set and stored (steps S305 → S307).
→ S308).

If the random number is a or b, a continuous announcement setting is made (steps S302 → S309). Further, when the random number is a, the character pattern 1 is set (step S310 → S311). If the random number is not a (that is, the random number is b), the character pattern 2 is set (step S310 → S312). When the continuous notice setting is performed, the continuous notice storing process is performed, and the content of the data is rewritten (step S300). Regarding the continuous notice storing process in step S300, FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 4, first, it is determined whether or not there is pending data (step S401). If there is no pending data, a notice effect is set at the first position in the memory (step S402). If the pending data exists, the stored data is rewritten to the notice effect data (step S403), and the last received data is set at the end of the storage (step S404). By performing this rewriting, even if the random number of the loss is reserved, if the random number of the hit is stored thereafter, it is possible to perform the notice effect of the winning across the hold of the loss. Returning to FIG. 3, the contents rewritten as described above are stored (step S308).

If the random number is c or d, a one-time notice setting is performed (step S303 → S313). Further, when the random number is c, the character pattern 3 is set and stored (steps S314 → S315 → S308). If the random number is not c (that is, the random number is d), the character pattern 4 is set and stored (step S314 → S3).
16 → S308).

As described above, since the random numbers are sent from the main board to the sub-board and stored in advance,
The outlier can be detected in advance, and a notice effect can be performed over the suspension. On the conventional sub-board side, the hit or miss was not recognized until the variation pattern designation command was received, whereas in this system, a random number was sent in advance, so before the variation pattern designation command was received (that is, The announcement effect can be started (over the hold). In addition, since the sub-board side can obtain random numbers in advance, even if the notice effect is changed, such as adding or deleting a character, it is possible to respond by changing the sub-board side without changing the main board at all. It is possible, and the degree of freedom of the production increases.

Further, in the conventional effect system,
After one effect is completely completed, the next effect cannot be performed unless a predetermined time has elapsed (hereinafter, idle time). On the other hand, in the present system, the effect is performed in accordance with the random number stored in the sub-board, so that the effect can be performed even during idle time, and the effect can be performed without interruption. Therefore, not only the degree of freedom of the effect due to the change of the sub-substrate side but also the degree of freedom of the effect itself can be increased.

In the above description, a random number is sent from the main board to the sub-board. However, it is clear that data other than the random number itself, such as data obtained by converting the random number using a table, may be used. .

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, by sending and storing a random number from the main board to the sub-board in advance, it is possible to detect a hit or miss on the sub-board side in advance, and to give a notice effect over a reservation. Therefore, there is an effect that the player's sense of expectation can be more sustained despite the configuration of the main board and the sub-board. Furthermore, by performing the effect according to the random number stored in the sub-board side, the effect can be performed without interruption without any idle time, and the effect of the effect itself can be increased. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a processing example of an effect system of a gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an effect system of the gaming machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a random number determination process during the process of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a continuous notice storing process in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional gaming machine effect system.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing processing of a conventional gaming machine effect system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main board 2 Sub board 11 Random number generation part 12 Command generation part 21 Production processing part 22 Table 23 Random number storage part 100 Command 200 Random number

Claims (2)

[Claims] An effect system for a gaming machine, comprising: a main board for generating a random number; and a sub-board configured to be detachable from the main board and to perform an effect corresponding to the random number, wherein the system is provided on the main board. Sending means for sending data related to the random number to the sub-board; random number storage means provided on the sub-board for storing data related to random numbers sent from the main board; and random-number storage means provided on the sub-board. A production means for producing a performance according to the stored data. 2. The random number storage means stores a plurality of data relating to the random numbers, and the effect means outputs a data indicating that no notice is to be given among a plurality of data stored in the random number storage means. 2. The effect production system according to claim 1, wherein the notice effect is continuously performed by rewriting the data.