JP2015016051A - Pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Pachinko game machine capable of appropriately and smoothly performing control processing.SOLUTION: A Pachinko game machine includes: main control means; power supply control means; and performance control means for executing control processing corresponding to a performance control command relating to a performance from the main control means. The Pachinko game machine acquires a random number relating to a jackpot lottery to execute jackpot lottery determination in interrupt processing, based on the fact that a game medium has flowed down a game area and has passed through a predetermined start area, and executes a special game advantageous to a player as compared with a normal case in a jackpot. A jackpot lottery is performed by a wining/losing random number having a predetermined numerical value range, and a numerical value range of the winning/losing random number includes a numerical value range corresponding to a jackpot lottery result, a small win lottery result, and a losing lottery result. In the main control means, interrupt preparation processing is executed after start of power supply, and processing for updating an initial random number value is repeated until an interrupt occurs after a timer for periodically repeating the interrupt processing is set.

Description

  The present invention relates to a pachinko gaming machine that uses a game ball as a game medium.

In general, pachinko gaming machines are provided with a main board that controls the game and a sub-control board that performs control processing based on a command from the main board. And among these, as a sub control board, a payout control board, a sub board, various display control boards, an electric decoration control board, an acoustic control board, etc. can be illustrated (refer to patent documents 1). In the pachinko gaming machine, there is a classification in which the payout control board is not included in the sub-control board.
JP 2008-295916 A

  By the way, since the conventional gaming machine as described above causes the main board to perform a function upstream of the control processing, the performance of the main board greatly affects the performance of the entire gaming machine. For this reason, in order to improve the performance of the entire gaming machine, it is necessary to perform an appropriate control process on the main board and other boards responsible for cooperation with the main board. For example, if random elements (randomness) of random numbers acquired on the main board and various factors that affect the reliability of control processing, such as safety, are not improved, random lotteries and effects performed by gaming machines There is also a limit to the improvement in game performance that appears externally, such as pattern selection.

  The present invention has been made in view of these problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a pachinko gaming machine capable of smoothly performing appropriate control processing.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides power supply means (power supply board, etc.) for supplying electric power necessary for a game, main control means (main control board, etc.) for controlling the game, and power reception from the power supply means. Accordingly, power control means (such as a power failure monitoring circuit unit) that executes power control related to the supply of power to the main control means is connected to the main control means so as to be communicable. Effect control means (such as an effect control board) that performs control processing according to the effect control command concerned,
The main control means includes
A control start process executing means for executing a control start process in response to the start of power supply from the power supply means;
Game progress interrupt processing execution means for executing game progress interrupt processing for game progress in a predetermined cycle with respect to the control start processing;
Based on the fact that the game medium launched into the game area has flowed down the game area and passed through the predetermined start area,
In the game progress interruption process, random number acquisition means for acquiring random numbers related to jackpot lottery (such as soft random numbers per special symbol, hardware random numbers, symbol random numbers per special symbol), and jackpot determination means for performing jackpot lottery determination Prepared,
In a pachinko gaming machine that executes special games that are more advantageous to the player than usual when it is a big hit,
The power control means includes
A power drop detection means for detecting whether or not the power from the power supply means has become a predetermined value or less;
A power-off information output means for outputting power-off information for causing the main control means to recognize that the power is cut off when the power drop detecting means detects that the power is below a predetermined value; The main control means includes
A power-off execution processing means for executing a power-off process when the power-off information is output;
Resumption index storage means (such as a stack pointer) that stores resumption index information that serves as an index to control processing that should resume the game when the power is cut off;
Power-off information setting means for setting power-off normal information indicating that the power-off processing has been normally performed after the resumption index information is stored in the resumption index storage means;
Information initialization input (initialization switch of the initialization switch) for information initialization (such as RWM clear) that initializes the control process indicated by the restart index information before the power interruption when power supply by the power supply means is started Information initialization input determination means for determining whether or not there has been an operation,
When the information initialization input determination unit determines that the information initialization input has not been made, at least based on the information stored in the power-off information setting unit, a restart preparation process (S9 to S23, etc.) Resumption preparation process execution condition determining means for determining whether a resumption preparation process execution condition for proceeding to is established,
When it is determined by the restart preparation process execution condition determination means that the restart preparation process execution condition is satisfied,
After the restart preparation process is completed, the control process indicated by the restart index information is restarted,
When it is determined by the information initialization input determination means that the information initialization input has been performed,
An initialization control process (S24, S25, etc.) for initializing the information and an interrupt preparation process (S26, etc.) to prepare for the game progress interrupt process after the initialization control process are executed.
An interrupt timing process (such as S27) for setting the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process after the interrupt preparation process, and measuring the time based on the period information;
A circulation process (such as S32) that circulates the control process while waiting for an interrupt by the game progress interrupt process after the start of the interrupt timing process,
After the start of power supply, at least the interrupt preparation process is executed, the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process is set, and the interrupt timing process is executed based on the period information An initial value random number update means during the control start process for updating a value related to the random number (such as a random number related value) used in the random number acquisition means during the cyclic processing of
After starting the supply of power by the power supply means, the initial value random number is updated during the control start process at least four times between the time when the interrupt timing process is first started and the time when the game progress interrupt process is generated Update the value related to the random number used by the random number acquisition means,
When the information initialization input determination means determines that there is no information initialization input,
If the determination result of the restart preparation process execution condition determination means indicates that the restart preparation process execution condition is not satisfied,
Performing the initialization control process for the information initialization, and an interrupt preparation process for preparing for the game progress interrupt process after the initialization control process,
Set the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process after the interrupt preparation process, and an interrupt timing process for measuring time based on the period information,
After the start of the interrupt timing process, a cyclic process for circulating the control process while waiting for the interruption of the game progress interrupt process,
The initial value random number update means during the control start process,
After the start of power supply, at least the interrupt preparation process is executed, the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process is set, and the interrupt timing process is executed based on the period information Updating the value related to the random number used by the random number acquisition means during the cyclic processing of
After starting the supply of power by the power supply means, the initial value random number is updated during the control start process at least four times between the time when the interrupt timing process is first started and the time when the game progress interrupt process is generated The pachinko gaming machine is characterized in that the value related to the random number used by the random number obtaining means is updated by the means.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a pachinko gaming machine that can perform control processing appropriately and smoothly.

It is a figure which shows the basic structure in the front side of the pachinko game machine of one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the basic structure in the back side of a pachinko game machine. It is a figure which shows the functional block of a pachinko gaming machine. It is explanatory drawing which shows the main board | substrate structures of a pachinko game machine. It is explanatory drawing which shows the basic composition of a main board. It is explanatory drawing which shows the functional structure of a sub main board | substrate and a sub sub board | substrate. It is explanatory drawing which shows display apparatuses, such as a special symbol. The example of a display of an effect symbol display apparatus is shown, (a) is during the fluctuation | variation of a decoration symbol, (b) is explanatory drawing which shows the stop of a decoration symbol. It is a figure which shows typically a success / failure determination table. It is explanatory drawing which groups and shows the numerical value range of the success / failure random number in a 1st game. It is a figure which shows a symbol determination table typically. It is a figure which shows a fluctuation pattern table typically. It is a flowchart which shows the control start process of a pachinko game machine. It is a flowchart which shows the control start process following FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the game progress interruption process of a pachinko game machine. It is a flowchart which shows the power-off process of a pachinko game machine. (A) is a chart showing an initial value random number update table, and (b) is a chart showing an initial value update type random number update table. The modification of the numerical range of the success / failure random number in the first game is shown, (a) is the normal one, (b) is the one at the time of probability change, (c) is an explanatory diagram showing another example at the time of the probability change It is. It is a flowchart which shows the principal part of the other Example which concerns on the control start process of the pachinko game machine of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the process of a power-off confirmation information setting. It is explanatory drawing which shows the power-off required time.

Hereinafter, a pachinko gaming machine which is a gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the pachinko gaming machine of the present embodiment, a plurality of games corresponding to the conventional type 1 pachinko gaming machine are mixed. The second game is preferentially executed so that the first game and the second game as the plurality of games are not executed simultaneously. In order to achieve both of these game characteristics, the pachinko gaming machine according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of start winning openings, a plurality of special symbol display devices, a plurality of holding lamps, and a plurality of large winning openings.
<Summary of front configuration and game characteristics of pachinko machines>

  FIG. 1 shows a basic structure on the front side of a pachinko gaming machine. The pachinko gaming machine 10 is mainly composed of a gaming machine frame and a gaming board. The gaming machine frame of the pachinko gaming machine 10 includes an outer frame 11, a front frame 12, a transparent plate 13, a door 14, an upper ball dish 15, a lower ball dish 16, and a launch handle 17. The outer frame 11 has an opening and is a frame for fixing the pachinko gaming machine 10 to a position where it should be installed. The front frame 12 is a frame body that aligns with the opening portion of the outer frame 11, and is attached to the outer frame 11 so as to be opened and closed by a hinge mechanism (not shown). The front frame 12 includes a mechanism for launching a game ball as a game medium, a mechanism for detachably storing a game board, a mechanism for guiding or collecting the game ball, and the like.

  The transparent plate 13 is made of glass or the like and is supported by the door 14. The door 14 is attached to the front frame 12 so as to be openable and closable by a hinge mechanism (not shown). The upper ball tray 15 is provided in the tray unit 200, and has mechanisms such as storage of game balls, delivery of game balls to the launch rail, and extraction of game balls to the lower ball tray 16. The lower ball tray 16 is also provided in the tray unit 200 and has mechanisms for storing and extracting game balls. The lower front plate 18 positioned below the lower ball tray 16 is provided with a plurality of speakers 19 for outputting BGM, various sound effects, and the like according to the gaming state and effect pattern.

  The game board 50 has an out port 58, an effect symbol display device 60, a first start winning port 62, and a second starting winning port 63 on a game area 52 defined by an outer rail and an inner rail hidden behind the door 14. , Center ornament 64, first grand prize opening 91, second major prize opening 92, operation opening 68, and general prize opening 72. Furthermore, in the game area 52, a number of game nails, windmills, and the like (not shown) are installed.

  In addition, a special symbol display device 53 is installed in the lower left portion of the game area 52 as viewed from the front, and the special symbol display device 53 has a first special symbol display device 53 as shown in FIG. A symbol display device 70 and a second special symbol display device 71 are provided. In the present embodiment, the first special symbol display device 70 and the second special symbol display device 71 may be collectively referred to as a special symbol display device.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the first start winning opening 62 is provided as a starting winning opening corresponding to the first game, and the second starting winning opening 63 is provided as a starting winning opening corresponding to the second game. It is done. The first start winning opening 62 includes a start winning detection device 74. The start winning detection device 74 is a sensor that detects the entrance of a game ball into the first start winning opening 62, and generates (outputs) first start winning information indicating the winning at the time of entering. The second start winning opening 63 includes a start winning detection device 75, a normal electric accessory (so-called “electric tulip”, not shown), and a normal electric accessory solenoid 76 for opening and closing the normal electric accessory. The start winning detection device 75 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the second start winning opening 63, and generates (outputs) second start winning information indicating the winning at the time of entering. When the ordinary electric combination is expanded by the driving force of the ordinary electric combination solenoid 76, a so-called electric chew support is provided, and the ease of entering the second start winning prize port 63 is enhanced.

  Note that the second start winning opening 63 is provided below the first starting winning opening 62, that is, at a position where the first start winning opening 62 prevents the game ball from entering. Therefore, while the ordinary electric accessory is not expanded, the entry to the second start winning opening 63 is hindered by the first start winning opening 62, and the second start winning opening 63 is in a state where it is difficult to enter the ball. Maintained. Therefore, in order to aim at entering the second start winning opening 63 in the game, it is necessary to expand the ordinary electric accessory. In this embodiment, as a result of the expansion of the ordinary electric accessory, the ease of entering the second start winning opening 63 is higher than the ease of entering the first start winning opening 62. However, what is necessary is just to set suitably according to the profit etc. which are obtained as a result of a 1st game and a 2nd game, and the structure which does not enter at all when a normal electric accessory is not expanded, or the 1st start winning opening 62 You may make it have the same opening width as.

  The general winning opening 72 includes a plurality of general winning detecting devices 73 (see the block diagram of FIG. 3) for detecting the entering of game balls. The general winning detection device 73 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the general winning opening 72, and generates (outputs) general winning information indicating the winning at the time of winning. The general winning detection device 73 may be individually provided for the general winning opening, or may collect and detect the game balls that have entered the plurality of general winning openings 72, or Depending on the arrangement position (up and down, left and right) of the general winning opening and the number of prize balls set (5 prize balls and 10 prize balls), they may be grouped and detected as appropriate.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the first big prize opening 91 is provided as a big prize opening corresponding to the first game, and the second big prize opening 92 is provided as a big prize opening corresponding to the second game. The first grand prize winning port 91 includes a winning detection device 78 (see the block diagram of FIG. 3) for detecting the entrance of a game ball, and a first opening / closing door for opening and closing the first big winning port 91 ( And a special prize opening solenoid 80 for driving the first opening / closing door. The winning detection device 78 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the first big winning opening 91, and generates (outputs) first big winning opening winning information indicating the winning at the time of winning.

  The second grand prize opening 92 drives a prize detection device 79 for detecting the entry of a game ball, a second opening / closing door for opening / closing the second big prize opening 92, and the second opening / closing door. A big prize opening solenoid 81 is provided. The winning detection device 79 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the second grand prize opening 92, and generates (outputs) second grand prize opening winning information indicating the winning at the time of winning.

  The first big winning opening 91 is a horizontal rectangular winning opening that is opened as a “big hit” when the first special symbol 192 (see FIG. 7) stops in a predetermined manner. The first grand prize winning port 91 is provided at a position above the out port 58. The second big winning opening 92 is a horizontal rectangular winning opening that is opened as a “big hit” when the second special symbol 193 stops in a predetermined manner. The second grand prize winning port 92 is provided at a position on the upper right side of the out port 58.

  In this embodiment, decorative plates 91b and 92b are respectively provided in front of the first grand prize winning port 91 and the second grand prize winning port 92, and each decorative plate is used for decorating the game area 52. Characters and figures are drawn. The decorative plates 91b and 92b are made of a transparent material so that the player can visually recognize the first opening / closing door, the second opening / closing door, the first big winning opening 91, and the second big winning opening 92. However, the decorative plates 91b and 92b may be opaque. In addition, the first grand prize winning port 91 and the second grand prize winning port 92 may be used in common by arranging only one grand prize winning port (for example, the first grand prize winning port 91).

  An effect symbol display device 60 is provided substantially at the center of the game area 52, and a first special symbol display device 70 corresponding to the first game and a second special symbol display device corresponding to the second game are separated to the lower left. 71 are adjacent to each other on the left and right (see FIG. 7). The first special symbol display device 70 displays the variation of the first special symbol 192 corresponding to the first game, and the second special symbol display device 71 displays the variation of the second special symbol 193 corresponding to the second game. Is displayed. The first special symbol 192 is a symbol corresponding to the result of the first lottery performed when the game ball enters the first start winning opening 62, and its variable display is stopped in a predetermined hit state. A big hit as a special game occurs. The second special symbol 193 is a symbol corresponding to the result of the second lottery performed when the game ball enters the second start winning opening 63, and its variable display is stopped in a predetermined hit mode. A big hit as a special game occurs. The first special symbol display device 70 and the second special symbol display device 71 are display means composed of, for example, a 7-segment LED with dots added at the lower right corner. The first special symbol display 192 and the second special symbol display 193 are Each of them is represented by 10 numbers “0” to “9”, a symbol α, and a symbol β.

  Symbols α and β indicate lighting patterns that can be displayed by a segment combination of 7-segment LEDs, and the patterns themselves are not arranged with meanings such as characters. In the present specification, such a pattern is referred to as “symbol” for the sake of convenience, and is denoted as “symbol α” or “symbol β” in order to distinguish the type. By the way, on the right side of the second special symbol in FIG. 7, a round display device (not shown in the figure) indicating the number of unit games in the special game (so-called round number) is provided as a two-digit 7-segment LED, which will be described later. In response to the occurrence of the first or second special game, the number of rounds of both special games is displayed in common.

  As shown in FIGS. 8A and 8B, the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60 has a left decorative symbol 190a linked to the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193, and a decorative symbol 190b in the left. The variation of the decorative pattern 190c on the right is displayed. The effect symbol display device 60 is, for example, a liquid crystal display. The decorative symbols 190a to 190c are symbols for visually producing the first lottery result display shown by the first special symbol 192 or the second lottery result display shown by the second special symbol 193. The effect symbol display device 60 displays, as the decorative symbols 190 a to 190 c, for example, a plurality of rows of symbol variation moving images simulating a game of a slot machine in the display area 194.

  The effect symbol display device 60 is configured by a liquid crystal display in the present embodiment, but may be configured by other display means such as a mechanical drum or LED. Since the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 do not necessarily have a role of production, in the present embodiment, the first special symbol display device 70 and the second special symbol display device 70 at the lower left of the production symbol display device 60 are used. When the special symbol display device 71 displays an inconspicuous size, but adopts a technique in which the special symbol itself has an effect role and does not display the decorative symbol, the special symbol is displayed on the effect symbol display device 60. You may display on a liquid crystal display like this. In this embodiment, the decorative symbols 190a to 190c are commonly used in the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 in the effect symbol display device 60, but are individually displayed. Alternatively, the device itself may be provided separately, and when it is shared as in this embodiment, a display indicating which special symbol is displayed is displayed at the corner of the effect symbol display device 60. Also good.

  The operation port 68 is provided at the left side position of the game board 50. The operation port 68 includes a passage detection device 69 (see FIG. 3). The passage detection device 69 is a sensor that detects the passage of the game ball to the operation port 68, and generates (outputs) passage information indicating the passage at the time of passage. The passing of the game ball to the operation port 68 triggers a lottery for expanding the ordinary electric accessory of the second start winning prize port 63.

  When the player rotates the launch handle 17 by hand, the game balls stored in the upper ball tray 15 with the strength according to the rotation angle are guided one by one to the inner rail and the outer rail to the game area 52. Fired. When the player fixes the rotation position of the launch handle 17 by hand, the launch of the game ball is repeated at regular time intervals. The game ball launched to the upper part of the game area 52 falls in a direction according to the way of hitting while hitting a plurality of game nails and windmills. When a game ball falls into each of the general winning opening 72, the first starting winning opening 62, the second starting winning opening 63, the first large winning opening 91, and the second large winning opening 92, the type of the winning opening is determined. The corresponding prize ball is paid out to the upper ball tray 15 or the lower ball tray 16. A game ball dropped into each winning hole such as the general winning hole 72 is processed as a safe ball, and a game ball dropped into the out hole 58 is processed as an out ball. Each winning opening includes a gate type through which a game ball passes. In this application, “incoming”, “entering”, and “winning” include “passing”.

  When the game ball enters the first start winning opening 62, the first special symbol 192 is variably displayed on the first special symbol display device 70, and the decorative symbols 190a to 190c are variably displayed on the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60. Is done. When the game ball enters the second start winning opening 63, the second special symbol 193 is variably displayed on the second special symbol display device 71, and the decorative symbols 190a to 190c are variably displayed on the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60. (See FIG. 8A). The variation display of the first special symbol 192, the second special symbol 193, and the decorative symbols 190a to 190c is stopped after the lapse of the variation time determined prior to the display (see FIG. 8B). When the first special symbol 192 and the decorative symbols 190a to 190c at the time of the stop are in a big hit mode, the game shifts to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than the normal game, and the opening / closing operation of the first grand prize winning port 91 is performed. Is started. At this time, the decorative symbols 190a to 190c simulating a game of a slot machine take a display mode in which three symbols are matched. When the second special symbol 193 and the decorative symbols 190a to 190c at the time of the stop are in a big hit mode, the game shifts to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than the normal game, and the opening / closing operation of the second big prize opening 92 Is started.

  The special game is a game in which the unit game in which the first grand prize port 91 or the second grand prize port 92 is opened is repeated a plurality of times, and the special game in which the unit game is repeated 15 times, which is the maximum number of times, and the unit game. There is a special game that is repeated twice, which is the minimum number of times. In the case of a special game in which 15 unit games are repeated (hereinafter also referred to as “15R big hit” as appropriate), the first big prize opening 91 or the second big prize opening 92 is opened for about 30 seconds, or more than nine balls When one of the game balls is dropped, it is closed once, and one unit game is completed. In the case of a special game in which two unit games are repeated (hereinafter, also referred to as “2R big hit” as appropriate), the first big prize opening 91 or the second big prize opening 92 is temporarily closed when opened for about 0.2 seconds. As a result, one unit game is completed. In this embodiment, the type of the special game (the number of executions of the unit game, the big winning opening to be opened (the first big winning opening 91 or the second big winning opening 92 is opened over all unit games of the special game). Or which special winning opening for each unit game is opened), the opening pattern of the special winning opening, etc.) are linked to the special symbols (first special symbol 192, second special symbol 193) that are stopped and displayed. However, the type of special game may be determined by another lottery. In addition, the opening time of the big winning opening in 2R big hit may be a time (for example, about several seconds to 30 seconds) that allows the player to substantially acquire the winning ball.

  When the first special symbol 192 and the decorative symbols 190a to 190c at the time of the stop are in a predetermined small hit mode, the game shifts to a small hit game constituted by one unit game, and the first big winning opening 91 is opened and closed. Is executed. When the second special symbol 193 and the decorative symbols 190a to 190c at the time of the stop are in the small hit mode, the game also shifts to the small hit game, and the opening / closing operation of the second big winning opening 92 is executed. In one unit game that constitutes a small hit game, the first grand prize opening 91 or the second big prize opening 92 repeats the opening for about 0.2 seconds twice, so that the appearance is the same operation as the 2R big hit. It becomes an aspect. As for the small hit game, a plurality of small hit types may be provided as in the special game described above, and variations may be provided in the large winning opening to be opened, the number of times of opening in one unit game, and the opening pattern. The decision can be made based on the special symbol that is a small hit, or by individual lottery, as in the method for determining the type of special game. In addition, among a plurality of modes as a type, an open pattern (a special game with a hit-open pattern in which 2R big hit is easily distinguishable in appearance) is provided in part for easy play. Can be expanded.

  When a special game occurs and a predetermined condition such as a lottery is satisfied, after the end of the special game, as a specific game, a probability variation game (hereinafter referred to as “probability variation”) or a variable time reduction game (hereinafter “time reduction”) ") Is started. During the probability change, a lottery with a higher probability of jackpot than the normal probability state is performed, and a new special game is generated relatively early. In this embodiment, the probability variation state is continued until the first special symbol 192 or the second special symbol 193 is a big hit. In the case of 15R jackpot, the probability change may or may not be started after the end of the special game. In the case of 2R jackpot, the probability change is always started after the end of the special game. However, as a modified example, a 2R big hit without any probability change may be provided. In addition, the total of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 or the first special symbol 192 or the second special symbol 193 variation display reaches a predetermined end condition number of times, for example, 100 times, in the probability variation period and the short time period. May be continued. During the time reduction, the fluctuation time of the first special symbol 192 or the second special symbol 193 is substantially shortened.

  During the time reduction of the first special symbol 192, the second special symbol 193, and the decorative symbol 190, the easy entry state, which is one of the specific games, is performed. The easy entry state is a state in which the ease of entering the second start winning opening 63 is enhanced by executing the shortening of the normal symbol, the probability variation of the open lottery, and the open extension of the normal electric accessory. The normal symbol time reduction is a state in which the variation time of the normal symbol is shortened from the normal state. The probability variation of the open lottery is a state in which the winning probability of the open lottery is higher than the normal state. The opening extension of the ordinary electric accessory is a state in which the opening time of the ordinary electric accessory is longer than the normal state. As described above, in the easy entry state, the possibility that the number of fluctuations of the normal symbol per certain time increases as compared to the normal state increases, and the ease of entering the second start winning opening 63 also increases. There is a high possibility that the number of balls entering the 2-start winning prize opening 63 will increase. Therefore, due to the short time of the first special symbol 192, the second special symbol 193, and the decorative symbol 190 and the easy entry state, the chance to obtain a winning ball by entering the second start winning opening 63 increases during that period. As a result, it is possible to continue playing with little loss of possession.

  In this embodiment, the easy entry state is the ease of entering the second start winning opening 63 by using the three functions of normal symbol time reduction, open lottery probability fluctuation, and normal electric accessory opening extension. Increase. However, as a modified example, it is possible to use one or two of these three functions to increase the ease of entering the second start winning opening 63. Thus, even if only a part of the three functions is used, it is possible to improve the ease of entering the second start winning prize port 63. Moreover, it is good also as a structure which switches according to a gaming state at least any one of three functions by the period to implement and the period which does not implement.

  When a small hit occurs for the first special symbol 192, a limited variation pattern table (not shown) is referred to as the symbol variation of the first special symbol 192 after the end of the small hit game. At this time, the limited variation pattern table of the first special symbol 192 is referred to in a different manner depending on which symbol the second special symbol 193 is stopped, and the variation pattern is selected. For example, when the second special symbol 193 is stopped and displayed as the off symbol α, the variation pattern is selected according to the limited frequency table for 10 times as the symbol variation of the first special symbol 192 after the end of the small hit game. In addition, when the second special symbol 193 is stopped and displayed with the off symbol β, the variation pattern is selected according to the limited frequency table for 20 times as the symbol variation of the first special symbol 192 after the end of the small hit game. Thereby, since the special effect can be executed in a different manner depending on which symbol the second special symbol 193 is stopped at, the range of the design of the effect can be widened. Hereinafter, depending on the situation, an effect performed using the limited variation pattern table is referred to as a limited variation pattern effect.

  When the game ball passes through the operation port 68, the symbol called the normal symbol is variably displayed on the normal symbol display device 59 for a predetermined time. The normal symbol display device 59 is provided in the special symbol display device 53. In this embodiment, the two lamps are alternately lit and extinguished to express the variation display of the normal symbol, and which lamp is the final one. The lottery result of a normal symbol is represented by whether or not it stops with the light on. When the normal symbol variation display stops in a predetermined hit state after the predetermined time has elapsed, the normal electric accessory of the second start winning opening 63 is expanded for a predetermined time. In addition, the term “lamp” in this embodiment has a meaning including LEDs and the like.

  A center ornament 64 is provided around the effect symbol display device 60. The center decoration 64 has functions such as a flow path of the game ball, protection of the effect symbol display device 60, and decoration. A large number of game effect lamps (LEDs, etc., not shown) are provided inside the center ornament 64 and play a role of production by blinking or the like. Further, the center decoration 64 is provided with movable effect members 93 and 94, which constitute an effect gimmick.

  The first special figure holding lamp 20 corresponding to the first game is provided above the first special symbol display device 70, and the second special figure holding lamp 21 corresponding to the second game is displayed as the second special symbol display. The universal symbol holding lamp 22 provided above the device 71 and corresponding to the normal symbol variation is provided below the normal symbol display device 59.

  Each of the first special figure hold lamp 20 and the second special figure hold lamp 21 is composed of two lamps, and the lottery value hold for each of the first game and the second game is held depending on the number of lights or the number of blinks. Display a number. The number of lottery values held in the first special figure holding lamp 20 is the number of lottery results won in the first start winning opening 62 during the fluctuation of the first special symbol 192 or during the execution of the special game. Indicates the number of winning balls that have not been executed yet. The number of lottery values held in the second special figure holding lamp 21 is the number of lottery results won in the second start winning opening 63 while any of the second special symbols 193 is changing or during the execution of the special game. Indicates the number of winning balls that have not yet been changed.

  In other words, if the previously performed symbol variation has not ended, the variation start condition is not satisfied, and when the symbol variation ends, the variation start condition is satisfied, and the lottery result stored on hold ( Based on the result of the pending lottery), a new symbol variation will be started. In the case of the present embodiment, since the second game is preferentially executed as described above, all of the symbol variations corresponding to the reserved lottery result of the second special symbol 193 are all for the first special symbol 192. It is also a variable start condition that all the pending lottery results have been consumed.

  The regular figure holding lamp 22 is also composed of two lamps, and displays the number of holdings of normal symbol fluctuations depending on the number of lighting or blinking. The number of normal symbol fluctuations held is the number of game balls that have passed through the operation port 68 during the fluctuation of the normal symbol, and indicates the number of normal symbol lotteries for which the fluctuation of the normal symbol has not yet been executed. The operation button 82 is a button operated by the player to input a predetermined instruction on the gaming machine side. The operation button 82 is provided on the outer wall surface of the upper part of the upper ball tray 15 and is located near the center of the upper ball dish 15 in the left-right direction.

  The operation button 82 is operated by the player when the button effect is executed, and exhibits a function of giving the player a feeling that he / she participates in the game effect or the lottery. As the button effect, for example, during the reach effect that is performed in the process of displaying the decorative symbol, “Push”, “Let's hit repeatedly”, “Long press” along with the symbol of the operation button 82 in the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60. ”Or a video of an indicator indicating the remaining time is displayed, and when the player operates the operation button 82 in accordance with this, an effect such that the character gives a comment or an ally character attacks the enemy character. There is an effect to perform.

  Although the operation of the operation button 82 is normally disabled, it is a button operation effective period in which the operation of the operation button 82 is enabled during the button production. The button operation effective period is a predetermined time set in advance. It is also possible to perform a vibration effect by vibrating the operation button 82 by combining the operation button 82 with a vibration motor (not shown).

At the bottom of the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60, as shown in FIGS. 8 (a) and 8 (b), a first hold number display unit 196 indicating the number of hold of the winning / failing lottery value in the first game, Then, a second hold number display section 197 indicating the number of hold of the success / failure lottery value in the second game is displayed. By the way, with regard to the hold display, when the number of holds for the first game and the second game increases, the display changes sequentially with respect to the left side (left side in FIG. 7) as viewed from each player. The hold display on the first start winning opening 62 side (first game) that wins many times at the game is displayed on the reference side (left side), and the hold display on the second start winning opening 63 side (second game) that hardly wins at normal times. Is displayed on the right side. This is because it can be expected that the player can easily grasp the normal hold state intuitively. Note that a normal decorative symbol corresponding to the display content of the normal symbol display device 59 may be provided separately from the normal symbol display device 59. In this case, for example, the effect symbol display device 60 can be used.
<Outline of rear and electrical configuration of pachinko machines>

  FIG. 2 shows a basic structure on the back side of the pachinko gaming machine. As shown in FIG. 2, a set base 39 having a mechanism for guiding or collecting game balls is attached to the back of the front frame 12, and a power source is connected to the entire gaming machine below the set base 39. And a payout control board 45 for controlling the gaming machine frame side are attached. In addition, on the back of the game board, various effects such as a liquid crystal unit 42 (production symbol display device 60) based on information received from the main board 102 for overall control of the whole game and information input from the main board 102, etc. A sub-board 104 for controlling the operation of the apparatus is attached at a position corresponding to the opening of the set base 39.

  The set base 39 is connected to a prize ball tank 44 for storing a prize ball in the upper part thereof, a prize ball passage for rectifying and guiding a game ball stored in the prize ball tank 44, and stored in the prize ball tank 44. The payout unit 43 that can discharge the discharged balls downward in units of one ball, and the game balls that have flowed down from the payout unit 43 as prize balls discharge to the ball tray (upper ball tray 15 or lower ball tray 16). As shown in FIG. 2, the passage is formed and arranged in an inverted L shape from the upper side of the game board to the right side of the rear view, and an opening having an appropriate width is provided at a position corresponding to the center of the rear side of the game board. ing.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the power supply unit 48 is provided on the lower left side of the gaming machine as viewed from the rear, and AC power supplied from the outside of the gaming machine is supplied to the entire gaming machine (a control device including the main board 102 and the sub board 104, and the liquid crystal unit 42). Etc.) are converted, generated and supplied to various voltages used in the production device. On the right side of the power supply unit 48, a power switch 40 composed of a tilt switch for shutting off the power supplied from the power supply unit 48 to each part of the gaming machine is provided so that it does not turn off even if the game ball falls directly. It is provided to turn on when tilted to the side (when the switch is pushed down from the center of the switch).

  As shown in FIG. 2, the payout control board 45 is provided in the lower right side of the gaming machine as viewed from the back. The payout control board 45 mainly controls the payout unit 43 in accordance with an instruction related to payout from the main board 102 or an external lending request. And a firing control function for controlling the launching device so as to launch a game ball to the game area with an intensity corresponding to the amount of operation of the launching handle 17, and a CPU / ROM / RWM (lead An input / output circuit or the like is provided as appropriate mainly with a write memory (hereinafter abbreviated).

  As shown in FIG. 2, the main board 102 is provided at the lower center in the rear view of the game board 50, and mainly a lottery process based on winning in the first start winning opening 62 and the second starting winning opening 63, etc. It is equipped with central control functions for the entire gaming machine, such as processing related to the game machine's launching, processing to output control commands (control commands), gaming state information, etc. to the sub-board 104, the payout control board 45, etc. In the same manner as the above-described payout control board 45, a CPU, a ROM, a RWM, and an input / output circuit are provided as appropriate.

  The sub-board 104 is integrally provided with the liquid crystal unit 42 at the upper center of the game board as viewed from the rear as shown in FIG. 2, and mainly controls the display content in the liquid crystal unit 42 (the effect symbol display device 60). Similar to the main board 102 and the payout control board 45, a CPU, a ROM, an RWM, and an appropriate input / output circuit are provided. Since the sub-board 104 has a function of controlling an image, in addition to the main CPU for the sub-board, a CPU dedicated to image control for controlling the VDP for images and VDP is also mounted.

The main board 102, the payout control board 45, and the sub board 104 constitute a game control apparatus 100. Details of the main board 102, the payout control board 45, and the sub board 104 will be described later. As for the sub-board 104, a main sub-board (sub-main board 301 in this embodiment) responsible for the main function of effect control and a sub-sub-board specialized for a specific effect function such as image creation (this implementation). In the example, it is divided into a sub-sub board 302), but the term “sub-board” is a general term for these. Details of the sub main board 301 and the sub sub board 302 will be described later. 2 is provided with an external relay terminal board 49 that relays signals from the main board 102, the payout control board 45, and the like to devices outside the pachinko gaming machine 10.
<Outline of main functional blocks and functions of pachinko machines>

  FIG. 3 shows the game control device 100 and the input / output devices for the game control device 100 in the pachinko gaming machine 10 of this embodiment by functional blocks. In the pachinko gaming machine 10, the game control device 100 includes a first start winning port 62, a second starting winning port 63, a first big winning port 91, a second big winning port 92, a general winning port 72, an operating port 68, a first. 1 special symbol display device 70, second special symbol display device 71, production symbol display device 60, normal symbol display device 59, operation button 82, speaker 19, and game effect lamp 90 are electrically connected to each other. Allows transmission and reception of control signals. The game control apparatus 100 controls not only the basic operation of the game, but also staging operations such as symbol variation display and electrical decoration. The game control device 100 includes a main substrate 102 as a main control device that controls the overall operation of the pachinko gaming machine 10 including basic operations of the game and the progress of the game, and a sub substrate as a sub-control device that controls design effects and the like. 104 is configured in such a manner that functions are shared. Note that the payout control board 45 that actually exists as part of the functions of the game control device 100 and the functions of the parts controlled by the payout control board 45 are not different from general ones. The description and explanation will be omitted, and necessary parts will be explained as appropriate.

In addition, configurations (particularly various functional means and functional parts) described as blocks in the block diagram in this embodiment include those corresponding to functions realized by the CPU, ROM, and RWM. ing.
<Details of electrical configuration of pachinko machines>

  Next, main ones of the above-described electrical configurations (see FIGS. 2 and 3) will be described. First, as shown in FIG. 4, the pachinko gaming machine 10 includes a power supply board 251, a payout control board 45, a main board 102, and a sub board 104. The payout control board 45 and the like are connected to the power supply board 251. The payout control board 45 is connected to the main board 102, the gaming ball lending device connection terminal board 252, the handle connection board 253, and the like. The main board 102 is connected to the game board connection board 254 and the effect interface A. A substrate (not shown) or the like is connected. A symbol display board 256 is connected to the game board connection board 254.

  Here, the power supply board 251 is provided in the power supply unit 48 described above. Although not shown, the payout control board 45 is also connected to a status display unit used for displaying the type of error, a card unit for executing monetary processing related to ball lending and ball lending processing, and the like. . Furthermore, a game ball lending device connection terminal board is connected to a ball operation board (not shown) used for ball operation. A touch switch (not shown) of a launching device, a firing stop switch (not shown), and the like are connected to the handle connection board 253. In addition to the symbol display board 256, the game board connection board 254 includes the above-described passage detection device 69, the ordinary electric accessory solenoid 76, the winning detection device 78 of the first big winning opening 91, the big winning opening solenoid 80, A winning detection device 79 for the two major winning ports 92, a large winning port solenoid 81, a general winning detection device 73, a magnetic sensor, a radio wave sensor (not shown), and the like are connected. Further, the symbol display board 256 is provided in the above-described special symbol display device 53, and the symbol display board 256 is provided with a first special symbol display device 70 and a second special symbol display device 71. ing.

  The effect interface A board described above relays the main board 102 and other devices, and the effect interface A board is connected to the sub board 104 and the effect interface B board (not shown). Further, the liquid crystal unit 42 is connected to the sub-board 104.

  The effect interface B board relays the effect interface A board or the sub board 104 and other devices. Although not shown, the effect interface B board is a plastic frame connection board and various frame illuminations. A board, various frame motors, various electric decoration boards of the center decoration 64, various movable body motors of the movable effect members 93 and 94, and the like are connected. Here, the frame motor is used to drive a movable effect member (not shown) provided in the gaming machine frame.

  Connected to the plastic frame connection board are the dish illumination connection board 259 provided on the upper ball dish 15 and the lower ball dish 16, and the lower speaker connection board 260 among the various speaker connection boards connected to the various speakers 19. In addition, the effect button substrate 261 is connected to the dish illumination connection substrate 259. The effect button substrate 261 is provided in a button device provided with an operation button 82, and a switch (not shown) for detecting that the operation button is pressed or an operation button light emitter 82a (not shown). ) Etc. are installed.

  Next, the configuration of the power supply board 251 and the main board 102 will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, a CPU 501 as a one-chip microcomputer that is an arithmetic device is mounted on the main board 102. The CPU 501 includes a ROM 502 that stores various control programs executed by the CPU 501 and fixed value data, and a memory that temporarily stores various data when the control program stored in the ROM 502 is executed. In addition, a certain RWM 503 and various circuits (not shown) such as an interrupt circuit, a timer circuit, and a data transmission / reception circuit are incorporated. As the ROM 502, a built-in one and an external one may be used in combination.

  The RWM 503 has a configuration in which a backup voltage is supplied from the power supply board 251 even after the power supply of the pachinko gaming machine 10 is cut off and data can be retained (backed up). The RWM 503 temporarily stores various data and the like. In addition to a memory and an area (not shown), a backup area 503a is provided.

  The backup area 503a has a stack pointer, each register, I / O when the power is shut down (when power is cut off) due to a power failure (including a power failure due to an instantaneous voltage drop). This is an area for storing values such as O. When power is turned on (including power-on due to power failure cancellation, the same applies hereinafter), the pachinko gaming machine 10 is powered off based on information in the backup area 503a. The previous state is restored. Writing to the backup area 503a is executed at the time of power-off by an NMI interrupt process (power-off process), and restoration of each value written to the backup area 503a is executed in a control-start process at power-on. A power interruption signal from a power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 (described later) of the power supply board 251 is input to the NMI terminal (non-maskable interrupt terminal) 504 of the CPU 501 when the power is shut down due to the occurrence of a power failure or the like. When the power interruption signal is input to the CPU 501, the NMI interrupt process as a power failure process is immediately executed.

  In the payout control board 45, the CPU 511 that is an arithmetic device includes a ROM 512 that stores a control program executed by the CPU 511, fixed value data, and the like, and an RWM 513 that is used as a work memory and the like.

  The RWM 513 on the payout control board 45 is configured to hold (backup) data by supplying a backup voltage from the power board 251 even after the power supply of the pachinko gaming machine 10 is shut off, like the RWM 503 on the main board 102. The RWM 513 is provided with a backup area 513a in addition to a memory and an area for temporarily storing various data.

  The backup area 513a is an area for storing the stack pointer, registers, I / O, and other values when the power is cut off when the power is cut off due to a power failure or the like. Based on the information in the backup area 513a, the state of the pachinko gaming machine 10 is restored to the state before the power is shut off. Writing to the backup area 513a is executed when the power is shut off by the NMI interrupt process, and restoration of each value written to the backup area 513a is executed in the main process when the power is turned on. As with the CPU 501 of the main board 102, a power failure signal is also input to the NMI terminal of the CPU 511 from the power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 when the power is interrupted due to the occurrence of a power failure, and the power failure signal is sent to the CPU 511. When input, an NMI interrupt process as a process at the time of power failure is immediately executed.

  The sub board 104 includes a sub main board 301 and a sub sub board 302. Among these, the sub-main board 301 includes a CPU 521, a ROM (program ROM) 522, a work RWM 523, an input port 527, an output port 528, a bus line (not shown), and the like. The output side of the main board 102 is connected to the input side of the input port 527, and the CPU 521, ROM 522, work RWM 523, output port 528, and the like are connected to the output side of the input port 527. Further, the sub main board 301 is provided with a sound control circuit 820 for sound force control described later.

  The sub-sub board 302 includes a video RWM 524, a character ROM 525, an image controller 526, an input port 530, an output port 529, a bus line (not shown), and the like. The input side of the input port 527 is connected to the output side of the sub main board 301, and the output side of the input port 530 is connected to the video RWM 524, the character ROM 525, the image controller 526, and the output port 529.

  The CPU 521 of the sub main board 301 controls the display of the effect symbol display device 60 based on the effect control command (command) for symbol display transmitted from the main substrate 102. The ROM 522 is a memory for storing various control programs and fixed value data executed by the CPU 521, and the work RWM 523 is for temporarily storing work data and flags used when the CPU 521 executes various programs. Memory.

  The video RWM 524 of the sub-sub board 302 is a memory for storing display data displayed on the effect symbol display device 60, and the display contents of the effect symbol display device 60 are changed by rewriting the contents of the video RWM 524. . The character ROM 525 is a memory for storing character data such as symbols displayed on the effect symbol display device 60. The image controller 526 adjusts the timing of the CPU 521, the video RWM 524, and the output port 529 to intervene in reading and writing data, and reads display data stored in the video RWM 524 from the character ROM 525 at a predetermined timing. The design is displayed on the effect design display device 60 by superimposing the designs in the order of the layers in which the priorities are determined.

  The power supply board 251 includes a power supply unit 541 for supplying power to each part of the pachinko gaming machine 10, a power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 for monitoring power interruption due to a power failure, and an initialization switch circuit unit 543 having an initialization switch 544. And. The power supply unit 541 supplies necessary operating voltages to the main board 102, the payout control board 45, and the like through a power supply path (not shown). As its outline, the power supply unit 541 takes in a predetermined voltage supplied from the outside, and supplies a predetermined amount of voltage for driving various switches, motors, logic circuits, etc. to the main board 102, the payout control board 45, and the like. Supply.

  The power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 is a circuit for outputting a power failure signal to the NMI terminal 504 of the CPU 501 of the main board 102 and the NMI terminal 514 of the payout control board 45 when the power is shut down due to the occurrence of a power failure or the like. The power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 monitors a DC stable voltage (for example, 30 volts) that is the maximum voltage output from the power source unit 541, and if this voltage becomes less than a predetermined voltage, the occurrence of a power failure (power shutdown) is detected. The power interruption signal is output to the main board 102 and the payout control board 45 by judging. By the output of the power interruption signal, the main board 102 and the payout control board 45 recognize the occurrence of the power failure and execute the NMI interrupt process. Note that the power supply unit 541 outputs a voltage of 5 volts, which is the drive voltage of the control system, to a normal value for a time sufficient for execution of the NMI interrupt processing even after the DC stable voltage becomes less than the predetermined voltage. Configured to maintain. Therefore, the main board 102 and the payout control board 45 can normally execute and complete the NMI interrupt process.

  Note that the power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 can be disposed in a part other than the power supply board 251. For example, a power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 may be formed on the main board 102, and a power interruption signal may be input from the power failure monitoring circuit unit 542 to the non-maskable interrupt terminal (not shown) of the CPU 501 on the main board 102. It is also possible to omit the input of the power interruption signal to the payout control board 45.

The initialization switch circuit unit 543 outputs an RWM erase signal for clearing backup data to the main board 102 and the payout control board 45 when the initialization switch 544 is pressed by, for example, a game hall clerk at power-on. It has a circuit to do. When the RWM erase signal is input when the pachinko gaming machine 10 is turned on, the main board 102 and the payout control board 45 clear the data in the respective backup areas 503a and 513a.
<Functional configuration of main board and sub board>

  Next, the main board 102 and the sub board 104 will be described from a functional side. As shown in FIG. 5, the main board 102 in the present embodiment is a ball determination unit 110, a first lottery unit 126, a second lottery unit 128, a general drawing lottery unit 136, a holding control unit 116, and a main display control unit 118. , Condition holding means 176, special game control means 120, specific game execution means 122, opening / closing control means 124, small hit game control means 330, advance information notification means 157, and command transmission means 332.

  On the other hand, the sub-board 104 in this embodiment is constituted by the sub-main board 301 and the sub-sub-board 302 as described above. Of these, the sub-main board 301 is the pattern storage means 130 as shown in FIG. , Symbol mode determining means 131, effect determining means 132, and effect display control means 134. The sub main board 301 includes command receiving means 304 and effect mode transmitting means 305. Further, the sub-board 104 is provided with sound control means 312 for controlling speaker output and the like, and light control means 313 for controlling game effect lamp output and the like.

  Each functional block included in the main board 102 may be configured such that any one of the functional blocks is mounted on the sub main board 301 instead of the main board 102. Similarly, each functional block included in the sub main board 301 may be configured such that any one of the functional blocks is mounted on the main board 102 instead of the sub main board 301.

  However, since data transmission / reception between the main board 102 and the sub main board 301 is unidirectional from the main board 102 to the sub main board 301, the entire operation is realized by such data transmission / reception in one direction. Each component is arranged on the main board 102 and the sub main board 301. As described above, since the one-way transmission of data from the main board 102 to the sub main board 301 is maintained, data can be transmitted from the configuration included in the sub main board 301 to the configuration included in the main board 102. In addition, no data transmission can be requested. Therefore, the information generated on the main board 102 cannot be referred to from the sub main board 301 unless the main board 102 unilaterally transmits the information to the sub main board 301.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the sub sub board 302 includes an effect mode receiving unit 308, an effect executing unit 309, and the like, as in the sub main board 301.
<< Main functions of main board >>

  The entrance determination means 110 determines whether or not a game ball has entered each winning opening. When receiving the first start winning information, the winning determination means 110 determines that the game ball has won the first start winning opening 62, and when receiving the second start winning information, the game ball won the second start winning opening 63. Judge that When receiving the first grand prize opening winning information, the winning determination means 110 determines that the gaming ball has won the first big winning opening 91, and receiving the second big winning opening winning information, the gaming ball receives the second big winning prize. When it is determined that a winning is made in the mouth 92 and the general winning information is received, it is determined that the game ball has won the general winning opening 72. When receiving the passage information, the ball entering determination unit 110 determines that the game ball has passed through the operation port 68.

  The first lottery means 126 for executing the first lottery corresponding to entering the first start winning opening 62 is the first lottery value acquiring means 112, the first winning / failing determining means 113, the first pattern determining means 114, the first 1 design determination means 320 is included. The second lottery means 128 for executing the second lottery corresponding to the ball entering the second start winning opening 63 is the second lottery value acquiring means 115, the second winning / failing determining means 117, the second pattern determining means 119, the second 2 symbol determination means 322 is included. The result of the first lottery is shown in the form of variable display of the first special symbol 192 in the first special symbol display device 70, and in the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60 in the form of variable display of the decorative symbols 190a to 190c. Indicated by The result of the second lottery is shown in the form of variable display of the second special symbol 193 on the second special symbol display device 71, and in the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60, the form of variable display of the decorative symbols 190a to 190c. Indicated by

  When the first lottery means 126 and the second lottery means 128 start the symbol variation, the lottery result corresponding to the symbol variation is transmitted to the effect determining unit 132 together with the symbol variation control command.

  The first lottery value acquisition unit 112 acquires a random number value as the first winning / no-win lottery value for the first lottery when the first start winning opening 62 is entered. The second lottery value acquisition unit 115 acquires a random number value as the second winning / no-win lottery value for the second lottery when the player enters the second start winning opening 63. For example, the values acquired as the first winner / lottery value and the second winner / lottery value for the winner lottery are acquired from a value range from “0” to “65535”. In the present embodiment, the random numbers acquired as the first winning / losing lottery value and the second winning / losing lottery value are a hardware random number (built-in random number generated inside the CPU 501) sharing one generating device configured by hardware. It is generated by a two-stage random number generation means that calculates (adds) a software random number (soft random number) extracted by a software random number generation program (a counter or the like that is updated every interrupt). Incidentally, if the acquisition timings are exactly the same, the hardware random number value based on the first start winning opening and the hardware random number value based on the second starting winning opening are acquired the same value. Therefore, it is designed so that only one random number acquisition system fails and does not have an unexpected game probability. The value acquired by the first lottery value acquisition unit 112 and the second lottery value acquisition unit 115 as the first winning / losing lottery value or the second winning / losing lottery value is temporarily held by the holding control unit 116. However, the first success / failure lottery value and the second success / failure lottery value are suspended within a range not exceeding the predetermined retention upper limit number retained by the suspension control means 116.

The first winning / failing determining means 113 executes a determining whether or not to shift to the special game or the small hit game based on the first winning / losing lottery value. The second success / failure determination means 117 executes a failure determination to determine whether or not to shift to the special game or the small hit game based on the second winning / failure lottery value. The first success / failure determination unit 113 and the second success / failure determination unit 117 hold a success / failure determination table referred to in the determination of success / failure.
<< Numerical numbers related to the lottery >>

  FIG. 9 shows a correspondence between a random number per special symbol (hereinafter, referred to as “whether random number”), which is a random value serving as the first winning / losing lottery value, or the lottery result. The success / failure determination table in this figure associates determination results of big hits, small hits, and outliers with winning / failure lottery values. Depending on the respective range settings, The probability of success / failure is determined. The first hit determination unit 113 and the second hit determination unit 117 (see FIG. 5) refer to the determination table of FIG. In both the first lottery performed by the first winning / failing determination unit 113 and the second lottery performed by the second winning / failing determination unit 117, a big hit is made only when the winning / losing lottery value falls within the range of “63239 to 63402” in normal times. When the probability changes, the range of the big hit is expanded, and not only when the winning / losing lottery value falls within the range of “63239 to 63402” but also when the lottery falls within the range of “63403 to 64878”. Thus, the range corresponding to the big hit changes according to the gaming state.

  Further, in this embodiment, when the success / failure lottery values are “0 to 63238” and “65535”, there is a genuine deviation that does not correspond to the big hit range and the small hit range. That is, the lottery result corresponding to the upper limit value “65535” and the range from “0” to “06328” that is the lower limit value of the random number value range are different.

  Further, in the case where the winning lottery value is “64879 to 65429”, the lottery result is a small hit only in the first lottery, and the lottery result is lost in the second lottery. Further, in the case where the success / failure lottery value is “65430 to 65534”, the lottery result is a small hit in both the first lottery and the second lottery. In other words, the first lottery has a wider range corresponding to the small hit than the second lottery, and the small win is likely to occur. In the present embodiment, the case where it does not correspond to the big hit is defined as a deviation in a broad sense, but since the game nature that assigns the lottery result of the small hit to a part of the broad sense of deviation is adopted, the explanation is concise. Therefore, here, only genuine detachment is referred to as “detachment” in a narrow sense.

  FIG. 10 shows, as an example of the first game, assignment of lottery results to random value ranges at normal probability and high probability, grouped into random value ranges a to e. As described above, the total random number range of the random numbers is “0 to 65535”, and the total number of random number values (number of random numbers) is 65536. The random number range “a” from “0” to “63238”, which is the lower limit value, is assigned a lottery result of outlier (hereinafter also referred to as “first outlier”). Furthermore, a lottery result of “big hit 1”, which is a big hit common at the normal time and at the time of probability change, is assigned to the random value range b of “63239 to 63402” continuous to the random value range a of the first loss, Subsequent random number value range “63403 to 64878” is assigned a lottery result of “big hit 2”, which is a bonus only at the time of probability change.

  Further, the random value range d of “64879 to 65534” following the big hit 2 is assigned a lottery result of the small hit, and the random value range e of “65535” which is the upper limit value is out of place (hereinafter referred to as “No. The lottery result is also assigned. The first outlier range a and the second outlier range e are separately arranged at the lower end and the upper end of the entire random value range. Furthermore, the second outlier range e arranged on the upper side is set smaller than the first outlier range a arranged on the lower side, and the first outlier range e of the second outlier range e is The portion that is the difference from the deviation range a is satisfied as much as possible by the small hit range d.

  The number of random numbers corresponding to the first loss is 63239. Furthermore, the number of random numbers corresponding to jackpot 1 is 164, and the number of random numbers corresponding to jackpot 2 is 1476. The big hit probability at the normal probability in the first game is 164/65536, and the big hit probability at the high probability is 1640 (= 1476 + 164) / 65536. Further, the number of random numbers corresponding to the small hit is 656, and the small hit probability is 656/65536. Here, FIG. 10 shows the sizes of the random value ranges a to e sensibly for the sake of convenience, and the ratio (width) of the random value ranges a to e shown in FIG. It does not exactly match the actual ratio of the number of random values included in e.

  Further, as described above, the success / failure random number can take a value in the range of “0 to 65535”. In this embodiment, the failure / randomness number is a built-in random number (hardware random number) in the numerical range of “0 to 65535”. And a soft random number (software random number) per special symbol in the numerical range of “0 to 65520”. The built-in random number is a value extracted from the built-in random number table. In the built-in random number table, numerical values in a predetermined range (for example, “0 to 65535”) are arranged in an arbitrary order, and a count value is incremented by 1 by hardware (counter circuit) using a clock input to the CPU 501. Each time a numerical value arbitrarily arranged in the built-in random number table becomes an acquisition target according to the arrangement order regardless of the magnitude relation of the numerical values. Then, the numerical values in the acquired internal random number table are extracted and used for calculation with the soft random numbers. It can be said that such a built-in random number is a random number generated by a random number generation device including a hardware configuration.

On the other hand, the software random number is a random number generated by a random number generation device having a software configuration in which numerical values arranged in ascending order or descending order are obtained by adding one count value for each interrupt by a programmed counter. It can be said. In this embodiment, the random number of soft random numbers per special symbol is “65521” which is a prime number, and the software random number added to the built-in random number as the addition source is more than the built-in random number. The random value range (the size of the random number) is set small. In addition, the generation of the random number is not limited to simply adding the built-in random number and the software random number, but for example, adding or adding / subtracting / adding / subtracting a predetermined number is performed. , Another calculation may be used.
<< Numerical numbers related to symbol lottery >>

  The first symbol determination means 320 and the second symbol determination means 322 shown in FIG. 5 separately obtain the above-described symbol lottery value (design random number per special symbol; hereinafter, also referred to as “symbol random number”) and the above-described determination of success / failure. Based on the result, the stop symbol is determined at the start of symbol variation. The first symbol determination means 320 and the second symbol determination means 322 hold a plurality of symbol determination tables that are referred to in order to determine the stop symbol of the special symbol. The first symbol determination unit 320 and the second symbol determination unit 322 refer to different symbol determination tables depending on the determination result.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram schematically showing a symbol determination table. FIG. 11A is a table that is referred to when the determination result is a big hit, FIG. 11B is a table that is referred to when the determination result is out of order, and FIG. This table is referred to when the determination result is a small hit. The first symbol determination means 320 and the second symbol determination means 322 refer to the symbol determination table of this diagram in symbol determination. Each symbol determination table defines the correspondence between the special symbols represented by the symbols α and β other than the numbers and characters “0” to “9” and the first symbol lottery value or the second symbol lottery value. ing. Each type of special symbol is associated with the success / failure determination result of big hit, small hit, and out of order, odd numbers correspond to big hits, even numbers correspond to small hits, and symbols α and β are out of place. Correspond.

  As shown in FIG. 11 (a), special symbols “1”, “3”, “5”, “7”, and “9” that are odd numbers among the special symbols “0” to “9” are associated with the jackpot. . Among them, the special symbol “7” indicates a 15R jackpot with certainty. The first symbol lottery value is associated with “0-399”, and the second symbol lottery value is associated with “0-574”. It is done. The special symbol “3” indicates a 2R jackpot with certainty. The first symbol lottery value is associated with “400 to 599”, and the second symbol lottery value is associated with “575 to 599”. Special symbols “1”, “5”, and “9” indicate 15R big hits without any probability change, and both the first symbol lottery value and the second symbol lottery value are associated with “600 to 759” and the special symbol “1”. The special symbol “5” is associated with “760-914”, and the special symbol “9” is associated with “915-999”.

  As shown in FIG. 11B, the symbol α is associated with the symbol lottery value range “0-479”, and the symbol β is associated with the symbol lottery value range “480-999”.

  As shown in FIG. 11C, the special symbols “0”, “2”, “4”, “6”, and “8” that are even numbers among the special symbols “0” to “9” are associated with the small hits. Yes. The special symbol “0” is associated with the symbol lottery value range “0 to 199”, the special symbol “2” is associated with the symbol lottery value range “200 to 399”, and the special symbol “4” is the symbol lottery. The special symbol “6” is associated with the value range “400 to 599”, the special symbol “6” is associated with the symbol lottery value range “600 to 799”, and the special symbol “8” is the symbol lottery value range “800 to 999”. Is associated with.

  Here, the symbols corresponding to the symbols α and β are used for the following effects control. That is, when a small hit occurs for the first special symbol 192, the limited variation pattern table is referred to as the symbol variation of the first special symbol 192 after the end of the small hit game. At this time, the limited variation pattern table of the first special symbol 192 is referred to in a different manner depending on which symbol the second special symbol 193 is stopped, and the variation pattern is selected. For example, when the second special symbol 193 is stopped and displayed as the off symbol α, the variation pattern is selected according to the limited frequency table for 10 times as the symbol variation of the first special symbol 192 after the end of the small hit game. In addition, when the second special symbol 193 is stopped and displayed with the off symbol β, the variation pattern is selected according to the limited frequency table for 20 times as the symbol variation of the first special symbol 192 after the end of the small hit game. Thereby, since the special effect can be executed in a different manner depending on which symbol the second special symbol 193 is stopped at, the range of the design of the effect can be widened. Hereinafter, depending on the situation, an effect performed using the limited variation pattern table is referred to as a limited variation pattern effect.

  In the present embodiment, the symbols α and β are both associated with the limited variation pattern effect, but are not associated with the limited variation pattern effect (eg, “-” (hyphen)). May be added. By doing in this way, it becomes possible to set the occurrence probability of the limited variation pattern effect in the case of the deviation more finely. For example, by setting the ratio of the symbol lottery value of the symbol “-” to be sufficiently larger than the ratio of the symbol α and the symbol β, it is possible to realize the game control that the limited variation pattern effect is not executed in most cases of deviation. .

  Also, in this embodiment, when the result of the lottery is a big hit, the special value (non-probable variation) that does not change with certainty is not added to the upper limit value “999” in the numerical range of the above-described symbol random number. Assigned. In addition, the lottery result of the non-probable variation symbol may be assigned to the lower limit “0”, and the lottery result of the non-probable variation symbol may be assigned to both the upper limit value and the lower limit value.

The above-described symbol lottery is performed by software random numbers, and the random number generation process is simplified as compared with the winning lottery using both software random numbers and hardware random numbers. This is because the lottery is likely to be a subject of fraud, whereas the symbol lottery is not subject to fraud compared to the lottery, so the crystal oscillator required to generate hardware random numbers for the symbol lottery This is because a configuration that does not require the use of such components is used.
<< Numerics related to variation pattern lottery >>

  Returning to FIG. 5, the first pattern determining means 114 separately acquires a variation pattern in which a variation process of the symbol variation to be displayed on the first special symbol display device 70 and the effect symbol display device 60 is determined. Is determined from a plurality of fluctuation patterns. The second pattern determining means 119 has a plurality of variation patterns in which a symbol variation display process to be displayed on the second special symbol display device 71 and the effect symbol display device 60 is determined based on a second pattern lottery value separately acquired. Determine from the variation pattern. The first pattern determining unit 114 and the second pattern determining unit 119 each determine a variation pattern of the symbol variation with reference to the variation pattern table when starting the symbol variation. The first pattern determination unit 114 and the second pattern determination unit 119 each hold or share a plurality of variation pattern tables as variation pattern selection criteria to be referred to for determining the variation pattern.

  In the variation pattern, a variation time from a variation start to a stop when the special symbol is variably displayed is determined, and has various variation times depending on the type. That is, for each variation pattern, a variation display time is defined for each pattern as an end condition of the symbol variation, and the variation of the special symbol is stopped when the variation display time elapses. The plurality of variation pattern tables are determined so that the variation time selection tendency (the trend related to the variation display time of the variation pattern to be selected) is different as the correspondence relationship between the variation pattern and the lottery value.

  The plurality of variation pattern tables include a limited variation pattern table that is a selection criterion that is different from the other variation pattern tables in the tendency of the effect contents. In the limited variation pattern table, when the first special symbol 192 determined by the first symbol determining means 320 corresponds to the small hit, it is referred to in a limited period after the end of the small hit game.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram schematically showing the variation pattern table. The first pattern determining unit 114 or the second pattern determining unit 119 refers to the variation pattern for loss shown in FIG. 12A when the result of the determination is wrong. The first pattern determination unit 114 and the second pattern determination unit 119 refer to the variation pattern table of this figure in variation pattern determination. When the determination result is a 15R jackpot, the fluctuation pattern table for 15R jackpot shown in FIG. When the determination result is 2R big hit or small hit, the variation pattern table for 2R big hit and small hit shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 12A, the pattern lottery value “0 to 2599” is associated with the super reach “super 1”, and the pattern lottery value “2600 to 4999” is associated with the super reach “super 2”. It has been. The pattern lottery value “5000 to 49999” is associated with any variation pattern of “normal 1”, “normal 2”, and “no reach”. As described above, when the determination result is out of order, any of super reach, normal reach, and no reach may be selected. In the variation pattern table for loss, particularly when a variation pattern of “no reach” is selected, a different table is referred to so that a variation pattern having a shorter variation time than the normal state is selected in the short time state. Further, the variation pattern table for loss is defined so that the column to be referred to is different for each number of reservations.

  In FIG. 12B, the super lot of “Super 1” is associated with the pattern lottery value “0 to 23519”, and the super reach of “Super 2” is associated with the pattern lottery value “23520 to 47039”. It has been. The pattern lottery value “47040 to 48999” is associated with the reach of “normal 1”, and the pattern lottery value “4900 to 49999” is associated with the reach of “normal 2”. As described above, when the determination result is 15R big hit, the variation pattern with reach is selected.

  In FIG. 12C, the pattern lottery value “0-23999” is associated with the super reach “super 3”, and the pattern lottery value “24000-49999” is associated with the normal reach “normal 3”. ing. As described above, when the determination result is 2R big hit or small hit, “Super 3” or “Normal 3” is selected with a probability of about 50%.

The pattern lottery described above is performed by software random numbers as in the case of the symbol lottery, and the random number generation process is simplified as compared with the acceptance lottery using both software random numbers and hardware random numbers. This is similar to the symbol lottery, where the winning lottery is likely to be subject to fraud, whereas the pattern lottery is less likely to be subject to fraud than the winning lottery, so a hardware random number is generated for the pattern lottery. This is because it is possible to eliminate the use of parts such as a crystal oscillator necessary for the above.
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  The various variation patterns exemplified as described above have more types of variation patterns that are distinguished depending on the contents of effects. Further, these variation patterns are finely assigned to the lottery results for disparity, big hits, and small hits, and for each lottery result, it is possible to calculate the effect average time of the variation patterns that can be executed. In the present embodiment, a special difference is set from the viewpoint of fraud prevention with respect to the effect average time out of the small hits, and between them, (the average effect time in the small hits)> (the difference of the loss (Direction average time) is established.

  In addition, the production average time here is a predetermined number of times (for example, 10,000 times) that is a plurality of times or more, or the symbol variation based on the lottery result of the small hit is stopped from the start of the symbol variation for each lottery result. It is a property obtained by adding and averaging the required time until. When a lottery result advantageous to a player such as a big hit or a small hit is obtained, a long time is required from the start to the end of execution of the variation pattern due to the selection tendency of the variation time described above. However, there are various variation patterns, and when compared individually, the off-stage effect time may be longer than the big hit or small hit effect time. For example, in comparison to a variation pattern that results from the development of the production being repeated, the production is a small hit without the development, or a production intended to make it difficult for the player to recognize that the small hit Then, there may be a case where the variation pattern that is a small hit is shorter. Based on such circumstances, in this embodiment, the production average time is adopted as an index, and based on this index, the long and short correlation of the production time that is out of the small hits is maintained in as many cases as possible. In addition, the design relating to the performance time and content of the small hit and off is performed.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the average production time of outliers is calculated including the production time in the case where the time-shortage control is based on the number of holdings (for example, four cases). However, the present invention is not limited to this, and with respect to the production average time for only the number of reservations up to a predetermined number (for example, 0 to 3), the production average time out of the small hits as described above. A relationship may be set.

The “predetermined number of times” set to calculate the performance average time can theoretically give a tendency to the performance time that is out of the small hits if it is multiple times or more. In many cases, in order to maintain the desired long and short relationship related to the performance time of the small hit and off, as described above, a sufficiently large number of times (for example, 10,000 for each of the small hit and off It is desirable to design so that the correlation of the production average time is maintained. As a design method, a method of actually measuring the total of the production time over a “predetermined number of times” and obtaining an average value thereof, without performing actual measurement, the “predetermined number of times” from the design value of the time related to the variation pattern It is possible to exemplify a method of assuming the appearance of a fluctuation pattern over a range of time by simulation or the like and obtaining the average value. In addition, the “predetermined number of times” is not necessarily required to be the same number of times for the small hits and the deviations. For example, the “predetermined number of times” for the small hits is set to be larger or smaller than the loss. It is possible to do. In this way, it is possible to finely adjust the relationship between the performance times of the two that are actually expressed in consideration of the impression given to the player, for example.
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  Returning to FIG. 5, the general drawing lottery means 136 executes a lottery by acquiring a lottery value when a game ball passes through the operation port 68. The result of the lottery by the normal symbol lottery means 136 is variably displayed in the form of a normal symbol on the normal symbol display device 59. The general symbol lottery means 136 holds a symbol determination table to be referred to in order to determine the stop symbol of the normal symbol to be displayed on the normal symbol display device 59. The symbol determination table defines the correspondence between the lottery value and the normal symbol, and the normal symbol lottery means 136 determines the stop symbol of the normal symbol with reference to the symbol determination table. When the determined stop symbol becomes a predetermined symbol, it is determined that the normal symbol is a hit, and after the stop display of the normal symbol is stopped at the stop symbol, the opening / closing control means 124 sets the second start winning opening. 63 normal electric accessories are expanded for a predetermined time. The lottery value of the normal symbol is temporarily held by the hold control means 116. However, the lottery value is held only when the predetermined hold upper limit number held by the hold control means 116 is not exceeded.

  The holding control unit 116 includes a first holding unit 144, a second holding unit 146, and a general drawing holding unit 147. When the symbol variation corresponding to the previous lottery is displayed when the first lottery is newly executed, the first holding means 144 displays the new first lottery result corresponding to the lottery. Hold until fluctuating display starts. In the present embodiment, the result of the first lottery holds the lottery value with an upper limit of four. When the symbol change corresponding to the previous lottery is displayed when the second lottery is newly executed, the second holding means 146 displays the result of the new second lottery corresponding to the lottery. Hold until fluctuating display starts. In the present embodiment, the result of the second lottery holds the lottery value with an upper limit of four. The general map holding means 147 holds the general map lottery value acquired by the general map lottery means 136 as a holding ball. These holding numbers are represented by the number of lighting or blinking of the first special figure holding lamp 20, the second special figure holding lamp 21, and the general figure holding lamp 22, respectively. The number of holds by the first holding means 144 and the second holding means 146 is also displayed in the display area 194.

  The lottery value held by the second holding means 146 is preferentially digested over the lottery value held by the first holding means 144 and the symbol variation is displayed. Therefore, even if the big hit lottery value is held in the first holding means 144, the symbol variation corresponding to the big hit lottery value of the first holding means 144 is not displayed as long as the second holding means 146 holds. Therefore, even if there is a big hit hold in the first holding means 144, there is a possibility that multiple consecutive big hits can be obtained by continuing to hit the second hold means 146 until a big hit hold is entered.

  The main display control means 118 includes first special figure control means 148, second special figure control means 150, and universal figure control means 153. The first special symbol control means 148 causes the first special symbol display device 70 to display the fluctuation of the first special symbol 192 according to the fluctuation pattern determined as a result of the first lottery by the first lottery means 126. The second special symbol control means 150 causes the second special symbol display device 71 to display the fluctuation of the second special symbol 193 according to the fluctuation pattern determined as a result of the second lottery by the second lottery means 128.

  When the second lottery 146 holds the result of the second lottery, the first special figure control unit 148 reserves the start of the symbol variation display corresponding to the first lottery. On the other hand, the second special figure control means 150 starts the symbol variation display corresponding to the second lottery regardless of whether or not the result of the first lottery is held by the first holding means 144. Thereby, when the lottery value is held by both the first holding means 144 and the second holding means 146, the lottery value held by the second holding means 146 is preferentially read and the symbol variation is displayed. The In such a case, the lottery value held in the first holding means 144 is not read until the number of holdings in the second holding means 146 becomes zero, and the symbol variation thereof does not start.

  The first special figure control means 148 and the second special figure control means 150 issue a change start command and a change stop command at the timing of starting and stopping the change display of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193, respectively. It transmits to the above-mentioned effect display control means 134. When transmitting the variation start command, the determined result determination result, the stop symbol, the value indicating each variation pattern, and the value indicating either the first lottery or the second lottery are produced together with the variation start command. It transmits to the display control means 134. When transmitting the variation stop command, a value indicating the stop symbol is transmitted to the effect display control means 134 together with the variation stop command. Thereby, the fluctuation display by the main display control means 118 and the effect display control means 134 is synchronized, and the interlock is maintained. The normal symbol control means 153 causes the normal symbol display device 59 to display the lottery result by the normal symbol lottery means 136 as a normal symbol variation display.

  The condition holding means 176 holds a special game operating condition as a condition for shifting to a special game including a plurality of unit games accompanied by opening of the special winning opening. The special game operation condition is a result indicating that the game shifts to the special game in the first lottery or the second lottery, and the content of the condition is that the symbol variation corresponding to the lottery is stopped.

  When the first lottery by the first lottery means 126 results in the transition to the special game, the special game control unit 120 operates the special game when the first special symbol 192 is stopped in a predetermined big hit mode. It is determined that the condition is satisfied, and the special game is executed by opening the first big winning opening 91. Similarly, the special game control means 120, when the second lottery by the second lottery means 128 results in the transition to the special game, when the second special symbol 193 is stopped in a predetermined big hit mode It is determined that the special game operation condition is satisfied, and the special game is executed by opening the second big prize opening 92. The special game is a game in which the opening / closing operation of the first grand prize winning opening 91 or the second big winning prize opening 92 is continuously performed a plurality of times, and is composed of a plurality of unit games with one opening / closing operation as a unit. Special games include a 15R jackpot that repeats a unit game 15 times and a 2R jackpot that repeats a short unit game only twice. In the case of 15R jackpot, the first grand prize port 91 or the second big prize port 92 is basically opened for about 30 seconds in one unit game. The special game control means 120 ends the special game when the set round number of unit games is exhausted.

  When the first lottery by the first lottery means 126 results in the transition to the small hit game, the small hit game control means 330 is stopped when the first special symbol 192 is stopped in a predetermined small hit mode. It is determined that the small hit game operating condition is satisfied, and the first big winning opening 91 is opened to execute the small hit game. Similarly, when the second lottery by the second lottery means 128 results in the transition to the small hit game, the small hit game control means 330 stops the second special symbol 193 in a predetermined small hit mode. It is determined that the small hit game operating condition is satisfied, and the second big prize opening 92 is opened to execute the small hit game. The small hit game is a game in which the opening / closing operation of the first big winning opening 91 or the second big winning opening 92 is performed a plurality of times, and is constituted by one unit game with two opening / closing operations. In the small hit game, the first big winning opening 91 or the second big winning opening 92 is opened only for a short time as in the case of the 2R big winning. The small hit game control means 330 ends the small hit game after executing the unit game once.

  Furthermore, the small hit game control means 330 has a function of notifying the sub main board 301 of the number of consecutive small hits to the sub-main board 301. Count and output. It is not limited to notifying the sub main board 301 of the number of consecutive small hits, but whether or not the number of consecutive small hits has reached a predetermined number, or the number of consecutive small hits within a predetermined period Whether or not it has been reached is determined, and when the number of consecutive small hits reaches a predetermined number, the sub-main board 301 may be notified to that effect.

  The specific game execution means 122 controls the normal game in the state of probability change and short time. The specific game execution means 122 always shifts to the time-saving state after the end of the special game regardless of whether the special game is caused by the result of the first lottery or the second lottery. On the other hand, the transition to the probability variation state after the end of the special game is limited to the case where the symbol determined by the first symbol determination means 320 or the second symbol determination means 322 is a jackpot symbol accompanying the transition to probability variation. The time-short state is continued until the total number of variable display times of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 reaches a predetermined number of end conditions, for example, 100 times from the end of the special game. The first pattern determining unit 114 and the second pattern determining unit 119 select a variation pattern having a short variation time so that the variation display time of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 is substantially shortened. However, in the normal state, the fluctuation pattern table corresponding to the number of holdings by the first holding unit 144 or the second holding unit 146 is referred to, and the variation time is reduced as the number of holdings by the first holding unit 144 or the second holding unit 146 decreases. A long fluctuation pattern is likely to appear. On the other hand, the probability variation state is continued until a special game with the next jackpot is executed. During the probability variation state, the probability that the success / failure determination result by the first success / failure determination unit 113 or the second success / failure determination unit 117 is a big hit is maintained at a high value.

  Prior information notifying means 157, when there is a ball entering the first start winning opening 62, the first lottery means 126 for the ball regardless of whether the symbol variation display corresponding to the ball is started. Information indicating the lottery result is transmitted to the sub-main board 301. In addition, when the second start winning opening 63 is entered, the lottery result by the second lottery means 128 is shown for the entered regardless of whether or not the symbol variation display corresponding to the entered is started. Information is transmitted to the sub main board 301. Hereinafter, information indicating the lottery results will be referred to as “hold lottery results”. The holding lottery result includes information indicating whether the first start winning opening 62 or the second starting winning opening 63 is entered, and a hit / miss range / design range / pattern range as a pre-determination result.

  As a modified example, as described above, the probability variation duration is determined so that, for example, the number of variable displays of the first special symbol 192 and / or the second special symbol 193 reaches 100 after the special game ends. It is also possible. Such a method is generally referred to as frequency change probability change or ST, but it is possible to produce an effect in which the effect of the notice is made different according to the remaining number of the probability change continuations. For example, it is conceivable that the notice effect is frequently executed as the remaining number of the probability variation continuation times decreases, or the information reserved in the hold control means 116 is determined in advance and the notice effect is continuously executed.

The opening / closing control means 124 controls the opening / closing of the ordinary electric accessory of the second start winning opening 63, the first big winning opening 91, and the second big winning opening 92. When the normal symbol is stopped in a specific manner, the opening / closing control means 124 sends an opening instruction to the ordinary electric accessory solenoid 76 to open the ordinary electric accessory at the second start winning prize opening 63. In the special game, the opening / closing control means 124 sends an opening instruction to the big prize opening solenoid 80 or the big prize opening solenoid 81 to open the first big prize opening 91 or the second big prize opening 92. In addition, the opening / closing control means 124 performs an opening extension that causes the expansion mechanism of the second start winning opening 63 to be expanded for a longer time than in the normal state in the probability changing state and the short time state after the normal special game.
<< Main functions of sub-main board >>

  In the sub-main board 301, the command receiving unit 304 receives various commands from the main board 102, and is determined and controlled by a symbol mode determining unit 131, an effect determining unit 132, an effect display control unit 134, and the like as will be described later. The production mode information related to the production mode is transmitted to the sub-sub board 302 via the production mode transmission means 305.

  The pattern storage means 130 provided in the sub-main substrate 301 holds a plurality of effect patterns in which effect image contents to be displayed on the effect symbol display device 60 in the variation of the decorative symbol 190 and the display process thereof are determined. The effect pattern is displayed separately from a plurality of variable effect patterns in which the change process from start to stop of the change and the change process in the change display of the decorative pattern 190 and the change display of the decorative pattern are displayed, and the degree of expectation for the jackpot And a plurality of notice effect patterns that suggest the height of the notice before the change display stops.

  The effect determining means 132 is displayed on the effect symbol display device 60 by the effect display control means 134 according to the result of the first lottery received from the first lottery means 126 or the result of the second lottery received from the second lottery means 128. The contents of the production to be performed are determined. The effect determining unit 132 selects any one of a plurality of variation effect pattern data corresponding to the variation pattern of the special symbol determined by the first pattern determining unit 114 or the second pattern determining unit 119 and selects the pattern storage unit 130. Read from. The effect determination means 132 determines the combination of the stop symbols of the decorative symbols 190a to 190c based on the stop symbol or variation pattern of the special symbol determined by the first lottery means 126 or the second lottery means 128.

  The stop symbols of the decorative symbols 190a to 190c are formed as a combination of three symbols, and are specified when, for example, the determination result of the first lottery means 126 or the second lottery means 128 indicates a transition to a special game of 15R big hit. For example, a combination of three symbols such as “777” and “111” is selected. In this case, it is preferable that the same numbers as the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 are selected as the numbers to be arranged as the decorative symbols 190a to 190c. For example, when the first special symbol 192 or the second special symbol 193 is “7”, the decorative symbols 190 a to 190 c are “777”. Or you may make it show the big hit also by the combination of the design in which the specific symbol which shows that it is a hit is at least one of three symbols. A specific combination, for example, a predetermined combination such as “357” is also selected when the result of the determination is a 2R big hit or a small hit, but the specific combination is not necessarily a combination of three symbols. It does not have to be. When the determination result is neither big hit nor small hit, it is a combination in which three symbols such as “312” and “946” are not arranged, and a specific combination selected at the time of 2R big hit or small hit A combination that does not apply is selected. When the determination result is not 15R big hit, and a variation pattern indicating a loss with reach is selected, a combination with only one symbol such as “191” or “727” is selected. . The effect determining unit 132 sends the stop symbol combination of the decorative symbols 190 a to 190 c and the variation symbol pattern data of the decorative symbol to the effect display control unit 134.

  In the decorative design variation effect pattern data, a decorative symbol variation display mode, that is, a variation process and a variation process from the variation start to the variation stop of the decoration symbol are defined. The variation effect pattern includes a reach pattern that displays a stop symbol combination that is a hit state or a disagreement mode after a reach state that becomes a big hit if one more symbols are aligned, and a stop pattern that is a slip state without passing a reach state An unreachable pattern that displays the combination is included. In particular, the patterns that go through the reach state include patterns with various short and long fluctuation times. As described above, a reach pattern with a relatively short fluctuation time is called “normal reach” and a reach with a long fluctuation time is used. The pattern is called “super reach”. Each variation effect pattern has a variation time for each pattern as an end condition of the symbol variation, and the symbol variation is stopped when the variation time elapses. The effect determining means 132 selects a variation effect pattern of a decorative symbol having the same variation time as that of the special symbol, according to the variation pattern of the special symbol.

  The effect display control means 134 includes a first effect control means 168 and a second effect control means 170. The effect display control means 134 further controls effect processing related to sound output (sound) such as lighting and extinguishing of the game effect lamp 90 and sound output from the speaker 19.

  The first effect control means 168 and the second effect control means 170 use the first lottery result by the first lottery means 126 or the second lottery result by the second lottery means 128 as the selected variation effect pattern data. Therefore, the decorative symbols 190 a to 190 c are displayed in a variable manner in the display area 194 of the effect symbol display device 60.

  When the second lottery 146 holds the result of the second lottery, the first effect control unit 168 reserves the start of the symbol variation display corresponding to the first lottery. The second effect control means 170 starts the symbol fluctuation display corresponding to the second lottery regardless of whether or not the first lottery result is held by the first holding means 144. As a result, when the lottery value is held by both the first holding means 144 and the second holding means 146, the lottery value held by the second holding means 146 is preferentially read out, and the decorative design fluctuates. Is displayed. In such a case, the lottery value held by the first holding unit 144 is not read until the number of holdings of the second holding unit 146 becomes zero, and the variation of the decorative design does not start. Thus, the effect display control means 134 causes the effect symbol display device 60 to display the symbol variation effect including the variation display of the decorative symbols 190a to 190c.

  The effect determination unit 132 stores the pending lottery result notified by the prior information notification unit 157 in a predetermined buffer area. Further, the effect determination means 132 includes a lottery result regarding the change (change display executed at that time) as the main determination result notified from the first lottery means 126 and the second lottery means 128 of the main board 102, The notice effect is displayed in accordance with the reserved lottery result notified in advance by the information notification means 157 and stored in the buffer area. Specifically, a notice effect that is a precursor to suggest the presence or absence of a big hit in the result of the pending lottery in which symbol variation is performed at a future time is displayed. The effect determining means 132 executes a predetermined notice lottery for determining whether or not to display the notice effect, and on condition that the notice lottery is won (for example, with a predetermined probability). A notice effect is displayed. Thus, the notice effect set according to the preliminary determination result in the pending lottery result is called “prefetch effect”.

In addition, the effect determining unit 132 is configured to set the number of holds in the first holding unit 144 (hereinafter also referred to as “first holding number”) and the number of holdings in the second holding unit 146 (hereinafter referred to as “first” in the winning information). 2), and the first hold number and the second hold number at the current time point are specified in accordance with the execution state of the symbol variation (that is, the holding state). The effect display control unit 134 displays the first hold number and the second hold number specified by the effect determining unit 132 on the first hold number display unit 196 and the second hold number display unit 197 of the effect symbol display device 60. Display. Further, when the number of holdings is newly specified by the effect determining means 132, the display of the first holding number display unit 196 and the second holding number display unit 197 is sequentially updated.
<< Various patterns for prefetching production >>

  When the above-mentioned pre-reading effect is executed, an effect pattern (including visual and auditory ones) different from the normal effect pattern that appears before that is executed. The specific mode and execution start timing of the production pattern related to the pre-reading production are not uniform and are varied.

  For example, as an example of the pre-reading effect, a display using a hold display on the first hold number display unit 196 or the second hold number display unit 197 shown in FIG. Furthermore, as a different production pattern (hereinafter referred to as “holding change”) performed in the hold display, a change in the color, shape, or pattern of the hold ball display, or a hold display so that the flash is repeated. What blinks or a combination thereof can be cited. Among these, examples of changing the form of the reserved sphere display include those that change the color of the reserved sphere display to, for example, normally green, but to red or gold at a predetermined timing. In addition, the shape of the holding ball display can be changed from the normal perfect circle shape to various items and person forms related to the production story (all of which include moving images), or the form before the change of hold For example, it is possible to magnify the image while keeping the similar shape. Moreover, as what changes the pattern of a holding ball display, what changes from the display of a normal monochromatic pattern without a pattern to an animal body surface pattern etc. can be illustrated. Further, examples of blinking the hold display include those that vary the blinking cycle.

  Furthermore, the timing of such a holding change is also various, for example, based on the start winning (the detection of a game ball, which may be referred to as “target winning” in the following) that is the target of the holding change. Or, other starting prizes (also referred to as “other prizes” in the following) may be used as a reference. Furthermore, at the timing of the pending change based on other winnings, a change display (hereinafter referred to as “advance fluctuation”) related to a start winning that occurred prior to the target winning (hereinafter may be referred to as “preceding winning”). And the like based on the start prize (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “follow-up prize”) generated after the target prize.

  Among these, as the pending change based on the target winning, the effect determining means (not shown) which is a functional means provided in the sub-board 104 determines the target winning based on the preliminary determination result related to the target winning. There is a mode in which the hold change is executed from the beginning of the corresponding hold display. In addition, it is conceivable that the hold display corresponding to the target winning is initially started with a normal hold display pattern, and the hold is changed after a predetermined time has elapsed.

  Moreover, the following can be mentioned as a pending change on the basis of the state of a preceding winning prize or a preceding fluctuation. For example, the hold display related to the target winning is started with a normal display pattern, and thereafter, the variable display that was executed when the target winning is generated is ended. Then, the variable display related to the one that has been stored on hold earlier (the one that was stored on the first hold) among the start winning information related to the preceding winning that has been held until then is started. Then, when the hold display related to the target winning is shifted to a hold display that is one lower level (for example, shifted from the 4th to the 3rd hold display), a special display from the normal hold display pattern is displayed. It changes to a pattern.

  Further, as the pending change based on the state of the preceding winnings or the preceding fluctuations, there can be cited those which are executed continuously using the preceding fluctuations and straddling a plurality of fluctuation displays (a plurality of starting winning information). . And the following can be illustrated as an effect pattern of this continuous reservation change. For example, when the hold display related to the target winning is performed at the fourth position (fourth position (leftmost position)) in the first hold number display section 196 in FIG. The color is displayed in a color (for example, red) different from the color (for example, green) of the normal hold display at the first to third positions). Then, the reservation of the hold proceeds, and the position of the hold display related to the target winning is the right side to the third position, the second position, and the first position (left side in the case of the second hold number display section 197). Each time the shift to, the color of the hold display changes in order of orange, gold, and rainbow.

  Moreover, the following things can be illustrated as a pending | holding change on the basis of the above-mentioned subsequent winning prize. For example, every time a start prize is detected, the above-described effect determination means performs a lottery (holding change execution lottery) as to whether or not to perform a holding change related to the target winning, and the lottery result changes to hold. If it is, regardless of the position where the hold display related to the target winning is displayed, the hold display of the target winning performed at that time is changed to hold. Further, not limited to this, when the hold change execution lottery result indicates that the hold change is performed, the hold display related to the target winning is shifted to a predetermined position (for example, the second position). In addition, it may be possible to change the mode to a different mode. It should be noted that the hold change execution lottery is not limited to each start winning prize, but for example when a predetermined condition is satisfied (for example, during a specific effect mode or while a predetermined effect is being executed). You may make it carry out only.

  In the present embodiment, the hold display is taken as an example of the effect pattern related to the prefetch effect, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to control for stopping the effect pattern, for example. It is. And as a mode of control for stopping an effect pattern, for example, an effect (hereinafter referred to as “continuous notice”, including a pseudo one) that is continuous over a plurality of variable displays is executed. In such a case, a lottery for determining whether or not to end the continuous notice is determined based on the lottery result of the pre-read gaming state.

  Regarding the prefetching effects as exemplified above, in the present embodiment, the manner of transmitting the prior determination result to the sub-main board 301 is different for the first lottery and the second lottery. And as each transmission mode, the transmission timing of the information which shows the lottery result by the prior information notification means 157, how to divide a group, transmission contents, etc. can be mentioned. It is also possible for the sub-main board 301 to select an effect pattern depending on which of the random number value ranges a to e of the success / failure lottery is notified from the main board 102. Here, as an example of how to divide the group, transmission contents, etc., for example, the random value range e is incremented by 1 to the upper limit value “65535” of the random value range so that the random value range e is arithmetically continuous to “0”. For example, the lower limit value “0” of the random value range may be set to −1 to “65535”. By doing so, the range (e + a) can be made into one group and can be made into four groups as a whole.

In addition, as described above, the sub main board 301 is notified of the number of consecutive small hits from the main board 102. Then, when the number of consecutive small hits reaches a predetermined number, the sub main board 301 performs notification to that effect.
<Various commands transmitted from the main board to the sub main board>

  Next, various commands transmitted from the main board 102 to the sub main board 301 will be described. First, the command transmission timing is as follows: during initial screen display, customer waiting demonstration, special symbol change start, special symbol design confirmed, special symbol design confirmed, big hit start demo, small hit start demo There are times when the jackpot medium / large prize opening is opened, when the jackpot medium / large prize winning opening is closed, when the big hit end demonstration is completed, and when the big hit end demonstration ends. Among these, the initial screen display is a period from when the pachinko gaming machine 10 is powered on until the customer waiting demonstration starts and enters a steady state. In addition, command transmission is performed in any case at the time of start winning, at the time of power failure recovery, and at the time of error detection. Further, command transmission is executed even when the RAM is cleared.

  Among these commands, commands for clearing RAM include commands for effect display initialization, effect LED initialization, and various errors. The effect indicator initialization command is for displaying a predetermined off symbol on the effect symbol display device 60. The effect LED initialization command is to turn on a part of the game effect lamp 90 when communication is normal. The various error commands are used for effect display according to the error state.

  The customer waiting demo command is a customer waiting demo command. This customer waiting demonstration command is for setting the effect symbol display device 60 and the game effect lamp 90 for the customer waiting demonstration and deleting the sound.

  As a command at the time of starting the symbol change of the special symbol, the number of symbols 1 stored, the number of symbols 2 stored, the communication inspection 1, the communication inspection 2, the number of times of production A to Z, the production selection state 0 to 2, the variation additional information, the design 1 production There are commands for pattern, symbol 2 effect pattern, symbol 1 character effect, symbol 2 character effect. The symbol 1 memory number command indicates the number of reserved memories of the first special symbol 192, and the symbol 2 memory number command indicates the number of reserved memories of the second special symbol 193. The communication check 1 command and the communication check 2 command are for confirming whether or not normal communication is being performed. The various commands of the production times A to Z indicate the number of productions according to the above-described limited frequency table, and the various commands of the production selection states 0 to 2 indicate the types of production according to the limited frequency table. Is. The fluctuation additional information command indicates information for adjusting the fluctuation time. The symbol 1 effect pattern command is for transmitting a command corresponding to the variation pattern of the first special symbol 192, and the symbol 2 effect pattern command is for transmitting a command corresponding to the variation pattern of the second special symbol 193. Is for. The symbol 1 character effect command is for transmitting a command corresponding to the symbol of the first special symbol 192, and the symbol 2 character effect command is for transmitting a command corresponding to the symbol of the second special symbol 193. Is.

  As a command for determining a special symbol, there are a symbol 1 effect pattern stop command and a symbol 2 effect pattern stop command. The symbol 1 effect pattern stop command and the symbol 2 effect pattern stop command are used to stop the decorative symbols 190a to 190c based on the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193, respectively.

  The commands for determining a special symbol include: 0 fluctuation time reduction (low probability), fluctuation time reduction times A to Z (low probability), 0 fluctuation time reduction (high probability), and probability fluctuation ( There is a command of short time to next big hit. These are for transmitting a command relating to the gaming state at that time, and are used for the production mode display, the short-time display, and the like.

  As the command for the big hit start demonstration, there are a symbol one big hit start demonstration, a symbol two big hit start demonstration, and a command for specifying a launch position. The symbol 1 jackpot start demo command and the symbol 2 jackpot start demo command are for displaying a start demo based on the jackpot symbol of the first special symbol 192 or the second special symbol 193. The launch position designation command is used to notify the launch position when the player places a game ball between the first grand prize winning port 91 and the second big prize winning port 92 by so-called left-handed or right-handed. belongs to.

  As commands at the time of the small hit start demonstration, in addition to the above-described commands for finalizing the special symbols, there are a symbol small hit start demonstration, a symbol two small hit start demonstration, and a launch position designation command. Since the small hit is not accompanied by a probability change and the gaming state does not change, the special symbol determining command relates to the gaming state at the low probability. The symbol 1 small hit start demo command and the symbol 2 small hit start demo command are for displaying a start demonstration effect based on the small hit symbol of the first special symbol 192 or the second special symbol 193. The firing position designation command causes the player to place a game ball between the first big winning opening 91 and the second big winning opening 92 by so-called left hitting or right hitting as in the big hit start demonstration. In this case, the launch position is notified.

  The commands for opening the jackpot medium / large prize winning opening include the commands of symbol 1 big hit middle demo 1-16 and symbol 2 big hit middle demo 1-16. These are for displaying effects based on the jackpot symbols of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 and the number of rounds.

  As a command at the time of closing the big hit middle and big prize opening, there is a big winning opening closing command. This is for displaying the special prize closing effect.

  As a command at the time of winning / ending demo, there are a command of ending demo per symbol 1 and a command of finishing demo per symbol 2. These are for displaying a winning end demonstration effect based on the winning symbols of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193.

  As a command at the end of the big hit end demo, there is a launch position designation command. This is a case where it is necessary to distinguish the launch positions for reasons such as the positional relationship of the first start winning opening 62, the second starting winning opening 63, the first big winning opening 91, and the second big winning opening 92. In order to notify the launch position.

  As a command at the time of starting winning a prize, there are commands of winning notice, symbol notice, fluctuation notice, symbol 1 memory number, symbol 2 memory number. Each command of winning notice, symbol notice, and change notice is a pre-read command by the prior information notifying means 157. The hit notice command is for transmitting a random number range (any of a to e) of the random numbers, and the symbol notice command is for transmitting the random number range of the design random numbers. Further, the change notice command is for transmitting a random number range of the change pattern. The command of the number of stored symbols 1 and the number of stored symbols 2 is for transmitting the number of reserved memories of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193.

  As the command at the time of power interruption return, communication inspection 1, communication inspection 2, game state A to E for power interruption recovery, production times A to Z, production selection states 0 to 2, design 1 character production, design 2 character production, There are commands for the power failure return state, special symbol 1 state upon power interruption return, special symbol 2 state upon power interruption return, launch position designation, errors a to d, symbol 1 memory count, symbol 2 memory count.

  The commands of the communication inspection 1 and the communication inspection 2 are for confirming whether or not normal communication is being performed. The commands for the game states A to E for power interruption return are for transmitting different commands depending on the game state at the time of power interruption. The commands for the number of performances A to Z indicate the number of times related to the performance according to the above-described limited frequency table, and the commands for the effect selection states 0 to 2 indicate the types of effects according to the limited frequency table. is there. The symbol 1 character effect and the symbol 2 character effect command are for transmitting commands corresponding to the symbols of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193.

The power interruption return status command is for transmitting different commands depending on whether or not the big hit and the small hit are being hit. The special symbol 1 state at the time of power interruption return and the special symbol 2 state at the time of power interruption return are the commands according to the status of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 such as waiting, changing and hitting. It is for sending. The launch position designation command is for designating an appropriate launch position according to the situation as described above. Errors a to d are for transmitting the presence and type of error. The command of the number of stored symbols 1 and the number of stored symbols 2 is for transmitting the number of reserved memories of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193.
<Main control processing of pachinko machines>

  Next, main control processing of the pachinko gaming machine 10 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. Prior to the description, the terms “special electric accessory”, “condition device”, and “substantial action continuous operation device” used below will be described. Each of these represents a conceptual device in the control process of the pachinko gaming machine 10, and among these, the “special electric accessory” operates the first grand prize port 91 and the second major prize port 92. It will be. In addition, the “condition device” is activated when a game ball that has entered the first grand prize winning port 91 or the second grand prize winning port 92 is detected. An object can be operated several times in succession.

The main control processes of the pachinko gaming machine 10 described here are the control start process shown in FIGS. 13 and 14, the game progress interrupt process shown in FIG. 15, and the power-off process shown in FIG. It is executed on the main board 102. Furthermore, the control process of the payout control board 45 related to the control process in the main board 102 will also be described.
<< Control start processing >>

The control start process shown in FIG. 13 and FIG. 14 is a control process that is started after a security check using the manufacturing code of the CPU 501 is performed by turning on the pachinko gaming machine 10, and this control start process will be described later. After executing the necessary settings (S1 to S4) when the power is turned on, the operation state of the initialization switch 544 (S5), the value of the power interruption information flag in the power interruption status confirmation processing (S6 to S8), and the RWM area Corresponding to the addition result (checksum data), processing at power-off recovery (S9 to S23), RWM initialization processing (S24 to S28), circulation processing (S29 to S32), and the like are executed.
<<< Required settings at power-on >>>

  As necessary settings at power-on, stack pointer setting (S1), interrupt mode setting (S2), and access permission to RWM 503 are set (S3), and then the internal registers are initialized ( S4).

Among these, in the process of setting the stack pointer (S1), in order to secure the stack area, the stack pointer is set as the initial value of the stack pointer, and the stack pointer is set at a specific address. Next, in the interrupt mode setting (S2), a mode of a predetermined number is set, and in the access permission setting (S3) of the RWM, access permission data is set in a predetermined register to permit access to the RWM. To do. As a result, the maskable interrupt is set to a specific interrupt mode and the CPU built-in RWM is permitted to access. Further, in the setting of the internal register (S4), various corresponding setting values such as a game progress interrupt use setting value and a clock source selection value are set using the internal register initial setting table. The interrupt in the main board 102 will be described later.
<<< Checking the operation status of the initialization switch >>>

  In the process of confirming the operation state of the initialization switch 544 (S5), the state of the output signal of the initialization switch 544 input via the input port is confirmed. It is determined whether or not the initialization switch has been pressed (turned on). If it has not been pressed (S5: NO), the value of the power-off information flag in the power interruption status determination process (S6 to S8) described later The process proceeds to the determination process (S6). On the other hand, if the initialization switch 544 has been pressed (S5: YES), the RWM initialization process (S24 to S26) is performed.

  Here, it is determined that the initialization switch 544 has been operated when the RWM clear switch bit of the corresponding input port is determined to be on for five consecutive times. In addition, reading of information as to whether or not the initialization switch 544 has been pressed is performed only once at this time, and is not performed thereafter.

Further, in the state confirmation process (S5) of the initialization switch 544, the RWM head address (address) is set as the reference value of the relative address, the number of input confirmation times (here, 5 times) is set, and the corresponding input port Control processing such as input of a value, inspection of an RWM clear switch bit in the value of the input port, confirmation of an inspection result, input confirmation repeated for the set number of input confirmations, and the like are executed.
<<< Situation confirmation process at power interruption >>>

  In the power interruption status confirmation processing (S6 to S8) when the initialization switch 544 is not operated, the value of the power interruption information flag is read, and whether the read value matches predetermined power interruption normal data. It is determined whether or not (S6). The power-off normal data is stored when the power-off process is normally performed when a power-off (power-off) that turns off the power occurs. If the value of the power-off information flag does not match the power-off normal data and the determination result in S6 is NO, the control process will be described later as in the case where the initialization switch 544 is operated. The process proceeds to RWM initialization processing (after S24).

  If the value of the power-off information flag matches the power-off normal data (S6: YES), checksum data is calculated (S7). In the checksum data calculation process, although not shown, an initial value is set as the checksum data, a predetermined calculation is performed on the checksum data, and the checksum data after the calculation is 0. A determination is made as to whether or not.

If the checksum data is not 0 (S8: NO), that is, if the resumption preparation process execution condition is not satisfied, the RWM head high is set above the reference value of the relative address. The process proceeds to the initialization process (after S24). On the other hand, when the checksum data is 0 (S8: YES), the process proceeds to power-off recovery processing (S9 to S23) described later.
<<< Processing at power-off recovery >>>

  In the process at the time of power-off recovery, the value of the stack pointer buffer is set in the stack pointer, and the stack pointer is restored to the value stored at the time of power-off (S9). Furthermore, in order to inspect the communication line between the main board 102 and the sub board 104, a request to send an effect control command to the sub board 104 is made (S10, S11), and a decoration lamp (game effect lamp) and sound effect (sound) In order to return the effect of (effect) to the state before the occurrence of the power interruption, a request to transmit the effect control command to the sub-board 104 is made (S10, S11). Further, in order to make a request for a command corresponding to the number of suspended balls in the special symbol display device (70, 71), symbol memory number command request processing is executed (S12).

  Further, the solenoid is returned to the output state before the occurrence of power interruption (S13). Specifically, in order to return the open / closed state of the second start winning opening 63, the first big winning opening 91, and the second big winning opening 92 to the state before the power is turned off, the normal electric accessory solenoid 76, the big winning prize The solenoid actuation bits for the mouth solenoids 80, 81 are inspected in turn. When the solenoid operation bit of the normal electric accessory solenoid control is on, it is determined that the second start winning port 63 is open before the power is turned off, and the second start winning port 63 is opened. Store in the accessory solenoid control. Subsequently, when the solenoid operation bit of the first grand prize solenoid control is on, it is determined that the first big prize port 91 is open before the power is turned off, and the first big prize port 91 is opened. Is stored in the normal electric accessory solenoid control. When the solenoid operation bit of the second grand prize solenoid control is on, it is determined that the second big prize opening 92 is open before the power is turned off, and the solenoid action setting value is set to open the first big prize opening 91. Store in the normal electric accessory solenoid control.

  Thereafter, the process proceeds to the subsequent special symbol setting process (S14), and information on the operating state of the probability variation function of the special symbol display device (70, 71) is set. In this process, the value of the special symbol mode flag is loaded (in other words, the value of the special symbol mode flag is incorporated) and stored in a predetermined register. Next, the power recovery setting (S15) and the data storage process (S16) are executed, and further, the communication line abnormality detection setting with the payout control board is executed (S17). Here, the error flag address is set. Is set, and the communication line abnormality bit of the content of the error 1 flag is set.

  Subsequently, in the process of starting the game progress interrupt process, in order to start the game progress interrupt, the address of the PTC0 counter setting register is set, and the count value of a predetermined size (equivalent to 4 ms here) is set to the PTC0 counter setting register. (S18). As a result, a game progress interrupt is generated every 4 ms.

  Then, processing for restoring various registers other than the flag register is executed (S19), and processing for determining whether or not the state when the power interruption has occurred is interrupt enabled (S20) is executed. If the interrupt is prohibited when the power is turned off (S20: NO), the flag register is restored (S21), and the control process is turned off based on the restart index information set in the stack pointer. Return to processing of the address to be returned before occurrence. On the other hand, if the interrupt is permitted when the power is turned off (S20: YES), the flag register is restored (S22), the interrupt permission is set (S23), and then set to the stack pointer. Based on the restart index information, the control process is returned to the process to be returned before the occurrence of the power interruption.

Here, the flag register is restored separately from the other registers. The flag register stores game state information such as probability change, and the control processing is turned off as much as possible to restore the information. This is because it is performed immediately before returning before the occurrence of.
<<< Processing at initialization of RWM >>>

  In the RWM initialization process (S24 to S28), after clearing the RWM area (S24), initial setting of the RWM (S25), initialization of the effect indicator (effect symbol display device 60) (S26), And the time setting for game progress interruption is performed (S27). Among these, in the process of clearing the RWM area (S24) to initial setting of the RWM (S25), clear data (00H) is set in all areas of the RWM, and the clear data is stored as the reference value of the relative address. Is incremented by one. Further, bit 7 of the reference value is inspected, and the inspection result is determined. In the inspection result determination process, if the inspection result is 0, the process returns to the process of storing the clear data in the reference value. If the inspection result is 0, the address of the initialization data setting table is set. . Thereby, the initial value of RWM is set. Note that the clearing of the RWM area is not limited to that performed for all areas. For example, only a part of the area where specific information is stored or only an area excluding an unused area is cleared. Also good.

  In initialization of the effect display (S26), command request data is used with the address of the effect initial command setting table as an argument to initialize the effect symbol display device 60, and to send a command transmission request for error status and illegal prize ball monitoring information. Execute the setting process.

In the time setting process for game progress interrupt (S27), in order to start the game progress interrupt, a count value of a predetermined size is set in the corresponding counter setting register, and a game progress interrupt is generated every 4 ms, for example. .
<<< Circulation >>>

  After the time setting for game progress interruption (S27), preparation for recursion (restart) of a predetermined timer which is an interrupt processing time monitoring means and update of random number related values used for generating initial values of various random numbers are performed. A circulation process (S32) is executed. In this circulation process (S32), in order to manage the gaming machine, first, interruption is prohibited (S28). Further, in preparation for recurring the interrupt processing time monitoring means, a predetermined value as the first recursion information is set in the interrupt processing time monitoring means clear register (S29). Then, an initial value random number update process is executed (S30), and the initial value random number per normal symbol, the symbol initial value random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol are updated. Thereafter, after permitting the interrupt (S31), the process returns to the interrupt prohibition (S28) again, and the subsequent processes (S28 to S31) are sequentially repeated to circulate the control process.

Each time the interrupt permission (S28) is executed, the above-described game progress interrupt becomes possible, and the game progress interrupt process is repeated every predetermined period (here, 4ms period) based on the period information set in S27. .
<<< Initial value random number update processing >>>

  In the initial value random number update process (S30), since the initial value random number per normal symbol, the symbol initial value random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol are updated, the random number is updated from the initial value random number update table. The number of times is acquired, and the initial random number is updated for the number of times of update. In the acquisition of the random number update count, the content (number of random numbers) indicated by the data address (0D10H) in the first column of the left column of the initial value random number update table (see FIG. 17A) is set as the random number update count. . Here, the number of random numbers is three: an initial value random number per normal symbol, a symbol initial value random number per special symbol, and a soft initial value random number per special symbol. Furthermore, in the process of updating the initial value random number for the number of times of update, a 2-byte soft random number for the number of times of update, using as an argument the data address (0D13H) of the initial value random number address (lower order) per normal symbol of the initial value random number update table. Update processing (described later) is executed. When the number of updates is two or more, the reference value of the relative address acquired by the previously executed 2-byte soft random number update process is used as an argument. Then, using the random number value obtained by the 2-byte soft random number update process, a random number related value in the initial value random number update process (S30) is generated.

  Specifically, the address of the initial value random number update table is set as the reference value of the relative address, and the content of the reference value is loaded as the number of random numbers (in other words, the content of the reference value is incorporated). Next, after the reference value is incremented by 1 and the number of random numbers is saved, a 2-byte soft random number update process is executed. Further, the number of random numbers is restored, and if the result of decrementing the number of random numbers by 1 is not 0, the process returns to the process for saving the number of random numbers, and if it is 0, the initial value random number update process (S30) is exited.

Further, in the initial value random number update process (S30), when there is an abnormality in the random number related value, the random number related value is corrected. In this random number related value correction process, a random number related value is generated based on the random number value obtained in the 2-byte soft random number update process, and a predetermined value is subtracted from this random number related value. If the result of subtraction is 0, it is determined that the random number related value is normal and stores the random number related value, but if it is less than 0, it is determined that the random number related value is normal and the maximum value of the random number related value +1 is set as a correction value, the correction value is added to the random number related value, and then the obtained random number related value is stored. Thereby, the abnormality of the random number related value is detected, and the abnormal random number related value is corrected.
<<< 2-byte soft random number update process >>>

In the above-described 2-byte soft random number update process, the maximum random number value and random number storage address are acquired from the input relative address reference value, and the random number is updated. In the acquisition of the maximum value of the random number, the content indicated by the reference value +0 is the lower value of the random number maximum value, and the content indicated by the reference value +1 is the higher value of the random number maximum value. In the acquisition of the random number storage address, the content indicated by the reference value +2 is the lower random number storage address, and the RWM head upper address is the higher random number storage address. In updating the random number, the random number is incremented by +1, and when the random number exceeds the maximum value, the random number is incremented by 0. Therefore, a 2-byte random number is acquired from the content indicated by the acquired random number storage address, and the acquired random number is incremented by one. As a result of addition, if the obtained random number maximum value is exceeded, 0 is set. The updated random number is stored in the obtained random number storage address and then set in the output random number data. Further, the reference value +3 is set to the reference value to be output.
<< Game progress interrupt processing >>

  Next, the game progress interrupt process repeated at a cycle of 4 ms based on the period information set in the process of time setting for game progress interrupt (S27) will be described. As shown in FIG. 15, in the game progress interrupt processing, setting of interrupt operation conditions (S41, S42), recursion of interrupt processing time monitoring means (S43), management of gaming machines (S45 to S68), permission of interrupt ( S69) is performed in order to return to the process before the game progress interruption occurs.

  Specifically, in the interrupt operation condition setting process (S41, S42), in order to clear the interrupt flag, the interrupt operation condition setting value is stored in the game progress interrupt control register (S41), and the interrupt operation condition setting is performed. The value is set in the control register corresponding to the predetermined input terminal (S42). Thereafter, the second recursion information is set (S43), and the second recursion information is further set in the interrupt processing time monitoring means register (S44). As will be described later, the second recursion information is a condition for recurring and restarting the monitoring time of the interrupt processing time monitoring means together with the first recursion information set previously.

  In the management of gaming machines (S45 to S68), the following processes are executed in order to manage gaming machines. First, an input process (S45) is executed to monitor the input of a specific signal. What is monitored here is the various switches attached to the game board surface, the pan full switch, the open signal, the magnetic detection signal, the radio wave detection signal, the glass non-detection signal, and the disconnection short circuit power supply abnormality detection signal It is.

  Subsequently, various random number update processing (S46) is executed to update the normal symbol variation pattern random number and the variation pattern random number. Further, an initial value update type random number update process (S47) is executed to update the random numbers per ordinary symbol, the symbol random numbers per special symbol, and the soft random numbers per special symbol. Next, an initial value random number update process (S48) is executed to update the initial value random number per normal symbol, the symbol initial value random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol. Further, in order to update the 2-byte timer, a timer subtraction process (S49) is executed, and in order to set an effective period of the second start winning opening 63, an effective period setting process (S50) of the second start opening is executed. .

  Further, a winning monitoring process (S 51) is executed to store the number of times a prize ball is paid out, create an output request for board external information, and send a command to be sent to the sub-board 104. Subsequently, in order to control the payout control board 45, a prize ball control process (S52) is executed.

  Next, when the game ball passes through the normal symbol operating gate (operating port 68), a normal symbol operating gate monitoring process (S53) is executed to store a random number related to the normal symbol, and the normal symbol display device or the normal symbol is displayed. A normal symbol control process (S54) is executed in order to perform a process related to the electric accessory. Further, the normal symbol variation start monitoring process (S55) is executed in order to monitor the normal symbol variation start. In addition, in order to monitor the winnings of the first starting winning port 62 and the second starting winning port 63 of the game ball, the starting port monitoring control process (S56) is executed, and the first special symbol display device 70 or the second special symbol is executed. In order to perform a process related to the display device 71, a special symbol control process (S57) is executed. Subsequently, in order to perform the process related to the special electric accessory, the special electric accessory control process (S58) is executed, and the change start of the first special symbol 192 and the second special symbol 193 is monitored. A start monitoring control process (S59) is executed.

  Next, anomaly detection processing (S60) is executed to monitor magnetism, disconnection / short circuit / power supply monitoring, radio wave monitoring, glass frame set / game board frame open / close status, and pair glass monitoring Then, in order to detect an abnormal entry time, the incoming ball passage time abnormality detection process (S61) is executed. Further, in order to make a display request for the number of times that the special electric accessory is continuously operated, the error state, the number of the operation reserved balls of the normal symbol display device, and the number of the operation reserved balls of the special symbol display device, a game state display process (S62). ) Is executed, and solenoid output processing (S63) is executed to output the output data of the ordinary electric accessory solenoid, the first big prize opening opening solenoid, and the second big prize opening opening solenoid. In addition, special symbol display, normal symbol display, special symbol display device (70, 71) display of the number of active reserve balls, normal symbol display device display of the number of active reserve balls, game state display, special electric accessory LED output processing (S64) is executed in order to display the number of times of continuous operation and error display.

  Subsequently, a firing control signal output process (S65) is executed in order to output a signal for prohibiting / permitting the launch of the game ball, and a test signal output process (S66) in order to create and output a signal to be output to the test apparatus. Execute. Furthermore, an effect control command transmission process (S67) is executed to transmit an effect control command, and an external information output process (S68) is executed to output a signal to the external terminal.

Thereafter, the interrupt permission (S69) is executed, and the control process returns to the return (RET). Then, using the remaining time until the next game interrupt is executed, the above-described circulation process (S32) of the control start process is executed.
<<<< Random number update process >>>>

In the various random number update processing (S46), the normal symbol variation pattern random number and the variation pattern random number are updated. In the update of the normal symbol variation pattern random number, the normal symbol variation pattern random number is incremented by 1 and set to 0 when exceeding the maximum value (232 in this case), the lower address of the normal symbol variation pattern random number and the normal symbol variation pattern random number maximum The RWM update process is executed with the value +1 (here, 223) as an argument. In updating the variation pattern random number, a predetermined value (3511 in this case) is subtracted from the value of the variation pattern random number in order to update the variation pattern random number. If the subtraction result is less than 0, the variation pattern random number maximum value + 1 (here, 50000) is added to the subtraction result. The calculated result is stored in a fluctuation pattern random number.
<<< Initial value update type random number update process >>>

  In the initial value update type random number update process (S47), the initial value update type random number update table (see FIG. 17B) is used to update the random numbers per normal symbol, the symbol random numbers per special symbol, and the soft random numbers per special symbol. Obtain the number of random numbers to be updated, the maximum random number value, the address of the initial value update type random number, the address of the initial value work, and update the initial value update type random number.

  In the acquisition of the number of random numbers to be updated, the maximum random number value, the initial value update type random number address, and the initial value work address, the data address (0D30H) in the first column of the left column of the initial value update type random number update table ) (Number of random numbers) is the number of random numbers to be updated, and the maximum random number, initial value update random number address, and initial value work from the second column on the left column of the initial value update random number update table Are sequentially acquired for the number of random numbers to be updated.

In the initial value update type random number update, the initial value update type random number is incremented by +1 and set to 0 when the maximum value is exceeded, so the maximum value of the initial value update type random number in the initial value update type random number update table is described. The 2-byte soft random number update process is executed using the current address as an argument. As a result of execution, if the updated initial value update type random number value matches the contents of the acquired initial value work random number, the initial value of the initial value update type random number is updated two lines below the acquired initial value work address. The contents of the initial value random number indicated by the address (0D37H) and the address three lines below (0D38H) are set as new initial values and stored in the acquired initial value update type random number address and the acquired initial value work address.
<<< Initial value random number update processing >>>

For the initial value random number update process, the same program module as the initial value random number update process executed in the control start process is used, but the update period of the random number related value is the period of the game progress interruption (here 4 ms). This is different from the case where it is executed during the control start process.
<< Interrupt on main board >>

  Next, an interruption in the main board 102 will be described. On the main board 102, maskable interrupts and non-maskable interrupts are performed. Of these, maskable interrupts are caused by PT0I. The maskable interrupt by PT0I divides the system clock to realize an interrupt period of 4 ms, and the aforementioned game progress interrupt process is executed in this interrupt period.

  On the other hand, the non-maskable interrupt is generated when the main board 102 detects a power-off and outputs a power-off signal, and this power-off signal is input to the non-maskable interrupt terminal 504. Then, the power-off process (see FIG. 16) is executed when a non-maskable interrupt occurs.

The game progress interrupt processing is monitored by the interrupt processing time monitoring means, and this interrupt processing time monitoring means may be initialized and restarted within the timeout time set in the function setting of the program management area of the CPU 501. If it is not possible, a user reset occurs due to timeout. Then, the core of the CPU 501 is reset and the control start process is executed. The restart of the interrupt processing time monitoring means is executed when recursive information is set and the internal timer is initialized during the cyclic processing in the control start processing and during the game progress interrupt processing.
<< Power-off process >>

  Next, a power-off process that is executed when a power-off occurs will be described. As shown in FIG. 16, in the power-off process, the data of all the used registers is saved in the RWM (S81), and the interrupt enable / disable state before the power-off is saved (S82). Further, it is determined whether or not the power-on normal information is stored in the RWM (S83). If not stored (S83: NO), the power-off abnormality information is stored in the RWM (S84). The process proceeds to the RWM access prohibition process (S88). On the other hand, if it is stored (S83: YES), the value of the stack pointer is stored in the stack pointer buffer (S85), the information about normal power interruption is stored in the RWM (S86), and the RWM checksum is calculated. The checksum data is saved (S87). Then, access to the RWM is prohibited (S88), and the CPU 501 is waited for resetting while looping the control process.

In this power-off process, even if both the first recursive information and the second recursive information described above have not been set, the CPU 501 functions as a forced recursive means, and the first recursive information and the second recursive information Information is set, the monitoring time of the interrupt processing time monitoring means is forcibly initialized, and the time is recurred. Further, in the present embodiment, the forcible setting of the first recursive information and the second recursive information is performed immediately after the start of the power interruption process and at a timing before the process of saving all the used registers (S81). It has been broken. When the power supply is resumed, the control process is started in a state where the monitoring time is recursed. In other words, by forcibly recurring the monitoring timing when the power is cut off, the control processing can be prevented from proceeding without recurring monitoring timing in the control processing immediately after the power supply is resumed. It has become.
<< Random number on main board >>

  Next, random numbers used in the main board 102 will be described. The random number in the present embodiment is divided into a random number related to the operation of the accessory and another random number used for games. Random numbers related to the actuating action include normal random numbers per normal symbol, initial random numbers per normal symbol, random numbers per special symbol, soft random numbers per special symbol, soft initial random numbers per special symbol, special random numbers per symbol, and special symbols There are seven types of symbol initial value random numbers.

  The random number per ordinary symbol is a random number used for the lottery of the ordinary symbol display device. The value of the random number is “0 to 282”, and the size of the random number is 283. The update method is to first add 1 to the previous random number, and return to 0 if the addition result exceeds the maximum value, and if the random number makes one round, the initial random number value per normal symbol at that time is the normal symbol value. The value is a random number per hit. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and is updated once for each game progress interrupt. The acquisition time is when the passage of the game ball is detected by the passage detection device 69 of the operation port 68. The number of random values to be won differs depending on whether the probability is low or high, and is 11 at low probability and 282 at high probability.

  The initial value random number per ordinary symbol is a random number for determining the initial value of the random number per ordinary symbol and the end value of the random number per ordinary symbol. The value of the random number is “0 to 282”, and the size of the random number is 283. In the updating method, 1 is first added to the previous random number, and when the added result exceeds the maximum value, it is returned to 0. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and the update is performed even while the game progress interrupt is not executed.

  The random number per special symbol is a random number (hardware random number) generated by the software (ch) (channel) A of the random number circuit of the CPU 501 and acquired by software and used for lottery of the special symbol display device (70, 71). is there. The value of the random number is “0-065535”, and the size of the random number is 65536. The update method is to update once with two clocks of the crystal oscillator input to the RCK (random number clock) terminal of the CPU 501. The start value of the random number is a value based on the ID number of the CPU 501 and is changed every time the system is reset when the power is turned on (or off). The random number sequence changing method automatically updates the random number sequence every time the random number sequence completes a cycle. The update time is a timing set by a divide-by-two clock of the clock input to the RCK terminal.

  The acquisition timing differs depending on the start winning detection device 74 of the first start winning port 62 or the start winning detection device 75 of the second start winning port 63. In the case of the start winning detection device 74 of the first start winning opening 62, when the input signal is turned from OFF to ON, a low level is input to the P0 terminal of the CPU 501, and a random value (hardware) fetched from chA of the random number circuit. Random number) is stored in a random value register (RA0D). The internal random number (hardware random number) stored in the random number register (RA0D) is acquired when it is determined by software that the input signal of the start winning detection device 74 of the first start winning opening 62 is changed from OFF to ON. The random number per special symbol is a value obtained by adding a soft random number per special symbol to the acquired internal random number.

  On the other hand, in the case of the start winning detection device 75 of the second start winning opening 63, when the input signal is changed from OFF to ON, a low level is input to the P1 terminal of the CPU 501, and the disturbance taken in from the channel A of the random number circuit. The numerical value is stored in the random value register (RA1D), which is different from the case of the start winning detection device 74 of the first start winning opening 62.

  For random numbers per special symbol, the number of random values that will be won is indicated when displaying a combination of symbols that will cause the conditional device to operate, i.e., when it is a big hit, the conditional device does not operate, and It is different when displaying a combination of symbols that the special electric accessory will operate, that is, when it is a small hit. The number of random number values to be won is a difference between a low probability and a high probability, and is 164 at a low probability and 1640 at a high probability.

  On the other hand, the number of random numbers that will be hit by a small hit differs between the first special symbol display device 70 and the second special symbol display device 71, and the first special symbol display device 70 has 656, the second The number of special symbol display devices 71 is 105.

  Regarding the random number per special symbol, the random number period is about 0.013 s (seconds) because a random number having a size of 65536 is updated at a predetermined speed.

  The soft random number per special symbol is a random number used for the lottery of the special symbol display device (70, 71), and is added to the acquired internal random number when acquiring the internal random number generated by the chA of the random number circuit as described above. . The value of the random number is “0 to 65520”, and the size of the random number is 65521. The update method first adds 1 to the previous random number, and if the addition result exceeds the maximum value, it returns to 0, and if the random number makes one round, the value of the soft initial value random number per special symbol at that time is special The value is a soft random number per symbol. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and is updated once for each game progress interrupt. The acquisition time is when a winning of a game ball is detected by the starting winning detection device 74 of the first starting winning opening 62 or the starting winning detection device 75 of the second starting winning opening 63.

  The soft initial value random number per special symbol is a random number for determining the initial value of the soft random number per special symbol and the end value of the soft random number per special symbol. The value of the random number is “0 to 65520”, the size of the random number The height is 65521. In the updating method, 1 is first added to the previous random number, and when the added result exceeds the maximum value, it is returned to 0. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and the update is performed even while the game progress interrupt is not executed.

  The symbol random number per special symbol is a random number used to determine a symbol combination that is a big hit. The value of the random number is “0 to 999”, and the size of the random number is 1000. The update method first adds 1 to the previous random number, and if the addition result exceeds the maximum value, it returns to 0, and if the random number makes one round, the value of the soft initial value random number per special symbol at that time is special The value is a symbol random number per symbol. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and is updated once for each game progress interrupt. The acquisition time is when a winning of a game ball is detected by the starting winning detection device 74 of the first starting winning opening 62 or the starting winning detection device 75 of the second starting winning opening 63.

  The symbol initial value random number per special symbol is a random number for determining the initial value of the symbol random number per special symbol and the end value of the symbol random number per special symbol. The height is 1000. In the updating method, 1 is first added to the previous random number, and when the added result exceeds the maximum value, it is returned to 0. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and the update is performed even while the game progress interrupt is not executed.

  There are two types of random numbers that are used for games: normal symbol variation pattern random numbers and variation pattern random numbers. Among these, the normal symbol variation pattern random number is a random number used for variation pattern selection of the ordinary symbol display device, the random number value is “0-232”, and the random number size is 233. In the updating method, 1 is first added to the previous random number, and when the added result exceeds the maximum value, it is returned to 0. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and is updated once for each game progress interrupt. The acquisition time is when the passage of the game ball is detected by the passage detection device 69 of the operation port 68.

The variation pattern random number is a random number used for variation pattern selection of the special symbol display device (70, 71), the value of the random number is “0-49999”, and the size of the random number is 50,000. In the update method, first, 3511 is subtracted from the previous random number, and if the subtraction result is less than 0, 50000 is added to the subtraction result. The update time is for each game progress interrupt, and is updated once for each game progress interrupt. The acquisition time is when a winning of a game ball is detected by the starting winning detection device 74 of the first starting winning opening 62 or the starting winning detection device 75 of the second starting winning opening 63.
<Operational effects of the invention according to the present embodiment>
<< Operational effects at power-on >>

  Next, the effect of the invention in the pachinko gaming machine 10 of the present embodiment will be described. In the invention according to the present embodiment, when it is determined that the initialization switch 544 has not been operated on the main board 102 when the pachinko gaming machine 10 is turned on, the CPU 501 stores the power-off normal information. If the power-off normal information is stored, it is determined whether the checksum data is 0, that is, whether the restart preparation process execution condition is satisfied. If the checksum data is 0, after the resumption preparation process (S9 to S21, or S9 to S20, S22, and S23) is completed, the process returns to the address indicated by the resumption index information, and the control process is resumed.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the initialization switch 544 has been operated, initialization control processing (clearing the RWM area (S24), initial setting of the RWM (S25)) is executed, and thereafter, the game progress interruption processing Interrupt preparation processing (initialization of the effect display (S26)) is executed. In addition, after the interrupt preparation process, 4 ms is set as the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process (S27), the timer is counted based on the period information, and the game progress interrupt is started after the timing is started. The circulation process (S32) is executed while waiting for the interruption by the process. The initial value random number update process (S30) is executed every time the circulation process (S32) is executed, and the random number acquired during the game progress process is determined every time the circulation process (S32) is performed. Update the used random number-related value by +1.

  Here, since the setting of the cycle information and the start of the timing are performed immediately before entering the circulation process (S32), the period when the circulation process (S32) is first started after the power is turned on and the first time after the power is turned on. It is possible to secure a maximum interval from the time until the game progress interruption process is executed. Furthermore, the processes executed between the start of the circulation process (S32) and the initial value random number update process (S30) are the interrupt prohibition process (S28) and the first recursion information setting process (S29). Since no other processes are involved, the time required from the start of the circulation process (S32) to the initial value random number update process (S30) can be kept as short as possible. Specifically, immediately after the power is turned on, the time from the setting of the cycle information (S27) to the execution of the game progress interrupt process is 4 ms, whereas the initial value random number update process from the power-on or from the start of the circulation process The time until the execution of (S30) is, for example, several tens to several hundreds μs.

  Therefore, the initial value random number update process (S30) can be repeated as many times as possible during the period from when the power is turned on until the first game progress interruption process is executed. By the progress interruption process, execution of the initial value random number update process (S30) n times (n is an integer of 2 or more) or more can be compensated. Further, the rate of change of the random number related values set by the initial value random number update process (S30) from the power-on to the first game progress interrupt process increases. And the randomness of the random number related value obtained by the initial value random number update process (S30) is improved, and the randomness of the soft random number per special symbol determined by using this random number related value or the random value of the random number per special symbol is also obtained. Even after the power is turned on, it can be prevented from being easily identified or estimated from the outside of the pachinko gaming machine 10. The random number-related value is one element for determining the initial random number of the software random number that is added to the hardware random number. It makes identification and estimation more difficult.

  This is effective against the following illegal acts. That is, some recent pachinko machines change the initial value of the next timekeeping to a different value when the counter used for generating the random numbers for the big hit lottery reaches the maximum value (or the minimum value). Then, for this type of pachinko gaming machine, the power is forcibly turned off and turned on again so that it is not discovered by the people involved in the game hall, and the initialization switch 544 is operated when the power is turned on again. Initialize data.

  Even for pachinko machines of the type that change the initial value of the big hit lottery counter, the control process from power-on with data initialization is usually uniform, In some cases, the jackpot can be obtained using the value immediately after the power is turned on. However, like the pachinko gaming machine 10 of the present embodiment, the initial value random number update process (S30) is executed as many times as possible before the first game progress interruption process after power-on. Thus, it becomes difficult to predict the random number related values, and hence the soft random numbers per special symbol and the acquired values of the random numbers per special symbol, and it is possible to forcibly initialize the data and prevent fraud targeting the big hit. Such technical measures also serve as a deterrent to those who attempt fraud.

  Further, according to this embodiment, even if it is determined that the initialization switch 544 is not operated when the pachinko gaming machine 10 is turned on, if the checksum data does not become 0, the initialization control process After executing (S24, S25) and subsequently executing an interrupt preparation process (S26) for preparing for the game progress interrupt process, the operation of the initialization switch 544 is performed when the power is turned on after setting the cycle information (S27). The circulation process (S32) is executed in the same way as there is. For this reason, it is possible to execute the game progress interruption process after executing the initial value random number update process more than once for more situations immediately after the power is turned on, and the randomness of the random number per special symbol used for the big hit lottery determination Can be further improved.

  Note that the present invention having such effects can be applied not only to soft random numbers per special symbol and random numbers per special symbol, but also to other various random numbers as long as random numbers using random number related values by the initial value random number update process are used. Randomness can be improved.

In other words, in the invention according to this embodiment, the value related to the random number is updated during the cyclic processing after the interrupt timing processing is executed based on the period information. Furthermore, immediately after the power is turned on, the time from the setting of the cycle information (S27) to the execution of the game progress interrupt process, the time from the power on, or from the start of the circulation process until the initial value random number update process (S30) is started. The value related to the random number is updated over the number of times obtained from the relationship with the time. The number of updates performed between the time when the interrupt timing process is first activated and before the occurrence of the game progress interrupt process is secured at least four times. If it is determined that there is no information initialization input such as an operation of the initialization switch 544, and if it indicates that the restart preparation process execution condition is not satisfied, the initialization control process and the interrupt The preparatory process is executed, and the interrupt timing process and the cyclic process are executed. And according to the invention according to the present embodiment, a random period is set as many times as possible by deliberately using a restrictive period from the setting of the first cycle information to the game progress interrupt processing after the power is turned on. Relevant values can be updated.
<< Action and effect after game progress interruption starts >>

  Further, in the pachinko gaming machine 10 according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, the random number ranges b to d corresponding to various lottery results excluding the true deviation are consecutive as shown in FIG. 9 and FIG. Is set. Therefore, as in the present embodiment, the lottery result can be determined by sequentially checking the obtained random number values for the random value ranges a to e during the game progress interruption process after power-on. And as a method of range confirmation, the following procedures can be illustrated. That is, (1) Acquire a random value, (2) Subtract the upper limit value of the hit range from the acquired random value, (3) Subtract the lower limit value of the hit range from the acquired random value, (4) If “value resulting from (2)” <0 (≦ 0 if the upper limit value is included), “value resulting from (3)”> 0 (≦ 0 if the lower value is included) , It is determined to be a hit. When the probability change is described, in the procedure (2), the upper limit value of the big hit range is “64878”, and this value is subtracted from the acquired value of the random number. In the procedure of (3), “63239” is subtracted, and in the procedure of (4), the condition (first condition) as to whether or not the calculation result of (2) is 0 or less is determined. If the first condition is satisfied, there is a possibility that the lottery result is a big hit. Therefore, a condition (second condition) as to whether or not the calculation result of (3) is 0 or more is determined. And if the said 2nd condition is satisfy | filled, since the random value whose acquired value is jackpot will belong to the range, jackpot determination will be made. It is also possible to subtract the lower limit value of the hit range in (2) and subtract the upper limit value of the hit range in (3).

  Moreover, it is possible to determine the lottery result not only when the range is confirmed, but also by performing the lottery determination using, for example, an addition formula or a subtraction formula. Here, in the addition type lottery result confirmation, a predetermined value predetermined for each lottery result is added to the acquired random value, and if the addition result exceeds the upper limit of the random value range, the lottery result It is determined that was won. On the other hand, in the subtraction-type lottery result confirmation, a predetermined value predetermined for each lottery result is subtracted from the acquired random value, and if the subtraction result falls below the lower limit value of the random value range, the lottery result is displayed. It is determined that the winner has been won. Then, according to these addition type or subtraction type determination methods, determination can be performed with a smaller number of control processes than in the case of performing range confirmation.

  Further, the one lot fixed value of the bits related to the pass / fail random number, that is, the lower limit value and the upper limit value (0, 65535) are assigned a lottery result. Therefore, immediately when a person who tries to obtain a win is deliberately generating an incorrect numerical value in order from the value on one side (0 or 65535) of the random value range, It is possible to prevent a big hit from being found, and it is possible to perform a more fair lottery. In addition, the present invention is not limited to fraud such as finding a hit. For example, even when the counter value is fixed at the upper limit value or the lower limit value of the random number range due to some abnormality, it is possible to prevent an unreasonable big hit from occurring. Is possible. Then, after the update of the random number-related value in the control start process (see FIGS. 13 and 14) as described above, in the game progress interruption process repeated first and thereafter, measures for preventing fraud related to the success / failure random number are taken. It is also possible to perform multiple times.

  In addition, with respect to the above-described symbol random number, since an indefinite variation is associated with the upper limit value “999” as a lottery result, it is possible to immediately find a numerical value advantageous to the player, It is possible to prevent an uncertain change from being caused by fixing. In addition, when an uncertain change is made to correspond to “0” which is the lower limit value of the design random number, an unexpected situation can be dealt with similarly, and an uncertain change lottery result can be assigned to both the upper limit value and the lower limit value. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of unjustified probability more reliably. Since the design random number is a random number that controls the presence or absence of probability change, the round ratio at the special game (difference in the number of rounds), and the opening / closing mode of the first grand prize winning port 91 and the second big winning prize port 92, the design random number is invalid. By taking measures, it is possible to prevent unreasonable acquisition of gaming value.

  It should be noted that by taking the same measures for random numbers other than the success / failure random numbers and the design random numbers, it is possible to prevent an unreasonable occurrence of a gaming state advantageous to the player other than the success / failure and probability change.

  In the present embodiment, in the random number range of the random numbers, the predetermined range a (0 to 63238) is deviated from the lower limit, and the upper limit (65535) is as small as possible compared to the random value range a. The random number range d for small hits is arranged to be continuous to the lower limit side with respect to the range e. Therefore, even if a big hit is sought from the side of the small random value range e, it is possible to generate a small hit first as a win that is illegally acquired. And it is possible to prevent the big hit from being easily acquired from the upper limit side of the validity random number range. In addition, this makes it possible to secure the largest random number value range a adjacent to the big hit random value range b as in this embodiment. Then, the random value range b of the big hit can be as far as possible from the limit value (the lower limit value “0” in this embodiment), and even if the big hit is found from the lower limit side, it is difficult to obtain the big hit. It is possible.

  Also, with such a configuration, on the other limit value (upper limit value “65535” in this embodiment) side, the outlier random value range e becomes smaller (“1” in this embodiment). However, in the present embodiment, since the random number value range e on the upper limit side is set so that the small hits are continuous, the big hit is searched from the upper limit side, and the fraudulent action is detected in the random value range. When d is reached, small hits are continuously generated while the cheating continues. For this reason, it is possible to generate a small hit in an unnatural manner that is usually difficult to generate. Furthermore, it is possible to create an unnatural situation in which the effects associated with the small hits are continuously executed according to the size of the random value range d. It becomes possible to notify the store clerk.

  Although continuous small hit notifications using this method are not intended to directly detect frauds at amusement hall clerk, etc., they are important in that they provide an opportunity for amusement hall clerk to be wary of fraud. It has a meaning. In addition, such notification does not use a dedicated notification mode, but also serves as notification about a small hit set as one of the gaming states. It may be difficult to perceive that notification is being performed. And the pachinko gaming machine 10 can execute a selective fraud notification to the game hall clerk by informing the game hall clerk that such a notification function is provided.

  Furthermore, as described above, after the power is turned on, before the first game progress interrupt process is entered and the stage after the game progress interrupt process is entered, multiple anti-fraud measures are taken and the game progress interrupt process is performed. After entering the company, fraudulent notifications are limited to those that do not become excessive, so the security against fraud is high, and even when fraudulent notifications are made, it is possible to prevent unnecessary troubles due to misinformation, for example. it can.

  Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the production time is designed so that the production correlation is maintained as much as possible based on the production average time as an index. . In other words, for the small hit effect, measures are taken not to depend only on the trend of the production time but also to detect fraud even by the difference between the production of the outlier and the production average time. In the effect average time, a relationship of (small effect average time)> (outlier effect average time) is established. For this reason, when the small hits are continuous, it is possible to make the difference in the tendency of the time required for performing the performance obvious in comparison with the production of the off-line production that is considered to have occurred continuously many times until then. It becomes possible. In addition, it is possible to more surely encourage a game shop clerk to perceive that small hits are continuous.

  In other words, as described above, when the small hit performance time and the off-stage performance time are individually compared, it may occur that the small hit performance time is shorter than the loss. In addition, by setting the correlation between the performance time of the small hits and the effect time of the small hits as (average performance time of the small hits)> (average effect time of the outage), to prevent the relationship between the long and short of both to break as much as possible It is possible to make the small hitting alert function even clearer for a game shop clerk who is informed of the situation in advance.

  Further, in this embodiment, the number of consecutive small hits is counted, and a specific notification is made when the small hits are repeated a predetermined number of times. .

  In the present embodiment, the setting for the next interruption is performed immediately after the occurrence of the interruption. The setting for the next interruption here means the control processing of S41 and S42 executed at the beginning of the game progress interruption shown in FIG. The control processing of S41 and S42 is control processing for setting a condition setting value for game progress control. By executing these control processing, timer setting as an operation condition for interruption is performed. The time from the power-on until the second game progress interrupt is started (here, 4 ms) is started, and the control process is linked to the next game progress interrupt. Thus, every time the game progress interrupt process is started, the condition setting for the next game progress interrupt process is repeated, and at the same time, lottery determination and other lottery executed in the game progress interrupt process are When the above is established, it is possible to carry out smoothly while taking countermeasures against fraud under the above-mentioned numbers.

  In this embodiment, a software random number and a hardware random number are used to generate the pass / fail random number, and only a software random number is used for the design random number and the variation pattern random number. Therefore, it is possible to secure high safety with respect to the random numbers that are likely to be fraudulent, and it is possible to generate random numbers with priority given to the simplification of the configuration for the design random numbers and the variation pattern random numbers.

  In the present embodiment, the symbol lottery is also assigned a number corresponding to the game value, and a lottery result (non-probable variation symbol) having a relatively low value is assigned to the upper limit value, as in the case of winning / not-lotting. Therefore, even if a fraudulent act such as searching for a probability variation is performed for the symbol lottery, it is possible to prevent a symbol having a high value from being immediately searched for. And as mentioned above, it becomes possible to supplement the strength of security by using a numeric value while simplifying the configuration for generating symbol random numbers and the like.

  In this embodiment, the random number is generated using a software random number and a hardware random number. For this reason, the generation process and configuration can be complicated compared to the case where the random numbers are generated only by software random numbers or only by hardware random numbers, and it is difficult to perform illegal acts aiming for the winning value of the random numbers. it can.

  In this embodiment, the number of consecutive small hits is counted, and a notification to that effect is given when the number of consecutive times reaches a predetermined number. Therefore, it is possible to distinguish between the case where the small hits are accidentally continued due to a legitimate game and the case where the small hits are continued illegally, and the suspicion is directed to the player who plays the legitimate game. It is possible to prevent.

  In the present embodiment, the size (number) of software random numbers is different from the number of hardware random numbers, and the size of hardware random numbers is “65535”, whereas the prime number is smaller than that. Is “65521”. As a result, synchronization between the software random number and the hardware random number is prevented. Therefore, even if the fact that the software random number and the hardware random number are used and the number of random numbers is grasped by the fraudster, the fraudulent act can be prevented as much as possible.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described based on each Example, this invention is not limited to the said Example, A various deformation | transformation improvement is possible within the range which does not deviate from the meaning of this invention.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the range of the symbol lottery value (0 to 999) is set smaller than the range of the lottery value (0 to 65535), and between the two (the range of the lottery value) > (Range of symbol lottery value) is established, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, (range of winning lottery value) <(range of symbol lottery value) may be used. If a specific example is given, about a lottery value, a numerical range (0-65535) will be converted into each above-mentioned numerical range ae (refer to Drawing 10), and a numerical value (0 4) is added and encoded. On the other hand, the symbol lottery values (0 to 999) are encoded as they are without converting 1000 numerical values. By this operation, the range of the winning lottery value becomes 0 to 5, the range of the symbol lottery value remains 0 to 999, and the relationship of (the range of the winning lottery value) <(the range of the symbol lottery value) is obtained. It is done. As a result, the number of data bits required for communication of the lottery result can be reduced overall, and the data communication can be simplified. As described above, by applying the grouping of the range (e + a) as one group to the random value ranges a to e, it can be grouped into four groups as a whole, which is necessary for communication of lottery results. It is also possible to reduce the number of data bits. Although the relationship with the symbol lottery value is described here, the present invention can be applied to the relationship with other lottery values (for example, variation pattern lottery value, etc.).

  In addition, the present invention is different from the first lottery in the first lottery and the second lottery in that the ratio of the small hit probability is different. For example, the second lottery is not provided with a small hit. In addition, as in the above-described embodiment, the present invention can also be applied to a case where the number of random numbers per jackpot is the same between the normal probability and the high probability. In this case, the number of hit values is made different between the normal probability and the high probability while applying the above-described various countermeasures against the random numbers.

  Further, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, the winning value in the lottery determination (which may be a distributed value or a continuous range) may be applied to that of this embodiment. It may be changed or shifted for each type of jackpot.

  Further, regarding the hardware random number (built-in random number) of the CPU 501, the CPU 501 may be provided with wait time changing means for randomly changing the wait time until the start of updating of the hardware random number when the pachinko gaming machine 10 is turned on.

  Furthermore, the software random number added to the hardware random number is generated using the value acquired by the 2-byte soft random number update process as described above. The pachinko gaming machine 10 has a value (hereinafter referred to as “2-byte soft random number”) acquired by the 2-byte soft random number update process and various initial value random numbers generated using the 2-byte soft random number. Generation of the initial value (start value) in the control start processing when the power is turned on, the sum of the 2-byte soft random number and various initial value random numbers at the previous power-off, the 2-byte soft random number and various initial value random numbers It is also possible to use it as a start value of. By doing so, the start value of the 2-byte soft random number and various initial random numbers is not constant every time when the power is turned off or when the initialization switch 544 is operated. It becomes possible.

  In the above-described embodiment (see FIG. 9), the single hit / fail judgment table shows the big hit ranges for both the normal time and the probability change, but the success / fail judgment table is separately used for the normal time and the probability change time. It may be prepared, or may be prepared separately for the first lottery and the second lottery. Further, in this embodiment, the success / failure determination table is compared with the determination result / lottery value, but the determination is made not by the determination table but by the method of comparing the winning value itself with the lottery value or the calculation of the set value. May be adopted. In addition, it is possible to improve the safety against fraudulent acts such as finding a hit by making the winning / failing lottery value a prime number and searching for a multiple of a specific numerical value.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the lottery results are not limited to the allocation of the lottery results so that the normal jackpot range and the jackpot range at the time of probability change partially overlap. It is also possible to arrange the lottery results so as not to overlap with the big hit range of time. That is, FIGS. 18A and 18B show an example in which a success / failure determination table is prepared separately for normal use (FIG. 18A) and probability change use (FIG. 18B). . In this example, there is no common value between the numerical value within the big hit range at normal time (64715-64878) and the numerical value within the big hit range at the time of probability change (63075 to 64714), and both numerical value ranges The lottery results are allocated so that no overlap occurs. Then, in the example of the random value range at the time of probability change shown in FIG. 18B, “64715-65370” so that the numerical range of the lottery lottery result is continuous with the upper limit value (64878) of the big hit numerical range. The numerical value range of the deviation on the upper limit side of the validity random number value range is set to “65371-65535”.

  Further, the present invention is not limited to the example shown in FIG. 18 (b). For example, as shown in FIG. 18 (c), the upper limit value (64714) of the jackpot numerical value range and the acceptance random number value range A third detachment numerical range may be set between the upper limit side detachment numerical range. In the example shown in FIG. 18C, the numerical range of the third outlier is set to “64715 to 64878” that is continuous with the upper limit value (64714) of the jackpot numerical range. Further, the numerical value range for the small hits is “64879 to 65534” as in the normal example shown in FIG. 18A, and the upper limit side deviation (second deviation) of the random number value range is determined. The numerical range is set to “65535”.

  In the above-described embodiment, the preliminary determination is performed on the lottery results of the first lottery and the second lottery. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the first special symbol 192 or the first lottery It can also be applied to those that determine the lottery result at the start of fluctuation of the 2 special symbols 193.

  The number of special symbols “0” to “9” (10) is set smaller than the number of first symbol lottery values (or second symbol lottery values) (1000 from “0 to 999”). ing. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and, for example, 1000 special symbols may be associated with 1000 symbol lottery values in a one-to-one correspondence. In this case, assuming that the number of symbol lottery values is N + 1 from 0 to N, and symbol 1 to symbol N + 1 is set, symbol lottery value 0 has symbol 1, symbol lottery value 1 has symbol 2,. The symbol N + 1 can be associated with the symbol lottery value N. In addition, the number of individual decorative symbols constituting at least one of the decorative symbols 190a to 190c is not limited to the special symbol, and the number of the winning lottery values may have a one-to-one relationship.

  Moreover, although the example which implement | achieves the determination table of whether it is a big hit and the determination table of whether it is a small hit in the form of the single winning / nothing determination table was shown in this figure, each may be implement | achieved as a separate table. Good. Furthermore, the numerical value range for the small hits in the first lottery and the numerical value range for the small hits in the second lottery are assigned so that there is no common numerical value between them and the numerical value ranges do not overlap. Has been.

Further, calculation using a chip unique number assigned to each CPU 501 may be performed to generate various random number related values. In this case, the chip unique number is usually expressed using a fixed number of bytes (for example, 4 bytes), and is not always the same as the number of bytes of various random number related values. In addition, it is desirable to perform an operation using both of them through operations such as adjusting the number of bits according to any one of the random number related values to the other, or converting to the same number of bits.
<Second Example of Control Processing>

  Next, a second embodiment of the aforementioned control start process will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, the same number is attached | subjected about the part similar to the above-mentioned 1st Example, The description is abbreviate | omitted suitably.

  In the pachinko gaming machine according to the present embodiment, when a power interruption signal is input to the non-maskable interrupt terminal 504 of the CPU 501 mounted on the main board 102, the CPU 501 finishes the predetermined control process and finally the supply voltage can operate. The control process is looped until it falls below a certain voltage, and these points are common to the above-described embodiment. However, in the present embodiment, characteristic control processing is included from when the power interruption signal is input to the non-maskable interrupt terminal 504 of the CPU 501 to the loop processing.

  That is, the main control processing of the pachinko gaming machine in the present embodiment is the control start processing (including power-off processing) shown in FIG. 13 (using the diagram according to the first embodiment described above) and FIG. The game progress interruption process shown in FIG. 15 and the process for setting the power-off confirmation information shown in FIG.

  In the control start process shown in FIG. 13 and FIG. 19, after executing the necessary settings (S1 to S4) when the power is turned on, the operation state (S5) of the RWM clear switch (initialization switch) 544, the power interruption status confirmation process Corresponding to the value of the power-off information flag in (S6-S8) and the addition result (checksum data) of the RWM area, processing at power-off recovery (S9-S17), processing at initialization of RWM (S24) To S26), processing for time setting for game progress interruption (S27), circulation processing (S33 (S28 to S32)), processing for setting power-off confirmation information (S301 to S307), and the like are executed.

Among these, each process from S1 to S29 is almost the same as the first embodiment described above, but the process at the time of power-off recovery (S9 to S17) functions as a restart preparation process. This is different from the above-described embodiment in that the process proceeds to the time setting processing (S27) for game progress interruption. Further, after the process of setting a predetermined value as the first recursive information in the interrupt processing time monitoring means clear register (S29), it is determined whether or not the power-off confirmation information is set by the power-off confirmation information determination process. (S30), if set (S30: Yes), also differs from the above-described embodiment also in that it shifts to power-off processing (S301 to S307) described later. Note that S31 (initial value random number update processing) and S32 (interrupt permission processing) in FIG. 13 respectively correspond to S30 and S31 in FIG. 8 according to the above-described embodiment.
<< Circulation process >>

  Subsequently, the circulation process (S33 (S28 to S32)), which is one of the main differences from the first embodiment, will be described. In the circulation process (S33 (S28 to S32)), in order to manage gaming machines, interrupts are first prohibited (S28). Further, in preparation for recurring the interrupt processing time monitoring means, a predetermined value as the first recursion information is set in the interrupt processing time monitoring means clear register (S29). The first recursive information is a predetermined value such as 55H. Further, it is determined whether or not the power-off confirmation information is set (S30). If it is set (S30: Yes), the process proceeds to power-off processing (S301 to S307) described later.

  When it is determined that the power-off confirmation information is set (S30), if it is determined that it is not set (S30: No), the initial value random number update process is executed (S31). The initial value random number per symbol, the initial symbol random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol are updated. Thereafter, after permitting the interrupt (S32), the process returns to the interrupt prohibition (S28) process again, and the subsequent processes (S28 to S32) are sequentially repeated to circulate the control process.

  Each time the interrupt permission (S28) is executed, the above-described game progress interrupt becomes possible, and the game progress interrupt process is repeated every predetermined period (here, 4ms period) based on the period information set in S27. .

<< Power-off process >>
If it is determined in the determination (S30) whether the power-off confirmation information is set (S30: Yes), the CPU 501 functions as a forced recursion unit and sets the 22nd recursion information. (S301), the monitoring time of the interrupt processing time monitoring means is forcibly initialized, and the time is recurred. When the power supply is resumed by setting the second recursive information forcibly (S301), the control process is started with the monitoring time recursed. In other words, by forcibly recurring the monitoring timing when the power is cut off, the control processing can be prevented from proceeding without recurring monitoring timing in the control processing immediately after the power supply is resumed. It has become.

  Subsequently, the address of the power-on information flag (power-off information flag) is set, the value of the power-off information flag is read, and it is determined whether the information at the time of power-on is stored normally (S302). If the information at the time of power-on is normally stored (S302: Yes), power-off normal data (55H in this case) is set (S304), and the RWM checksum at the time of power-off is set. Calculated (S305), checksum data is created. Then, the access prohibition is set (S306), and the power-off loop processing (S307) waits for the supply voltage to become a predetermined value or less and the power-off.

  In the determination of whether or not the information at the time of power-on is normally stored (S302), if the determination result is not normally stored (S302: No), the power failure error data is set. After (S303), the process proceeds to the aforementioned access prohibition process (S306).

<< Power-off confirmation information setting process >>
Next, the control process when setting the power-off confirmation information determined in S30 described above will be described. First, after the power is turned on, a control start process (see FIG. 13 and FIG. 19) is started through a predetermined process, and a time setting process for a game progress interruption executed during the control start process (FIG. 19). The loop process is started through the process (shown in S27). This loop processing corresponds to the circulation processing (S33) in FIG.

  When the start timing of the game progress interrupt process comes after the start of the loop process, the game progress interrupt process shown in FIG. 15 is executed. Thereafter, when a power supply voltage drop occurs during the game progress interrupt process, the control process jumps to a predetermined address (address 0066H in this case) and shifts along with the non-maskable interrupt process (NMI process). Then, in accordance with the contents specified after the predetermined address (0066H) by the control program, power-off confirmation information indicating that NMI processing has occurred is set, and power-off confirmation for setting this power-off confirmation information The information setting process returns to the return, and the process returns to the process when the power interruption occurs during the game progress interrupt process. Then, all the remaining processes to be executed in the game progress interrupt process in the cycle are completed, the process returns to the return, and the process returns to the control start process (here, the loop process corresponding to S33 in FIG. 19).

  If a power supply voltage drop occurs during the loop process, the control process shifts to a predetermined address (0066H) in the same way as described above with the NMI process. Then, the power-off confirmation information is set, the process returns to the return, and the process returns to the control start process (here, the loop process (S33)).

  Then, it is determined whether or not the power-off confirmation information is set as described above (S30 in FIG. 19). Here, if the power-off confirmation information is not set, the process proceeds to a loop process start process and the circulation process (S33 in FIG. 19) is continued. On the other hand, if the power-off confirmation information is set, the power-off process (corresponding to S301 to S307 described above) is executed, and the power is turned off after the power-off process is completed.

  In this embodiment, when a non-maskable interrupt occurs, the instruction being executed is completed in units of instructions. For example, when a non-maskable interrupt occurs during the execution of the control process indicated by reference numeral 552 in FIG. 20 (in this case, an LD (load) instruction), the control process 552 is continued during the execution of the instruction, and the execution of the LD instruction is executed. After the above is completed, the power-off confirmation information is set. That is, the setting time of the power-off confirmation information is determined by the control processing in units of instructions, and the power-off confirmation information is set after completing such an instruction.

  Here, the control processing including the above-described commands includes control processing for each program module (in this embodiment, for example, control start processing (see FIGS. 13 and 19), game progress interruption processing (see FIG. 15), initial value, etc. It is not limited to random number update processing (S31, S48), input processing (S45), and other processing), but also includes control processing such as setting and calculation of various data (S1 to S10, S41 to S44, etc.). It is. That is, taking the game progress interrupt process as an example, for example, when a non-maskable interrupt occurs during execution of a specific instruction constituting the control process of the second recursive information set (S43), execution of this specific instruction Power off confirmation information is set after ending. Then, the process for setting the power-off confirmation information for setting the power-off confirmation information is returned to the return, and the process returns to the process when the power interruption occurs during the game progress interruption process. Then, all the remaining processes to be executed in the game progress interruption process in the cycle are completed, the process returns to the return, the process returns to the control start process (loop process corresponding to S33 in FIG. 19), and the power-off process (described above) (Corresponding to S301 to S307) is executed.

  For example, when a non-maskable interrupt occurs during execution of a specific instruction in various random number update processes (S46), the power-off confirmation information is set after the execution of the specific instruction is completed. Then, the process for setting power-off confirmation information is returned to the return, the process returns to the process at the occurrence of power interruption during the game progress interrupt process, and all the remaining processes to be executed in the game progress interrupt process in the cycle are completed and controlled. Returning to the start process, the power-off process is executed in the same manner as described above.

  Such a control mode is the same when a non-maskable interrupt occurs in various situations during the game. For example, when a non-maskable interrupt occurs during the execution of a specific instruction from the start of a prize monitoring process (S51) described later to the end of the prize ball control process (S52), the execution of the specific instruction is finished. The power-off confirmation information is set. Then, the process returns to the winning monitor process (S51) or the prize ball control process (S52), and all the remaining processes to be executed in the game progress interrupt process in the cycle are completed and the process returns to the return, and the control start process (FIG. 19). Returning to the loop processing corresponding to S33 in the middle), the power-off processing (corresponding to S301 to S307 described above) is executed.

  Further, other control processes in the game progress interruption process will be described. Special symbol control start process (S57) defining a control process related to special symbol fluctuation, special symbol fluctuation start monitoring including a process of performing a big hit lottery determination Even when a non-maskable interrupt occurs during execution of a specific command in the control processing (S59), an abnormality detection processing (S60) that defines control processing related to error detection and error notification, or other control processing, the command at that time After the execution of is completed, the power-off confirmation information is set, and the power-off process is executed after all the remaining processes to be executed in the game progress interruption process of the cycle are completed.

  In the present embodiment, the power-off required time, which is the time from when the power supply voltage decreases to a predetermined value until the power is turned off, is set by the power-off required time setting means. As the power-off required time setting means, for example, a device that controls discharge, such as a capacitor provided on the power supply board 251, can be used. The power-off time is a power-off signal output voltage that is a value at which the power-supply board 251 outputs a power-off signal when the power-supply voltage starts to gradually decrease from a normal value (for example, 30 V), as indicated by a symbol M in FIG. This is the time required to reach 5V, which is the supply voltage input to the CPU 501 of the main board 102, after reaching (for example, 18V). In this embodiment, the power-off required time X is a time A required to complete the control start process, a time B required to complete the game progress interrupt process, a time C required to set the power-off confirmation information, and It is set so that the relationship of A + B + C + D <X is satisfied, which is larger than the total time D required to complete the power-off process.

Further, the power-off required time is set to end before the timing at which the sub-board 104 (here, the sub-main board 301) receiving various control commands depending on the main board 102 starts the power-off process. Yes. That is, when the power of the pachinko gaming machine 10 is turned off, not only the main board 102 but also the sub board 104 as the sub-control means executes the power-off process in preparation for power-off according to the contents of the control process. However, the start timing of the power-off process executed in the sub-board 104 is after the power-off required time has elapsed in the main board 102 and the power-off process is completed. In addition, not only the sub-board 104 but also the payout control board 45, for example, the power-off process may be started after the power-off required time has elapsed in the main board 102. Further, such a relationship between the power-off required time of the main board 102 and the start timing of the power-off process of the sub-control unit may be applied only to the payout control board 45. Further, in the case where sub-control means having a control function is provided in addition to the sub board 104 and the payout control board 45, it is also possible to apply to the sub-control means.
<Effects of Invention According to Second Embodiment of Control Processing>

  In the pachinko gaming machine of the present embodiment, when the power is cut off, the above-mentioned power-off confirmation information is set and stored, and thereafter, the control processing is continued until the game progress interruption processing of the current cycle is completed. After the progress interruption process is completed, the power-off process (S301 to S307) is executed to turn off the power. Therefore, when the power is cut off, it is possible to turn off the power after completing the game progress interrupt processing of the cycle, forcibly interrupting transmission / reception of commands set during the game progress interrupt processing, etc. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a problem caused by interrupting the game progress interruption process.

  More specifically, for example, if the payout control input signal from the main board 102 to the payout control board 45 is taken as an example, the winning ball control process (S52) from the start of the winning monitoring process (S51 in FIG. 15). Even if a voltage drop that causes a power interruption occurs during the control process for transmitting the main control MODE command until the end of the process, the power-off confirmation information Setting is performed (S111), and then the process returns to the game progress interruption process, and the command transmission process is continued. Then, after the control processing for both the main control EVENT command and the main control MODE command is finished, and all necessary control processing during the game progress interrupt processing in the cycle is finished, the power-off processing is executed (S301 to S301). S307). Therefore, in the game progress interrupt processing unit, it is possible to facilitate the resumption of the control processing when the power is restored, without terminating the control processing in a halfway state and turning off the power. Furthermore, since it is possible to prevent the power from being cut off during the game progress interrupt process, there is no need to save the used register and save the interrupt enabled / disabled state during the game progress interrupt process. .

  Further, for example, a special symbol control process (S57 in FIG. 15) that defines a control process related to the variation of the special symbol, a special symbol fluctuation start monitoring control process (S59) including a process of performing a big hit lottery determination, error detection and Also in the abnormality detection process (S60) that defines the control process related to error notification, or other control processes, the control process of command transmission, etc. is completed after the power-off confirmation information is set, and the comprehensive process includes these control processes. The power-off process is executed after the game progress interrupt process of the period, which is a typical control process, is completed. Therefore, in the next game progress interruption process, for example, the control process such as re-transmission of the latter half (lower part) of the command that should have been transmitted can be omitted, and the information communication can be stabilized and the burden of the control process can be reduced. Can be realized.

  Further, in this embodiment, when the power supply voltage decreases and reaches a predetermined value, there is provided a power-off required time setting means for setting a time until the power is turned off thereafter. The power-off required time X by the time setting means is a time A required to complete the control start process, a time B required to complete the game progress interrupt process, a time C required to set the power-off confirmation information, and It is set to be larger than the total time D required to complete the power-off process. Therefore, it is possible to terminate the control process when the power is cut off without being interrupted, and this also makes it possible to prevent the occurrence of a malfunction when the power is turned off.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the start timing of the power-off processing of the sub-control means (sub-board 104, payout control board 45, etc.) is the control start processing, game progress interruption processing, power-off confirmation information of the main control means. The time required for the setting and the power-off process is taken into consideration.As a result, it is possible to strengthen the cooperation related to the power-off process between the main control means and the sub-control means, and from the main control means to the sub-control means. It becomes possible to complete the transmission of the control command.

  In addition, the possibility of unexpected troubles when the power is turned on again and recovered from the power interruption can be further reduced by devising the control processing at the time of the power interruption. It becomes. It is possible to more reliably eliminate the possibility of adverse effects on both anti-fraud measures at the time of power-on as described above and after the start of the first game progress interrupt process. <Third Example of Control Processing>

  Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. In addition, the same number is attached | subjected about the part similar to each above-mentioned Example, The description is abbreviate | omitted. In the second embodiment described above, the power-off confirmation information is set when the supply voltage of the power source decreases and a power-off signal is input to the NMI terminal 504 (see FIG. 4) of the CPU 501, but the third embodiment In, even if a power interruption signal is input, the power interruption confirmation information is not set unless the input state of the power interruption signal satisfies a predetermined condition. Examples of the predetermined condition include the number of times the power interruption signal is input and the input period.

  For example, the power interruption signal is divided into a first power interruption signal and a second power interruption signal, and the first power interruption signal is the same as the power interruption signal of the second embodiment. Then, the first power interruption signal is input to the NMI terminal 504 of the CPU 501. On the other hand, the second power interruption signal is output to the CPU 501 along with the output of the first power interruption signal. When the first power interruption signal is input to the CPU 501, the second power interruption signal is output to the CPU 501. To other input terminals. When the first power interruption signal is input to the NMI terminal 504, the CPU 501 completes the instruction being executed at that time in the same manner as in the second embodiment, and then, a predetermined address (here, the control program) is defined. The control process is jumped to and transferred to address 0066H. Furthermore, the CPU 501 monitors the number of times of input of the second power interruption signal. If the number of times of input has reached, for example, five times, the CPU 501 sets the power interruption confirmation information according to the content after the predetermined address (0066H). Run.

  Even when the second power interruption signal is not input five times or more, the CPU 501 shifts the control process to the predetermined address (0066H) as the first power interruption signal is input to the NMI terminal 504. Let However, although a transition to a predetermined address is performed, no other control processing for preparing for power-off is performed, and power-off confirmation information is not set. After the transition to the predetermined address (0066H), the process returns to the control process before the transition, for example, during the game progress interrupt process. That is, even if the input state of the second power interruption signal does not satisfy the predetermined condition, the control process temporarily shifts to a predetermined address (0066H). However, the control process for setting the power interruption confirmation information after that is not performed. Return to the control process before the transition without performing it.

  The number of times the second power interruption signal is input is added each time the game progress interruption process is repeated. That is, in the present embodiment, it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied when the second power interruption signal is repeatedly input over five game progress interruption processes.

  According to the third embodiment, even if there is a signal input to the NMI terminal 504 due to the influence of noise or the like when the power supply voltage is not lowered, the power-off confirmation information is only caused by the signal input. Can be prevented from being set. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the power interruption process from being erroneously performed in a situation where it is not necessary to turn off the power and should not be turned off. Further, as in this embodiment, after the control process is transferred to a predetermined address, the process is immediately exited without setting the power-off confirmation information, so that the first power-off signal is accompanied by the input. It is possible to set power-off confirmation information more reliably while using the non-maskable interrupt function.

  That is, a CPU used for various control boards of a gaming machine generally has an NMI function that is a hardware interrupt, and the CPU has an input terminal for an NMI function and an electronic circuit part (logic Circuit). However, when control processing that ignores the signal input to the NMI terminal 504 is performed, a design change for deleting the function of the NMI is necessary in the program and circuit design. . In addition, when an NMI terminal or an electronic circuit part for the NMI is left and these are not used and, for example, grounding is taken, an unused (or unused) terminal or function is used. May remain and be used for fraud. On the other hand, as in this embodiment, by adopting a configuration in which when the first power interruption signal is input to the NMI terminal 504, the control processing is shifted to a predetermined address (0066H), the NMI function It is possible to take measures against noise and the like while minimizing the design change of the main board 102 while using the configuration without deleting it.

In the present embodiment, five inputs are defined as the predetermined condition to be satisfied by the input mode of the second power interruption signal, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the number of times other than five is determined. May be set. Moreover, it is not restricted to predetermined number of times, For example, it is good also as conditions on the input over a predetermined period. Furthermore, in order to generate the second power interruption signal, the signal path of the first power interruption signal is branched and directly input to the CPU 501, or the branch signal of the first power interruption signal is input to the switching circuit. And so on. In addition, it is desirable that the first power interruption signal and the second power interruption signal are input in synchronization with the CPU 501, but the second power interruption signal is delayed as long as the operational effects of the present embodiment can be achieved. You may employ | adopt the structure to do. Further, the number of times the second power interruption signal is input is added every time the game progress interrupt process is repeated. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, a plurality of times during one game progress interrupt process. You may count the frequency | count which becomes a predetermined condition based on the matter which can be counted.
<Application to enclosed game machines>

  The present invention also provides a pachinko gaming machine in which a game ball as a game medium acquired by a player is directly paid out to the player as described above so that the player can touch the prize ball. However, the present invention can be applied to, for example, a sealed circulation pachinko game machine. Examples of the enclosed circulation pachinko game machine include the following. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected and demonstrated about the part similar to the pachinko game machine 10 of the above-mentioned Example.

  In other words, the enclosed circulation type pachinko gaming machine has a game ball as a game medium enclosed therein, and the player operates the launch handle 17 to drive the launch motor of the launch device, and the enclosed ball 1 It is configured so that a game can be played by driving into the game area 52 on the front of the game board 50 one by one. As the configuration of the gaming area 52, a configuration similar to a pachinko gaming machine of a type in which a game ball is handed over to a player like the pachinko gaming machine 10 described above can be adopted. Furthermore, since there is no need to hand over the game balls to the player, there is no need for the upper ball tray 15 and the lower ball tray 16 for temporarily collecting the game balls.

  A game ball won in the game area 52 and a game ball that has not won a prize are guided to a ball collecting basket formed on the set base 39 and are lifted by a lifting device (not shown). The lifting device has a built-in lifting screw that is rotated by a lifting motor, and the pachinko ball (game ball) is lifted by the rotation of the lifting screw. A polishing member for polishing the pachinko ball by contacting the pachinko ball in the middle of lifting is provided on the back of the lifting device, and the surface of the pachinko ball is polished while being lifted.

  A game ball detection switch is provided on the ball inlet side (lower side) and ball outlet side (upper side) of the lifting device, and the pachinko balls to be lifted are detected by these detection switches. A ball launching device is provided in the vicinity of the ball discharge port of the lifting device, and the game ball detected by the detection switch (upper side) after the lifting is supplied to the ball launching device by the ball feeding device. . The ball feeding device has a function of feeding the next game ball to the hitting ball launch position every time the player operates the launch handle 17 to hit one game ball. Further, a game ball excess / deficiency detection switch is provided in the middle of the circulation path of the game balls, and detects whether or not the number of pachinko balls in the circulation path is a predetermined number (for example, 50).

  A card unit as an example of a gaming device is installed in a one-to-one correspondence with the pachinko gaming machine at a side position on a predetermined side of the pachinko gaming machine. This is the same as the pachinko gaming machine 10 described above. The card unit is issued to a visitor card having a prepaid function, which is a game recording medium issued to a general player who has not registered as a member, or a member player who has registered as a member in the game hall. Pachinko machines that accept membership cards, which are game recording media, and use the game value (for example, card balance, number of balls held, number of balls stored, etc.) owned by the player specified by the record information of those cards It has a function for allowing the game to be performed by bullet firing the encapsulated ball. The visitor card and membership card are composed of IC cards.

  In this pachinko gaming machine, management of the current number of balls is performed by calculating fluctuations in the number of gaming balls on the pachinko gaming machine side on the card unit side. The pachinko game machine also calculates and stores the current number of game balls, but when the number of game balls reaches 0 on the pachinko game machine side, the pachinko game machine quickly launches the ball. It is a secondary thing used only for performing the control to stop. By doing this, the running cost of the game hall where the enclosed game machine is introduced by holding down the cost of the pachinko gaming machine side by providing the card unit side with the main management function regarding the number of game balls on the pachinko gaming machine side Can be reduced.

  When the power supply is turned on for the first time after the pachinko gaming machine and the CU are electrically connected after being installed in the amusement hall, the payout control board on the pachinko gaming machine side sends the main chip ID from the main board. The main chip ID is transmitted to the CU side, and the payout chip ID stored in the payout control board itself is transmitted to the card unit side. On the card unit side, the transmitted main chip ID and payout chip ID are stored. Next, the data of the connection time, that is, the time when the card unit side and the pachinko gaming machine side are connected and communication is started is transmitted from the card unit side to the pachinko gaming machine side, and the pachinko gaming machine side transmits the data. Store the connection time.

  When the power is turned on thereafter, these three pieces of information, that is, the main chip ID, the payout chip ID, and the previous connection time data are transmitted from the pachinko gaming machine side to the card unit side.

  On the card unit side, the transmitted data and the already stored data are collated to determine whether or not the same pachinko gaming machine as the previous one is connected. The connection time data is sent from the card unit side to the pachinko gaming machine side when the communication between the card unit side and the pachinko gaming machine side is started each time the power is turned on. Connection time data is stored on the pachinko gaming machine side.

  The card unit requests the pachinko gaming machine to transmit the main chip ID and the like to the pachinko gaming machine, and the pachinko gaming machine transmits the main chip ID and the like to the card unit. Further, authentication is requested from the card unit to the pachinko gaming machine, and the pachinko gaming machine is notified of acceptance of the authentication request from the card unit. Further, the card unit requests the pachinko gaming machine to transmit recovery information, and the pachinko gaming machine transmits the recovery information held in the pachinko gaming machine to the card unit. Subsequently, the card unit notifies the pachinko gaming machine that it is connected to the pachinko gaming machine, and the pachinko gaming machine notifies the card unit that it is connected. Also, the card unit requests the pachinko gaming machine to clear the recovery information and backs up the connection ID (communication start time). The pachinko gaming machine requests the card unit to clear the recovery information and connect the ID (communication). The end of backup at (start time) is notified.

  Further, various (gaming operations) are instructed from the card unit to the pachinko gaming machine, and transmission of gaming machine information (addition / subtraction data, etc.) is requested. The card unit uses this command to periodically check the status of the game machine. The pachinko gaming machine is notified of the execution result of the gaming operation instruction and gaming machine information (addition / subtraction data, etc.) to the card unit. A command requesting connection of a communication connection is transmitted from the card unit to the pachinko gaming machine.

  Also, when it is detected that there is no game ball while playing a game with a pachinko machine, the payout control board automatically stops driving the ball launch motor and hits the ball into the game area. Control to a prohibited game state. It should be noted that if the variable display device is already in variable display at that stage, the variable display is continued only by stopping the hitting of the hit ball. If there is a storage of the number of balls held in the first start winning opening 62 or the second starting winning opening 63 at the stage where the firing stop control is performed, the variable display control of the variable display device based on the storage is continued. .

  The main management of the number of game balls is performed in the card unit, but only on the pachinko game machine side when the game prohibition control (launching stop control) when the game ball number becomes 0 in the pachinko game machine is performed. It is determined that the number of game balls has become 0, and game prohibition control (launch stop control) is performed. Thereafter, as the operation response, final ball-related information is transmitted to the card unit, and the final number of game balls “0” is determined on the card unit side. The reason for controlling in this way is that it is necessary to perform the hitting stop control at the moment when the number of game balls becomes zero on the pachinko gaming machine side.

  For example, on the card unit side which mainly manages the number of game balls, the response of the action response including the number of added balls and the number of subtracted balls when the number of game balls sent from the pachinko game machine side becomes 0 Waiting for reception, the final number of game balls is calculated on the card unit side, and when it becomes 0, a command for operation instruction with a prohibition request for prohibiting the game is transmitted to the pachinko game machine side, If the pachinko machine is controlled to stop hitting the ball for the first time after that, the pachinko ball may be shot and fired during the response and command transmission / reception, and a new number of subtraction balls may be generated during that time. On the pachinko machine side, a new subtraction ball number is generated even though the game ball number is already “0”, and the game ball number eventually becomes negative. Inconvenience say occurs. In order to prevent such inconvenience, only the batting launch stop control when the number of game balls becomes zero is controlled based on the number of game balls on the pachinko gaming machine side.

  In this way, the game control represented by the hitting ball stoppage control is performed based on the number of game balls stored in the pachinko game machine itself, and therefore based on the number of game balls managed and stored in the card unit. Compared with the case where such game control is performed, game control can be performed in real time in accordance with the fluctuation of the number of game balls.

  Here, an example is shown in which the payout control board performs the hitting shot stop control, but the main board may be configured to perform the hitting shot stop control. In this case, for example, the payout control board transmits a signal indicating that the number of game balls is 0 to the main board when the number of game balls is determined to be 0. The main board receives this signal and inhibits the driving of the firing motor.

  Such a game prohibition process by the card unit is also executed when the front frame 12 or the door 14 is opened, or when various player return operations are performed by the player. In addition, the pachinko gaming machine can respond to the prohibition refusal, and in the situation where the front frame 12 and the door 14 cannot be opened, for example, due to some circumstances such as abnormalities, the card unit cannot be instructed. This prohibition rejection response is transmitted to the card unit. The game prohibition includes not only prohibition of driving of the launch motor but also other game items such as ball rental.

  In addition, in such an enclosed circulation type pachinko game machine, ball lending is not performed for every predetermined amount (for example, 500 yen or 1000 yen), but lending for an input amount (for example, 10,000 yen) is performed collectively. It is also possible. Since it is not necessary to deliver the game ball to the player, it is possible to easily adapt to such a ball rental form.

  In addition, in this invention, it is possible to grasp | ascertain comprehensively as a pachinko game machine also including the thing which attached the card unit.

10 Pachinko machines, 52 gaming areas, 102 main board, 104 sub board,
251 power supply board, 301 sub-main board, 542 power failure monitoring circuit,
501 CPU on main board, 511 CPU on payout control board, 544 initialization switch,
521 CPU of sub main board, X Time required for power off.

Claims (1)

Power supply means for supplying power necessary for the game, main control means for controlling the game, and power supply control means for executing power supply control related to the supply of power to the main control means upon receiving power from the power supply means And an effect control means that is communicably connected to the main control means and performs control processing according to an effect control command related to the effect from the main control means,
The main control means includes
A control start process executing means for executing a control start process in response to the start of power supply from the power supply means;
Game progress interrupt processing execution means for executing game progress interrupt processing for game progress in a predetermined cycle with respect to the control start processing;
Based on the fact that the game medium launched into the game area has flowed down the game area and passed through the predetermined start area,
In the game progress interruption process, it comprises a random number acquisition means for acquiring a random number related to a big hit lottery, and a big hit determination means for making a big hit lottery determination,
In a pachinko gaming machine that executes special games that are more advantageous to the player than usual when it is a big hit,
The power control means includes
A power drop detection means for detecting whether or not the power from the power supply means has become a predetermined value or less;
A power-off information output means for outputting power-off information for causing the main control means to recognize that the power is cut off when the power drop detecting means detects that the power is below a predetermined value; The main control means includes
A power-off execution processing means for executing a power-off process when the power-off information is output;
Resumption index storage means for storing resumption index information that serves as an index to control processing to resume the game when the power is cut off;
Power-off information setting means for setting power-off normal information indicating that the power-off processing has been normally performed after the resumption index information is stored in the resumption index storage means;
Information initialization for determining whether or not there has been an information initialization input for information initialization for initializing the control process indicated by the restart index information before the power interruption when the power supply means starts power supply Input determination means;
When the information initialization input determination unit determines that the information initialization input has not been made, at least based on the information stored in the power-off information setting unit, the restart preparation for proceeding to the restart preparation process Resumption preparation process execution condition determination means for determining whether or not a process execution condition is satisfied,
When it is determined by the restart preparation process execution condition determination means that the restart preparation process execution condition is satisfied,
After the restart preparation process is completed, the control process indicated by the restart index information is restarted,
When it is determined by the information initialization input determination means that the information initialization input has been performed,
An initialization control process for initializing the information, an interrupt preparation process for preparing for the game progress interrupt process after the initialization control process, and
Set the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process after the interrupt preparation process, and an interrupt timing process for measuring time based on the period information,
Performing a cyclic process of circulating the control process while waiting for an interrupt by the game progress interrupt process after the start of the interrupt timing process,
After the start of power supply, at least the interrupt preparation process is executed, the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process is set, and the interrupt timing process is executed based on the period information An initial value random number update means during control start processing for updating a value related to the random number used by the random number acquisition means during the cyclic processing of
After starting the supply of power by the power supply means, the initial value random number is updated during the control start process at least four times between the time when the interrupt timing process is first started and the time when the game progress interrupt process is generated Update the value related to the random number used by the random number acquisition means,
When the information initialization input determination means determines that there is no information initialization input,
If the determination result of the restart preparation process execution condition determination means indicates that the restart preparation process execution condition is not satisfied,
Performing the initialization control process for the information initialization, and an interrupt preparation process for preparing for the game progress interrupt process after the initialization control process,
Set the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process after the interrupt preparation process, and an interrupt timing process for measuring time based on the period information,
After the start of the interrupt timing process, a cyclic process for circulating the control process while waiting for the interruption of the game progress interrupt process,
The initial value random number update means during the control start process,
After the start of power supply, at least the interrupt preparation process is executed, the period information for periodically repeating the game progress interrupt process is set, and the interrupt timing process is executed based on the period information Updating the value related to the random number used by the random number acquisition means during the cyclic processing of
After starting the supply of power by the power supply means, the initial value random number is updated during the control start process at least four times between the time when the interrupt timing process is first started and the time when the game progress interrupt process is generated The pachinko gaming machine is characterized in that the means updates the value related to the random number used by the random number acquisition means.

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