JP2017029810A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which prevents an unexpected read-ahead notice from being executed against a variable display different from one to be intrinsically subjected to a read-ahead notice.SOLUTION: When a game ball enters a startup winning port, a startup winning command including the number of the reservation memories increased by the startup winning and read-ahead information such as a big win in variable display based on the startup winning is sent from a main board to a display control board. A display controlling CPU of the display control board decides, when it receives the startup winning command, whether or not the variable display corresponding to the startup winning command is used as the object of the read-ahead notice performance, and executes the read-ahead notice performance continuously in the variable display just before the decided object. In the case, however, where a difference occurs between the number of the reservation memories indicated by the starting winning command received and the number of the reservation memories specified by the commands received till then, the variable display corresponding to the starting winning command is not determined as the object of the read-ahead notice performance.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

Description

  The present invention relates to a gaming machine such as a pachinko gaming machine, and in particular, the control means is divided into a game control means for controlling the progress of the game and an effect control means for controlling the execution of the effect, and according to the establishment of the start condition. The present invention relates to a gaming machine that executes a prefetching advance notice for a variable display based on a stored hold.

  The pachinko gaming machine performs a jackpot lottery when the game ball launched into the game area wins the start winning opening, and is controlled to the jackpot gaming state by winning the lottery. In addition, there are two types of jackpots: normal jackpots and more favorable probability variation jackpots. When the probability variation jackpot is reached, the gaming state after the jackpot gaming state is over, the next jackpot lottery probability is higher than normal. It is controlled to the probability fluctuation state which becomes high. The occurrence of such a jackpot gaming state or a probability variation state is displayed by variably displaying a symbol on a variation display device such as a special display game such as a liquid crystal display, and a predetermined appearance symbol (generally, the same type) This is notified by deriving the symbol.

  The jackpot lottery in a pachinko machine is executed based on the value of a random number extracted when a game ball wins a starting prize opening, but information on the random number extracted based on the starting prize is reserved up to a predetermined number. It is to be remembered. The special figure game that is executed based on the start winning that is stored on hold is started after the execution of the special figure game based on the immediately preceding start winning. That is, when the start winning prize is stored on hold, a plurality of special figure games are continuously executed.

  By the way, in the special figure game in the pachinko machine, the symbol is displayed in a variable manner, and the result of the big win lottery is notified by the symbol when the symbol is stopped. Therefore, it takes a certain time from the start to the end. It has become a thing. Therefore, during the period from the start of the special figure game until the result is displayed, various effects are made to increase the player's expectation for the jackpot.

  As an effect that raises the player's expectation for the special figure game that is currently being executed, a reach display effect that changes the variation mode of the final stop symbol from the normal mode after the occurrence of reach, and a variation display of the symbol May include a notice effect by displaying another character. On the other hand, the player's expectation for jackpot will be directed not only to the special game currently being executed, but also to the special game that will be executed based on the hold memory, In order to increase the player's expectation there, a notice is made in advance as to whether or not a special game that has not yet been executed will be a big hit (or whether or not it will be a (specific) reach). There is a pachinko machine that performs pre-reading notice.

  In the control circuit of a pachinko gaming machine, generally, a game control means for controlling the progress of the game and an effect control means for controlling the execution of the effect are formed separately, and a command corresponding to the progress of the game is sent from the game control means. It is transmitted to the production control means. In order to execute the pre-reading notice with such a thing, the game control means, at the time of the start winning, a pre-reading information command (determination result command) including information necessary for performing the pre-reading notice for the variable display based on the start winning A pending number command (start winning memorized number command) indicating the number of reserved memories was transmitted. The effect control means determines the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice based on the start winning memory number command, and executes the pre-reading notice for the variable display determined as the target (see, for example, Patent Document 1). .

JP-A-2005-395

  However, there may be an abnormality that the effect control means misses the command transmitted from the game control means. Also, there may be an abnormality that the command received by the effect control means is garbled. However, even if such a command is missed or garbled, communication from the game control means to the effect control means is performed only in one direction from the game control means to the effect control means for the purpose of preventing fraud in the game. Therefore, if the operations of the game control means and the effect control means are individually normal, neither the game control means nor the effect control means can confirm or recover this. Can not.

  When the command transmission is performed separately for the pre-reading information command and the hold number command for the starting winning of 1 as in the gaming machine of Patent Document 1, if any command is missed, it is originally subject to the pre-reading notice. There is a possibility that a pre-reading notice may be executed for a variation display different from the variation display to be performed. In addition, even if the pre-reading notice command and the pending number command are transmitted as one command without being separated (of course, even when they are transmitted separately), the data that is subject to the prefetching notice will be changed due to the garbled data of the command. There is a possibility that a pre-reading notice may be executed for a variable display different from the display.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a gaming machine that prevents an unforeseen prefetching notice from being executed for a variable display that is different from the variable display that is originally targeted for the prefetching notice.

In order to achieve the above object, a gaming machine according to the present invention is a gaming machine (pachinko gaming machine 1) that is displayed in a variable manner according to the establishment of a start condition and is controlled to an advantageous state (big hit gaming state) advantageous to the player. A game control means (CPU 56) for controlling the progress of the game and transmitting a command corresponding to the progress of the game, and a variable display for deriving a display result based on the command transmitted from the game control means. Effect control means (a display control CPU for the display control board 80) for controlling the execution of the effect including the effect, and the game control means uses the information regarding the variable display as a pending storage when the start condition is satisfied. Reservation storage means (retention storage buffer of RAM 55) for storing up to a predetermined number (total 8) and stored in the reservation storage means when the start condition is satisfied Hold information that can specify the number of retained memories, jackpot information that can specify whether or not to be controlled to the advantageous state based on the hold memory, and a variation pattern of the variable display effect that is executed based on the hold memory Pre-start command transmission means (CPU 56: transmission of a start prize command at the time of a start prize) for transmitting a pre-start command (start prize command A101, start prize command B102, start prize command C103) including identifiable variation pattern information; When the pre-start command is received, the effect control means includes pre-read advance notice determining means for determining whether or not to execute the pre-read notice based on at least the fluctuation pattern information included in the pre-start command. CPU for display control of display control board 80: Whether or not to use the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, And a pre-reading notice execution means for executing the pre-reading notice according to the determination result of the pre-reading notice determination means (display control CPU of the display control board 80: execution of the pre-reading notice effect), and before the start When a command is received, the number of reserved memories is a number obtained by increasing the number of reserved memories determined based on a command received before the pre-start command, up to the predetermined number range. When the number is not a normal number, the pre-reading notice prohibiting means for prohibiting the pre-reading notice based on at least the fluctuation pattern information included in the pre-start command (the received start winning command A101 or the starting winning command B102 is recognized by the display control CPU) If it does not indicate that the number of reserved storages that has been increased by 1 is indicated, the corresponding variable display is not subject to the pre-reading notice effect: Wherein the Ru with a 7) and.

  In the gaming machine, the control means is divided into a game control means for controlling the progress of the game and an effect control means for controlling the execution of the effect, and is based on a command transmitted from the game control means according to the progress of the game. The execution of the effect is controlled by the effect control means. Here, in the game control means, when the start condition is satisfied, when the change display is immediately executed with respect to the start condition being satisfied (the change display based on the previously established start condition is not executed). Information on the variable display is stored in the hold storage means up to a predetermined number as the hold storage except the case), the hold information stored in the hold storage means until the start condition is satisfied, the jackpot information, A pre-start command including fluctuation pattern information is transmitted to the effect control means.

  In the effect control means, when the pre-start command transmitted from the game control means due to the establishment of the start condition is received, variable display is performed until the number of hold memories specified by the hold information included in the pre-start command is reached. Thus, it is determined based on at least the variation pattern information included in the pre-start command whether to perform a pre-reading notice for the variable display effect corresponding to the pre-start command. Then, according to the determination result, a pre-reading notice for the variable display corresponding to the received pre-start command is executed.

  As long as all commands are correctly transmitted and received between the game control means and the effect control means, the effect control means should make an accurate look-ahead notice for the variable display that should be the target of the look-ahead notice. However, it is not guaranteed that all transmission / reception of commands between the game control means and the effect control means is performed correctly. In other words, although the game control means correctly transmits the command according to the progress of the game, the effect control means is missed, or the transmission of the game control means and the reception of the effect control means are correctly performed. In some cases, the command may be garbled during the process. This can also happen for pre-start commands.

  If the above-mentioned abnormality has occurred in the transmission / reception of the pre-start command, the pre-reading notice is executed over the variable display until the number of reserved memories included in the pre-start command received by the effect control means. If it is determined, there is a possibility that an unintended prefetching notice may be executed for a variable display that should not be a target of the prefetching notice.

  On the other hand, in the gaming machine, when the pre-start command transmitted from the game control means is received in the effect control means, the number of hold memories specified by the hold information included in the pre-start command is: It is determined whether or not the number is a normal number that is a number obtained by increasing the number of pending storage determined based on a command received before the start command, and a number up to a predetermined number range. When it is determined that the number is not normal, it is prohibited to determine that the pre-reading notice is executed based on at least the fluctuation pattern information included in the pre-start command. As a result, it is possible to prevent an unintended prefetching notice from being executed for a variable display that should not be a target of the prefetching notice.

  It should be noted that the number of pending storages specified by the pending information included in the received pre-start command is within a predetermined number of upper limits of the hold storage that can be stored in the hold storage means, and is more than the pre-start command. The fact that the number of pending storages determined based on previously received commands has increased by the hold information (generally 1) stored in the hold storage means for the establishment of one start condition. When it is indicated, it is determined that the hold information included in the start command is a normal number.

  In the above gaming machine, the pre-start command transmission means includes a pre-start hold memory number command (start winning command A101, including the hold information (hold memory number information) stored in the hold storage means as the pre-start command. The start winning command B102) and the pre-read prefetch command (start winning command C103) including the jackpot information and the variation pattern information may be sequentially transmitted as separate commands. In this case, the effect control means receives reception interval determination means (of the display control board 80) for determining whether or not the pre-start hold memory number command and the pre-start prefetch command are received within a predetermined time interval. A display control CPU), and the prefetch notice prohibiting means is also included in the pre-start prefetch command even when the reception interval judging means judges that it is not received at an interval within the predetermined time. It may be prohibited to determine that the prefetching notice determining means executes the prefetching notice based on at least the fluctuation pattern information (starting within a predetermined time from reception of the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102) If the winning command C103 has not been received, the corresponding variation display is not subject to the pre-reading notice effect: FIG. 7)

  Note that the pre-start pending storage number command and the pre-start prefetch command transmitted as the pre-start command based on the establishment of the same start condition are transmitted first as long as the transmission order is always constant. It may be a thing. That is, even if the pre-start command is transmitted in the order of the pre-start hold memory number command and the pre-start pre-read command based on the establishment of the start condition, the pre-start pre-read command, the pre-start hold memory number The pre-start command may be transmitted in the order of commands.

  Further, the game control means transmits a command one by one in a transmission process executed at predetermined time intervals or at the same time (in this case, the pre-start pending storage number command and the pre-start prefetch command are: In principle, it is transmitted at a predetermined time interval or transmitted at substantially the same time), and the effect control means is a reception determination process executed at a specific time equal to or greater than the predetermined time from the game control means. When determining the reception of the transmitted command, the reception interval determining means determines that the pre-start pending storage number command and the pre-start pre-read command are the same reception determination process or two consecutive reception determinations. It is possible to determine that the pre-start pending storage number command and the pre-start prefetch command are received at intervals within a predetermined time on condition that the process has received them.

  Here, the pre-start reserved memory number command and the pre-start prefetch command are sequentially transmitted as the pre-start command transmitted for the establishment of the same start condition, but the command between the game control means and the effect control means If all transmissions / receptions are performed correctly, the pre-start reserved memory number command and the pre-start pre-read command for the establishment of the same start condition are continuously received by the effect control means with almost no time interval.

  When the above-described abnormality occurs in the transmission / reception of the pre-start command, for example, the pre-start pending storage number command for the satisfaction of the start condition is received after the pre-start command for the start condition is satisfied. It may happen that the pre-read command is not a pre-read command but a pre-start pre-read command for other start conditions. Of course, when such an abnormality occurs, there is often a certain time interval between the reception of the pre-start reserved memory number command and the pre-start prefetch command, and in such a case, the prefetch notice is executed. It is possible to prevent an unintended prefetching notice from being executed for a variable display that should not be a target of the prefetching notice.

  In the above gaming machine, the game control means determines whether or not to control to the advantageous state in the variable display performed by the holding storage stored in the holding storage means before deriving the display result by the holding storage. Specific determination means for determining (CPU 56: jackpot lottery, jackpot type lottery) and a variation pattern (variation pattern of the variation pattern) executed until the display result of the variation display is derived according to at least the determination result of the specific determination means A variation pattern selection means (CPU 56: determination of variation pattern type) that selects a type) from a plurality of types of variation patterns may be further provided. In this case, the jackpot information can specify whether or not it is determined to be controlled to the advantageous state by the specific determination unit, and the variation pattern information is a variation selected by the variation pattern selection unit. Whether the pattern is a specific variation pattern (super reach) can be identified, and the prefetch notice determining means is controlled to the advantageous state, and either the jackpot information or the variation pattern information is selected. Specific prefetching notice determining means for determining whether or not to execute the prefetching notice based on (big jackpot information) (CPU for display control of display control board 80: jackpot information queue 80a at the time of ending effect of jackpot round effect) ) And the jackpot information when not controlled to the advantageous state Non-specific prefetch notice determining means for determining whether or not to execute the prefetch notice based on the other of the change pattern information (fluctuation pattern information) (display control CPU of display control board 80: special figure game) Is determined with reference to the variation pattern information of the received start winning command C103 to determine whether or not to display a variation display subject to a pre-reading notice effect.

  Here, when it is determined whether or not to execute the pre-reading notice based on the specific determination information, it is determined to control to the advantageous state in the hold storage stored in the hold storage means. Whether or not the reserved memory is included is pre-notified in advance (in the pre-read notification, it is informed whether a large hit is included in the reserved memory), and the pre-reading is performed based on the variation selection information. When it is determined that the advance notice is to be executed, a look-ahead notice is made as to whether or not the hold memory for storing the specific variation pattern is included in the hold memory stored in the hold storage means. (In the pre-reading notice effect, a notice is made as to whether super-reach is included in the hold memory).

  In this case, when controlled to the advantageous state, whether or not the reserved memory stored in the reserved storage means includes the reserved memory that is determined to be controlled to the advantageous state is selected and a specific variation pattern is selected. If either one of the reserved memories is included, the pre-reading notice will be given, and if it is not controlled to the advantageous state, it will be controlled to the advantageous state among the reserved memories stored in the reserved storage means. Whether or not the holding memory for which the determination is made is included and whether or not the holding memory for selecting a specific variation pattern is included is prefetched in advance.

  In this way, by changing the content of the pre-reading notice depending on whether or not it is controlled to be in an advantageous state, various pre-reading notices are executed, and the interest of the game can be improved. Also, it is advantageous to include jackpot information and fluctuation pattern information as a start command, and to change the type of information to be referred to in order to determine the execution of the pre-reading notice when it is controlled to be in an advantageous state. Even if the content of the pre-reading notice is changed depending on whether the state is controlled, the control is not complicated.

  Here, after the game control means has ended, the probability determining state (probability changing state) in which the probability that the specific determining means determines to control to the advantageous state is higher than the normal gaming state. In the case of further comprising a probability variation state control means (CPU 56) for controlling the gaming state, the specific prefetch notice determining means determines whether to execute the prefetch notice based on the jackpot information, and It is preferable that the specific prefetch notice determination unit determines whether or not to execute the prefetch notice based on the variation pattern information.

  The probability variation state control means can control the probability variation state until the number of executions of the variation display from the end of the advantageous state reaches a specific number (9 times or 10 times). In this case, the specific number is preferably equal to or greater than the predetermined number.

  The game control means includes probability variation determining means for determining whether or not to control to the probability variation state when the specific determination means determines to control to the advantageous state, the probability variation state control The means may be controlled to the probability variation state on the condition that the probability variation determination means determines to control to the probability variation state (including a normal jackpot or a short-time jackpot in the jackpot type) Modification). In this case, whether or not the specific prefetch notice determining means executes the prefetch notice based on the jackpot information on the condition that the probability variation determining means determines to control the probability variation state. (In the case where the jackpot type includes a normal jackpot or a short-time jackpot, a modification example in which a pre-reading notice is determined when any probability fluctuation jackpot is reached).

  Here, if the probability fluctuation state is to be controlled after the advantageous state ends, the reserved storage stored in the holding storage means until the advantageous state ends is the holding executed in a specific fluctuation pattern. The player expects the reserved memory to be determined to be controlled in an advantageous state rather than the memory. The specific prefetching notice determining means determines whether or not to execute the prefetching notice based on the jackpot information, so that it is possible to execute the prefetching notice that can accurately respond to the player's expectation.

  In the gaming machine, the start condition includes a first start condition (winning a game ball to the start winning opening 14a) and a second start condition different from the first start condition (a game ball to the start winning opening 14b). The holding storage means stores a holding memory for performing a variable display based on the establishment of the first start condition (holding storage buffer corresponding to the start winning opening 14a), Second hold storage means (hold storage buffer corresponding to the start winning port 14b) for storing the hold storage for performing the variable display based on the establishment of the second start condition, the pre-start command transmission means is the hold storage means The pre-start hold memory number command transmitter including the pre-start hold memory number command (start winning command A101, start winning command B102) including the hold information stored in the pre-start command And pre-start pre-read command transmission means for transmitting a pre-start pre-read command (start winning command C103) including the jackpot information and the variation pattern information as the pre-start command separately from the pre-start reserved memory number command. It may be a thing. In this case, the pre-start hold memory number command transmission means includes the hold information so that it can be specified that the hold information is stored in the first hold storage means when the first start condition is satisfied. A pre-start reserved memory number command is transmitted (when a winning prize opening 14a is won, a start winning command A101 is transmitted), and when the second start condition is satisfied, stored in the first reserved storage means A pre-start hold memory number command including the hold information is transmitted so that it can be specified that the hold information has been set (when the start winning port 14b is won, a start winning command B102 is transmitted), and the pre-reading before start The command transmission means does not distinguish whether the first start condition or the second start condition is satisfied, regardless of whether the first start condition is satisfied or the second start condition is satisfied. The pre-start pre-read command including at least the fluctuation pattern information in the fluctuation display executed based on the start condition can be transmitted (the start prize command A101 or the winning prize command A101 or The start winning command C103 is transmitted following the starting winning command B102).

  Here, the pre-start reserved memory number command and the pre-start pre-read command are transmitted as pre-start commands transmitted when the same start condition is satisfied, and both are transmitted to the effect control means when the start condition is satisfied. Therefore, if all the commands are transmitted and received correctly between the game control means and the effect control means, the pre-start reserved memory number command and the pre-start pre-read command for the establishment of the same start condition are almost at intervals. Instead, it is continuously received by the effect control means.

  Therefore, a pre-start prefetch command including at least variation pattern information in the variation display executed based on the established start condition is transmitted without distinguishing which of the first and second start conditions is satisfied. Even if it is referred to the information contained in the pre-start pending storage number command received with substantially no time interval (substantially simultaneously) with the pre-start prefetch command, the first and second start It is possible to specify at least the variation pattern information in the variation display executed based on which condition is satisfied (for example, the retention information is included so that it can be identified as the retention information of the first reservation storage means) When the pre-start reserved memory number command is received substantially simultaneously with the pre-start prefetch command, the pre-start prefetch command is substantially based on the establishment of the first start condition. At least it has to include the variation pattern information) in the variable display that is performed in accordance with the pending memory specified from before the start pending memory number command received simultaneously.

  Since it is not necessary to include information that can be specified from others in the pre-read pre-read command, for example, whether it is the hold information stored in the first hold storage means or the hold information stored in the second hold storage means When it is possible to specify by the control information of the reserved memory count command before start, the types of commands to be identified by the effect control means can be reduced. On the other hand, in the case where information indicating whether the hold information is stored in the first hold storage means or the hold information stored in the second hold storage means is included in the pre-start hold memory number command other than the control information The difference in the control contents of the game control means that can be identified by at least the variation pattern information included in the pre-read prefetch command can be increased.

  The gaming machine has a variation pattern for selecting a variation pattern until the variation display is stopped from numerical data updating means for updating predetermined numerical data within a predetermined numerical range when the start condition is satisfied. Numerical data extraction means (CPU 56) for extracting numerical data including numerical data for determination (variation pattern determination random number), and means for storing up to a predetermined number of pending storages for performing variable display when the start condition is satisfied A storage unit that stores the numerical data extracted by the numerical data extraction unit as the storage unit (stores various random numbers extracted at the time of starting winning in the reservation storage buffer of the RAM 55); The determination result, the number of reserved memories stored in the reserved storage means when the variable display is started, and the numerical data extracting means Based on the value of the numerical value data for determining the variation pattern that has been issued (the range of random numbers for selecting the variation variation pattern differs depending on whether the number of reserved storage at the start of variation display is 2 or less or 3 or more: FIG. 4) And a variation pattern selecting means (display control CPU of the display control board 80) for determining the variation pattern (variation pattern), wherein the storage unit for storing the numerical data extracted by the numerical data extraction means, It is good also as what memorize | stores as a pending | holding memory which performs a variable display (The various random numbers extracted at the time of a start winning prize are stored in the pending | holding memory buffer of RAM55). In this case, the determination value corresponding to the specific variation pattern is set to the same determination value regardless of the number of reserved memories stored in the reserved storage means when the variation display is started ( The range of random numbers for selecting the variation pattern of the super reach is the same when the number of reserved storages is 2 or less or 3 or more: FIG. 4), and the determination value corresponding to the non-specific variation pattern different from the specific variation pattern is , When the variable display is started, a different judgment value may be set according to the number of reserved memories stored in the reserved storage means (select a variation pattern of non-reach loss or normal reach loss) The range of random numbers to be used differs depending on whether the number of reserved memories is 2 or less and 3 or more: FIG.

  In this case, the determination value corresponding to the non-specific variation pattern different from the specific variation pattern is different depending on the number of reserved memories stored in the reserved storage unit when the variation display is started. However, the determination value corresponding to the specific variation pattern is the same determination value regardless of the number of reserved memories stored in the reserved storage means when the variable display is started. Thus, while a specific variation pattern is always selected at a constant rate, a variation pattern (predetermined other than the specific variation pattern is determined according to the number of reserved storages stored in the storage unit when the variable display is started. It is also possible to change the ratio of selecting the fluctuation pattern.

  In addition, the variation pattern that is actually determined for each variation display is determined according to the number of reserved memories stored in the retention storage means when the variation display is started, but the specific variation pattern is When the variable display is started, it is selected in the same way regardless of the number of reserved memories stored in the reserved storage means. For this reason, when the start condition is satisfied, even if the number of the hold memories stored in the hold storage means is not fixed when the change display corresponding to the established start condition is started, the specific change pattern Only what becomes can be specified.

  Such an effect is that the pre-reading notice execution means makes a pre-reading notice as to whether or not the hold memory for selecting the specific variation pattern is included in the hold memory stored in the hold storage means. In some cases, it is remarkably played.

1 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the control circuit of the pachinko gaming machine of FIG. (A) is a figure which shows the table for jackpot determination, (b), (c) is a figure which shows the table for jackpot classification determination. It is a figure which shows the type determination table of the variation pattern of a special symbol. It is a figure which shows the format of the start winning command transmitted toward the display control microcomputer of a display control board from the control part of a main board | substrate at the time of starting winning. It is a figure which shows the preservation | save area | region of the information for production provided in RAM contained in the microcomputer for display control mounted in the display control board. It is a figure which shows the table for determining the variable display made into the object of a prefetch notice effect. It is a figure which shows the table for selecting the combination of the decoration symbol stopped by the variable display apparatus. It is a table for determining the pre-reading notice based on the hold memory at the time when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started. It is a flowchart which shows the 2ms timer interruption process performed by the control part of a main board | substrate. It is a flowchart which shows the main process performed by CPU for display control of a display control board. It is a figure which shows the specific example of execution of the prefetch notice effect in the pachinko game machine concerning embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of execution of the jackpot post effect and the last chance effect from execution of the prefetch notice in the pachinko gaming machine according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of execution of the jackpot post effect and the last chance effect from execution of the prefetch notice in the pachinko gaming machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine 1 applied to this embodiment as seen from the front. The pachinko gaming machine 1 includes an outer frame (not shown) formed in a vertically long rectangular shape, and a game frame attached to the inside of the outer frame so as to be opened and closed. Further, the pachinko gaming machine 1 has a glass door frame 2 formed in a frame shape that is provided in the game frame so as to be opened and closed. The game frame includes a front frame (not shown) that can be opened and closed with respect to the outer frame, a mechanism plate (not shown) to which mechanism parts and the like are attached, and various parts (games to be described later) attached to them. And the board 6).

  As shown in FIG. 1, the pachinko gaming machine 1 has a glass door frame 2 formed in a frame shape. On the lower surface of the glass door frame 2 is a hitting ball supply tray (upper plate) 3. A chance button 16 is provided on the front surface of the hit ball supply tray 3. The chance button 16 is produced depending on whether or not the player operates a predetermined type of effect on the effect means such as the variable display device 9 and the operation satisfies a predetermined operation condition. It is a button that can change the result.

  Below the hitting ball supply tray 3, there is an extra ball receiving tray 4 for storing game balls that cannot be accommodated in the hitting ball supply tray 3, and a hitting operation handle (operation knob) 5 for firing the hitting ball in the game area 7 by rotating. Is provided. A game board 6 is detachably attached to the back surface of the glass door frame 2. The game board 6 is a structure including a plate-like body constituting the game board 6 and various components attached to the plate-like body. In addition, a game area 7 is formed on the front surface of the game board 6 in which a game ball that has been struck can flow down.

  Near the center of the game area 7, a variable display device 9 composed of a liquid crystal display device (LCD) is provided. In a circular frame surrounding the periphery of the variable display device 9, decoration lamps 25 a to 25 c serving as production means and an accessory 26 are provided. Below the variable display device 9 in the game area 7, two start winning ports 14a and 14b are arranged side by side in the vertical direction. A variable winning device 15 that facilitates winning of a game ball by being in an open state is provided at the start winning opening 14b on the lower side. When the variable winning device 15 is in the closed state, it is difficult to win a game ball to the start winning port 14b, but it is not completely impossible.

  A special variable winning device 20 is provided below the start winning ports 14a and 14b so that the large winning port 21 is opened. When the special variable prize-winning device 20 is in the closed state, the game ball cannot win at all in the big prize opening 21. The position at which the special variable winning device 20 is provided is that if the player is proceeding with the game while looking at the variable display device 9, the player is almost sure whether or not the big winning opening 21 is open. The position is unknown. On both sides of the special variable prize-winning device 20, special symbol indicators 10a and 10b constituted by 7-segment LEDs are provided. In the special symbol displays 10a and 10b, the special symbol displayed by the 7-segment LED is displayed in a variable manner.

  The special symbol display 10a displays a variation of the special symbol based on the winning of the game ball at the start winning port 14a, and the special symbol display 10b displays the special symbol based on the winning of the game ball at the starting winning port 14b. Display the fluctuation of. Although the special symbol display is not simultaneously performed on both the special symbol displays 10a and 10b, the special symbol display is not given priority on any of the special symbol displays 10a and 10b. In accordance with the order in which the game balls win the winning holes 14a and 14b, the special symbol display 10a or 10b performs variable display.

  Among the display results displayed on the special symbol displays 10a and 10b, the specific display result (big hit symbol) includes a first specific display result (9/9 big hit symbol) and a second specific display result (9/50 big hit symbol). ), Third specific display result (9/150 jackpot symbol), fourth specific display result (10/10 jackpot symbol), fifth specific display result (10/50 jackpot symbol), and sixth specific display result (10/150 jackpot symbol) is included. Display results other than the first specific display result to the sixth specific display result are lost symbols.

  There are 2 ^ 7-1 = 127 combinations of the display results of the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b depending on the combination of lighting / non-lighting of the seven segments (^ represents a power and all of the seven segments are not lighted) This is excluded as a display result of the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b, so that 1 is subtracted). The first specific display result, the second specific display result, the third specific display result, and the fourth specific display result may include symbols that are relatively easy to understand for the player, such as numbers “0” to “9”. However, the combination of lighting / non-lighting of seven segments that cannot be recognized as meaningful characters is also adopted, and it is very difficult to specify the type of jackpot from the display results of the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b. It has become a thing.

  After any one of the first specific game result to the sixth specific display result is displayed on the special symbol displays 10a and 10b, the game state is controlled to the jackpot gaming state described later. After the jackpot gaming state ends, the gaming state is controlled to a probability variation state in which the jackpot probability is higher than the normal gaming state (or a short time state where the probability variation state does not become a state), and the short time state (variation of special symbols and normal symbols) The gaming state is controlled so that the display time is shortened. However, the number of special symbol variations displayed from the end of the jackpot gaming state to the end of the probability variation state, and the special symbol variation display performed from the end of the jackpot gaming state to the end of the short-time state. The number of times varies depending on which of the first specific display result to the sixth specific display result is displayed.

  For example, when the first specific display result is displayed, the control is performed only after the jackpot gaming state based on the first specific display result is completed until the probability changing state is executed nine times and the time changing state is executed nine times. Similarly, when the second specific display result is displayed, each 9 times / 50 times, when the third specific display result is displayed, each 9 times / 150 times, and when the fourth specific display result is displayed, When the fifth specific display result is displayed 10 times / 10 times, respectively, 10 times / 50 times, respectively, when the sixth specific display result is displayed, 10 times / 150 times, respectively, the probability variation state and the short time state To be controlled.

  The short-time state is a gaming state that is controlled simultaneously with the probability variation state or separately from the probability variation state, and the time-short state may continue even if the probability variation state ends. There is no probability variation state that is not controlled to the short-time state. Since the jackpot lottery is performed at the time when the variation display of the special symbol (decoration symbol) is started, the probability variation state is controlled after the jackpot gaming state ends and the variation display can be executed. However, the time-short state is controlled from the time when any type of jackpot occurs, when the jackpot game state is controlled.

  After the end of the jackpot gaming state, the fluctuation display of the number of times determined for the probability fluctuation state has been digested, but when the fluctuation display of the number of times determined for the short time state has not yet been digested, the gaming state is controlled to the short time state It becomes. After the end of the jackpot gaming state, if the digest display of the number of times defined for the probability variation state is digested, and the variation display of the number of times determined for the short-time state is digested (for 9/9 jackpot and 10/10 jackpot, both times The digestion is the same), and is controlled to the normal gaming state. The occurrence of any type of jackpot in the normal gaming state is referred to as first hit.

  The variable display device 9 performs variable display in which the decorative symbols are scrolled in the vertical direction in nine decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i arranged in a 3 × 3 matrix. The jackpot line of the variable display device 9 is set to a total of 8 lines including 3 lines in the vertical direction, 3 lines in the horizontal direction, and 2 lines in the diagonal direction. As the types of decorative symbols, there are a plurality of types of fruit symbols including “apple” in addition to “7” and “blank symbol”.

  In the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i, the variable display in the decorative symbol display areas 9b, 9d, 9f, and 9h excluding the center and the four corners is stopped as the first stage (between these can be stopped simultaneously or sequentially). The variable display in the decorative design display areas 9a, 9c, 9g, 9i at the four corners is stopped as the second stage (the stop can be performed simultaneously or sequentially between them), and the variable display in the central decorative display display area 9e is the last. To be stopped. However, in the 1.5 second variation pattern (all non-reach lose) described later, all the variation display in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i may be stopped simultaneously, and in the 3-second variation pattern (non-reach lose or normal reach) If the variable display in the central decorative symbol display area 9e is stopped later, the decorative symbol display areas 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9f, 9g, 9h, 9i other than this may be stopped simultaneously.

  The variable display device 9 is a variable display device for displaying the contents of the variable display performed by the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b to the player with enhanced effects by the variable symbol display. As long as the variation display of the special symbol is continued on the special symbol display 10a, 10b, even if the variation display of the decoration symbol is temporarily stopped (temporary stop), the definite display result for the big hit lottery and the big hit type lottery is obtained. It has never been shown.

  Further, the variable display device 9 performs variable display that displays the decorative symbols in a variable manner and stops the decorative symbols in accordance with the results of the jackpot lottery and the lottery type lottery. When the first specific display result to the sixth specific display result are displayed on the special symbol displays 10a and 10b, all the decorative symbols displayed on the variable display device 9 are aligned with the fruit symbols, or any one or more “ The occurrence of a big hit is notified by aligning “7”. However, which one of the first specific display result to the sixth specific display result is displayed is not known from the display mode of the decorative symbols displayed on the variable display device 9.

  In the variable display device 9, while the decorative symbol display is being performed in the decorative symbol display areas 9 a to 9 i (while the special symbol display is being performed by the special symbol indicators 10 a and 10 b), Various effects (such as a pre-reading notice effect and a reach notice, which will be described later, or various effects such as a jackpot effect and a last chance effect) are performed. Further, the variable display device 9 is used not only for displaying a decorative symbol in accordance with a special symbol, but also for performing a big hit round effect.

  Further, when the special symbol display is performed by the special symbol display device 10a or 10b and the variable display device 9 is performing the variable symbol display, the decorative lamps 25a to 25c are turned on or the accessory 26 is displayed. There is a case where an effect by driving is performed. The effects executed in the pachinko gaming machine 1 are roughly divided into a notice and a notice. The notice is a notice that the contents indicated by the notice may occur, and is indicated by the notice. It is distinguished from notifications that are notifications that definitely indicate that content will occur. However, it only shows the possibility until the end of a series of productions, but if a final announcement is made at the final part of the series of productions, the final part will be announced and the part before it will be announced It will be a production with meaning.

  A game ball enters the start winning opening 14a, 14b in the lower display area of the display area of the variable display device 9, but the start condition is still satisfied, but the start condition of the special symbol indicators 10a, 10b (for example, the previous special display) On-hold storage number display means for displaying on-hold storage stored in RAM 55 (see FIG. 2) of main board 31 to be described later as the number of times the start condition is not established (end of symbol variation display, end of jackpot gaming state) Special symbol storage storage display unit 11 is set.

  The special symbol hold memory display unit 11 includes a display unit for eight icons, and the effective start winning to the start winning port 14a (in the present embodiment, when the number of reserved memories in each of the start winning ports 14a and 14b is less than 4). Each time an icon to be displayed is added to the right side of the icon displayed at that time, and each time the special symbol change display is started on the special symbol display 10a, 10b, The icon displayed on the leftmost side (corresponding to the variable display started this time) is deleted, and the other displayed icons are shifted to the left one by one and displayed. That is, the number of icons to be displayed is reduced by one.

  In this pachinko gaming machine 1, since the start winning for any of the start winning ports 14a, 14b is not given priority, which of the start winning ports 14a, 14b is the start winning for the special symbol hold storage display unit 11? Regardless, the icons are sequentially displayed in the order of winning. For example, the icon for the reserved memory of the start winning opening 14a is displayed in blue, and the icon for the reserved storage of the starting winning opening 14b is displayed in green. However, the display color of the icon displayed on the special symbol hold storage display unit 11 may be changed from blue or green for a pre-reading notice described later.

  The RAM 55 (see FIG. 2) is extracted by the CPU 56 (see FIG. 2) of the main board 31 when a special symbol start condition in the special symbol display device 10a is established (a game ball is started at the start winning opening 14a). In addition, four pending storage buffers are provided for storing the extraction order of various random numbers such as jackpot determination random numbers. Four reserved storage buffers are provided for storing various random numbers extracted when the winning winning opening 14b is won, and a total of eight reserved storage buffers are provided. The reserved storage buffer for each of the start winning ports 14a and 14b is prepared separately, but the order of the start winnings can be specified, and the special symbol display on the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b is all started. It is performed in order of winning.

  The winning balls that have entered the starting winning ports 14a and 14b are respectively guided to the back of the game board 6 and detected by starting port switches 62a and 62b (see FIG. 2). The variable winning device 15 is opened by a solenoid 71 (see FIG. 2). The variable winning device 15 is opened by the solenoid 71 in accordance with the result of the normal symbol variation display described later, thereby making it easier for the game ball to win the start winning opening 14b (easier to start winning) and for the player. This is an advantageous state.

  Further, the special variable winning device 20 is movable by a solenoid 72 (see FIG. 2) and is in an acceptable state in which a game ball can be won in the grand prize winning port 21, and in an unacceptable state in which a game ball cannot be won in the grand prize winning port 21. The large winning opening 21 is opened in the acceptable state. Also, the winning ball guided from the special variable winning device 20 to the back of the game board 6 is detected by the count switch 63 (see FIG. 2). A solenoid 73 (see FIG. 2) for switching the route in the special winning opening 21 is also provided on the back of the game board 6.

  The special variable prize-winning device 20 keeps the big prize opening 21 in an open state until a predetermined time elapses from the opening of the big prize opening 21 or until a predetermined number (for example, 10) of game balls wins in the jackpot gaming state. . One round is from the opening / closing of the big winning opening 21 until a certain period (for example, 30 seconds) elapses or until a predetermined number (for example, ten) of hit balls enter the big winning opening 21. The jackpot gaming state is a gaming state in which the opening of the big winning opening 21 is repeatedly provided for a predetermined number of times (for example, 15 times).

  Further, on the right side of the game area 7, a normal symbol display 12 made up of a pair of left and right LEDs labeled “◯” and “×” is provided. The normal symbol display 12 can variably display a plurality of types of identification information (for example, “◯” and “x”) called normal symbols.

  When the gate switch 61 (see FIG. 2) detects that the game ball has passed through the gates 28a and 28b, a random number for determination per normal symbol is extracted and the RAM 55 (see FIG. 2) mounted on the main board 31 (see FIG. 2). In the normal symbol buffer of FIG. In this embodiment, the upper limit of the number of random numbers for determination per ordinary symbol that can be stored in the normal symbol buffer of the RAM 55 (see FIG. 2) is four. If the normal symbol display 12 can start the variable display in which the normal symbol display state changes ("○" and "x" are alternately turned on) (the end of the previous variable display in the normal symbol display 12). Then, the normal symbol display unit 12 starts to display the variation of the normal symbol.

  Above the normal symbol display 12, a normal symbol holding storage indicator having a predetermined number (four in this embodiment) of LEDs for displaying the number of random numbers for determination per ordinary symbol stored in the normal symbol buffer. 13 is provided. When the gate switch 61 detects that the game ball has passed through the gates 28a and 28b and a new random number for determining the normal symbol is stored, the normal symbol storage memory display 13 increases the number of LEDs to be turned on by one. . The number of LEDs that are lit is reduced by 1 every time the normal symbol display 12 starts to display fluctuations of normal symbols (for example, “◯” and “x”).

  In the normal symbol display 12, the left and right lamps marked with ○ and X (the symbols become visible when lit) are alternately lit, so that the fluctuation of the normal symbol is performed. For example, if the time-short state is 2.9 seconds, otherwise it is 29.2 seconds). If the left lamp with a circle is turned on at the end of the variable display, it is a win. When the display result of the variable display on the normal symbol display 12 is a win, the variable winning device 15 is only for a predetermined time (for example, 2.9 seconds in the short time state, 1.4 seconds in the short time state). It becomes an open state.

  Whether or not to win the result of the normal symbol variation display is determined by the value of the random number for determination per normal symbol extracted when the game ball passes through the gates 28a and 28b and is detected by the gate switch 61. Is determined according to whether or not the value matches a predetermined judgment value per ordinary symbol. The hit probability is very high (for example, 35/36) in the short-time state, but is low (for example, 1/36) if it is not in the short-time state. In the short-time state, since the percentage of the variable winning device 15 being in the open state is very high in this way, the number of game balls held by the player is not reduced (or even if it is reduced, the reduction amount is very small). The game is ready to proceed.

  Winning holes 29a to 29d are provided on the left and lower sides of the gate 28a and on the lower and right sides of the gate 28b, respectively. When it is detected by the winning port switch 64a (see FIG. 2) that a game ball has won the winning ports 29a to 29d, a predetermined number of gaming balls are paid out. The payout of the game ball is also performed by winning the game ball to the start winning ports 14a and 14b and the big winning port 21, but is not performed even if the game ball passes through the gates 28a and 28b.

  In the lower part of the game area 7 of the game board 6, there is provided an out port 30 into which a hit ball that has not won a prize is taken. In addition, two speakers 27 that utter sound effects and sounds as predetermined sound outputs are provided on the left and right upper portions outside the game area 7. A top frame lamp 40, a frame lamp left 41, and a frame lamp right 42 provided on the front frame are provided at the outer peripheral upper portion, the outer peripheral left portion, and the outer peripheral right portion of the game area 7.

  Although not shown in FIG. The pachinko gaming machine 1 is provided with a hitting ball launching device 45 (see FIG. 2) that drives a driving motor by operating a hitting operation handle 5 and uses the rotational force of the driving motor to launch a gaming ball into the gaming area 7. It has been. The game balls launched from the hit ball launching device 45 enter the game area 7 through a hit ball rail mounted in a circular shape so as to surround the game area 7 on the game board 6, and then descend the game area 7. . The game balls that have not won any of the start winning ports 14a and 14b, the big winning port 21, and the winning ports 29a to 29d are discharged from the out port 30.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an outline of a circuit configuration of the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to the present embodiment. On the main board 31, a basic circuit 53 for controlling the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to a program is mounted. The basic circuit 53 transmits a control signal to a ROM 54 that stores a game control program, a RAM 55 that is used as a work memory, a CPU 56 that controls a game signal according to the program, a display control board 80, and the like. An I / O port unit 57 is included.

  In this embodiment, the basic circuit 53 including the ROM 54, the RAM 55, the CPU 56, and the I / O port unit 57 is configured as a one-chip microcomputer, but the one-chip microcomputer configuring the basic circuit 53 includes Electric power is supplied from the backup battery while the power of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is cut off. That is, the data stored in the RAM 55 is retained while the power of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is shut off as long as power is supplied from the backup battery.

  Since the CPU 56 executes control according to the program stored in the ROM 54, the CPU 56 executes (or performs processing) hereinafter, specifically, the CPU 56 executes control according to the program. is there. The same applies to CPUs mounted on substrates other than the main substrate 31. The game control microcomputer used in this embodiment is a peripheral circuit such as the CPU 56, ROM 54, RAM 55, I / O port 57, etc. mounted on the main board 31.

  Further, the gate switch 61, the start port switches 62a and 62b, the count switch 63, the winning port switch 64, the full tank switch (not shown) that is detected when the surplus ball receiving tray 4 is full, and the count switch short circuit signal (not shown). ), A switch circuit 32 for providing a signal to the basic circuit 53, a solenoid 71 for opening and closing the variable prize-winning device 15, a solenoid 72 for opening and closing the special variable prize-winning device 20, and a solenoid for moving a seesaw provided in the big prize opening 21 73, etc., in accordance with a command from the basic circuit 53, a system reset circuit (not shown) for resetting the basic circuit 53 when the power is turned on, and the occurrence of a jackpot gaming state according to data supplied from the basic circuit 53 Information output signals such as jackpot information that indicate Information output circuit 34 for outputting to an external device such as a motor, also mounted on the main substrate 31.

  Further, a reset switch 93 that resets the internal state (RAM 55) at the time of power activation and a main switch 94 that performs ON / OFF switching of the power are also connected to the main board 31, and detection signals of these switches are used as basic circuits. Send to 53. These switches 93 and 94 are provided inside the pachinko gaming machine 1.

  The CPU 56 mounted on the main board 31 performs display control of the special symbol displays 10a and 10b and display control of the normal symbol display 12. Further, the light emission control of the normal symbol hold storage display 13 is performed.

  A game control microcomputer (peripheral circuits such as a CPU 56 and a ROM 54 and a RAM 55) provided on the main board 31 is provided on the card unit 50 and the game board 6 that enable ball lending by inserting a prepaid card or the like. A payout control signal is transmitted to a payout control board 36 that controls a ball payout device 44 that pays out a winning ball when a winning of a game ball is detected at a plurality of winning holes. Further, the game control microcomputer operates the hitting operation handle 5 to drive and control the hitting ball launching device 45 to transmit a launch control signal to the launch control board 37 that controls the launching of the game ball toward the game area 7. .

  Further, the game control microcomputer transmits an effect control command (effect control signal) to the display control board 80. A display control microcomputer (display control CPU (not shown), RAM (not shown), ROM (not shown), ROM (not shown), I / O port (shown)) provided on the display control board 80 by receiving the effect control command. No)) and the like) perform display control of the variable display device 9. The display control microcomputer is also supplied with power from the backup battery while the power of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is cut off, and the data stored in the RAM is also saved while the power of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is cut off. Is also retained.

  The display control CPU operates according to a program stored in the ROM, and when receiving an effect control command from the main board 31, performs display control of the variable display device 9 according to the received effect control command. Specifically, display control of the variable display device 9 is performed by a VDP (not shown) having a display control function for performing image display and a high-speed drawing function. The display control CPU reads necessary data from a character ROM (not shown) in accordance with the received effect control command. The character ROM is for storing character image data frequently used among images displayed on the variable display device 9, specifically, a person, a monster, a character, a figure, a symbol, or the like.

  Then, the display control CPU outputs the data read from the character ROM to the VDP. The VDP operates based on data input from the display control CPU. In this embodiment, a VDP (not shown) that performs display control of the variable display device 9 is mounted on the display control board 80. The VDP has a two-dimensional address space independent of the display control CPU, and a VRAM (not shown) is mapped there. The VDP generates image data to be displayed on the variable display device 9 in accordance with the character image data, and develops it in the VRAM. VRAM is a frame buffer memory for developing image data generated by VDP. Then, it is output to the variable display device 9. Note that the display control of the variable display device 9 includes special symbol variation display, jackpot round effect, hold memory icon display, and the like.

  Further, the chance button 16 is connected to the display control board 80 via a switch circuit (not shown), and when the effect that the contents are changed by the operation of the chance button 16 is executed in the variable display device 9. The display of the image on the variable display device 9 is controlled based on the detection signal that detects the operation of the chance button 16.

  Further, in this embodiment, the display control microcomputer provided on the display control board 80 controls the sound output of the speaker 27 by outputting the drive signal of the speaker 27 to the sound output board 70, and the lamp driver. By outputting a driving signal of the accessory, lamp / LED to the substrate 35, light emission control of the accessory, lamp / LED provided in the pachinko gaming machine 1 is performed. In other words, the display control microcomputer mounted on the display control board 80 receives the command information related to the display control of the variable display device 9, the lamp / LED lighting control, and the control of effects such as the generation of game sounds transmitted from the main board 31. Is a microcomputer for effect control that controls light emitting bodies such as lamps and LEDs provided in the variable display device 9, the speaker 27, and the pachinko gaming machine 1, based on the effect control command (control signal).

  Hereinafter, the special symbol variation display on the special symbol displays 10a and 10b in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment and the decorative symbol variation display on the variable display device 9 will be described. Whether or not the result of the special symbol variation display is a jackpot (Lottery lottery), if it is a jackpot, which type of jackpot is to be won (Lottery type lottery), and what is the variation pattern of the special symbol (Determining the variation pattern) is determined when the special symbol variation display start condition in the special symbol displays 10a and 10b is established based on various random numbers extracted at the time of starting winning.

  First, the determination of jackpot will be described. FIG. 3A is a diagram showing a jackpot determination table stored in the ROM 54. Whether or not the result of the special symbol variation display is a jackpot is determined based on the jackpot determination table of FIG. 3 (a) and the jackpot determination random number among the random numbers extracted at the time of starting winning (random R: 0 to 65535). And is determined based on the value of. In normal time (non-probability fluctuation), if the value of the jackpot determination random number is 1000 to 1059 or 13320 to 13477, it is determined to be a jackpot, otherwise it is determined to be lost. decide. On the other hand, at the time of probability variation, if the value of the jackpot determination random number is 1020-1519 or 13320-15004, it is determined to be a jackpot, and if it is any other value, it is determined to be lost.

  Next, determination of the jackpot type will be described. FIG. 3B and FIG. 3C are diagrams showing a jackpot type determination table stored in the ROM 54. Here, FIG. 3 (b) is a jackpot type determination table for determining the jackpot type when the special symbol display 10b performs variable symbol display, and FIG. 3 (c) is a special symbol display. 12 is a jackpot type determination table for determining a jackpot type when the special symbol is displayed in a variable manner on the device 10a.

  When the special symbol display 10b is used to display the variation of the special symbol, if it is determined that the result of the variation display of the special symbol based on the random number for jackpot determination and the table for jackpot determination is determined to be a jackpot, the start prize is further awarded. If the value of the jackpot type determination random number (random Q: 0 to 99) among the random numbers extracted from time to time is 0 to 26, it is determined to be 9/9 jackpot, and if it is 27 to 71, it is determined to be 9/50 jackpot. If it is 72 to 89, it is determined as 9/150 jackpot, if it is 90 to 92, it is determined as 10/10 jackpot, if it is 93 to 97, it is determined as 10/50 jackpot, and if it is 98 to 99 10/150 jackpot is determined.

  On the other hand, when the special symbol display is performed by the special symbol display device 10a, if it is determined that the result of the special symbol variation display is based on the jackpot determination random number and the jackpot determination table, If the value of the jackpot type determination random number (random Q: 0 to 99) among the random numbers extracted at the time of starting winning is 0 to 35, it is determined to be 9/9 jackpot, and if it is 36 to 80, 9/50 jackpot is determined. If it is 81-89, it will be determined as 9/150 jackpot, if it is 90-93, it will be determined as 10/10 jackpot, if it is 94-98, it will be determined as 10/50 jackpot, and if it will be 99 10/150 jackpot is determined.

  By the way, when it is not controlled in the short-time state, the variable winning device 15 is rarely opened and it is rare for a game ball to win the start winning port 14b. Therefore, the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b have priorities. Even if not, most of the special symbols are displayed on the special symbol display 10a. When it is controlled to the short-time state, the percentage of the variable winning device 15 being in the open state is very high, and the game balls are very likely to win the start winning opening 14b. Therefore, the priority is given to the special symbol displays 10a and 10b. However, there are many cases where the special symbol display is performed on the special symbol display 10b.

  When the special symbol change display is executed on the special symbol display 10b, the 9/150 jackpot or 10 is obtained, which is 150 times shorter than when the special symbol change display is executed on the special symbol display 10a. / 150 tends to be a big hit. After 9/150 jackpots or 10/150 jackpots that can achieve 150 short-time states, jackpots will occur with a high probability among the 9 or 10 fluctuation displays controlled in the probability fluctuation state. In consideration of this, the next jackpot is generated slightly before the next jackpot is generated after the shortening state is finished before the 150 times the hourly state is finished.

  If a big hit occurs while being controlled in the short-time state, it becomes easy to obtain a short-time state many times even in the next big hit. In other words, once a jackpot occurs while being controlled in the short-time state, the expected value of the number of short-time states obtained after the jackpot gaming state based on that will increase, and the most disadvantageous probability for the player The probability of falling into the normal gaming state that is not controlled in the fluctuating state or the short-time state is reduced.

  Next, determination of the variation pattern of the special symbol will be described. The variation pattern of the special symbol is the state of the probability variation when the starting condition is satisfied (that is, when the variation display of the special symbol and the decoration symbol starts) (except the last one of the probability variation state). This is determined according to the last time, the short time state not controlled to the probability variation state, or the normal gaming state) and the result of the special symbol variation display (whether or not to be a jackpot). Further, when determining the variation pattern, first, the variation pattern type is determined based on the variation type determination random number value among the random numbers extracted at the time of starting winning, and further the variation pattern determining random number extracted at the time of starting winning The variation pattern is determined based on the value of.

  When it is determined that the variation pattern is lost, there are three types of non-reach loss, normal reach loss, and super reach loss. If it is determined that any type of jackpot, there are two types per normal reach and per super reach. It should be noted that the normal reach lose and the normal reach are sometimes referred to as normal reach without being particularly distinguished, and the super reach lose and the super reach are sometimes referred to as super reach without being particularly distinguished.

  The distribution of the specific variation pattern at the start of the variation display is the gaming state that is controlled (the last one in the probability variation state, the last one in the probability variation state, the short time state that is not controlled in the probability variation state, Or, a difference occurs depending on the normal game state). However, the distribution of the types of higher-order variation patterns differs only in the result of the special symbol variation display, and does not vary depending on the gaming state being controlled.

  Here, both the normal reach and the super reach are patterns in which a reach display mode in which the left and right decorative symbols that are stopped first and second in the process of the variable display are aligned with the same type of symbols appears. The normal reach is a variation pattern in which the variation display mode of the decorative pattern in the inside is not different from the case of the loss (the symbol that is finally stopped is different). The features common to these non-reach loss variation patterns and normal reach variation patterns are the features of non-reach loss and normal reach as types.

  In the variation pattern classified in more detail, the variation display time until the actual variation display is finished is only 1.5 seconds or 3 seconds or so. From non-reach loss only), if variation display is continued for the original variation time of the variation pattern, it takes 18 seconds or more, and only the variation display time is not so different from the variation pattern of super reach.

  On the other hand, after reaching the reach display mode, the super reach is an effect display in which the variation display of the decorative pattern that is stopped last is different from the normal display mode (for example, a reach effect such as a battle effect of the character). The time required for the variable display is considerably longer than the majority of non-reach loss or normal reach variation patterns.

  However, when the number of reserved memories becomes 3 or more, the time for executing the variation display of the special symbol and the decorative symbol is shortened from the original variation display time of the selected variation pattern (when it becomes 4). 3). In addition, even when the state is controlled to the short time state without being controlled to the probability variation state, the time for executing the variation display of the special symbol and the decorative symbol is shortened compared to the original variation display time of the selected variation pattern.

  However, when controlled to the probability fluctuation state (although it is always controlled to the short time state as well), selectable fluctuations to secure time for execution of the big hit effect and the last chance effect described later. The time during which the variation display of the special symbol and the decorative symbol is executed is not shortened to a time shorter than the shortest variation time of the pattern (10 seconds except for the last one and 18 seconds for the last one). In other words, when a pattern having the shortest variation time is selected from among the selectable variation patterns, the number of reserved storages is three or more despite being controlled in the short-time state. Therefore, the time during which the variable display is executed is not shortened.

  Next, the distribution of the variation pattern types when the loss is determined will be described in detail. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a variation pattern type determination table applied when a loss is determined, among the variation pattern type determination tables stored in the ROM 54. When losing is determined, the total number of reserved memories for the start winning opening 14a and the reserved memories for the starting winning opening 14b at the start of the special figure game (hereinafter simply referred to as “hold” in the description of this figure). Depending on the number of storages ”), the type distribution is different. In the example of FIG. 4, description will be made assuming that the random number for determining the variation type takes a value in the range of 0 to 251.

  As shown in the figure, when the number of pending storages is 2 or less, non-reach loss occurs when the random number for variation type determination is 0 to 99, normal reach loss occurs when 100 to 229, and super reach lose occurs when 230 to 251. . On the other hand, when the number of pending storages is 3 or more, non-reach loss occurs when the random number value for variation type determination is 0 to 199, normal reach loss occurs when 200 to 229, and super reach lose occurs when 230 to 251. In other words, the range of random numbers that will be allocated to Super Reach Losses is the same regardless of the number of reserved memories, while the range of random numbers that are allocated to non-Reach Losses and normal reach loses depends on the number of reserved memories. Will be different.

  On the other hand, although illustration is omitted, in the variation pattern type determination table applied when the jackpot is determined, there is no difference in classification according to the number of reserved memories. The range of random numbers assigned to each of normal reach and super reach is the same regardless of the number of reserved memories. In addition, the ratio assigned to the super reach is higher than when the loss is determined (this relationship does not change according to the number of reserved memories at the start of the special figure game). In other words, the reliability that is a big hit is higher in super reach than in normal reach.

  When the type of variation pattern is determined, the variation pattern is determined more finely. Here, the distribution of the specific variation pattern is performed under the condition that the variation pattern type is determined, and the gaming state being controlled (other than the last one in the probability variation state, the last one in the probability variation state, the probability variation) It is different depending on a short time state or a normal game state) when the state is not controlled. Here, for example, 1.5 seconds (only non-reach loss), 3 seconds, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 18 seconds, 30 seconds (super reach only), Assume that there is 45 seconds (super reach only).

  Further, even if the variation time is the same, there is a variation pattern in which the time until the decoration symbol is first stopped is different in any of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i. For example, a variation that requires a variation time of 10 seconds. It includes a variation pattern that takes 1.5 seconds, 3 seconds, and 5 seconds until the first decorative design is stopped in the pattern, and the first decorative design is stopped in a variation pattern that requires a variation time of 18 seconds. The fluctuation pattern is 1.5 seconds, 3 seconds, 5 seconds, and 8 seconds. Also, even if the overall variation time is the same as the time until the first decorative symbol is stopped, a plurality of different aspects such as which one of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i stops the variable display first. There may be different types of variation patterns.

  As will be described later, in the first to eighth times after the jackpot gaming state ends, that is, in each of the first to eighth variation displays after being controlled to the probability variation state, the after-hit effect is executed. ing. In order to secure the time to execute the effect after the big hit, the variation display other than the last one in the probability variation state always requires a variation time of 10 seconds or more regardless of the type of variation pattern determined. The variation pattern is distributed so that only the variation pattern in which the variation stop of the decorative pattern is stopped after 5 seconds is selected. In the 9th variation display after the jackpot gaming state is over in the case of 10/10 jackpot, 10/50 jackpot or 10/150 jackpot, neither the jackpot post effect nor the last chance effect is performed. The variation pattern is selected by the same sorting as in the eighth time.

  On the other hand, in the 9th or 10th (depending on the type of jackpot) after the jackpot gaming state ends, that is, in the last variation display controlled to the probability variation state, the last chance effect is executed. . In order to secure the time for executing this last chance effect, the first fluctuation display in the probability fluctuation state always takes a fluctuation time of 18 seconds or more regardless of the type of the determined fluctuation pattern. The variation patterns are distributed so that only the variation patterns for which the decorative symbol variation stops after 8 seconds are selected.

  In addition, the variation pattern distributed by selection in the last variation display controlled to the probability variation state includes a variation pattern that is not distributed by selection in the variation display other than the last variation controlled by the probability variation state. include. A variation pattern with a non-reach loss and a variation time of 18 seconds can only be sorted by selecting the last variation display controlled to the probability variation state.

  In addition, the special symbol display start condition for the special symbol displays 10a and 10b is that all the variable displays based on the start winning prior to the start winning that causes the variable display to be performed are finished. Established (however, when controlled to the big hit gaming state, it is established upon completion). Therefore, when a start winning is made in a state where there is no reserved memory, the start condition for the special symbol variation display is immediately established by the start winning.

  On the other hand, in the case where the hold is stored due to the start winning when the variable display based on the previous start winning has not been finished (the specific starting winning is assumed), only one is ahead of the specific starting winning. When the special symbol variation display based on the start prize (pre-start prize) is completed, the start condition for the special symbol variation display based on the specific start prize is established. At this time, after the end of the special symbol variation display based on the pre-start prize, the special symbol variation display based on the specific start prize is started without delay.

  As described above, when the special symbols are variably displayed on the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b, the decorative symbols are variably displayed on the variable display device 9. The special symbol variation display on the special symbol displays 10a and 10b is started immediately when the start condition is satisfied, but the decorative symbol variation display on the variable display device 9 is started immediately upon the start condition being satisfied. Instead, the operation is started after a certain delay time has elapsed since the start condition was satisfied. The special symbol variation display is executed until the variation display time determined in accordance with the variation pattern selected after the start condition is satisfied.

  As described above, when the first to sixth specific display results are derived on the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b, that is, when any kind of jackpot occurs, the jackpot gaming state is controlled. Even if there is a start winning that will cause a special win, the special symbol (and the decorative symbols) will be displayed on the basis of the previous start winning, or the jackpot round effect will be controlled by controlling the jackpot gaming state. Sometimes it is done. In this case, the right to perform variable display based on the start winning (various random numbers extracted at the time of starting winning) is stored on hold, and the fact that it is stored on hold is displayed on the special symbol hold storage display unit 11, It will be notified to the player.

  However, even if the display of the hold memory is performed while the decorative symbol display based on the starting winning prize is being performed or the jackpot round effect is being performed, the jackpot or super reach is displayed in the hold memory. However, the decorative display of the decorative pattern based on the previous starting prize is performed independently of the reserved memory for the subsequent starting prize. The player cannot know that a random number for reaching is included.

  However, the player does not know whether it will be a jackpot or super reach based on the later start winning prize while the decorative symbols are changing and the jackpot round performance is being performed. I do not expect this. Control is made to the stochastic fluctuation state (only 9 times or 10 times after the end of the jackpot gaming state is controlled) with respect to the hold memory while the decorative symbol fluctuation display based on the previous start winning is performed. If not, of course, the player expects to win a jackpot, but since the probability of winning the jackpot is low, the player will first expect the emergence of a super reach that increases the expectation of the jackpot.

  On the other hand, with respect to the hold memory while the jackpot game state is controlled and the jackpot round effect is being performed, the probability variation state is controlled after the jackpot game state is finished, and the jackpot with a high probability, The player expects that a big hit is included in the reserved memory. In the first place, since the probability of being a big hit becomes high, the player's expectation is not satisfied to the extent that super reach appears.

  Therefore, in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment, in order to increase the player's sense of expectation, while the decorative symbol variation display is being performed, it is a variation that is performed from the next time on by holding storage. It is assumed that a pre-reading notice effect for notifying that there is a possibility of super reach will be performed. In addition, while the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is being executed, a pre-reading notice is made as to whether or not a jackpot is included in the reserved storage for the start winning ports 14a and 14b. It should be noted that the prefetch notice effect and the prefetch notice mean different things.

  The pre-reading notice effect that is executed while the decorative symbol is displayed is variable, and the “apple” is variable in the variable display that ends before the start condition is satisfied after the start of the variable display subject to the pre-reading notice effect. When one or more of the display devices 9 are stopped, the next fluctuation display (variation display subject to the pre-reading notice effect, or another executed before the start condition of the variable display subject to the pre-reading notice effect is established. The display is performed by changing “apple” to a predetermined character pattern and displaying it before the start of (variable display).

  The pre-reading notice effect is not only the variable display that starts executing before the start condition is satisfied after the start of the variable display that was the target of the pre-reading notice effect, but also the start prize of the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect. It may also be executed in the variable display that has been executed at the time of occurrence. That is, a combination including “apple” was selected as a combination of decorative symbols to be stopped in the variable display that was executed when there was a start prize for the variable display that was the target of the pre-reading notice effect ( (This selection is made before there is a starting prize for the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect.) “Apple” is changed to a predetermined character pattern and displayed, and the pre-reading notice effect is performed. Yes.

  On the other hand, when the pre-reading notice effect is performed with the variable display that is executed before the start condition is satisfied after the start of the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, the display is stopped in the variable display. Select a combination including “apple” as a combination of decorative symbols, and after the combination of decorative symbols including “apple” thus selected is stopped, “apple” is changed to a predetermined character symbol and displayed in advance It is intended to produce. The details of the prefetch notice effect will be described later.

  The look-ahead notice that is executed while the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is being executed is normally filled with the reserved memory of either of the start winning ports 14a and 14b by the end of the jackpot game state, and the special symbol is reserved Eight icons are displayed on the memory display unit 11 (the order is fixed but four blue and four green). A pre-read lottery is performed for each of the eight reserved memories whose icons are displayed on the special symbol reserved memory display unit 11, and the display color of each icon is changed to red, orange, or yellow according to the result, and the pre-read is performed. A notice is to be made. The details of the prefetch notice will be described later.

  In addition, after the jackpot gaming state is over, the gaming state is controlled to the probability variation state until 9 or 10 variation display is executed, depending on the type of jackpot that occurred before the jackpot gaming state. . While being controlled in this probability variation state, the probability of jackpot occurrence is greatly increased, so the player will generate a new jackpot in nine or ten variations until the probability variation state ends. I strongly hope to do it.

  In addition, in the last one variation display in the probability variation state, it becomes a last chance that a big hit is generated with high probability, and even if the big hit does not occur here, the time reduction state is also terminated as long as the variation display. This is a variable display that is the difference between whether the time-saving state continues until the next or subsequent variable display. The player expects that the short-time state will continue at least after that even if the big win does not occur in the last one fluctuation display in the probability fluctuation state.

  Therefore, in the 1st to 8th variation display when the probability variation state is controlled, that is, the 1st to 8th variation display after the jackpot gaming state ends, the decorations in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i The variable display device 9 executes a jackpot post-effect for notifying that a jackpot is generated in the variable display (or a reach or a super reach is generated) along with the symbol display. The post-hit effect is executed after the decorative display of the decorative symbols is started in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i, and the display of any decorative symbols is not stopped yet.

  Further, in the last variation display when controlled to the probability variation state, the variation display device 9 displays the variation of the probability variation state last once together with the variation display of the decoration symbols in the decoration symbol display areas 9a to 9i. A last chance effect that cannot be executed except for display, and whether or not a big hit occurs in the variable display, or whether or not the short-time state continues after the variable display is notified in the last chance effect It is said. The last chance effect is also executed after the decorative display of the decorative symbols is started in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i and the display of the decorative symbols is not stopped yet. Details of the after-hit effect and the last chance effect will also be described later.

  Whether or not to execute the prefetching notice effect or the prefetching notice is determined by the display control CPU of the display control board 80. In addition, regarding the decorative symbol variation display, the types of decorative symbols to be specifically displayed are the jackpot determination, the jackpot type determination, the variation pattern determination, and the pre-reading notice effect performed by the CPU 56 of the main board 31. The display control CPU of the display control board 80 is determined on the condition that this determination is followed. Further, what kind of jackpot after-effect and last chance effect is executed is also determined on the condition that the type of jackpot and the pre-reading notice that occurred before being controlled to the jackpot gaming state are obeyed. The control CPU is determined.

  In order for the display control CPU of the display control board 80 to be able to make these decisions, when a game ball wins the start winning opening 14a or 14b, whether or not the big hit is determined by the jackpot determination random number extracted at this time (It may also include a jackpot type determined by a jackpot type random number), a variation pattern type selected by the value of the variation type determination random number (becomes at least super reach), and a game The start winning command associated with the type of the starting winning opening where the ball has won and the number of stored memory after the starting winning is transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80. ing. Details of the start winning command will be described later.

  In addition, when the special symbol display 10a or 10b is started to display the variation display of the special symbol, the starting winning prize which has been started, whether to be a big hit in this variation display and the type of jackpot, and the determined variation A start time command indicating a pattern is transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80. Further, when the game state changes, a game state command indicating the changed game state is transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80.

  In addition, when the first specific display result to the sixth specific display result are derived to the special symbol display 10a or 10b and controlled to the jackpot gaming state, the jackpot round indicating the number of rounds when each round is started A command is transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80. At the end of each round, a round end command indicating the end of the round is transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80.

  Further, when the power of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is turned on, if the data at the time of the previous power-off is not cleared but stored in the RAM 55, the state at the time of the power-off (the reserved storage of the start winning ports 14a and 14b is stored). If the RAM 55 has been cleared from the initial state (the number of the reserved winning openings 14a and 14b is 0), the game progress is started. A startup command including information that can specify the number of reserved memories and the gaming state of the start winning ports 14a and 14b is transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80. Yes.

  The display control CPU of the display control board 80 subtracts the number of the stored start winning ports 14a and 14b indicated by the most recently received start winning command (or startup command) every time the start command is received. By going, it becomes possible to grasp the number of reserved memories of the start winning ports 14a and 14b in real time.

  Next, a start winning command transmitted when a game ball wins the start winning opening 14a or 14b will be described. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a format of the start winning command. As shown in the figure, there are three types of start winning commands: a start winning command A101, a starting winning command B102, and a starting winning command C103. In any case, the upper byte is control information (identification information for each type of command), and the lower byte is information notified to the display control CPU of the display control board 80 by the command.

  The start winning command A101 is a start winning command A101 and a start winning command C103, which are stored in the starting winning opening 14b when a game ball wins the number of stored memories (after starting winning) for the starting winning opening 14a in the starting winning opening 14a. When the game ball wins, a start winning command B102 and a start winning command C103 are transmitted. In the embodiment of the present invention, when it is simply referred to as “start prize command”, unless otherwise specified, a set of start prize command A101 and start prize command C103, or start prize command B102 and start prize command. It shall refer to the set of C103.

  The start winning command A101 is a command indicating the reserved memory number (after the start winning) for the start winning port 14b, and the start winning command B102 is a command indicating the reserved memory number (after the starting winning) for the start winning port 14b. is there. Which of the start winning ports 14a and 14b is distinguished by the control information of the upper byte. The start winning command C103 is a jackpot information indicating whether or not the winning display based on the start winning is a win, and whether or not the type of the variation pattern selected in the changing display based on the starting win is at least super reach. (Hereinafter, the jackpot information and the variation pattern information may be collectively referred to as prefetch information).

  The start winning command C103 is not identified by the high-order byte identification information as to which of the starting winning ports 14a and 14b is, but is always transmitted following either the starting winning command A101 or the starting winning command B102. The display control CPU of the control board 80 refers to the command (starting winning command A101 or starting winning command B102) transmitted immediately before unless an abnormality occurs in the transmission / reception of the command, and the start winning ports 14a and 14b. It is possible to identify which of the starting winning prizes is transmitted.

  When a game ball is won at the start winning opening 14a, the CPU 56 reads the reserved storage number (after the start winning) and generates a start winning command A101, and also wins a big hit based on the jackpot determination random number. And whether or not the super reach is reached based on the variation type determination random number, the start winning command C103 is generated, and inserted into the transmission command queue of the RAM 55 in order. Similarly, when a game ball is won at the start winning opening 14b, a start win command B102 and a start win command C103 are generated and sequentially inserted into the transmission command queue of the RAM 55.

  Since other processing does not interrupt the starting port switch passing processing described later, or other types of commands are generated and inserted into the transmission command queue, the starting winning command A101 and the starting winning command C103 or the starting winning command B102 are not generated. The start winning command C103 is always inserted into the transmission command queue. As will be described later, the CPU 56 of the main board 31 performs an interrupt process every 2 ms. In each interrupt process, one command is extracted from the transmission command queue and transmitted to the display control CPU of the display control board 80. If there is still a command in the command queue, the head command is transmitted in the next interrupt process.

  Therefore, as long as there is no abnormality (command missing, garbled command data) in the generation of the start winning command by the CPU 56 of the main board 31 and the transmission / reception processing between the CPU 56 and the display control CPU of the display control board 80. The corresponding start winning command C103 is always transmitted in the interrupt processing next to the interrupt processing to which the starting winning command A101 is transmitted, and the corresponding corresponding starting winning command C103 is transmitted in the next interrupt processing in which the start winning command B102 is transmitted. It will be.

  On the other hand, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 determines the reception of the command by the interruption process every 33 ms. For example, the start winning command A101 and the start are transmitted based on the start winning of the start winning opening 14a. The reception of the winning command C103 is determined by the same interrupt processing or two consecutive interrupts unless an abnormality has occurred in command generation and transmission / reception processing.

  In the RAM of the display control microcomputer mounted on the display control board 80, various effects (at least the pre-reading notice effect and the pre-reading notice) can be executed according to the command sent from the CPU 56 of the main board 31. A storage area for the production information is provided. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a storage area for effect information provided in a RAM included in the display control microcomputer mounted on the display control board 80. Here, only a storage area for information necessary for explaining the present invention is shown.

  As shown in the figure, a RAM included in the display control microcomputer is first provided with a jackpot information queue 80a. The jackpot information queue 80a is a queue that stores up to eight jackpot information extracted from the received start winning command C103 in a first-in first-out manner. That is, when the display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives the start winning command C103, the jackpot information is extracted from this and inserted into the tail of the jackpot information queue 80a.

  Each jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is referred to when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started, that is, when the round end command of the fifteenth round in the jackpot game state is received (usually this (Sometimes, eight jackpot information is stored in the jackpot information queue 80a), and a prefetch notice is determined. Even if it is referred to in the determination of the prefetch notice, the jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is not extracted.

  Each jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is also referred to when determining whether or not to be the target of the pre-reading notice effect when the start winning command is received. At this time, the jackpot information queue 80a is also referred to. The stored jackpot information is not retrieved. On the other hand, when the start command is received, the jackpot information stored at the head of the jackpot information queue 80a is extracted. On the other hand, the jackpot information extracted from the head of the jackpot information queue 80a when the start command is received is discarded without being used for determining the pre-reading notice or the like.

  In the jackpot information queue 80a, prefetch information is stored in association with each jackpot information. This prefetch information indicates whether or not a prefetch notice has been executed based on the corresponding jackpot information, or an aspect of the prefetch notice that has been executed (that is, the display color of the icon in the special symbol hold storage display unit 11). . As will be described later, the determination of the pre-reading notice at the start of the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is performed only for the jackpot information indicating that the pre-reading notice is not executed in the pre-read information.

  Further, the RAM included in the display control microcomputer is provided with a target area 80b indicating information on the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect. In the target area 80b, the remaining variation number of the variation display until the variation display targeted for the prefetching notice effect is executed, and the start winning command C103 corresponding to the variation display determined to be the subject of the prefetching notice. The fluctuation pattern information extracted from (that is, whether or not the fluctuation pattern of the fluctuation display is super reach) is stored.

  When the display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives the start winning command, if the corresponding variable display is determined as the target of the pre-reading notice effect, the hold extracted from the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 The number of memories and the reserved winning number 14 that is different from the start winning command received this time are managed by the reserved storage number (a RAM area (not shown) different from the target area 80b) specified from the command received immediately before. Is stored as an initial value of the remaining fluctuation number in the target area 80b. This remaining fluctuation number is decremented by 1 each time a start command is received.

  Further, the variation pattern information included in the start winning command C103 received subsequently is extracted, and the extracted variation pattern information is stored as variation pattern information in the target area 80b. The remaining fluctuation number and fluctuation pattern information stored in the target area 80b are deleted when the corresponding fluctuation display is started. The pre-reading notice effect is executed when the remaining fluctuation number and fluctuation pattern information are stored in the target area 80b.

  Hereinafter, in the pachinko gaming machine according to this embodiment, the control of effects executed by the display control CPU of the display control board 80 will be described. When receiving the start command, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 selects the type of decorative design as will be described later, and causes the variable display device 9 to display the decorative design in a variable pattern indicated by the start command. After that, the selected type of decorative design is displayed on the variable display device 9 to show the result of the variable display.

  The detailed variation pattern of the decorative symbol variation display is determined only when the variation display is started. Also, the type of the fluctuation pattern is determined according to the number of reserved memories when the fluctuation display is started at the time of losing. However, the range of the random number for determining the variation type for which the super reach is determined as the variation pattern type is the number of pending storage when the variation display is started, even when the variation display result is not a big win. There is no change no matter what.

  The display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives a start winning command when a game ball wins in the start winning ports 14a and 14b. Of these start winning commands, the start winning command C103 is a jackpot. The jackpot information indicating whether or not to be changed and the fluctuation pattern information indicating whether or not the fluctuation pattern of the super reach is selected are included as the prefetch information. Therefore, if this start winning command is analyzed, it can be determined that it will be a big hit. Further, although it is not possible to determine the detailed variation pattern in the variation display corresponding to the start winning command, it is possible to determine only whether or not the variation pattern belongs to at least the super reach type.

  Next, the determination of the execution of the pre-reading notice effect executed when the decorative symbol variation display is executed will be described in detail. The pre-reading notice effect is continuously executed until the change display immediately before the target change display is made when the change display targeted for the pre-read notice effect is determined. The pre-reading notice effect may be executed even on the variable display that has already been executed when the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect is determined. Whether or not to change the display to be the target of the pre-reading notice effect is controlled when the start winning command sent from the main board 31 is received based on the winning of the game ball in the start winning openings 14a and 14b. It is assumed that the display control CPU of the board 80 is determined (except when it is controlled to the big hit gaming state).

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a table for determining whether or not the variable display corresponding to the received start winning command is a target of the pre-reading notice effect. As shown in the drawing, the number of reserved storages indicated by the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 among the start winning mouth commands received this time is the command (start winning command) received by the display control CPU until immediately before. Normal number increased by one from the number of reserved memories grasped from (but not limited to) (however, even if only one increase, the number is normal when the maximum reserved memory number is 5) If not, it is considered that an abnormality has occurred in the generation or transmission / reception of the start winning command.

  In addition, even when the start prize command C103 is not received within one interrupt (33 ms) from the reception of the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102, it is considered that an abnormality has occurred in the generation or transmission / reception of the start prize command. It is done. If it is considered that an abnormality has occurred in the generation or transmission / reception of these start prize commands, it is decided that the variable display corresponding to the start prize command received this time will not be subject to the prefetch notice effect, and the prefetch notice effect will be given. It is not decided to be the target of.

  Even if it is considered that there is no abnormality in the generation or transmission / reception of the start winning command, if the probability winning state is controlled at the time of receiving the starting winning command, the post-hit effect and the last chance effect In order to prevent the pre-reading notice effect from being executed by the end of, it is determined that the variable display corresponding to the start winning command received this time will not be subject to the pre-reading notice effect, and will be subject to the pre-reading notice effect. Is not determined.

  Even if it is considered that there is no abnormality in the generation or transmission / reception of the start prize command, or even when the start prize command is received and the probability change state is not controlled, the received start prize is received first. When the fluctuation display corresponding to the command (that is, the fluctuation display stored on hold) includes a fluctuation display that is already targeted for the pre-reading notice effect, or a fluctuation display that is determined to be a big hit. Determines that the variable display corresponding to the start winning command received this time is not necessarily the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and is not determined to be the target of the pre-reading notice effect.

  If the fluctuation display corresponding to the start winning command received earlier (that is, the fluctuation display stored on hold) does not include the fluctuation display subject to the pre-reading notice effect or the fluctuation display that is a big hit, this time reception It is determined whether or not the fluctuation pattern information included in the start winning command C103 among the started winning commands indicates super reach. If it is indicated that it will be super-reach, it is decided that the variable display corresponding to the start winning command received this time will always be the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and not the target of the pre-reading notice effect. Never do.

  On the other hand, when it is not indicated that the super-reach is to be achieved, it is determined by the probability of A1 that the variable display corresponding to the start winning command received this time is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and the target of the pre-reading notice effect is (A1 + A2 = 1. For A2, an appropriate value may be selected in accordance with the rate at which a so-called pre-reading notice effect of GASE is executed).

  In this way, by determining the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect, the variable display corresponding to the start winning command received before the start winning command for the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect (that is, In other words, the number of variable displays for which the pre-reading notice effect can be continuously executed is indirectly determined according to the number of the variable displays stored on hold.

  That is, if the number of variation displays corresponding to the start winning command received earlier (that is, the variation display stored on hold) is zero, in any event, It can be executed only once in the variable display executed when the start winning command is received. If the number of variable displays corresponding to the start winning command received earlier is 1, the variable display being executed when the start winning command for the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect is received, and the next The pre-reading notice effect can be executed continuously up to two times of the variable display. If the number of variable displays corresponding to the start winning command received earlier is 1, the variable display being executed when the start winning command for the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect is received, and then 3 The pre-reading notice effect can be executed continuously up to a total of four times of variable display.

  Next, the combination symbol combination selection to be stopped will be described. As described above, the combination of decorative symbols that will be specifically stopped in the variation display of decorative symbols includes the determination of jackpot, determination of jackpot type, determination of variation pattern, and the like performed by the CPU 56 of the main board 31. The display control CPU of the display control board 80 determines each time the variable display is started, on condition that the execution of the pre-reading notice effect is obeyed.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a table for selecting a combination of decorative symbols to be stopped by the variable display device 9 each time. In this figure, combinations of decorative symbols are shown in the sections necessary for the present invention. For example, the winning symbol includes various combinations such as one line or more of “7” lines (and various lines) and all fruit symbols (various combinations of fruit symbols).

  In addition, 4 or more “apples” in the losing symbol have a common feature that 4 or more “apples” are included, but the reach display mode is displayed or not, Various combinations with different numbers (from 4 to 8 because they are not all fruit symbols) and stop positions are included. There is a common point that only 1 to 3 “apples” are included in 1 to 3 “apples” in the lose pattern, but the reach display mode is not displayed, Various combinations with different numbers of apples and stop positions are included. There is a common point that “apples” are not included in 0 “apples” out of the losing symbols, but there are various combinations in which the reach display mode is displayed or not, and the symbols that are stopped are different. It is included.

  As shown in the figure, after receiving a start winning command for a variable display determined to be the target of the pre-reading notice effect, the execution is started before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and the pre-reading notice is shown. In the variable display for which the execution is determined to be performed, whether there is another variable display that is executed based on the hold storage before the variable display that is the target of the pre-read notice effect, It is determined whether or not the variation pattern information of the variation display start winning command C103 indicates that super reach is achieved. In any of the determination results, 0 “apples” of the winning symbols and the lost symbols are not selected.

  If there is another variable display that is executed based on the hold memory before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and it has been shown that it will be super reach, the “apple “4 or more are selected with the probability of a1, and 1 to 3“ apples ”of the lost symbols are selected with the probability of a2 (however, a1 + a2 = 1). If there is another variable display that is executed based on the hold memory before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, but it has been shown that it does not become super-reach, “4 or more are selected with a probability of b1, and 1 to 3“ apples ”of the lost symbols are selected with a probability of b2 (where b1 + b2 = 1).

  Here, the probability a1 that four or more “apples” of the losing symbols are selected when it is shown to be super reach is the probability a1 that the losing symbols are not to be super reach. The probability of selecting four or more “apples” is higher than b1. When the combination of 4 or more “apples” is stopped, it is decided to perform the pre-reading notice effect even in the next variable display, and the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect becomes super reach. Sometimes, the pre-reading notice effect is easily executed continuously.

  Further, when there is no other variable display executed based on the hold storage before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, the fluctuation pattern of the start winning command C103 of the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect It is determined whether or not the information indicates that super reach is achieved. If there is no other variable display that is executed based on the hold memory before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and it has been shown that it will be super reach, “4 or more are selected with a probability of c1, and 1 to 3“ apples ”of the lost symbols are selected with a probability of c2 (where c1 + c2 = 1). If there is no other variable display that is executed based on the hold memory before the variable display subject to the pre-reading notice effect, it is indicated that it will not become super-reach. Make sure to select 1-3.

  In addition, after receiving the variable display start winning command determined to be the target of the pre-reading notice effect, the execution is started before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and the pre-reading notice effect is executed. In the variable display other than the variable display determined to be performed, it is determined whether or not the variable display is a jackpot of any kind. When the variable display is a big hit of any kind, a winning symbol is always selected.

  On the other hand, if the variable display is not a super-reach (this is the target of the pre-reading notice effect after receiving the variable display start winning command determined to be the target of the pre-reading notice effect. Of the variable displays that are executed before the variable display, it is determined that the pre-reading notice effect is not executed, and whether the pre-reading notice effect is executed when the start winning command is received or not 1 to 3 “apples” of the lost symbols are selected with a probability of d2, and 0 “apples” of the lost symbols are selected with a probability of d3 (however, d2 + d3) = 1).

  In this way, even in the case of the variation display when the variation display subject to the pre-reading notice effect has not yet been determined, a combination of decorative symbols including “apple” (1 to 3 “apples” in the lost pattern) is selected. Therefore, even when it is determined that the variation display corresponding to the start winning command received during the execution of the variation display is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, A pre-reading notice effect that changes the “apple” into a character design can be executed.

  Next, the execution decision of the pre-reading notice executed when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is executed will be described in detail. FIG. 9 determines a pre-reading notice as to whether or not the winning winning opening 14a, 14b for the winning winning opening 14a, 14b is included in the reserved storage due to the change in the display color of the icon displayed on the special symbol storage display unit 11. It is a table for. The display color of the icon displayed on the special symbol hold storage display unit 11 is determined for each hold storage, that is, for each jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a. However, for the icon for which the pre-reading notice has been determined at the start of the ending effect of the jackpot round effect before the previous time, the determination is not made again.

  As shown in the figure, the display colors of the icons for the pending storage indicating that the jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is a jackpot are α1, α2, and α3 (α1 + α2 + α3 = It is selected at the rate of 1). On the other hand, the display colors of the icons for the pending storage indicating that the jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is lost are red, orange, and yellow, respectively β1, β2, β3 (β1 + β2 + β3 = 1) Selected by percentage. Here, α1> α2> α3 (that is, β1 <β2 <β3), and the reliability (α / (α + β)) that the jackpot for each display color of the icon is highest for the red icon. The orange icon is the next highest, and the yellow icon is the lowest.

  When the prefetch notice is determined for each hold memory, the display color of the icon displayed on the special symbol hold memory display unit 11 is changed (the display color in this display color is a variable display corresponding to the icon). The pre-read information corresponding to the determined icon display color is stored in association with each jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a.

  Next, the after jackpot effect and the last chance effect that are executed after the end of the jackpot gaming state will be described. The after-hit effect is performed in the first to eighth variation display when the probability variation state is controlled. When each variation display is started, each of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i is performed. Numbers are displayed in nine areas corresponding to the above (however, the area where the variable display has already been completed is displayed darkly). Then, with the start of the variation of the decorative symbols, the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i corresponding to the number of times of variable display are enlarged and displayed up to the entire variable display device 9 (excluding the special symbol hold storage display unit 11).

  Then, in the area that is enlarged and displayed to the entire variable display device 9, the determination result of the pre-reading notice for the variable display (that is, the icon that has been deleted from the special symbol hold storage display unit 11 immediately before) is displayed. A corresponding room is displayed, and a character and a treasure chest appear there. The contents of the treasure box are selected according to the determination result of the pre-reading notice for the variable display and whether the reach display mode appears in the variable display (that is, whether the reach is normal reach or super reach). Then, an effect that the character opens the treasure chest is performed, and the determined contents appear from the treasure chest.

  In addition, the last chance effect is performed in the last variation display when the probability variation state is controlled. Here, when the variation display is started, the decorative pattern display areas 9a to 9i are displayed. Numbers are displayed in the nine areas corresponding to each (however, the first to eighth areas that have already been displayed in a variable manner are darkly displayed, and the last one when the probability fluctuation state is controlled is a big hit. When the display is the tenth variation display from the end of the gaming state, the number 10 is displayed instead of the number 9). Even in the last chance effect, the decoration symbol display areas 9a to 9i corresponding to the number of times of variation display are enlarged and displayed to the entire variable display device 9 (excluding the special symbol hold storage display unit 11) as the variation of the decoration symbol starts. Is done.

  Then, in the enlarged display area of the variable display device 9, an image of a treasure chest, an image displaying “50 times shorter”, and an image displaying “150 times shorter” are scroll-displayed. . When the result of the fluctuation display is not a big hit, the previous big hit is a 9/50 big hit or a 10/50 big hit and the time-saving state continues until the 50th fluctuation display after the big hit ends, the display of “50 times shorter” is displayed. Scroll display stops at the selected image. When the result of the change display is not a big hit, the previous big hit is a 9/150 big hit or a 10/150 big hit and the time-saving state continues until the 150th change display after the jackpot ends, the display of “short time 150 times” is displayed. Scroll display stops at the selected image. Otherwise, the scroll display is stopped with the treasure chest image.

  When the scroll display is stopped in the treasure box image, if the player operates the chance button 16 more than a predetermined number of times within a certain period, the treasure box opens if the result of the variable display becomes a big hit, The jackpot is confirmed. If the result of the change display is not a big hit, and the previous big hit is a 9/9 big hit or a 10/10 big hit, the treasure box is destroyed, and the confirmation of the loss is shown. When a certain period of time has elapsed without the chance button 16 being operated a predetermined number of times, the confirmation of jackpot or loss is not notified before the decorative symbol variation display stops.

  Hereinafter, the process performed for the progress of the game in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment will be described. First, processing at the time of power activation will be described. When the pachinko gaming machine 1 is activated with the main switch 94 turned on with the reset switch 93 turned on, all the storage areas of the RAM 55 except for the in-use stack area are initialized. And the process for advancing a game can be started.

  On the other hand, when the pachinko gaming machine 1 is started with the reset switch 93 in the OFF state and the main switch 94 in the ON state, it is diagnosed whether or not the data in the RAM 55 is corrupted. If the data when the power of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is turned off remains normal, the data stored in the RAM 55 is left as it is, and the state when the power of the pachinko gaming machine 1 is turned off last time. From this, it is possible to start processing for advancing the game.

  Processing for advancing a game in the pachinko gaming machine 1 is executed according to a timer interrupt executed every 2 ms. Note that only the release of the game ball to the game area 7 based on the operation of the hitting operation handle 5 is performed independently of the timer interruption process every 2 ms.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a timer interrupt process executed every 2 ms in the main process executed by the CPU 56. When the timer interrupt occurs, the CPU 56 performs the register saving process (step S21), and then executes the game control process of steps S22 to S36. In the game control process, the CPU 56 first inputs detection signals of switches such as the gate switch 61, the start port switches 62a and 62b, the count switch 63, and the clear switch 65 via the switch circuit 32, and determines their state. A switch process is performed (step S22).

  Next, a process of updating the count value of each counter for generating each determination random number such as a jackpot determination random number and a jackpot type determination random number used for game control is performed (step S23). The CPU 56 further performs a process for updating the count value of the counter for generating the initial value random number (step S24) and a process for updating the counter value for generating the display random number (step S25).

  Further, the CPU 56 performs special symbol process processing (step S26). In the special symbol process, the corresponding symbol is selected according to the special symbol process flag for controlling the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b, the variable display device 9, the special variable winning device 20 and the like in a predetermined order according to the gaming state. It is issued and executed. The value of the special symbol process flag is updated during each process according to the gaming state.

  Further, normal symbol process processing is performed (step S27). In the normal symbol process, the corresponding process is selected and executed according to the normal symbol process flag for controlling the display state of the normal symbol display 12 in a predetermined order. The value of the normal symbol process flag is updated during each process according to the gaming state. By executing the normal symbol process, the display control of the normal symbol display 12 and the opening / closing control of the variable winning device 15 are executed.

  Next, the CPU 56 extracts one command from the top for performing various effects in the variable display device 9 or the like placed at the top of the transmission command queue of the RAM 55 in the special symbol process, and sends it to the display control board 80. Special symbol command control processing is performed (step S28). Further, a normal symbol command control process for sending a command related to a normal symbol set in a predetermined area of the RAM 55 in the normal symbol process is performed (step S29).

  Further, the CPU 56 performs information output processing for outputting data such as jackpot information, start information, probability variation information supplied to the hall management computer, for example (step S30).

  Further, the CPU 56 executes prize ball processing for setting the number of prize balls based on detection signals from the start port switches 62a and 62b, the count switch 63, and the like (step S31). Specifically, a payout control command indicating the number of winning balls is output to the payout control board 36 in response to winning detection based on the fact that any of the start port switches 62a, 62b, the count switch 63, etc. is turned on. The payout control CPU mounted on the payout control board 36 drives the ball payout device 44 in accordance with a payout control command indicating the number of prize balls.

  And CPU56 performs the memory | storage process which checks increase / decrease in the number of pending storages (step S32). In the storing process, various random numbers such as jackpot determination random numbers are extracted based on the detection signals of the start port switches 62a and 62b, and the extracted random number values are stored separately in the start port switches 62a and 62b.

  In addition, a test terminal process, which is a process for outputting a test signal for enabling the control state of the gaming machine to be confirmed outside the gaming machine, is executed (step S33). Further, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a drive command is issued to the solenoid circuit 33 (step S34). In order to put the variable winning device 15 and the special variable winning device 20 into an open state or a closed state, or to switch the game ball passage in the big winning port 21, the solenoid circuit 33 is configured with solenoids 71 to 73 in accordance with a drive command. Drive. Thereafter, the contents of the register are restored (step S35), and the interrupt enabled state is set (step S36).

  Next, the special symbol process in step S26 will be described. In the special symbol process, the CPU 56 first determines whether or not the start opening switches 62a and 62b for detecting that a game ball has won the start winning opening 14a and 14b provided in the game board 6 are turned on. In other words, it is determined whether or not a start winning that causes the game ball to win the start winning ports 14a and 14b has occurred, and if a start winning has occurred, a start port switch passing process is performed.

  In the start port switch passing process, the number of reserved storages of the start winning ports 14a and 14b corresponding to the start port switches 62a and 62b that are turned on is determined. In addition, the jackpot determination random number jackpot, the type determination random number, the variation type determination random number, and the variation pattern determination random number are extracted, and whether or not the variation display based on the start winning is a jackpot (in addition, the type of the jackpot It may be determined), and it is determined whether or not the super reach variation pattern is selected by the variation display based on the start winning.

  If it is a start winning of the start winning opening 14a, a start winning command A101 and a start winning command C103 are generated and inserted into the transmission command queue of the RAM 55 in order. If it is a start winning of the start winning opening 14b, a start winning command B102 and a start winning command C103 are generated and sequentially inserted into the transmission command queue of the RAM 55. When both the start opening switches 62a and 62b are turned on, the above processing is sequentially performed for each of the start winning openings 14a and 14b. In this case, the start winning command A101 and the start winning command C103 are performed. The start winning command B102 and the starting winning command C103 are inserted into the transmission command queue in this order.

  After that, depending on the state of the special symbol process flag, special symbol normal processing, variation pattern setting processing, production setting processing, special symbol variation processing, special symbol stop processing, pre-opening pre-opening processing, and large winning opening described below Either open process or jackpot end process is performed.

  Special symbol normal processing: Wait until the special symbol variable display can be started. When the CPU 56 enters a state where the special symbol variation display can be started, the CPU 56 confirms the number of numerical data stored in the reserved storage buffer (the number of reserved memories). If the count value of the pending storage counter is not 0, it is determined whether or not the jackpot is determined based on the value of the random number for jackpot determination as a result of the special symbol variation display. In this case, the jackpot type is also determined based on the value of the jackpot type determination random number.

  Fluctuation pattern setting processing: The variation pattern type of the special symbol in the special symbol displays 10a and 10b is selected according to the value of the random number for variation type determination extracted at the time of starting winning and the number of reserved memories. Then, it is selected from a plurality of types of variation patterns determined in advance according to the type of variation pattern selected and the value of the variation pattern determination random number extracted at the time of starting winning. Based on the determined variation pattern, the variation time of the special symbol is set in a special symbol process timer (configured by a down timer), and then the special symbol process timer is started. At this time, the special symbol display 10a or 10b outputs a signal for instructing the start of variation display of the special symbol, and whether or not to make a big hit, indicates a big hit type and a start command indicating the selected variation pattern, The state is set to be transmitted to the display control board 80 in the special symbol command control process (step S28) immediately after that.

  Special symbol variation processing: Monitor the time of the special symbol process timer with the variation time set according to the variation pattern selected in the variation pattern setting processing, and when the variation time has passed and the special symbol process timer times out, Next, control is performed to shift to the special symbol stop process.

  Special symbol stop process: The special symbol display that is variably displayed on the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b is stopped, and a signal indicating that the special symbol is stopped is set in a state of being output to the special symbol indicators 10a and 10b. At the same time, the symbol stop command indicating the symbol stop is set to a state to be transmitted to the display control board 80 in the special symbol command control process (step S28) immediately after.

  Pre-opening process for the big winning opening: When this process is performed for the first time after the big hit, after setting the number of rounds of the big winning opening 21, the control for opening the big winning opening 21 is started. Specifically, the solenoid 72 is driven, the special winning opening 21 is opened, and the special variable winning device 20 is opened. In addition, the number of rounds in which the special winning opening 21 is opened is counted, and the execution time of the special winning opening opening process is set by the release timer.

  Opening process for winning a prize opening: A process for setting a round command and a round end command for displaying a round in the jackpot gaming state to a state to be transmitted to the display control board 80 in the special symbol command control process (step S28) immediately after. Or a process for confirming that the closing condition of the special winning opening 21 is satisfied.

  Big hit end process: A game state command indicating that the big hit game state has ended and the game state has changed is set to a state transmitted to the display control board 80 in the special symbol command control process (step S28) immediately after.

  On the other hand, in the various sub-side boards such as the display control board 80, the variable display device 9 displays the variation of the decorative symbols in accordance with the variation display of the special symbols based on the command transmitted from the basic circuit 53 of the main substrate 31. , Executing various effects such as a pre-reading notice effect, a reach notice, a post-hit effect, and a last chance effect, or a process of executing a big hit round effect when controlled in the big hit gaming state. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing main processing executed by the display control CPU of the display control board 80.

  In this main process, first, an initialization process for initializing a necessary area in the RAM included in the display control microcomputer mounted on the display control board 80 is performed (step S701). Next, it is determined whether or not the state of the timer interrupt flag set by the timer interrupt process executed every predetermined time (for example, 33 ms (one frame period of the variable display device 9)) is 1 (step S702). The process of step S702 is repeated until the timer interrupt flag state becomes 1. After the timer interrupt flag status is 1, first, the timer interrupt flag is cleared to 0 (step S703).

  It is checked whether or not the command transmitted from the basic circuit 53 of the main board 31 is inserted in the reception command queue of the RAM included in the display control microcomputer. If a command is inserted in the reception command queue, a command analysis process is performed to extract the command from the reception command queue and analyze its contents. When a plurality of commands are transmitted to the reception command queue, all the commands are sequentially extracted from the reception command queue and the contents thereof are analyzed. In the command analysis process, the number of reserved memories indicated by the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 is a normal number increased by 1 with respect to the number of reserved memories grasped from the command received immediately before, or the start It is also determined whether the start winning command C103 is continuously received by the same interrupt as the reception of the winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 or by the next interrupt (step S704).

  Next, based on the analysis result of the command in the command analysis process, an effect control process process is executed in which the decorative display is variably displayed on the variable display device 9 or a jackpot round effect is executed (step S705). Further, based on the analysis result of the command, a notice control process for executing various effects such as a prefetch notice effect, a reach notice, or a big hit effect or a last chance effect is executed (step S706). Furthermore, a random number update process for updating various random numbers necessary for the performance is executed (step S707), and the process returns to step S702.

  Note that the CPU 56 of the main board 31 transmits the start winning command based on the start winning to the start winning ports 14a and 14b and the transmission of the start time command based on the start of the special symbol variation display in the same timer interrupt. It may be performed (every 2 ms). However, even if the same timer interruption processing is executed, the determination of the start winning and the transmission of the start winning command are executed prior to the start of the special symbol variation display and the transmission of the start time command. Accordingly, the number of reserved memories indicated by the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 is increased by 1 based on the start winning at the start winning ports 14a and 14b, but is based on the start of the variable symbol display of the special symbol. The decrease will indicate a number that has not been done yet.

  The display control CPU of the display control board 80 also starts processing such as a pre-reading notice effect based on the reception of the start winning command and the start of the decorative pattern change display, etc., at the same timer interruption (every 33 ms). Processing based on reception of a command may be executed. Of course, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 also performs processing such as pre-reading notice effect based on the reception of the start winning command first, so the hold is grasped based on the command received before this. The stored number is also a number that has not been reduced based on the start of the variable display.

  In such a case, as long as there is no abnormality in the generation and transmission / reception of various commands, the number of reserved memories indicated by the received start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102 is the command received before this. It should be a number that is increased by 1 from the number of reserved storages that are grasped based on. Therefore, it is not necessary to execute a special process just because a new start prize is generated and a new variable display is started substantially simultaneously.

  Hereinafter, execution of the pre-reading notice effect in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment will be described based on a specific example. FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a specific execution example of the prefetch notice effect. Here, neither the probability variation state nor the short-time state is controlled, the start winning to the start winning port 14b is not stored, and the start winning in the case of FIG. It is assumed that there is no new game ball winning in the start winning holes 14a and 14b by the end of the description of the figure. Further, in the following example, it is assumed that execution of an effect other than the pre-reading notice effect is not considered as an effect other than the decorative symbol variation display. Furthermore, it is assumed that no abnormality has occurred in transmission / reception of various commands such as the start winning command A101 or the starting winning command B102 and the starting winning command C103.

  As shown in FIG. 12A, in the state where there are two reserved memories of the start winning opening 14a (two icons are displayed on the special symbol reserved memory display unit 11), the variable display device 9 displays the decorative symbols. It is assumed that variable display is performed. Here, the variation display being executed is a variation display in which a loss is determined in the big hit lottery, but a combination including two “apples” is selected as a combination of decorative symbols to be stopped. Shall. In addition, the jackpot determination random number and the variation pattern determination random number included in the two reserved memories are both within the range in which the loss is determined by the jackpot lottery and the variation pattern other than the super reach is determined. .

  Next, as shown in FIG. 12 (b), it is assumed that the game ball has won the start winning opening 14a before the change display of FIG. 12 (a) has not yet ended. It is assumed that the variation pattern of the variation display based on the start winning is within a range in which it is determined to be super reach. Therefore, the variable display to be executed based on the start winning is a variable display that is a target of the pre-reading notice effect. In addition, various random numbers extracted at the time of starting winning are stored in the storage buffer of the RAM 55, and the number of icons displayed on the special symbol storage display 11 is increased to 3 (in the figure, a pre-reading notice effect) Since it is easy to understand that it is a variable display that is the target of the above, it is indicated by ● different from ○ of other icons, but there is no difference in the display mode of the actual icon).

  When a certain time has passed after that, as shown in FIG. 12C, the variable display performed in FIGS. 12A and 12B is stopped by a combination of decorative symbols including two “apples”. Since the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect that is a super reach is being stored on hold, and two “apples” are included in the stopped decorative design, it is decided to always execute the pre-reading notice effect. As shown in FIG. 12 (d), two “apple” symbols are displayed as character symbols, and a pre-reading notice effect is performed.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 12 (e), a new variable display is started on the basis of the hold memory by the start winning before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect. The number of icons displayed on the on-hold storage display unit 11 is reduced by one to two. At the start of this variable display, there is a variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect during the on-hold storage, the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect is a super reach, and more than the variable display that is the target of the notice Another variable display start winning that is executed before is also stored on hold, so that a combination of four or more “apples” that will be stopped is selected with a probability of a1 (here Then, it is assumed that four or more “apples” are selected).

  When a certain time has passed after that, as shown in FIG. 12 (f), the variation display started in FIG. 12 (e) is stopped with a combination of decorative symbols including four “apples”. Since it is decided to perform the pre-reading notice effect in this variable display, as shown in FIG. 12 (g), the four “apple” symbols are changed to character designs and displayed. Is done.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 12 (h), a new variable display is started on the basis of the hold storage by the start winning before the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect. The number of icons displayed on the storage display unit 11 is reduced to one. Since there is no pending storage start prize for another variable display that is executed before the variable display subject to the advance notice, it contains 1 to 3 "apples" as a combination of decorative symbols to be stopped Is selected with a probability of c2 (here, it is assumed that the one including three “apples” is selected).

  After a certain period of time has elapsed, as shown in FIG. 12 (i), the variable display started in FIG. 12 (h) is stopped with a combination of decorative symbols including three “apples”. Since it is decided to perform the pre-reading notice effect in this variable display, as shown in FIG. 12 (j), the three “apple” symbols are displayed as character designs, and the pre-reading notice effect is executed. Is done.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 12 (k), on the basis of the variable display hold storage subject to the pre-reading notice effect, the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect is started. The icon displayed on the display unit 11 disappears. Since it is determined that the change display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect is executed in accordance with the change pattern of the super reach, when a certain time has passed after that, as shown in FIG. After the reach display mode is displayed in the variable display started in (), as shown in FIG.

  Hereinafter, from the execution of the pre-reading notice in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment, the execution of the big hit effect and the last chance effect will be described based on specific examples. FIGS. 13 and 14 are diagrams illustrating specific execution examples of the post-hit effect and the last chance effect from the execution of the pre-reading notice. Here, the jackpot gaming state is controlled by the 9/50 jackpot generated after digesting at least 8 fluctuation displays after the last jackpot gaming state is completed, and the pre-reading notice, the jackpot effect and the last chance effect are executed. This is an example.

  In the example of FIG. 13, there is no big win in the reserved memory based on the start winnings to the start winning ports 14a and 14b when the jackpot gaming state is controlled, and the first start winning after the jackpot gaming state ends. Pending memory based on (In the figure, because it is easy to understand that it is the last fluctuation display of the probability variation state, it is indicated by ● different from ○ of the holding memory icon based on the subsequent start winning However, there is no difference in the actual icon display mode). In the example of FIG. 14, it is assumed that even on-hold storage based on the first start winning after the jackpot gaming state has ended is a jackpot (in FIG. 14, only a portion different from that shown in FIG. 13 is shown).

  As shown in FIG. 13 (a), when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started in the variable display device 9, the number of reserved storages for the start winning ports 14a and 14b has reached eight in total. Each of the eight jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is referred to, and the pre-reading notice for each holding storage is determined. Then, according to the determination result, the display color of the icon displayed on the special symbol hold storage display unit 11 (in the figure, in the outer circle, x, Δ, and o are described corresponding to yellow, orange, and red) Change the display) and perform a pre-reading notice.

  Next, when the jackpot gaming state is ended and the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is ended, and the variable display based on the first reserved memory stored until the jackpot gaming state is ended is started. As shown in FIG. 13 (b), “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, “6”, “7”, “8” ”And“ 9 ”are displayed in Chinese numerals. This Chinese numeral number corresponds to the first to ninth fluctuation display (all executed in the probability fluctuation state) executed after the jackpot gaming state is finished. In FIG. 13B, no decorative symbols are displayed in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i. However, “one”, “two”, “three”, “four”, “five”, “six”, “ The decorative symbols are also displayed along with the Chinese numerals of “7”, “8”, and “9” (the same applies to others).

  Next, when the decorative display of the decorative symbols is started in each of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i from the state shown in FIG. 13B, as shown in FIG. The symbol display area 9a is enlarged (the figure shows a state in the middle of enlargement, but finally it is enlarged to the entire variable display device 9 excluding the special symbol hold storage display unit 11). On the screen in which the decorative symbol display area 9a described as “one” is enlarged, a room corresponding to the result of the pre-reading notice for the corresponding variable display (here, a yellow icon) is displayed.

  Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 13 (d), the character and treasure chest appear in the room in which the decorative symbol display area 9a described as "I" is enlarged and displayed so that the character opens the treasure chest. The contents selected according to the result of the pre-reading notice for the variable display and whether or not the reach display mode is displayed in the variable display are taken out from the treasure chest. Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 13 (e), the screen returns to the screen in which the decorative symbols are variably displayed in the decorative symbol display regions 9a to 9i, and the result of the loss is indicated by the decorative symbols stopped in the decorative symbol display regions 9a to 9i. It is. In addition, there was a new start winning (starting winning of the variable display which becomes the last one of the probability variation state) in the starting winning ports 14a and 14b before the change from FIG. 13 (d) to (e). And

  Next, when the variable display based on the second hold memory stored until the jackpot gaming state is ended, each of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i is performed as in FIG. 13B. The numbers written in Chinese numerals “1”, “2”, “three”, “four”, “five”, “six”, “seven”, “eight”, “nine” are displayed (however, The decorative symbol display area 9a described as “one” which has already been finished is displayed darkly). When the variation display of the decoration symbol is started in each of the decoration symbol display areas 9a to 9i, as shown in FIG. 13 (f), the decoration symbol display area 9b described as “2” is enlarged. The room corresponding to the result of the pre-reading notice about the corresponding variable display (here, the orange icon) is displayed. Then, after the effect is performed in the same manner as in FIG. 13 (d), the result (loss) of the decorative symbol variation display is shown.

  Furthermore, the same applies when the variable display based on the third to eighth reserved memories stored until the end of the jackpot gaming state is started, and the variable display based on the eighth reserved memory is displayed. When starting, as shown in FIG. 13 (g), the decorative symbol display area 9d described as “eight” is enlarged, and the result of the pre-reading notice about the corresponding variable display (here, the orange icon) ) Is displayed. Thereafter, after an effect is performed in the same manner as in FIG. 13 (d), the result of the variation display of the decorative symbol based on the eighth reserved memory (losing) is shown, as shown in FIG. 13 (h). Since all of the stored memory stored until the end of the jackpot gaming state is exhausted, the after-hit effect is ended.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 13 (i), when the variable display based on the hold memory by the first start winning after the jackpot gaming state ends (in this case, it becomes a loss), as shown in FIG. In the symbol display areas 9a to 9i, "1", "2", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine" are written in Chinese numerals. (However, the decorative symbol display areas 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9f, 9g, 9h, and 9i described as “one” to “eight” that have already been finished are displayed darkly).

  Next, when the decorative display of the decorative symbols is started in each of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i from the state of FIG. 13 (i), as shown in FIG. The symbol display area 9e is enlarged. Then, when the entire variable display device 9 excluding the special symbol hold storage display unit 11 is enlarged, as shown in FIG. 13 (k), an image of a treasure box, an image described as “time reduction 50R”, “time reduction The image described as “150R” is scrolled and stopped after a predetermined time. Here, as shown in FIG. 13 (l), when the image described as “short time 50R” is displayed and the scrolling display is stopped, the short time state is the big hit and the 50 fluctuation display ends from the end of the gaming state. It will be shown to continue until.

  On the other hand, when the variable display based on the hold memory by the first start winning after the jackpot gaming state ends is a jackpot, the image of the treasure box shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 14A, the scroll display of the described image, the image described as “time reduction 150R” is stopped at the image of the treasure chest. Then, as shown in FIG. 14 (b), a message “Open the treasure chest by hitting it repeatedly” is displayed on the variable display device 9 together with the treasure chest until a predetermined time period elapses or until the treasure chest is opened. Is displayed.

  According to this message, if the player operates the chance button 16 a predetermined number of times or more before a predetermined period of time elapses, the treasure box displayed on the variable display device 9 is opened as shown in FIG. The message “Confirm” is displayed. After that, as shown in FIG. 14 (d), the screen returns to the screen in which the decorative symbols are variably displayed in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i, and the jackpot result is shown by the decorative symbols stopped in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i. It is.

  Although not shown in the drawings, after the 9/9 jackpot is controlled to the jackpot gaming state, the variation display based on the eight pending storages won until the jackpot gaming state is finished is a big win. In the case where the last chance effect is performed in the ninth variation display after the jackpot game state ends, regardless of whether or not the variation display is a big hit, as shown in FIG. The scrolling display is stopped at the treasure chest image. If the player operates the chance button 16 more than a predetermined number of times before the predetermined period elapses, the treasure box is destroyed and a message “lost” is displayed.

  In addition, when a treasure box image as shown in FIG. 13 (k), an image described as “time reduction 50R”, and an image described as “time reduction 150R” are scroll-displayed, a certain period of time elapses. When the player does not operate the chance button 16 a predetermined number of times, the treasure chest is neither opened nor destroyed. From the state in which the treasure box is closed, the screen returns to the screen in which the decorative symbols are variably displayed in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i, and the result of big hit or loss is indicated by the decorative symbols stopped in the decorative symbol display regions 9a to 9i. .

  Furthermore, when the last chance effect is executed through the pre-reading notice and after the jackpot effect after being controlled to the jackpot gaming state by 10/10 jackpot, 10/50 jackpot, or 10/150 jackpot, the jackpot gaming state is ended. The decorative symbol display area 9e described as “nine” is not enlarged when the variable display based on the hold memory by the first start winning is started, and the decorative symbol display area without performing the last chance effect In 9a to 9i, the decorative symbols are variably displayed.

  When the variable display based on the hold memory by the second start winning after the jackpot gaming state is ended, “ten” instead of “nine” is displayed in the decorative symbol display area 9e, and “ten” Is expanded to the entire variable display device 9 excluding the special symbol holding storage display unit 11, and then a 9/9 jackpot, a 9/50 jackpot, or a 9/150 jackpot The last chance effect similar to that performed by the variable display based on the hold memory by the first start winning after the gaming state is ended is executed.

  As described above, in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment, in addition to the main board 31, the board configuration includes sub-boards such as the display control board 80, and the progress of the game itself is the main board 31. Are controlled by the CPU 56. However, the decorative display variation display and other effects performed in the variable display device 9 are performed by the display control CPU of the display control board 80, which is a sub board, based on a command transmitted from the CPU 56 in accordance with the progress of the game. It is to be controlled.

  Here, when a winning of a game ball at the start winning opening 14a, 14b is detected and the detection signal is input to the CPU 56 of the main board 31, the CPU 56 determines a jackpot determination random number, a jackpot type determination random number or a variation pattern. Various random numbers such as determination random numbers are extracted, and the special symbol variation display (and the decorative symbol variation display) is executed based on the extracted random number values. Of course, if the variable display based on the previous start prize has already been executed at the time of the start prize, the various random numbers extracted based on the start prize are stored in the reserved storage buffer of the RAM 55. .

  When various random numbers extracted based on the start winnings of the start winning ports 14a, 14b are stored in this way, the start winning command A101 or the start indicating the respective stored storage numbers after increasing based on the start winnings. A start winning command including pre-reading information including a winning command B102, and jackpot information indicating whether or not a variation display based on a random number extracted at the time of starting winning is a jackpot and variation pattern information indicating whether or not a super reach is achieved. C103 is transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80.

  The display control CPU of the display control board 80 that has received the start prize command (the start prize command A101 and the start prize command C103, or the start prize command B102 and the start prize command C103) prefetches the variable display corresponding to the start prize command. It is determined whether or not to be the target of the notice effect (however, when the probability fluctuation state is controlled or there is a change display that has already been determined as the target, the pre-read notice effect is selected in any case. Not determined as a target).

  Then, the pre-reading notice is continuously displayed until the fluctuation display immediately before the execution of the fluctuation display determined as the target of the pre-reading notice effect based on the reserved memory number indicated by the start winning command and the fluctuation pattern information in the pre-read information. An effect is executed and a notice is made in advance as to whether or not the variation pattern in the variation display of the target is super reach. By executing this pre-reading notice effect, it is possible to make the player expect that a variation display executed with a variation pattern of super reach is included in the reserved memory when a variation display of decorative symbols is performed. , You can improve the fun of the game.

  In addition, while not being controlled to the jackpot gaming state, the number of reserved memories for the start winning ports 14a, 14b is based on the relationship between the starting winning of the game balls to the starting winning ports 14a, 14b and the change display to be ended. The display control board is in a state that can always be changed, but every time it receives a start winning command transmitted based on a start winning to the start winning ports 14a, 14b, regardless of such a change in the number of reserved memories. The display control CPU 80 can immediately determine whether or not to make a prefetch notice effect.

  On the other hand, in the pre-read information included in the start winning command, in addition to the fluctuation pattern information indicating whether or not the corresponding fluctuation display is a super reach, the jackpot information indicating whether or not the corresponding fluctuation display is a big hit. include. When the display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives the start winning command, the jackpot information included as the pre-reading information of the start winning command is extracted completely apart from the determination of the pre-reading notice effect based on the variation pattern information. It is assumed that the information queue 80a is sequentially inserted in a first-in first-out manner. The jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is retrieved from the top every time the decorative symbol variation display is started, so the jackpot information in the jackpot information queue 80a is displayed in the order of execution of the variation display that is currently stored on hold. It can be said that it is a memorized one.

  While being controlled to the jackpot gaming state, the special symbol variation display (decorative symbol variation display) is not executed, but since the game ball can win the start winning opening 14a, 14b, until the jackpot gaming state ends During this period, the reserved storage of the start winning ports 14a and 14b is also full, and normally, eight jackpot information is always stored in the jackpot information queue 80a.

  At the start of the ending effect of the jackpot round effect performed at the end of the jackpot game state, a pre-fetching notice is made as to whether or not each of the variable displays stored at that time will be a jackpot. Since the display control CPU of the display control board 80 only needs to refer to each jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a in order to determine the prefetch notice, the prefetch notice at the start of the ending effect is required. It is possible to reduce the control load required for the determination. In addition, every time a start prize command is received, the pre-reading notice effect is determined, but the pre-reading notice effect is determined separately at the start of the ending effect of the jackpot round effect. Controlling the execution of the notice does not complicate the control.

  The jackpot information queue 80a also stores information related to the determination of the prefetch notice in association with the jackpot information for each variable display. And, for the jackpot information (the jackpot information already stored in the previous jackpot gaming state) that is already associated with the information about the determination of the prefetch notice at the start of the ending effect of the jackpot round effect, the look-ahead preview is made again. No decision is made. As a result, it is possible to prevent different pre-reading notices from being executed with respect to the hold storage for the same start winnings. In addition, it is easy to adjust the appearance rate of the prefetch notice.

  Further, the pre-read information included in the start winning command C103 among the start winning commands includes jackpot information and variation pattern information. The display control CPU of the display control board 80 refers to only the variation pattern information of the pre-reading notice effect when the decorative symbol variation display is being executed, and the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is performed. In order to execute the pre-reading notice at the start, only the jackpot information (more specifically, the jackpot information extracted from the start winning command and stored in the jackpot information queue 80a) need only be referred to. For this reason, even if the contents notified in advance by the prefetching notice effect and the prefetching notice executed separately based on different triggers are changed, the control is not complicated.

  In addition, when the decorative symbol variation display is being executed, it is predicted that the super-reaching variation display is included in the hold memory, and when the jackpot round effect ending effect is started, By telling that the change display is included, various pre-reading notices are executed, and the entertainment of the game can be further improved.

  In particular, when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started, it is noticed whether or not a variable display that becomes a jackpot is included in the hold memory, regardless of the type of jackpot that occurred. Since it is controlled to the probability variation state until the 9 or 10 variation display is digested after the jackpot gaming state is finished, the variation display based on the hold memory at the start of the ending effect is all the probability variation state and the jackpot lottery is performed. This is the variable display to be performed. When the probability variation state is controlled, since the probability of winning the big hit lottery is high in the first place, the player's satisfaction is not satisfied to the extent that the variation pattern becomes super reach.

  It is possible to respond accurately to the player's expectation at this time by determining whether the pre-reading notice at the start of the ending effect is a big hit, not a super reach, or not. It becomes like this. On the other hand, the pre-reading notice effect is not executed until the probability variation state ends and the winning probability of the jackpot lottery becomes low, but if the contents to be noticed here are determined to be a jackpot In addition, at least one of the execution frequency and the reliability of the pre-reading notice effect must be low. By determining whether or not the content to be notified in the pre-reading notice effect is not a big hit but a super reach, it is possible to prevent the execution frequency and reliability from being significantly lowered.

  In addition, the variable display that is executed based on the start winning until the end of the jackpot gaming state is 9 or 10 times after the end of the jackpot gaming state regardless of the type of jackpot. Until the change display is exhausted, the state is controlled to the probability change state, and therefore, the display is a change display in which the big hit lottery is performed in all the probability change states. When the probability variation state is controlled, the winning probability of the jackpot lottery is increased, so that the player's expectation for the occurrence of the jackpot is inevitably increased. For the variation display based on the eight on-hold memories at the time when the jackpot gaming state is ended, and the first to eighth variation display after the jackpot gaming state is ended, the jackpot after-effect is executed. It will be possible to more effectively reinforce the player's expectation for the jackpot.

  Further, in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment, the types of jackpots include 9/9 jackpots, 9/50 jackpots, 9/150 jackpots, 10/10 jackpots, 10/50 jackpots, and 10/150 jackpots. Until the number of variations displayed according to the type of jackpot that has occurred is digested, the probability variation state and the short-time state are controlled. Digesting 9 or 10 fluctuation displays from the end of the jackpot gaming state will surely end the probability variation state, but the short time state will end with the probability variation state, and 50 times or 150 times without termination. It may continue until the change display is exhausted.

  Here, since any jackpot is controlled in the probability fluctuation state until the fluctuation display is performed nine times or ten times after the jackpot gaming state is ended, the probability that a new jackpot will occur is increased. While controlled to the probability fluctuation state, even if the big hit is not determined before the last one fluctuation display, there is still a chance to win the big hit with a high probability even at the last. Further, in the last one-time variation display in the probability variation state, the time-short state has not yet been ended in any case, and there remains a chance that the time-short state continues until the subsequent variation display.

  In such a one-time variation display of the probability variation state that can be said to be a last chance in a sense as described above, a last chance effect that can only be performed at this time is executed. In the last chance effect, it is notified whether or not the short-time state continues even after the current fluctuation display and whether or not the fluctuation display is a big hit. With such a last chance effect, the player is expected to continue the shortened state in the last one variation display of the probability variation state which is the ninth or tenth after the jackpot gaming state is ended. In addition, the player can be expected to win a big hit with the variable display, and the interest of the game can be improved.

  Also, in the last chance production, first, it is notified whether or not the short-time state continues after the fluctuation display (the fact that the continuation of the short-time state is notified does not become a big hit in the fluctuation display), and here If it is informed that the short-time state does not continue, then it is informed whether the fluctuation display is a big hit or lost. For this reason, the expectation of the jackpot that is most favorable for the player is maintained forever, and the notice of the player's expectation is effectively improved by providing a large gap between the jackpot and the loss after the short-time state is stopped. I can talk.

  In addition, in order to notify the player whether or not a big hit or a loss occurs after notifying that the short-time state does not continue in the last chance effect, the player is required to operate the chance button 16. In this way, because the player is intervening in the direction of encouraging the player's expectation at the last chance during the last chance, it can further strengthen the player's sense of expectation here, and further increase the interest of the game Can be improved.

  In addition, when the last variation of the probability variation state in which the last chance effect is executed, the variation display becomes the ninth and tenth times after the jackpot gaming state ends, depending on the type of the jackpot that has occurred. There is. In this way, the last chance presentation is performed (the last chance is also the chance of a big hit with a high probability and the guarantee of the short time state). It is possible to draw the player's interest at what time, and to further improve the interest of the game.

  Furthermore, in the last variation display of the probability variation state in which the last chance effect is executed, the variation display other than the last variation display and the gaming state are completely the same (controlled by both the probability variation state and the short time state). Despite this, the selection of the fluctuation pattern is different from the fluctuation display except for the last one. As a result, it will be possible to execute the fluctuation display of the times that will be the last chance even with the high probability of jackpot occurrence and the guarantee of the short time state, not only with the last chance production but with the fluctuation pattern suitable for the last chance. In addition, the interest of the game can be improved.

  By the way, the total number of reserved memories of the start winning ports 14a and 14b, which are normally full before the end of the jackpot gaming state and is also prefetched at the end of the jackpot gaming state, is controlled to a probability fluctuation state after the end of the jackpot. The number is less than 9 or 10 times. In addition, while being controlled in the probability fluctuation state, the fluctuation display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect cannot be determined. For this reason, since the result and progress of the last fluctuation display in the probability variation state in which the last chance effect is executed are not prefetched, the interest of the last chance effect may be lost depending on the result of the prefetch notice. Absent.

  In addition, the pre-reading notice effect described above is “change display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect (all variable displays that are super reach and other variable display that is determined to be the target of the pre-read notice effect)”. When the combination of decorative symbols including “apple” is stopped, the stopped “apple” is changed to a character symbol. In the variable display that is executed after the start prize is received for the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, a combination of decorative patterns including “apple” necessary for executing the pre-reading notice effect as described above Can be selected at the start of the variable display, there is no problem in executing the pre-reading notice effect that changes the “apple” to the character design.

  On the other hand, in the variation display that has already been started when the start prize is received for the variation display subject to the pre-reading notice effect, the selection of the combination of decorative patterns to be stopped has already been completed. Therefore, the pre-reading notice effect cannot be executed in the same manner as the variable display that is executed after the start prize is received for the changing display subject to the pre-reading notice effect.

  However, even if the variable display (including the variable display that was executed at the time of the start winning) is included in the variable display other than the variable display that is started after the start prize is received for the variable display that is subject to the pre-reading notice effect, ”Can be selected. And since the combination of decorative designs including 1 to 3 “apples” has been selected in the variation display that has already been started when there is a start prize for the variation display subject to the pre-reading notice effect. If there is, it is possible to change the “apple” stopped there to a character design and execute a prefetch notice effect.

  As a result, not only the variable display that is executed after the start prize is received for the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect, but also the variable display that is the target of the pre-read notice effect executed before that. The pre-reading notice effect can be executed continuously from the fluctuation display that has already been started when the start-up prize is received, and it is easy to execute the pre-reading notice effect with a plurality of fluctuation displays continuously. can do. In addition, when there is a start prize of the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, there is only one reserved memory for another start prize (that is, the fluctuation that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect) Even if the variable display is started once after the start winning for the display, the pre-reading notice effect can be continuously executed by a plurality of variable displays.

  In the variable display that is executed after the start prize is received for the variable display that is the target of the pre-reading notice effect, another variable display is executed before the variable display that is the target of the pre-read notice effect. In such a case, a combination including four or more “apples” may be stopped as a combination of decorative symbols to be stopped. Then, in another variable display that is executed next after the combination of decorative symbols including four or more “apples” is stopped, super-reach occurs, or even if super-reach does not occur, the pre-reading notice effect is continued. Is supposed to be executed. Therefore, not only the “apple” necessary for execution of the pre-reading notice effect is stopped by the variable display device 9, but also the number of “apples” stopped by the variable display device 9 is noticed by the player. Can improve the interest of the game.

  When there is a variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect and another variable display is to be executed before the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect, four “apples” are displayed. The probability that the combination of the decorative symbols including the above is selected is higher in the case where it is determined that super-reach is determined by the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect than in the case where it is not. As a result, even when the pre-reading notice effect is continuously executed as many times as the same variable display, the combination of decorative symbols including four or more “apples” has been stopped in the process (and how many times It is possible to make the player pay attention until it is stopped) and to improve the interest of the game.

  By the way, both the pre-reading notice and the pre-reading notice effect described above are executed based on the start winning command transmitted by the CPU 56 of the main board 31 when the game ball wins the start winning opening 14a, 14b. The winning command includes a starting winning command A101 and a starting winning command B102 (one of which is transmitted depending on which starting winning opening is given) indicating jackpot storage numbers for the starting winning openings 14a and 14b, and jackpot information. And a start winning command C103 including pre-read information including variation pattern information. For example, when there is a start winning at the start winning opening 14a, the start winning command C103 is transmitted after the start winning command A101 is transmitted.

  Here, the start award command A101 and the start award command B102 are classified according to which of the start award ports 14a and 14b is a start award, but the start award command C103 is determined by the start award ports 14a and 14b. It is not categorized according to which start winning prize. However, as long as there is no abnormality in the transmission / reception of commands between the CPU 56 and the display control CPU, the display control CPU always sends either the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102 immediately before the start prize command C103. Therefore, depending on whether the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102 is received immediately before, the start prize command C103 is transmitted based on which start prize is received at the start prize opening 14a or 14b. Can be specified.

  The control information of the start prize command C103 including the pre-read information is divided into two for the information that can be specified from the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102 that is always received as a set in this way. There is no need. As a result, the types of commands to be identified by the display control CPU of the display control board 80 can be reduced, and control information can be assigned to commands showing completely different contents corresponding to the reduced amount.

  As long as there is no abnormality in the transmission and reception of commands between the CPU 56 and the display control CPU, the display control CPU is based on various commands including the start winning command sent from the CPU 56 of the main board 31. The pre-reading notice effect and the pre-reading notice described above can be appropriately performed. However, since the command transmission from the CPU 56 to the display control CPU is performed only in one direction, the display control CPU may miss the command even though the command is correctly transmitted from the CPU 56, or the command of the CPU 56 Although both transmission and reception of the display control CPU command are performed correctly, the command may be garbled during transmission. The command may not be transmitted at the timing to be originally transmitted because the control load of the CPU 56 temporarily becomes abnormal. Such an abnormality can naturally occur in the start winning command.

  Such an abnormality in the transmission / reception of the command occurs particularly in the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102, and the reserved memory number indicated by these start winning commands is the number of reserved memories recognized so far by the display control CPU. If the number is not a normal number that indicates an increase of only 1, the change display that should not be the target of the pre-reading notice effect may be the target of the pre-reading notice effect, and an unintended pre-reading notice effect may be executed. There is.

  On the other hand, in the pachinko gaming machine according to this embodiment, when the display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102, the reserved memory indicated by these commands is stored. When the number is not a normal number increased by one from the number of reserved memories recognized from the commands received so far (not limited to the start winning command), the change display is subject to the pre-reading notice effect. It is supposed not to. As a result, it is possible to prevent an unintended prefetching notice effect from being executed for a variable display that should not be a target of the prefetching notice effect.

  In addition, when a start winning is made in the start winning ports 14a and 14b, the CPU 56 of the main board 31 transmits a start winning command C103 after one start processing (2 ms) following the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102. However, if an abnormality occurs in command transmission / reception, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102 within one interrupt process (33 ms). It may happen that the start winning command C103 is not received.

  For example, due to abnormal transmission of commands by the CPU 56, the display control CPU receives the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 for one start winning, and then starts winning for another starting winning. This occurs when the command C103 is received. Even when such an abnormality occurs, the change display is not targeted for the pre-reading notice effect. As a result, it is possible to prevent an unintended prefetching notice effect from being executed for a variable display that should not be a target of the prefetching notice effect.

  In addition, in the pachinko gaming machine 1 according to this embodiment, the selection of the variation pattern type in the case where the result of the big hit lottery is losing, the super reach losing is common regardless of the number of reserved memories, The non-reach loser and the normal reach loser are made different depending on the number of reserved memories. This makes it possible to easily change the ratio of selecting the non-reach loser and the normal reach loser according to the number of reserved storages while always selecting the variation pattern belonging to the super reach loser type at a constant rate.

  In addition, even if there is a difference in the selection of the variation pattern type according to the difference in the number of reserved memories, the determination of the variation pattern of super reach is not affected at all. In addition, when the number of pending storages is 3 or more, the variation time is shortened, but at the time of shortening, the ratio of selecting non-reach loses with a shorter variation time becomes larger. For this reason, when the number of reserved memories is large, the variation display of the special symbol and the decorative symbol is digested on average faster, so the number that can be retained while waiting for the display result of the variation display to be derived The number of start prizes that exceed the limit is reduced, and it is not necessary to waste the start prizes.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications and applications are possible. Hereinafter, modifications of the above-described embodiment applicable to the present invention will be described.

  In the above embodiment, among the start winning commands transmitted when starting winning winnings 14a, 14b are indicated, the one indicating the stored memory number depends on which of the starting winning ports 14a, 14b is indicated. There are a start winning command A101 and a starting winning command B102 to which different control information is assigned. However, it is assumed that information indicating which of the start winning ports 14a and 14b is included as lower byte information, instead of discriminating either of the starting winning ports 14a and 14b according to the difference in the assigned control information. Also good. In this case, the types of commands to be identified by the display control CPU of the display control board 80 can be further reduced, and control information can be assigned to commands showing completely different contents corresponding to the reduced amount. become.

  In the above embodiment, the prefetch information included in the start winning command C103 is composed of jackpot information and variation pattern information. However, the jackpot information indicates whether or not the result of the jackpot lottery is a jackpot, and the variation pattern The information indicates whether the selected variation pattern is super reach. However, the jackpot information indicating the value of the jackpot determination random number itself extracted based on the start winning to the start winning opening 14a, 14b, and the fluctuation indicating the value of the variation type determination random number extracted based on the start winning prize. The pattern information may be included in the start winning command together with the reserved number of the start winning ports 14a and 14b and transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80.

  The display control CPU determines whether or not the big win is obtained by the variable display corresponding to the start winning according to the value of the jackpot determining random number indicated by the jackpot information of the received start winning command. In accordance with the determination result and the variation type determination random number value indicated by the variation pattern information of the received start winning command, it is determined whether or not the variation pattern of the variation display corresponding to the start winning is a super reach. And it is sufficient.

  In the above-described embodiment, when the game ball has won the start winning opening 14a, 14b, the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 indicating the number of reserved memories of the starting winning opening 14a, 14b is transmitted first, Subsequently, a start winning command C103 including prefetch information is transmitted. However, if the order of transmission of the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 and the start winning command C103 is always constant, this transmission order may be the reverse of the above embodiment. The display control CPU of the display control board 80 determines whether the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102 is received continuously even if the start prize command C103 is received first. This is because it can be specified which start winning command C103 received earlier is based on the start winning opening 14a or 14b.

  In the above embodiment, the start winning command transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31 to the display control CPU of the display control board 80 when the game ball starts to win the start winning openings 14a and 14b is the start winning opening 14a. , 14b indicating the number of reserved storages, the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102, and the start prize command C103 including the pre-read information. However, it is also possible to transmit only one start winning command including all the pre-read information consisting of the number of reserved winning openings 14a and 14b and the jackpot information and the variation pattern information. In this case as well, the present embodiment can be carried out in the same manner as in the above-described embodiment except for the determination of the reception interval from the reception of the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 to the reception of the starting winning command C103.

  In the above embodiment, the start winning ports 14a and 14b indicated by the start winning command A101 or the start winning command B102 received by the display control CPU of the display control board 80 based on the start winning at the start winning ports 14a and 14b. When the number of reserved memories for the item does not indicate a normal number increased by 1 with respect to the number of reserved memories recognized based on the commands received by the display control CPU immediately before, It was forbidden to use the variable display according to the command as the target of the pre-reading notice effect. On the other hand, not only the change display according to the start winning command is not subject to the pre-reading notice, but also according to all the start winning commands received until the end of the execution of the change display according to the start win command. It is also possible to prohibit the change display from being subject to the pre-reading notice effect.

  Alternatively, after receiving a start winning command that causes a flaw in the number of reserved memories, a variable display according to all the starting winning commands received until a new jackpot is generated is displayed in the pre-reading notice effect. It may be prohibited from targeting. The content that is announced in the pre-reading notice effect does not depend on whether or not the target change display is a big hit, but only on whether or not it becomes super reach. (There is no direct profit to the player just by becoming super reach.) Therefore, even if the execution of the pre-reading notice effect is prohibited until the next jackpot, the player's dissatisfaction does not become too great. In this case, the CPU for display control of the display control board 80 makes an initial determination that the number of stored storages in the start winning ports 14a and 14b is 4 at the time when the jackpot gaming state is finished, and the jackpot Execution of the pre-reading notice effect may be resumed after the gaming state is ended and the probability variation state that is continuously controlled is also ended.

  In the above-described embodiment, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 determines that the reserved storage number indicated by the start prize command A101 or the start prize command B102 is the command received so far (not limited to the start prize command). When the number is not a normal number increased by 1 from the recognized number of reserved memories, the start winning corresponding to this is excluded from the target of the pre-reading notice effect. However, abnormalities in command generation and transmission / reception may also occur for commands other than the start winning command.

  For example, the number of pending storages recognized by the display control CPU does not decrease even when a new variable display is started due to a missing start command or garbled data, or conversely, a new variable display has not started. It is also possible that the number of reserved memories recognized by the display control CPU increases. As described above, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 is recognized from the commands (not limited to the start winning command) received so far, based on the abnormality in the generation and transmission / reception of the start winning command and other commands. When the number of reserved memories falls outside the range of values that can actually be taken as the number of reserved memories, execution of the pre-reading notice effect may be prohibited from that point until the next jackpot occurrence.

  In the above embodiment, when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started, the pre-reading notice is performed for each jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a. However, at this time, up to eight jackpot information may not be stored in the jackpot information queue 80a. Of course, while being controlled to the jackpot gaming state, it is considered that the reserved number of the start winning ports 14a and 14b normally reaches the upper limit, so it is considered that any start winning command has been missed. (Although there is no possibility that the reserved memory of the start winning ports 14a and 14b has not reached the upper limit number).

  Therefore, when the jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a is less than eight at the start of the ending effect, the prefetch notice is determined for all the jackpot information that has not yet been determined. It may not be. Further, all the jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a at this time is taken out and deleted, and until the eight-variable display is exhausted after the jackpot gaming state ends, the jackpot information queue 80a. It is good also as what does not take out jackpot information from.

  In the above-described embodiment, the pre-reading notice effect that is executed when the decorative symbol variation display is performed without being controlled to the jackpot gaming state is based on the variation pattern information included in the start winning command C103. Whether or not the variable display is super-reach is predicted in advance, and in the pre-reading notice executed when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started, the jackpot information included in the start winning command C103 (more specifically, Based on the jackpot information extracted from here and stored in the jackpot information queue 80a), a pre-fetch notice is made as to whether or not each variation display is a jackpot.

  On the other hand, in the pre-reading notice effect performed when the decorative symbol variation display is performed, the pre-reading notice as to whether or not the target display is a big win based on the jackpot information included in the start winning command C103. In the pre-reading notice executed when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started, the variation pattern information included in the start winning command C103 (more specifically, the variation pattern extracted from this and stored in the queue) Based on the information, it may be possible to make a pre-reading notice as to whether or not each variable display is a super reach.

  As will be described later, the types of jackpots that are distributed when the jackpot lottery is won can include those that are not controlled by the probability variation state after the jackpot gaming state ends. When the probability variation state is not controlled after the end of the jackpot gaming state, an effective prefetching advance notice is made even if the prefetching notice is made as to whether or not the super-reach is made with the fluctuation display stored on hold. In addition, before the pre-reading notice is executed, that is, before the ending effect is started, for example, the control is performed in the probability variation state after the end of the jackpot gaming state by the decorative symbol display mode stopped in the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i. If the player is informed of whether or not the game will be played, the player will pre-read whether or not the game will be a big win when the probability change state is controlled after the end of the jackpot game state. It may be a pre-reading notice as to whether or not.

  In the above embodiment, the pre-fetch notice is determined for each jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a for the first time when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started (however, the previous jackpot gaming state From this point of time, the display color of the icon displayed on the special symbol hold storage display unit 11 is changed to execute the pre-reading notice.

  On the other hand, for the jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a when the jackpot gaming state is started, at this time, after that, the start winning command is received and the jackpot information is stored in the jackpot information queue 80a. Each time it is added, the pre-reading notice may be determined for the added jackpot information. Further, it is possible to determine the pre-reading notice when the number of jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a reaches eight without waiting for the start of the ending stage of the jackpot round effect. The determination timing of the prefetch notice and the execution start timing may be different.

  For example, when the number of jackpot information stored in the jackpot information queue 80a reaches eight, the prefetching notice is determined. However, the prefetching notice is executed by changing the display color of the icon. It may be the time when the ending effect is started, or the time when the first variable display after the end of the jackpot gaming state is started.

  In the above-described embodiment, when the probability variation state is reached until the nine or ten variations are exhausted after the jackpot gaming state is finished, the start based on the start winning to the start winning ports 14a, 14b Even if the winning command is received, the variable display corresponding to the start winning command is not determined as the target of the pre-reading notice effect.

  However, the fluctuation display that is not determined as the target of the pre-reading notice effect is the last fluctuation display in the probability fluctuation state where the last chance effect is executed, or the fluctuation that is executed while being controlled in the probability fluctuation state. Even if it is a display only, and it is a change display based on the start winning command received while being controlled to the probability change state, it may be determined as a target of the pre-reading notice effect. In addition, even if it is a fluctuation display based on the start winning command received while being controlled to the probability fluctuation state, it may be determined as the target of the pre-reading notice effect, but the fluctuation while being controlled to the probability fluctuation state In the display, the pre-reading notice effect for the target variable display may not be executed.

  In the latter case, the variation display in which the last chance effect is executed not only becomes the target of the pre-reading notice effect, but also the pre-reading notice effect for the previous change display until the change display ends. Is not executed, so the interest of last chance production will not be lost. On the other hand, when the last variation display of the probability variation state in which the last chance effect is executed is completed, the pre-reading notice effect is also given to the variation display in which the start winning opening 14a, 14b has been started earlier. Since it is executed, the variable display in which the pre-reading notice effect is executed increases, and the interest of the game can be improved.

  In the above embodiment, after the jackpot gaming state based on 10/10 jackpot, 10/50 jackpot, 10/150 jackpot ends, the fluctuation display that becomes the last one in the probability variation state is after the jackpot gaming state ends. It was the 10th fluctuation display. In this case, after the jackpot gaming state is finished, the first to eighth variation display can be executed after the jackpot effect, and the tenth variation display can be performed as the last chance effect, but the ninth variation display. Then, neither the jackpot production nor the last chance production was executed.

  On the other hand, in the ninth variation display after the jackpot gaming state based on the 10/10 jackpot, the 10/50 jackpot, and the 10/150 jackpot, the jackpot is displayed in the same manner as the first to eighth variation displays. The production may be executed. However, since the pre-reading notice is not executed for the variable display in this case, the contents of the treasure box may be determined only according to whether or not the reach display mode appears in the variable display, for example.

  Also, the last chance effect may be executed in the ninth variation display after the jackpot gaming state based on 10/10 jackpot, 10/50 jackpot, or 10/150 jackpot ends (however, the variation pattern Since the selection is the same as the first to eighth times, it may be possible only when a variation pattern suitable for execution of the last chance effect is selected. In the last chance effect in the 9th variation display after the jackpot gaming state that does not become the last one of the probability variation state, if the variation display does not make a big hit, the time reduction will not continue regardless of the type of the jackpot That is, it is good also as what alert | reports a loss. If the last chance effect in the tenth variation display is not a big hit in the variation display but the short-time state continues, it may be notified that the short-time state continues until the subsequent variation display.

  In the above embodiment, as an effect to be executed other than the decorative symbol variation display and the jackpot round effect, whether or not the variation display that has not yet been executed will be a big hit or whether it will be a super reach. The prefetching notice and the prefetching notice effect to be notified are executed. Of course, it is also possible to execute an effect of notifying whether the currently displayed variable display is a big hit, whether it is a super reach, or whether a reach display mode appears.

  In the above-described embodiment, the number of reserved memories that become the division of the variation pattern type distribution when the loss is determined in the big hit lottery and the number of reserved memories that become the division of whether or not to reduce the variation time Applied the total number of reserved memories for the start winning port 14a and the reserved memory for the start winning port 14b. But you may apply the number of independent holding | maintenance memory | storage with respect to each of start winning opening 14a, 14b. For example, when a special figure game based on the start winning opening 14a is started, the holding for the same starting winning opening 14a is performed regardless of the number of reserved memories in the starting winning opening 14b. The variation pattern type may be distributed according to the number of memories, and the variation display time may be shortened.

  In the above embodiment, the types of jackpots to be distributed when winning the jackpot lottery are as follows: 9/9 hits, 9/50 hits, 9/150 hits, 10/10 hits, 10/50 hits, 10/150 hits However, the number of times of variable display in the short-time state controlled when any big hit is limited was also finite. On the other hand, the number of times controlled in the probability variation state is limited to 9 or 10 finite times, but the number of times controlled in the short-time state is infinite (until the next big hit occurs). There may be.

  Also, the type of jackpot that is distributed when winning the jackpot lottery is not limited to the type controlled to both the probability variation state and the short-time state, but at least a predetermined finite number of times (about 9 or 10 times) The jackpot that is controlled to the variable state and controlled to the same number of time-short states, and the predetermined number of times of the probability-variable state, and more times (or infinite number of times) are controlled to the time-short state. If the jackpot is included, the probability variation jackpot is controlled only in a probability variation state with a finite or infinite number of times after the jackpot gaming state ends, and is controlled only in the short-time state in a finite or infinite number of times after the jackpot gaming state ends. Includes a time jackpot and / or a regular jackpot that is not controlled in either a stochastic state or a time-short state after the jackpot gaming state ends. It may be.

  Further, unlike the jackpot gaming state in the above embodiment, the second jackpot gaming state in which the prize winning opening 21 is opened only slightly (for example, two rounds for 0.5 seconds) (like the jackpot round effect during this period). A sudden probability variation jackpot that is controlled to a probability variation state after being controlled) may be included. After the end of the second jackpot gaming state, it will be controlled in the same gaming state as before it (not determined as a jackpot type, can be determined when the jackpot lottery is not determined to be a jackpot ) May be provided.

  However, even when there are various types of jackpots and jackpots, the post-hit and last chance effects shown in the above embodiment are 9/9 jackpots, 9/50 jackpots, and 9/150 jackpots. 10/10 big hits, 10/50 big hits, 10/150 big hits, etc. are controlled to a predetermined finite number of probability fluctuation states and are controlled to the same number of short-time states, or the predetermined number of probability fluctuations The game is executed only after the jackpot gaming state controlled based on the occurrence of the jackpot which is controlled to the state and controlled to the short-time state more times than this (or infinite number of times) is terminated. it can. On the other hand, the look-ahead notice executed at the start of the ending effect of the jackpot round effect can be executed when any type of jackpot except sudden change jackpot or jackpot occurs.

  In the above-described embodiment, another variation display is still executed until the variation display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect is performed, or the next is the variation display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect, and the variation display is a super reach. The combination of decorative symbols including four or more “apples” can be selected only by the variable display in the case of However, the combination of decorative symbols that can be selected in such a case is not limited to this as long as it includes an “apple” that can be changed to a character symbol.

  For example, “apple” is stopped at a specific position of the variable display device 9 regardless of the number (“apple” is stopped in the decorative symbol display area 9a in the upper left. “Apple” is displayed in the lower three decorative symbol display areas 9g to 9i. , Etc.) may be combined. In addition to including one or more “apples”, symbols other than “apple” are in a specific combination (for example, “grape” is aligned to any line and any other decorative symbol display other than the line is displayed. It may be a combination in which “apple” is stopped in the area.

  In addition, for such a combination of decorative symbols including four or more “apples”, or a combination of decorative symbols in place of them, another variable display is still executed until the variable display targeted for the pre-reading notice effect is obtained. If the selection is limited to a certain extent other than the case where the next is a variable display subject to the pre-reading notice effect and the variable display is a super reach, the variable display other than such a case may be displayed. Alternatively, a combination of decorative designs including four or more “apples”, or a combination of decorative designs in place of them may be selected with a very low probability.

  In the above embodiment, when the display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives the start winning command transmitted from the CPU 56 of the main board 31, the jackpot information is obtained from the pre-read information included in the start winning command C103. Are extracted and stored in the jackpot information queue 80a which is a first-in first-out storage buffer. However, instead of extracting only the jackpot information, the entire prefetch information including the variation pattern information (or the start winning command C103 itself) may be stored.

  When the entire prefetch information (both variation pattern information and jackpot information) included in the received start winning command C103 is to be stored, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 receives the received start winning command. Instead of referring to C103, it is possible to determine the prefetching notice effect by referring to the variation pattern information included in the prefetching information stored at the tail of the jackpot information queue 80a.

  The area for storing the pre-read information (or jackpot information extracted from here) stores at least the execution order of the variable display for each stored pre-read information so that it can be specified, and at least corresponds to each pre-read information. As long as the variable display can be stored until the display is started, not only the first-in first-out method such as the jackpot information queue 80a but also any type of storage buffer can be used.

  In the above-described embodiment, the start winning opening for generating the start winning for starting the variation display of the special symbol and the decorative symbol is the start winning opening 14b in which the so-called electric chew support is performed when being controlled in the short-time state. However, there is a start winning opening 14a without electric chew support, but the display of variation is not executed with priority given to either of them, but the change display is executed in the order in which the start winnings occur. Of course, if there is a hold memory in both of the start winning ports 14a and 14b, the special symbol display unit 10b displays the variation of the special symbol by preferentially digesting the reserved memory of the start winning port 14b to which the electric chew support is provided. It is also possible to perform the change display of the decorative symbols on the variable display device 9 at the same time.

  In this way, when the display of change is executed by prioritizing the reserved memory of the start winning port 14b with electric chew support over the reserved memory of the start winning port 14a, the electric winning is selected for the start winning port 14b. It is preferable that the pre-reading notice effect is not executed for the reserved storage of the start winning opening 14a while the short time is controlled. In addition, it is preferable that the pre-reading notice that is performed when the ending effect of the jackpot round effect is started is not performed for the reserved storage of the start winning opening 14a.

  In order not to execute such a pre-reading notice, the display control CPU of the display control board 80 starts the winning prize among the starting winning commands received when the gaming state is controlled to the short-time state or the big hit gaming state. When the jackpot information or fluctuation pattern information included in the command C103 indicates that the jackpot or super reach is reached, the jackpot information is rewritten to indicate that the jackpot information or the super reach is not reached. It can be stored in the queue 80a.

  As long as the player continues to launch the game ball in the game area 7, the game ball will be won and digested in succession to the start winning port 14b, which is usually supported by electric Chu support. Even if there is an on-hold storage for 14a, it is not digested and the special symbol display unit 10a does not display the variation of the special symbol. In this way, by not performing the pre-reading notice effect or the pre-reading notice for the reserved memory of the start winning opening 14a that is not digested by the designer's intention, the special symbol display device 10a can be used by the technical intervention of the player. By executing the special symbol variation display, it is possible to continuously generate the jackpot gaming state and prevent the player from being given more than the assumed number of game balls.

  In the embodiment described above, the decorative pattern variation pattern is determined based on the determined type and the variation pattern determination random number value after the CPU 56 of the main board 31 determines the type based on the variation type determination random number value. It was supposed to be determined as a detailed pattern. Of course, whether or not the change pattern of the super reach is predicted in the pre-reading notice effect is determined until the change pattern type is determined based on the value of the change type determination random number. The CPU 56 of the main board 31 determines only the type of the variation pattern (however, in this case, the variation display time is determined for each type), and the detailed variation pattern is determined by the display control board. It may be performed by 80 display control CPUs.

  In the above embodiment, the pseudo-ream is not selected as the variation pattern regardless of the results of the jackpot lottery and the jackpot type lottery. On the other hand, you may enable it to select a pseudo | simulation series with a fixed ratio as a fluctuation pattern. Here, the pseudo-ream means that the decorative symbol is variably displayed on the variable display device 9 in accordance with the variation display of the special symbol, but for one special symbol variation display (that is, one start winning). In all of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i, the decorative symbol variation display is temporarily stopped (the updating of the symbol is stopped but not confirmed, and may be shaken). Later, it refers to a decorative pattern variation pattern in which a re-variable display for variably displaying all the decorative symbols is executed once or a plurality of times.

  In the above-described embodiment, after the symbol (the fruit symbols are aligned in all of the decorative symbol display areas 9a to 9i and one line or more “7” is aligned) is displayed on the variable display device 9, the jackpot is obtained as the predetermined period passes. The gaming state was to be started. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and when the game ball passes through a specific area (passage gate or winning opening) provided in the game area 7 after the symbol is displayed on the variable display device 9. For the first time, a jackpot gaming state was to be started. As a result, the player can control the start of the jackpot gaming state by himself / herself. For example, even if the player has no balls when the winning symbol is displayed, It is possible to lend and replenish the game balls, and it is possible to avoid exhausting the period of the jackpot gaming state.

  A plurality of specific areas for starting the jackpot gaming state may be provided in the gaming area 7, and the number of rounds of the jackpot gaming state varies depending on which specific area the game ball has passed. Also good. Or it is good also as what determines the number of rounds of a jackpot game state by lottery when a game ball passes a specific area. Furthermore, the distribution ratio of the number of rounds in the jackpot gaming state may be varied according to which of the plurality of specific areas the game ball has passed. Note that this specific area may be shared by the gates 28a and 28b and the winning holes 29a to 29d.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pachinko machine 9 Variable display device 9a-9i Ornamental symbol display area 10a, 10b Special symbol display 11 Special symbol on-hold storage display part 25a-25c Ornament lamp 26 Accessory 31 Main board 54 ROM
55 RAM
56 CPU
80 Display control board

Claims (1)

A gaming machine that displays a variation according to the establishment of the start condition and controls the player to an advantageous state advantageous to the player,
A game control means for controlling the progress of the game and transmitting a command according to the progress of the game;
An effect control means for controlling the execution of effects including a variable display effect for deriving a display result based on a command transmitted from the game control means,
The game control means includes
When the start condition is satisfied, a hold storage unit that stores information about the variable display as a hold storage up to a predetermined number;
Hold information that can specify the number of hold memories stored in the hold storage means when the start condition is satisfied, and jackpot information that can specify whether or not the advantageous state is controlled based on the hold memory And a pre-start command transmission means for transmitting a pre-start command including fluctuation pattern information capable of specifying a fluctuation pattern of the fluctuation display effect executed based on the hold storage,
The production control means includes
When receiving the pre-start command, based on at least the fluctuation pattern information included in the pre-start command, pre-read notice determination means for determining whether to execute the pre-read notice;
According to the determination result of the prefetch notice determination means, prefetch notice execution means for executing the prefetch notice;
When the pre-start command is received, the number of reserved memories is a number obtained by increasing the number of reserved memories determined based on commands received before the pre-start command, and the predetermined number when not normal number is a number to the extent, gaming machine, characterized in that Ru and a look-ahead warning inhibiting means for inhibiting a read-ahead notice based on at least variation pattern information included in the start before the command.