JP2019013846A - Pinball game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a pinball game machine achieving both an improvement of efficiency in a game and a protection of a player's interests.SOLUTION: Variation patter determination means, in a time-shortening state, selects a shortened variation pattern having a shorter a variation time than a normal variation pattern selected in a normal state. On the other hand, when a variation pattern of a symbol variation corresponding to a second lottery is selected, in a case where a lottery value reservation of the second lottery by reservation control means becomes zero and a lottery value reservation of a first lottery remains, even if in the time-shortening state, a selection of the shortened variation pattern is regulated.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 30

Description

  The present invention relates to a ball game machine having a game area where game balls are launched.

  Conventionally, among the various ball game machines, a so-called first type pachinko game machine is used while changing a plurality of symbols in a display area such as a liquid crystal display provided substantially at the center of the game board. Display (hereinafter, such display is referred to as “symbol change” or “change display”). This gaming machine shifts to a special game called so-called big hit, in which more prize balls can be obtained than a normal game when the combination of symbols when a plurality of rows of symbol variations are stopped becomes a specific aspect. Known as a thing. The variable display of symbols in the display area is not limited to simply displaying multiple symbols in a variable manner, but the time required for the variable display to be a big hit if one more symbols are aligned, such as the so-called reach screen. For example, an effect is made to increase the player's expectation, such as making it longer. In addition, the player's expectation is enhanced by the use of characters in images such as symbols to give a story to the variable display and the notice effect that suggests the high degree of expectation of transition to special games. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP 2003-230714 A JP 2007-322 A JP 2011-78742 A

  In recent years, in the symbol variation time shortened state (hereinafter also referred to as “time shortening”) or the probability variation state (hereinafter also referred to as “probability variation”) that transitions from the end of a special game to a predetermined end, In order to shorten as much as possible, there is a case where symbol variation and efficiency of lottery are improved. However, if it is digested too efficiently, it may be disadvantageous to the player depending on the gaming situation and the specifications of the gaming machine.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a ball game machine that achieves both the efficiency of the game and the protection of the profit of the player.

In order to solve the above problems, a ball game machine according to an aspect of the present invention is provided with a game board on which a game area is formed, and a predetermined position in the game area. A first start winning opening that becomes an opportunity, and a second start winning opening that is provided at a predetermined position different from the first starting winning opening in the game area, and where a game ball is entered in the second lottery, Based on a lottery value for determining whether or not to shift to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than a normal game, triggered by entering the first start winning opening or the second starting winning opening A determination unit for executing the determination, a special symbol display device for variably displaying a special symbol for indicating the result of the determination, and a plurality of types of variation patterns in which a variation display process for the special symbol is defined. The variation pattern determining means to be selected and the first starting prize opening If a special symbol change corresponding to the previous entry is displayed when a new entry is made at the second starting winning opening, the lottery value corresponding to the new entry is set up to a predetermined number. The hold control means for storing as a hold until the start of the display of the symbol variation and the special symbol variation display are controlled, and when one of the first lottery and the second lottery is displayed, the other symbol variation is displayed. Display control means for preferentially executing the second lottery symbol variation even when the lottery value in the first lottery is suspended when the second lottery symbol variation start timing is reached, Special game control means for executing a special game when the determination result is a big hit, and the ease of acquiring a new big win in a normal game when a predetermined transition condition is satisfied after the special game is completed. Normal condition Is a condition to be advantageous and a specific game control means for shifting to a specific gaming state. The second start winning opening is easier to enter in the specific game state than the normal state, and the specific game control means normally has a probability that the first lottery and the second lottery will be a big hit as the specific game state. It is possible to shift to a probability variation state that is higher than the probability state, and when a big hit is made in the second lottery, there is a higher probability of making a transition to the probability variation state than in the case where the big draw is made in the first lottery, and the fluctuation pattern In the specific gaming state, the determining means selects the shortened variation pattern whose variation time is shorter than the normal variation pattern selected in the normal state, and selects the variation pattern of the symbol variation corresponding to the second lottery. In the case where the lottery value hold of the second lottery by the hold control means is eliminated and there is the lottery value hold of the first lottery, the shortened variation pattern even in the specific gaming state To restrict the selection.

  It should be noted that any combination of the above-described constituent elements, or the constituent elements and expressions of the present invention may be mutually replaced between methods, apparatuses, systems, computer programs, recording media storing computer programs, data structures, etc. This is effective as an embodiment of the present invention.

  According to the ball game machine of the present invention, it is possible to achieve both the efficiency of the game and the protection of the player's profit.

It is a figure which shows the basic structure in the front side of a pachinko game machine. It is a figure which shows the basic structure in the back side of a pachinko game machine. It is a figure which shows the functional block of a pachinko gaming machine. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of a main board | substrate. It is a figure which shows typically a success / failure determination table. It is a figure which shows typically the prior success determination table referred by prior advance determination. It is a figure which shows a symbol determination table typically. It is a figure which shows a fluctuation pattern table typically. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of a sub board | substrate. It is a block diagram which shows roughly the hardware constitutions of a main board | substrate and a sub board | substrate. It is a block diagram which shows roughly the hardware constitutions of an effect display control apparatus. It is a flowchart which shows the control start process of the main board | substrate in a pachinko game machine. It is a flowchart which shows the main process of S120 in FIG. 12 in detail. It is a flowchart which shows the detail of an interruption process. It is a flowchart which shows the control start process of the sub board | substrate in a pachinko game machine. 16 is a flowchart showing in detail a main process in S518 in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the interruption process at the time of receiving a command from a main board | substrate. It is a flowchart which shows the interruption process when the timer interruption for production | presentation display control generate | occur | produces. It is a flowchart which shows the interruption process when a sub CPU receives a command from display CPU. It is a flowchart which shows the interruption process when the timer interruption for various device control generate | occur | produces. It is a flowchart which shows the process of a special symbol fluctuation display. It is a flowchart which shows the process of a decoration symbol fluctuation | variation display. It is a flowchart which shows the process of a special game. It is a flowchart which shows the process of a small hit game. It is a figure which shows the transition of a gaming state. It is a figure which shows the pattern of the lighting state of the 1st lamp | ramp and the 2nd lamp | ramp in a short time state, and a light extinction state. As a modification, it is a figure which shows the pattern of the lighting state of a lamp | ramp and a light extinction state in the time-short state in the case of comprising a normal symbol display apparatus with one lamp. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the fluctuation | variation control of the normal symbol in the time-short state, the control of a normal electric utility solenoid, and the determination delay. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of the fluctuation | variation pattern selection table mainly referred when the determination of a success / failure is off in a short time state. It is a figure which shows in more detail the fluctuation | variation pattern selection table mainly referred when the determination of a success / failure is off in a short time state.

<Prerequisite technology>
In the pachinko gaming machine of the present embodiment, a plurality of games corresponding to the conventional type 1 pachinko gaming machine are mixed. The second game is preferentially executed so that the first game and the second game as the plurality of games are not executed simultaneously. In order to achieve both of these game characteristics, a plurality of start winning openings, a plurality of special symbol display devices, and a plurality of holding lamps are provided. It is designed so that the number of big hits in the second game is larger than the number of big hits in the first game. For example, the second game is more likely to be a big hit with certainty, and the second game has a larger number of unit games that constitute a special game (a long open unit with a long opening time for a big prize opening). A game and a short-opening unit game with a short opening time are mixed in one special game, and the number of long-opening unit games in the second game is larger than that in the first game even if the number of the same unit games is the same. The second game is designed to have a relatively higher profit than the first game. On top of that, aiming at the first hit in the first game first, after being given a short time in the big hit in the first game, the second game is repeatedly aimed at repeatedly gaining a lot of play Realize.

  FIG. 1 shows a basic structure on the front side of a pachinko gaming machine. The pachinko gaming machine 100 is mainly composed of a gaming machine frame and a gaming board. The pachinko gaming machine 100 has an outer frame 101, a front frame 102, a transparent plate 103, a door 104, an upper ball tray 105, a lower ball tray 106, a launch handle 107, a speaker 108, an effect button 109, a cross key 110, A decorative lamp 111 is included. The outer frame 101 has an opening and is a frame for fixing the pachinko gaming machine 100 to a position where it should be installed. The front frame 102 is a frame body that is aligned with the opening of the outer frame 101, and is attached to the outer frame 101 so as to be opened and closed by a hinge mechanism (not shown). The front frame 102 includes a mechanism for launching a game ball, a mechanism for detachably storing a game board, a mechanism for guiding or collecting the game ball, and the like.

The transparent plate 103 is made of glass or the like and is supported by the door 104. The door 104 is attached to the front frame 102 so as to be opened and closed by a hinge mechanism (not shown). The upper ball tray 105 has a mechanism for storing game balls, sending out the game balls to the launch rail, extracting the game balls to the lower ball tray 106, and the like. The lower ball tray 106 has a mechanism for storing and extracting game balls. Speakers 108 are provided on the left and right of the upper portion of the door 104, and sound effects and music sounds corresponding to the game state and effects are output by means for controlling the effects. Most of the resin members constituting the exterior of the door 104 are translucent, and a decorative lamp 111 is provided inside the transparent member. The decorative lamp 111 is an LED that emits light in various colors according to the gaming state or the effect by means of controlling the effect, and plays a role of effect by blinking or the like.

  The game board 80 has a first start port 11, a second start port 12, a first big winning port 21, an operating port 32, a general winning port 33, an out port 34, an effect on a game area 81 defined by rails 82. A display device 60 and a center decoration 64 are included. The center decoration 64 is a decorative resin member provided so as to form a screen frame of the effect display device 60 over substantially the center of the game area 81 and the upper part and the right part thereof. 60 functions such as protection and decoration. A stage 65 on which the inflowing game ball rolls is formed below the center decoration 64, and the direction of falling from the stage 65 depends on the direction of rolling and the direction of entering the first start port 11 and the first start port 11. It is distributed to the direction of the side that does not enter the ball. On the upper part of the center decoration 64, there is provided a movable accessory 66 that is driven in accordance with the contents of the effect and performs an effect operation. In the game area 81, a plurality of mechanisms such as a game nail and a windmill (not shown) for forming a flow path of game balls are installed.

  The first start port 11 is provided as a start winning port corresponding to the first game, and the second start port 12 is provided as a start winning port corresponding to the second game. The first start port 11 and the second start port 12 are configured to be able to aim at entering one ball by the strength of the game ball according to the player's intention. The first start port 11 is provided substantially at the lower center of the game area 81, and the second start port 12 is provided directly below the first start port 11. When hitting left, that is, when hitting relatively weakly so as to flow to the left passage of the center decoration 64, it is possible to enter the first starting port 11 and the second starting port 12 or it is easy to enter, while on the right In other words, when the ball is hit relatively strongly aiming to flow to the right passage of the center decoration 64, it is possible to enter the second start port 12 or easy to enter, but not to the first start port 11. In addition, a flow path is formed by the arrangement of the game nails so that it is difficult to enter the ball. However, at the normal time, the upper part of the opening of the second starting port 12 is covered with the first starting port 11 and the inflow of game balls is prevented, so that the second starting port is not opened unless the expansion mechanism of the second starting port 12 is opened. 12 is impossible to enter or difficult to enter. The lottery determination is a lottery for determining whether or not to shift to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than the normal game, and is executed whenever there is a ball entering the first start port 11 or the second start port 12. The

  In addition, the 1st starting port 11 and the 2nd starting port 12 may be provided in the position away from each other to the extent that it is possible to make a target for either one by the strength of the game ball. The first start port 11 and the second start port 12 may be installed separately on the left side and the right side of the game area 81, respectively, so that it is difficult for a game ball aimed at one to enter the other. For example, the first start port 11 is provided at a position where it is possible to enter or easily enter when left-handed, that is, when it is launched relatively weakly so as to flow into the left passage of the center decoration 64. The second starting port 12 is provided at a position where it is possible to enter the ball or to enter the ball easily when it is launched to the right, that is, when it is launched relatively strongly so as to flow into the right passage of the center decoration 64.

  The first start port 11 includes a first start winning detection device 16. The first start winning detection device 16 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the first start port 11 and generates first start winning information indicating the winning at the time of entering. The second start port 12 includes a second start winning detection device 17, a normal electric combination 90 (so-called electric tulip) that is an expansion mechanism, and a normal electric combination solenoid 91 for opening and closing the normal electric combination 90. . The second start winning detection device 17 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the second start port 12 and generates second start winning information that indicates that the ball has been entered.

When the ordinary electric combination 90 is expanded by the driving force of the ordinary electric combination solenoid 91, the ease of entering the second starting port 12 is increased. The opening time of the ordinary electric accessory 90 is 0.1 when the opening is short.
In contrast to the short time of about 2 seconds, when the long opening, the normal opening 90 is set to 6 seconds, which is longer than the short opening time, and the game ball enters the second starting port 12. It becomes easy to sphere. The long opening of the ordinary electric accessory 90 is also called “open extension”. As a modified example, when the ordinary electric accessory 90 is expanded, this may be notified in advance, or the normal symbol variation hold may be pre-read and notified before the normal symbol variation starts. , You may alert | report during the fluctuation | variation of a normal symbol.

  As a modified example of the opening mode when the ordinary electric accessory 90 of the second start port 12 is opened long, the total opening time is increased to about 6 seconds by repeating the opening for 2 seconds longer than that for the short opening 3 times. It is good also as an aspect. Further, a plurality of combinations of opening times and opening times may be prepared and one of them may be selected. For example, in the case of releasing 2 seconds 3 times, the total opening time is the same as in the case of releasing 6 seconds once, but the former is longer than the latter when including the interval period. Therefore, especially in the configuration of the modified example in which the second starting port 12 is arranged in the right-handed direction, the former player enters the ball, assuming that the player who noticed the opening has adjusted the hitting direction to the second starting port 12 from that time. It can be said that the opportunity is long. Moreover, it may be configured such that there are a plurality of normal symbol hit types, and the opening mechanism of the spreading mechanism may be different depending on the hit types. For example, when the normal symbol is the first hit, in the normal state, 0.1 seconds is released once, in the easy entry state, the one second release is three times, and when the second hit is in the normal state Then, the 6-second opening may be performed once, and the 2-second opening may be performed twice in the easy entry state.

  Each of the three general winning openings 33 includes a general winning detecting device 38 for detecting the entering of a game ball. The general winning detection device 38 is a sensor that detects the entrance of a game ball into the general winning opening 33, and generates general winning information indicating the winning at the time of winning.

  The first big prize opening 21 includes a first big prize detection device 26 for detecting the entry of a game ball and a first big prize opening solenoid 93 for opening and closing the first big prize opening 21. The first grand prize detection device 26 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the first grand prize opening 21, and generates a grand prize opening prize information indicating the winning at the time of entering the ball. The first big winning opening 21 is a horizontal rectangular winning opening that is opened as a “big hit” when the first special symbol 51 or the second special symbol 52 stops in a predetermined manner. The first grand prize winning port 21 is provided at the upper right position of the out port 34. As a modification, another prize winning opening may be provided at the center lower part of the game area 81 or above or below the first big winning opening 21, and a plurality of big winning openings may be provided.

  A first special symbol display device 41 corresponding to the first game and a second special symbol display device 42 corresponding to the second game are juxtaposed on the left and right sides at the lower left position outside the game area 81 on the game board 80, Changes in the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 are displayed. In the approximate center of the game area 81, an effect display device 60 is provided so that the screen is exposed from the screen frame formed by the center decoration 64, and a decorative symbol 61 linked to the first special symbol 51 or the second special symbol 52 is displayed. The change of the effect image including is displayed. Hereinafter, such display is referred to as “design variation” or “variation display”.

The first special symbol 51 is a symbol corresponding to the determination result of the first winning / losing lottery performed when the game ball enters the first starting port 11, and its variable display is stopped in a predetermined hit state. A big hit as a special game occurs. The second special symbol 52 is a symbol corresponding to the determination result of the second winning / losing lottery performed when the game ball enters the second starting port 12, and its variation display is stopped in a predetermined hit state. A big hit as a special game occurs. The first special symbol display device 41 and the second special symbol display device 42 are, for example, an 8-segment LED including eight segments of seven segments forming one “8” and one segment representing “dot”. Display device. In the 8-segment LED, a numerical value for 8 bits can be expressed by combining 8 segments. The first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 represented by a combination of segments do not necessarily form letters and numbers, and may be symbols that are generally meaningless formed by a combination of segments. . These symbols are replaced one after another at a high speed and displayed on the first special symbol display device 41 and the second special symbol display device 42, thereby realizing the symbol variation display of the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52. The Further, the first special symbol display device 41 and the second special symbol display device 42 are formed by using LED dot arrays which are not 8-segment LEDs, and a plurality of types of first special symbols 51 and second combinations of lighting patterns and lighting colors. The special symbol 52 may be expressed.

  The effect display device 60 is a display device that is configured by a liquid crystal display that displays the decorative symbol 61 in a variable manner in conjunction with the variable display of the first special symbol 51 or the second special symbol 52. The decorative symbol 61 is a symbol for visually producing the lottery determination result display indicated by the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52. The effect display device 60 displays, for example, a moving image that fluctuates a plurality of rows of symbols simulating a game of a slot machine as a decorative symbol 61 in the central area of the screen. In this embodiment, symbols composed of numbers “0” to “9” are displayed and varied in three columns, and hit or miss is indicated by three symbol combinations that are finally stopped and displayed. Each of the plurality of symbols constituting the decorative symbol 61 is composed of numbers, characters, or symbols that are decorated with colors or patterns, but the symbols or symbols that are common to all symbols for these numbers, characters, and symbols. You may comprise in the form which adds a different pattern for every and integrates them. This pattern is a pattern on which a motif related to the theme of decoration or production set for the model of the pachinko gaming machine 100 is drawn, and for example, a pattern on which a character of a person or an animal is drawn may be used. The decorative design 61 is switched according to the development of the effect between the case where the design including the design is variably displayed and the case where the design is separated and only the numbers, characters and symbols are variably displayed. It may be a configuration. In the background of the variation display of the decoration symbol 61, a moving image having a staging effect related to the theme of decoration or production set for the model of the pachinko gaming machine 100 is displayed in conjunction with the symbol variation.

  Since the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 do not necessarily have an effect role, in this embodiment, the first special symbol display device 41 and the second special symbol at the lower left of the game area 81 are used. The display device 42 displays the image in an inconspicuous size. However, in the case of adopting a technique in which a special symbol itself has an effect role to express without using a decorative symbol, the special symbol may be displayed on a liquid crystal display instead of an 8-segment LED.

  The operation port 32 is provided at a right side position of the game area 81 and includes a passage detection device 37. The passage detection device 37 is a sensor that detects the passage of the game ball to the operation port 32 and generates passage information indicating the passage at the time of passage. The passage of the game ball to the operation port 32 triggers an open lottery for determining whether or not to expand the ordinary electric accessory 90. When the game ball passes through the operation port 32, a normal symbol which is a symbol indicating the determination result of the open lottery is variably displayed on the normal symbol display device 45. Therefore, the open lottery is also called “ordinary symbol lottery”. The normal symbol display device 45 is provided at the lower right side outside the game area 81, and is composed of two lamps for convenience. The normal symbol display state is expressed by which of these lamps is lit. For example, when the first lamp is turned off and the second lamp is hit, the normal symbol fluctuation display is expressed by alternately turning on and off, and finally one of the lights is turned on. A stop symbol of a normal symbol is expressed by being stopped in the state. After a predetermined time has elapsed since the start of the change, the normal symbol change display stops. When the ordinary symbol stops at the winning symbol, the ordinary electric accessory 90 is expanded.

There are two types of opening time of the ordinary electric accessory 90: a short opening of 0.1 seconds and a long opening of 6 seconds. In the open lottery in the normal state, a normal symbol is hit with a probability of 1/50 and a long release is executed, and a normal symbol is hit with a probability of 1/100 and a short release is executed. Thus, in the normal state, the probability of long open is higher than the probability of short open, but in the modified example, the probability of short open may be higher than the probability of long open. The specifications may be the same. In the open lottery in the easy entry state, the probability of winning a normal symbol is increased to 99/100, and the open time is only long open. Thus, in the easy entry state, the ease of entering the second starting port 12 is enhanced by the function of changing the probability of hitting a normal symbol and the function of extending the opening time. In the easy-to-enter state in the modified example, the ease of entering the second start port 12 may be enhanced by using three functions including a function for shortening the fluctuation time of the normal symbol. In this case, the variation time of the normal symbol is, for example, 10 seconds in the normal state, and 2 seconds in the easy entry state.

  In the lower left position outside the game area 81, a first special symbol holding lamp 71 corresponding to the first game is provided above the first special symbol display device 41, and above the second special symbol display device 42, A second special figure holding lamp 72 corresponding to the second game is provided. The first special figure holding lamp 71 is composed of two lamps, and displays the holding number of the winning lottery value in the first game by the number of lighting or blinking. The number of lottery values held in the first special figure holding lamp 71 is the number of lottery values won to the first starting port 11 during the fluctuation of the first special symbol 51 or during the execution of the special game. Indicates the number of winning balls that have not been executed. The second special figure hold lamp 72 is also composed of two lamps, and displays the number of hold of the winning lottery value in the second game by the number of lighting or blinking. The number of lottery values held in the second special figure holding lamp 72 is the number of lottery values won to the second starting port 12 during the fluctuation of the second special symbol 52 or during the execution of the special game, Indicates the number of winning balls that have not been executed. The number of hold of the lottery value is displayed at the bottom of the screen of the effect display device 60 in a form represented by the number of on-hold lamp images.

  When the number of lottery holds is three, the symbol variation time in the case of a loss is shortened from the normal time in order to increase game efficiency (hereinafter also referred to as “shortening variation”). Similarly, when the number of pending lottery holds is 4, in order to further increase the game efficiency, the symbol variation time in the case of losing is further shortened than in the case of the above 3 (hereinafter also referred to as “super shortened variation”). ).

  In the lower right position outside the game area 81, a normal figure holding lamp 75 is provided on the right side of the normal symbol display device 45. The regular figure holding lamp 75 is also composed of two lamps, and displays the number of holdings of normal symbol fluctuations depending on the number of lights or the number of blinking lights. The number of normal symbol fluctuations held is the number of game balls that have passed through the operating port 32 during the fluctuation of the normal symbol, and indicates the number of normal symbol lotteries for which the fluctuation of the normal symbol has not yet been executed.

  The effect button 109 is an operation input unit that is pressed by the player in order to input a predetermined instruction to the gaming machine according to the content of the effect, and the content of the effect is changed according to the pressing mode. The effect button 109 is provided on the outer wall surface near the upper ball tray 105. The cross key 110 is an operation input means for the player to input a direction instruction to the gaming machine, and is provided on the left outer wall surface of the upper ball tray 105.

  An outline of a game method and a control flow performed in the above configuration will be described. When the player rotates the launch handle 107 by hand, the game balls stored in the upper ball tray 105 with the strength corresponding to the rotation angle are guided to the rail 82 one by one and launched into the game area 81. . When the player fixes the rotation position of the firing handle 107 by hand, the game ball is repeatedly fired at regular time intervals. The game ball launched to the upper part of the game area 81 falls in a direction according to how it hits while hitting a plurality of game nails and windmills. When a game ball is dropped into each of the general winning port 33, the first starting port 11, the second starting port 12, and the first major winning port 21, the winning ball corresponding to the type of the winning port is the upper ball plate 105. Or it is paid out to the lower ball tray 106. A game ball dropped into each winning hole such as the general winning hole 33 is processed as a safe ball, and a game ball dropped into the out hole 34 is processed as an out ball.

When entering the first start port 11 or the second start port 12, the first special symbol display device 41, the second
In the special symbol display device 42 and the effect display device 60, the first special symbol 51, the second special symbol 52, and the decorative symbol 61 are variably displayed. The variable display of the first special symbol 51, the second special symbol 52, and the decorative symbol 61 is stopped after the lapse of the variable display time determined prior to display. The first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 are variably displayed according to a variation pattern in which a variation mode from the variation start to the stop is determined. The decorative symbol 61 is displayed in a variable manner according to a variation effect pattern in which a variation mode from the start to the end of the variation is determined. A plurality of types of variation patterns and variation production patterns are prepared, and each has various variation times. While the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 are variably displayed according to the variation pattern, the decorative symbol 61 is variably displayed according to the variation effect pattern having the same variation time. In the variation pattern, a variation display time is defined for each pattern as an end condition of the symbol variation, and the variation of the first special symbol 51, the second special symbol 52, and the decorative symbol 61 occurs when the variation display time elapses. Stopped.

  As a variation display of the decorative symbol 61, first, when the variation starts, the symbols are varied in all three columns as in the reel rotation of the slot machine, and when the timing approaches the variation end timing, each column is stopped one by one. The symbol combination is displayed. When the first special symbol 51, the second special symbol 52, and the decorative symbol 61 at the time of stop are in a stop mode indicating a big hit, the game shifts to a special game that is a game state advantageous to the player over the normal game, The opening / closing operation of the first grand prize winning opening 21 is started. The stop mode of the decorative symbol 61 indicating the big hit is, for example, a combination mode in which three types of symbols match.

  The variation effect pattern includes a normal loss effect pattern, a reach failure effect pattern, and a reach jackpot effect pattern. The normal off effect pattern is an effect pattern for displaying a normal off symbol combination. The reach out effect pattern is an effect pattern for displaying an out symbol combination through a reach state, which is a big win if one more symbols are arranged. The reach jackpot effect pattern is an effect pattern when displaying a jackpot symbol combination through the reach state. In particular, the patterns when reaching the reach state include patterns with various long and short fluctuation times. Reach patterns with relatively short fluctuation times are called “normal reach”, and reach patterns with long fluctuation times are called “super reach”. ". The normal loss effect pattern, the reach failure effect pattern, and the reach jackpot effect pattern include a normal pattern that is displayed in a normal state and a time-shortening pattern that is displayed in a time-short state. However, even in the normal state, if there is a second symbol variation corresponding to the entrance to the second starting port 12, there is a probability that the big hit is likely to have a probable change or the number of unit games of the special game increases. Since it can be said that the chance state is higher than the first fluctuation corresponding to the entrance to the 1 start opening 11, a chance effect pattern for displaying that it is a chance to generate a relatively advantageous big hit may be used. In the embodiment, the time reduction pattern is used in the time reduction state, but the time reduction pattern is used even in the probability variation state because the time variation is accompanied in the probability variation state. However, in the modified example, a specification using a pattern for probability variation different from that for time reduction in the probability variation state may be used. Alternatively, a specification using a common pattern may be used for the time reduction and for the probability change, or a specification for using the pattern for the probability change in the probability change state without using the time reduction pattern in particular.

There are two types of special games, normal special games and shortened special games, and there is a large difference in the profits of the winning balls. Usually, the special game is started by displaying an effect screen called a start demonstration time. After the start demonstration time is displayed on the screen, the first grand prize opening 21 is opened, and after the opening lasts for about 30 seconds, or after nine or more game balls are dropped, the first big prize opening 21 is closed once. From the opening to closing of the first grand prize winning opening 21 is basically called a unit game, a plurality of short-time opening may be repeated during one unit game. After the opening / closing of the first big prize opening 21 or the unit game is repeated a predetermined number of times, for example, 4 times or 16 times, the special special game is ended by displaying an effect screen called an end demonstration time. In special games, it is possible to expect more than 9 balls per unit game, and you can get enough prize balls (also called “out”) by 16 unit games, which is a big profit. Is obtained. A special game in which 16 unit games are repeated is also referred to as “16R jackpot” as appropriate, and a special game in which 4 unit games are repeated is also referred to as “4R jackpot” as appropriate.

  On the other hand, in the shortened special game, there is no start demonstration time and no end demonstration time, and the first grand prize opening 21 is opened for 0.2 seconds in one unit game. This unit game is repeated twice to complete the shortened special game. In the shortened special game, the opening of the first big winning opening 21 is repeated only twice in a very short time, so it is hardly possible to enter the first big winning opening 21 and the number of balls is virtually zero. It is an equal special game. A special game in which two unit games are repeated is also referred to as “2R jackpot” as appropriate.

  When the first special symbol 51 or the second special symbol 52 and the decorative symbol 61 at the time of the stop are in a predetermined small hit mode, the game shifts to a small hit game constituted by one unit game, and the first big prize opening The opening / closing operation 21 is executed. In a single unit game constituting the small hit game, the first big winning opening 21 repeats the opening for about 0.2 seconds twice, so that the appearance is the same as the 2R big hit.

  When a special game occurs and the winning stop symbol at that time is in a specific mode, probability change, which is one of the specific games, is further started after the special game ends. During the probability change, the winning lottery with a higher probability of winning than the normal probability state is performed, and a new special game can be generated relatively early. It should be noted that the determination result of the winning / losing lottery may be a latent probability change state in which the specific big hit, that is, the big hit with probability change, is not clearly indicated on the appearance, and is not explicitly notified as a decorative symbol or production content. In this case, even if the probability change is in progress, the effect display device 60 does not clearly indicate whether it is a probability change or a non-probability change.

  In the normal game after the end of the special game, the easy entry state, which is one of the specific game states, is started. In the easy-to-enter state, the probability of winning the open lottery is increased more than usual, and the open extension is executed so that the expansion time of the ordinary electric accessory 90 is long open. Since the number of hits of normal symbols per fixed time can be increased and the ease of entering the second starting port 12 is increased, the number of entering the second starting port 12 is likely to increase. Therefore, as a result of increasing the chance of obtaining a prize ball by entering the second starting port 12, it is possible to keep playing with little or no increase in the number of balls.

  In the easy-to-enter state, as one of the specific gaming states, a so-called time reduction in which the variation time of the first special symbol 51, the second special symbol 52, and the decorative symbol 61 is shortened compared to the normal state is further executed. The variation times of the first special symbol 51, the second special symbol 52, and the decorative symbol 61 are returned to the original variation time after a predetermined variation number, for example, 100 variations are displayed, but reach the variation number. If a big hit occurs before, the working hours are once ended. Since the variation time of the first special symbol 51, the second special symbol 52, and the decorative symbol 61 is shortened in a short time, compared to the normal state where the symbol variation is performed with the normal variation time, until the big hit occurs Time can be shortened, and the ease of winning a jackpot can be relatively enhanced. In a modification, it is good also as a specification which does not implement time shortening of a special symbol in an easy-to-enter state.

FIG. 2 shows a basic structure on the back side of the pachinko gaming machine. The power switch 150 is a switch for turning on / off the power of the pachinko gaming machine 100. The main board 200 controls the overall operation of the pachinko gaming machine 100, and processes all game operations such as lottery when winning the first start port 11 and the second start port 12, in particular. The sub board 300 includes a liquid crystal unit 151, controls display contents on the effect display device 60, and changes the display contents that are particularly effective according to the determination result by the main board 200. The back setting mechanism 152 includes a prize ball tank 153, a path for prize balls, a payout unit 154 for delivering prize balls. The payout unit 154 pays out the game balls supplied from the winning ball tank 153 to the upper ball tray 105 in accordance with winning in each winning opening. The payout control board 155 controls the payout operation by the payout unit 154. The launching device 156 launches the stored balls in the upper ball tray 105 to the game area 81 one by one. The launch control board 157 controls the launch operation of the launch device 156. The power supply unit 158 supplies power to each part of the pachinko gaming machine 100.

  FIG. 3 shows functional blocks of the pachinko gaming machine 100. The pachinko gaming machine 100 assigns functions to a main board 200 as a main control device that controls the basic operation of the game and the progress of the game, and a sub board 300 as a sub control device that controls the staging operations and processes. It consists of different forms. The main board 200 includes a first start port 11, a second start port 12, a first big winning port 21, a general winning port 33, an operating port 32, a first special symbol display device 41, a second special symbol display device 42, a normal It is electrically connected to the symbol display device 45 and transmits / receives various control signals to / from each of them. The sub board 300 is electrically connected to the effect display device 60, the effect button 109, the speaker 108, and the decoration lamp 111, and transmits / receives various control signals to / from each. Since data transmission / reception between the main board 200 and the sub board 300 is unidirectional from the main board 200 to the sub board 300, each configuration is configured so that the entire operation is realized by such data transmission / reception in one direction. Arranged on the main board 200 and the sub board 300. Since the unidirectionality of data transmission from the main board 200 to the sub board 300 is maintained, data cannot be transmitted from the configuration included in the sub board 300 to the configuration included in the main board 200. It cannot be requested. Therefore, the information generated on the main board 200 cannot be referred to from the sub board 300 unless the main board 200 transmits the information to the sub board 300 unilaterally.

  Note that any one of the functional blocks included in the main board 200 may be mounted on the sub board 300 instead of the main board 200, and any of the functional blocks included in the sub board 300 may be included in the sub board 300. Instead, it may be mounted on the main board 200.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the main board 200. The main board 200 includes a ball entering determination unit 201, a first lottery unit 211, a second lottery unit 212, a general drawing lottery unit 213, a holding control unit 240, a main display control unit 250, a special game control unit 260, and a small hit game control. Means 265, specific game control means 270, opening / closing control means 275, and special figure adjustment means 276 are provided.

  The entry determination unit 201 determines whether or not a game ball has entered each winning opening. When receiving the first start winning information, the winning determination means 201 determines that the game ball has won the first start port 11, and when receiving the second start winning information, the game ball has won the second start port 12. to decide. The winning determination means 201 determines that the game ball has won the first big winning opening 21 when receiving the big winning opening information, and determines that the gaming ball has won the general winning opening 33 when receiving the general winning information. . When receiving the passage information, the ball entering determination unit 201 determines that the game ball has passed through the operation port 32.

The first lottery means 211 functions as a function for executing the first lottery relating to the first game. The first lottery value acquiring means 216, the first winning / failure determining means 221, the first symbol determining means 226, and the first variation pattern determining. The means 231 is included, and the first winning / losing lottery is executed as the winning / nothing lottery corresponding to the entry into the first starting port 11. The determination result of the first winning / losing lottery is shown in the form of variable display of the first special symbol 51 in the first special symbol display device 41, and in the form of variable display of the decorative symbol 61 in the display area of the effect display device 60. . The second lottery means 212 includes a second lottery value acquisition means 217, a second win / fail determination means 222, a second symbol determination means 227, and a second variation pattern determination means 232, and corresponds to entering the second starting port 12 The second winning / losing lottery is executed as the winning / losing lottery. The determination result of the second winning / losing lottery is shown in the form of variable display of the second special symbol 52 on the second special symbol display device 42, and in the form of variable display of the decorative symbol 61 in the display area of the effect display device 60. . When starting the symbol variation, the first lottery unit 211 and the second lottery unit 212 transmit the lottery determination result corresponding to the symbol variation to the effect determining unit 303 together with the symbol variation control command.

  The first lottery means 211 and the second lottery means 212 indicate which lottery value range the lottery value corresponds to in the determination as to whether the lottery value is a preliminary determination process even when entering the first start port 11 or the second start port 12 Pre-winning determination is performed, and the determination result is transmitted to the effect determination means 303. The result of the pre-determination process is temporarily stored in the transmission buffer, and then transmitted to the effect determination means 303 regardless of whether or not the symbol variation display corresponding to the lottery is immediately started, and is erased from the transmission buffer or overwritten later. The Therefore, for the sub-board 300 side, a so-called “prefetching” process is realized in which the success / failure result can be presumed in advance before the symbol variation start order is reached.

  The first lottery value acquisition means 216 acquires a random number value as the first winning / failing lottery value for the first winning / losing lottery upon entering the first starting port 11. The second lottery value acquisition unit 217 acquires a random number value as the second winning / failing lottery value for the second winning / losing lottery upon entering the second start port 12. For example, the values acquired as the first winning / losing lottery value and the second winning / losing lottery value for the winning / losing lottery are acquired from a value range from “0” to “65535”. The values acquired as the first winning / losing lottery value and the second winning / losing lottery value are temporarily held by the holding control means 240. However, the lottery value is held within a range not exceeding the predetermined holding upper limit number.

  The first winning / failing determination means 221 determines whether or not to shift to a special game or a small hit game based on the first winning / losing lottery value, and in which lottery value range the first winning / failing lottery value is in the determination of winning or failure. Perform a prior adequacy determination to determine whether it is applicable. The second winning / failing determining means 222 determines whether or not to shift to the special game or the small hit game based on the second winning / losing lottery value, and the lottery value range in which the second winning / failing lottery value is determined in the winning / failing determination. Perform a prior adequacy determination to determine whether it is applicable. The first success / failure determination unit 221 and the second success / failure determination unit 222 hold a success / failure determination table and a prior / failure determination table referred to in the determination of success / failure. In addition, in order to distinguish especially the prior / failure determination performed when starting the symbol variation, it is also referred to as “predetermined whether or not the main determination is appropriate”.

  The first success / failure determination unit 221 and the second success / failure determination unit 222 hold a plurality of failure determination tables referred to in the determination of success / failure. In the plurality of success / failure determination tables, determination results of jackpot and miss are associated with winning / failure lottery values, and the success / failure probability is determined in accordance with the associated jackpot range setting. The first success / failure determination means 221 and the second success / failure determination means 222 refer to a success / failure table for determination of success / failure based on a normal hit probability in the normal probability state, and whether or not the big hit probability is higher than the normal probability in the probability variation state. Browse the table. The first success / failure determination means 221 and the second success / failure determination means 222 refer to any of the plurality of success / failure tables, and determine whether or not the winning / raising lottery value is a win.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing the success / failure determination table. The success / failure determination table in this figure associates determination results of big hits, small hits and misses, and winning / failing lottery values. Depending on the respective range settings, the hit / failure probabilities of big hits and small hits are determined. Is determined. As the main determination, the first determination unit 221 and the second determination unit 222 refer to the determination table in FIG. In both of the first winning / failing lottery performed by the first winning / failing determining means 221 and the second winning / notifying lottery performed by the second winning / failing determining means 222, a big hit is made only when the winning / losing lottery value falls within the range of 0 to 299 at normal times. At the time of certainty change, the range of the big hit is expanded, and not only when the success / failure lottery value falls within the range of 0 to 299, but also when the lottery falls within the range of 300 to 2999. Thus, the range corresponding to the big hit changes according to the gaming state. In this figure, the single hit / fail judgment table shows the jackpot range for both normal time and probability change, but the success / fail judgment table may be prepared separately for normal time and for probability change. It may be prepared separately for the 1-win / lotter lottery and the second-win / win lottery.

  In this embodiment, even if the winning / losing lottery value does not correspond to the big hit range, if it falls within the predetermined range, it is a small hit. In the example of this figure, when the winning / losing lottery value acquired by the first winning / failing determining means 221 falls within the range of 56500 to 65535, the winning lottery value acquired by the second winning / failing determining means 222 is 64000 to 65535. If it falls within the range, it will be a small hit. In other words, the first hit / lotter lottery has a wider range corresponding to the jackpot than the second hit / lottery lottery, and the jackpot is likely to occur. In this way, if it does not correspond to the big hit, it is all “out”, but in the example in this figure, the winning lottery value range when it does not correspond to the small hit out of the cases where it does not correspond to the big hit Is expressed as “displacement”. In addition, although the example which implement | achieved the determination table of whether it is a big hit and the determination table of whether it is a small win in the figure in the form of a single winning / nothing determination table was shown in this figure, each may be implement | achieved as a separate table. Good.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating a prior success / failure determination table referred to in prior advance / failure determination. The first success / failure determination unit 221 refers to the table of FIG. 6A, and when the success / failure lottery value is “0 to 299”, sets a value of “1” indicating that to the determination result determination result range, In a case where the winning / failing lottery value is “300 to 2999”, a value “2” indicating that is set in the corresponding winning / failing range as a determination result. When the lottery value is “3,000 to 56499”, the value “3” indicating that is set as the determination result, and when the lottery value is “56500 to 65535”, “4” is indicated. The value of “” is set in the validity range as the determination result. Each time the first success / failure determination unit 221 sets the success / failure range as described above, the first success / failure determination unit 221 transmits the value to the effect determination unit 303 together with the value indicating the first successful / failure lottery and the number of holds.

  The second success / failure determination unit 222 refers to the table of FIG. 6 (b), and when the success / failure lottery value is “0 to 299”, sets a value of “1” indicating that to the determination result determination result range, In a case where the winning / failing lottery value is “300 to 2999”, a value “2” indicating that is set in the corresponding winning / failing range as a determination result. When the winning / failing lottery value is “3,000 to 63999”, the value “3” indicating that is set in the winning / failing range as the determination result, and when the winning / losing lottery value is “6400 to 65535”, “4” indicating that is determined. The value of “” is set in the validity range as the determination result. Each time the success / failure determination unit 222 sets the success / failure range as described above, the second success / failure determination unit 222 transmits the value to the effect determination unit 303 together with a value indicating the second success / failure lottery and the number of holdings.

  Returning to FIG. 4, the first symbol determination means 226 and the second symbol determination means 227 determine the stop symbol at the start of symbol variation based on the separately acquired symbol lottery value and the result of the determination, and the symbol lottery A prior symbol determination is performed as to which symbol range the value corresponds to. The first symbol determination means 226 and the second symbol determination means 227 hold a plurality of symbol determination tables and a prior symbol determination table that are referred to in order to determine a special symbol stop symbol. The first symbol determination means 226 and the second symbol determination means 227 refer to different symbol determination tables according to the determination result. In addition, in order to distinguish the symbol determination performed in starting symbol variation especially from prior symbol determination, it is also referred to as “symbol determination as the main determination” as appropriate.

FIG. 7 is a diagram schematically showing a symbol determination table. FIG. 7A is a table that is referred to when the determination result is a big hit, FIG. 7B is a table that is referred to when the determination result is wrong, and FIG. This table is referred to when the determination result is a small hit. The first symbol determination means 226 and the second symbol determination means 227 refer to the symbol determination table of this diagram in the symbol determination as the main determination. Each symbol determination table defines a correspondence relationship between the numbers “0” to “10” indicating the types of special symbols and the first symbol lottery value or the second symbol lottery value. The types of special symbols are associated with the big hit, small hit, and unsuccessful determination results, with “0” to “4” corresponding to the big hit, “5” to “9” corresponding to the big hit, “10” corresponds to a loss. Each type is assigned a plurality of special symbols, that is, a plurality of symbols that are generally meaningless and formed by a combination of segments.

  As shown in FIG. 7A, special symbol types “0” to “4” are associated with jackpots. Among them, the type “0” indicates 4R big hit or 16R big hit with certain change as a specific big hit, and is associated with “0-99” in the case of the first symbol lottery value, and “0” in the case of the second symbol lottery value. 144 ". The type “1” indicates a 2R jackpot with certainty as a specific jackpot, and is associated with “100 to 149” in the case of the first symbol lottery value, and is associated with “145 to 149” in the case of the second symbol lottery value. It is done. Types "2" to "4" indicate 4R big hits or 16R big hits that do not involve any probability change as normal big hits, and the first symbol lottery value and the second symbol lottery value are both associated with "150 to 189" type "2" The type “3” is associated with “190 to 229”, and the type “4” is associated with “230 to 255”. Thus, the selection probability for each jackpot type is determined by the size of the symbol lottery value range.

  As shown in FIG. 7B, the type “10” is associated with the entire range of symbol lottery values in the case where the determination result is wrong.

  As shown in FIG. 7C, special symbol types “5” to “9” are associated with small hits. The type “5” is associated with the symbol lottery value range “0-49”, and the type “6” is associated with the symbol lottery value range “50-99”. The type “7” is associated with the symbol lottery value range “100 to 149”, the type “8” is associated with the symbol lottery value range “150 to 199”, and the type “9” is the symbol lottery value range. Corresponding to “200 to 255”.

  Note that the table in FIG. 7 is also referred to as the prior symbol determination table in the prior symbol determination. The first symbol determination means 226 and the second symbol determination means 227 indicate that the value of “0” to “10” indicating the type of the special symbol as the result of the prior symbol determination is the first winning / losing lottery or the second winning / losing lottery. It is transmitted to the effect determining means 303 together with the indicated value and the number of holds.

  Returning to FIG. 4, the first variation pattern determining means 231 separately obtains a variation pattern in which the variation process of the symbol variation to be displayed on the first special symbol display device 41 and the effect display device 60 is determined. Is determined from a plurality of fluctuation patterns. The second variation pattern determining means 232 has a plurality of variation patterns in which a variation process of symbols to be displayed on the second special symbol display device 42 and the effect display device 60 is determined based on a second pattern lottery value acquired separately. Determine from the variation pattern. The first variation pattern determining means 231 and the second variation pattern determining means 232 each determine a variation pattern of the symbol variation with reference to the variation pattern table when starting the symbol variation. In addition, the first variation pattern determination unit 231 and the second variation pattern determination unit 232 perform prior pattern determination as to which variation pattern range the pattern lottery value corresponds to. The first variation pattern determination unit 231 and the second variation pattern determination unit 232 respectively hold or share a variation pattern table and a prior pattern determination table that are referred to for determining a variation pattern. In the variation pattern, a variation time from a variation start to a stop when the special symbol is variably displayed is determined, and has various variation times depending on the type. That is, for each variation pattern, a variation display time is defined for each pattern as an end condition of the symbol variation, and the variation of the special symbol is stopped when the variation display time elapses. It should be noted that the variation pattern determination executed when starting the symbol variation is also referred to as “variation pattern determination as the main determination” as appropriate in order to distinguish it from the prior pattern determination.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram schematically showing the variation pattern table. The first variation pattern determining means 231 and the second variation pattern determining means 232 refer to the table of FIG. 9A in the normal state and refer to the table of FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 8 (a), when the result of the determination is wrong in the normal state, if the pattern lottery value is 0 to 4, “super 1” that is the super reach of the pattern range number “0” is selected, If the pattern lottery value is 5 to 9, “super 2” which is the super reach of the pattern range number “1” is selected. If the pattern lottery value is 10 to 19, “normal 1” which is the normal reach of the pattern range number “2” is selected. If the pattern lottery value is 20 to 29, “normal” which is the normal reach of the pattern range number “3” is selected. 2 ”is selected. If the pattern lottery value is 30 to 255, the pattern range number “4” “no reach” is selected. As “out of reach”, a different variation pattern is selected depending on the number of holds, a change pattern of 10 seconds when the number of holds is 0 to 2, a change pattern of 7 seconds when the number of holds is 3, and the number of holds When is 4, a 4-second variation pattern is selected.

  In this figure, an example of mainly classifying into five types according to variation time will be described. However, a plurality of variation effect patterns are prepared for each variation pattern in the sub-substrate 300, and several tens of variation effect patterns are formed as a whole. Is equivalent to the lottery value range of each classification.

  The range of pattern lottery values assigned to “Normal 1”, “Normal 2”, and “Reach without reach” also varies depending on the number of holds. When the number of holdings is 0, 1 as shown in (a) of this figure, the lottery value range of “Normal 1” and “Normal 2” becomes narrower as the number of holdings increases, and the lottery value of “no reach” The range becomes wider. The smaller the number of holds, the wider the lottery value range of the fluctuation pattern having a relatively long fluctuation time, and the probability that the fluctuation pattern having a long fluctuation time is selected increases. Thus, the smaller the number of holds, the longer the average fluctuation time, and the larger the number of holds, the shorter the average fluctuation time. By using a variation pattern table in which the correspondence between the pattern lottery value range and the variation pattern is different for each number of reservations, it is possible to realize control that makes it easy to select a variation pattern with a long variation time when the number of reservations decreases.

  In the normal state, when the result of the determination is 4R big hit or 16R big hit, if the pattern lottery value is 0 to 123, “Super 1” which is the super reach of the pattern range number “5” is selected, and the pattern lottery value is If it is 124 to 248, “super 2” which is the super reach of the pattern range number “6” is selected. If the pattern lottery value is 249 to 252, “normal 1” which is the normal reach of the pattern range number “7” is selected, and if the pattern lottery value is 253 to 255, “normal” which is the normal reach of the pattern range number “8” is selected. 2 ”is selected.

  In the normal state, when the result of the determination is 2R big hit or small hit, if the pattern lottery value is 0 to 122, “Super 3” which is the super reach of the pattern range number “9” is selected, and the pattern lottery value is If it is 123 to 255, “normal 3” that is the normal reach of the pattern range number “10” is selected.

  When the first variation pattern determination unit 231 and the second variation pattern determination unit 232 transmit the predetermination result to the effect determination unit 303 as a so-called prefetching result, the pattern range number value (0 to 10) is set to the first determination result. It is transmitted together with a value indicating whether it is a lottery or a second win / fail lottery or the number of holdings.

In the variation pattern table of FIG. 8B referred to in the time reduction state, the pattern lottery value is assigned to the variation pattern for time reduction. However, the correspondence relationship between the range of the pattern lottery value and the variation time is the same as that in FIG. “Reach without reach reduction” is a variation pattern with a relatively short variation time associated with the same lottery value range and pattern range number as “reach without reach” in FIG. “Reach without reach reduction” also selects a different fluctuation pattern depending on the number of holdings, a fluctuation pattern of 10 seconds when the holding number is 0 or 1, and a fluctuation pattern of 1 second when the holding number is 2 to 4. Are selected.

  Returning to FIG. 4, the general drawing lottery means 213 executes the lottery by acquiring the lottery value when the game ball passes through the operation port 32. The determination result of the lottery by the normal symbol lottery means 213 is variably displayed on the normal symbol display device 45 in the form of a normal symbol. The regular symbol lottery means 213 holds a symbol determination table to be referred to in order to determine the stop symbol of the normal symbol to be displayed on the normal symbol display device 45. In the symbol determination table, the correspondence between the lottery value and the normal symbol is determined, and the normal symbol lottery means 213 determines the stop symbol of the normal symbol with reference to the symbol determination table. When the determined stop symbol becomes a predetermined symbol, it is determined that the normal symbol is a hit, and after the change display of the normal symbol is stopped at the stop symbol, the opening / closing control means 275 is operated by the second start port 12. The normal electric accessory 90 is expanded. The spreading time is 0.1 second when short opening and 6 seconds when long opening. The lottery value of the normal symbol is temporarily held by the hold control means 240. However, the lottery value is held only when the predetermined hold upper limit number held by the hold control means 240 is not exceeded.

  The holding control means 240 includes special figure holding means 241 and general figure holding means 242. The special figure holding means 241 displays a new first winning / losing lottery or second winning / non-winning if a symbol variation corresponding to the previous lottery is displayed when the first winning / losing lottery is newly executed. The start of symbol variation for the lottery is suspended, and the corresponding lottery value is stored until the corresponding symbol variation display starts. For the first winner / lottery lottery, the winner / lottery value and the setting of the winner / rejection range, the pattern range, and the pattern range are stored as prior determination results. The setting of the success / failure range, the symbol range, and the pattern range is stored. Or you may memorize | store the result of a prior determination in the area | region different from a win / wrong lottery value. The general map holding means 242 stores the general map lottery value acquired by the general map lottery means 213 as a holding ball. These holding numbers are represented by the number of lighting or blinking numbers of the first special figure holding lamp 71, the second special figure holding lamp 72, and the general figure holding lamp 75, respectively. The number of holds by the special figure holding means 241 is also displayed on the effect display device 60.

  The lottery value of the second winning / losing lottery held in the special figure holding means 241 is preferentially digested over the lottery value of the first winning / losing lottery and the symbol variation is displayed. For this reason, even if the lottery value for the big win is held as the first winning lottery, as long as the lottery value is held as the second winning lottery, the symbol variation corresponding to the big winning lottery value of the first winning lottery is not displayed. Therefore, even if there is a big hit hold as the first winning / losing lottery, there is a possibility that a plurality of consecutive big hits can be obtained by continuing to hit until the big hit holding is entered as the second winning / losing lottery.

  The main display control means 250 includes first special figure control means 251, second special figure control means 252, and universal figure control means 254. The first special symbol control means 251 displays the fluctuation of the first special symbol 51 on the first special symbol display device 41 in accordance with the fluctuation pattern determined corresponding to the determination result of the first winning / non-winning lottery by the first lottery means 211. Let The first special symbol control means 251 sets a new symbol variation start condition that the symbol variation display corresponding to the first winning / losing lottery or the second winning / losing lottery completed before that has ended. The second special symbol control means 252 displays the variation of the second special symbol 52 on the second special symbol display device 42 in accordance with the variation pattern determined in accordance with the determination result of the second winning / losing lottery by the second lottery means 212. Let The second special symbol control means 252 also sets a new symbol variation start condition that the symbol variation display corresponding to the first winning / losing lottery or the second winning / losing lottery performed before that ends.

The 1st special figure control means 251 reserves the start of the symbol fluctuation display corresponding to the 1st success / failure lottery when the special lottery means 241 stores the success / failure lottery value of the second success / failure lottery. On the other hand, the second
The special figure control means 252 starts the symbol variation display corresponding to the second winning / losing lottery regardless of whether or not the special winning / holding lottery value is stored by the special figure holding means 241. Thereby, when the lottery value is suspended in both the first winning / losing lottery and the second winning / losing lottery, the lottery value suspended in the second winning / losing lottery is preferentially read and the symbol variation is displayed. In such a case, the lottery value held in the first winning / losing lottery is not read until the number of holdings in the second winning / losing lottery becomes zero, and the symbol variation thereof does not start.

  The first special figure control means 251 and the second special figure control means 252 issue a change start command and a change stop command at the timing to start and stop the change display of the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52, respectively. It transmits to the production control means 304. When transmitting the variation start command, the determination result or determination result determined as the main determination, a value indicating each of the stop symbol and the variation pattern, and a value indicating whether the first determination result determination lottery or the second determination result determination lottery It is transmitted to the effect control means 304 together with the change start command. When transmitting the variation stop command, a value indicating the stop symbol is transmitted to the effect control means 304 together with the variation stop command. Thereby, the fluctuation display by the main display control means 250 and the effect control means 304 is synchronized, and the interlock is maintained. The normal symbol control means 254 displays the lottery determination result by the normal symbol lottery means 213 on the normal symbol display device 45 as a normal symbol variation display.

  The special figure adjusting means 276 waits for the start of the other variable display while one of the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 is variably displayed. The special figure adjusting means 276 has a second special symbol based on the ball entering the second start port 12 regardless of the order of the game balls having entered the first start port 11 or the second start port 12. The variable display of 52 is given priority over the variable display of the first special symbol 51 based on the entrance to the first start port 11. For example, when both the first winner / lottery value and the second winner / lottery value are held, the second winner / lottery value is always preferentially digested and the second special symbol 52 is continuously displayed in a variable manner.

  The special figure adjusting means 276 in the modified example displays the fluctuation display of the first special symbol 51 and the fluctuation display of the second special symbol 52 in accordance with the order of entering the first starting port 11 and the second starting port 12. Alternatively, the display may be selectively changed. For example, when a ball is entered in the order of the first start port 11, the first start port 11, and the second start port 12, the display is changed in the order of the first special symbol 51, the first special symbol 51, and the second special symbol 52. Is done. In this case, the special figure adjusting means 276 monitors the hold control means 240 and stores the hold order of the winning / failing lottery values. Which special symbol should be changed is determined in accordance with the order of entry of the game balls, that is, the hold order of the success / failure lottery values in the hold control means 240, so that the player can easily grasp the order of change visually.

  The special figure adjusting means 276 in another modified example may display the fluctuation display of the first special symbol 51 and the fluctuation display of the second special symbol 52 in a predetermined digestion order regardless of the order of entry. Good. For example, priority may be given to alternately displaying the fluctuation display of the first special symbol 51 and the fluctuation display of the second special symbol 52. For example, when both the first winning / losing lottery value and the second winning / losing lottery value are held, the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 are alternately displayed in a variable manner. Which special symbol should be changed is simply switched alternately regardless of the order of entry of the game balls, so that the player can easily grasp the order of change.

  The special figure adjustment means 276 also waits for the start of the other variable display when one of the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 is stopped in the hit state. In this case, the special symbol change display is not started while the special game is executed, so that the player can concentrate on the special game.

The special game control unit 260 operates the special game when the first special symbol 51 is stopped in a predetermined big hit mode when the first winning / losing lottery by the first lottery unit 211 indicates a transition to the special game. It is determined that the condition is satisfied, and the special game is executed by opening the first big winning opening 21. Similarly, the special game control means 260, when the second special lottery by the second lottery means 212 results in the transition to the special game, when the second special symbol 52 is stopped in a predetermined big hit mode It is determined that the special game operation condition is satisfied, and the special game is executed by opening the first grand prize opening 21.

  The special game is a game in which the opening / closing operation of the first grand prize winning opening 21 is continuously performed a plurality of times, and is composed of a plurality of unit games with one opening / closing as a unit. Special games include a 16R jackpot that repeats a unit game 16 times, a 4R jackpot that repeats a unit game four times, and a 2R jackpot that repeats a unit game that has a shorter opening time than the 16R jackpot and 4R jackpot only twice. The 16R jackpot is a jackpot in the second winning / losing lottery, and the 4R jackpot is a jackpot in the first winning / losing lottery. In the case of 16R big hit and 4R big hit, the first big winning opening 21 is basically opened for about 30 seconds in one unit game. In 2R big hit, the first big winning opening 21 is opened for about 0.2 seconds in one unit game. The special game control means 260 ends the special game when the number of rounds set for the unit game is exhausted. Even in the case of 2R big hit, if the predetermined condition is satisfied, the first big winning opening 21 may be opened in the same opening manner as 16R big hit and 4R big hit.

  The small hit game control means 265 operates the small hit game when the first special symbol 51 is stopped in a predetermined small hit mode when the first lottery by the first lottery means 211 results in a small hit. It is determined that the condition is satisfied, and the opening / closing control means 275 opens the first big winning opening 21 to execute the small hit game. Similarly, when the second lottery by the second lottery means 212 results in a small win, the small hit game control means 265 is small when the second special symbol 52 is stopped in a predetermined small hit mode. It is determined that the winning game operating condition is satisfied, and the opening / closing control means 275 opens the first big winning opening 21 to execute the small winning game.

  In the small hit game, the unit game is executed once, and the first big prize opening 21 is opened and closed twice in one unit game. The small hit game control means 265 opens the first big prize opening 21 for about 0.2 seconds per opening and closing, and after opening the whole small hit game for about 0.4 seconds, the first big prize opening 21 is closed and the small hit game is ended.

  The specific game control means 270 controls the normal game in the probability changing state, the short time state, and the easy-to-enter state. The specific game control means 270 shifts the gaming state to the certain variation state, the short time state, and the easy entry state after the special game is completed when the special symbol is a specific jackpot symbol accompanied by the transition to probability variation. The probability variation state, the short time state, and the easy entry state are continued until the next big hit occurs. In the short-time state, the first variation pattern determination means 231 and the second variation pattern determination means 232 select a variation pattern with a short variation time so that the variation display time of the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 is substantially shortened. To do. However, in the normal state, the fluctuation pattern table corresponding to the number of holdings of the success / failure lottery value by the holding control unit 240 is referred to, and a fluctuation pattern with a longer fluctuation time is more likely to appear as the number of holdings by the holding control unit 240 decreases. In the easy-to-enter state, both normal symbol change and the opening extension of the second starting port 12, or only the opening extension of the second starting port 12 is performed. In other words, the specific game control means 270 causes the second start port 12 to be in the open extended state when a specific big hit is achieved, and further increases the winning probability of the open lottery only when the success / failure lottery is the second success / failure lottery. Transition to a higher probability state than the normal probability state. During the probability variation state, the probability of the success / failure determination result by the first success / failure determination means 221 and the second success / failure determination means 222 is maintained at a high value.

The opening / closing control means 275 controls the opening / closing of the ordinary electric accessory 90 and the first grand prize winning port 21 of the second starting port 12. When the normal symbol is stopped in a specific manner, the opening / closing control means 275 sends an opening instruction to the normal electric combination solenoid 91 to open the normal electric combination 90 at the second start port 12. In the normal state, the opening / closing control means 275 opens the second start port 12 in the short open or long open time according to the result of the open lottery, and in the easy entry state, the open control unit 275 opens the second open port in the long open time. 2 Open the start port 12. The ease of entering the ball at the second start port 12 is enhanced, so that the player can continue the game without reducing his possession. In the special game, the opening / closing control means 275 sends an opening instruction to the first big prize opening solenoid 93 to open the first big prize opening 21.

  FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the sub-board. The sub-board 300 includes a design mode determining unit 301, a pattern storage unit 302, an effect determining unit 303, and an effect control unit 304.

  The pattern storage means 302 holds a plurality of effect patterns in which effect image contents to be displayed on the effect display device 60 in the variation of the decorative design 61 and the display process thereof are determined. In the effect pattern, a plurality of change effect patterns in which the change process from start to stop and a change process in the change display of the decorative design 61 and the change process are determined, and the expectation degree to the jackpot are displayed separately from the change display of the decorative design. And a plurality of notice effect patterns that suggest the height of the notice before the change display stops.

  The effect determining means 303 displays on the effect display device 60 by the effect control means 304 in accordance with the determination result of the first winning / losing lottery received from the first lottery means 211 or the determination result of the second winning / notifying lottery received from the second lottery means 212. Then, the contents of the effect to be output to the speaker 108 are determined. The effect determining unit 303 selects one of a plurality of variation effect patterns corresponding to the variation pattern of the special symbol determined by the first variation pattern determining unit 231 or the second variation pattern determining unit 232, and stores the pattern storage unit. Read from 302. The effect determining means 303 sends the read information on the fluctuation effect pattern to the effect control means 304. The effect determining unit 303 holds a pattern table to be referred to in order to select a variable effect pattern.

  Each variation effect pattern has a variation time for each pattern as an end condition of the symbol variation, and the symbol variation is stopped when the variation time elapses. The effect determining means 303 selects a change effect pattern of effect images having the same change time according to the change pattern of the special symbol.

  The symbol form determining unit 301 determines the combination of stop symbols of the decorative symbol 61 and the arrangement thereof, the determination result of the lottery by the first lottery unit 211 or the second lottery unit 212, the stop symbol of the special symbol, the variation pattern of the special symbol, the decoration It is determined according to the design variation effect pattern. The symbol form determination unit 301 transmits information indicating the determined combination of stop symbols to the effect control unit 304. The symbol mode determining means 301 holds a symbol range table to be referred to in order to determine the stop symbol of the decorative symbol.

  The stop symbol of the decorative symbol 61 is formed as a combination of three symbols. For example, when the determination result by the first determination unit 221 and the second determination unit 222 indicates a shift to a special game of 4R big hit or 16R big hit. A specific combination, for example, a combination of three symbols such as “777” and “111” is selected. A specific combination, for example, a predetermined combination such as “357” is also selected when the result of the determination is a 2R big hit or a small hit, but the specific combination is not necessarily a combination of three symbols. It does not have to be. When the determination result is neither big hit nor small hit, it is a combination in which three symbols such as “312” and “946” are not arranged, and a specific combination selected at the time of 2R big hit or small hit A combination that does not apply is selected. When the determination result is not 4R big hit or 16R big hit, and a variation pattern showing a loss with reach is selected, a combination where only one pattern is not complete, such as “191” or “727” Select.

  The decorative design variation effect pattern defines a decorative display variation display mode, that is, a production process from the start of variation of the decorative symbol to the stop of variation. In the variation effect pattern, a pattern for displaying a normal out symbol, a pattern for displaying a symbol out of reach after reaching a big win if one more symbols are aligned, and a jackpot symbol through a reach state are displayed. A pattern is included. In particular, the pattern that passes through the reach state includes patterns having various fluctuation times. Each variation effect pattern has a variation time for each pattern as an end condition of the symbol variation, and the symbol variation is stopped when the variation time elapses. The effect determining means 303 selects a decoration effect variation effect pattern having the same variation time as that of the special symbol in accordance with the variation pattern of the special symbol.

  When the variation pattern selected by the first variation pattern determination means 231 or the second variation pattern determination means 232 is a time-shortening pattern in the time-short state, the effect determination means 303 uses the variation in which the content of the time-shortening effect is determined. Select a production pattern. The effect content for the time reduction is an effect in which a background video or a sound that gives an impression that the player is in an advantageous state due to time reduction or certainty is output.

  The notice effect pattern is an effect pattern that temporarily displays an image, animation, video, or the like of a specific character or motif, an effect pattern that operates an accessory, or an effect pattern that outputs a specific sound. The effect by the notice effect pattern is executed in parallel with the symbol variation, and suggests that the symbol variation is highly expected to stop in the big hit mode. For example, there are a normal notice effect in which only one character image is displayed on the screen, and a group notice effect in which a large number of characters are displayed so as to pass from one end to the other end of the screen. Further, the display process of the notice effect is divided into a plurality of stages, and the number of stages to be displayed is made variable, and a step-up notice effect that is set such that the greater the number of stages is, the higher the degree of expectation for the big hit is included.

  The notice effect pattern includes a pattern in which the effect is executed at a timing after the display form of the decorative symbol 61 reaches the reach state and the final stop state of the symbol is notified, and none of the decorative symbols 61 are stopped. There is a pattern in which the performance is executed at the timing and the reach is reached at the same time.

  The effect determining means 303 determines whether or not to display the notice effect on the effect display device 60 according to the determination result of the success / failure lottery by a predetermined notice lottery, sets the prior effect, and sets the notice effect pattern to be displayed. decide. The effect determining means 303 holds a notice determination table to be referred to for determining whether or not to display the notice effect, and a notice type table to be referred to when selecting the kind of the notice effect pattern. The notice decision table is set so that different columns are referenced according to the decision result of the lottery, and if the lottery is a win, the lottery will be displayed with a higher probability than when it is missed. The correspondence between whether to display the determination result and the notice effect is determined. Thereby, the high expectation degree to the big hit can be suggested by displaying the notice effect itself.

  The effect control means 304 variably displays the effect image including the decorative design 61 on the effect display device 60 according to the selected variation effect pattern data as the determination result of the success / failure lottery by the first lottery means 211 or the second lottery means 212. . The effect control means 304 has received a change start command for the decorative symbol 61 and a new symbol indicating that the variable symbol display of the decorative symbol 61 corresponding to the first winning lottery and the second winning lottery has been completed. This is the starting condition for fluctuation. When the effect determining unit 303 determines that the notice effect is displayed, the effect control unit 304 displays the notice effect according to the selected notice effect pattern on the effect display device 60 in a manner to be superimposed on the symbol variation effect. Let

  The effect control means 304 reserves the start of the symbol variation display corresponding to the first winning / failing lottery when the winning / losing lottery value of the second winning / losing lottery is stored, and whether or not the winning / raising lottery value of the first winning / failing lottery is stored. Regardless of whether or not, the symbol variation display corresponding to the second winning / losing lottery is started. As a result, when the lottery values are held for both the first winner / lottery lottery and the second winner / lottery lottery, the lottery values held in the second winner / lottery lottery are preferentially read and the variation of the decorative design is displayed. . In such a case, the lottery value held in the first winning / losing lottery is not read until the number of holding of the second winning / losing lottery becomes 0, and the variation of the decorative design does not start. In this way, the effect control means 304 causes the effect display device 60 to display the symbol variation effect including the variation display of the decorative symbol 61.

  The effect control unit 304 further controls the lighting and extinguishing of the decorative lamp 111 and the operation of the movable accessory 66. The effect control unit 304 includes an effect display control unit 305 and an audio control unit 306. The effect display control means 305 controls display on the effect display device 60, and the sound control means 306 controls sound output from the speaker 108.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram schematically showing the hardware configuration of the main board 200 and the sub board 300. The main board 200 includes electronic components such as a main CPU 290, a main RAM 291 and a main ROM 292. The main ROM 292 stores in advance a main control program and data for controlling overall gaming operations. A main control program or data is read from the main ROM 292 into the main RAM 291, and the main control program is executed by the main CPU 290. Each electronic component is connected by a bus such as a system bus or a data bus (not shown). The entrance signal from each entrance and the payout signal from the payout control board 155 are acquired by the main CPU 290 via various interfaces (not shown). The main CPU 290 drives and controls external devices such as each winning opening solenoid, the first special symbol display device 41, and the second special symbol display device 42 by various drive circuits (not shown). Also, a command necessary for effect control is transmitted from the main CPU 290 to the sub-board 300 together with information such as the result of the lottery determination, the design determination result, and the variation pattern determination result. A signal is transmitted from the main board 200 to the sub board 300 by one-way communication.

  The instruction data transmitted from the main board 200 to the sub-board 300 has a 2-byte structure by combining 1-byte instruction type data called so-called MODE data and 1-byte instruction content data called so-called EVENT data. The main board 200 can send one command by associating the command type data and the command content data to the sub-board 300 in association with each other. The instruction type data is a bit string indicating the instruction type, and a unique type code is assigned in advance for each instruction type at the development stage. The instruction content data is a bit string indicating the contents of the instruction. The most significant bit of the instruction type data and the instruction content data is an identification bit indicating whether the instruction type data or the instruction content data. When the most significant bit is 1, it indicates the instruction type data. When the bit is 0, it indicates instruction content data.

  Since the communication from the main board 200 to the sub board 300 is a specification for transmitting 1 byte of data for each data transmission, it is necessary to transmit 2 bytes per byte in order to transmit 2 bytes of instruction data. . The MODE data that is the upper byte is transmitted in the first communication, and the EVENT data that is the lower byte is transmitted in the second communication. Considering the possibility of communication failure due to the influence of noise or the like, the main board 200 transmits the same data continuously, and when the same data is read twice by the sub board 300, the completion of the transmission / reception of the data is determined. . The main board 200 repeatedly transmits the same data until it is read twice, and transmits it up to five times.

The sub board 300 includes electronic components such as a sub CPU 310, a sub RAM 311, a sub ROM 312, an effect display control device 313, and a sound control device 314. The sub ROM 312 is one of data storage means for holding a sub control program including effect pattern data in which an effect process is defined, display pattern data in which an effect display process is defined, and the like. A sub control program including effect pattern data, display pattern data, and sound pattern data is read from the sub ROM 312 into the sub RAM 311, and effect control by the sub control program is executed by the sub CPU 310. Each electronic component is connected by a bus such as a system bus or a data bus (not shown). A signal from an external device such as the effect button 109 is acquired by the sub CPU 310 via various interfaces (not shown). The sub CPU 310 uses an effect display control device 313, an audio control device 314, external devices such as an effect display device 60, a speaker 108, a decoration lamp 111, and a movable accessory 66 by various drive circuits and control circuits (not shown) according to the effect pattern data. To control the display output, audio output, lamp lighting, and effects by the action of the accessory. The sub CPU 310 transmits the display pattern data to the effect display control device 313 and transmits the sound pattern data to the sound control device 314. In this embodiment, an example in which the sub board 300 includes the effect display control device 313 and the sound control device 314 will be described. However, the sub board 300, the effect display control device 313, and the sound control device 314 are integrated as a substrate. It may be formed as separate substrates that are separated and connected to each other.

  FIG. 11 is a block diagram schematically showing a hardware configuration of the effect display control device 313. As shown in FIG. The effect display control device 313 includes a display CPU 320, a display RAM 322, a data ROM 324, and a display control circuit 326. The data ROM 324 is one of data storage means for holding material data such as effect image data and motion data used for effect display in a compressed state. The effect image data is an image used for change display or effect display as an effect object indicating the determination result of the lottery determination. It is a material image such as a moving image to be used. The motion data is data in which an operation is defined when an effect operation is added to an image used for various effects at a predetermined timing.

  Based on the display pattern data sent from the sub CPU 310, effect image data and motion data designated in the display pattern data are read from the data ROM 324 to the display RAM 322, and effect display using the effect image data and motion data is performed. Is executed by the display CPU 320. As a result, a command, effect image data, and motion data related to effect display are transmitted from the display CPU 320 to the display control circuit 326, and display control is performed by the display control circuit 326.

  The display control circuit 326 includes a decoder 332, a drawing memory 334, a drawing circuit 336, a frame buffer 338, and a display circuit 340, which are connected via the bus 330. The bus 330 in this figure comprehensively shows buses such as a system bus, a data bus, and an address bus for convenience.

  The effect image data and the motion data sent from the display CPU 320 are stored in the drawing memory 334, and compressed data among these data is decoded by the decoder 332. The drawing memory 334 is used as a work area when the effect image data or motion data is decoded by the decoder 332, or used as a work area when the drawing circuit 336 performs drawing processing or image processing. ).

The drawing circuit 336 uses the data stored in the drawing memory 334 to sequentially execute commands sent from the display CPU 320 to generate a display image, and uses the generated display image as a frame of a moving image as a frame buffer. Stored in 338. The frame buffer 338 is a VRAM serving as a buffer memory that temporarily stores a frame of a moving image to be output to the effect display device 60.

  The display circuit 340 outputs the display images stored in the frame buffer 338 to the effect display device 60 in the form of video signals in the stored order. The frame buffer 338 has a memory area for two frames, for example. While the display circuit 340 outputs a display image from the memory area for one frame, the drawing circuit 336 generates the next display image, Store in the memory area for another frame.

  The data ROM 324 holds “detailed display pattern data” in which a display control process performed by the display control circuit 326 is defined. At this time, the display pattern data sent from the sub CPU 310 can be referred to as “schematic display pattern data” in which an outline of the effect display process is defined. For example, the outline display pattern data defines a general flow of a series of effect display processes, such as the start and stop timings of decoration symbol change, the playback order of a plurality of moving images, and the start and stop timings of playback. . On the other hand, detailed display pattern data includes detailed display control, such as the display order of sprite images for realizing variable display of decorative symbols, and the display processing order for each frame for displaying moving images based on motion data. A process is defined.

  When the display control device 313 performs display control based on the “schematic display pattern data” sent from the sub CPU 310, the “detail display pattern data” necessary for the processing is read from the data ROM 324, and both display pattern data are read. Display process. Therefore, it can be said that the effect display control device 313 executes the display control process based on the display pattern data including “schematic display pattern data” and “detailed display pattern data”. Therefore, in this specification, unless explicitly mentioned, the “schematic display pattern data” stored in the sub-ROM 312 and the “detailed display pattern data” stored in the data ROM 324 are not distinguished, but simply “display pattern data”. " For example, when the effect control display means performs a specific process based on the display pattern data held in the data storage means, this display pattern data includes “schematic display pattern data” and “detailed display pattern data”. Shall be. In the modification, the display pattern data is not divided into “schematic display pattern data” and “detailed display pattern data”, and the display pattern data serving as both can be stored in the sub ROM 312 or the data ROM 324. Good.

  In the present embodiment, as the hardware configuration of the effect display control device 313, a configuration including a display CPU 320, a display RAM 322, a data ROM 324, and a display control circuit 326 is shown. In the modification, the display CPU 320, the display RAM 322, the data ROM 324, and the display control circuit 326 may be integrated instead of being configured as separate electronic components. In addition, the processing executed by the display control circuit 326 may be executed by the display CPU 320, the display RAM 322, or the data ROM 324. For example, the display CPU 320 included in the effect display control device 313 may execute processing that is executed by the decoder 332, the drawing circuit 336, and the display circuit 340 included in the display control circuit 326. Further, the display RAM 322 included in the effect display control device 313 may also function as the drawing memory 334 and the frame buffer 338. In addition, the presentation display control device 313 may have a hardware configuration that does not include the display control circuit 326. In this case, the processing executed by the display control circuit 326 is performed by the display CPU 320, the display RAM 322, or the data ROM 324. May be executed.

Further, in this embodiment, as the hardware configuration of the sub-board 300, a configuration in which an effect display control device 313 is included in addition to the sub CPU 310, the sub RAM 311 and the sub ROM 312 is shown. In the modification, the sub CPU 310, the sub RAM 311 and the ROM 31 are used.
2 and the effect display control device 313 are not configured as separate electronic components, but may be integrated. Further, the processing executed by the effect display control device 313 may be executed by the sub CPU 310, the sub RAM 311, or the sub ROM 312. For example, the sub CPU 310 may execute the processing of the display CPU 320, the sub RAM 311 may also function as the display RAM 322, and the sub ROM 312 may also function as the data ROM 324. In addition, the sub-board 300 may have a hardware configuration in which the effect display control device 313 is not included. In this case, the processing executed by the effect display control device 313 is performed by the sub CPU 310, the sub RAM 311, or the sub ROM 312. May be executed.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a control start process of the main board 200 in the pachinko gaming machine. When the power switch 150 is turned on, the main CPU 290 sets the stack pointer (S100), permits access to the main RAM 291 (S102), and executes hardware-related initial settings such as setting of the built-in registers of the main CPU 290. (S104).

  Subsequently, the power-off recovery process or the initialization process of the main RAM 291 is executed according to the operation state of the RAM clear switch, the value of the power-off information flag, and the state of data stored in the main RAM 291. Specifically, when the RAM clear switch is not turned ON and both the value of the power-off information flag and the data stored in the main RAM 291 are normal, the process at the time of power-off recovery is executed. To do. In other cases, that is, when the RAM clear switch is turned on or when the RAM clear switch is not turned on, either the power-off information flag or the data stored in the main RAM 291 is normal. If not, initialization processing of the main RAM 291 is executed.

  The main CPU 290 confirms the operation state of the RAM clear switch. When the RAM clear switch is turned on (Y in S106), the main CPU 290 initializes the main RAM 291 (S116). When the RAM clear switch is not turned ON (N in S106), the main CPU 290 checks the value of the power-off information flag (S108). If the value of the power-off information flag does not match the power-off normal data (N in S108), the main RAM 291 is initialized (S116). If the value of the power-off information flag matches the power-off normal data (Y in S108), the data stored in the main RAM 291 is inspected (S110). As will be described later, if the processing is normally completed at the time of the previous power interruption, the main CPU 290 uses the checksum because the checksum of the data stored in the main RAM 291 is stored in the main RAM 291. Data in the main RAM 291 is inspected. If the data stored in the main RAM 291 is not normal (N in S112), the data in the main RAM 291 is initialized (S116). If the data stored in the main RAM is normal (Y in S112), a process for returning to the state before power-off is executed (S114).

  In the power-off recovery process (S114), power-on normal data indicating that power-on is normally performed is stored in the power-off information flag, and various error initial settings and communication initial settings with the payout control board 155 are executed. To do. Next, the command request for untransmitted before power-off is cleared, and the command transmission of various information indicating the gaming state is requested. Subsequently, an effect command corresponding to the number of active reserved balls of the first special symbol and the second special symbol is requested. Subsequently, the open / closed state of the second starting port 12 and the first grand prize winning port 21 is returned to the state before the power is turned off. Subsequently, a process for notifying the operating state of the probability variation function of the special symbol is executed.

  In the RAM initialization process (S116), the power-on normal data is stored in the power-off information flag, the entire area of the main RAM 291 is cleared to 0, and the main RAM 291 is initialized and the effect display is initialized.

  When the power-off recovery process (S114) or the RAM initialization process (S116) is completed, a count value is set to start an interrupt process to be described later, and an interrupt timer operation is started (S118). As a result, a timer interrupt is generated every predetermined time (for example, 4 milliseconds), and an interrupt process described later is executed. Subsequently, the main CPU 290 executes main processing for managing gaming machines (S120).

  FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing in detail the main process of S120 in FIG. The main CPU 290 temporarily disables the timer interrupt (S200), starts the operation of the watchdog timer (S202), and monitors the power interruption (S204). When a drop in the power supply voltage supplied from the power supply unit 158 is detected in a power supply voltage monitoring circuit (not shown), a power cut-off memory executed by inputting an unconditional interrupt request signal from the power supply voltage monitoring circuit to the main CPU 290 In the processing, the power-off confirmation data is stored in the power-off confirmation flag. Therefore, the main CPU 290 monitors the value of the power-off confirmation flag (S204). If the value of the power-off confirmation flag matches the power-off confirmation data (Y in S206), the main CPU 290 executes processing for power-off. Therefore, it progresses to S212. When the value of the power-off confirmation flag does not match the power-off confirmation data (N in S206), in order to update the initial value random number per normal symbol, the symbol initial value random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol, Initial value random number update processing is executed (S208), timer interruption is permitted (S210), and the process returns to S200. Thereafter, S200 to S210 are repeated. When a timer interrupt occurs while the timer interrupt is prohibited (S202 to S208), an interrupt process described later is executed after the timer interrupt is permitted in S210.

  When power-off is detected in S206 (Y in S206), the main CPU 290 restarts the watchdog timer (S212) and checks the content of the power-off information flag (S214). If the content of the power-off information flag does not match the power-on normal data (N in S214), it is determined that the data at the time of power-on is not properly saved, and the power-off abnormal data is stored in the power-off information flag. (S216), the process proceeds to S222. When the content of the power-off information flag matches the power-on normal data (Y in S214), it is determined that the data at the time of power-on is normally stored, and the power-off normal data is stored in the power-off information flag. (S218). Subsequently, at the next power-on, in order to check the backed-up main RAM 291 data, a checksum of the data stored in the main RAM 291 is calculated and stored in the main RAM 291 (S220). Subsequently, access to the main RAM 291 is prohibited (S222), and a loop is performed until the power is turned off.

  FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing details of the interrupt processing. When a timer interrupt occurs in the main process (S120), the main CPU 290 executes the interrupt process. First, interrupt operation conditions are set (S300), and the watchdog timer is restarted (S302). Subsequently, in order to manage gaming machines, input processing (S304), various random number update processing (S306), initial value update type random number update processing (S308), initial value random number update processing (S310), timer subtraction processing (S312) , Second start port effective period setting process (S314), winning prize monitoring process (S316), prize ball control process (S318), normal symbol operation gate monitoring process (S320), normal symbol control process (S322), normal symbol variation start Monitoring process (S324), start port monitoring control process (S326), special symbol control process (S328), special electric accessory control process (S330), special winning opening valid period setting process (S332), special symbol fluctuation start monitoring control Processing (S334), abnormality detection processing (S336), incoming ball passing time abnormality detection processing (S338), gaming state display processing (S340), steering wheel status signal Inspection processing (S342), LED output processing (S344), firing control signal output processing (S346), test signal output processing (S348), solenoid output processing (S350), effect control command transmission processing (S352), external information output processing (S354) are executed in order, the next timer interruption is permitted (S356), and the process returns.

  In the input process (S304), the input of the switch attached to the game board surface, the disconnection short circuit power supply abnormality detection signal, the door / frame opening signal, the magnetic detection signal, the radio wave detection signal, and the touch state signal is monitored. Is generated and stored in the main RAM 291.

  In various random number update processes (S306), the normal symbol variation pattern random number and the variation pattern random number are updated. The normal symbol variation pattern random number is read from the main RAM 291 and is stored by incrementing the value if the value is less than the predetermined maximum value, and 0 is stored if the value is greater than or equal to the predetermined maximum value. Further, the fluctuation pattern random number is read from the main RAM 291, and when the result of subtracting the predetermined value from the value is 0 or more, the subtraction result is stored, and when the result is less than 0, the predetermined maximum value is stored. As a result, the normal symbol variation pattern random number and the variation pattern random number are updated every time the timer interrupt occurs.

  In the initial value update type random number update process (S308), the random number per ordinary symbol, the symbol random number per special symbol, and the soft random number per special symbol are updated. Each random number value, maximum value, and initial value are read from the main RAM 291 and the random number value is incremented. If the incremented result exceeds the maximum value, the random number is set to 0. If the incremented result matches the initial value, the initial value random number is read from the main RAM 291 and the initial value is updated. As a result, the random number per symbol, the random number per special symbol, and the soft random number per special symbol are updated every time the timer interrupt occurs, and when the random number value returns to the initial value, that is, the random number range is cycled. Then, a new initial value is set and a random number is generated.

  In the initial value random number update process (S310), the initial value random number per normal symbol, the symbol initial value random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol are updated. The initial value random number is read from the initial value random number update table of the main RAM 291 and the value of the initial value random number is incremented. If the incremented result exceeds the upper limit, the initial random number is set to 0. Similar processing is executed in the initial value random number update processing (S208) in the main processing (S120).

  In the timer subtraction process (S312), the 2-byte timer is updated. The timer value is read from the main RAM 291. If the timer value is other than 0, the value is decremented and stored. If the timer value is 0, the timer is not updated.

  In the second start port effective period setting process (S314), the effective period of the second start port 12 is set. The second starting port 12 has a valid period during which a prize ball is paid out and a lottery relating to the second special symbol is executed by entering a game ball, and a prize ball is paid out and a second special ball is drawn even if a game ball enters. An invalid period during which the lottery related to the symbol is not executed is set. As will be described later, in the start port monitoring control process (S326), since the second start port winning monitoring process is not executed during the invalid period of the second start port 12, a game ball enters the second start port 12. Even so, the payout of prize balls and the lottery related to the second special symbol are not executed. The same applies to the case where a valid period and an invalid period are set for the first start port 11, the first grand prize port 21, the operation port 30, the general prize port 33, and the like. When the state of the normal symbol is “ordinary electric utility is in operation”, data indicating that the second start port 12 is in the effective period is stored in the second start port effective period flag. If the state of the normal symbol is not “operating the normal electric accessory”, if the value of the second start opening effective extension timer is not 0, the second start opening 12 is in the effective period in the second start opening effective period flag. If the value of the second start port effective extension timer is 0, data indicating that the second start port is in an invalid period is stored in the second start port effective period flag.

In the winning monitoring process (S316), when the game ball passes through the switch, when the game ball passes the switch, the switch has no invalid period or is currently in the valid period.
In addition, if there is a prize ball payout, the winning counter is updated. It also requests creation of a security output request to be output to an external terminal and transmission of a command.

  In prize ball control processing (S318), monitoring of data reception from the payout control board 155, command transmission request to the payout control board 155, command transmission to the payout control board 155, and inspection of received data from the payout control board 155 Are executed in order.

  In the normal symbol operation gate monitoring process (S320), when the passing of the game ball through the operation port 30 is monitored and it is determined that the game ball has passed through the operation port 30, the number of normal symbol fluctuations is less than the upper limit of 4 If it is, the number of holdings of the normal symbol is updated, and the random number related to the normal symbol is stored in the main RAM 291.

  In the normal symbol control process (S322), the state of the normal symbol is monitored, and if it is determined that the normal symbol control is being performed, the process related to the normal symbol display device 45 or the ordinary electric accessory 90 is executed. If the status of the normal symbol is “Normal symbol changing”, the normal symbol changing process is executed. If the normal symbol status is “Normal symbol stopped”, the normal symbol stop symbol displaying process is executed. If it is “operating in an accessory”, a process during operation of an ordinary electric accessory is executed, and if it is “under demonstration of an operation of an ordinary electric accessory”, a process during an end of demonstration of an ordinary electric accessory is executed. In normal symbol fluctuation processing, after changing the normal symbol, the fluctuation time is monitored, and if it is determined that the fluctuation time of the normal symbol has ended, the fluctuation stop setting of the normal symbol is set and the normal symbol status is set to `` Normal Set to “Stopping symbols”. In the normal symbol stop symbol display processing, the normal symbol stop symbol display time is monitored, and when it is determined that the normal symbol stop symbol display time has ended, the normal symbol operation end setting corresponding to the result of the hit determination is executed. In the case of winning, set the state of the normal symbol to “Normal Electric Tool is in operation”, save the operation status of the normal electric tool opening extension function at the start of normal electric character operation, and start the normal electric character operation The operation setting of the normal electric solenoid 91 corresponding to the operation state of the normal electric accessory opening extension function at the time is executed. In the case of detachment, the normal symbol state is set to “normal symbol variation waiting”. In the processing during the operation of the ordinary electric accessory, when the winning of the winning opening relating to the ordinary electric accessory 90 of the game ball is monitored and it is determined that the winning number of the winning opening relating to the ordinary electric accessory 90 has reached the maximum winning number Performs the operation end setting of the ordinary electric accessory 90 and the setting of the second start opening effective extension time. When it is determined that the number of winnings in the winning opening relating to the ordinary electric accessory 90 has not reached the maximum winning number, the opening / closing time of the entrance of the winning opening relating to the ordinary electric accessory 90 is monitored. When the opening / closing of the entrance of the prize opening according to the above is performed and it is determined that the opening of the entrance of the series of ordinary electric accessories 90 has ended, the operation end setting of the ordinary electric actor 90 and the second start opening are valid Set the extension time. If it is determined that the opening / closing time of the entrance of the winning opening relating to the ordinary electric accessory 90 has not ended, the setting of opening / closing the entrance of the winning opening relating to the ordinary electric accessory 90 is not executed. In the normal electric actor operation end demonstration process, the operation end demonstration time of the normal electric accessory 90 is monitored, and when it is determined that the normal electric accessory 90 operation end demo time has ended, the state of the normal symbol is changed to “normal symbol”. Set to "Waiting for change".

  In the normal symbol variation start monitoring process (S324), the state of the normal symbol is monitored. If the normal symbol variation is on standby, and if the value of the number of the normal symbol operation holding balls is other than 0, the variation of the normal symbol Is determined to start. If it is determined that the normal symbol variation will be started, the normal symbol operation holding ball count is decremented, and the hit determination, determination of the stop symbol, setting of the variation symbol number of the normal symbol, and setting of the variation time of the normal symbol are executed. . Thereafter, the state of the normal symbol is set to “ordinary symbol fluctuation”, and the area of the main RAM 291 used for the normal symbol state setting, the hit determination, and the variation pattern determination is cleared.

In the starting port monitoring control process (S326), the first starting port 11 winning and the second starting port 12 winning of the game ball are monitored. When the number of reserved balls for the first special symbol is less than 4, if the winning of the game ball is confirmed, the internal random number is acquired, and the value obtained by adding the value of the soft random number per special symbol to the acquired internal random number, It is stored in the buffer as a random number per special symbol used in jackpot determination. In addition, a design random number and a variation pattern random number are acquired and stored as random numbers related to the special design. When the reservation of the second special symbol is digested in preference to the reservation of the first special symbol, only renewal of the hold related to the winning is executed, but when the special symbol reservation order is the winning order, In addition to updating the hold related to the winning, updating the total number of holds and storing the winning order is executed. Next, in order to request a notice effect command corresponding to the random number memorized at the time of winning the start opening, the state of the gaming machine is checked, and when it is determined that the command transmission period, the request for the advance notice effect, the request for the advance notice effect, the pattern notice The production requests are executed in order. Here, when (1) waiting for a hit and storing the random number related to the first special symbol while the probability variation function of the normal symbol is not activated, (2) waiting for a hit and the normal symbol When the random number related to the second special symbol is stored while the probability variation function is not activated, or (3) When the random number related to the second special symbol is stored during the big hit or the small hit The command transmission period is determined. Next, an effect command corresponding to the number of reserved balls for special symbols is requested. As a result, the sub-board 300 is notified that the number of reserved balls for special symbols has been updated. As described above, in the prefetching, four hits, winning symbols, variation patterns, and the number of reserved balls are transmitted as a set to the sub-board 300. Subsequently, when the value of the second start port effective period flag is inspected and the value of the second start port effective period flag is data indicating that the second start port 12 is in the effective period, the first start port winning prize is determined. As in the case, the second start opening winning monitoring process is executed. When the value of the second start port effective period flag is data indicating that the second start port 12 is in the invalid period, the second start port winning monitoring process is not executed. If the game ball winning is confirmed when the number of held balls is 0, the number of held balls is once changed from 0 to 1 and a control process related to the start of variation described later is executed. .

In the special symbol control process (S328), the hit waiting state is inspected. If the special electric accessory is in operation, that is, during the big hit or the small hit, the special symbol control process is terminated. If the special electric accessory is not activated, the special symbol status is inspected. If it is "Waiting for special symbol variation", the special symbol control general-purpose process is terminated. If it is "Start variation", the special symbol variation is completed. The start process is executed. If the special symbol is changing, the special symbol changing process is executed. If the special symbol is stopped, the special symbol stop symbol displaying process is executed. In the special symbol variation start process, the selection number of the special symbol variation pattern is acquired based on the variation pattern random number, the variation time corresponding to the special symbol variation pattern number is determined, and the effect display is started on the sub-board 300. Requests additional symbol information, variation pattern, and character information commands, sets the special symbol state to “special symbol variation”, and clears the variation pattern determination area used to determine the special symbol variation pattern to zero. . In the special symbol fluctuation processing, after changing the special symbol, the fluctuation time is monitored, and if it is determined that the special symbol fluctuation time has ended, the special symbol change stop setting is made and the special symbol status is set to `` Special Set to “Stopping symbols”. In the special symbol stop symbol display processing, the special symbol stop symbol display time is monitored, and when it is determined that the special symbol stop symbol display time is ended, the special symbol operation end setting corresponding to the result of the hit determination is executed. In the case of winning, the special symbol state is set to `` Waiting for special symbol change '' in order to end the operation of the special symbol, the number of times that the special electric accessory is continuously operated is set, and the probability of the special symbol Fluctuation function, special symbol variation time shortening function, normal symbol probability variation function, ordinary symbol variation time shortening function, and normal electric accessory opening extension function are deactivated, and the state of the gaming machine is prepared to open the big prize opening Set to the middle, and execute a hit start demonstration display time setting, a hit start demonstration effect command request, and a launch position designation effect command request. When the result of the hit determination is a small hit, it judges whether the special symbol's fluctuation time reduction function and the normal symbol's probability fluctuation function have ended, updates the fluctuation pattern selection state, requests a game state command, and In order to end the operation, the special symbol state is set to “Special Symbol Fluctuation Waiting”, the gaming machine state is set to the small hit start demonstration, the hit start demonstration display time is set, and the hit start demonstration effect is set. A command request and a command request for a launch position designation effect are executed. If the result of the hit determination is out of date, the operation of the special symbol variation time reduction function and the normal symbol probability variation function is judged to be completed, the variation pattern selection state is updated, the game state command is requested, and the special symbol In order to end the operation, the state of the special symbol is set to “special symbol variation waiting”, and a command request for a launch position designation effect is executed.

  In the special electric accessory control process (S330), in order to execute the process related to the special electric accessory, the operating state of the condition device and the special electric accessory is inspected, and the condition device is operating or the special electric accessory is operating. If it is determined, the process related to the special electric accessory is executed. Depending on the operating state of the special electric accessory, the special prize opening opening preparation process, the special electric accessory operating process, the special prize opening closing process, the big hit end demonstration process, the small hit start demonstration process, the small hit special electric charge A process during operation, a process during closing of a small winning big prize opening, and a process during a small hit end demonstration are executed.

  In the big prize opening validity period setting process (S332), in order to save the result of the validity period judgment of the first big prize opening 21, when the value of the big prize opening validity time is 0, the big prize opening validity period flag is set. The big prize opening invalid period data is stored, and when it is other than 0, the big prize opening validity period data is stored in the big prize opening validity period flag.

  In the special symbol variation start monitoring control process (S334), the operating state of the special symbol is monitored to determine whether or not the special symbol is in a state where the variation can be started. When the digestion order of the reserved balls of the special symbol is the preferential digestion of the second special symbol, (1) the jackpot or the jackpot is not being hit, (2) the first special symbol is waiting for fluctuation, (3 ) When the second special symbol is waiting for variation, and (4) the special reserved symbol has a number other than 0, the special symbol can start to vary. Is determined. (5) In addition to the above (1) to (3), (5) the total number of reserved balls in the special symbol is other than 0, when the digestion order of the special symbols in the reserved ball is a winning order, (6) When the determination is consistent with the digestion order, that is, the winning order, it is determined that the special symbol can be started to change.

  When it is determined that the special symbol is in a state where the variation can be started, the number of reserved balls for operation of the special symbol is subtracted, and an effect command corresponding to the number of reserved balls of the first special symbol and the second special symbol is requested. Thereby, the sub board 300 is notified that the number of reserved balls of the special symbol has been updated.

  Next, a special symbol hit determination is executed. In the hit determination, it is determined whether a big hit, a small hit or a loss is made based on a random number per special symbol, and the determination result is stored in a special symbol determination flag. Next, the design is determined. In the symbol determination, if the winning judgment is a big hit, the big hit symbol is determined based on the symbol random number per special symbol, and if it is a small hit, the small hit symbol is determined. Is determined.

  If the result of the hit determination is a big hit, based on the value of the group determination number indicating the type of the winning symbol determined in the symbol determination process, the operation content of the probability variation function of the special symbol is determined. Set the gaming state after the big hit, such as setting the operation contents of the variable time reduction function and the easy-to-win state for normal symbols. Subsequently, settings such as the number of times that the special electric accessory is continuously operated and the content of the opening time of the big prize opening are executed. Subsequently, the content of the variation pattern selection state is set by selecting a variation pattern table to be referred to after the big hit is completed based on the result of the hit determination and the operation state of the probability variation function of the normal symbol. Subsequently, a start demonstration time and an end demonstration time are set with reference to a table selected based on the value of the group determination number indicating the gaming state and the type of winning symbol. Subsequently, the area of the main RAM 291 used for the hit determination and symbol determination is cleared, and the state of the special symbol is set to “change start”.

If the hit judgment result is a small hit, select the fluctuation pattern table to be referred to after the small hit ends, set the contents of the fluctuation pattern selection state, set the start demo time and end demo time, The area of the main RAM 291 used for determination and symbol determination is cleared, and the state of the special symbol is set to “change start”. If the result of the hit determination is out of place, the area of the main RAM 291 used for the hit determination and symbol determination is cleared, and the state of the special symbol is set to “change start”.

  In the abnormality detection process (S336), the magnetic detection signal, the disconnection short circuit power supply abnormality detection signal, the radio wave detection signal, the door / frame open signal are inspected, and if there is a change in the error state, the error state is stored. The sub board 300 is requested to display an error state effect of the gaming machine. If there is no change in the error state, the error state storage and the error state effect display request are not executed.

  In the incoming ball passage time abnormality detection process (S338), in order to detect the incoming ball passage time abnormality, the continuous on time of each switch level is monitored, and as a result, if it is determined that there has been a change from the previous time, the incoming ball passage time Execute time error setting, command transmission request, and security output request output to external terminal in order. If it is determined that the continuous on-time is not abnormal, the security output request is not created.

  In the game state display process (S340), each display is required to request the display of the number of times that the special electric accessory is continuously operated, the error state, the number of reserved balls for normal symbols, and the number of reserved balls for special symbols. Create data.

  In the handle state signal inspection process (S342), in order to monitor the touch state of the handle, the handle state is inspected. If it is determined that the handle state has changed as a result of the inspection, Update, setting of a handle state monitoring timer, and a command transmission request for handle state effect are executed. As a result of the inspection, if it is determined that there is no change in the handle state, the setting of the handle state monitoring timer is executed. When the result of decrementing the value of the handle state monitoring timer is other than 0, it is determined that the timer is being subtracted, and the subsequent processing is not executed.

  In the LED output process (S344), a special symbol display, a normal symbol display, a special symbol operation hold ball number display, a normal symbol operation hold ball number display, a game state display, and a special electric accessory are continuously displayed. In order to execute the display of the number of times of operation, the display of the operation state of the special electric accessory when the accessory continuous operation device is not operated, the display of the classification and the display of the error, the display initialization, the display data acquisition and Run the output in order.

  In the firing control signal output process (S346), in order to output a signal for prohibiting / permitting the launch of a game ball, setting of prohibition / permission of launch corresponding to the communication state with the payout control board 155 and disconnection short circuit power supply abnormality, and After obtaining the launch prohibition / permission data, the launch prohibition / permission signal is output.

  In the test signal output process (S348), a signal to be output to the test apparatus is created and output to the corresponding output port.

  In the solenoid output process (S350), in order to output the output data of the ordinary electric winning solenoid 91 and the first big winning opening solenoid 93, the output data of the ordinary electric winning solenoid 91 and the output of the first big winning opening solenoid 93 are output. Data acquisition and output data output are executed. The operation flag and operation timer of each solenoid are acquired, and output data corresponding to the acquired solenoid operation flag and solenoid operation timer is acquired. Next, the solenoid operation timer is updated and output data is output to the solenoid output port.

In the effect control command transmission process (S352), the presence / absence of a transmission request for a command to be transmitted to the sub-board 300 is inspected. If it is determined that there is a transmission request, the requested command data is acquired and the used command buffer is set to 0. Clear, acquire MODE data corresponding to the acquired command data, output MODE data, hold MODE data, acquire EVENT data corresponding to the acquired command data, and output EVENT data.

  In the external information output process (S354), a signal to be output to the external terminal is created, and the created signal is output to the external information output port.

  The random numbers used in the operation process of the main board 200 described above will be described in more detail. Random numbers used in the main board 200 mainly include a random number per ordinary symbol and a random number per ordinary symbol as a random number related to a normal symbol, and a random number per special symbol and a special symbol per random number as a special symbol. There are soft random numbers, special design random numbers, and variation pattern random numbers. In addition, initial random numbers for normal symbols, initial values for special symbols, random numbers for normal symbols, random numbers for special symbols, and random numbers for soft random numbers for special symbols. There are random numbers and soft initial value random numbers per special symbol.

  The random number per normal symbol is updated in the initial value update type random number update process (S308) of the interrupt process, and is stored in a predetermined position of the main RAM 291. The random number per normal symbol is less than 4 which is the upper limit of the number of normal symbol fluctuations when it is determined in the normal symbol operation gate monitoring process (S320) of the interrupt process that the game ball has passed through the operation port 30. In some cases, the data is acquired from a predetermined position in the main RAM 291 and stored in another area of the main RAM 291. The normal symbol random number is used for the hit determination and the determination of the stop symbol when it is determined in the normal symbol variation start monitoring process (S324) that the variation of the normal symbol is started.

  The normal symbol variation pattern random number takes a value of, for example, 0 to 232, is updated in various random number update processing (S306) of the interrupt processing, and is stored in a predetermined position of the main RAM 291. The normal symbol variation pattern random number is less than 4 which is the upper limit value of the number of normal symbol variations held when it is determined in the normal symbol activation gate monitoring process (S320) of the interrupt process that the game ball has passed the operation port 30. In this case, it is acquired from a predetermined position of the main RAM 291 and stored in another area of the main RAM 291. The normal symbol variation pattern random number is used for determining the variation pattern of the normal symbol when it is determined in the normal symbol variation start monitoring process (S324) that the variation of the normal symbol is started.

  The random number per special symbol is obtained when the winning of the game ball is confirmed when the number of pending action balls of the first special symbol or the second special symbol is less than 4 in the start port monitoring control process (S326) of the interrupt process. The built-in random number and the value of the soft random number per special symbol are acquired and added to each other, and stored in a predetermined position of the main RAM 291. The random number per special symbol is used to execute the big hit determination and the small hit determination in the special symbol fluctuation start monitoring control process (S334) of the interrupt process.

  The soft random number per special symbol is updated in the initial value update type random number update process (S308) of the interrupt process and stored in a predetermined position of the main RAM 291. The soft random number per special symbol is the main RAM 291 when the winning of the game ball is confirmed in the start port monitoring control process (S326) when the number of operation reserved balls of the first special symbol or the second special symbol is less than 4. And is used to generate a random number per special symbol as described above.

The symbol random number per special symbol takes a value of, for example, 0 to 999, is updated in the initial value update type random number update process (S308) of the interrupt process, and is stored in a predetermined position of the main RAM 291. The symbol random number per special symbol is stored in the main RAM 291 when the winning of the game ball is confirmed when the number of reserved balls for operation of the first special symbol or the second special symbol is less than 4 in the start port monitoring control process (S326). From the predetermined position and stored in another area of the main RAM 291. The symbol random number per special symbol is used to determine the big hit symbol when the hit determination is a big hit in the special symbol fluctuation start monitoring control process (S334) of the interrupt process.

  The variation pattern random number takes a value of, for example, 0 to 49999, is updated in various random number update processing (S306) of the interrupt processing, and is stored in a predetermined position of the main RAM 291. The variation pattern random number is stored in the main RAM 291 when the winning of the game ball is confirmed when the number of reserved balls for operation of the first special symbol or the second special symbol is less than 4 in the start port monitoring control process (S326). It is acquired from the position and stored in another area of the main RAM 291. The variation pattern random number is used to determine a special symbol variation pattern in the special symbol control process (S328) of the interrupt process.

  The initial value random number per ordinary symbol, the initial symbol random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol have values in the same range as the random number per ordinary symbol, the random symbol per special symbol, and the soft random number per special symbol, respectively. The initial value random number update process (S208) of the main process (S120) and the initial value random number update process (S310) of the interrupt process are updated and stored in a predetermined position of the main RAM 291. The initial value random number per ordinary symbol, the initial symbol random number per special symbol, and the soft initial value random number per special symbol are the random number per ordinary symbol, the random symbol per special symbol, and the special initial random number update process (S308). When updating the soft random number per symbol, it is used as the initial value of each random number.

  Since the interrupt process is executed at regular intervals by timer interruption, various random number update processes (S306) and initial value update type random number update processes (S308) included in the interrupt process are also executed at regular intervals. The In other words, the random number per ordinary symbol, the regular symbol variation pattern random number, the random number per special symbol, the soft random number per special symbol, the symbol random number per special symbol, and the variation pattern random number are updated at regular intervals. On the other hand, the main process (S120) is a period from the end of the interrupt process until the next timer interrupt is generated, that is, the time required for the interrupt process from a certain time measured by the timer. Repeated for the reduced time. Since the time required for the interrupt process varies depending on the gaming state and the like, the initial value random number update process (S208) in the main process (S120) includes various random number update processes (S306) and initial value update type random number update processes (S308). Unlike), it is not executed at regular intervals. Thereby, the initial value random number acquired when setting the initial value in the initial value update type random number update process (S308) can be made random every time.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing control start processing of the sub-board 300 in the pachinko gaming machine. When the control of the sub board 300 is started, the sub CPU 310 sets the stack pointer (S500), prohibits all interrupts until various initial settings are completed (S502), and sets the registers of the sub CPU 310 and initializes the ports. Initial setting related to hardware is executed (S504). The control program is read from the sub ROM 312 and arranged in the sub RAM 311. Among various variables in the control program, an initial value is set for a variable with an initial value, and zero-clear data is set for a variable without an initial value. Thus, the sub RAM 311 is initialized (S506). The interrupt processing in the sub-board 300 includes processing at power-on and reset processing when various abnormalities occur when the watchdog function is effective as interrupt processing executed with the highest priority. Next, as a priority level 7 interrupt process with the highest execution priority, there is a command process received from the main board 200. Next, as a priority level 3 interrupt process with the next highest priority, CPU runaway detection by the watchdog timer There is a reset process at the time. Next, priority level 2 interrupt processing includes processing related to commands transmitted to and received from the display CPU 320, and communication processing with a real-time clock is performed as priority level 1 interrupt processing with the lowest priority. And various device control processes such as lamps, solenoids, and motors. If interrupts related to the various processes described above occur at the same time, they are executed with priority from the highest priority preset for each interrupt type. Note that the processing shown in this figure includes the power-on processing that is the highest-priority level interrupt and reset processing when various abnormalities occur, and the reset processing that is performed when CPU runaway is detected that is an interrupt at priority level 3. Including.

  Interrupts (priority level 7) other than commands received from the main board 200 are prohibited (S510), and various error information used in the model is set from all the error information for all models stored in advance (S512). . All lamps such as the decoration lamp 111 are turned off (S514), the operation of the watchdog timer is started (S516), and the main process is executed (S518). Normally, the main process of S518 does not return to this flow, but when the process returns, the process shifts to sleep (low power consumption mode) (S520).

  FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing in detail the main process of S518 in FIG. In order to check whether the control program arranged in the sub RAM 311 in S506 in FIG. 15 is correctly arranged in the main process of this figure, the start address for starting the check is acquired (S530). All interrupts are permitted (S532), and an initialization operation for devices such as motors and solenoids is executed (S534).

  If the setting is to use the watchdog timer, the watchdog timer is cleared (S536), the decoration symbol counter is updated so that the combination of the decoration symbol removal becomes a random combination (S540), and the input port of the sub CPU 310 Is monitored (S542). In addition, since S540 is a process in a method for determining an out-of-decoration symbol using a counter, in the case of a method for determining an out-of-decoration symbol using a lottery sheet that incorporates all symbol combinations that become out-of-sequence symbols. Does not execute the process of S540. The process of determining an out-of-decoration symbol using the lottery sheet is executed when a command indicating a special symbol stop symbol is received from the main board 200 as described later in S552. When various errors are detected by monitoring the error state, the error is notified (S544), processing corresponding to the input state of the effect button 109 is executed (S546), and a preliminary lottery is executed (S548). Note that the notice lottery in S548 is sent to the effect display control device 313 as early as possible, in particular, as a notice effect command that appears immediately after the start of symbol variation. The notice effect that appears immediately after the start of symbol variation is drawn in the previous loop. If there is an operation request for a device such as a real time clock, a lamp, a motor, or a solenoid, the operation is executed (S550), the command stored in the command buffer is analyzed (S552), and if the command analysis is immediately after, the process proceeds to S536. Return (Y in S554), if not immediately after command analysis (N in S554), the lottery soft random number is updated as a low-priority process that may be performed in the idle time (S556), and the process returns to S536. In S552, if the command to be analyzed indicates a variation pattern of a special symbol, the variation effect pattern of the decoration symbol is determined in the processing of S552. If the command to be analyzed indicates a special symbol stop symbol, a lottery sheet is selected. If the method is used to determine the out-of-decoration symbol, the stop symbol of the ornament symbol is determined in the process of S552.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing an interrupt process when a command is received from the main board 200. The main command received from the main board 200 is a priority level 7 interrupt command having the highest priority after the reset interrupt and error interrupt. The data received from the main board 200 is read to the input port, and when the same data is read twice in succession, the data is confirmed as a new command (Y in S600), and the confirmed command is the first command. If it is (MODE data) (Y in S602), the first command is saved in the temporary storage area (S604). A hard random number is acquired for subsequent processing (S606), and the process returns to the original routine. Thus, by acquiring a hard random number each time a main command is interrupted from the main board 200, the randomness of the value is increased without causing periodicity in the acquisition timing of the random number. If the data read in S600 does not coincide twice (up to 5 times can be read), S602 is skipped and the process returns to the original routine (N in S600).
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  If the confirmed command is not the first command but the second command in S602 (N in S602), if it can be confirmed that the first command has already been properly received (Y in S608), the command buffer (command data The command write pointer, which is the reading position in the ring buffer for), is acquired (S610), and the first command and the second command are stored in the command buffer (S612). The command data stored in the command buffer is analyzed in S552 of FIG. The command write pointer is updated (S614), the first command stored in the temporary storage area is cleared (S616), and the process returns to the original routine. If the first command has not been received in S608, S610 and the subsequent steps are skipped (N in S608) and the original routine is returned to.

  FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing an interrupt process when a timer interrupt for effect display control occurs. This timer interrupt is a priority level 2 interrupt for transmitting a command related to effect display from the sub CPU 310 to the display CPU 320, and occurs at a cycle of 500 μs. In this interruption, the buffer is checked (S620). If there is command data for transmission in the buffer (Y in S622), the command data is read (S624) and transmitted to the display CPU 320 (S626). Note that the transmission of command data to the display CPU 320 attempts transmission up to three times at a predetermined time interval until the sub CPU 310 receives a command indicating that the display CPU 320 has normally received from the display CPU 320. After the transmission, the setting of the buffer read address is updated (S628), and the process returns to the original routine. If there is no data for transmission in the buffer (N in S622), the process returns to the original routine by skipping S624 and subsequent steps.

  FIG. 19 is a flowchart showing an interrupt process when the sub CPU 310 receives a command from the display CPU 320. This interrupt is also a priority level 2 interrupt. The command received from the display CPU 320 by the sub CPU 310 is a command indicating that the command transmitted from the sub CPU 310 to the display CPU 320 has been normally received. When a command is received from the display CPU 320, the received command data is read (S630), the command is analyzed (S632), stored in the command buffer (S634), and the process returns to the original routine.

  FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing an interrupt process when a timer interrupt for controlling various devices occurs. This timer interrupt is an interrupt for the lamp control of the decorative lamp 111, the solenoid and motor for driving the movable accessory 66, and the management control of various timers, and is generated at a cycle of 1 ms. Since priority level 1 is the lowest priority level interrupt, priority level 2 or higher interrupts are permitted (S640), a signal indicating input from the effect button 109, a signal indicating error detection, and a signal indicating power interruption Then, input / output of a port for inputting / outputting a drive signal to / from a control target device such as a motor or a solenoid is processed (S642). At this time, if a signal indicating power interruption is input, the process immediately proceeds to backup processing. Updates data related to device control, such as count processing based on the control pattern of devices such as motors and solenoids, and on / off control of a buffer for writing data to the port in S642 (S644), and a timer for measuring the timing of presentation Update (S646), update the timer for managing the effective input time of the effect button 109 (S648), and update the task control counter for lighting switch control of the decorative lamp 111, runaway monitoring control of the display CPU 320, etc. Thus, a 16 ms cycle is created (S650).

The minimum unit for lighting switching control of the decoration lamp 111 is 16 ms. One frame of the image display control is 16 ms or 32 ms, and the integral multiple is set as the minimum unit of the lighting switching control of the decoration lamp 111, so that the lamp control and the image display control can be easily synchronized.
In addition, for example, when counting a relatively long period of time such as error notification for 30 seconds, if a count of one interrupt (1 ms) period is used, the count value becomes longer than necessary, but 16 ms The count value can be shortened by setting the cycle count value.

  The task control includes 16 types of tasks from processing 0 to 15, one of which is lighting switching control of the decoration lamp 111 and two of which are runaway monitoring control of the display CPU 320. The lighting switching control of the decoration lamp 111 is performed once every 16 interrupts according to the count value of the task control counter, thereby realizing switching at a cycle of 16 ms. The runaway monitoring control of the display CPU 320 is assigned to, for example, processing 0 and processing 8, and when the count value of the task control counter is 0 and 8, that is, once every 8 interrupts, the toggle signal from the display CPU 320 is monitored (S652). By doing so, monitoring in a cycle of 8 ms is realized.

  The display CPU 320 outputs a toggle signal that is turned on and off for each frame. If this toggle signal does not change for the same period of 1600 ms, it is determined that the display CPU 320 is out of control, and the sub CPU 310 The display CPU 320 transmits a reset signal to the display CPU 320 and receives the reset signal, and executes the reset. Since the toggle signal is received from the display CPU 320 at a cycle of one frame (16 ms or 32 ms), monitoring is performed at a cycle of 8 ms shorter than that cycle. Finally, a timer for managing a relatively long error notification period such as an error notification for 30 seconds as described above is subtracted (S654), and the error notification ends when the timeout occurs.

  FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing the special symbol variation display process. When the second winning / failing lottery value is put on hold (Y in S700), the second winning / failing determining means 222 reads the second winning / failing lottery value to determine whether or not the second special symbol 52 is winning (S702), and the second winning / failing value is determined. The determination unit 222 determines the stop symbol of the second special symbol 52 (S704), the second variation pattern determination unit 232 determines the variation pattern of the second special symbol 52 (S706), and a variation start command is sent together with the determined result. It transmits to the sub board | substrate 300, and the symbol fluctuation | variation of the 2nd special symbol 52 is started (S716).

  If the second winning lottery value is not held (N in S700) and the first winning lottery value is held (Y in S708), the first winning / nothing lottery means 221 performs the first winning / nothing lottery. The value is read again to determine whether or not the first special symbol 51 is correct (S710), the first correctness determination unit 221 determines the stop symbol of the first special symbol 51 (S712), and the first variation pattern determination unit 231 is the first. A variation pattern of one special symbol 51 is determined (S714), and a variation start command is transmitted to the sub-board 300 together with the determined result to start symbol variation of the first special symbol 51 (S716). If the first winning / losing lottery value is not held, the processing from S710 to S722 is skipped (N in S708).

  The symbol variation display of the special symbol is processed (S718), S718 is repeated until the symbol display stop timing is reached after a predetermined variation time has passed (N in S720), and the symbol display is stopped after the predetermined variation time has elapsed. When the timing is reached (Y in S720), a variation stop command is transmitted to the sub-board 300, and the symbol variation being displayed is stopped at a predetermined stop symbol (S722), and the variation display of the special symbol is terminated. To do.

FIG. 22 is a flowchart showing a process of decorative symbol variation display. The effect determining means 303 of the sub-board 300 receives the command indicating the change start and effect display contents from the main board 200 (S750), and stops the decorative symbol according to the received special symbol stop symbol, the variation pattern, and the determination result. A mode is determined (S752), and a variation effect pattern corresponding to the variation pattern is determined (S754). Here, when the sign setting is turned on by the pre-determination (Y in S756), the already determined variable effect pattern includes a specific effect content that should avoid the superimposed display with the notice effect. If it is not (S758 N) and the symbol change is not triggered by the precursor setting turned on (N in S760), a setting to display a predetermined notice effect is executed (S764), and the precursor setting is If it is a symbol variation that is turned on (Y in S760), the precursor setting is turned off (S762). When the sign setting is not on (N in S756) or when the specific effect content is included in the variation effect pattern (Y in S758), the processing from S760 to S764 is skipped.

  After that, the decorative design variation effect display is started (S766), the decorative symbol variation effect display processing (S768), the notice effect display processing is executed (S770), and the variation stop command is received from the main board 200. S768 and S770 are repeated (N in S772), and when the change stop command is received (Y in S772), the design change display is stopped by stopping the decorative design in the stop mode determined in S752 (S774). ), The decorative effect variation effect is terminated (S776).

  FIG. 23 is a flowchart showing a special game process. First, the effect display control means 305 starts special game effect processing (S800), and the opening / closing control means 275 opens the first big prize opening 21 (S802). If the predetermined opening time has not elapsed (N in S804) and the number of balls entering the first grand prize winning opening 21 has not reached nine or more, the process returns to S804 (N in S806), and the predetermined opening time has elapsed. (Y in S804), but the opening time has not elapsed (N in S804), but when the number of balls entering the first big winning opening 21 has reached 9 or more (Y in S806), the opening / closing control means 275 Closes the first grand prize winning opening 21 (S810).

  If the unit game has not reached the final round (N in S810), 1 is added to the number of rounds and the process returns to S802 (S812). If the unit game has reached the final round (Y in S810), the effect display The control means 305 terminates the special game effect processing (S814), the special game control means 260 terminates the special game (S816), and starts the execution of the specific game, that is, the probability change, the short time, the easy-to-enter state (S818). ).

  FIG. 24 is a flowchart showing the small hit game process. First, the first grand prize opening 21 is opened (S820), and the opening is continued until a predetermined opening time has elapsed (N in S822). When the opening time has elapsed (Y in S822), the first big prize opening 21 is closed (S824), and if opening / closing for the set number of times has not been completed (N in S826), 1 is added to the number of opening / closing and the process returns to S820 (S828), and opening / closing for the set number of times has been completed. If this is the case (Y in S826), the small hit game is terminated.

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This embodiment has various characteristic configurations in addition to the basic configuration described above. Hereinafter, differences from the base technology will be mainly described, and description of common points will be omitted.

  The ball game machine according to the present embodiment includes a game board in which a game area is formed, a go / no-go judgment means for obtaining a lottery value upon entering a predetermined entrance and determining whether or not, and a result of the judgment Open the symbol display device that displays the symbols that show the variation, the display control means that controls the variation display of the symbols, and the mechanism that can be opened and closed when the result of the judgment is a hit and the symbol is displayed as a symbol. Opening and closing control means. The display control means provides a first period of a predetermined length as a stop maintenance period, which is a period for maintaining the stop state from the stop of the change of the symbol to the opening of the mechanism that can be opened and closed or the start of the next change of the symbol In principle, on the other hand, when the symbol is stopped at the winning symbol, the period provided as the stop maintaining period can be the second period shorter than the first period.

In order to determine whether or not a “mechanism that can be opened and closed” has entered, a predetermined determination grace period may be ensured between the closing timing and the next shortest opening timing. The “first period” is a time necessary for making it possible to recognize a symbol stop in appearance, and a period of, for example, 500 milliseconds or more may be set. When the period obtained by adding the “first period” and the symbol variation display period is one cycle of symbol variation, the cycle is a determination grace period for the “openable / closable mechanism” closed immediately before the start of the cycle. It may be a period of a length that can include.

  The “second period” is preferably as short as possible, but may include at least the necessary time to be secured for the subsequent processing or control, and whether or not the openable mechanism is required to be opened. It may be a time longer than the minimum processing time for determination. When one instruction cycle of the CPU is 4 milliseconds, for example, 8 milliseconds for two cycles may be set as the “second period”.

  When the symbol is stopped at the winning symbol, the `` openable / closable mechanism '' will be released after that, but normally the next symbol change will not be started during the release period, and it will stand by in a stopped state. It becomes. Therefore, in the case of stopping at the winning symbol, even if the “stop maintenance period” is zero or shortened, the actual stop period in the open period is added, and as a result, the stop state period can be lengthened. Therefore, in the case of stopping at the winning symbol, the purpose of making the stop symbol recognizable in appearance can be achieved even if the stop maintaining period is shortened by the open period. In particular, when the open period is sufficiently long, the stop maintaining period can be extremely shortened.

The first period is provided as the stop maintenance period when the symbol is removed and stopped at the symbol, but even if the symbol is stopped at the winning symbol, the second period is set as the stop maintenance period depending on the gaming state. Instead, the first period may be provided. For example, the following configuration can be considered.
When a predetermined transition condition is met, a transition is made to a specific gaming state in which the ease of acquiring a new jackpot in a normal game is more advantageous than the normal state, and a mechanism that can be opened and closed in the specific gaming state is opened. Specific game control means for making the time longer than the opening time in the normal state may be further provided. The display control means provides a second period as a suspension maintenance period when the symbol is hit in the specified game state and stopped at the symbol, and in the normal state and when the symbol is off and stopped at the symbol A first period may be provided as the stop maintenance period. However, if the specification is such that the opening time is sufficiently long so that one or more balls can be expected with a high probability even in the normal state, whether or not the state has shifted to the specific gaming state Regardless of this, the stop maintaining period may be uniformly set as the second period when the winning symbol is stopped.

  The ball game machine in the present embodiment can also be expressed as follows when viewed from another viewpoint. In other words, the display control means provides a stop maintenance period of a predetermined time as a period for maintaining the stop state from the stop of the change of the symbol to the opening of the mechanism that can be opened and closed or the start of the next change of the design, while shortening the stop maintenance period. However, the stop maintaining period may be shortened in a predetermined situation in which the time period of the symbol variation stop can be substantially secured. The display control means stops in a predetermined situation in which the symbol fluctuation stop state can be substantially secured for a time longer than the predetermined time until a time equal to or longer than a minimum processing time for determining whether or not the openable mechanism is required to open. The maintenance period may be shortened.

  The suspension maintenance period is the minimum period that should be ensured to display the symbol variable suspension state, and does not prevent the symbol suspension from being displayed longer than the suspension maintenance period as a result, depending on the gaming situation. It is possible to maintain the symbol variable stop state longer than the stop maintenance period. For example, there is a case where the “openable / closable mechanism” is opened immediately after the symbol is stopped, or a case where the next symbol variation is not started immediately without entering or holding a game ball.

In this embodiment, in the control process of the symbol variation, by shortening the stop maintenance period in a situation that does not affect the visibility of the symbol stop state without actively securing the stop maintenance period, The efficiency of the overall processing can be improved, and the continuous execution of the symbol variation in a shorter time can be promoted.

  The combination of the “symbol” and the “openable / closable mechanism” may be a combination of a normal symbol and a start winning opening widening mechanism, or a combination of a special symbol and a special winning opening. In those cases, for example, the following configuration may be used.

  The starting prize opening that is provided at a predetermined position in the game area and that is used to determine whether or not the entry of the game ball shifts to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than the normal game, and the result of the determination A special symbol display device on which a special symbol for displaying is displayed, an opening mechanism provided as a `` openable / closable mechanism '' at the start winning opening, and changing the ease of entering the starting winning opening by opening and closing, It may be further provided with an operation port provided as a “predetermined entrance” at a predetermined position in the game area, and the entrance of the game ball serves as an opportunity for an open lottery to determine whether or not the expansion mechanism is open. The “symbol display device” may be a normal symbol display device in which a normal symbol for indicating the result of the open lottery is displayed in a variable manner.

  An opportunity to execute a determination as to whether or not the entry of a game ball is shifted to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than a normal game, provided as a “predetermined entrance” at a predetermined position in the game area. The opening prize opening and the opening prize opening opening mechanism that changes the ease of entering the starting prize opening by opening and closing it, and the game area is opened at a predetermined position to spread the game ball Opening lottery that triggers the opening lottery to determine whether or not the mechanism is open, a normal symbol display device that displays normal symbols to indicate the result of the open lottery, and a predetermined position in the game area as an “openable / closable mechanism” And a large winning opening that is opened in a special game and that allows a game ball to be entered as a trigger for granting a prize ball. The “symbol display device” may be a special symbol display device in which a special symbol for indicating the result of the determination of validity is displayed in a variable manner.

  The “symbol” may be composed of a lamp that shows symbol variation by blinking a predetermined number of times or more. “Flashing more than a predetermined number of times” is a repetition of lighting and extinguishing so that the player can fully recognize that the symbol is changing due to the flashing, and “the predetermined number of times” is the minimum number of repetitions. Is, for example, twice. However, the “predetermined number” that is the minimum number of repetitions of blinking may be set to one time, for example, when a “symbol” is constituted by a plurality of lamps. In order to increase the symbol variation efficiency to the limit and continuously execute symbol variation in a shorter time, it is technically conceivable to reduce the number of symbol blinks and the interval between lighting and extinguishing. However, when these are made small, it may be difficult to recognize the change in design in appearance, so it is necessary to secure the minimum number of blinks and the minimum interval between lighting and extinguishing. In this embodiment, without reducing the minimum number of blinks and the minimum interval between lighting and extinguishing more than necessary, it is possible to improve the efficiency of symbol variation by shortening the stop maintenance period under predetermined conditions, and in a shorter time. It is possible to continuously execute the symbol variation.

The bullet ball game machine of the present embodiment has a game board in which a game area is formed, a first start prize opening provided at a predetermined position in the game area, and the game ball entering triggers the first lottery. In the game area, the second start winning opening provided at a predetermined position different from the first starting winning opening, and when the game balls enter the second lottery, and the first start winning opening or the second A winning / failing determination means for executing the determination of winning / failure based on a lottery value for determining whether or not to shift to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than the normal game, triggered by entering the starting winning opening, A special symbol display device for variably displaying a special symbol for indicating the result of the determination, a variation pattern determining means for selecting one of a plurality of types of variation patterns in which a variation display process of the special symbol is defined, and a first A new ball is entered at the starting prize opening or the second starting prize opening When the special symbol variation corresponding to the previous entry is displayed at the time, the hold control that stores the lottery value corresponding to the new entry up to the predetermined number as the hold until the start of the display of the symbol variation The control of the means and the special symbol variation display, and when displaying one symbol variation of the first lottery and the second lottery, while waiting for the other symbol variation, start the symbol variation of the second lottery When the timing is reached, even if the lottery value in the first lottery is held, the display control means for giving priority to the symbol variation of the second lottery, and the special game when the result of the determination is a big hit A special game control means for executing the game, and a special game state in which the ease of acquiring a new jackpot in the normal game is more advantageous than the normal state when a predetermined transition condition is satisfied after the special game ends. A specific game control means for shifting may be provided. The second start winning opening is easier to enter in the specific game state than the normal state, and the specific game control means normally has a probability that the first lottery and the second lottery will be a big hit as the specific game state. It is possible to shift to a probability variation state that is higher than the probability state, and when a big hit is made in the second lottery, there is a higher probability of making a transition to the probability variation state than in the case where the big draw is made in the first lottery, and the fluctuation pattern In the specific gaming state, the determining means selects the shortened variation pattern whose variation time is shorter than the normal variation pattern selected in the normal state, and selects the variation pattern of the symbol variation corresponding to the second lottery. In the case where the lottery value hold of the second lottery by the hold control means is eliminated and there is the lottery value hold of the first lottery, the shortened variation pattern even in the specific gaming state It may be to restrict the selection.

  The probability of shifting to the probability variation state when the jackpot is won in the first lottery is, for example, about 50 to 60%, whereas the probability of shifting to the probability variation state when winning the jackpot in the second lottery is, for example, about 100. For example, the profit that the player can obtain is greatly different between the first lottery and the second lottery. Since there is a large difference in profit between the first lottery and the second lottery in this way, in a situation where the second lottery can be made, by ensuring that the second lottery is executed more reliably, It is necessary to avoid the first lottery being executed by mistake.

  “When the lottery value hold of the second lottery is lost” means that “the lottery value hold of the second lottery is held at the stage before the symbol change corresponding to the second lottery starts immediately after the transition to the specific gaming state” "" Is "1", and the "lottery value hold for the second lottery" becomes "0" when the symbol variation starts. At this time, if there is “the lottery value hold for the first lottery”, “the lottery value hold for the second lottery” becomes “0” as soon as the fluctuation time of the symbol corresponding to the second lottery is shortened. Then, there is a possibility that the symbol fluctuation corresponding to “the lottery value hold of the first lottery” will be started. For this reason, when the “lottery value hold for the second lottery” becomes “0” with the start of the symbol variation, the variation time of the second lottery is set to a long time without being shortened. On the other hand, when there is no “lottery value hold for the first lottery”, even if the symbol change corresponding to the second lottery is executed and the lottery value hold becomes zero, the symbol change corresponding to the first lottery is immediately performed. Is not executed, and therefore it is not necessary to lengthen the fluctuation time of the second lottery, so the shortened fluctuation pattern of the second lottery is selected. As a result, it is possible to appropriately increase the symbol variation efficiency in accordance with the game situation, and to continuously execute the symbol variation in a shorter time.

  “Restrict the selection of the shortening variation pattern” may be that 100% of the shortening variation pattern is not selected, or may be that the shortening variation pattern is not substantially selected although it is not 100%.

  In the ball game machine of the present embodiment, the variation pattern determining means selects a shortened variation pattern whose variation time is shorter than the normal variation pattern selected in the normal state in the specific gaming state, while in the normal state. In the specific game state after the end of the special game when the first lottery or the second lottery is a big win at the time of the first lottery as the first pattern variation variation pattern corresponding to the second lottery When there is a lottery value hold, selection of a shortened variation pattern may be restricted.

You may provide the structure which implement | achieves the continuous execution of the symbol fluctuation in a shorter time. Such a configuration is as follows, for example.
It is provided at the second starting prize opening, and by changing the ease of entering the second starting prize opening by opening and closing it, it is made difficult to enter the first starting prize opening in the normal state. An opening mechanism that makes it easier to enter a ball from the starting prize opening, an operating port that is provided at a predetermined position in the game area, and that triggers an open lottery that determines whether or not the expansion mechanism is open, It may further comprise a normal symbol display device for displaying normal symbols for variably displaying the lottery result. The number of balls entered into the second starting winning opening and the number of winning balls for the entering are set to the same number, and the second starting winning opening and the expansion mechanism are easy to enter the game ball that has passed through the operating opening. In the specific gaming state, the specific game control means makes the winning probability of the open lottery higher than the winning probability in the normal state, and shortens the variation time of the normal symbol from the variation time in the normal state. The opening time of the spreading mechanism may be longer than the opening time in the normal state.

  In the game area, it is provided at a predetermined position on the path from the operating opening to the second start winning opening, has an opening / closing mechanism, and is opened in a special game to close the opening as a big winning opening that triggers the winning ball Sometimes a decision is made to shift to the probability variation state with the first big prize opening forming a passage for guiding the game ball to the second starting prize opening and the entry of the game ball into a specific area provided inside. And a second big prize opening. In the second big winning opening, the probability of being released in a relatively long opening time when a big win is won in the second lottery may be higher than in the case where a big win is won in the first lottery. Alternatively, if the second big prize opening is a big win in the second lottery, it is opened with a higher probability or 100% probability than the case where the big win is made in the first lottery, In the case where a big hit is made in the lottery, a specification that can be released only with a relatively short opening time or a specification that may not be released may be used. Alternatively, if the second big winning opening is a big hit in the second lottery, it will enter the specific area with a higher probability or 100% probability than in the case of the big win in the first lottery. On the other hand, it may be a specification that is controlled so as not to enter a specific area or a specification that does not enter a ball when a big hit is made in the first lottery. A distribution mechanism may be provided inside the second big winning opening for distributing to a specific area or a normal area. In the case of a big win in the second lottery, While the sorting mechanism is controlled to enter the specific area with a higher probability or 100% probability than the case where a big win is won in the 1 lottery, the specific area if the win is made in the first lottery It is good also as a specification controlled so that a 2nd big winning a prize mouth or a distribution mechanism may be controlled so that there may be a case where it does not enter or a ball is controlled. As a result, if the first lottery results in a big hit, the probability of transitioning to a probability variation state is relatively low, and if the second lottery is achieved, the probability of transitioning to a probability variation state is relative. Or can be shifted with a probability of substantially 100%.

  A third start prize opening is provided at a position where a game ball launched to the right side of the game area can enter, and the entry to the third start prize opening is processed as a ball entering the second start prize opening. The first start prize opening is provided at a position where it becomes easier to enter the ball when firing to the left side than the right side launching to the game area, and the second start prize opening to the left side of the game area in the specific gaming state It is provided at a position where it is easier to enter the ball if it is launched to the right rather than firing, and the first grand prize opening and the second grand prize opening are entered to the right rather than firing to the left of the game area. It may be provided at an easy position, and the operation port may be provided at a position where it is easier to enter the ball when it is launched to the right side than to the left side of the game area.

  The third start winning opening is not necessarily easy to enter and does not enter frequently, but if it is launched to the right of the game area, it can enter at a certain low frequency. is there. The special winning opening is provided at a position where it is easier for the player to fire to the right side of the game area, so in special games, the player will fire toward the right side of the game area. The arrangement of the third start winning opening is designed so that a ball entry rate is such that about two or two balls can enter the third start winning opening during the special game.

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The board surface configuration of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The special winning opening in the present embodiment is composed of a combination of the first big winning opening 21 and the second large winning opening 22. Each of the first grand prize winning port 21 and the second grand prize winning port 22 has a mechanism that can be opened and closed. In the first big prize winning port 21, the sliding lid is opened and closed in the horizontal direction, whereas the second grand prize winning port 21 is opened. The opening 22 is different in that the door opens and closes in the front-rear direction. The first grand prize winning opening 21 is provided on the right side of the game area and has a box shape and the front shape is a parallelogram so that the right end portion is higher than the left end portion. When a game ball is placed on the top surface of the grand prize winning hole 21, it rolls by gravity from right to left. When a slide-type lid is provided on the left side (that is, at a low position) on the upper surface, and the lid slides and the opening is exposed, all the game balls flowing from the right to the left almost certainly fall into the opening, and the first The ball enters the big prize opening 21. Conversely, while the opening is closed by the sliding lid, the game ball rolls over the lid and heads toward the second starting port 12 located to the left of the first grand prize winning port 21. The game ball is guided. A plurality of game nails (not shown) are provided between the first grand prize port 21 and the second start port 12 from the first big prize port 21 to the second start port 12, and the gap between the game nails. Is so short that the game balls cannot pass through, all the game balls flowing on the upper surface of the first big winning opening 21 are guided to the second start port 12 without falling between the second start port 12. Therefore, during the normal game in which the first grand prize winning opening 21 is closed, all the balls enter the second starting opening 12 almost certainly while the second starting opening 12 is open. If the start port 12 is not opened, the ball falls from the side without flowing into the second start port 12 and flows to the out port 34.

  The first grand prize winning port 21 is provided at a position where a game ball that has passed through the operation port 32 can enter, that is, at a position below the operation port 32, below the operation port 32, or on the left side. A plurality of game nails (not shown) are also provided on the right side of the first grand prize winning opening 21, and are not limited to the game balls that have passed through the operation opening 32, so-called right-handed game balls that are launched toward the right side of the game area. Almost all of the game balls do not pass directly to the out port 34 through the right side of the first grand prize winning port 21. That is, the game ball that flows to the right of the first grand prize opening 21 is designed to be guided to the first big prize opening 21 by a plurality of game nails provided to the right of the first big prize opening 21. Yes.

  The second big winning opening 22 is provided above the right end portion of the first big winning opening 21, that is, at a position where a game ball that has passed through the operation opening 32 or a right-handed game ball can easily enter. The second big prize opening 22 includes a second big prize detection device 27 for detecting the entry of a game ball and a second big prize opening solenoid 94 for opening and closing the second big prize opening 22. A specific area and a normal area (not shown) are formed inside the second grand prize winning port 22, and a distribution mechanism (not shown) for distributing game balls to either the specific area or the normal area is provided. When a game ball enters the second grand prize opening 22 and is detected by the second big prize detection device 27, not only a prize ball is awarded as a prize to the big prize opening, but also a specific area is entered. When the ball is detected, a decision is made to shift to probability change after the special game ends. Since the presence or absence of the probable change is determined depending on whether or not the second big prize opening 22 has entered the specific area, it has a role as a so-called machine lottery. In a special game with a jackpot due to winning at the first starting port 11, the probability that the second winning port 22 is opened for a relatively long time is about 50 to 60%, so the probability change probability is about 50. ~ 60%. In this case, the second grand prize winning port 22 is only opened for a moment with a probability of about 40 to 50%. In addition, in the case of a momentary release, the distribution mechanism is controlled so as not to enter a specific area. On top of that, there is no certain change. On the other hand, in a special game with a big hit resulting from winning at the second starting port 12, the second big winning port 22 is opened for a relatively long time (for example, until there is a ball), as long as the game ball is hit to the right. Since one or more balls can be entered almost certainly, and the sorting mechanism guides to the specific region almost 100%, the probability of entering the ball and the probability change transition probability are substantially 100%.

Since the second start port 12 is hardly opened in the normal state, aiming at entering the first start port 11, the probability variation transition probability is about 50 to 60% in the big hit that occurs in the normal state. On the other hand, in the probability variation state or the short time state, the second start port 12 is opened, so that the second start port 12 is aimed at. Has a probability change probability of substantially 100%. Regardless of whether it is a big hit triggered by entering the first start port 11 or the second start port 12, one or two times in a special game composed of a plurality of unit games In the unit game, the second big prize opening 22 is opened, and in the remaining unit games, the first big prize opening 21 is opened. In the event of entering the second starting hole 12, the second grand prize opening 22 is opened with a relatively long opening time with a probability of 100% in one or two unit games. The On the other hand, when entering the first starting port 11 as an opportunity, the second big winning opening with a relatively long opening time with a probability of about 50 to 60% in one or two unit games. The release of 22 is not executed.

  During a normal game, the sliding lid of the first grand prize opening 21 is closed, and the second big prize opening 22 is not opened. In particular, while the player hits the right in the short-time state or the certainty change state, almost all the right-handed game balls roll on the upper surface of the first big winning opening 21 and are guided to the second starting opening 12. In the normal state, even if the second starting port 12 wins in the open lottery, it can only be expected for a moment (for example, about once every 0.5 seconds), so almost no entry can be expected. The second start port 12 is opened once for a relatively long time (for example, about 6 seconds) every time it is won in the open lottery, and about 10 balls can be expected during that time. The opening time of the second starting port 12 in the short-time state and the probability-changing state is designed based on experimental values for the time required to enter about 10 right-handed game balls. In this embodiment, the opening time is about 6 seconds. With the opening, 10 or more game balls enter almost certainly.

  The third starting port 13 is provided on the right side of the game area at a position slightly deviating from the path from the operating port 32 to the second starting port 12 and not necessarily easy to enter. Therefore, although it does not enter frequently, as long as it hits the right, it can enter at a certain low frequency. The frequency of the third start port 13 and the game nail is such that, when the player continues to make a right turn during the special game, the ball entering rate is such that about 1-2 balls can enter the third start port 13. The layout is designed. The third start port 13 includes a third start winning detection device 18. The third start winning detection device 18 is a sensor that detects the entry of a game ball into the third start port 13, and generates second start winning information that indicates that the ball has been entered when entering the ball. That is, it is regarded as a ball entering the second start port 12, and the third start port 13 has the same role as the second start port 12, and becomes the trigger for the second lottery. Accordingly, the “second start winning opening” is substantially equivalent to a combination of two start winning openings. As a result, when the first symbol change after the end of the special game, a state in which about one lottery value of the second lottery is held with high probability is formed, and the lottery value of the second lottery is 1 from that point The situation where no pieces are held is low. Thereby, it becomes easy to avoid the situation where the symbol variation of the first special symbol 51 starts from the beginning immediately after the first hit.

  While there are three prize balls given for entering the first start port 11 and the third start port 13, the prize balls given for entering the second start port 12 are One. That is, it is the minimum number of balls that can be considered as the number of winning balls, which means that the number of balls entering the second start port 12 and the number of winning balls are the same. As a result, no matter how many balls are made to enter the second starting port 12, the number of possession balls cannot be increased by the prize ball. In a situation where all the balls can enter the second starting port 12, the possession balls are hardly reduced. On the other hand, if the player hits the right to aim at the second starting port 12 in the normal state, a prize ball is rarely obtained, and even if a prize ball comes out, there is only one ball. Will be reduced. Even when the player strikes the right with the aim of entering the third starting port 13, the ball is rarely entered, so the number of balls is greatly reduced. For this reason, in the normal state, the actual profit of aiming at the second start port 12 and the third start port 13 is poor, and therefore the first start port 11 is aimed. Similarly, even if an attempt is made to enter the second starting port 12 by cheating, the number of possessions hardly increases and the profits obtained are scarce, leading to deterring cheating.

(Game state transition)
FIG. 25 shows the transition of the gaming state. First, the game is started in a normal state, that is, a non-probability non-time-short state 600 that has not shifted to probability change and has not shifted to time. If a big hit is made in the non-probable non-short-time state 600, if there is a ball in a specific area of the second big prize opening 22 in the special game, the transition to the probabilistic state and the short-time state after completion of the special game is made, so Although there is a transition (S900), if there is no entry in the specific area of the second big winning opening 22, the transition to the non-probability change short state 604 is made since the transition to the probability change state is not made after the special game ends (S902). The big hit in the case of transitioning from the non-probability changing short time state 600 to the big hit and making a transition to the probabilistic short time state 602 or the non-probability changing short time state 604 is referred to as “first hit”.

  In the probability change short state 602 and the non-probability change short state 604, the player hits the right and aims to enter the second starting port 12 or the operating port 32, and this is caused by the entering the second starting port 12. If a big hit occurs, the player enters the specific area of the second big winning opening 22 with a probability of 100% and shifts to a certain change after the special game. If such a big hit occurs from the non-probability short-time state 604 to the end of the short-time, a transition is made to the short-term probability change state 602 (S904). (S906). These cases are called “reams”. On the other hand, if a big hit occurs due to a ball entering the first start port 11 in the short time period 602, the short time state 602 is maintained again if the ball enters a specific area of the second big winning port 22. (S906) If the ball does not enter the specific area of the second big winning opening 22, the process shifts to the non-probable change time short state 604 (S918). In addition, when a big hit occurs due to a ball entering the first start port 11 in the non-probability short time state 604, if the ball enters a specific area of the second big winning port 22, the transition to the short time state 602 of the probabilistic change occurs ( S904), if the ball does not enter the specific area of the second big winning opening 22, the non-probability short time state 604 is maintained again (S922). A case where a big hit occurs due to the ball entering the first start port 11 from the short time state 602 or the non-probable time short state 604 and the transition to the short state 602 or the non-probable time short state 604 is maintained or maintained. "Chan".

  If the time limit is reached after the number of time reductions has been reached without generating a big hit from the probabilistic short time state 602 as it is, the transition to the probabilistic non-short time state 606 is made (S908). If the time limit is reached after reaching the final number of times, the process returns to the non-probable non-time-short state 600 (S910). In the probability variation non-short-time state 606 and the non-probability variation non-time-short state 600, it is difficult to enter the second starting port 12 again, so the left starting point is aimed at the first starting port 11. When a big hit is made in the probable non-short-time state 606, if there is a ball in the second big winning opening 22, if the special game ends, the transition to the short-term promising short state 602 is made (S912), but the ball enters the second big winning port 22 Otherwise, after the special game ends, the state transits to the non-probable change time short state 604 (S914).

  In the case of the specification in which the number of end times is set to the probability change, if the number of times of the probability change end time and the number of time-short end times are the same, the time change ends from the probability change time short state 602 and the time change ends with the end of the probability change to the non-probability non-time-short state 600. Return (S916). If the probability variation end count is less than the time change end count, the probability change end state 602 is reached and the probability change end count is reached, and when the probability change is completed, a transition is made to the non-probability change time short state 604 (S918). From the probability variation non-short time state 606, when the probability variation is completed, the process returns to the non-probability variation time short state 600 (S920).

(Normal design)
The normal symbol display device 45 indicates a hit when the first lamp (for example, the left lamp) of the two lamps is lit, and indicates a disconnection when the second lamp (for example, the right lamp) is lit. When one is lit, the other is turned off, and the variation of the normal symbol is expressed by alternately turning on and off. The lighting period and the extinguishing period are each 100 milliseconds.

FIG. 26 shows a pattern of lighting and extinguishing states of the first lamp and the second lamp in the time-shortening state. The upper row is the lighting / light-off state of the first lamp for indicating a normal symbol hit, and the lower row is the lighting / light-off state of the second lamp for indicating a failure of the normal symbol. In both the upper stage and the lower stage, ON indicates a lighting state, and OFF indicates a light extinction state. A first period from time t1 to time t2 indicates a symbol variation period in the case of a deviation. In the first period, the blinking pattern of the first lamp is repeatedly turned on, turned off, turned on, turned off, and turned on for 100 milliseconds, and finally the stop pattern is determined by turning off the light for 20 milliseconds. In the same first period, the blinking pattern of the second lamp is repeatedly turned off, turned on, turned off, turned on, and turned off for 100 milliseconds, and finally the stopped pattern is determined by turning on for 20 milliseconds. Thus, the first period is 520 milliseconds in total. The second period from the time t2 to the time t3 indicates a stop maintaining period in which the stopped state of the off symbol is maintained. In the second period, the state of the stop symbol that was confirmed immediately before is maintained as it is for 500 milliseconds. By securing the time for maintaining such a stop state, the stop state of the symbol can be visually recognized, and the stop symbol can be determined.

  A third period from time t3 to time t4 indicates a symbol variation period in the case of winning. In the third period, the blinking pattern of the first lamp is repeatedly turned on, turned off, turned on, turned off, and turned on for 100 milliseconds, and finally the stop pattern is determined by turning on for 20 milliseconds. During the same third period, the blinking pattern of the second lamp is also turned off, turned on, turned off, turned on, turned off for 100 milliseconds, and finally the stop pattern is confirmed by turning off the light for 20 milliseconds. Let Thus, the third period also totals 520 milliseconds. A fourth period from time t4 to time t5 indicates a stop maintaining period for maintaining the stopped state of the winning symbol. The fourth period in the short-time state is 8 milliseconds, which is shorter in time than the second period in which the off-symbol stopped state is maintained. The fourth period in the case of not being in the time saving state is 500 milliseconds as in the case of the outage. The fourth period will be described in detail with reference to FIG. As a modification, the blinking pattern of the first lamp in one symbol variation is turned on, turned off, and turned on, and the blinking pattern of the second lamp is turned off, turned on, and turned off. It is good also as a specification.

  FIG. 27 shows, as a modification, a pattern of lighting states and extinguishing states of lamps in a short time state when a normal symbol display device is configured with one lamp. In this case, the normal symbol display device 45 indicates a hit when one lamp stops in a lit state, and indicates a disconnection when stopped in an unlit state. The lamps are alternately turned on and off alternately to express normal symbol variations, and each of the lighting period and the lighting period is 100 milliseconds.

  As in the upper part of the previous figure, the on state of the normal symbol lamp indicates the lighting state, and the off state indicates the off state. The first period from the time t1 to the time t2 shows the symbol fluctuation period when it is out, and it repeats lighting, extinguishing, lighting, extinguishing, and lighting for 100 milliseconds, and finally the stop symbol is confirmed by extinguishing for 20 milliseconds. The first period is 520 milliseconds in total. The second period from the time t2 to the time t3 indicates a stop maintenance period in which the off symbol is maintained, and the state of the stop symbol determined immediately before is maintained for 500 milliseconds. The third period from time t3 to time t4 shows the symbol variation period in the case of winning, and repeats lighting, extinguishing, lighting, extinguishing, and lighting for 100 milliseconds, and finally, the stopping symbol is confirmed by lighting for 20 milliseconds. And the third period also totals 520 milliseconds. A fourth period from time t4 to time t5 indicates a stop maintaining period for maintaining the stopped state of the winning symbol. The fourth period in the short-time state is 8 milliseconds, which is shorter in time than the second period in which the off-symbol stopped state is maintained. The fourth period in the case of not being in the time saving state is 500 milliseconds as in the case of the outage. The fourth period will be described in detail with reference to the next figure.

FIG. 28 shows the relationship between the fluctuation control of the normal symbol, the control of the normal electric utility solenoid 91, and the determination grace period in the short-time state. The upper part of the figure shows the normal symbol fluctuation control, the middle part shows the control of the ordinary electric solenoid 91, and the lower part shows the determination grace period for entering the second starting port 12. In the middle row, ON indicates the operating state of the ordinary electric utility solenoid 91, that is, the opened state of the ordinary electric utility component 90, and OFF indicates the operation stop state of the ordinary electric utility solenoid 91, that is, the closed state of the ordinary electric component 90. In the lower row, ON indicates a grace period for determining whether or not to enter the second start port 12, and OFF indicates a period other than the determination grace period. While the ordinary electric accessory 90 is opened, the second start winning detection device 17 detects the entry to the second start opening 12, but even after the ordinary electric accessory 90 is closed, the entry is made just before closing. The closed game ball may pass near the sensor of the second start winning detection device 17 after closing. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a determination grace period simultaneously with the closing of the ordinary electric accessory 90, and to enable the detection by the second start winning detection device 17 during that period.

  As described in the previous figure, the fluctuation period of the normal symbol is 520 milliseconds, the stop maintaining period when the normal symbol is off is 500 milliseconds, and the stop maintaining period when hitting in the short time state is 8 milliseconds. In the example shown in the figure, the normal electric solenoid 91 is turned on after proceeding in the order of the first symbol variation, outage symbol stop maintenance period, second symbol variation, hit symbol symbol sustaining period. Thus, the ordinary electric accessory 90 is released for 5900 milliseconds. Subsequently, when the normal electric solenoid 91 is turned off, that is, the normal electric accessory 90 is closed, at the same time as the grace period for determining whether to enter the second start port 12, the detection of the entry is enabled for 500 milliseconds. The

  Conventionally, a uniform time such as 500 milliseconds has been secured as a period for maintaining the stopped state regardless of whether or not the normal symbol is hit. Here, as the background of introducing a configuration that executes continuous symbol fluctuations in a shorter time, efficient and efficient continuous execution of symbol fluctuations to digest the short-time state and the probability variation state as soon as possible is realized. In order to facilitate the game, we would like to reduce the time required for the symbol variation display as much as possible. However, if the lamp turn-on time and turn-off time of the normal symbol display device 45 are made shorter than this, there is a risk that it will no longer be recognized as blinking, and the number of blinks is ensured to be at least twice, including at least twice. Otherwise, it may not be recognized as blinking. Also, if the cycle time of the symbol variation period and the stop maintenance period is shorter than the determination grace period, the next ordinary electric accessory 90 starts to open without waiting for the end of the determination grace period, and the entry determination Since it becomes difficult to distinguish, it is also difficult to reduce the fluctuation time without darkness. On the other hand, when the normal symbol is stopped at the hit symbol, if the subsequent period of the ordinary electric utility 90 is long, the symbol standby state is waited during that period, and as a result, the stopped state is maintained. The opening period of the ordinary electric accessory 90 in the short time state including the probability change is about 6 seconds, which is sufficiently longer than the conventional stop maintenance period. Therefore, even if the stop maintenance period is zero as an ideal design, the result is as a result. The maintenance period of the stop state can be secured. In addition, if the opening period of the ordinary electric accessory 90 is shortened, the number of balls entering the second starting port 12 may be insufficient, which may cause the continuous variation of the special symbol to be interrupted. However, shortening the opening period of the ordinary electric accessory 90 is contrary to the purpose. Therefore, in this embodiment, only when the normal symbol stops at the winning symbol in the time-short state, the stop maintenance period is shortened to a time close to zero as much as possible, and the instruction cycle of the CPU is 2 for the subsequent processing. It was decided to secure a stop maintenance period of 8 milliseconds that could cover the time for the cycle. On the other hand, when the vehicle stops with a disengaged symbol or when it is not in a time-short state, the normal electric accessory 90 does not have a long opening, and the maintenance period of the stop state cannot be ensured as a result of the opening time. Milliseconds.

  Depending on the specifications of the gaming machine, even when it is not in the short-time state, when the normal electric accessory 90 is opened over a long time of about 6 seconds or longer, or when the open time is uniformly long regardless of whether it is in the short-time state or not There is also. In the case of such a specification, when the normal symbol hits and stops at the symbol regardless of the gaming state, the stop maintaining period may be uniformly shortened to 8 milliseconds. In addition, when the normal symbol is composed of two lamps, the symbol variation period itself may be slightly shortened by reducing the number of blinks for expressing the symbol variation to one. In order to avoid starting the next symbol variation without waiting for the end of the period, it is desirable to shorten the determination grace period as well. When the determination grace period is also shortened, it is desirable to design the second start port 12 and the second start winning detection device 17 so that the incoming ball can be reliably detected even if there is such a shortening.

  In the present embodiment, an example in which the stop maintaining period is shortened for the normal symbol lamp display is shown. However, as a modified example, when the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 are variably displayed, the stop maintenance is performed. You may apply to the period. For example, a special symbol expressed by a difference in lighting pattern of 7 segments or 8 segments expresses the variation of the symbol by switching the lighting pattern at high speed. At that time, as the switching interval is shortened, there is a possibility that the change of the lighting pattern due to the switching is so fast that the change itself cannot be visually recognized. For this reason, as with the above-described normal symbol variation display, it is not practical to shorten the special symbol variation time any longer. On the other hand, when the special symbol stops at the big hit symbol or the small hit symbol, the special symbol does not change again until the special game or the small hit game starts and ends. Therefore, the special symbol stop-maintenance period can be shortened by an amount corresponding to the period of the special game or the small hit game including the opening period of the first grand prize winning opening 21 one or more times. Therefore, as in the case of the normal symbol described above, the stop maintenance period is a time value that is close to zero, such as 8 milliseconds, and includes a time value that includes only the instruction processing time that is at least secured for subsequent processing. Set. Thereby, even when applied to a special symbol, efficient continuous execution of symbol variation can be achieved.

(Very short variation pattern in time reduction)
In the present embodiment, as described above, in order to achieve efficient and fast digestion of symbol variations in the time-saving state, the “unreachable normal deviation variation” in the normal state is a variation pattern of about 7 seconds, whereas “Normal reachless reduction without reach” in the state selects a super-shortening variation pattern of about 0.7 seconds. That is, in the short-time state, a fluctuation pattern selection table that is determined so that only a super-shortening fluctuation pattern of about 0.7 seconds is selected as an unreachable reduction without reach is referred to in principle.

  FIG. 29 shows an outline of a variation pattern selection table that is mainly referred to when the determination of success / failure is wrong in the time-saving state. In the short-time state, the variation pattern of the second special symbol 52 is selected with reference to the variation pattern selection table as shown in this figure mainly when the second starting port 12 is entered. In this table, in principle, a variation pattern of “super shortening” is selected. However, when the second special symbol 52 is held “1” and the first special symbol 51 is held, there is an exception. A variation pattern with a “long” variation time is selected, for example a normal out-of-bound variation with no reach of about 7 seconds. That is, when the symbol variation of the second special symbol 52 is executed and the variation display is finished, the second special symbol 52 becomes zero and at the same time the first special symbol 51 is retained, so that the first special symbol 51 exists. This is a situation in which 51 symbol variations are expected to start. When the symbol variation of the first special symbol 51 starts, if the big hit of the first special symbol 51 comes out, it is relatively difficult to enter the second big winning opening 22, and the second special symbol It is disadvantageous in that the possibility of not shifting to probability change is increased compared to the big hit at 52. Therefore, as a variation pattern of the second special symbol 52, the symbol variation of the second special symbol 52 is immediately extended so as not to end, and the ball can enter the second starting port 12 during the extension. The selection of a super shortening pattern is restricted, and a variation pattern with a long variation time is selected.

  If the hold of the second special symbol 52 is “0” and there is a hold of the first special symbol 51, the first special symbol 51 starts to fluctuate at that time, and the fluctuation pattern of the second special symbol 52 Is not selected, it is written as “−”.

  FIG. 30 shows in more detail the variation pattern selection table that is mainly referred to when the determination of success / failure is out in the time-saving state. However, the table illustrated in this figure is merely an example of a part that is referred to when the determination of validity is out of time in a short time state, and an actual variation pattern selection table is a part that should be referred to in another state. Further, it may be included, or each part to be referred to may be divided into individual tables.

  This figure (a) is a table that is referred to in principle when the determination of success or failure is missed in the short-time state. In this case, the table is referred to exceptionally only when a transition to the short time state 602 or the non-probability short state 604 occurs and the first symbol variation is out of place. In the modification, the specification referring to (b) may be used in cases other than after the first hit or in cases other than the first symbol variation. For example, when the probability change non-short-time state 606 is a big hit and transitions to the short-term probability change state 602 or the short-time non-probability time-change state 604, the specification referring to FIG. . However, in the case of continuous channing instead of the first hit, or in cases other than the first symbol fluctuation, there is a high possibility that a plurality of reserves of the second special symbol 52 have already accumulated, so refer to this diagram (b). The need is generally poor. The “continuous change” is a case where a big hit is generated from the short-term state 602 or the non-probable short state 604 and a transition to the short state 602 or the non-probable short state 604 is made (S904, S906, S918, S922 in FIG. 25). Reference is made to (a) without referring to FIG. On the other hand, from the viewpoint of reducing the data amount of the table, and from the viewpoint of making it unnecessary to determine whether or not it is immediately after the first hit and whether or not it is the first symbol variation, FIG. The specification of operating only with the table of (b) may be sufficient.

  In this figure (a) and (b), the column of “variation pattern” includes “normal deviation”, “normal deviation super shortened A”, “normal deviation super shortened B”, “reach miss A”, and “reach miss” as the types of variation patterns. B, “reach out C”, “reach out D”, “reach out E”, “reach out F” and “reach out G”. Among them, the fluctuation time of “normal deviation” is “7 s” (7 seconds), and the fluctuation times of “normal deviation super shortening A” and “B” are “0.7 s” (0.7 seconds). “Leach out of reach A” to “G” are long fluctuation patterns such as 5 to 11 seconds accompanied by reach fluctuation. In the right column of FIGS. 4A and 4B, the relationship between the combination of each holding state and the pattern lottery value range is shown as a selection criterion for the variation pattern of the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52. It is.

  The variation pattern of the first special symbol 51 is selected in this figure (a) only when the hold of the second special symbol 52 is zero. In addition, the first special symbol 51 has a hold of 1 to 4 and the first special symbol 51 has a hold of 0 even when there is a new entry into the first starting port 11. At this time, the pattern lottery value is 0 to 255, that is, the fluctuation pattern of “normally off” for 7 seconds is assigned to the entire range. In this way, a relatively long variation pattern is always selected as the variation pattern of the first special symbol 51, not the shortened variation pattern, despite the short-time state, so that the second start port is changed during the symbol variation. By entering the ball 12, it is possible to prompt the acquisition of the variation of the second special symbol 52 and the probability variation.

  Next, when the variation pattern of the second special symbol 52 is selected, regardless of the number of holdings of the second special symbol 52, the normal shortening variation pattern of 0.7 seconds is “normal deviation super shortening A” or “normal deviation”. “Super-shortened B” is selected with a high probability, and “Out of reach” AG is selected with a low probability. As a result, an ultrashort variation pattern is generally selected, and efficient and high-speed symbol variation is continuously performed.

In this figure (b), selection is made when the second special symbol 52 is held and the first special symbol 51 is held (that is, when the first special symbol 51 is held 1 to 4). Only the reference is different from the table of FIG. In this on-hold status, “regular deviation” of 7 seconds is assigned to the entire range regardless of the pattern lottery value. This is because there is only one hold of the second special symbol 52, and there is also a hold of the first special symbol 51, and when the symbol variation of the second special symbol 52 ends instantaneously, the first special symbol 52 immediately. This is a situation in which the symbol variation of the symbol 51 starts, and is particularly likely to occur in the first symbol variation after the first hit. In this situation, by selecting a relatively long variation pattern instead of a shortened variation pattern,
By entering the second starting port 12 during the symbol variation, it is possible to promote the variation of the second special symbol 52 and the acquisition of the probability variation.

  Even when the first special symbol 51 and the second special symbol 52 are both held at 0 and the ball enters the second starting port 12 and the symbol variation of the second special symbol 52 is executed, Instead of “normally super short shortening” can be selected. Even if the symbol fluctuation of the second special symbol 52 ends instantaneously, it is considered that the hold of the first special symbol 51 is still 0 after 0.7 seconds. This is because it is unlikely that the symbol variation of one special symbol 51 will start. Moreover, it is not necessary to select a fluctuation pattern having a long fluctuation time such as 7 seconds, and efficient symbol fluctuation should be given priority.

  In this figure (b), when the first special symbol 51 is on hold and the second special symbol 52 is on hold, the entire range of pattern lottery values is assigned to “normally off”. As a modification, a part of the lottery value range may be assigned to the fluctuation pattern of “out of reach”. A to G of “reaching out” are also fluctuation patterns having a relatively long fluctuation time, and are similar to “normal outing” in that it is possible to prompt the player to enter the second starting port 12 during the symbol fluctuation. This is because the benefits of For the same reason, in the drawings (a) and (b), a part of the lottery value range may be assigned to the fluctuation pattern of “out of reach” for the lottery value range of the first special symbol 51.

  In the table of this figure, the example in which the variation pattern selection table of the first special symbol 51 and the variation pattern selection table of the second special symbol 52 are mixed in one table is shown. 51 and the second special symbol 52 may be divided into separate tables. Furthermore, the table to be referenced may be divided according to the number of holds. In those cases, for a portion where the relationship between the lottery value range and the table to be selected is common, the common portion may be shared by one table. If the table is divided into multiple tables, prepare a separate table that defines which table to refer to for each parameter such as the type of special symbol, number of holds, and gaming status, and refer to that table. By doing so, you may refer to the variation pattern selection table according to the situation.

  In the above, this invention was demonstrated based on the Example. This embodiment is merely an example, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications can be made to the combination of each component and each processing process, and such modifications are within the scope of the present invention. is there. Hereinafter, modifications will be described.

  In the above embodiment, the configuration in which the operation port 32 and the second start port 12 are separated from each other has been described. However, in a modified example, a position where almost all right-handed game balls pass through the operation port 32. Or it is good also as a design that the 2nd starting port 12 is located just under the operation port 32 on the assumption that the operation port 32 is provided by structure.

  In the present specification or claims, “entering ball”, “winning”, and “falling” may be synonymous with each other. In addition, each winning entrance and each entrance may be configured with a “passing entrance” (also called “gate” or “through-chucker”) of a type through which game balls pass. “Winning”, “Recession” and “Passing” may also be synonymous.

  The “random number” referred to in this specification or claims does not have to be a physical random number generated by a random number generation circuit or a true random number in a mathematical sense, but a hardware random number or random number generation using a 16-bit counter. It may be a pseudo-random number such as a software random number using an algorithm. Alternatively, a combination of hardware random numbers and software random numbers, for example, a plus random number method in which the initial value is changed every time the counter makes one round may be used.

  In the present specification or claims, the term “table” or “selection criterion” strictly refers to the correspondence between the first parameter such as a lottery value and the second parameter such as a value indicating an option in a table structure. In addition to referring to the data defined in (1), it is widely included that the correspondence is realized by a program structure that derives the second parameter from the first parameter. Including these, as a concept substantially synonymous with “table”, it is appropriately referred to as “selection criterion”. In addition, when a table structure is used, a selection criterion that is substantially one type may be configured by a combination of a plurality of structurally subdivided tables. Indicates the number of substantive types of tables, not the number of subdivided tables.

  The effect display device is composed of a liquid crystal display, which is a high-definition dot matrix display device. May be. In the case of a large size, the game ball passage on the right side of the effect display device is formed with a passage width that allows one game ball to pass, and if the player strikes with the maximum strength as a so-called “right-handed”, the right passage The game ball can be passed through to the left, and so-called “left-handed” can be distinguished.

  The effect display device may be configured not only by a single display device but also by a combination of a plurality of display devices. In a plurality of cases, a display having a different size such as a combination of a main liquid crystal and a sub liquid crystal may be combined. The sub liquid crystal may be disposed at a position adjacent to the main liquid crystal, or a position other than the game board, for example, a launch handle. May be installed in the vicinity. When installed in the vicinity of the launch handle, it may be configured in the form of a touch panel that allows the player to input operations.

  The effect display device is not limited to a liquid crystal display, and may be constituted by a display device such as an organic EL display, or may be constituted by a mechanical display means such as a drum rotation type or a display means such as an LED matrix type. Since the special symbol does not necessarily have a role to play, it is displayed in an inconspicuous size by the 7-segment LED on the game board. However, in the case of adopting a technique in which the special symbol itself has an effect role to express without using the decorative symbol, the special symbol may be displayed on the liquid crystal display instead of the 7-segment LED.

11 1st start port, 12 2nd start port, 13 3rd start port, 21 1st big prize port, 22 2nd big prize port, 32 working port, 40 special symbol display device, 45 normal symbol display device, 50 special Design, 51 1st special design, 52 2nd special design, 80
Game board, 81 game area, 90 ordinary electric combination, 91 ordinary electric combination solenoid, 220 hit / fail judgment means, 230 variation pattern determination means, 240 hold control means, 260 special game control means, 270 specific game control means.

Claims (1)

A game board in which a game area is formed;
A first start prize opening provided at a predetermined position in the game area, and the entry of the game ball is a trigger for the first lottery;
A second start prize opening provided in a predetermined position different from the first start prize opening in the game area, and a game ball entry triggers a second lottery;
A lottery value for determining whether or not to shift to a special game that is more advantageous to the player than a normal game, triggered by entering the first start winning opening or the second starting winning opening. Correct / incorrect determination means for executing determination based on correct / incorrect,
A special symbol display device in which a special symbol for indicating the result of the success / failure determination is variably displayed;
A variation pattern determining means for selecting one of a plurality of types of variation patterns in which the variation display process of the special symbol is defined;
If there is a special symbol change corresponding to a previous entry when a new entry has been made to the first start winning opening or the second starting winning opening, the new number is set to a predetermined number as the upper limit. A hold control means for storing a lottery value corresponding to a correct entry as a hold until the start of display of the symbol variation;
While controlling the variation display of the special symbol, when displaying one symbol variation of the first lottery and the second lottery, while waiting for the other symbol variation, the symbol variation of the second lottery Display control means for preferentially executing the symbol variation of the second lottery even when the lottery value in the first lottery is suspended when the start timing is reached;
Special game control means for executing the special game when the result of the success / failure determination is a big hit;
A specific game control means for shifting to a specific game state in which the ease of acquiring a new jackpot in a normal game is more advantageous than the normal state when a predetermined transition condition is satisfied after the end of the special game; With
The second start winning opening is easier to enter than the normal state in the specific gaming state,
The specific game control means can make a transition to a probability variation state in which the probability that the first lottery and the second lottery will be a big win is higher than the normal probability state as the specific game state, and the second lottery In the case of a big hit at, the probability of shifting to the probability variation state is higher than the case of a big win in the first lottery,
In the specific gaming state, the variation pattern determination means selects a shortened variation pattern whose variation time is shorter than the normal variation pattern selected in the normal state, while the symbol variation corresponding to the second lottery is selected. In selecting a variation pattern, when there is no lottery value hold of the second lottery by the hold control means and there is a lottery value hold of the first lottery, even in the specific gaming state A ball game machine that regulates selection of the shortened variation pattern.

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