JP4535312B2 - Sparrow ball machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention efficiently manages and updates the symbol data relating to the sparrow ball game machine, in particular, the hand tile and the discard basket that change with the progress of the game, and efficiently displays the symbol pattern corresponding to these symbol data on the display device. The present invention relates to a sparrow ball game machine having means for displaying.

The sparrow ball game machine has a plurality of entrances corresponding to the types of mahjong tiles (hereinafter referred to as “牌”) in the game board surface. When game balls enter this entrance, Is displayed on the display device as self-contained.
In a conventional sparrow ball game machine, a player operates a game ball launching device to launch 14 game balls, and a basket design corresponding to the entrance into which these game balls enter is arranged. It was a trap. However, in such a conventional sparrow ball game machine, the 14 games at the start of the game (game) are performed by the player's operation of the game ball launcher, so the player's knowledge of mahjong game, Due to the superiority or inferiority of the game ball launch operation technology, there was a problem that the game was decided at the start of the game. For this reason, unfamiliar players and those who are familiar with mahjong game knowledge and the operation of the game ball launching device cause unfairness in the game, failing to play a healthy game, and impairing the fun of the game There was a problem. Therefore, in order to solve such a problem, the applicant of the present invention has a sparrow equipped with a means for automatically arranging 14 cocoons required at the start of the game as described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-308425. A ball game machine was proposed.

  In the sparrow ball game machine, when the symbols of the 14 hands are determined, these symbols are displayed as hands in the hand display area of the display device. When the player discards one of the 14 symbols displayed on the display device as a manual by operating the discard button, the discarded symbol is displayed in the discarded symbol display area of the display device. The remaining 13 hand-claw symbols are rearranged in a predetermined order and re-displayed in the hand-claw display area. Subsequently, one game ball is sent to the game ball launch position. Then, the player operates the game ball launch lever to launch a game ball within the game board surface, and the symbol of the bag associated with the entrance into which the game ball has entered becomes self-sufficient. In this way, the symbols of self-determination and unnecessary thrown away that are determined each time a player launches a game ball and the game ball enters the entrance, are sequentially displayed on the display device.

  As described above, in the sparrow ball game machine, each time the symbols of the puppet and the throwing away are determined, it is necessary to update and display the symbols of the handling and throwing away. In particular, it can be said that it is a kinder sparrow ball game machine for a player to display so that the history of past discarded games can be understood. In order to update and display the display contents of the manual and thrown-in symbols as the game progresses, software that changes the design data (symbol codes) of the manuals and discarded cards that change with the progress of the game It is important to manage and update more efficiently by software. In order to enhance the fun of the game, the sparrow ball game machine outputs image data and audio data for various effects stored in advance as the game progresses to the effect device. Yes. These image data and audio data have a large data capacity. For this reason, if a single control board for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine is configured, the software configuration becomes complicated and the dimensions of the control board also increase. For this reason, by configuring the control board from two to three control boards, it is possible to downsize the board and to distribute the software processing to each board.

  As a sparrow ball game machine provided with a plurality of control boards, for example, the following Patent Document 1 has been proposed. In Patent Document 1, a main board that controls a game and outputs a control signal, an effect pattern is determined based on the control signal of the main board, and an effect signal from the sub board is output. A game machine such as a sparrow ball game equipped with an effect device for executing an effect based on the game is disclosed. Further, the sub-board described in Patent Document 1 includes an elapsed time counting means for counting an elapsed time since power-on, and an effect pattern storage means for storing a plurality of effect patterns corresponding to the elapsed time. And changing the effect pattern based on the count signal from the elapsed time counting means.

JP 2001-170297 A (pages 2-8 of the specification, FIGS. 1 and 2)

The invention described in Patent Document 1 tries to give a clear progress to the progress of the game by displaying various effect patterns stored in the sub-board on the display device in correspondence with the elapsed time from the power-on. To do. Accordingly, there is no description of data storage and data update related to self-restraint, abandonment, and hand tapping that occur as the game of the sparrow ball game machine progresses, and means for displaying these data.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a means for easily managing and updating the symbol data relating to the hand trap and the throwing trap that changes with the progress of the game, and to efficiently display these symbols on the display device. It is to provide a sparrow ball game machine.

The present invention comprises a game board surface having a entrance corresponding to a plurality of types of mahjong tiles. Provided with a litter operation means for performing a litter operation as a litter, and a reach operation means,
As a control board for controlling the game, a main control board for controlling the progress of the game, a sub-control board for communication control with the main control board for performing presentation control, and a communicable connection with the sub-control board An image control board for controlling image output and sound output of the game, and the main control board automatically determines a layout pattern to be a guide at the start of the game by an automatic layout program; And means for storing the symbol data corresponding to the automatically determined symbol in a predetermined order and storing the symbol data in a manual memory area set in the main control board, and the manual memory area is the storage area. In the sparrow ball game machine, the game ball having a self-storage area for storing a symbol code corresponding to the self-game where the game ball has entered the entrance is in an area to be an end of the game. Emissions control board,
When a litter signal is input from the litter operating means,
Means for sequentially storing the design data of the discarded trash corresponding to the discarded trash signal in the discarded trash storage area, and after deleting the design data of the discarded trash corresponding to the discarded trash signal from the manual storage area Means for arranging the symbol data to be stored in the storage area in a predetermined order; and after the discard signal is input, the symbol data of the discard in order stored in the discard memory area. Means for transmitting to the sub-control board in the order in which the symbol data stored in the manual storage area is further arranged in the predetermined order in the order stored in order;
When an entry signal is input when the game ball enters the entrance,
After storing the symbol data corresponding to the incoming signal in the memory area, the sub-control board stores the symbol data stored in the hand memory area in the order of arrangement stored in the hand memory area. Means for transmitting to,
And a means for transmitting a reach instruction command to the sub-control board when a reach signal is input from the reach operation means.

Further, in the present invention, when the sub control board receives the symbol data of the discarded garbage from the main control board , the sub control board transmits the received symbol data of the discarded garbage to the image control board in the order received from the main control board. And
When the reach instruction command is received from the main control board, immediately after receiving the reach instruction command, the last bit of the discard symbol data sequentially received from the main control board is set to the predetermined bit. After performing the process of setting a flag, the image control board receives the discarded design data received from the main control board including the design data flagged to the predetermined bit in the order received from the main control board. It is characterized by transmission.

Further, in the present invention, when the sub control board receives the symbol data as the procedure from the main control board, the sub control board transmits the received symbol data to the image control board in the order received from the main control board. It is characterized by.

The sparrow ball game machine of the present invention has the following effects. That is, according to the present invention, in order to manage the main control board, the symbol data related to the handle stored in the manual storage area and the symbol data related to the discard stored in the discard storage area are stored. In this order, the data is first transmitted to the sub control board, and the sub control board transmits the received data to the image control board in the same stored order. Therefore, if the image control board arranges the symbols on the display device in the order in which these symbol data are received, the symbols of the hand tiles are arranged in a predetermined order, and the symbol of the discarded tiles has a history of past discarded tiles. It can be displayed as you can see. In addition, since the discard garbage corresponding to the reach is flagged in the symbol data immediately after the reach by the program processing of the sub control board, it is possible to reduce the load of the program processing of the main control board and the image control board. .

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view showing a configuration of a board surface in a sparrow ball game machine of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the front portion of the sparrow ball game machine 1 basically has a game board surface 2, an operation panel 3, a game ball launch lever 4 provided below the operation panel 3, a medal tray 5, and voice. The output device includes a speaker 6, a lamp device 7, and the like.

  A special prize-winning device (hereinafter referred to as an attacker) 9 is located at the center of the game board surface 2 surrounded by the guide rails 8. An attacker operating port 10 through which a game ball can pass is located above the attacker 9. Is provided with a plurality of entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,. These plurality of entrances 11a, 11b,... Correspond to spider symbols (not shown) excluding cord cords from two ropes to eight ropes, and have 27 A ball opening is provided. For example, on the left and right sides of the attacker 9, there are a "Ikko" entrance 11a and a "Jukugo" entrance 11b, and in the lower part of the attacker 9, an "East" entrance 11c, "South , The entrance 11d for "Ichigo", and the entrance 11e for. Further, the game board surface 2 is provided with a decoration device 12 with a lamp, a windmill 13 and the like. In addition, the light-emitting body used for the lamp apparatus 7 and the decoration apparatus 12 with a lamp can use a normal light bulb or LED.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the operation panel 3 is provided with a display device 14 including a liquid crystal display device, a medal slot 15, and various operation buttons. These various operation buttons include a discard button 16a, 16b,..., 16m, in which 13 buttons are arranged in the horizontal direction, a discard button 17, a reach button 18, a selection right shift button 19, a selection button A selection left shift button 20, a self-determination determination button 21, a payout button 22, a game end button 23, a game start button 24, and a REJECT button 25 are configured. When the player operates each of these buttons (presses and turns on the switch), for example, when the discard button 16a is operated, a discard signal corresponding to the manual data is generated. It is input to a control board composed of a computer. And the software (program) mounted on the control board executes a process set in advance to advance the game for each of these input signals. In the present invention, the speaker 6, the lamp device 7, the lamp-equipped decoration device 12, and the display device 14 are used as a production device.

Various display units are set on the display surface of the display device 14, and necessary information and images are displayed on the display unit according to the progress of the game for the player. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, in the upper horizontal direction of the display surface, the medal reserve number display unit 26, the remaining game ball number display unit 27, the wind screen display unit 28, the front drum display unit 29, and the back drum display unit 30. , Kazunori display unit 31, among special games, a big game Kazutoshi display unit 32 showing a Kazutoshi combination that can obtain the right of a big game, and a Kazunori combination that can obtain the right of a chance game A chance recognizing role display unit 33 for displaying the symbol and a discarding symbol display unit 34 for displaying the symbol of the discarding symbol are provided, and the symbol, effect image, numerical value, and the like of the symbol are displayed as the game progresses.
Further, in the lower horizontal direction of the display surface of the display device 14, there are provided a hand bag display unit 35 for displaying 13 hand bag symbols, and a self screen display unit 36 for displaying self-portraited bag designs. It should be noted that the button names (A, B, C, D, E) corresponding to the throwing away buttons 16a, 16b,... Are displayed below the symbols displayed on the hand display unit 35 and the self display unit 36. , ...) is displayed. The displayed mahjong tiles are displayed in color.

  A control board for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1 of the present invention is mounted at a predetermined position inside the sparrow ball game machine 1. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the control board includes a main control board Ka, a sub control board Kb, and an image control board Kc. The main control board Ka is a board on which a program for controlling the progress of the game is mounted. Each of these control boards Ka, Kb, Kc has an interface circuit 43 for inputting / outputting signals to / from various operation buttons such as the CPU 40, ROM 41, RAM 42, various sensors and the discard button 16a, and the control board Ka, It is composed of a microcomputer provided with a communication interface circuit 44 and the like for communicating with Kb and Kc. Various software (programs) for controlling the operation of the sparrow ball game machine 1 or displaying information or images on the display unit of the display device 14 is a ROM 41 mounted on each control board Ka, Kb, Kc. Is remembered. Each RAM 42 is used as a storage area (storage area) and a calculation area (calculation area) for storing, creating, and calculating various data when these programs operate. The main control board Ka and the sub-control board Kb, and the sub-control board Kb and the image control board Kc are connected by cable lines T1 and T2 so that data communication can be performed.

  The ROM 41 of the sub-control board Kb stores various image data to be displayed on the display device 14 and various audio data and sound effect data to be output from the speaker 6. The image data includes 27 kinds of samurai symbol data, effect image data to be displayed as an initial screen when the sparrow ball game machine is turned on, and effect image data when the player completes the final role. For example, image data for presentation to be displayed on the display device 14 as the game progresses is registered (stored) in advance.

  The audio data registered in the ROM 41 of the sub control board Kb includes, for example, audio data output together with the display of the image data for various effects, audio data for supporting the progress of the game for the player, Sound effect data and the like. As these audio data, digitized data is stored in the ROM 41.

  Various programs for controlling the overall operation of the sparrow ball game machine are stored in the ROM 41 mounted on the main control board Ka. The various programs include information to be displayed on the display device 14, output of sound from the speaker 6, instruction control for performing lighting control of the lamp 12, and the control data on the sub control board Kb. A program for transmitting to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb is also included. As shown in FIG. 5, for example, the programs installed in the ROM 41 of the main control board Ka include a medal management program P1, a game ball management program P2, an operation signal input program P3, a manual data management program P3a, and an automatic distribution. A program P4, a special gamer lottery program P5, a dora lottery program P6 for determining the front and back dora, a winning determination program P7, a self-determination determination program P8, and the like.

The medal management program P1 is a program for managing the number of stored medals and payout processing as the game progresses. When the following signal is detected, processing corresponding to the signal is performed.
(1) When a medal insertion signal is detected from the medal insertion slot 15, the medal storage number stored in the RAM 42 is incremented by “1”.
(2) When a signal from the game start button 24 is detected, “1” is subtracted from the medal reserve number.
(3) When a signal from the game end button 23 is detected at the end of the game, the number of medals acquired by the completion combination is added to the number of stored medals stored in the RAM 42.
(4) When a signal from the payout button 22 is detected, an instruction command for paying out medals corresponding to the number of stored coins to the medal tray 5 is issued, and every time one medal is paid out to the medal tray 5, the number of stored medal is decremented by “1”. To do.

The game ball management program P2 is a program that performs the following processing.
(1) At the start of the game, the remaining number of game balls stored in the RAM 42 is set to 14.
(2) When a throw-in operation signal is detected from the throw-in button 16a or the like, one game ball is sent to the game ball launch position (not shown in FIG. 1).
(3) When a game ball launched from the game ball launch lever 4 enters any of the entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,... And the entry signal is detected, the remaining number of game balls is calculated. “1” is subtracted, and the symbol code of the kite corresponding to the entrance is entered.

  The operation signal input program P3 decodes the operation signals and various sensor signals input when the player operates various operation buttons, processes set for each signal, and the programs P1, P2,.・ This is a program for performing such processes. The manual data management program P3a may be configured to be included in the operation signal input program P3 as shown in FIG.

  The automatic catering program P4 is a program for automatically determining 14 catering symbols at random at the start of one game. Although the outline of the processing contents of this automatic layout program P4 will be described later, it is a program that performs a process of determining 14 layouts using random numbers generated by random number generation means.

The automatic catering program P4 is a program that performs a process of determining the 14 spider symbols required at the start of the game using the random number generated by the random number generator, and is determined by the following process, for example. be able to.
1) There are a total of 108 types of spiders used in the sparrow ball game machine of the present invention, including 27 types of spiders from two ropes to eight ropes. Therefore, as shown in Table 1, symbol codes (hexadecimal numbers) are assigned to 27 kinds of spider symbols, and a data table in which 4 numbers from 0 to 107 are assigned to each symbol is registered in the ROM 40 in advance. Keep it.
2) The automatic layout program P4 is provided with a random number generation program for generating, for example, a 5-digit random number. Then, the automatic layout program P4 divides the 5-digit random number generated by the random number generation program by 108 and calculates the remainder. Subsequently, the symbol code corresponding to the remainder value is obtained with reference to Table 1, and determined as the symbol to which this symbol code is arranged.
3) The process of 2) above is carried out 14 times in total, and 14 symbols required at the start of the game are determined. In addition, it is necessary to add the program which performs a randomization process to the program which generate | occur | produces this 5-digit random number so that a different random number may be generated each time. The 14 design codes determined by such processing are temporarily stored in the manual storage area 50 (shown in FIG. 8) of the RAM 42, and are then stored in a predetermined arrangement order, that is, in Table 1, by program processing. They are rearranged so as to be in the ascending order of the symbol codes shown, and stored in the manual storage area 50.

  The special game combination lottery program P5 is a program for determining, by lottery, a winning combination that can acquire a special game right for each game from preset winning combinations. For example, the winning role that can acquire the right of the big game is determined by lottery by selecting one of the three winning roles of “Daisang Yuan”, “Kokushi Musou”, and “Kyuren Baoji”. In addition, there are six types of recognizable roles that can acquire chance game rights, for example, “Ippontsu”, “Seven Pairs”, “Three Darks”, “Peace”, “Ichiguchi”, and “Tang Yao”. Two types are decided by lottery. The method of determining the winning combination that can acquire the right of the special game by lottery can be determined by generating a random number of a predetermined number of digits by program processing, storing it in the RAM 42, and using this random number.

  The dora lottery program P6 is a program for determining a front dra and a back dra by lottery at the start of the game. The winning determination program P7 determines whether or not the hand is in a preset retirement role or is listening when the automatic arrangement is completed and when the player performs his own operation. It is a program to do. As the retirement role, a data table as shown in Table 2, that is, the code of the retirement role (the code of the retirement role is not displayed in Table 2) and the score given to the retirement role (Number of acquired medals) is stored in advance in the winning determination program P7.

  The self-determination determining program P8 is self-reliant to the player by the screen of the display device 14 and the interactive method when a signal indicating that the game ball has entered the attacker 9 is input in the game that has acquired the special game right. It is a program for supporting the operation of selecting the symbol of the cocoon.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the ROM 41 mounted on the sub control board Kb stores a communication control program P10, a lamp control program P11, a reach flag processing program P12, and the like. The communication control program P10 is a program that decodes various instruction commands transmitted from the main control board Ka and performs processing corresponding to each instruction command. Further, it also has a function of a relay means for transmitting data transmitted from the main control board Ka to the image control board Kc. Furthermore, the communication control program P10 instructs the image control board Kc based on the instruction command transmitted from these main control boards, the type of sound output from the speaker 6 and its output timing, and the display on the display device 14. Processing for instructing the types of various images and information to be displayed on the section and the data contents thereof is also performed. The lamp control program P11 is a program for controlling the lighting and extinguishing of the lamps 7 and 12 based on the instruction command transmitted from the main control board Ka and its control data. When the reach flag processing program P12 receives a reach instruction command associated with the occurrence of a reach from the main control board, and subsequently receives symbol data indicating the history of the discard associated with the discard, the discard flag immediately after the reach is reached. A process for setting a flag to a predetermined bit of the symbol data corresponding to is performed.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the ROM 41 mounted on the image control board Kc mainly stores an image control program P20 and a sound control program P30. The image control program P20 is a program for displaying images, numerical values, and the like on the display device 14 based on various instruction commands transmitted from the sub control board Kb and the contents of the control data, and further displays a normal game screen. The program P21, the special game screen display program P22, and the like are included. The normal game screen display program P21 is a program for displaying various information as shown in FIG. 3 on the display device 14 based on various instruction commands transmitted from the sub-control board Kb.

  The special game screen display program P22 is a program for displaying various effect images as the game progresses in a game that has acquired special game rights. The effect screen display program P23 and the self-candidate candidate display program P24 , The self-candidate candidate identification display program P25, and the like. The sound control program P30 is a program for outputting sound from the speaker 6 based on the instruction command transmitted from the sub control board Kb. Note that various image data to be displayed on the display device 14 and audio data to be output from the speaker 6 may be shared and stored in the ROM 41 of the image control board Kc in advance. This reduces the load of program processing on the main control board Ka, shortens the communication time between the control boards Ka, Kb, and Kc, reduces the size of the control boards Kb and Kc, and reduces the load of program processing. Can do.

  Each of the above-described programs P1 to P30 is developed using an assembler language, C language, Visual Basic language, or the like, and a program translated into a machine language program that can be executed by each CPU 40 is converted into each control board Ka, Kb, It is stored in the ROM 41 of Kc.

  Next, the game procedure of the above-described sparrow ball game machine and the outline of the processing of each program will be described. In one game, after a player inserts one medal into the medal slot 15, the main signal is generated based on input signals and control signals generated by the operation of various operation buttons such as the discard button 16a,. The programs P1 to P30 mounted on the control board Ka, the sub control board Kb, and the image control board Kc are operated, and proceed according to the control of these programs.

  First, when the power of the sparrow ball game machine is turned on, the operation signal input program P3 first initializes the storage area of the RAM 42, and then sends an initial screen display command when the power is turned on from the main control board Ka to the sub control board. The data is transmitted to the image control board Kc via Kb. When receiving the initial screen display command, the normal game screen display program P21 mounted on the image control board Kc displays an effect screen when the power is turned on, for example, a landscape screen on the display device 14. When the main control board Ka transmits the initial screen display command when the power is turned on to the sub control board Kb, the sub control board Kb receives various image data, audio data, The sound effect data is transmitted to the image control board Kc, and the image control board Kc stores the received image, sound, and sound effect data in the RAM 42. This eliminates the need to transmit the image, sound, and sound effect data for presentation to the image control board Kc each time the game progresses, thereby reducing the program processing load on the sub control board Kb. it can.

  When the player inserts a medal into the medal insertion slot 15 and the operation signal input program P3 detects the medal insertion signal, the medal management program P1 adds “1” to the number of stored medal. Thereafter, when an operation signal of the game start button 24 is detected, the operation signal input program P3 is activated by this signal, and a game of one game can be started. The operation signal input program P3 transmits a game start instruction command to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb. Based on this instruction command, the normal game screen display program P21 displays an effect image at the start of the game on the display device 14 and outputs sound from the speaker 6 by the sound control program P30. In this way, one game of the sparrow ball game machine starts.

Subsequently, under the control of the operation signal input program P3, the automatic layout program P4 is activated, and the 14 symbols required for starting the game are automatically determined by the processing of the program. The 14 symbol codes determined by the automatic layout program P4 are sequentially stored in the manual storage area 50 (shown in FIG. 8) of the RAM 42, and then in a predetermined order, for example, the symbol code sequence shown in Table 1 (ascending order). ) Are sorted in the order of lion, tube, cord, wind, ternary (sorted in ascending order) and stored. Subsequently, the automatic layout program P4 transmits symbol codes together with instruction commands to the image control board Kc via the sub control board Kb in the sorted order . When the image control board Kc receives the symbol data of the 14 arrangements, the normal game screen display program P21 receives the symbols corresponding to these symbol codes in the hand display unit 35 and the self-display unit 36. If the symbols are displayed in the order of the symbol codes, that is, the discarding buttons 16a, 16b,... 14 symbols can be displayed in ascending order as described above. As a result, it is not necessary for the normal game screen display program P21 to include a program for sorting the 14 symbols described above in ascending order.
When 14 symbols are automatically distributed, the winning determination program P7 is activated, and it is also checked whether or not a pre-set combination that has been set in advance is completed.

  Next, the special gamer lottery program P5 (but only the normal game is activated) and the dora lottery program P6 are activated, and a winning game (big gamer) that can acquire the right of the big game and a chance game Determine the winning role (chance game role) that can acquire the right, the front side, the back side, and the wind. Each data (coded data) such as the big game winning combination and chance game winning combination, front and back game symbols determined by the processing of the programs P5 and P6 is encoded with the instruction command. It is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the control board Kb. When the normal game screen display program P21 receives these data, as shown in FIG. 3, the big game combination and the chance game combination are displayed on the big game completion combination display unit 32 and the chance completion combination display unit 33, respectively. The Dora design is displayed on the front Dora display unit 29 and the like. While the 14 automatic arrangements have not been determined, the manual display unit 35 and the self display unit 36 that displays the self-displayed symbols are displayed on the back surface of each bag or nothing from the initial screen of power ON. A display pattern may be displayed.

  When the symbols of the 14 baskets that have been automatically arranged are displayed on the display device 14, the display device 14 informs the player by screen display or sound that the game operation start conditions have been prepared. When the game start conditions are established, first, the player selects one discarded bowl that is not required from the symbols of the basket displayed on the manual display section 35 and the self-display section 36. Then, when the design of the discarded trash is determined, any one of the discarded trash buttons 16a, 16b, 16c,... Throw away the spear. Based on this discard selection signal (interrupt signal), the operation signal input program P3 refers to the manual data stored in the manual storage area 50 as shown in FIG. To see if it was thrown away. When the operation signal input program P3 decodes the discarded design data, the control signal input program P3 shifts the control to the manual data management program P3a.

When the main control board Ka receives the discard signal in the interrupt process, the manual data management program P3a follows the processing procedure shown in FIG. 11 and stores the design data of the manual stored in the arrangement storage area 50 shown in FIG. The processing for updating the symbol data of the discard tile stored in the discarded discard storage area 51 is executed. As shown in FIG. 9, each time a discard signal is input, the discard code area corresponding to the discard signal, that is, the discard history is stored in the discard storage area 51 of the RAM 42. It is remembered to remain.

Hereinafter, the processing procedure of the manual data management program P3a will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
(Step S1)
The symbol code of the discarded trash corresponding to the discarded trash signal is stored in the discarded trash storage area 51 shown in FIG. For example, when the player operates the throwing away button 16a (A) to throw away the “first base”, the “one base” stored in the manual storage area shown in FIG. The symbol code is stored at the leading address of the discarded trash storage area 51 shown in FIG.

(Step S2)
The data storing the storage address of the discarded storage area 51 is incremented (+1). This process is a process that is performed in order to store the symbol data corresponding to the discard signal sequentially in the discard memory area 51 when the next discard signal is input. By this step S4, the symbol codes of the discarding can be stored in the order in which the discarding was performed from the top address of the discarding storage area 51.

(Step S3)
A wrinkleless code (for example, hexadecimal 00) is written in the position where the discarded wrinkle symbol data handled in step S1 is stored in the wrinkle symbol data stored in the manual memory area 50. This process is to remove the bag that the player has thrown away as an unnecessary bag from the hand.

(Step S4)
The 13 pieces of symbol data from which the discarded symbol data has been deleted in the process of step S3 is rearranged in a predetermined order, and the rearranged symbol data is stored from the head address of the manual storage area 50. For example, the processing of this step, changes to the storage state of the tile hand storage area 50 shown in FIG. 8 (a) is shown in FIG. 8 (b), the symbol data at the right end of the storage area 50a (self摸牌storage area) Will not be remembered. In the rightmost storage area 50a, game data is stored as self-reliant data corresponding to the entrance into which the player has launched a game ball and the game ball has entered.

(Step S5)
All the data of the discarded trash symbol data stored in the discarded trash storage area 51 is transmitted to the sub-control board Kb sequentially from the head address.

(Step S6)
The design data stored in the manual storage area 50 is sequentially transmitted from the head address to the sub-control board Kb.

  Through the processing in step S5, the discarded symbol data is first transmitted to the sub-control board Kb. When the communication control program P10 of the sub-control board Kb receives this discarded symbol data, it stores it in the RAM 42 and then shifts the control to the reach flag processing program P12. On the other hand, when the player operates the reach button 18 to reach and the reach signal is input to the main control board, the operation signal input program P3 sends a reach instruction command to the image control board via the sub control board Kb. Transmit to Kc. When receiving the reach instruction command, the communication control program P10 of the sub control board Kb stores, for example, “1” in the reach storage area of the RAM 42 that stores that the reach has been applied. As a result, the reach flag processing program P12 checks the storage contents of the reach storage area, and if “1” is stored, the reach flag immediately after the reach among the symbol data stored in the RAM 42. A process of setting “1” to a predetermined bit of the corresponding symbol data (corresponding to the last symbol of the symbol code in the array of the symbol data of the throwing away waste) is performed. For example, as shown in FIG. 10, a flag is set on bit 6 of “white” symbol data (1 is stored). Subsequently, the discarded symbol data is transmitted to the image control board Kc in the order of arrangement.

  When the image control board Kc receives the symbol data of the discarded basket from the sub-control board Kb, the normal game screen display program P21 displays the symbols in the order of the received symbol data on the discarded basket display unit 34 of FIG. The discard symbols are displayed in the order in which the player performs the discard operation. In addition, it is checked whether or not a flag “1” is set in bit 6 of the received discarded data by using an AND instruction word. If the flag “1” is set, a symbol corresponding to this symbol code is As shown in FIG. 3, it can be displayed on the discarded trash display 34 in a landscape orientation (“white” symbol).

Further, when the sub-control board Kb receives the design data of the hand by the process of step S6, the sub-control board Kb transmits the received design data to the image control board Kc in the order of reception. Then, the normal game screen display program P21 on the image control board Kc displays the symbols in the order in which the symbol data received from the left end of the hand rod display unit 35 in FIG. Sequentially, symbols arranged in symbol code order can be displayed.
By adopting such a program means, the processing contents of the normal game screen display program P21 are greatly simplified, and every time the player performs the discarding operation, all the discarded symbol data and the handling symbol are displayed. Since the data is transmitted to the image control board Kc, if the trouble occurs in the image control board, and the trouble is recovered, the display contents of the throwing-off display part 34, the hand display part 35, and the self-display part 36 are currently displayed. Can be returned to.

  When the player performs the throwing-in operation and the above-described steps S1 to S6 are completed, the game ball management program P2 sends a game ball to the game ball launch position. Then, the player operates the game ball launch lever 4 to be able to launch a game ball into the game board surface 2.

When the player fires a game ball and this game ball enters any of the entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,..., The operation signal input program P3 decodes the entrance signal and enters the entered entrance. The symbol data of the cocoon (self-sucker) corresponding to the ball opening is determined. Then, the symbol code is stored in the self-storage area 50a shown in FIG. 8C, and the remaining number of game balls is transmitted to the image control board Kc. Then, the normal game screen display program P21 displays the value of the remaining number of game balls transmitted on the remaining game ball number display unit 27.
Subsequently, the program of step S6 described above is activated, and the design data of the handbook stored in the handbook storage area 50 is sequentially transferred from the head address, and all the data (14 pieces of design data) are transferred to the sub control board. The data is transmitted to the image control board Kc via Kb. When the image control board Kc receives the hand data, the normal game screen display program P21 displays the symbols in the order of the hand data received from the left end of the hand display 35 in FIG. The symbols arranged in the order of the symbol code are displayed sequentially from the left end of 35, and the symbols of the self-code stored in the self-memory area 50a of the manual memory area 50 are displayed on the self-information display unit 36. Can do.

In this way, the player operates the game ball launch lever 4 to launch the game ball into the game board surface 2 to enter the listening state, and the remaining game ball number display portion 27 has a value of “1” or more. If there is a display, the player can reach by operating the reach button 18 before performing the operation of throwing away the bag. However, when the above condition is not satisfied (when the listening state is not established), the reach button 18 cannot be operated to reach. After operating the reach button 18, either one of the discard buttons 16 a, 16 b, 16 c,... When the self-cutting is carried out by operating, the above-mentioned process can also display the reach stick on the throwing-off stick display section 34 and the reach stick sideways. Further, the back-dra display unit 30 displays a back-dra design. In the control related to the reach operation, first, an operation signal of the reach button 18 is detected by processing of the operation signal input program P3, and further, an operation signal from the throw-away buttons 16a, 16b, etc. is detected, and then the winning determination program P7 When the hearing determination result is obtained by the hearing determination process, a reach instruction command indicating that the reach has been applied is transmitted to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb. Based on this instruction command, the reach flag processing program P12 of the sub control board Kb can perform the above-described processing, and the sound control program P30 of the image control board Kc performs an effect of outputting reach sound.
In addition, when the game field is in a reach state, the game balls launched by the player corresponding to the symbols entered in the entrances 11a, 11b, 11c,... Sometimes this self-determination is automatically discarded. That is, after the reach operation, an automatic discarding process is performed to eliminate unnecessary operations by the player.

  The winning determination program P7 is set in advance as shown in Table 2 on the basis of the symbol information of the entered entrance whenever a game ball is launched and enters the entrance 11a, 11b, 11c,. It is determined whether or not the combination of the samurai that will be the finished role is completed. When the winning combination is completed, an instruction command for completion of completion and a code of the winning combination are transmitted to the image control board Kc, and the normal game screen display program P21 is displayed on the winning completion display unit 31. The name of the winning combination, the number of front and back dras, the number of points scored, etc. are displayed.

Furthermore, the maximum number of points that can be obtained in one game under the control of the winning determination program P7 is, for example, up to 10 points, and the upper limit is set. If two or more types of winning combination are established at the same time, a score obtained by adding the points given to each winning combination becomes the score of the game. Similarly, if the handbag contains the same dragon symbol as the front and back dramas, a score is also added to that dorado, for example, one score per dora is added. The One score obtained in the game corresponds to one medal. However, if the total number of points acquired in the game exceeds 10, the total number of medals (scores) that can be acquired is 10.
The winning determination program P7 is displayed until the game ends, that is, when the remaining number of game balls reaches 0, when the game end button 23 is pressed, or when the game start button 24 is pressed. At this time, if the combination of the predetermined winning combination kits shown in Table 2 is not completed, a game end instruction command is transmitted to the image control board Kc, and the normal game screen display program P21 is displayed on the display device 14. “Game Over” is displayed on the screen to inform the player of the end of the game.

  If the game end button 23 or the game start button 24 is operated when the winning combination is completed and the explanation of the winning combination is displayed on the display device 14, the operation signal input program P3 decodes the type of the input signal. Then, the medal management program P1 is operated, the score acquired in this game is added to the medal stored number stored in the RAM 42, and this medal stored number is transmitted to the image control board Kc. Then, the normal game screen display program P21 displays the medal stored number on the medal stored number display unit 26. Then, when the player operates the game start button 24 after operating the game end button 23, the inserted operation of the stored medals is automatically performed, and the operation signal input program P3 can perform the next game. In order to enter the state, an instruction command for initializing the screen display is transmitted to the image control board Kc.

  When the winning combination is completed with a winning combination that can acquire the right of the big game, which is one of the special games set in advance, the winning determination program P7 receives an instruction command indicating that the big winning combination is completed. The image is transmitted to the image control board Kc. Then, the effect screen display program P23 alternately displays the explanation display of the winning combination and the display of establishment of the big game right at a predetermined time interval on the recognizing display unit 31 of the display device 14, and displays the big game to the player. Inform you that your rights have been established. When the right of the big game is established, as described above, the attacker 9 can be operated a predetermined number of times, for example, 14 times in the next and subsequent games including the game.

  In a game in which the right of the big game is established, after 14 hands are automatically arranged at the start of the game, the player fires a game ball, and the game ball passes through the attacker operating port 10. When the signal is input to the main control board Ka, the operation signal input program P3 opens the attacker 9 so that the game ball can easily enter the attacker 9. Each time the player enters one game ball in the attacker 9, the player can arbitrarily select self-restraint by the display device 14 and the interactive method. This self-selection operation is performed by selecting a self-candidate candidate symbol displayed on the display device 14 by the processes of the self-candidate candidate display program P24 and the self-candidate candidate identification display program P25, the 牌 select right shift button 19, and the heel select left shift. The button 20 and the self-determination button 21 can be operated and selected. Further, the processing content of the program when the player performs the discarding operation is the same as the above-described processing.

  Then, when the player operates the self-determination determination button 21 to determine self-determination, the operation signal input program P3 stores the self-description symbol code in the self-storage area 50a of the manual storage area. Subsequently, the program of step S6 described above is activated, and the design data of the handbook stored in the handbook storage area 50 is sequentially started from the head address, and all data is transferred to the image control board Kc via the sub-control board Kb. Transmit to. When the image control board Kc receives the hand data, the normal game screen display program P21 displays the symbols in the order of the hand data received from the left end of the hand display 35 in FIG. The symbols arranged in the order of the symbol code are displayed sequentially from the left end of 35, and the symbols of the self-code stored in the self-memory area 50a of the manual memory area 50 are displayed on the self-information display unit 36. Can do.

  In a game in which the right of the big game is established, the operation signal input program P3, the winning determination program P7, etc., enter five game balls into the attacker 9, or the number of remaining game balls becomes zero. If the completion is not completed, it is determined that the game is over, and a process of returning the attacker 9 to a normal state, that is, a closed state in which no game ball enters, is performed. In addition, the winning determination program P7, even when the big game right is established, when the player has not completed the pre-set winning combination by the end of the game Big game rights are disabled at that time. Therefore, when the player completes the winning combination shown in Table 2 while the right of the big game is established, the player can continue the advantageous game for operating the attacker 9 a predetermined number of times.

  In the sparrow ball game machine of the present invention, the program stored in each ROM 41 may be equipped with a program having the above-described functions, and the program structure is a combination of programs modularized in units of processing functions. A structured program is recommended.

It is a front view which shows an example of the sparrow ball game machine of this invention. It is a front view which shows the structure of the operation panel shown in FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the example of a screen displayed on the display surface of the display apparatus shown in FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the structural example of the control board for controlling operation | movement of the sparrow ball game machine of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the main control board shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the sub control board | substrate shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the program mounted in the image control board shown in FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the structure of the manual data memorize | stored in the manual storage area, (a) is the structure at the time of being arranged, (b) is thrown away from the structure of (a) (C) shows the configuration when self-suppressing from the configuration of (b). It is a figure for demonstrating the structure of the discarded trash data memorize | stored in the discarded trash storage area. It is a figure for demonstrating the structure of the discard data immediately after a player performs reach operation. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the process sequence of a manual data management program, when a player performs a throwing away operation.

Explanation of symbols

1: Sparrow ball machine 2: Game board surface 3: Operation panel 6: Speaker 7: Lamp device 9: Special prize-winning device (attacker)
11a, 11b, 11c, ...: Entrance entrance 12: Decoration device with lamp 14: Display device 15: Medal insertion slot 16a, 16b, 16c, ...: Discard button 17: Self-discard button 18: Reach Button 21: Self-determination decision button 22: Payout button 23: Game end button 24: Game start button 40: CPU
41: ROM
42: RAM
50: Manual storage area 50a: Self storage area 51: Discard storage area P3: Operation signal input program P3a: Manual data management program P4: Automatic distribution program P5: Special gamer lottery program P6: Dora lottery program P7 : Winning determination program P8: Self-determination determination program P10: Communication control program P11: Lamp control program P12: Reach flag processing program P21: Normal game screen display program Ka: Main control board Kb: Sub control board Kc: Image control board

Claims (3)

The game board has a entrance corresponding to multiple types of mahjong tiles, and the game corresponding to the entrance where the game ball entered is regarded as a self-contained game. It has a litter operating means for performing a littering operation, and a reach operating means,
As a control board for controlling the game, a main control board for controlling the progress of the game, a sub-control board for communication control with the main control board for performing presentation control, and a communicable connection with the sub-control board An image control board for controlling image output and sound output of the game, and the main control board automatically determines a layout pattern to be a guide at the start of the game by an automatic layout program; And means for storing the symbol data corresponding to the automatically determined symbol in a predetermined order and storing the symbol data in a manual memory area set in the main control board, and the manual memory area is the storage area. In the sparrow ball game machine provided with a self-portrait storage area for storing a symbol code corresponding to the self-portrait where the game ball has entered the entrance,
The main control board is
When a litter signal is input from the litter operating means,
Means for sequentially storing the design data of the discarded trash corresponding to the discarded trash signal in the discarded trash storage area, and after deleting the design data of the discarded trash corresponding to the discarded trash signal from the manual storage area Means for arranging the symbol data to be stored in the storage area in a predetermined order; and after the discard signal is input, the symbol data of the discard in order stored in the discard memory area. Means for transmitting to the sub-control board in the order in which the symbol data stored in the manual storage area is further arranged in the predetermined order in the order stored in order;
When an entry signal is input when the game ball enters the entrance,
After storing the symbol data corresponding to the incoming signal in the memory area, the sub-control board stores the symbol data stored in the hand memory area in the order of arrangement stored in the hand memory area. Means for transmitting to,
Means for transmitting a reach instruction command to the sub-control board when a reach signal is input from the reach operation means ;
A sparrow ball game machine characterized by comprising: When the sub control board receives the design data of the throwing away from the main control board, the received design data of the throwing away is transmitted to the image control board in the order received from the main control board,
When the reach instruction command is received from the main control board, immediately after receiving the reach instruction command, the last bit of the discard symbol data sequentially received from the main control board is set to the predetermined bit. After performing the process of setting a flag, the image control board receives the discarded design data received from the main control board including the design data flagged to the predetermined bit in the order received from the main control board. sparrow ball game machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the transmission. The sub-control board, when receiving the symbol data as the procedure from the main control board, transmits the received symbol data to the image control board in the order received from the main control board. 1. A sparrow ball game machine according to 1.

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