Yakuza: Dead Souls

Identical to Way of the Pachinko King trophy in Yakuza 4, this trophy requires you to win and accumulate 3000 Pachinko Balls or 1500 Slot Tokens at Volcano, Theater St. and trade them for the "Trophy Prize" at the exchange counter.

Pachinko is a type of "chance" machine game where you purchase balls and roll them down the machine and try to get them into a pocket in the middle. For each ball that enters the Target Pocket, you get 1 chance to spin the Jackpot reel. You can accumulate up to 4 spins at a time, indicated by 4 square boxes that fill with red beneath the Jackpot Reel so don't waste your balls trying to put as much as you can.

The image below displays a Aladdin Pachinko Machine. Due to the lack of a reliable way to obtain cheat items (Get Rich Quick card) in Yakuza Dead Souls, we recommend playing on this Aladdin Machine instead of the other types available. For the Virtua Fighter Pachinko Machine, please refer to the Way of the Pachinko King trophy in Yakuza 4's Trophy Guide.

Upon starting the game you will be prompted to exchange ¥1000 for 250 Pachinko Balls. Your objective is to adjust the Speed Control (#2) so that the Pachinko Balls drop nicely into the Jackpot Pocket (#4). For every ball that goes in, you are given one chance to spin the reel. The reel plays out like your common Slot Machine, where getting a combination of 3 identical numbers will result in a Jackpot or Aladdin Chance Bonus. You can accumulate up to 4 spin chances at any time as displayed by the Spin Indicator (#5).

Every now and then, there will be prompts on screen for you to hit the Action Button (#3) by pressing . These are mini-events that boost your chance of getting a combination and thus a Jackpot. Once you hit a Jackpot, any Pachinko Ball that enters the Jackpot Pocket and the purple pocket just below it rewards you with more Pachinko Balls. This is how you accumulate Pachinko Balls in order to gather the amount required for the "trophy" prize.

If you are really lucky you may be rewarded with an Aladdin Chance Bonus right after the Jackpot. There will now be action scenes onscreen that prompt you to adjust the Speed Control to aim for the Aladdin Chance Pocket (#6) instead of the Jackpot Pocket. When a Pachinko Ball passes through the Aladdin Chance Pocket, the Sliding Wing (#7) slides out momentarily, allowing balls to drop and move towards the inner-middle portion of the machine where the rotating Victory Pocket (#8) is. If the ball successfully aligns with the Victory Pocket, you are awarded another Jackpot. If not, the balls drops and is deducted from your total.

As you can see, this is entirely a luck based trophy and you may end up spending long hours just sitting at the machine putting balls into that pocket without success. The odds of hitting a jackpot are 1/193. Equipping a Lucky Bracelet accessory (purchased from the Pawn Shop Ebisuya) seems to improve your odds of hitting a Jackpot/Aladdin Chance Jackpot.

It is possible to attain a cheat item that rewards you with a jackpot by fishing for a "Briefcase" in the fishing minigame and hoping that it contains the "Get Rich Quick" cheat item. It is said that using the "King Smile Burger Set" purchased from Smile Burger as bait improves your chance of fishing the Briefcase. In the event you managed to fish one of these cheat items, follow these steps:

1. Play Pachinko normally until you hit a Jackpot
2. Get as many balls into the Target Pocket as possible. By the end of the Jackpot you should have accumulated 1500 Balls or more.
3. Stop playing and quit the machine by pressing
4. Start another session on the same machine and use the Get Rich Quick card for an instant jackpot.
5. Accumulate 3000 balls and immediately quit then exchange them for the Trophy Prize at the counter, which will unlock this trophy.

If you have pre-ordered the game in the US, or if you have an EU copy of the game, you will be rewarded with some free DLC which can be obtained from Igita who is residing in Kamiyama's truck. Igita offers many items, among them a Get Rich Quick card for Pachinko which will make this trophy significantly easier. For more Pachinko tips, please refer to this thread.

Note: New to Yakuza Dead Souls is the inclusion of Slot Machines in Volcano. The 1500 Slot Tokens mentioned in earlier in this trophy refers to tokens won through these slot machines. Slot Tokens are accumulated by aligning 3 identical icons on the slot reels. These reels can be stopped manually but it takes a really keen eye and reflexes to achieve any success in this minigame.