(CR) Saki

[Duo Maxwell]

I asked this before:

Originally Posted by qmeister

2am Sunday, on TV Tokyo.

[M.Marangio]

There is an article about the Saki mahjong arcade game (Sega MJ4 Ver. C) on gigazine, with screenshots and some videos (the audio quality of the videos is bad, sadly).

ETA: english translation.

[Proto]

The hand of the day: The mahjong equivalent of the straight flush:



What's happening there: We got 1 yaku's for getting only tiles from one suit + honors (the 3 red tiles and the 2 black tiles that are on the far right of the hand are known as honors, along with other tiles). 1 yaku for having a melded pon(3 tiles) of dragons (the 3 red tiles on the lower right part of the screen. Yes, it has more than one name) 1 yaku for getting a 1-9 combination of tiles of the same hand(straight flush ), + zero dora (you will hear this a lot, it means something like extra points for having a particular kind of tile that makes your hand worth more. In this hand I had none of those) = 4 fans

Rough calculation of the points:
fu x 2^(2+fan's)

Calculating the fu's is another thing altogether, so for now let's trust the computer calculated value, and we got 30 fu's, and 4 han's as described above. so 30 x 2^6 = 1920. Since I was the dealer, everyone pays me double. so it goes to 3840. Rounded up, 3900 per player

Since the later part of the series will involve a lot of matches, winning, losing, scoring, and the such, getting perspective of what is big, what is small might give people a better idea of what's happening. This hand could be considered something like middle-higher tier. Nothing specially gigantic like the 30000-40000 points hands showed earlier, but it is a hand that you get more oftenly, and anything over 10000 is already a respectable quantity of points.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Proto

The hand of the day: The mahjong equivalent of the straight flush:



What's happening there: We got 2 han's for getting the straight flush. 1 han for having a melded pon(3 tiles) of dragons (the 3 red tiles on the lower right part of the screen. 1 han for getting the winning tile myself(and not from another player discard).

Rough calculation of the points:
fu x 2^(2+han's)

Calculating the fu's is another thing altogether, so for now let's trust the computer calculated value, and we got 30 fu's, and 4 han's as described above. so 30 x 2^6 = 1920. Since I was the dealer, everyone pays me double. so it goes to 3840. Rounded up, 3900 per player

Since the later part of the series will involve a lot of matches, winning, losing, scoring, and the such, getting perspective of what is big, what is small might give people a better idea of what's happening.

No, that's slightly wrong.

You got
1 yaku for a pure straight (123, 456, 789)
1 yaku for a pung of dragons
2 yaku for a half flush (one suit including winds/dragons)

For a total of 4 yaku + zero dora = 4 fan.

Tsumo only is a yaku if you have a concealed hand (menzen tsumo).

[lotus7]

I've seen a fair bit of hate for this show so far. I don't really think it's justified either. Nobody was expecting amazing things from this, just a bit of light-hearted fun. I think most people don't seem to realise how tongue in cheek the whole "lightning eye!" bits are. The manga ,and thus the show, know they're being ridiculous. It's best to just go with it I think.

[X207]

^ @ lotus7: lol your avy always cracks me up when i see it.

i really want to see saki become a tactician or someone who purosely misleads the opponents some time. it worked well with akagi so it should be as good with saki, although it does seem out of character for her atm .

[Proto]

@Quarkboy: I stand corrected. I guess I still have a long way to go before knowing what is which scoring rule.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Proto

@Quarkboy: I stand corrected. I guess I still have a long way to go before knowing what is which scoring rule.

P.S. your hand is 30 fu (minipoints) because it's

20 - for winning with an open hand
2 - for having an edge wait/closed wait/pair wait. (in this case, closed wait)
4 - for a pung of honors
2 - selfdraw (tsumo)

28 rounded up = 30.

[Proto]

That one I did know, but I didn't want to stuff that post with that much information. It was already stuffed as it is.

[Vexx]

I'm beginning to think I should print out this entire thread and stuff it in a looseleaf binder as "tips, trivia, and apocrypha on mahjongg"...

[anselfir]

Originally Posted by Proto

The hand of the day: The mahjong equivalent of the straight flush:

no. straight flush is churen, or churen + all green

[Willen]

A couple of avatars of Yuuki, free to use

[mikoo]

mmm...tacos~

[Kaioshin Sama]

When Koromo starts doing her thing I'm probably going to be requesting an avatar of her. I don't normal use avatars from currently running series, but as people can probably see I've decided to make an exception this season.

[whitepearl]

Originally Posted by anselfir

no. straight flush is churen, or churen + all green

I'd love to get an all green hand one of these days...

[Marina2]

Originally Posted by Peanutbutter003

Spoiler for After having read the manga:

When is chapter 50 out?

I couldn't resist and read the manga chapters until chapter 49. Gotta say it's very impressive. I almost found myself shedding a tear how friendship comes into the story, how everyone is encouraging each other to pursue their dreams etc and so.

Must add once again, like that I read the manga, that I'm really looking forward to how Fukuhara Kaori voices Koromo, the "evil" loli. Definitely different from the Tsukasa role I still have of her in my mind. Looking forward to another shocker just like with Chihara Minori as Touka already.

And Fukuji is currently my favourite character, with her big onee-sama personality. The finals, first competitor is gonna be oh so interesting. (With Toradora still rather fresh in my mind.)

I guess it's realistic to say that the anime will end with the provincial tournament. Looks like there wouldn't be much of Saki's sister though. Oh well.

New ch. will come out around 3rd May (two weeks per one ch.)

About ch.49 in manga

Spoiler for ch.49:

- Do you think the light and camera broke by normal accident or Koromo really done something to them? lol

[Proto]

no. straight flush is churen, or churen + all green

There's no way to get a nine gates and an all green hand at the same time is it? I mean, by it's nature an all green hand only allows you to have a bamboo's 2,3,4,6,8 in your hand.... (+ green dragon, but you can't have honor titles in a 9 gates hand).

That said, for the people discussing the manga we got a Saki manga thread in the corresponding forum

[Avisch]

Originally Posted by Kaioshin Sama

When Koromo starts doing her thing I'm probably going to be requesting an avatar of her.

You and me both.

[technomo12]

um any art work that is already been out???

cuz im been searching but to no avail Y_Y

[M.Marangio]

Originally Posted by technomo12

um any art work that is already been out?

There are some character sketches (look back in this thread or in the official blog http://www.saki-anime.com/blog/), two official wallpapers at http://www.square-enix.co.jp/magazine/yg/download/ and a some images from the manga and from magazines on imageboards (mostly NSFW sites).