RecommendationsSettingsThe <strong>Yakuza</strong> series ship with default settings which are tuned for a wide range of trigger adjustments <strong>and</strong>general usage. Obviously certain tournament series allow alternate fire modes with specificcharacteristics. The following is a list of settings which will give you a baseline. Ultimately, every markeris unique, <strong>and</strong> may require different settings for optimal performance.Semionly tournaments: Use the default settings, possibly only changing debounce, AMB, <strong>and</strong> CPF tosuit your personal trigger adjustments.PSP: Use the PSP ramping or PSP burst fire modes, with maximum rate of fire set to the required cap forthe league (for 2009 this should be either 10 or 12 bps, depending on your division). Make suredebounce is near default values. The PSP/Millennium semi shots setting should be at 3, <strong>and</strong> thePSP/Millennium reset time should be 1000ms or less.Millennium: For 2008 the Millennium series modified their rules slightly. It should be a 12 bps cap witha 6 pulls per second activation, <strong>and</strong> requires the 1‐2‐3 semi‐auto shots like PSP mode before rampingcan begin, meaning the PSP/Millennium semi shots setting should be at 3. The PSP/Millennium resettime is not specified in the Millennium rules, but it is recommended that you keep this below 1000 ms.Many European tournaments besides the Millennium series utilize semi‐automatic, but capped at 15bps. Select the capped semi‐automatic fire mode for these events.
<strong>Yakuza</strong> Series Design & DevelopmentOn the software level, running an LCD or OLED display is relatively easy, assuming you don't have tofire a paintball gun. This represents a significant challenge.So on top of making everything fit in the marker, we also have to display information on the screen thatis intuitive, legible, <strong>and</strong> updates correctly as a player uses the board. It's one thing to turn an LED on oroff with a single instruction that executes in 0.00000025 seconds. Displaying two full lines of text acrossa 96x16 pixel display can take over 10 milliseconds, which is 1/100th of a second. Anyone who playspaintball knows that this kind of delay can cause a trigger pull to be missed, as the most commondefault debounce on any board is typically 10 milliseconds.Despite the cool visuals <strong>and</strong> extremely easy‐to‐use interface, the <strong>Yakuza</strong> software doesn't give upeven one processor cycle to make it look pretty. It never sacrifices firing performance for visuals. Whenyou need to fire that string of paint at 12.0 bps on the break of the PSP finals, any inconsistency thatoccurs will not be caused by the <strong>Yakuza</strong> software.<strong>Yakuza</strong> uses all new hardware, too. The USB <strong>Yakuza</strong> board is a step forward in technology, not just theaddition of a USB socket. PIC18 USB series microcontrollers, Texas Instruments voltage regulators <strong>and</strong>boosters, Panasonic capacitors, International Rectifier MOSFETs, <strong>and</strong> Omron microswitches addrobustness <strong>and</strong> reliability to the circuit board, <strong>and</strong> reduce the fragility of the electronics powering yourfavorite paintball marker.Features include a fine rate of fire adjustment, allowing you to tune your maximum rate of fire in 0.1 bpsincrements. Want your gun to shoot 11.9 bps? No problem. Another feature of the software is theanti‐breech bounce code, which dynamically adjusts the cyclic rate when a loader starts to run low onpaint. This helps prevent chops when a fast loader actually throws a paintball down into the breech <strong>and</strong>it bounces up, since there are no paintballs stacked above it. As many users have requested, there isalso a ramping percentage setting, adjustable from 10% to 500%, so you can tune any of the ramp basedfire modes. Lastly, there are 5 setting profiles, which allow you to save your favorite settings <strong>and</strong> loadthem later with just a few button presses, making it infinitely easier to switch between tournamentmarker rules.Altogether, <strong>Yakuza</strong> gives you the fastest, easiest‐to‐use, <strong>and</strong> most reliable circuit board available.Why OLED?When compared to an LCD, OLED screens have several advantages, including better durability, lowerpower consumption, <strong>and</strong> higher contrast, especially in sunlight.Unlike an LCD, each pixel of an OLED is a light emitting diode, <strong>and</strong> therefore emits its own light. Thismakes the power consumption directly proportional to how many pixels are lit. With an LCD none ofthe pixels light up on their own, so a backlight must be used, which drastically increases powerconsumption by lighting up the entire display instead of only the pixels that are active. Paintball