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The latest from Tadao Technologies was developed in conjunction with Violent Products' Walter Fowler, hence the name 'Violent Yakuza OLED Series Board'.  In previous Tadao products, the main indicators on the board was a series of LED's that gave you the settings and allowed the user to adjust those settings via a series of trigger pulls.  With the Yakuza board, the LED's are replaced with an Organic LED display, which graphically gives information on settings. 

For this review, I used my personal Ego 8.  Aside from a Critical Trigger and Killa Products magnetic detents, it's completely stock.  I had no complaints with the stock Planet Eclipse board aside from changing settings was a bit of a pain because of Planet's menu system.  Installation was as simple as removing the 3 screws holding the board in the grip frame and installing the Tadao board. 

The Violent Yakuza OLED Series Board has a tournament lock on the board itself that you have to unlock in order to change any settings.  Push the button until the display lights up saying that the tournament lock is off.  Then to enter the programming mode, turn the marker on while holding the trigger back.  From there you can set the various settings on the board to control the marker's performance using the buttons on the back of the grip frame and reading them on the display.  While it's similar to the stock board in this way, the menu system is quite a bit simplified.   We set the marker up to use 2007 PSP Ramping, with the maximum rate of fire set to 15 bps, Eye Mode Forced, 12ms dwell, debounce at 10ms, and the default BIP and Bolt Delay settings. 

On the field, we initially had some problems with the marker running away.  The aftermarket Critical trigger's actuation set screw sits on the very tip of the micro switch's actuator.  After some experimentation with the trigger's pull length and actuation point, we eliminated the runaway.  Right off the mark, we noted that the 80 gram micro switch provides a light, responsive trigger pull.   The board itself, which runs at 16mhz as compared to the stock board's 8mhz had a more responsive feel to it.  Even in bright sunlight it was possible to read the display.  The instant on feature was nice as well, because you could keep your marker off and safe until it was time to start a game, hit the switch and the marker was immediately booted up and ready to fire.

In experimenting with the “G-Mode” or “Breakout Mode” on the board, we found it worked as advertised, but noted in the manual that it's illegal for use in tournaments.  The G-Mode fires the marker in full auto until stopped by a user set stopping point, which could be the 1st, 2nd. Or 3rd actual trigger pull.  I suppose if you were in a situation where would be useful, the G-Mode can be a help.  However, the use of such modes is illegal in every tournament series currently running, and I don't recommend its' use, ever.

The Violent Yakuza Tadao board is extremely flexible, which comes in handy right now, with various tournament series changing their rules regarding rates of fire on an almost daily basis.  The Violent Yakuza Tadao board is an expensive, but almost mandatory upgrade for the serious tournament player to keep from getting caught unprepared to comply with the latest rules.  The MSRP for the Violent Yakuza Tadao Board is $165.  For more information, or to upgrade your Ego to the Violent Yakuza Tadao board, check out www.tadaotechnologies.com

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