Chapter 222 Shocking revision(1/2)
"Let's start!" The boss of Xinyuan Company solicited opinions from other bosses with his eyes. At the order, the technicians who had been waiting for a long time took action immediately.
I have two prototypes on hand, so naturally one is connected to the power supply. I will try it out to understand what new game Taiyu Technology launched this time, so that Dadong Zhouzhang has been revised. With the technical power of Taiyu Technology, as long as the game they launched is nothing to say, but whether it is fun or not, or is it popular in the market, these bosses who aim to make money are still more cautious.
The bosses paid a considerable price to deal with this revision, and their curiosity was already bursting during this waiting process. They all knew that Taiyu Technology had gone through a lot of effort to revise the revision, and must have developed another good game that was confident that it would sell well, so as to extend the market's exclusive time and obtain more excess profits.
Taiyu Technology is so confident that there are more and more rumors about new games in the market, and it is becoming more and more bizarre.
The industry is both looking forward to this and being disappointed when it is afraid that it will be too big.
Combined with this anxiety and loss, the bosses of various families increase their investments in order not to lag behind others, hoping to make a lot of money based on this, while they are nervous, afraid that they will not be able to get the ideal return on investment. Now they have finally got the prototype, of course they have to take a look at it immediately.
A group of bosses and their entourages surrounded them.
Even the technicians who were dismantling the shell of another prototype had their necks tilted, wanting to see what happened through the cracks.
The driving force that drives them to eat electronic technology is to make money and live a life of life, and their hobbies for electronic products are even more important. Without the love of electronic technology and the game industry, you will not be able to calm down and ate those boring books, and it is even more difficult to achieve something.
Ninety-nine percent of these technicians are both qualified technicians and enthusiastic game fans.
They are more excited about the first arcade game after Taiyu Technology's latest revision than those bosses.
As soon as they saw that the plug was being used to connect the power supply there, everyone began to be indifferent.
When the plug was plugged in, Hongsheng Electronics' boss couldn't wait to press the switch behind the arcade without waiting for others to do it.
The current is turned on, the screen flashes, and the power-on screen appears.
The boot screen has changed.
Everyone is a member of this business and is very familiar with the previous boot screen. It turns out that after the power is turned on, the first thing that appears is the machine self-test screen, displaying device self-test information such as processor model and memory size. Only when the self-test is completed will the program in the read-only memory be read before entering the game screen.
After changing the board, you can no longer see the self-test information when you turn on the computer. The first thing you hear is the familiar "Dong Dong Dong Dong" sound effect, and then a starry sky picture showing the Chinese and English name of Taiyu Technology.
Two or three seconds later, everyone was still waiting for the self-test screen to appear, but the image on the screen changed, and there was still no self-test. Instead, the game screen was directly displayed. Taiyu Technology used a solidified startup logo to replace the self-test screen!
This is the change brought about by technological progress. The integration of integrated circuits is increasing and the price is gradually decreasing. Taiyu Technology can already waste a little data storage capacity and specially create a unique boot screen as a genuine label.
It is tantamount to telling other pirates: How about it, you either crack my source code and rewrite a new boot screen. Or use mine, and you can make a lawsuit like this. What other excuses can you make? Even if we don’t care about you for a while, the pirated arcade you made is equivalent to advertising for us!
ruthless!
Too cruel!
The bosses present looked at each other and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
They knew that cracking the source code of Taiyu Technology is an impossible task. Do they still know the abilities of the technicians in their own factory? They can't do anything that the whole world can't do.
What?
Join together to crack it in one or two years?
You are stupid!
Here we spend a lot of manpower and material resources to crack it, and Taiyu Technology will not rewrite a new boot screen. No matter how capable you are, will there be a large technical team behind Taiyu Technology?
If you crack it in one or two years, people may write out new codes in just a few minutes and launch them in a new machine. Can you still stop them?
have to!
In the future, everyone may have to pay more money to buy a road for Taiyu Technology in exchange for the other party's understanding and not to cause trouble for themselves. Even those game giants in Europe and the United States have less room for struggle in the face of solid evidence. There is no way to lose or lose in the lawsuit, and they can only give money privately in exchange for Taiyu Technology to not pursue it.
After entering the game screen from the boot screen, two black flower-shaped words with yellow and red on the back and red on the back appear on the screen: streetfighter!
Road warrior?
Street fighters?
The onlookers were very familiar with English, and when they saw the name of the game, their faces suddenly collapsed.
It turns out to be a horizontal screen gun battle game.
The horizontal screen game was also first created by Taiyu Technology, changing the traditional game screen divided by up and down to left and right. This transforms the protagonist of the game from a fighter plane and a spaceship into a human protagonist, and also shooting and destroying enemy targets, but the appearance of the protagonist of the human, makes players feel more immersive. Once launched, the praises were buzzing and sales soared.
When you see the name of the warrior in the new game block, the first thing that flashes in your mind is a warrior, the gunman advances from left to right, or from right to left, and then eliminates one block after another, monster, and other game modes.
The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
As soon as everyone recognized the name, a strong sense of disappointment surged in their hearts. This feeling was like a groom who had never seen the bride. After worshiping the world and entering the bridal chamber, he opened the bride's head handkerchief with great anticipation, and realized that he was not marrying a beautiful woman, but an ordinary village girl, with a huge loss and melancholy.
"Look, it seems that the picture quality is more delicate!"
All the experts present, and their judgment on the game is different from those of simple game fans. They don’t just start playing it as soon as they get started and then draw conclusions based on their own experience. After loading the game screen, although they felt a little regretful, they still did their best to carefully analyze the details of the game screen.
This careful identification immediately revealed the difference.
The game's picture quality is much more delicate than that of the Space Invaders!
After all, the Space Invaders was a work from four years ago. The memory price was ridiculously high at that time, as high as 1,500 US dollars per megabyte, and 1,400 US dollars per kilobyte.
A game screen consists of background and game operation characters, with a total of two layers. This layered concept was first created by Taiyu Technology, which greatly reduces the difficulty of screen synthesis and calculation. Objectively speaking, it also improves the computing speed of the processor for game logic judgment, making the game feel smoother.
The picture resolution of the space invaders is 32 times two hundred.
For computers, no matter whether you display it as black or white, or any other color, each point in the resolution takes up one byte. In the eyes of humans, a background that is completely black and white actually takes up memory.
Therefore, a starry sky background, a moving plane and a space monster are two pictures in total. Under the sixteen colors, a total of 32,000 bytes are required, which is 31.25kb. The computer expression method is calculated as 31.25kb.
In terms of the memory price at that time, it was almost equal to forty-seven US dollars, which was 90 Hong Kong dollars.
This is only used for the screen storage part, involving data computing, program temporary storage, etc., and a total of 48,000 bytes of memory is allocated to this game, and the cost in this regard is 130 Hong Kong dollars.
It is entirely up to Guan Fei to dig into every hardware so that the space invaders can obtain the highest profit at the lowest price.
However, four years have passed, after Japan's memory has entered the international market in a large number of times, the market price per megabyte has dropped to around one thousand dollars, and the average price per kilobyte is 97 cents.
This creates conditions for arcades to use larger memory and create higher resolution game screens.
However, in recent years, everyone has been copying Taiyu Technology's arcade machines, so they are not too sensitive to changes in memory prices. Now Taiyu Technology is the first to improve the picture quality, which makes everyone suddenly realize and immediately connect it with the memory price reduction.
Better picture quality!
When everyone thought that although the new game did not innovate in terms of game mode, they had made new breakthroughs in technology and launched games with more exquisite picture quality, everyone's faces immediately turned from shady to sunny.
To be honest, a game with three hundred and two hundred picture quality feels bad. Although the game poster is made very exquisitely, it looks like a movie picture, but after actually playing it, I realized that compared with the exquisite movie picture, a rough game is completely different and incomparable!
Each character is composed of huge particles, squeezed into a pile, and it is impossible to see whether it is a monster or a group.
The reason why the arcade performance is so poor and the number of global game fans continues to increase exponentially is that the entertainment style in this era is too monotonous and life is too boring.
What can I do if I don’t play arcades?
As long as the game screen can be made more beautiful and more refined, they believe that it will have a fatal attraction for ordinary players. After playing arcade games with more exquisite graphics, they will never look back and play old games from the past.
Just like a video lover who is used to watching high-definition image quality, if he had no choice, he would never touch low-quality videos.
This also means that new arcades will definitely be in short supply and will definitely sell well!
Big selling point, big selling point!
The bosses laughed so hard that they could not stop and immediately urged their technicians: "You can take a closer look, what is the specific resolution?"
With the boss' order, the subordinates naturally could only sell coolies. They stared at the screen and counted it down one by one, and they were so blinded that they had a lot of debate with each other for a while before they came up with the correct number: "The picture quality of the new version is 384 times 224. The pixel points are 22,000 higher, and the total picture quality is 34.4% higher than the original!"
Very good!
Thirty-five percent higher, this is a big improvement!
"Are there any other discoveries?" Several bosses asked, and saw that the technicians had no more discoveries, so they immediately said, "Then let's go to the game and see if the picture quality performance has improved after the pixel points increased by 35%!"
Technological progress and user experience are two different concepts.
It does not mean that technological progress will definitely bring users a better experience. Without corresponding conversion capabilities, using more advanced technologies may not necessarily satisfy users, and may also cause reverse effects. Just like other game production companies, over the years, have tried many times to use faster processors and larger memory to create better games than Taiyu Technology.
Every time I blew it up in advance, but after the actual launch, game fans were greatly disappointed. They felt that they were worse than the game made by Taiyu Technology with a backward processor. After playing for a few days and satisfying the freshness, they quickly abandoned it, causing the game company to make ends meet and suffer serious losses.
For four years, game companies in various countries have not had a good game, but overall the success rate is less than single digits. If they still insist on independent development, the company may have gone bankrupt before they can succeed.
As the number of failures increased, game development companies gradually gave up their idea of developing new games and turned to a complete replication of Taiyu Technology's development route.
The same goes for this game.
If you haven't actually played it, no one knows whether the change in picture quality is enough to attract game fans and become a best-selling game.
Although everyone is full of confidence in Taiyu Technology, it is still necessary to actually play before the final conclusion can be concluded.
"Subscribe coins! You are stupid, you are investing coins!"
A technician pressed the panel a few times but failed and was stunned. The bosses and other technicians next to him were anxious. He then realized that he took the game coins handed over by someone else, and dingdong and dingdong, and savage more than twenty pieces into it in one breath.
With so many game coins, even if they first come into contact with them, no matter how bad they play, they will be able to study them slowly.
A burst of intense electronic music sounded, and the game scene changed and turned into a magnificent martial arts hall. Amid the cheers of countless audiences, two martial artists started a fierce battle in the venue.
What's going on? Why didn't you enter the game, but started playing cartoons?
"Opening animation! This is the opening animation, which is used to introduce the game background!" A group of people watched it for a few minutes. A person who often played games and loved watching cartoons suddenly had an inspiration and started to scream.
When others heard this, they looked at the narrative-style animation on the screen and also woke up at the same time.
Taiyu Technology is going to go against the will of heaven.
They actually thought of using animation to introduce game characters and backgrounds in the game console, so that players can feel more immersive and play more devotedly.
Awesome, awesome idea!
To be continued...