Super Game Empire

Three core employees of Korymi's resignation. Yang Yun did take action. The high liquidated damages were also paid through Fengyun Company, totaling 26 million yen. Yang Yun spent a considerable price.

Because these three people are the backbone characters of Korami, namely game planning, artwork and soundtrack, they happen to be the most important group for making love development games. Dig it up and hit Korami, and you can provide yourself with your skills.

Convenience, why not do it?

Feng Qi, who had been traveling in the United States for two months, quietly came to Japan. He set up a game production company called SZone in Kyoto, which means the sexy zone (the abbreviation of Sex-Zone). He was hit hard from Japan and was in a low period.

Many senior employees have been found in many adult game production companies. In just half a month, the company has begun to take shape and has more than 20 programmers.

After the production team of Korami's "OnlyLove" pure love development game joined, SZone quickly started working. The first game was the R-level "American Pie" focusing on Europe and the United States!

If Jing Jing had known last month that his backbone employee had been poached for HGame, would he be so angry that he vomited blood on the spot?

So Yang Yun still held back and said nothing. He was worried that Yue Jing could not bear the blow last year, so he smiled and fooled the problem.

Koryomi accepted the loss and exchanged the suspension of "OnlyLove" for Yang Yun's chance of peaceful acquisition, but there are still a lot of things that need Yang Yun to settle.

The first is the launch of Longteng's version of "Heartbeat Memories".

The next day, Yang Yun summoned Wang Zhe, Zhongshan Hayao, and Ma Liang to discuss the host matter. The problem has reached a serious point and it cannot be solved.

"Last month Jing was seeing our CD-MD and gave in, but he didn't know that this was just a sample in our laboratory. The combination of dual 16 CPU + 32 GPU still has flaws. I am quite good at the efficiency of Sega's hardware department

Not satisfied!”

Yang Yun first pointed the artillery fire at Shirooka Nakayama and pointed out that the hardware laboratory was inefficient.

Shinto Nakayama has no choice but to do his best: "Yang, but this host has a high stability, and it does surpass SFC in various data, and it is a CD medium, which is in line with the latest trend. I think it can be done in three months.

It was launched. It is not impossible to replace the original planned Saturn."

Still sticking to Double 16, this is the stubbornness of Shiroozuo, and this is what Yang Yun has the most troublesome thing.

"President Zhongshan, although I seldom interfere with Sega's internal decisions, I have to force a dual 16-bit CPU solution on the host. I strongly oppose it!"

I know that Saturn machines with dual 32-bit CPUs have lost to Sony's PS, so what are the double 16-bit ones?

And now it's a good time, it seems to have surpassed SFC in all respects. Players flocked to the market and spent a lot of money to update the double 16 bits, but within a year or two, the 32-bit CPU hosts have come out. Could it be that players will continue to pay

Money to change to the host?

Yang Yun said coldly: "Although I am the game producer, I am also a veteran game player. Do you all take my words as a wind in your ears? Players feel that the most important thing is that we should put the interests of our customers first!

Double 16 is absolutely not possible. Within two years, Double 16 will be eliminated. So who will pay for the extra expenses for consumers to renew?”

Everyone was silent and did not dare to express their opinions casually, so they could only watch the two bosses argue.

Sega Hardware Laboratory was the last base for Shirooshi Nakayama, but Yang Yun repeatedly rejected it, and he felt very frustrated.

Before the Spring Festival, there was a dispute within Sega Hardware Lab. Some people thought that they could use SNK to create a new version of dual 16-bit CPUs to fight the fierce momentum of SFC.

But at that time, GPU was still a dual 8-bit product. Even if the CPU processing efficiency was improved, the graphics processing was still quite bad. This is the main reason why Yang Yun and others strongly rejected the dual 16-bit CPU and were preparing to directly develop 32-bit, because

This is a waste of time.

During the Spring Festival, Sega made a box-type test upgrade version of MD with dual 16-bit CPUs and dual 8-bit GPUs. Yang Yun and Lin Zhihong played King of Fighters, but were still quite dissatisfied with the graphics processing effect, which further strengthened Yang Yun's determination to reject the double 16-bit

.

After the Spring Festival, Sega continued to develop and made progress in CD standards with Sony. It obtained CD-ROM technology and began to experiment with CD versions of dual 16-bit CPUs and dual 8-bit GPUs. It also made a prototype at the end of March.

At this time, Korami's "OnlyLove" continued to promote and create momentum, which put a lot of pressure on Yang Yun. If the Sega console cannot achieve a qualitative leap, no matter how many transitional versions are, it will be meaningless.

Longteng has always been reluctant to release it, a large part of the reason is that his own hardware is also in a bottleneck.

In April, ATI launched a 32-bit GPU, and it was a customized version made for Longteng Company, which is slightly different from the standard version of the PC version.

Without saying a word, Yang Yun asked Sega Lab to integrate these hardware and install the GPU on the overly modified MD, but the hardware research and development cannot be seen in a day or two.

With the help of experts sent by institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lenovo, as well as graphics card hardware experts sent by ATI, Sega Laboratory used nearly 20 people and took two weeks to integrate a CD medium with a dual 16-bit CPU.

Plus the beta version of ATI's special 32-bit GPU, which is the version that Jing Zheng saw last month, has a relatively stable performance.

Yang Yun himself is also under a lot of pressure. His requirement is to use a single 32-bit CPU and a single 32-bit GPU, and then use Sony's components to make a PS-level host. This way, it can be used until N64 appears, or simply

It only took PS2 to appear, but it lasted for a full 11 years!

3D games are what Yang Yun values ​​most. What are the dual 16-bit CPUs and dual 32-bit CPUs? Is it a money-lossing guy?

More hardware means that costs and sales prices increase, but the cost-effectiveness is very low, which greatly affects the interests of consumers.

Moreover, if the host is not sure about the hardware for a day, the development toolkit cannot be determined. The graphic control code, running instruction set, and these calling methods will change. The contents of the development toolkit for dual CPUs and single CPUs are hugely different.

In order to achieve perfect operation, the code of "Heartbeat Memories" has been refactored at least 5 times, making Ma Liang and others miserable.

Even my own people can't stand it, so what game platform is there? Changing from a single CPU to a dual CPU, hundreds of small and medium-sized producers who rely on Sega's game platform have to change their programmers' coding habits, for no reason

Increase workload.

The hardware cost has increased and the difficulty of game production has increased. This is the most fundamental reason for the demise of Sega Saturn console!

"But we still cannot master the production technology of 32-bit CPUs and 32-bit GPUs..." After Nakayama Shizuo was toughly blocked by Yang Yun, his voice couldn't help but become three points lower, and he hesitated a little.

If Yang Yun persisted hard, he would begin to doubt his vision. After all, he would sometimes make mistakes in judgment, and Yang Yun almost never missed.

Hearing this sentence, Yang Yun was irritated here. Now the research and development of 32-bit CPUs is still controlled by the NEC, but NEC is preparing to enter the gaming industry independently and launch its own console. Their support for Sega is no longer so strong.

It's right.

In order to change his adverse situation, Sega had to contact other simple CPU manufacturers, including Toshiba, Sharp, IBM, and Motorola. It is best to cooperate with manufacturers that do not have conflicts of interest with Longteng.

However, the transformation from NEC to other manufacturers means that many things have to be brought back and forth. When there is no stable CPU supply, Yang Yun dared not change suppliers at will.

"Contact Motorola, Sega changes its CPU supplier and no longer uses NEC chips!" Yang Yun made up his mind to overcome the difficulties before talking about them.

As for Motorola's continuous sales of semiconductor business, smartphone business, and mobile business in the future, it's nothing to do with Yang Yun. He will try to contact better chip suppliers, such as Intel or IBM within a few years.

Everyone was shocked!

"Mr. Yang! Do you need to consider carefully about changing CPUs?" Wang Zhe spoke first, he hesitating: "The NEC contract will not expire the year after tomorrow. Our original Saturn host can use Motorola CPUs, but now

Interruption without reason will cause us to have an irreconcilable contradiction with the NEC!”

Yang Yun disagrees: "MD still continues to produce and still purchase NEC chips, but new Saturn doesn't have to do this. As long as we MD does not stop production, NEC will have no reason to make things difficult for us. Even if there is a minimum order for 2 million CPUs every year, I will give it to me.

After eating, we can even eat 20 million CPUs in mainland China!”

Shinto Nakayama was in a dilemma: "If you change to Motorola chips, it will take at least half a year of research and development and debugging. The 32-bit Saturn machine will be developed in the first half of 1993, and then mass production. In this case, "Heartbeat"

What to do with Memories? Should I release the cassette version on 16-bit MD? Or should I release it on 16-bit CD-MD? Or should I delay the release after Saturn is launched?"

Yang Yun held his head and knocked his fingers on the table unconsciously. After a long time, he said, "Released the cassette version on 16 MDs! After Saturn is made, consumers who purchase the heartbeat memory cassette version can take it to Sega with the original card.

We will bear the cost of the specialty store for free exchange of CDs and game disks."

Everyone immediately heard something, it was actually a trick to play!