The world's first quasi-16-bit console, PC Engine is its full name, and the cassette uses a special package ROM card developed by Mitsubishi - BEE CARD, which is much smaller than the FC game card at the time, which is very amazing.

The PC Engine was once extremely popular in Japan, beating Nintendo's FC consoles in sales shortly after its launch.

In terms of storage, the PC Engine is also the first home game console to be equipped with an optional CD module, which makes it have the standard benefits of a CD carrier: more storage space, cheaper carrier costs, and the ability to play Red Book standard CD music. With an efficient design, support from some of Japan's largest game software manufacturers, and the ability to add CD-ROMs, PC Engine has a wide range of game software to use. Among them, there are hundreds of games in HuCard and CD format each.

This is a game console jointly developed by two Japanese companies, Mitsubishi and NEC, and it is not without the intention of challenging Nintendo.

Initially, Mitsubishi was looking for financial support for the company's home game consoles, and NEC was looking for a way to enter the video game market.

The reason why it is said that this is a quasi-16-bit machine is because although its main CPU is a reinforced version of the 6502 known as the HuC6280 with a speed of 7.16 Mhz.

But with the help of a dedicated 16-bit graphics chip, its performance is very close to that of a true 16-bit host.

There is 64K RAM on the PCE main unit, and the maximum number of colors is 512, which is the same level as the MD that has not yet been released, and it can display 256 colors on the same screen, with a maximum resolution of 256X216.6 channels of stereo sound sources.

These configurations continued to dominate the market until after the release of MD.

However, because it has always been produced and released in Japan, there is no rice version, and there is no European version.

Just when Li Fangcheng was just beginning to enter the game market at that time, it was also last year, in October 1987, this console was officially released.

Of course, because of congenital deficiencies, it has not been able to cause a particularly big repercussion, after all, no matter how good the host is, if there is no software manufacturer to join, it is a box.

In fact, the console only had 12 games until three years later.

You can imagine how bleak this amount is.

But compared to the sales of 2.5 million units, you can imagine what a powerful host it is.

And their technology, in Li Fangcheng's eyes, of course, is nothing to hide, as a person who knows a lot about game consoles, he mainly bought one to study, and it is not difficult to crack the core data inside.

Therefore, after determining the establishment of Miracle Technology, Li Fangcheng asked people to buy a PCE, and after studying and cracking it, he told Liu Chuanzhi all the core technologies, so that there was only the problem of debugging compatibility and selecting hardware collocation.

Whether it's a CPU, a graphics chip or other originals, there must be a manufacturer who makes it, and after spending a lot of effort, it's unceremonious to say that the current miracle technology also has the ability to make 16-bit hosts.

It's just that Li Fangcheng can only keep all this in the country!

Huaxia will not attract the attention of Sega and Nintendo now, but if Li Fangcheng dares to show the slightest act of privately making consoles, then there is no doubt that Nintendo will definitely welcome Nintendo's full suppression and Sega's abandonment.

And this game test, even have to be selected again and again, to confirm that it is those students who have no possibility of going abroad, students whose families are not wealthy, and players at the bottom of the society, all let these people conduct the game test, otherwise once it is known to those who have the slightest connection with Japan, then compared to Nintendo and Sega in Japan, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no problems.

Unlike PCE, the flaw of this console is the scarcity of third parties, which leads to empty performance, but not many games.

And if a third party can make three blockbuster works, it will be the host by itself......

How is this different from Nintendo and Sega?

Isn't Nintendo making console games itself?

Hasn't Sega been making arcade games on its own?

Therefore, it is already an extremely difficult thing for PCE to survive to the next few years, and it is absolutely impossible if it is replaced by a miracle era!

"Because of time, I won't try so much, for now, it's particularly shocking!" Tang Zekaiyan stood up and said: "Mr. Li, Li Jun, sometimes I really want to know what your head is hiding, this new type of amazing skills, can actually come up with it." ”

After Tang Zekaiyan experienced it for a few minutes, he was silent for more than ten minutes before he said this.

"Oh, it seems that Kaiyan, you think it's good, right?" Li Fangcheng said with a smile.

"Yes, Mr. Li, with all due respect, once this game is released, it will definitely have a huge impact on the entire game market! And the power of that impact will be comparable to the level of Dragon Quest 3!" Tang Zekaiyan said with a wry smile: "What type of game is this, I'm sure I've never played such a game, it's very similar to an RPG game, but it has surpassed RPG games and become a new game genre." ”

"I said this is an RPG, do you believe it?" Li Fangcheng asked irrefutablely.

Shaking his head fiercely, Tang Zekaiyan said, "I don't believe it!"

"You'll know then, so let's talk about how it's like to play. Li Fangcheng pointed to the screen and said.

"You're really a demon...... "Tang Zekaiyan said, "I'm afraid I'll watch it for a while longer, and I want to continue playing." Moreover, thinking that it's only the middle of the year, and if you're going to release it, you don't know when it's going to happen, so I feel like this whole person is not steady. ”

"It's a big deal, you have to be calm, otherwise, there will be other games later...... You can't play anymore. Li Fangcheng had no choice but to use a killer move.

"Yes, I knew you would say that!" Tang Zekaiyan said fiercely: "At present, the picture is indeed much better than the 8-bit machine, but it feels very unpopular, and there is also a sense of disobedience, it seems to be a sense of contradiction that is flat and wants to be three-dimensional, so at this point, it is a not very good aspect, at least at present, it will feel uncomfortable." ”

"Well, are there anything else?" Of course Li Fangcheng knew this question.

"Others, for example, in the style of this whole day, always feel a little strange, you look at this into the map, these always feel a little wrong, the perspective here is not right, how can you see the city wall and see the perspective of the city. Tang Zekaiyan moved the cursor and pointed to a place on the screen and said, "Look at this position." ”

"What's wrong with this position?Isn't it nice to have an extra weapon rack?" Ling Donghua looked at Tang Ze Kaiyan and picked thorns, although he knew that there were still a lot of problems in the game, but it was still a little awkward.

"No, it's not bad, it's that this placement doesn't feel right. Tang Zekaiyan shook his head and said.

"Doesn't feel right, specifically?" Ling Donghua asked with a frown when he heard such a vague answer.

"Okay, Huazi, you do this, I'll tell you. Li Fangcheng patted Ling Donghua's shoulder and said.

This Ling Donghua's original character is not afraid of heaven and earth, and now that someone is so provocative in his face, he must be somewhat unhappy, especially Tang Zekaiyan's half-understood statement, which makes him feel that this is a deliberate behavior.

So if you continue to talk to him, it is estimated that Tang Zekaiyan will not be able to say anything, so he can only come by himself.

"Kaiyan is actually right, from the perspective of the entire algorithm and process setting steps, it has been basically completed, there is no hard damage, but, on the screen, it is still a core problem. Li Fangcheng pointed to a villain and said: "The difference between our 16-bit computer and 8-bit computer lies in the excellent display ability of the picture and the processing ability of the graphics. ”

"We all know that an object is full because it is composed of six elements, light source, light surface, dark side, light and dark junction, reflective surface and projection, then when we look at this object, we will feel that it is complete and full. Li Fangcheng pointed to a person with one hand and a treasure chest with the other and said: "Look at the two objects, yes, it seems that the necessary conditions are complete, but don't you think this feels like they are glued together?"

"Adhesion, but, if you look at it algorithmically, this is a normal way to deal with it, right?" Ling Donghua still didn't quite understand.

"Yes, you're right, you set the condition that if this person stands on this left, then the other color blocks on the left will be hidden, right? But in this way, it will still be limited to the limit of 8-bit computers, to put it simply, 16-bit computers can show another kind of rich layer, such as the tree you just talked about when I came. ”

"Actually, the idea is right, if you want the tree to grow on the map, not stick to the map, you have to add a light source to the tree to bring a shadow, but you subconsciously forget what it means after you finish speaking. Li Fangcheng took out a pen and paper and said while drawing: "You see, I draw a ball, this ball has a ray of light, from the upper left of it, at the same time, a shadow will appear at the bottom right of it, this is a ball, then if I have a second ball, half of this ball is in the shadow of the first ball, and the other half is in the empty area here, like this......"

Li Fangcheng quickly drew two irregular balls, one large and one small, although they were not exquisite, but they were also clear at a glance, Ling Donghua suddenly blessed his heart, and blurted out: "Three-dimensional and space!"

"Binggo! That's right! It's a sense of space!" Li Fangcheng was very pleased, and Ling Donghua finally figured it out: "You see a map I drew with you at the beginning, didn't you find that this map is different from ordinary RPG maps?"

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