Originally, there was a top programmer in Jester's team, that is, Yuji Naka, who helped him develop the FC simulator, but Yuji Naka's interest in designing games was much greater than his interest in programming, and he had expressed to himself more than once that he wanted to be a game maker and not just a programmer. When Ghirberry joined his company, Jester was so excited.

Jester's most important job in Japan this time was to recruit some people who could be used by him or some excellent game development companies, but in addition to the previous recruitment of Matsuno Yasuji and Nobuo Uematsu, the results achieved were difficult for him to be satisfied with.

During this time, Jester visited one developer after another that had not yet officially joined Nintendo's royalty program, and although Jester's Dreambox was selling far better in the North American market than the NES, which was also in the process of being test-sold, he was unable to convince them that the North American home console market would recover, and that the market prospects would be far stronger than the Japanese market.

Just like when Sony first entered the game industry, Ken Kuta, the father of PS, personally visited Namco and Hudson to visit game development companies, but the replies were all merciless rejections, how similar is his current situation to that time?

It is true that the current video game market in Japan is the mainstream, and although the situation in the United States regarding video games has improved greatly from the past, it is indeed not comparable to Japan, where video games are currently booming.

It's even Dark Glory......

Thinking of the words of Yoichi Kashikawa when he went to Yokohama to visit the headquarters of Dark Glory before, it made Jester's teeth itch with hatred, but for Jester who plans to open up the Japanese market, the current Dark Glory is the only Japanese game developer of his Dreambox, even if it is just to do face engineering, so it is necessary to win them over.

However, when I first talked about it, I said that I wanted to add Dark Ei's "Nobunaga's Wild Hope" to the first batch of Dreambox's first release games, and Yoichi Ogawa also agreed at first, but when he officially started to burn the cassette of the first game, he asked Dark Ei about it, but was rejected by Dark Ei on the grounds that the translation process had encountered technical obstacles.

Are there technical hurdles in translating? Although Jester was extremely angry when he learned the news, he also suppressed this anger in order to win over Japan's only game development partner.

The next few times, all of them were rejected by Dark Ei for all kinds of strange or even more bizarre reasons, all of which wanted to express that I just hadn't finished the English version of "Nobunaga's Ambition" now.

This time, Jester personally went to Dark Rong to deal with this matter, and he had reached the point where he couldn't bear this delay of Dark Rong.

In fact, when he came to Japan, Tamahide Yoshiro had already told Jester the truth.

Dark Glory is different from other game developers, other game developers are mainly based on Nintendo's FC, so no matter how harsh the royalty plan proposed by Nintendo, they will also want to sharpen their brains and drill into it, because this is a very simple reason, although Nintendo's exploitation is to knock on the bone and suck the marrow, but if you don't join the FC camp, you can't even live, what do these developers care about?

You know, not just any company is qualified to be knocked out by Nintendo.

But Dark Rong is different, Dark Rong started not by FC, but by PC, and PC is a common platform, and developing games on PC naturally does not need to look at the face of PC manufacturers, so at the beginning, Dark Rong did not hesitate so much to join Jester's camp, that is, he took a fancy to Jester's guaranteed buyout plan that Jester promised him.

But the problem is that after Yoichi Kashikawa saw that the six game developers who first cooperated with Nintendo made a lot of money, and after learning that he had joined the Jester camp, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Yamauchi Pu immediately made it clear at a meeting of internal development companies that without Nintendo's permission, any developer who makes zuò games for other game platforms will automatically lose the qualification to develop games on FC.

Originally, for Yoichi Kashikawa, who had reached a cooperation intention with Jester and had signed a cooperation contract, such conditions almost stifled his last thoughts about FC and allowed him to wholeheartedly make games for Mars Entertainment, but a visit from an internal Nintendo executive put him in a dilemma.

Nintendo made it very clear to him that the contract they signed with Mars Entertainment was two years, as long as they didn't give Mars Entertainment games for these two years, then after two years, they would automatically be eligible to join the Nintendo camp, and in the first year, he would also be eligible to release five games on FC.

You must know that in addition to the six major developers, any other developers who join the Nintendo FC camp are allowed to release three games on FC every year.

Of course, Nintendo's words have been said to this part, and it is impossible for Yoichi Kashikawa not to hear the hidden meaning, if you do it for Mars Entertainment, then don't think about rejoining the FC development camp after that, if in the subsequent confrontation, Mars Entertainment's Dreambox can be completely qualified for Nintendo's FC, but this is just the beginning, who can say?

If Dreambox wins this confrontation, then if he participates in it, he will naturally have the credit of supporting the dragon, just like the first six developers to cooperate with Nintendo, and will inevitably enjoy the privileges that other development companies that joined later in the development camp of Mars Entertainment do not enjoy.

But what if FC wins in the end?

Thinking of this, Yoichi Kashikawa couldn't help but shudder, he knew Yamauchi's personality, and he also knew the style of Nintendo, a company headquartered in Kyoto, the most conservative place, if FC won this home game console war, then what was waiting for him was to give up his hard work for so many years and completely get out of the Japanese game circle.

After all, PC games can't match the profitability of home console games.

Moreover, there is another problem that deeply affects him, making him feel a little regretful about reaching an agreement with Mars Entertainment, because he is good at making zuò games that are all based on Japanese history, so these games will sell well in Japan, but the United States, the main market of Mars Entertainment, has a Japanese historical background of making its own zuò, a historical game that they have never heard of at all, will it be accepted?

This is also the reason why he has been dragging the English Dreambox of "Nobunaga's Ambition" that he did not promise to Mars Entertainment before.

Dark Rong's contract with Mars Entertainment is relatively lenient, in addition to the minimum sales guarantee promised by Jester, there is also a requirement that they release at least two games within two years, and they are not prohibited from making games on other platforms.

But Jester is not a philanthropist either, and the benefits of guaranteed sales will only work if they are exclusive to Mars Entertainment, and if Dark Rong makes games for other game platforms during this period, then this benefit will naturally be automatically canceled.

It was in this situation that Jester visited Dark Ei's headquarters, and Yoichi Kashikawa himself came out to greet him.

Jester didn't talk nonsense to him, he didn't come to be polite, but to question, just sat down in the reception room, didn't even drink tea, Jester asked in an angry tone: "Why didn't you provide us with the English version of "Nobunaga's Ambition" as we agreed?" ”

At this time, Yoichi Kashikawa was still going to fool the past with nonsense, and he explained apologetically: "Mr. Li, we encountered some technical difficulties that we could not overcome when making the English version of zuò, and now we are stepping up time to deal with it, and we will definitely make the English version of the game as soon as possible." ”

"Hey!"

Hearing Yoichi Xiangchuan's statement that he was completely fooling a layman, you just said that on the phone before, I have arrived at the scene, and you still say that? So, hearing Yoichi Kaogawa's explanation, Jester snorted coldly without saying a word.

Then he rebuked unceremoniously.

"Mr. Yoichi Kawa, I came to visit this time, it is precisely because I heard you say that you have encountered difficulties in translation a few years ago, so Terry has brought two translation experts who are proficient in Japanese and English to help you solve this difficulty, and I am also very curious, I have also participated in the translation of the game, I really can't understand, just translating a game, what kind of technical difficulties will there be, can make you unable to solve in a few months."

Seeing Jester's posture of clearly coming to Xingshi to ask for guilt, Yoichi Kashikawa was also a little unhappy, but he didn't have the idea of completely falling out with Jester, just like he was worried that if the final Nintendo victory would be doomed, what if he turned his face with Jester now, what if the winner of the final home machine battle was Mars Entertainment?

Of course, it's impossible to get the people brought by Jester to participate in the translation of the game, not that there are any secrets in the game, but he himself hasn't started translating at all, and there are no zài projects, so how about the people brought by Jester to visit or help?

Of course, it's not okay to tell the truth, after all, it's too offensive to say it.

If Jester knew that he hadn't started the official translation yet, then he would be completely offended to death, and for a wall-riding faction like Yoichi Kashikawa, it would be worth the loss. R1152