In Yang Yun's brief introduction, the dance machine in these four games is an arcade machine, a dance mat peripheral, and the other three are all video games, why is there no PC game?

Inoue Yanxiong, Fang Jindong, Zhang Guoqiang They all looked at Yang Yun in surprise, only Zhao Yongping knew Yang Yun's plan, but he wouldn't say it.

It's not that there are no PC games, but another company, KTT Company, which is a shareholder of the Blackstone Group, has taken on the heavy responsibility of sweeping PC games, and the meat grinder of capital is about to be put into operation!

Yang Yun would not take the initiative to mention this matter, after all, the fewer people who know, the better, and he only used the sentence "The PC hardware is not up to the requirements" to easily dispel the doubts of others.

Then he elaborated: "I want to start by talking about the design of the new handle for SS. Near East, the technology you've accumulated over the years in Sega's hardware labs, as well as the results of your collaboration with Sony, is now the time to give you an answer! ”

There will always be some special peripherals on the home game console, such as laser guns, dance mats, and somatosensory control gloves, which are made to meet the increasingly novel needs of gamers.

The controller is also evolving, the simple D-pad on the FC plus two buttons, the development of start pause as well as four buttons, the shaker joystick, and then to the Wii, there is only one reason to update to meet the needs of players.

Yang Yun held a Sega SS handle and said: "Our current controller, the left side is a four-way cross button, and the right side is a four-way function button, I didn't give much advice on this design at the beginning, I think you should know why." ”

The SS controller is almost identical to the Sony PS controller. Fang Jindong was the supervisor in charge of the hardware room, when the SS host was launched. He is a combination of MD and SFC design, adding human engineering things. It's just that the handle is thickened.

Now mentioning this matter again, Fang Jindong is a little embarrassed: "I know, this is actually the inspiration we got when we worked with Sony, to be precise, it should be mostly due to Sony, I just made minor modifications." However, because SS came out early, we still got the patent for the handle last month. ”

Yang Yun nodded: "Since you got it, there will be no patent disputes." I'm going to continue to add functionality in this middle area. Add two joystick buttons, L3 and R3 respectively when pressed. ”

This is the model of the PS2 controller, Yang Yun is very familiar with it, and he is very accustomed to it.

"Joystick?" Fang Jindong was puzzled: "But the arcade joystick control is not convenient, and the maximum is only eight directions with induction chips." ”

Yang Yun drew a sketch and said: "The joystick in the eight directions is not enough, the handle should be divided into 16 contact areas, the signal of each contact point is different, and the response speed of the cursor is also different." We try to make this original joystick as much as possible. It can realize the function of free movement of mechanical mouse. ”

A group of people were stunned, what is a mechanical mouse? Nobody knows, the mouse has heard of it, but that thing. Did it work?

Yang Yun was also stunned, and asked rhetorically: "You don't know about mechanical mice?" It's the roller ......"

Startled, Yang Yun came to his senses!

The current PC is still in the DOS era. The average person has never used a mouse!

And it wasn't until the Windows 2.1 era that the Microsoft operating system supported mouse control. It is compatible with such a special peripheral in terms of graphics processing!

It's rare to even see a mouse, and you really haven't heard of a mechanical mouse!

Yang Yun secretly complained in his heart. However, it is also easy to round up this almost fatal bug: "I have seen their mechanical mouse in the ATI real yàn room, and it is very convenient. If I use this joystick, I hope to use the joystick of the left thumb of the guò player to allow the cursor to move freely on the TV screen as he wants. ”

The requirements are simple, and with the joystick, many games are no longer a problem, such as arcade portings, real-time strategy games, and Zuma, who is ready to make zuò.

Zuma, who can't accurately and quickly control the position and direction of the cursor, is not a good Zuma, the speed of the stone frog's rotation cannot be solved, and the speed of spitting beads is too slow, and the game cannot be played well, so the problem of the controller must be solved.

Fang Jindong agreed, and then listened to Yang Yun explain the design of the dance carpet.

"Nintendo developed a tablet sensing peripheral PowerPad for their NES, and all we had to do was improve the gadget and make it a ...... Square cloth pad! ”

Yang Yun drew an eight-sided dance mat on the paper, marked the dimensions around it, and introduced: "The dance mat can accept TV signals and be plugged directly into the TV set, but it can only be selected from a fixed song library in the memory." However, we need to be able to reserve an interface that can be connected to the SS console and can read the game program on the SS disc, so that it will not be limited by the number of songs and the definition. ”

Fang Jindong understood and said with a smile: "This circuit board is easy to design, and the cost is not high, a Z80 chip can handle all the content." ”

Yang Yun laughed: "It's as if the Z80 is very cheap...... No matter how cheap it is, it will cost more than a dozen dollars! ”

Once the hardware is planned, the software content is next.

The dance machine is simple, and the lively DJ dance music is enough, and the first song that Yang Yun thinks of is the rabbit dance.

Left，Left

Right，Right

Go，

Turn-Around，

GoGoGo！

This rabbit dance can be called a horse riding dance in the 90s, to be precise, its popularity began in the era of dance machines, from Europe to Taiwan, and then followed the Taiwanese dance carpet to become popular, popular throughout Asia, and another song "Butterfly" is listed as the most popular DJ dance music.

Yang Yun clearly remembers that at the most popular time, kindergarten children danced rabbit dances under the guidance of teachers, primary and secondary school parties organized rabbit dances, street aunts did not twist Yangge to dance rabbit dances, and even held parties in factories, those white-collar workers to increase the cohesion of the company, all love to dance a rabbit dance.

The most classic is a group of people in a circle, the people in the back put their hands on the shoulders of the people in front, and then collectively beat with the slogans of the left, left and right, that is the national festival!

This seems to be the prelude to square dancing......

However, it is unrealistic to block the trend of history, Yang Yun doesn't know who sang this song, it is impossible to block it, and there is no need to block it.

Yang Yun decided to guide it as much as possible, for example, on the video game, adding a lot of other popular DJ songs instead of this one or two, which made people feel that it was not enjoyable to dance it to the end.

After drawing arrows in eight directions on the ground, Yang Yun plugged in a dual-card tape recorder, briefly checked a cassette tape placed inside, and said: "This cassette tape was bought by someone from the northeast with great difficulty, called "Savege-Disco", which can be said to be the first album of European and American disco songs in China. Now I'll do a demonstration in person, Guoqiang, when I'm ready, you put the first song, Twilight-Zone remix!"

Zhang Guoqiang was a little curious, he never knew about buying tapes or anything, as a computer engineer who has been doing programming all year round, he didn't know anything about music.

Yang Yun stood in the middle position, nodded his head, Zhang Guoqiang pressed the play button, and suddenly the alarm sounded, and the high-power horn startled everyone, staring at the tape recorder in surprise.

Immediately after that, a series of fierce drumbeats sounded, which was very rhythmic, and in addition to being inexplicable, everyone heard Yang Yun say: "Watch me demonstrate!" Every drum beat is an action, the game interface scrolls up the direction icon, and when the moving direction icon coincides with the fixed direction icon, press the corresponding arrow key with your foot, which represents a beat. ”

Everyone looked at Yang Yun's feet, his sense of rhythm was very good, every step was stepped on the beat of the drum, very rhythmic, the first beat was up, after the second beat was stepped on, then left, then right.

"Look!" Yang Yun shouted.

When the speed of the dance music doubled, Yang Yun began to jump, landing with both feet at the same time, left and right, front and back, the whole person was beating all the time, people couldn't help but follow his body and shake it together.

The speed was getting faster and faster, and Yang Yun stepped on every drum beat as much as he could, his feet did not stop, jumping back and forth on the four buttons.

Halfway through the jump, the first chorus part was finished, and Yang Yun stopped and motioned to turn off the tape recorder.

"Do you understand how this game is played?" Yang Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead, there was heating in the house, he was afraid that he would dance hot, and only a single layer of clothes would be left behind, but he still couldn't stand this high-intensity disco music.

Inoue Yoshio, a Japanese man in his 30s, almost fainted, when had he ever been to a place like disco?

Xiang Tian, a traditional Chinese old man, finds it even more incredible, this kind of English rock song is simply a magic sound outside the sky for him.

Zhang Guoqiang opened his mouth wide, looked at Yang Yun enviously, and said: "Mr. Yang, this is the first time I have heard this kind of dance music, and the first time I have watched your demonstration, although I can't understand it, I think it's amazing!" I'm sure you've created another zào out of a trendy thing! ”

Yang Yun said with a smile: "I didn't create zào for dancing, you go to the streets and alleys to take a look, discotheques are everywhere these days." You people, stay in the R&D center every day and don't go out to contact the society, how can you have good game ideas if you are not grounded? ”

Everyone can only laugh, this is the characteristic of otaku, all day to night, every day is the company, family, colleagues, family, make so much money, I don't know how to spend it......

Yang Yun said: "This is still a simple version, just four arrow keys. We can choreograph combinations in eight directions, and we can also push the limits of people to speed up. As long as the songs are good and the steps are reasonably designed, it is not a dream to let the dance carpet join the national fitness! (To be continued......)