The resignation of three key employees of Konami was indeed made by Yang Yun, and the high liquidated damages were also paid in advance through Fengyun Company, totaling 26 million yen, and Yang Yun spent a lot of money.

Because these three people are the backbone of Konami, they are game planning, art and soundtrack, which happens to be the most important small combination for making love development games.

Feng Qi, who traveled in the United States for two months, quietly came to Japan, where he set up a game production company called SZone in Kyoto, which means Sex-Zone (abbreviation for Sex-Zone), and recruited many senior employees from a number of adult game production companies in Japan that were hit hard in the low ebb, and in just half a month, the company has begun to take shape, with more than 20 programmers.

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

If last Yuejing knew that his key employees were being dug to do HGame, would he be so angry that he vomited blood on the spot?

So Yang Yun still couldn't help but say nothing, he was worried that Shangyue Jingzheng couldn't bear this blow, so he smiled and fooled the problem.

Konami lost and exchanged the suspension of the sale of "OnlyLove" for the opportunity to be acquired by Yang Yun peacefully, but there are still a lot of things that Yang Yun needs to settle behind.

The first is the launch of the dragon version of "Heartbeat Memories".

The next day, Yang Yun summoned Wang Zhe and Hayabusa Nakayama. There are also Ma Liang and these people discussing the host matter, and the problem has reached a serious point. If you don't solve it, you can't do it.

"Last month, Jing Zheng conceded defeat after seeing our CD-MD, but he didn't know that it was just a sample in our lab. The combination of dual 16CPU+32GPU is still flawed. I'm quite unhappy with the efficiency of Sega's hardware department! ”

Yang Yun first aimed his artillery at Hayakuo Nakayama, pointing directly at the inefficiency of the hardware laboratory.

Hayao Nakayama had no choice, and he did his best: "Yang, but this host is very stable, it does surpass SFC in various data, and it is a CD medium, in line with the latest trend, I think it can be launched in three months." It's not impossible to let it replace Saturn in the original jihua. ”

still insists on double 16, this is the stubbornness of Zhongshan Hayabusa, and Yang Yun's biggest headache is this.

"President Nakayama, although I rarely interfere in Sega's internal decision-making, on the console, I have to force it once. Dual 16-bit CPU scheme, I strongly disagree! ”

Knowing that the Saturn machine with dual 32-bit CPUs has lost to Sony's PS, what kind of dual 16-bit do you do?

And now it's cool for a while, it seems to have surpassed the SFC across the board. Players flocked to it and spent a lot of money to update the double 16-bit, but within a year or two, the hosts of the 32-bit CPU came out. Do you want players to continue to pay for consoles?

Yang Yun said coldly: "Although I am the producer of the game, I am also a senior gamer, do you all take my words as the wind?" Players feel the most important. We want to put the interests of our customers first! Double 16 is definitely not good, less than two years. Double 16 bits will be eliminated, so the extra part of the cost of consumer upgrading. Who pays? ”

Everyone was silent, not daring to express their opinions casually, and could only watch the two bosses arguing non-stop.

The Sega Hardware Laboratory is a base for Hayabusa Nakayama, but he feels very aggrieved when he is repeatedly rejected by Yang Yun.

Before the Chinese New Year, there was a dispute within Sega's hardware labs, with some people thinking that they could follow the example of SNK and make a new version of dual 16-bit CPUs to counter the menacing SFC.

But at that time, the GPU was still a dual 8-bit product, even if the CPU processing efficiency was improved, but the graphics processing was still quite bad, which is the main reason why Yang Yun's part of the people strongly vetoed the dual 16-bit CPU and prepared to directly develop 32-bit, because it was a waste of time.

During the Spring Festival, Sega made a box card test upgrade MD with dual 16-bit CPU and dual 8-bit GPU, Yang Yun and Lin Zhihong played The King of Fighters, and they were still quite dissatisfied with the graphics processing effect, which strengthened Yang Yun's determination to veto the double 16-bit.

After the Chinese New Year, Sega continued to develop and made progress with Sony on the CD standard, obtained the CD-ROM jishu, started the CD version of shiyan dual 16-bit CPU and dual 8-bit GPU, and made a prototype at the end of March.

At this time, Konami's "OnlyLove" continued to promote and build momentum, which put a lot of pressure on Yang Yun, and if the Sega console could not achieve a qualitative leap, no matter how many transitional versions were meaningless.

Longteng has been holding back, and a large part of the reason is that its own hardware has also fallen into a bottleneck.

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

Yang Yun didn't say a word, and asked Sega Labs to integrate these hardware and install the GPU on multiple versions of MD, but hardware research and development is not a result in a day or two.

With the help of experts sent by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lenovo and other institutions, as well as graphics card hardware experts sent by ATI, Sega Labs used nearly 20 people and took two weeks to integrate a CD medium, dual 16-bit CPUs, plus a beta version of ATI's special 32-bit GPU, which is the version seen by Jing Zheng last month, and the performance is quite stable.

Yang Yun's own pressure is also quite large, his requirements are a single 32-bit CPU, a single 32-bit GPU, and then use Sony's parts to make a PS-level host out, so that it can be used until N64 appears, or simply use PS2 to appear, that is a full 11 years!

3D games are the most important part of Yang Yun, what dual 16-bit CPU, dual 32-bit CPU, all of them are a money-loser.

More hardware means that the cost rises, the price rises, but the cost performance is very low, which greatly affects the interests of consumers.

Moreover, the host is not sure of the hardware for a day, so the development kit can not be determined, the graphics control code, the running instruction set, these call methods have to change, and the content of the development kit of dual CPU and single CPU is very 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.

I can't even stand my own people, what game platform are you talking about? Hundreds of small and medium-sized producers attached to Sega's gaming platform have to change their programmers' coding habits and increase their workload for no reason.

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

"But we still can't master the production of 32-bit CPU and 32-bit GPU......" After Hayabusa Nakayama was forcefully resisted by Yang Yun, his voice couldn't help but be three points smaller, and he hesitated a little.

If Yang Yun persists strongly, he will begin to doubt his own vision, after all, he sometimes makes mistakes in judgment, and Yang Yun almost never misses.

Hearing this, Yang Yun was irritable here, and now the research and development of 32-bit CPUs is still in the hands of NEC, but NEC is ready to enter the game industry independently and launch its own console, and their support for Sega is no longer so strong.

In order to change its unfavorable situation, Sega had to contact other pure CPU manufacturers, including Toshiba, Sharp, IBM, Motorola, and preferably one that would not cooperate with Longteng who had a conflict of interest.

However, the transformation from NEC to other manufacturers means that many things have to be reversed, and Yang Yun does not dare to change suppliers at will when there is no stable supply of CPUs.

"Contact Motorola, Sega changes CPU supplier and no longer uses NEC's chips!" Yang Yun was ruthless, and he would get through the difficulties in front of him first.

As for Motorola's continuous sale of semiconductor business, smartphone business, and mobile business in the future, it is none of Yang's business, and he will try to contact more chip suppliers in a few years, such as Intel or IBM.

Everyone was shocked!

"Mr. Yang! Does the matter of changing the CPU need to be carefully considered? Wang Zhe was the first to speak, and he hesitated: "NEC's contract will only expire in the year after tomorrow, and our original Saturn host can use Motorola CPUs, but now it is interrupted for no reason, which will make us have irreconcilable contradictions with NEC!" ”

Yang Yun disagreed: "MD still continues to produce, still purchase NEC chips, but the new Saturn does not have to be like this, as long as our MD does not stop production, NEC has no reason to embarrass us, even if there is a minimum order of 2 million CPUs per year, all for me to eat, we Chinese mainland even 20 million CPUs to eat!" ”

Hayao Nakayama was embarrassed: "If you change the Motorola chip, it will take at least half a year to develop and debug, and the 32-bit Saturn machine will be developed in the first half of 1993 at the earliest, and then it will be mass-produced." In that case, what about "Heartbeat Memories"? Is it to release the cassette version on a 16-bit MD? Or is it released on a 16-bit CD-MD? Or will it be delayed until after Saturn is released? ”

Yang Yun propped his head, his fingers were unconsciously tapping on the table, and it took a long time to say: "Release the cassette version on 16 MDs!" After Saturn is made, consumers who purchase the heartbeat memory cassette version can bring the original card to the Sega store for free to exchange for a CD game disc, which we will bear. ”

Everyone immediately heard something interesting, this is actually a trick to play! (To be continued......)