On September 26, 1985, Zhao Ye and his entourage returned to China.

As soon as he returned to China, Zhao Ye went to the game console development department for the first time.

Wang Jizhi led Zhao Ye to the laboratory, took out a motherboard, and said to Zhao Ye, "Boss, this is a sample of the game motherboard, the developers are still testing it, if there is no problem, they will determine this one, and then start designing the shell for the game motherboard." ”

Gaming motherboards are actually much easier to develop than PC motherboards.

It is said that IBM-PC was born because of the reference to the Atari game console.

Wang Jizhi's team itself has experience in the development of Hanka, typewriters, and computer motherboards, so it is very handy to develop game consoles.

And Zhao Ye has also pointed out the development direction and technical difficulties before, so it is really not difficult to develop this game console.

In the previous life, what technology did the company that made the Xiaobawang game console have at all?

"Test it out now, I'm going to see how it works!"

"Okay."

A staff member immediately connected the game motherboard to the TV,And then insert a self-made game card,This game is also developed by Wang Jizhi and others,A small game used for testing,Imitate FC's "Donkey Kong" gameplay,But it's simpler,Mainly used to test the game screen、Sound effects, etc.,On playability,It's not big。

Zhao Ye quickly frowned, this game screen is not as good as "Donkey Kong".

Wang Jizhi saw Zhao Ye's dissatisfaction, and hurriedly explained: "Boss, due to the short time, this small game we developed based on Nintendo's "Donkey Kong" is relatively simple, mainly used to test whether the game motherboard can operate normally. If you want to test the performance limit of a gaming motherboard, you need to develop more complex games, after all, no matter how strong the gaming motherboard is, the graphics of the game software are simple, and there is no effect on it. ”

When Zhao Ye heard this, he couldn't help but nodded.

At this time, he suddenly thought that in order to enhance the game screen, Nintendo also specially added a self-developed chip MMC to the game cartridge.

This MMC chip not only enhances the picture, but also adds the ability to save games and support for multi-directional scrolling, making split-screen scrolling easier to execute. Split-screen scrolling was a pseudo-multi-scrolling effect that was heavily used in FC games, which was quite impressive for the time.

"I remember that Nintendo seemed to have developed the first MMC 1 in 1987, but I even knew what the generations behind the MMC chip looked like......"

Thinking of this, Zhao Ye couldn't help but show a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It seems that in order to enhance the game screen, I first have to design an MMC chip, although in doing so, the cost of the game cartridge has gone up, but the game screen is better, the game experience will be better, and it can also support game saves.

It can also expand the memory on the MMC chip, breaking through the storage capacity of the game cartridge, allowing game developers to develop larger games. ”

Now, if you want to test the performance of a gaming console motherboard, you first need to develop a powerful gaming cartridge.

Fortunately, this MMC chip is not very complicated, it is not the same as a microprocessor, and the functions are much simpler.

Later, Zhao Ye called the game developer over.

From the RB side, 123 people came one after another. There are also 122 people in the mainland, who are high-achieving students recruited by Wujiang Company from universities across the country, including programmers, artists, game music composers, etc......

Zhao Ye plans to develop "Dragon Quest", "Contra", "Red Fortress", "Saroman Snake", "The Legend of Zelda", "Final Fantasy", and "Pokemon" together.

There are 245 developers and seven game projects, with an average of 35 people per project.

Wang Jizhi and others were not idle, Zhao Ye gave them a new task, to buy CD patented technology from Sony and Philips, and the next generation of game consoles must use CD discs.

CD is a joint invention of Sony and Philips, and in 1982 it was released the Red Book standard that developed the CD-DA laser turntable.

If Wujiang wants to develop a CD game console, it can only pay the patents to these two companies.

There is no way, Zhao Ye is too late to be reborn.

However, DVDs can still compete, but it does not mean that Wujiang wants to monopolize the DVD standard, but it is to join forces with others to develop the standard together.

I'm afraid that no one will support the DVD standard developed by Wujiang Company.

CDs and DVDs seem to be both discs, but they are actually two different products.

The capacity of a normal CD is 700M, and the capacity of a regular DVD is 4.7**** for video and music CDs such as VCD, SVCD, and data recording, and DVD for video and data recording, such as DVD and MP3......

By purchasing a CD patent, you can develop VCD technology and develop VCD and super VCD standards, and before the DVD is born, super VCD may be able to sell well all over the world.

After arranging everything, Zhao Ye flew to Shanghai, and then went to Loongson Design Company.

It is not impossible for Zhao Ye to develop MMC chips alone, but it takes a long time, so Zhao Ye plans to let Loongson Design Company take out a few people to help him.

A small meeting room.

"The MMC chip is a chip applied to the game cartridge, the main function is to enhance the game screen, and there is also a storage function, so as to enhance the storage capacity of the game cartridge......"

Zhao Ye gushed about the functions, design directions and technical difficulties of MMC chips to the newly formed MMC chip design team.

When it comes to the actual design and development of the chip, Zhao Ye will be responsible for building the main architecture of the MMC chip, and then assign tasks to each member of the design team.

After introducing MMC in the morning, I went straight to the formal development process in the afternoon.

Don't delay for a moment.

Not only does it take time to design a chip, but it also takes time to verify and mass produce the chip.

In addition, the development of modern game cartridges (cartridges with MMC chips) also takes time, and finally tests on console gamepads.

Time is tight.

……

In the Netherlands, Wang Jizhi and others came to Philips.

After seeing Philips' senior management again, Wang Jizhi expressed his intentions.

"Borderless intends to purchase the license rights to Philips' patented technology for recordable CD discs!"

Philips senior Larry Rutherford was slightly shocked when he heard this, Philips originally wanted to promote CDs, so he said to Wang Jizhi, "This is a good discussion, our company has already formulated a cooperation method, you can consider it: for each recordable CD disc produced, you only need to pay Philips a patent fee of 3.5 cents!" ”

When Wang Jizhi heard this, he almost scolded his mother.

It's so expensive, don't look at the cheap CD, it's only 3.5 cents, but the number is too much, and the patent fee is quite a lot. If the CD circulation exceeds 1 billion, wouldn't it cost Philips $35 million?

Wang Jizhi immediately shook his head, saying that he couldn't accept this price.

"It's too expensive, I can't accept it!"

Wang Jizhi said, "I think we should change the way of cooperation, Wujiang Company directly buys out the CD technology patent license at one time, and then produces CD discs, no matter how many CD discs, no matter how many they are, without paying any patent fees to your company!" ”

Before Larry Rutherford heard Wang Jizhi's offer, he directly refused sternly: "Mr. Wang Jizhi, Philips will not authorize this method!! ”

Obviously, Larry Rutherford, or Philips, knows better how to keep wool for longer.

"So, let's continue with the previous topic, since you think 3.5 cents is a bit expensive, then we can talk about it again, Philips is willing to reduce the floor price of 3.5 cents per piece by another 0.25 cents."

Wang Jizhi shook his head and said, "I think, I need to ask my boss about this matter, our company's purpose is to buy the patent license of CD at one time." Therefore, since we cannot achieve this goal, we can only terminate the negotiations. ”

After speaking, Wang Jizhi stood up and said goodbye to Larry Rutherford.

Back at the hotel, Wang Jizhi immediately reported the results of the first negotiation with Philips to Zhao Ye.

When Zhao Ye heard this, he seemed to have expected the result of Wang Jizhi's trip, but he still had a hint of luck before he let Wang Jizhi try.

"In that case, let's do what Philips says, but the price has to go down, and I only accept 2.5 cents per piece!"

"Okay, boss, I'll do my best to fight for it!"

"Well, that's it, hang up."

Zhao Ye hung up the phone, his face was not very good-looking.

You do the first year of junior high school, and I do the fifteenth.

CD standard, I'm out of line.

But the DVD standard, Borderless Company must seize a place, and when the time comes, it will also collect your money!