In the capital Jester these days, I have known what it means to be crowded with people.

After these investment bureaus in various provinces and cities in mainland China knew that Jester was one of the few tyrants in the Chinese business groups that came to China to invest this time, they would send people to visit them almost every day. Fortunately, Jester lived in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, and the security work here was handled by the Central Security Bureau, so as long as they didn't want to see each other, they had no choice.

However, since the tender documents of the Ministry of Electronics Industry were issued, not only the personnel of various investment and commercial institutions, but also state-owned manufacturers in various provinces and cities were like greedy cats who smelled the fishy smell, trying every means to meet Jester.

The question is that Jester is so easy to see?

For his own leisure, he didn't even meet anyone Yang Hailong had to contact with.

Besides, Jester was not responsible for this tender meeting. He didn't have all the time to spend here. He originally planned to have a little trip in the capital to see the historical sites of this era, but there were too many people who came to him with various connections. Moreover, the capital is also a territory of others. As soon as he stepped out of the Diaoyutai, someone would immediately pass on his whereabouts everywhere.

So he has been almost gone out of the gate these days, and he stayed in Diaoyutai without crossing the gate, just to appreciate this royal garden hundreds of years ago.

By the way, I would also think about what game I will do next.

In fact, Jester, who always makes these skit-level elimination games, masturbating planes, passing horizontal boards, etc., is also a bit boring. After all, he came from the era of high-realistic graphics in 2014. The hardware level at that time was even something that the era could not imagine. The current conditions are not enough, and it is impossible to make too large-scale games.

However, some games with special gameplay may be made, all for the purpose of accumulating technology in the future.

When he called back to the company last night, he asked about the progress of his father's sixteen arcade substrates. The research and development was quite smooth. Although some performance indicators cannot be compared with the few classic substrates he remembers, the research and development time is still short, and there are still many areas that can be strengthened later.

This time, the R&D plan of the arcade R&D department surprised Jester. This time, they adopted a modular R&D method and first made a low-performance sixteen-bit substrate, and based on this, gradually strengthened the performance of the module to improve the performance of the substrate. For some R&D teams who have just started R&D but are not able to make a substrate with excellent performance at one time, this method is not a very good method.

The development of the initial model of the sixteen-digit substrate is coming to an end. According to my father, the finished product will be produced in about two months.

Since there is a sixteen-bit substrate, many functions cannot be completed before can be added.

For example, sound cards and stereo sound.

Jester was reading a newspaper some time ago and accidentally saw a news about Xinjiabo's startup. A young engineer named Shen Bowang made the world's first dedicated sound card.

This news was very useful to him, so he wrote it down.

This means that with the independent sound card, stereo sound or even surround sound can be added to your sixteen-bit substrate.

In this era, the sixteen-bit CPU was enough to make its substrate process stereo or even surround sound effects. Based on this idea, Jester felt that it was possible to make a music rhythm game. In his memory, the dance machine in history appeared in the 1990s, and the arcade machine was mainly based on sixteen-bit substrates.

If you can make a dance machine, then it is naturally not a problem to do rhythm games.

Moreover, processing sound is much simpler than processing images. The biggest problem is that it requires a large amount of storage hard disk to store enough music.

Hard drives are not cheap nowadays.

The hard drive of the ST412 model of Xijie is only 10M, but the price is as high as 1,000 US dollars. As for the high-end products of 20M, it is more than 2,000 US dollars. Moreover, the hard drives of this era are absolutely luxury goods. The 286 computer that Kang Bo just released is considered the most advanced personal computer at present, with an astonishing price of 4,000 US dollars. There is no hard drive, and Apple's Macintosh graphics interface computer.

Although there is no need to be as realistic as later generations, if you want to store more than fifty songs, you need to at least three 10M hard drives, but the cost of a hard drive is as high as 3,000 US dollars.

So how much does the final finished arcade cost?

What Jester wanted to do this time is a rhythm game similar to the later Namco's "Taigu Master". Of course, it is definitely not that high-end to do it now. However, in GBA, you could have done "Rhythm Heaven", so now you can make a similar rhythm game by yourself, and the problem is not that big. Of course, it is definitely impossible to do it as good as "Rhythm Heaven". After all, GBA uses 32-bit CPUs, and there is an insurmountable search for the 16-bit CPUs.

However, it is not twenty years later. The concept of rhythm games has long been popular at that time. Now, no one has realized that just a simple music rhythm can be made into extremely interesting games.

After all, it's an outrageous era when all of them can sell millions of copies on FC.

This era is an era of land grabbing in the gaming industry. Creative leadership is often more important than quality.

However, despite saying that, his understanding of hardware can only be said to be superficial. Jester is not sure whether he can do it. He has to consult carefully after going back, but in his opinion, he should be absolutely inseparable.

The price problem is easy to solve. At worst, you can set the price higher. According to the stupidity of Americans, even if you are a piece of shit, as long as you can be very high, you are not afraid of them coming to try it out. As long as they are willing to try it out, then there is nothing to be afraid of.

Jester has great confidence in the attractiveness of rhythm games to Americans. After all, the horror sales of "Guitar Hero" that Activision relies on to become famous in later generations have proved this countless times.

The question is, what should I do with Leku?

You can't rely solely on buying the copyright of music from American music companies, right? Jester shook his head. It's definitely not possible to do this. The cost is too high. But if you don't do this, how can you find at least dozens or even hundreds of songs of different difficulty levels to form the initial game library in a short period of time?

This is a problem.

While Jester was sitting in the garden of Building 16, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, thinking about this issue, a waiter came to tell him that someone was going to see him.

Originally, Jester thought that the officials at all levels who came to get the opportunity to go to the backdoor of the investment promotion meeting from him, and planned to say nothing as usual, but he thought that he had notified the waiter before, and he didn't need to report any such notification.

So he asked and then realized that this time, two officials from the Ministry of Culture came to visit him because of other things, not for the downstream manufacturers of his electronics factory to attract investment.

After thinking for a while, Jester received the two officials from the Ministry of Culture in the reception room of Building 16. To be precise, there was only one official, and the other was a professor from the Alto.

After chatting for a few words, Jester understood their purpose.

It turned out that the poem he recited was sent back to China at the banquet that welcomed the Olympic delegation in the United States. The professor in the alto industry thought it was well written and it was very touching as the lyrics, so he had the idea of ​​compiling a song for this lyrics.

If Jester didn't come to the mainland, it would have been enough to make a statement directly, but no one in China cares about this. However, Jester is a big capitalist who comes to the mainland to invest and a Chinese businessman valued by the central government. Now, he naturally cannot blatantly infringe on his copyright.

That's why this visit was made.

After hearing this, Jester also understood that he personally didn't care about this matter. Anyway, he copied the lyrics from others. Since someone was willing to compose the music for this lyrics, he was naturally willing. As for whether it was money or not, he didn't believe that a current alto teacher could take out any money. Naturally, he would be exempted from the style.

After receiving Jester's affirmative answer, the professor of the altogether quickly expressed his gratitude.

However, after meeting these two mainland literary and artistic people, Jester thought of his previous question about the large number of music libraries of different levels of difficulty needed to make music rhythm games, so he thought it was all unintentional to ask.

"Two gentlemen, I actually have a good time to ask you to help you. I want to acquire a large number of high-level music in China, and the difficulty of playing is simple and difficult. I don't know if you can think of a solution?" Jester said carefully. I'm afraid the other party didn't understand what he meant, so he found some songs that were not suitable for rhythm game modifications. So after he finished speaking, he continued to add.

"What I want is a song with a fast and strong rhythm. If the rhythm is too soothing, there is no need to."

After hearing Jester's words, the official from the Ministry of Culture looked at the middle-aged man with black-framed glasses and a beard on the side and showed a smile.

The official smiled and said, "Mr. Li, you are asking the right person. Professor Hu is in front of you. He doesn't have many other things, but he has composed many songs. His only hobby is writing music. He has composed music since he didn't graduate and has been a teacher for 20 years in the alto industry. He has not published it, and there are thousands of songs in various types and difficulties. There are no need to bother others about the songs you want. But this Professor Hu is enough to help you."

When Jester heard the official's words, he carefully looked at the professor Hu, who had never said a word since he came to this living room, except for thanking him for asking him to compose the lyrics.

To be honest, the other person's appearance is very ordinary and there is no surprise. He is wearing a somewhat old but clean Zhongshan suit and short hair, giving people a refreshing and dry feeling, but that's all.

Anyway, with Jester's eyes, I can't tell that the middle-aged man in front of me who is not very good-looking is actually a great man who has written thousands of songs.

Seeing that Jester didn't speak, the official from the Ministry of Culture thought he was doubting the level of Professor Hu, and quickly explained: "Mr. Li, Professor Hu has a high level of composition. The "Guzheng Singing" he wrote before had been performed in the middle and south of the sea. For this reason, Guangming Daily also wrote a complete page of comments on this song. Even in the domestic composition industry, Professor Hu is a well-deserved master."

This made Jester even more curious. He looked at Professor Hu in front of him again. He was not familiar with the music industry in his previous life and didn't know many people, let alone those who had seen photos. He was sure that he could not recognize the identity of the other person from his appearance.

So he asked curiously: "What do you call this Professor Hu?"
Chapter completed!