anovelconsole Chapter 11 Wildness, Shocking the Americas!
Chapter 11 Wildness, Shocking the Americas!
"Junior Lin, look at this part. This 256-byte memory area is SpriteRAM, which can be used for..."
[Received guidance from a senior colleague, Graphics experience +3 (Modified to 2.5x due to skill effect)]
"Let's take the Ricoh 2C02 6502 PPU as an example..."
[Received guidance from a senior colleague, Graphics experience +3 (Modified to 2.5x due to skill effect)]
【Ding! 】
[Successfully Mastered]: Technical Art
[Acquired Skill]:
[Good places to change jobs]: [Technical Artist +10, Graphic Designer +5]
Vivian didn't notice the momentary lapse in concentration when Lin Lixin appeared, and continued to diligently follow the instructions in the book.
"So we can use this to read and write to the PPU via CPU memory, but this is usually done in..."
Lin Lixin, who had been listening attentively, suddenly spoke up and took over the conversation:
"It was done during V-Blank because it affects the addresses used during drawing."
Vivian was taken aback and looked at Lin Lixin with some surprise.
He's absolutely right, but he hasn't even mentioned V-Blank yet. How did he know that?
"I understand now, so that's how it is." Lin Lixin suddenly slapped his forehead, and his thoughts instantly became clear.
Immediately, he picked up a pen and quickly scribbled on his notebook, actually writing a piece of messy code by hand.
Although most of the content used simplified pseudocode that only Lin Lixin himself could understand, Vivian quickly figured out what it was for.
This is a reel technology.
The core idea is to treat the entire game world as a huge background image, while the screen is just a fixed observation window.
During each frame, the CPU tells the graphics chip during V-Blank which coordinate of the image to align the window with in the next frame.
A smooth-moving image was faked by rapidly refreshing the screen.
Vivian was completely dumbfounded. The technical skills required for this content were difficult to master even for students in their field without serious study.
But this newcomer, who was still babbling half an hour ago, has already independently designed a mature scroll technology after only reading a few pages of related magazines?
"This is unbelievable..." Vivian even began to suspect that this guy was pretending not to know anything to tease her. "I thought Asians were best at math."
Vivian is a local, and her perception of Chinese people comes entirely from stereotypical rumors and movies.
It now appears that the rumor was true, but it was one-sided.
If all Asians had this kind of learning ability, would those guys who have studied computer graphics for two years and still can't master the basic techniques really have any room to survive?
She also plans to work in Silicon Valley after graduation.
Now, Vivian suddenly felt that her future was shrouded in gloom.
"Thank you so much, Senior Vivian." Lin Lixin stood up abruptly, expressing his sincere gratitude. "You're welcome to come to our shop sometime; everything is free for you."
He left those words behind, grabbed a few books, rushed to the counter where the librarian was, quickly completed the borrowing procedures, and then sprinted towards his apartment.
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Friday.
Lin Lixin looked Sam up and down, who looked exhausted, and felt that the guy seemed to have lost several pounds.
Over the past few days, Sam has been either attending classes or running around, getting most of the paperwork done.
The old arcade, which was covered in grease and had only one working light bulb, has been cleaned up and the Tetris prototype has been placed in the most prominent position in the middle.
Sam, pale-faced, leaned on a mop with bristles almost all falling out of its head, staring at Lin Lixin.
"It's all cleaned up...it's all cleaned up..."
Lin Lixin nodded in satisfaction and waved the black chip with a set of pins on each side in his hand.
This is an EPROM, containing the new game he just finished testing.
"Here, the new game I told you about before."
Upon seeing the surprise he had been waiting for all week, Sam seemed to have a sudden burst of energy, dropping the mop and rushing to a "Iron Plate" game.
"As you said, this 'Iron Plate Formation' has been repaired, so let's use it."
On Wednesday, Lin Lixin made a special trip here and picked out a few machines that were in relatively good condition, giving Sam a list of problems.
Lin Lixin unscrewed its back cover, replaced the EPROM, and plugged it in to turn it on.
A scan line flashes on the CRT screen, and a large title appears.
1942
After a series of considerations, Lin Lixin shifted the development focus from "Salamander" to "1942," which was more suitable for the American domestic market.
Or rather, it combines the advantages of both.
According to the original timeline, this game was released by Capcom on November 11, 1985, which is more than a year ago.
Unlike a series of new scrolling shooters of the same period, 1942 abandoned its fictional setting and turned to realism, using the Pacific War as its backdrop.
Players take on the role of an American pilot, flying a fighter jet against the Japanese Air Force.
This work is undoubtedly successful, even crucial.
The reason is very simple.
In 1983, the fledgling CAPCOM decided to enter the video game business.
As the president, Kenzo Tsujimoto recruited an equally young planner for this fledgling startup.
His name is Yoshiki Okamoto.
In later generations, he was also known as the father of Street Fighter.
1942 was the first game project he was in charge of, and it was also a super hit that allowed Capcom to establish itself in the video game industry.
Sam excitedly rushed to the machine and entered the game without waiting for Lin Lixin to give any further explanation.
But as soon as he entered, the excitement on his face faded somewhat.
This is basically "Ironclad Formation", only the map has been changed to the ocean.
The scrolling of the map is a technique that was already used in "Iron Plate".
At first glance, Sam felt only one word: disappointment.
He had expected to see a phenomenal work that would surprise him, just like Tetris.
But all Lin Lixin gave him was a cover of "Iron Plate Formation".
"Jesse, is this the new game you were talking about?"
He sighed. It seemed that Lin Lixin's creation of "Tetris" was merely a lucky guess.
How can miracles happen one after another?
Fortunately, there are masterpieces like "Tetris" to show for it, otherwise he would have really lost a lot of money on this investment. If his family found out, he would definitely be in deep trouble.
"Give it a try, you'll definitely like it."
Lin Lixin was not in a hurry. The influence of "Iron Plate Formation" was indeed very large. It was normal that all scrolling shooters of the same period could see its influence to some extent.
However, the reason why these works became hits was not because they were just repackaged as "Iron Plate Formation," but because of a very crucial new system.
The core gameplay of flight shooting games pioneered by Konami's "Gradius" has been used ever since.
Fighter jet upgrade system.