anovelconsole Chapter 90 A single sentence awakens a dreamer
Chapter 90 A single sentence awakens a dreamer
Chapter 90 A Word to Awaken a Dreamer
Despite Sam's repeated setbacks with Lin Lixin, he is, after all, a seasoned veteran in the gaming industry.
In terms of pure skill, he is definitely in the top tier.
It's just that Lin Lixin's tricks were always too outrageous, preventing him from performing at his best.
The two players adjusted the distance between their characters, each waiting for the other to make the first move.
A barely perceptible smile appeared on Sam's lips.
He was very familiar with Lin Lixin's fighting style.
If I close the distance now and adopt a stance that suggests I'm going to take the initiative, he will definitely choose to defend with a rising dragon kick.
This is the opportunity he's been looking for!
The pre-cast animation of the Rising Dragon, plus the input time, is enough for him to preemptively unleash a faster skill to counter it.
Lin Lixin has not yet seen these new skills he has learned.
Now all I need to do is provoke him to use a rising dragon punch.
Sam tentatively closed the distance a bit, adopting a stance that suggested he was going to continue the fight.
But the next moment, when the distance was compressed to the extreme, he suddenly launched an attack, pulling the joystick forward sharply and rushing towards Lin Lixin.
He was waiting, waiting for the character to move the instant that would inevitably occur when he input the rising dragon.
They were also waiting for the sound of Lin Lixin pressing the button.
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The sound of the button being pressed rang out as expected, and Sam was ready to make his move.
But almost the instant the sound rang out, Lin Lixin's Rising Dragon had already taken shape, sending him flying.
"————?"
Just how fast is it?
From the moment Lin Lixin pressed the button to the moment the rising dragon was successfully launched, it probably didn't even take 5 frames, right?
This is beyond the limit of a normal person's reaction speed.
He simply took his hands off the controllers and looked at the Hitbo in Lin Lixin's hands.
It must be this thing again.
"Instant Rising Dragon Slash, are you even playing anymore?"
As the saying goes, poor students have a lot of stationery.
But I've never heard of stationery that can automatically answer questions and get full marks!
"Can you get any more shameless?"
"It really can."
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Seeing Lin Lixin's hand reach for the switch labeled "TURBO", Sam quickly interrupted him.
"I'm not fighting anymore, I'm not fighting anymore, what is this thing?"
"Hitbo, our new peripherals, we're having a competition coming up soon, right? Since we don't have any sponsors, we'll just promote our own products first."
"You want players to use this thing in matches? What's the difference between that and cheating?"
This is a game-changer for players who are used to traditional arcade joystick inputs.
Higher precision and faster input represent a revolutionary improvement for both the power supply system and the command system.
"There are different rules, so we can adjust them flexibly according to the nature of the competition."
Lin Lixin flipped the switch in the upper left corner back to "L," which is the overwrite mode. "Besides," he said, "if everyone has it on, it means nobody has it on."
With the complete fighting game source code of Street Fighter existing, The King of Fighters did not spend much time developing its underlying gameplay.
After adjusting all the differentiated systems, the only remaining task is to populate them with content.
However, this step actually caused Lin Lixin to encounter limitations in terms of capacity.
"In the end, we still can't get around this hurdle."
The first installment of The King of Fighters, The King of Fighters '94, was the first game in the King of Fighters IP series, but it was not SNK's debut title.
In a sense, "The King of Fighters" is SNK's own all-star brawler.
Characters from SNK's titles such as Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Ikari Warriors, and Psycho Soldier came together to create this classic in the history of fighting games.
However, this also makes the roster of characters in "The King of Fighters '94" ridiculously rich.
Keep in mind that this is a game that runs on a Sega Saturn.
That was a 32-bit machine released by SEGA at the end of 94, which was worlds apart from the hardware level of today.
That's a device with 36 Mbit of memory alone!
With the current storage capacity, it would be quite difficult to build them all.
"The Japanese team definitely can't be removed; Kyo Kusanagi's flashy combos and Daimon's New Year's greeting are iconic features."
"The Fatal Fury Team won't work, the American Team is definitely not going to be cut, and the Superpower Team won't work either—"
After some searching, I suddenly discovered that among so many characters, each one has its own selling points, and none of them can be easily removed from the team.
Since that's the case, then we can only pile on the materials.
"Mr. Gerald, do we currently have the capacity to store 20MB?"
"puff!"
Gerald spat out the coffee he had just drunk, which choked him and caused him to cough repeatedly, his nose burning with pain.
"Take away the young master?"
"20MB, um -- strictly speaking, it's 17MB."
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"You're fucking going to build a rocket?"
Even Gerrard, who is usually mild-mannered, couldn't help but swear.
In an era when most games are under 64KB, 17MB is an astronomical figure.
MB-level capacities do exist, but those are used in laboratories, in commercial and scientific fields.
Games, on the other hand, are definitely a consumer market.
Gerald walked over to the Street Fighter arcade machine and patted the frame.
"See this arcade machine? Its full price—and I mean price—is only enough for us to buy a 10MB hard drive."
Research-grade hard drives are simply not something ordinary users can even consider.
Who would spend thousands of dollars to buy a game?
Even for arcade games, this price is outrageous.
"Even if we build it at any cost, it will only be a spectacle displayed in a museum."
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Sam listened to their conversation and curiously came closer.
"What's going on? Too many roles?"
"Yes, I was planning to add characters to the King of Fighters game on a team basis, but it looks like it won't be possible to do it all."
Lin Lixin handed the list of roles he had compiled to Sam and sighed.
Looking at the document, Sam scratched his head, then suddenly his eyes lit up.
"I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work. After all, I'm not an expert like Mr. Gerald."
"Tell me about it?"
Sam scurried over to NovaBo and grabbed the two Pokémon cartridges.
"There are different versions, and different versions have different characters."
Lin Lixin was overjoyed, but quickly recovered.
Sam's idea makes sense, but he overlooked one problem.
"That won't work. Players need to choose different character combinations during PvP. If we want all characters to have a chance to fight, how many versions would it take?"
"No, no, no," Sam waved his hand, "I mean, we'll have the console load two discs at the same time, one with the game itself and the built-in character."
He gestured to the name, picked up another floppy disk, "The other one, for carrying character booster packs."
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"Huh?!" Lin Lixin was stunned. "Isn't this just DLC—"
It seems like it might actually work?