Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 810 Fried rice

Chapter 810: Fried rice

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 It is a very common game console cracking routine to be guided through some special programs in the game, and then enter the underlying operating interface of the system to do whatever you want.

How can countless games, especially old games, be considered when developing games that they will become important targets for cracking on new game consoles in the future?

Suri Electronics has also suffered a lot in this regard.

At first, they wanted to imitate Yuxing Electronic Entertainment and use more versatile chips as the processors of game consoles. Then they moved all the old games to the new game consoles without any testing. In the end, Suri The electronic game console was completely cracked within a few months of its release.

In the end, the situation was barely saved by relying on the new operating system to disable a bunch of old games, at the same time drastically changing the underlying code, and adding restrictions on new games supporting the old system.

  However, being completely cracked also caused Suri Electronics to suffer a lot.

Several third-party game manufacturers that were not particularly close to each other in the first place also temporarily gave up their cooperation, and finally went to Youxing Electronic Entertainment independently.

Although the game consoles of Youxing Electronic Entertainment are inevitably cracked, the impact is much smaller.

 Zhu Youxing, a foresighted person, had considered these things early and nipped these troubles in the bud.

 When Suri Electronics and Youxing Electronic Entertainment compete, this in turn helps Zhuyouxing expand its advantages.

 However, this time no matter how the engineers who develop this operating system test and adjust, it is no longer possible to find a balance between versatility and system anti-cracking.

 Two seem to have to choose one of them.

 Either pursue versatility and wait to be crazily cracked, causing serious losses, or actively close these old games.

 Zhu Youxing asked: “Are there many games like this?”

  “There are many.”

Airi Hayasawa said: "Takeyu, I think we should give up these games for the time being. There may be solutions in the future, but we shouldn't waste too much time on these things. Aren't you still planning to release the switch game console as soon as possible? "

 You have to make a choice...

 That’s why you let yourself come?

Zhu Youxing looked at the others and asked, "What do you think? You can tell us."

"We... are also more inclined to give up these games temporarily. Once the cracking incident spreads, it will also have a great impact on our credibility. This is a much more difficult decision than Izumi's trigger button."

 Zhu Youxing did not give an answer immediately, and these people began to discuss.

Airi Hayasawa once again asked the person mainly responsible for system development: "Are you sure that these vulnerability problems cannot be completely solved?"

 He ​​shook his head: "No, the programs of these games themselves are too old. Even if our game consoles are very versatile, they still cannot avoid conflicts with each other."

“Then let’s change the idea and use a virtual machine to put these old games into it?”

“Virtual machine? That might be a viable approach.”

Airi Hayazawa immediately urged: "Then try it quickly."

Several experienced engineers immediately started rewriting the prototype system right here and added the functions of the virtual machine.

The so-called virtual machine is to run a completely isolated new operating system in the original operating system. This will not destroy the stability of the original operating system and can also run some independent programs.

 Zhu Youxing once used virtual machines to do some work such as testing the aggressiveness of viruses and the stability of large programs.

 He had forgotten this thing when he came to this world.

This is actually equivalent to developing an emulator software that is isolated from the current game console system, but this also has a shortcoming.

 Virtual machines are not 100% stable.

There is also the possibility of a subsequent crash, and if the virtual machine is completely shut down, it will also cause complete loss of data.

These people worked feverishly to rewrite the system, and finally successfully installed the virtual machine in the existing operating system.

 Then they tried to install the games that were previously confirmed to have problems one by one for testing.

“Yes! This method works! No matter how I boot the program in the virtual machine, it will not affect the stability of the original system!”

"Very good!"

These people were immediately refreshed and felt that they had found a very good solution.

But the person in charge of system development showed a worried expression. In the end, he couldn't help but said: "Well, we can't be happy too early, because the virtual machine still has many problems."

The happy voices of everyone stopped suddenly, and Airi Hayazawa also looked at the other party: "What kind of problems come with it?"

Zhu Youxing said at this time: "The instability factors of the virtual machine are not much less than the problems of cracking. For example, a sudden power outage will directly cause the hard disk to retain a large amount of junk data. These junk data may also impact the original system. For stability, you must use the most correct shutdown method."

Airi Hayasawa said subconsciously: "Then can't we use instructions to clearly instruct players on how to shut down the computer correctly?"

Zhu Youxing said: "Of course it's impossible. You can't expect players to do things according to your requirements. When the game console belongs to them, they will do a variety of operations far beyond our expectations. Sudden power outages are trivial. Yes, popular products must be as simple as possible in operation, or in other words, fool-proof."

"The president is right. Players' operations are unpredictable, and virtual machines are biased towards professional operations. Even professionals may face various troubles when operating virtual machines, let alone have no knowledge of it. Players who understand.”

Airi Hayasawa suddenly became a little discouraged and said, "Then this method won't work either?"

 The hardware and other aspects of game consoles are making very good progress, but there is a big problem with the system, which is really a bit of a headache.

“Actually, it’s not necessary to use a virtual machine. Since it’s an old game, why can’t we make a fuss about it?”

“Huh?” Airi Hayasawa asked in confusion, “Takeyu, do you have any other ideas?”

“I just thought of it. Since old games use old programming methods, why don’t we overturn them all and develop new old games using the new console’s native system.”

Airi Hayasawa stared and said, "Takeyu, do you mean to re-make all the old games? Isn't this a huge amount of work?"

"Of course, we don't have to redo everything. We can use a gradual opening method to put the old games that are sure to have no problems online first, and then redo the ones that have problems. Step by step, redoing old games actually won't take too much time. Moreover, using new programming methods can also improve the clarity of the original old games."

 Commonly known as fried cold rice.

 Zhu Youxing thought in his mind.

 (End of this chapter)