The success of Little overlord? But because of the success of the Cottage FC

the success of the Little Overlord learning machine can undoubtedly be interpreted as a case of successful use of the cottage spirit. In the 1990s, when FC as a portable Japanese game machine, at that time just landed in China, for the then Chinese family, FC is very expensive. And for the Chinese generation, which was under pressure from the college entrance examination, it was hard for their parents to invest in video games. Because they think: children should always put learning in the first place in life. Compared to FC with the same functionality, small overlord because the "keyboard" connected to the television, so that the parents trust, the bully let parents believe that their children are not playing the game host, but in the use of a home computer to learn, so parents of "little overlord" The attitude is completely different from the Japanese FC game consoles. So the parents of Chinese students are scrambling to buy a little overlord learning machine for their children.

So why is FC hardware so easy to be a small overlord? This article translated to self-knowledge from the daily article, I hope you can learn from the hardware FC and small overlord.

The following content comes to the self-knowledge of the author Mendel:

Because FC was originally developed as a toy, it is no use of High-tech, are all general technology.

All pirated game consoles, must be used in the civilian market on the rotten streets of the general-purpose CPU. And as long as the motherboard has an unpopular chip, even if the 8-bit chip, the Chinese are not pirated.

Have a friend to do an example of NDS, in fact, NDS also meet this condition, are all general-purpose processors, FC the same idea, the CPU is ARM9 and ARM7. So I think of it, Nintendo created the "host has not yet sold, enthusiasts based on the release of hardware information to develop the simulator perfect running game" myth.

FC CPU and Apple 2 are universal, are 6502, and the game industry is popular in the other CPU is Z80, is a cheap version of 8080.

Thank Rlei teacher reminded, FC 6502 is Ricoh changed, added some instructions, plus a reel accelerator. But all belong to relatively simple, difficult to live the celestial pirates.

Similarly, SEGA MD is a very easy to pirate host, its CPU is the 68K series, is almost the largest ever sales of the 16-bit CPU.

Also with the 68K NEOGEO Arcade and CPS1 Arcade, this is the Street Fighter 2 after the King rampant China's reasons, because the subsequent CPS series substrate more and more difficult to copy, the Chinese people can not do street PA piracy, only let players play KOF.

There are a lot of factories that can get universal CPU production authorization, the original concentration camp has a calculation, because 6502 of the mainland is almost all Taiwan Unilever production, from the number of imports can be estimated 96 years when the mainland of the total number of pirated FC can be as high as 20 million.

And the special chip is not so easy, PCE with 6502, but attached a heap of HUDSON research and development of the graphics chip, the market can not buy.

Similarly, SFC's CPU, although 65816, but the audio part of the SONY custom SPU700, Taiwan is not capable of imitation. There are indeed pirated SFC hosts in the market, but they are actually refurbished with scrapped SFC.

Starting from the SS, the CPU of the game machine is either unpopular or customized, and the special chip has a hand count. After the XBOX, chip production is left with a handful of them.

It's a lot simpler now, Android.

Really from the hardware imitation high level host, not without, but extremely rare. At least I haven't seen it in China.

Several common cpu,z80,6502,65816,68000 in the early gaming industry, where Z80 and 68000 basically covered the hardware of game 90% in the 80 's.

Yes, the learning machine is not invented by Chinese.

The concept of learning was first raised by Americans in the late 70, as ATARI collapsed, leading manufacturers to introduce learning machines to avoid the positioning of the game machine (in the United States called home computer)

FC was originally developed as a learning machine, you see the name to know--family Computer, the last old man thought the cost is too high ordered to cut off the keyboard, so we now see the appearance.