KR100434243B1 - A method and apparatus for controlling musical game procedure and computer readable recording medium storing musical game procedure control program - Google Patents

Abstract

Provides music game with high gameability.

Directed by directing instruction mark M2, directing instruction directing operation, collecting jigsaw puzzle pieces M3, collecting a certain number of puzzle pieces, and completing a jigsaw puzzle to hide hidden songs other than the standard songs. In order to obtain a selectable option, a game with high game performance is realized.

Description

TECHNICAL GAME PROCEDURE CONTROL PROGRAM TECHNICAL GAME PROCEDURE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MUSICAL GAME PROCEDURE CONTROL PROGRAM

The present invention relates to a music game progress control method, an apparatus for performing an operation in association with music progress, and a readable recording medium on which a music game progress control program is recorded.

Conventionally, various things are proposed or already used as a music game apparatus. For example, by scrolling the instruction mark toward the timing line on the monitor screen and operating the operating member when the instruction mark coincides with the timing line, the sound of music corresponding to the matched instruction mark is output, or directly below the monitor. It is known to arrange a plurality of buttons imitating keys on the portion, and to scroll the indication mark corresponding to each key on the monitor screen to perform timing instruction to output music sounds.

By the way, the conventional music game apparatus guides and displays the performance timing of the prepared music on the monitor, and when the operation member is operated at an appropriate timing in accordance with this, the actual music sound is output, so that the player enjoys music. It was only outside. Therefore, lack of gameability, it is easy to get tired, there was a limit in the interest.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide a readable recording medium on which a music game progress control method, apparatus and music game progress control program having high gameability are recorded.

The music game progress control method according to claim 1 outputs a piece of music data selected from at least one or more standard songs stored, and sequentially displays a direction indication mark on a monitor in association with the music progress. When accepting the directing instruction operation of, the degree of correspondence between the directing instruction operation and the directing instruction timing by the directing instruction mark is evaluated, and it is determined whether or not a state of high concordance is successively achieved for a predetermined number of the directing instruction marks. When the judgment is made affirmatively, an image of one piece of the image assembly puzzle composed of a predetermined number of pieces is displayed as a direction indication mark on the monitor, and the degree of agreement is high for the one piece of image. If it is determined that the degree of agreement is high, the pieces are obtained and the pieces of the predetermined number of pieces are Deukhayeo when having completed the puzzle image assembly is characterized in that to obtain a hidden song other than the standard track.

According to the above-described method, the direction of directing instruction operation is aligned at the direction of directing instruction by the direction indicating mark, the points of collecting puzzle pieces of image assembly puzzles such as jigsaw puzzles, and the number of puzzle pieces of a predetermined number of jigsaw puzzles are acquired. The game is high in the point which completes the image assembly puzzle of these etc. and acquires hidden music other than a standard song, and the game with high interest is realized.

The music game progress control method according to claim 2 is characterized in that the piece which failed to acquire is displayed on the monitor as a direction instruction mark next time. According to the above method, since the opportunity to reacquire the failed piece is given, it is possible to enjoy the pleasure of continuing the game.

The music game progress control method according to claim 3 displays the password information registered on the monitor when the image assembling puzzle is completed, and displays a password input screen at the start of the game, and inputs the input password information into the registered password information. In contrast with that, the obtained hidden song is included in the standard song. According to the above method, since the hidden song is password-managed, only the player who acquires the hidden song can enjoy the hidden song and can enjoy the pleasure of acquiring the hidden song.

In the music game progress control method according to claim 4, the direction instruction mark is displayed on the monitor as a mark of a type corresponding to a predetermined type of operation member provided on the operation unit, and the direction instruction mark operation to the operation unit is performed by the direction indication mark. It is characterized by further evaluating whether or not the operation member according to the type has been operated. According to the above-described method, since the direction indicating mark is displayed on the monitor as a mark of a type corresponding to a predetermined type of operation member provided on the operation unit, the operation is easy, and the direction indicating instruction operation to the operation unit is displayed on the monitor. In order to further evaluate whether or not the operation member has been operated with respect to the type of mark, the complexity of the game is increased and the interest is increased.

The computer-readable recording medium which records the music game progress control program according to claim 5 monitors the direction indication mark in association with the music progress while audio outputting one piece of music data selected from at least one or more standard songs stored. When the display is sequentially displayed on the screen, and the direction instruction operation from the operation unit is received, the degree of agreement between the direction indication operation and the direction indication timing by the direction indication mark is evaluated, and the state with high degree of agreement corresponds to a predetermined number of direction indication marks. It is judged whether or not it has been successively achieved, and each time the determination is affirmed, an image of one piece of the image assembly puzzle composed of a predetermined number of pieces is displayed on the monitor as a direction indication mark, and this one piece of image Determining whether or not the high degree of agreement with respect to the high degree of agreement, When acquiring the group piece and acquiring a piece of the predetermined number of having completed the puzzle image assembly is characterized in that to obtain a hidden song other than the standard track.

According to the above program, the point of directing instruction operation at the direction of directing instruction by the direction indication mark, the point of collecting puzzle pieces of image assembly puzzles such as jigsaw puzzles, and the number of puzzle pieces of a predetermined number of jigsaw puzzles are acquired. In order to complete an image assembly puzzle such as the above and acquire hidden songs other than the standard songs, games with high game performance are realized.

The recording medium readable by the computer which recorded the music game progress control program according to claim 6 displays the pieces which failed to be acquired on the monitor as a production instruction mark next time. According to the above program, the opportunity to reacquire the failed piece is given, so that the game can be enjoyed.

The recording medium readable by the computer which recorded the music game progress control program according to claim 7 displays a password input screen at the start of the game while displaying the password information registered on the monitor when the image assembly puzzle is completed. And when the input password information is matched against the registered password information, the acquired hidden song is included in the standard song.

According to the above program, since the hidden song is password-managed, only the player who acquired the hidden song can enjoy the hidden song and can enjoy the pleasure of acquiring the hidden song.

In the recording medium which can be read by the computer which recorded the music game progress control program of Claim 8, the said direction indication mark is displayed on a monitor as a mark of the kind corresponding to the predetermined kind of operation member provided in the operation part, and is directed to the operation part. It is characterized by further evaluating whether or not the instruction operation is operated on the operation member according to the kind of the direction instruction mark displayed on the monitor. According to the above program, the direction indicating mark is displayed on the monitor as a mark of a type corresponding to a predetermined type of operation member provided on the operation portion, so that the operation becomes easy, and the direction indication mark on which the direction indicating operation to the operation portion is displayed on the monitor. In order to further evaluate whether or not the operation member has been manipulated according to the type of the game, the complexity of the game is increased and the interest is increased.

The music game progress control apparatus according to claim 9 includes: standard song storage means for storing at least one or more standard songs, song selection means for selecting one of the standard songs, and music for audio output of music data of the selected song; An output means, direction instruction mark display means for sequentially displaying a direction instruction mark on a monitor in association with music progress, operation means for inputting direction instruction operation, direction instruction by the direction instruction operation and the direction instruction mark Timing evaluation means for evaluating the degree of agreement with the timing, continuity evaluation means for judging whether or not a state with high degree of agreement has been successively achieved for a predetermined number of direction indicating marks, and for a predetermined number of times each time the determination is affirmed. An image of one piece of the image assembly puzzle constituted is displayed on the monitor as a direction instruction mark. Jigsaw piece display means and the jigsaw piece acquisition means for acquiring the piece, if it is determined whether or not the coincidence degree is high with respect to the image for this one piece, and the pieces of the predetermined number of pieces are acquired to assemble the image. And a hidden song acquiring means for acquiring a hidden song other than the standard song when the puzzle is completed.

According to the above-described configuration, the point of directing the directing instruction operation at the directing instruction timing by the directing instruction mark, the point of collecting puzzle pieces of image assembly puzzles such as jigsaw puzzles, and the number of puzzle pieces of a predetermined number of jigsaw puzzles are acquired. The game is high in the point which completes the image assembly puzzle of these etc. and acquires hidden music other than a standard song, and the game with high interest is realized.

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a video game apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a schematic configuration diagram of a foot switch unit in a foot switch device;

3 is a block diagram showing a main part of a music game progress control apparatus.

4 is a screen transition diagram of a game to which a music game progress control device is applied.

5 is a password input screen;

6 is a game screen.

7 is a jigsaw puzzle display screen.

8 is a jigsaw puzzle display screen (inverting).

9 is a hidden song display screen.

10 is a flowchart showing a procedure of obtaining puzzle pieces during a game.

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2: TV monitor

5: recording medium

6: CPU

11: signal processing processor

12: image processing processor

16: controller

26: foot switch device

60: Song selector

61 music output unit

62: direction mark display unit

68: password management unit

80: song memory

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a video game apparatus to which the present invention is applied. The game device 1 includes a game device main body, a television monitor 2 for displaying a game image, an amplifying circuit 3 and a speaker 4 for outputting sound effects in a game, an image, a sound source, It consists of a recording medium 5 on which game data consisting of program data is recorded. The recording medium 5 is, for example, a so-called ROM cassette, an optical disk, a flexible disk, or the like in which a stored ROM or the like of the game data or the program data of the operating system is housed in a plastic case. In some cases, a built-in ROM or the like may be used.

The game device main body is connected to a CPU 6 with a bus 7 composed of an address bus, a data bus, and a control bus. The bus 7 has a RAM 8, an interface circuit 9, an interface circuit 10, The signal processing processor 11, the image processing processor 12, the interface circuit 13, the interface circuit 14, and the interface circuit 24 are connected to each other, and the operation information interface circuit 15 is connected to the interface circuit 10. The controller 16 is connected via the controller circuit, the foot switch device 26 is connected to the interface circuit 24 via the operation information interface circuit 25, and the D / A converter 17 is connected to the interface circuit 13. The D / A converter 18 is connected to the interface circuit 14 to constitute the interface circuit 14.

The memory unit 19 is composed of the RAM 8, the interface circuit 9, and the recording medium 5, and the CPU 6, the signal processing processor 11, and the image processing processor 12 allow the game to proceed. A control unit 20 for controlling is configured and includes an interface circuit 10, an operation information interface circuit 15, a controller 16, an interface circuit 24, an operation information interface circuit 25, and a foot switch device 26. The furnace operation input unit 21 is configured, and the image display unit 22 is constituted by the television monitor 2, the interface circuit 13, and the D / A converter 17, and the amplification circuit 3, the speaker 4, The audio output unit 23 is composed of the interface circuit 14 and the D / A converter 18.

The signal processing processor 11 performs calculation of the position of the displayed character and the like, and reading and synthesizing various sound source data. The image processing processor 12 performs a process of developing an image to be drawn in the display area of the RAM 8 based on the calculation result in the signal processing processor 11.

The controller 16 is provided with various buttons to provide game contents selection, start instruction, action instruction to the main character, direction instruction, and the like. Like the controller 16, the foot switch device 26 is an operation means which can be operated from the outside, and the player operates by stepping on it (stepping).

The game device 1 differs in shape depending on the purpose. In other words, when the game device 1 is configured for home use, the television monitor 2, the amplifying circuit 3, and the speaker 4 are separate members from the game device main body. In the case where the game device 1 is configured for business use, the components shown in FIG. 1 are all housed in one casing that is integrated.

In addition, when the game device 1 is configured as a nucleus of a personal computer or a workstation, the television monitor 2 corresponds to the display for the computer, and the image processing processor 12 records on the recording medium 5. Interface circuits (9, 10, 13, 14, 24), D / A converters (17, 18), operation information interface circuits, corresponding to a part of a game program or hardware on an expansion board mounted in an expansion slot of a computer. 15 and 25 correspond to the hardware on the expansion board mounted in the expansion slot of the computer. The RAM 8 also corresponds to each area of main memory or extended memory on the computer.

In the present embodiment, a case where the game device 1 is configured for home use will be described as an example. First, the outline operation of the game device 1 will be described. When the power switch (not shown) is turned on and the power is supplied to the game device 1, the CPU 6 stores images and sound sources from the recording medium 5 based on an operating system stored in the recording medium 5. And game program data. Some or all of the read image, sound source, and game program data are stored in the RAM 8.

The CPU 6 then advances the game based on the game program data stored in the RAM 8 and the contents instructed by the game player through the controller 16 and the foot switch device 26. That is, the CPU 6 generates a command as a task for drawing or audio output as appropriate based on the instruction contents instructed by the game player via the controller 16 and the foot switch device 26.

The signal processing processor 11 performs calculations such as the position of the character in the two-dimensional space, the reading of various sound source data, and the synthesis process based on the command. Subsequently, the image processing processor 12 performs recording processing or the like of image data to be drawn on the display area of the RAM 8 based on the calculation result. The image data written in the RAM 8 is supplied to the D / A converter 17 via the interface circuit 13, where it becomes an analog video signal and then is supplied to the television monitor 2 and displayed as an image on the screen. do.

On the other hand, the sound data output from the signal processing processor 11 is supplied to the D / A converter 18 via the interface circuit 14, and is converted into an analog audio signal (via a filter or the like) and then the amplification circuit 3 Is output as a game sound from the speaker 4 as a pronunciation means. The game sound means a sound including BGM, various effects sounds, directing sounds, and sounds.

2 is a schematic configuration diagram of a foot switch unit in the foot switch device. The foot switch device 26 is made up of a thin foot switch portion (sheet-type foot switch 260) having a square shape (predetermined surface shape) and a mat portion having the same square shape thickness, for example, which is laid below. The foot switch unit 260 is a 3 × 3 area (hereinafter referred to as “can”) in a rectangular shape except for regions (not shown) of the start button and the select button which are disposed on both left and right sides of the electrode assembly 267a. And the home position, which is the area where the player stands for the first time, is placed in the center cell, and in the front, rear, left and right cells (both in the vertical direction and in the horizontal direction from the home position). The foot switch (pressure switch) which can detect a step operation | movement is built-in, The 1st sheet (sheet body: 261) which consists of a transparent body of EMMA (ethylene-methyl- acrylate) product from top to bottom, Printing the second sheet 262 of the soft PVC product, the third sheet 263 coated with carbon on the entire back surface of the soft PVC product, the fourth sheet 264 of the urethane product, and the carbon at an appropriate position on the surface of the PET product. Coated fifth sheet 265, and EVA It has a six-layer structure of the sixth sheet 266 of the product. In addition, each material has illustrated all, and what kind of thing may be sufficient as it has the same shaping | molding.

Since the first sheet 261 is directly stepped by the player among the above-described seats, the one designed for slip is adopted in order to secure durability and to ensure proper stepping motion by the player. In the present embodiment, the first sheet 261 is made of the above EMM product which is a material hardly slipping, and the sheet surface is subjected to, for example, shallow groove processing over the entire surface. For example, groove forming by heat roller, press, or cutting is performed.

The second sheet 262 is subjected to printing that can recognize the position of the foot switch (pressure switch) through the transparent first sheet 261. For example, arrow marks (→, ←, ↑, ↓) indicating the direction from the center portion are printed at the positions of the front, rear, left and right foot switches with respect to the center portion. By printing on the second sheet 262, it is possible to prevent the print content from being erased even by repeating the player's step operation.

Carbon is coated on the entire back surface of the third sheet 263, and the carbon forms the common electrode 263a of the foot switch. Carbon can be applied to a thin film, and furthermore, it is suitable as an electrode for a foot switch because of its excellent conductivity and pressure resistance.

The fourth sheet 264 is used as a spacer that can be elastically deformed until its thickness becomes almost zero during the step movement of the player, and a plurality of small holes penetrating the sheet in the front, rear, left, and right sides with respect to the center portion, which is an appropriate position of the seat. 264a is distributed and provided to correspond to at least one or more bottom surfaces of a person's foot. The fifth sheet 265 is coated with carbon in individual compartments in front, rear, left and right with respect to a part of the surface, that is, the central portion, and the carbon forms the individual electrodes 265a to 265d of the foot switch. When the player has stepped, the common electrode 263a of the third sheet 263 passes through at least one of the individual electrodes 265a to 265d of the fifth sheet 265 through the small hole 264a of the fourth sheet 264. It is made to electrically connect with one. The size of the small hole 264a is set such that the size of the small hole 264a is not pressed down during the stepping operation of the player, for example, about 10 mm in diameter. In addition, the position of the small hole 264a may be distributed so as to be uniform over the entire surface of the fourth sheet 264 depending on processing conditions. As described above, the positions of the common electrodes 263a of the third sheet 263 and the individual electrodes 265a to 265d of the fourth sheet 264 and the fifth sheet 265 correspond to the four arrows printed above. Each foot switch is formed.

The sixth sheet 266 uses EVA as its material in order to withstand the repetition of the player's step operation and to have a suitable hardness for preventing plastic deformation of the foot switch. Further, electrically connecting one common electrode 263a of the third sheet 263 and four individual electrodes 265a to 265d of the fifth sheet 265 to the operation information interface 25 of the game device main body. Wiring is performed by pattern-printing to the electrode assembly part 267a of the front end, and the electric wire cable 267b is connected to this electrode assembly part 267a.

It is also possible to provide a game selection switch (pressure switch) unlike the four foot switches. In that case, the game selection switch is provided in two compartments before the inclination with respect to the portion where the foot switch is not provided, for example, the center portion of the foot switch section 260. Then, an appropriate mark (e.g., o mark and x mark) indicating the position of the game selection switch at that position is printed on the second sheet 262, and a small hole 264a is provided in the fourth sheet 264. The individual electrodes 265e and 265f are formed on the fifth sheet 265. Two game selection switches are formed from these individual electrodes 265e and 265f and the common electrode 263a of the third sheet 263.

3 is a block diagram showing main parts of a music game progress control apparatus. The RAM 8 stores image data of a direction indication mark and a puzzle piece pattern, and includes a music storage unit 80 that distinguishes and stores at least one or more of the standard songs and the hidden songs for at least one piece. . The CPU 6 sequentially displays a song selection unit 60 for selecting one of the standard songs, a music output unit 61 for audio output of the music data of the selected song, and a direction indication mark in association with music progression. (2) Timing evaluation for evaluating the degree of agreement between the direction directing indication display unit 62 to be displayed on the display unit 62 and the direction directing operation from the controller 16 or the foot switch device 26 and the direction directing timing by the direction directing mark. A continuity evaluation unit 64 for judging whether or not the state with high degree of agreement is successively achieved for a predetermined number of direction indicating marks, and a jig composed of a predetermined number of sheets each time the determination is affirmed. Puzzle piece display unit 65 for displaying an image of one piece of an image assembly puzzle, such as a jigsaw puzzle, on the television monitor 2 as a direction instruction mark, and the image for this one piece of image. If it is determined whether the degree is high and the degree of agreement is high, the standard is obtained only when the puzzle piece acquisition unit 66 for acquiring the piece and the predetermined number of pieces are completed to complete an image assembly puzzle such as a jigsaw puzzle. It consists of a hidden song acquisition part 67 which acquires selectable hidden songs other than a song, and the password management part 68 which manages the password used as an index of the use of a hidden song.

The song storage unit 80 is composed of a standard song storage unit 801 for storing information about standard songs and a hidden song storage unit 802 for storing information about hidden songs. In this embodiment, the information about the standard song or the information about the hidden song is performance information (hereinafter referred to as song data) and a video image or an animated image displayed on the television monitor 2 as a background image. The song data is composed of data relating to the frequency, intensity, length, and tone of the sound for each timing (data). In addition, each image corresponds to one or a required number of songs corresponding to the image of the song, and the television monitor 2 reads out a background image corresponding to the song selected by the song selector 60 and displays it.

The song selector 60 is a standard song when the registration termination password is not input to the password management unit 68, and a song between the hidden song and the standard song when the registration termination password is input to the password management unit 68. A list of numbers, song names, and the like is displayed on the television monitor 2, and the player is selected through the controller 16 or the foot switch device 26. FIG. The music output section 61 reads out the song data selected by the song selection section 60 from the song storage section 80 and outputs it to the speaker 4.

The direction indication mark display section 62 determines the type of direction indication mark (here, four types of 'right', 'left', 'up' and 'down') on the basis of the song number data of the song selected by the song selector 60. Then, the direction indication mark is scrolled and displayed on the display screen of the television monitor 2 at a timing that matches the rhythm of the tune. Assuming that the direction instruction operation is performed by the foot switch device 26, the type of the direction instruction mark may be determined so that the player appears to be dancing to the song when the direction instruction operation is performed in accordance with the direction instruction mark. .

The timing evaluation unit 63 jumps the degree of agreement between the direction directing operation from the controller 16 or the foot switch device 26 and the direction directing timing by the direction directing mark, for example, the amount of deviation in the timing of both. It measures by an internal timer, etc., and evaluates in five steps of "PERFECT", "GREAT", "GOOD", "MISS", "BOO" in order of small deviation, and displays an evaluation result. In particular, the case evaluated with "PERFECT" or "GREAT" is called a combo. In addition, the direction instruction | operation instruction operation from the controller 16 or the foot switch apparatus 26 is the controller 16 matched with the kind of direction instruction mark (here, four types of "right", "left", "up", "bottom"). Is performed using the direction indication button 16d (or the foot switch device 26), and the evaluation is performed only when the direction indication button (or foot switch) in the same direction as the direction indicating mark is pressed (or stepped on). do. In addition, according to the evaluation of the amount of deviation by the timing evaluating unit 63, a plurality of sound effects (accomplishments, synonyms, and the like) corresponding thereto may be output to the speaker 4, thereby creating a sense of reality. In addition, the timing evaluating unit 63 performs scoring according to the magnitude of the above-described deviation amount (the smaller the deviation amount, the higher the evaluation, that is, the higher the score) for each direction directed timing, and integrates them to evaluate the player's operation. To do. In addition, as will be described later, the score is displayed on the upper portion of the screen in the form of a gauge, and the game ends when the score, that is, the gauge becomes "O".

As one form of evaluation, the continuity evaluator 64 diagnoses continuous accuracy and inaccuracy. When the combo evaluated by the timing evaluator 63 is counted by a built-in counter for 10 consecutive times, for example, The right to acquire the puzzle piece is given, and one piece of the jigsaw puzzle is scrolled and displayed in place of the direction instruction mark by the puzzle piece display unit 65.

In the following description, the case where an image assembly puzzle consists of 16 pieces of jigsaw puzzles is described, for example. The puzzle piece display unit 65 selects pieces that have not yet been acquired, whether or not they have been obtained, are managed by the puzzle piece acquisition unit 66 from among the puzzle pieces of the jigsaw puzzle consisting of 16 pieces by random number generation. The puzzle piece image is displayed instead of the direction instruction mark. However, the timing and position displayed are determined similarly to the direction instruction mark. In addition, when it is judged by the puzzle piece acquisition part 66 that the puzzle piece displayed last time is not acquired, the same puzzle piece as the previous time is displayed next time. Moreover, in order to reduce the load of image processing, the puzzle piece image displayed instead of the direction instruction mark may always be the same image.

The puzzle piece obtaining unit 66 measures the degree of correspondence between the direction directing operation from the controller 16 or the foot switch device 26 and the direction directing timing of the puzzle piece image displayed by the puzzle piece display unit 65, for example. The timing difference between the two timings is measured by the internal timer of the leap, and the evaluation results are evaluated in five stages of "PERFECT", "GREAT", "GOOD", "MISS" and "BOO" in order of decreasing deviation, and the evaluation result is displayed on the screen. In addition, when "PERFECT" or "GREAT" is evaluated, it is assumed that the above puzzle pieces are acquired, and it is remembered which piece of the puzzle pieces of the jigsaw puzzle has been acquired. In addition, the direction instruction | operation instruction operation from the controller 16 or the foot switch apparatus 26 is the controller 16 matched with the kind of direction instruction mark (here, four types of "right", "left", "up", "down"). Direction direction button in the same direction as the direction of reference mark S described later, which is performed using the direction indication button 16d (or the foot switch device 26) of the puzzle piece image and the horizontal position on the screen. The above evaluation should be performed only when the (or foot switch) is pressed (or stepped on). Moreover, in order to reduce the load of image processing, when the puzzle piece image displayed instead of the direction instruction mark is always made the same image, the puzzle piece acquisition part 66 determines which piece of the puzzle piece of the jigsaw puzzle was acquired. The number of pieces of the puzzle obtained may be stored instead of the memory.

The hidden song acquiring section 67 judges whether or not the number of pieces of the puzzle pieces acquired by the puzzle piece acquiring section 66 has reached 16 (the total number of jigsaw puzzle pieces) is 16 pieces. When the player reaches, the player is entitled to acquire a hidden song other than the standard song.

The password management unit 68 grants the player the right to acquire a password that enables the player to acquire the hidden song only by the song selection unit 60, similarly to the standard song, to the player who acquired the hidden song by the hidden song acquisition unit 67, The password registered in advance is displayed. At the start of the game, a menu selection screen is displayed as described below, a password input screen is displayed when a password input screen is selected, and when the input password matches the password registered in the password manager 68, the hidden song is a standard song. Likewise, the song selector 60 selects the music and if it does not match, the song is hidden from the song selector 60 and cannot be selected (the hidden song is not displayed on the screen).

4 is a screen transition diagram of a game to which a music game progress control apparatus is applied. The progress of the game will be described using the screen diagrams of FIGS. 4 and 5 to 9. When the game starts, first, a jump menu selection screen is displayed (ST1). In the menu selection screen, a password is input or a game is selected. When a password is input, the password input screen shown in FIG. 5 is displayed (ST2).

In FIG. 5, P1 is a password input part which can input eight passwords, and P2 is a pointer which shows the password input part currently in the input acceptance state. In addition, the password input method is performed by any one of four types of arrows of "right", "left", "up" and "down" using the direction indication button 16d (or the foot switch device 26) of the controller 16. It is supposed to be.

When the selection to start the game is made on the menu selection screen, the password entered on the password input screen is matched with the password of the registration end stored in the password management unit 68, and when there is a matching password, the song selection of the leap is selected. Standard and hidden songs are displayed on the screen for selection. If there is no matching password, only standard songs are displayed on the music selection screen of the leap (ST3). In the song selection screen, the song used for the game is selected by the player.

When the music selection is completed, the game is started, and the game screen shown in Fig. 6 is displayed (ST5). 6 shows the background of the dance image, the direction instruction mark M2 and the puzzle piece M3 scrolling upward from the lower left side of the screen sequentially at a predetermined speed, and the score calculated by the timing evaluator 63 in the form of a gauge. The displayed mark M4, the number of times M5 in which the combo counted by the continuity evaluator 64 was established successively, and the reference mark S indicating the left and right upper and lower marks are displayed. The reference mark S displayed at the upper left of the screen is a timing instruction, whereby the direction in which the scrolled mark M2 or M3 completely overlaps (matches) the reference mark S from the controller 16 or the foot switch device 26. Optimal timing of operation. Moreover, the display position of the left-right direction in the screen of M2 is a position of the arrow of the same direction as M2 of the reference mark S. Moreover, as shown in FIG. In this screen, since the number of times the combo was established was 20, the second puzzle piece M3 is displayed. In addition, although the details are omitted, the reference mark T and the directing instruction mark M6 on the right side of the screen are two marks used when playing a game together, roughly, the reference mark T fulfills the role of the reference mark S, and the directing instruction mark M6 is directed. To fulfill the role of indication mark M2.

During the game, the score is always monitored by the timing evaluation unit 63, and the game ends when the score reaches " 0 " (ST7). During the game, it is always monitored whether or not the selected song selected on the song selection screen has ended, and the game continues unless the selected song is finished (ST8). When the selection song ends, it is determined whether or not the number of acquired puzzle pieces is zero (ST9). If the number of acquired puzzle pieces is zero, the process proceeds to ST17. If the acquired number of puzzle pieces is not zero, the jigsaw puzzle display screen shown in Fig. 7 is displayed (ST11). In FIG. 7, G01 is an acquired puzzle piece, and G0 is an image in which a jigsaw puzzle is assembled only with the acquired puzzle piece. Here, the case where all 16 puzzle pieces are acquired is shown as an example. It is also possible to enhance the production effect by displaying the jigsaw puzzle as an assembled image by displaying the name of the hidden song or an image corresponding to the hidden song.

Subsequently, 16 pieces of the acquired puzzle pieces are negatively judged (ST13). If the number of acquired puzzle pieces is less than 16, the procedure goes to ST17. In the case where the number of pieces of the acquired puzzle pieces is 16, after the jigsaw puzzle image G1 of the jigsaw puzzle display screen is reversed as shown in Fig. 8, the hidden song display screen of Fig. 9 is displayed and the hidden songs are hidden. It is read from the storage unit 802 and output from the speaker 4 (ST15). In Fig. 9, K1 is a title of a hidden song, K0 is an image corresponding to an image of a hidden song, and K2 is a password used for determining whether to select a hidden song. When the output of the hidden song is completed, proceed to ST17. In addition, the player can store or record the password K2 displayed on the screen during output of the hidden song, and enable selection on the song selection screen of the hidden song by inputting the password from the password input screen at the next game start.

Subsequently, three pieces of music are selected on the song selection screen, and a determination is made as to whether or not the selected pieces of three pieces of music are finished (ST17). If the selected song has not finished three songs, the screen returns to the song selection screen. If the three selected songs have ended, the game ends.

10 is a flowchart showing a procedure of acquiring puzzle pieces in a game. First, the number of combo successive establishments N indicating how many successive combos have been established at the start of the game and the number of acquired puzzle pieces M which are the total number of puzzle pieces acquired in the game currently being executed are initialized to "0" (ST19). Next, the direction indication mark display section 62 scrolls the direction indication mark on the display screen of the television monitor 2 at a timing that matches the rhythm of the tune (ST21). Next, the timing evaluation unit 63 determines whether or not the combo has been established (ST23). If the combo is not established, the number of combo consecutive establishments N is " 0 " (ST27), and then the process returns to ST21. If the combo is established, the number of consecutive combo establishments N is increased by one (ST25).

Subsequently, a determination is made as to whether the number of combo consecutive establishments N is a multiple of 10 (ST29). If the number of combo consecutive establishments N is not a multiple of 10, the process returns to ST21. When the number of times of combo continuous establishment N is a multiple of 10, the puzzle piece display part 65 scrolls and displays the puzzle piece on the display screen of the television monitor 2 at the timing which matches the rhythm of a music (ST31). Subsequently, it is determined whether or not the puzzle piece displayed on the screen is acquired by the puzzle piece obtaining unit 66 (ST33). If no puzzle pieces have been acquired, the process returns to ST21. When the puzzle piece is acquired, the acquired puzzle piece number M is increased by one (ST35). Subsequently, a determination is made as to whether the acquisition-end puzzle pieces M is 16 (the number of all puzzle pieces) (ST37). If the acquisition end puzzle piece number M is not 16, the process returns to ST21. When the acquisition completion puzzle piece number M is 16, the count up of the acquisition completion puzzle piece number is complete | finished.

Moreover, this invention can take the following forms.

(A) In the present embodiment, a case in which one hidden piece of music has been described is described. However, the game may include a plurality of pieces of hidden piece of music. If there are several hidden songs, for example, one hidden song can be acquired for one standard song, and a different password is registered for each combination of the acquired hidden songs to manage hidden songs at the end of acquisition. It is possible. In this way, it is possible to select a hidden song and a standard song at the end of acquisition by inputting a password. The greater the number of hidden songs, the better the motivation to continue the game. In addition, when there are several hidden songs, displaying different jigsaw puzzles for each of the hidden songs can increase interest.

(B) In the present embodiment, the image assembling puzzle is set to 16 pieces of jigsaw puzzle. However, the number of pieces other than that may be, for example, the number of pieces to be the square of the natural number, and n × m pieces (n and m are arbitrary). Natural numbers). Since the number of puzzle pieces of the image assembly puzzle is large, the motivation to continue the game can be improved. The image assembling puzzle may be a puzzle obtained by simply dividing the image in addition to the jigsaw puzzle.

(C) Although the case where the program is loaded into the CPU has been described in this embodiment, the form may be stored in the RAM 8 or the recording medium 5. In this form, the CPU 8 reads from the RAM 8 or the recording medium 5 at a necessary timing in accordance with the progress of the game.

(D) The game screen may display the number of puzzle pieces at the end of acquisition, the total number of puzzle pieces, or the number of pieces not obtained. In this form, the gameability is improved because the number of puzzle pieces that the player needs to acquire in order to acquire hidden songs can be checked during the game.

(E) In the present embodiment, a case where one person plays a game has been described. However, as shown in FIG. 6, two people may play a game by displaying two direction instruction marks on the left and right sides of the screen. For example, while one player operates the foot switch device 26 in accordance with the direction instruction mark on the left side of the screen in FIG. 9, another player operates the controller 16 in accordance with the direction instruction mark on the right side of the screen in FIG. 9. Also good. However, in the case of playing a game with two people, if the combo determination by the timing evaluator 63 is to be performed in parallel at two places on the left and right of the game screen, for example, when one of the combos is not established, the combo is continuously acquired. Since the number of times becomes "0", the puzzle pieces are difficult to obtain and the gameability is higher.

According to the present invention, the point of directing instruction operation is performed at the direction of directing instruction by the directing instruction mark, the point of collecting puzzle pieces of the image assembly puzzle, and the predetermined number of pieces of the puzzle are acquired to complete the image assembly puzzle other than the standard song. The game has a point of being able to select a hidden song selectably, and a highly entertaining game is realized.

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In the music game progress control method, When the music data of one selected from the stored at least one standard song is outputted as audio, the direction indication mark is sequentially displayed on the monitor in association with the progress of the music, and the direction instruction operation from the operation unit is received. When the degree of agreement between the direction directing operation and the direction directing timing by the direction directing mark is evaluated, it is judged whether or not a state of high degree of concordance has been successively achieved for a predetermined number of direction directing marks, and the judgment is affirmed. If an image of one piece of an image assembly puzzle composed of a predetermined number of pieces is displayed as a direction indication mark on the monitor each time, and it is determined whether or not the degree of agreement is high for the image of one piece, the degree of agreement is high. When the pieces are acquired and the pieces of the predetermined number of pieces are acquired to complete the image assembly puzzle, A music game progress control method characterized by acquiring selectable hidden songs other than the standard songs. The method of claim 1, A musical game progress control method, wherein a piece which failed to be acquired is displayed next on the monitor as a direction instruction mark. The method according to claim 1 or 2, When the image assembly puzzle is completed, the registered password information is displayed on the monitor, a password input screen is displayed at the start of the game, and the acquired hidden song when the input password information is matched against the registered password information. Music game progress control method, characterized in that it is included in the standard song. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The direction indicating mark is displayed on the monitor as a mark of a type corresponding to a predetermined type of operation member provided on the operation unit, and it is determined whether the direction indicating operation to the operation unit has been manipulated with respect to the operation member according to the type of direction indication mark displayed on the monitor. Music game progress control method, characterized in that to further evaluate whether or not. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a music game progress control program, The music game progress control program, A process of storing at least one or more standard songs in the standard song storage means; A song selection process for selecting one song from the standard songs, Music output processing to voice output music data of selected song A direction instruction mark display process of sequentially displaying a direction instruction mark on a monitor in association with music progress; A process of receiving a direction instruction operation from the operation unit, A timing evaluation process for evaluating the degree of agreement between the direction directing operation and the direction directing timing by the direction directing mark; A continuity evaluation process for judging whether or not a high degree of agreement has been achieved continuously for a predetermined number of direction indicating marks; A puzzle piece display process for displaying an image of one piece of an image assembly puzzle composed of a predetermined number each time as the direction indicating mark on the monitor each time the determination is affirmed, A puzzle piece acquisition process of determining whether or not the coincidence is high with respect to the image for one piece, if the coincidence is high; Hidden song acquisition processing for acquiring selectable pieces of music other than the standard song when the predetermined number of pieces are completed to complete an image assembly puzzle. And a computer readable recording medium recording a music game progress control program. The method of claim 5, And the direction indication mark display process reads out a piece that failed to be acquired on the monitor as a direction indication mark next time. The method according to claim 5 or 6, When the image assembling puzzle is completed, the registered password information is displayed on the monitor, a password input screen is displayed at the start of the game, and the acquired password information is compared with the registered password information, and the acquired hidden information is matched. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a music game progress control program, characterized by a password management process for including a song in a standard song. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The direction instruction mark display processing displays the direction instruction mark on the monitor as a mark of a type corresponding to a predetermined type of operation member provided on the operation unit, The timing evaluation processing is further performed by a computer recording a music game progress control program, characterized in that it further evaluates whether or not the direction instruction operation to the operation unit has been operated on an operation member corresponding to the type of direction instruction mark displayed on the monitor. Readable recording medium. In the music game progress control device, Standard song storage means for storing at least one standard song, song selection means for selecting one of the standard songs, music output means for audio output of music data of the selected song, and directing instruction in association with music progression Direction instruction mark display means for sequentially displaying a mark on a monitor; operation means for inputting direction instruction operation; timing evaluation means for evaluating the degree of agreement between the direction instruction operation and the direction instruction timing by the direction instruction mark; Continuity evaluation means for judging whether or not a high degree of agreement has been achieved continuously for a predetermined number of direction indication marks, and for each piece of the image assembly puzzle composed of a predetermined number of copies each time the determination is affirmed. Puzzle piece display means for displaying the image as a direction indication mark on the monitor, and the image for one piece. It is judged whether or not the degree of coincidence is high, and if the degree of coincidence is high, puzzle pieces acquiring means for acquiring the pieces and hidden pieces of music other than the standard song when acquiring the predetermined number of pieces to complete an image assembly puzzle are performed. And a hidden song acquiring means for selectively acquiring.