JP2001070635A - Video game device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To replay a musical performance type game device with a optimum sound for a player and an audience to allow the player to easily hear a performance sound by differentiating the volume, quality and level of the sound to be output corresponding to the roles of speakers. SOLUTION: A central processing unit 12 reads performance data from a storage unit in accordance with signals input from an input 10 of a player A and an input 11 of a player B and transmits the data to a sound control unit 20 to replay a corresponding sound. Accompaniment data 12 are also transmitted to the sound control unit 20. The sound control unit 20 synthesizes sounds corresponding to the roles of speakers a-d. For example, for a sound output by a monitoring speaker, the volume of a performance sound is increased, the quality is changed for easily hearing the performance sound in a frequency band or the level of the performance sound is changed to allow the player to easily hear his performance sound.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a music game apparatus for playing musical instruments.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is known a musical instrument playing type music game apparatus for playing musical instruments. This is a game in which a player operates an input device imitating a musical instrument in accordance with a display on a monitor, so that even a person who cannot play the musical instrument can obtain a feeling of playing the musical instrument. According to the player's input, music stored in advance is output and synthesized with the accompaniment to reproduce music. Further, the input timing of the player is compared with the timing instructed on the monitor, and the points are added.

However, in an amusement facility such as a game center, when playing such a music game, there is a problem that the sound of one's performance is buried in the accompaniment or the sound of one's performance cannot be heard due to ambient noise. There was a point. Also, in a game device played by a plurality of players, it may be difficult for the player to hear his own performance sound mixed with the performance sounds of other players.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a performance sound and an accompaniment can be output from a plurality of speakers in an appropriate balance in order to make it easy to distinguish the performance sound and the accompaniment. Also, when a plurality of players play at the same time, it is possible to output their own performance sounds, the performance sounds of others, and the accompaniment at an appropriate balance at each player's position.

[0005]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of a game device according to the present invention. The game main body 1 is provided with a monitor 2, and when the game starts, an instruction to play a musical score is displayed on the monitor 2. The player operates the guitar type input devices 3 and 4 in accordance with the instruction to input. The input signal is sent to the game main body through the cable 5.

On the game main body 1 side, a game calculation unit (not shown) determines the timing according to the input signal,
Judge how much you play according to the score and calculate the score.

In the present invention, a plurality of speakers 6, 7,
By changing at least one of the volume, sound quality, and localization position for 8 and 9, the sound of the guitar of the player is output in an easy-to-understand manner.

More specifically, speakers 6 and 7
Is located near the player's ear when the player operates the guitar-type input device.

The speakers 6 and 7 output the performance sound, that is, the guitar sound that is output by an operation input by the user so that the user can easily hear it. Specifically, the volume of the performance sound is increased compared to the accompaniment sound, and the mixed sound is output, or the sound quality is enhanced to emphasize the range of the guitar.
The performance sound is easier to hear than in the case of normal mixing.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a game device according to the present invention. The player A input unit 10 and the player B input unit 11 are input devices for inputting the player A and the player B, respectively. In FIG. 1, the guitar type input devices 3 and 4 correspond thereto.

The player A input unit 10 and the player B
The signal input from the input unit 11 is sent to the game operation unit 13 in the central operation unit 12. The game calculation unit 13 determines how much the player's input matches the instructed timing in the timing determination unit 14. In addition, a score is calculated by the score calculation unit 15 according to the determination result by the timing determination unit 14.

The game operation section 13 reads out the accompaniment data 19, the image data 17 and the like stored in the storage section 16 and sends them to the voice control section 20 and the image generation section 21. The image generator 18 outputs a game image to the monitor 19 based on the image data 17 transmitted from the game calculator 13.

Further, the game calculation section 13 includes a player A
Based on the signals from the input unit 10 and the player B input unit 11, the performance data 18 in the storage unit 16 is read, and an instruction for outputting an appropriate performance sound is performed.

The voice control unit 17 controls the performance data and the accompaniment data transmitted from the game calculation unit, and transmits a voice signal to the plurality of speakers a20 to d23. The voice control unit 17 processes the voice depending on the position of the speaker so as to be optimal for the player and the audience watching the game around.

For example, referring to the example of FIG. 1, the ear position (monitor position) when the player is playing a game.
, That is, speakers 6 and 7 are desired to make it easier to hear the performance sound (here, the sound of the guitar).

The mixing can be changed depending on whether one or two players play the game. If the performance sound of another player is too loud, it mixes with the performance sound of the player, making it difficult to play. Therefore, if the performance sound of the player A and the performance sound of the player B are reproduced so as to be better heard from the speaker 6 in FIG. it can. Also, by setting the localization of the performance sound of each player near the operation unit of each player, the performance sound of the player's musical instrument sounds near the player, so that the performance sound is set to be easy to hear.

The lower speakers 8 and 9 reproduce music in which performance sounds and accompaniment sounds are mixed. The music played from these speakers is at a volume that does not overwhelm the performance sound at the top, and the sound control unit ensures that the performance sound and accompaniment sound are mixed naturally when the sound from all speakers is played. Is set.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of another embodiment of the game apparatus according to the present invention. The player A input unit 10 and the player B input unit 11 are input devices for inputting the player A and the player B, respectively.
The guitar type input devices 3 and 4 correspond to this.

Player A input section 30 and player B
The signal input from the input unit 31 is sent to the game operation unit 33 in the central operation unit 32. The game calculation unit 33 determines how much the player's input matches the timing instructed by the timing determination unit 34. Further, a score is calculated by the score calculation unit 35 according to the determination result by the timing determination unit 34.

The game calculation section 33 reads out the image data 37 and the like stored in the storage section 36 and transmits the read image data 37 to the image generation section 42. Image data 37 transmitted from the game calculation unit 33
, The image generation unit 42 outputs the game image to the monitor 43.

Further, the game calculation section 33 is provided with a player A
Based on signals from the input unit 30 and the player B input unit 31, the performance data 38 in the storage unit 36 is read, and an instruction is issued to output an appropriate performance sound.

The performance control section 40 controls the performance data 38 transmitted from the game calculation section 33 and transmits audio signals to a plurality of speakers a44 and b45. Here, since the speaker a44 and the speaker b are speakers for monitoring the performance sound, the sound is adjusted so that the player A and the player B can easily hear the sound and transmitted to the speaker a and the speaker b.

For the accompaniment, the game calculation unit 33
The accompaniment control unit 41 adjusts the accompaniment sound data based on the accompaniment data 39 stored in the storage unit 36. The adjusted sound data includes a speaker c and a speaker d.
Will be played more.

As described above, the performance control section and the accompaniment control section may be separately provided to separate speakers for reproduction. In this case, the performance sound and the accompaniment sound are mixed in a well-balanced manner for the audience and the like who are listening to the output sounds from all the speakers around the game device.

【The invention's effect】

As described above, according to the game apparatus of the present invention, the sound being played can be reliably monitored by changing the sound volume, sound quality, localization, etc. according to the role of the speaker. You can enjoy more musical instruments playing music games. In addition, it is possible to change settings depending on whether the game is played by one person or two people, and to output a sound suitable for the player and the audience in each situation.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but can be modified into various forms within the scope of the present invention.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, a guitar input device is shown as an input device. However, the present invention is not limited to this example.
Various types of musical instruments or those that simulate singing can be modified as long as they are pronounced by operation.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the arcade video game device has been described, but it is also possible to implement the video game machine in a home video game machine.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a game device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a game device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a game device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game main body 2 Monitor 3 Guitar type input device 4 Guitar type input device 5 Cable 6 Speaker 7 Speaker 8 Speaker 9 Speaker

Claims (3)

[Claims] An input unit for performing an operation input by a player;
A game operation unit for performing a game operation, and at least one of volume, sound quality, and localization are changed based on a performance output signal and an accompaniment output signal output in accordance with an input signal input from the input unit, and a different sound is output to the speaker. A game device comprising a voice control unit for outputting a voice. 2. The game device according to claim 1, wherein said voice control unit makes different settings in accordance with the number of players. 3. The game device according to claim 1, wherein the sound control section makes the volume of the virtual performance sound higher for a speaker near a monitor position of the player than for a sound output from another speaker. A game device characterized by outputting.