JP2001162044A - Video game device and recording medium storing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique increasing the ambiance of the dance action display of a character in a dance game and giving visual changes to the display of action instruction marks. SOLUTION: The image data when a dance action is interrupted are recorded, and the interrupted image data are displayed when the action of an action button is not correctly taken for the display of the action instruction marks 32-35. The action instruction marks 32-35 are reciprocatively displayed, and action timing is given when the action instruction marks 32-35 are located at return positions.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique effective when applied to display control of a character displayed in a display means of a dance game in which a character performs a dance operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a dance game of this type, the temporal accuracy of an operation button pressed by a player is sequentially evaluated during output of the music in accordance with an operation instruction mark displayed together with the output music. It is common to display from a basic dance operation to a dance operation having a high degree of difficulty in accordance with the evaluation, and to output the evaluation as a numerical value or the like after completion of one song.

[0003]

However, in such a dance game, even if the above-mentioned evaluation is low or no operation input is performed, the character continues the basic motion until the music ends. There was a side that lacked a sense of reality.

The operation instruction mark may be displayed at a fixed position for a fixed period of time, or may be moved and displayed on a track to indicate an operation timing when the position reaches a certain position. The change was poor.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a technique for enhancing the sense of reality of a character's dance action display in a dance game and providing a visual change in the display of operation instruction marks. It is in.

[0006]

A first means of the present invention is as follows.
An image data recording means for inputting in accordance with the display of the mark indicating the operation time and causing the character displayed on the display means to perform a dance operation, wherein the image data recording means stores image data when the dance operation is interrupted. Input receiving means for receiving the input, determining means for comparing the timing of the input received by the input receiving means with the operation time to determine whether to continue or interrupt the display of the dance operation, and the determining means Image display control means for continuously displaying the dance operation when it is determined to continue, and reading the image data at the time of interruption from the image data recording means and displaying the image data on the display means when it is determined to interrupt. Is a video game device provided with.

According to this means, the image data at the time of the dance interruption is recorded, and it is determined from the input situation of the player whether to continue or interrupt the display of the dance action of the character. Read and display the image data when the dance is interrupted. Thereby, when the input time of the player does not match the mark indicating the operation time, the dance operation is interrupted, so that the sense of reality of the game can be enhanced.

Here, the display means is, for example, a CRT,
It means a display device such as a liquid crystal display. The character means a player character operated by the player and operated on the display.

A second means of the present invention is the first means, wherein the mark display control means for reciprocatingly displaying the mark, and a position for recognizing the position of the mark reciprocally displayed by the mark display control means. Recognition means, when an input is received by the input reception means, when the position recognition means recognizes that the mark is at a turning position of the reciprocating movement, the determination means continues to display the dance operation. To judge.

According to this means, the mark indicating the operation time is displayed in a reciprocating manner, and the input time is when the mark reaches the turn-back position, so that the visibility of the mark display can be changed.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium storing a program for performing an input in accordance with a display of a mark indicating an operation time and causing a character displayed on a display to perform a dance operation. Image data at the time of interruption of the operation, an input receiving step of receiving the input, and a timing of the input received by the input receiving step are compared with the operation timing to determine whether to continue or interrupt the display of the dance operation. A determination step to perform, and when it is determined that the dance operation is to be continued in the determination step, the dance operation is continuously displayed. On the other hand, when it is determined to interrupt, image data at the time of interruption is read from the image data and displayed on the display means And a storage medium storing a program including an image display control step.

Here, the recording medium is a CD-RO
Any recording medium such as M, DVD, game cartridge, memory card, floppy disk, magnetic disk, and magneto-optical disk can be used. Among them, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and game cartridges are particularly suitable for games. is there.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[0014]

FIG. 1 shows a state in which a video game apparatus of the present invention is connected to a video display apparatus 5 (hereinafter, simply referred to as "display 5").

The game machine main body 1 has a CD-ROM (Compa) (not shown) under a cover 2a of the CD-ROM drive.
ct Disc-ROM) 2 is provided, and provides a game program and game data. Also, a controller 3 is connected as an external input device and a memory card 4 as an external storage device.

The display 5 is for providing display symbols output from the game machine main body 1 as display images, and the speaker 6 is for providing audio symbols to the player as audio. A general household television receiver is used. Can be.

The controller 3 has various operation buttons. On the left side of the controller 3 as viewed from the plane, there are provided direction keys 7 for up, down, left and right directions. By pressing the keys in the corresponding directions, the character can be moved in a desired direction, the cursor can be moved on the selection screen, and the like. Used. On the other hand, on the right side of the controller 3, there is a circle button 8 used for determination input, and a cross button 9 used for cancel input. In addition, the □ button 10 and the △ button 11 are used for inputting a specific command. A start button 12 is provided at the center of the controller 3 and is used for temporarily stopping or restarting the game.
Is used for screen switching and the like.

FIG. 2 shows a hardware block diagram of the video game device. The video game device has a CP
U (Central Processing Uni)
t) A control system composed of 21 and its peripheral devices, and a GPU (Graphic) for drawing in the frame buffer 28
(Processing Unit) 27 and SP for generating music, sound effects, etc.
U (Sound Processing Unit) 3
1 and the like, a CD-ROM control unit for controlling the CD-ROM 2, a communication control unit for controlling an instruction input from the controller 3 by a player and an input / output with the memory card 4, and the like.

The control system includes the CPU 21 and interrupt control and DMA (Dynamic Memory Access).
s) Peripheral device control unit 22 that controls transfer, and RAM (Random Access Me) as a main storage device
(memory) 23 and a ROM (Read) storing programs such as an operating system for managing a main storage device, a graphic system, a sound system, and the like.
Only Memory) 24. Further, the CPU 21 includes an oscillation circuit for generating a clock signal and a frequency dividing circuit for dividing the clock signal to generate a clock signal.

The graphic system is a CD-RO
An image decoder 25 for decoding the compressed and encoded image data read from M2, and an image decoder 25
GTE (Geometry Tra) that performs processing such as coordinate calculation and rendering on the image data decoded by
nsfer Engine) 26 and a GPU 27 that performs drawing such as shading, texture mapping, and raster processing based on the data calculated by the GTE 26.
A frame buffer 28 for storing an image drawn by the GPU 27, a decompression device 29 for decompressing the image data and performing digital / analog conversion,
An NTSC encoder 30 that converts the video signal into a C-system video signal and outputs it to the display 5 is provided.

The SPU 3 generates music, sound effects and the like based on an instruction from the CPU 21.
1, a sound buffer 32 for storing waveform data and the like by the SPU 31, and a DAC (Digital) for decoding audio data reproduced by the CD-ROM device 34.
(Analog Converter) 33 and a speaker 6 for outputting the decoded data.

The above-mentioned CD-ROM control unit is a CD-ROM
2 for reproducing programs, data, etc. stored in
ROM device 34 and CD for noise filtering
-DSP (CD-Digital Signal Pr)
processor 35, a decoder 36 for decoding, for example, programs and data stored with an error correction code added thereto, and a reproduction data from the CD-ROM 2 by temporarily storing reproduction data from the CD-ROM device 34. A buffer 37 for speeding up reading.
Image data and audio data reproduced and decoded by these devices are sent to a graphic system and a sound system via a bus 20, respectively.

The communication control unit includes a communication control 38 for performing bidirectional communication control with the CPU 21 via the bus 20, a controller 3 for inputting an instruction from a player, and an external storage for storing game setting data and the like. A memory card 4 is provided as a device.

Here, the video game stored in the CD-ROM 2 is a dance game in which a character's dance operation is displayed by a photographed image.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a dance display screen displayed on the display 3. The dance motion of the character 31 is displayed at the center of the screen, and one of the marks 32 to 35 indicating the operation timing (hereinafter, simply referred to as “mark”) 32 to 35 is displayed at the lower part in the set order and time interval. For example, when the マ ー ク mark 32 is displayed, the player presses the ボ タ ン button 8 of the controller 3. Similarly, the △ button 11 for the △ mark 33 and the □ button 1 for the □ mark 34
The X button 9 is pressed for the 0 and X mark 35. By depressing the operation button within a certain period of time for the sequentially displayed marks, the character 31 is displayed.
Continues the dance operation until one music ends.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a dance operation interruption screen. If the operation button has not been correctly pressed for the displayed mark, the character 31 interrupts the dance operation. In the figure, the character 31 is falling out of balance.

FIG. 5 shows a conceptually opposite structure of the mark display data stored in the CD-ROM 2. It is composed of the display order of the dance motion of the character 31, ON / OFF of the mark displayed at the time of the motion on the time axis, and an interruption image when the operation button is not pressed according to the mark.

FIG. 6 shows a functional block diagram of this embodiment. The mark display control unit 61 reads the mark display data from the data recording unit 66, displays the read data on the display 5, and starts the timer unit 62. When the input receiving unit 63 receives the pressing of the operation button of the controller 3, the determining unit 64
Determines whether the operation button corresponds to the displayed mark. If it is the corresponding operation button, the image display control unit continues to display the dance operation of the character 31. On the other hand, if it is not the operation button, or if the operation of the operation button is not pressed and the count of the timer unit 62 is over, the image display control unit 65 reads the dance interruption image data from the data recording unit 66 and displays it on the display 5. .

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing this. The mark display control unit 61 reads the mark display data from the data recording unit 66 (101), displays the mark on the display 5 (102), and starts the timer unit 62 (103). When the input receiving unit 63 receives the pressing of the operation button of the controller 3 (104), the determination unit 64 determines whether the operation button is the operation button. If the operation button is the button (105), the dance operation ends. Step 1 until
The process from 02 is repeated (106). On the other hand, if it is not the button (105), the image display control unit 65 reads the interruption data from the data recording unit 66 (112) and displays it on the display 5 (113).

If the input receiving unit 63 does not receive the pressing of the operation button (104), the judging unit 64 reads the time measured by the timer unit 62 and returns to step 104 if the time is not over (111). If the time is over (11
1), proceed to steps 112 and 113.

As described above, according to this embodiment, if the operation button corresponding to the displayed mark is pressed, the character continues the dance operation, but if the operation button is pressed incorrectly, the dance operation is interrupted. Therefore, the sense of reality of the game can be enhanced.

Although the type of mark to be displayed is determined and recorded in advance, it may be determined each time by a random number.

[0033]

[Embodiment 2] In the first embodiment, the mark is fixedly displayed at a predetermined position for a predetermined time, but in the present embodiment, the mark is displayed in a reciprocating manner.

FIG. 8 shows an example of a dance display screen displayed on the display 5. The circle mark 32 is displayed from the lower part of the screen of the character 31 performing the dance operation as shown in FIG.
(B) → Ascending in the order of FIG.
When (c)) is reached, it descends in the order of FIG. 8 (d) → FIG. 8 (e). In the player, the mark is turned back (see FIG. 8).
By pressing the operation button in the state of (c)), the dance operation of the character 31 can be continued.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing this. The flow will be described below with reference to the functional block diagram of FIG. That is, the mark display control unit 61 reads the mark display data from the data recording unit 66 (201) and moves and displays the data on the display 5 (202). Position recognition unit 67
Recognizes the position of the mark to be moved and displayed (20
3). When the input receiving unit 63 receives the press of the operation button of the controller 3 (204), the determination unit 64 determines whether or not the operation button corresponding to the display mark is pressed. It is determined whether the position of the mark recognized by the position recognition unit 67 when the operation button is pressed is the return position, and if it is the return position (206), the processing from step 202 is performed until the dance operation ends. Is repeated (207).

According to this, the mark indicating the operation time is moved and displayed, and the visibility to the player can be changed.

The mark to be moved and displayed can be raised by a fade-in and lowered by a fade-out, raised and expanded and reduced by a reduction, changed the display color at the turn-back position, or reduced the moving speed near the turn-back position. The display characteristics may be changed, such as by delaying the display.

[0038]

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a technique for enhancing the sense of reality of the display of a dance action of a character in a dance game and for giving a visual change to the display of an operation instruction mark.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a video game device of the present invention is connected to a video display device.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration centered on a game machine main body.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a dance display screen.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a dance display screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining mark display data.

FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram for explaining the embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram for explaining display of marks.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Game console body 2a CD-ROM drive cover 3 Controller 5 Display 6 Speaker 7 Direction key group 8 ○ button 9 × button 10 □ button 11 △ button 31 Character 32 ○ mark 33 △ mark 34 □ mark 35 × mark

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A video game device for performing an input in accordance with a display of a mark indicating an operation time and causing a character displayed on a display means to perform a dance operation, wherein image data when the dance operation is interrupted is stored. Image data recording means, input receiving means for receiving the input, and determining means for comparing the timing of the input received by the input receiving means with the operation timing to determine whether to continue or stop displaying the dance action The dance operation is continuously displayed when it is determined that the dance operation is to be continued, and the image data at the time of interruption is read from the image data recording unit and displayed on the display unit when it is determined that the dance operation is to be interrupted. A video game device comprising image display control means. 2. A mark display control means for reciprocatingly displaying the mark, a position recognizing means for recognizing a position of the mark reciprocally displayed by the mark display control means, and when an input is received by the input receiving means. 2. The video game according to claim 1, wherein when the position recognizing unit recognizes that the mark is at the turning position of the reciprocating movement, the determining unit determines that display of the dance operation is continued. apparatus. 3. A recording medium storing a program for performing an input in accordance with a display of a mark indicating an operation time and causing a character displayed on a display means to perform a dance operation, wherein the image data when the dance operation is interrupted is provided. An input receiving step of receiving the input; and comparing the input time received in the input receiving step with the operation time to continue displaying the dance operation;
Or a determining step of determining whether to interrupt, and when the determining step determines that the image is to be continued, the dance operation is continuously displayed. On the other hand, when determining to interrupt, the image data at the time of the interrupt is read from the image data. A recording medium storing a program comprising: an image display control step of displaying on the display means.