"So these past few days, you've basically been traffic cops, directing these two sets of rules?" Nakayama Takuya asked with a smile. "How high can the compatibility get?"
Yuji Naka spun his swivel chair around to face Nakayama Takuya and thumped his chest hard.
"Over ninety percent!" Yuji Naka's tone brimmed with the absolute confidence of a tech fanatic. "My team and I pulled three all-nighters and wrote a middleware emulated instruction set. We intercept all those incompatible direct hardware calls from the original Mega Drive development kit, repackage them, then translate them for the new handheld's hardware to execute. Put simply, we hired them an interpreter!"
"Translate?" Nakayama Takuya raised a brow, keenly catching the core issue. "With an emulation layer added in the middle, how do we calculate the performance loss? This is a handheld—we don't have much room to spare to begin with."
"There'll definitely be loss." Yuji Naka spoke bluntly. He grabbed a red-and-blue pencil from the table and sketched a diagram on a scrap of paper. "The handheld chip's clock speed was already reduced to save power. With this translation layer added on top, its on-paper performance will probably be ten to fifteen percent below a standard Mega Drive."
Nakayama Takuya said nothing, lightly tapping his fingers against his knee.
A fifteen-percent performance hit.
For mobile hardware that was already stretched thin, it was by no means a small figure.
Action games might suffer frame drops, while RPG loading times would grow longer. Both were fatal flaws that severely affected the player experience.
"However." Yuji Naka abruptly changed tack, heavily circling something on the paper with his pencil. A crafty smile appeared on his face. "We have to know how to adapt! How big is a handheld screen, really? There's no need to render at