/jp/ - Otaku Culture

This is a thread where we discuss niche Japanese computers and their software. Anything ranging from doujinsoft to long forgotten gems.

If you're interested please check out this article: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/Jcomputers/Japanesecomputers4.htm

You can also find recommendations on Tokugawa Corp: http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/php3/index.php

Recommended games: http://pastebin.com/qfbc0wKZ

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pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

For people interested in playing some awesome PC-98 games: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/Jcomputers/Japanesecomputers.htm

A lot of these games are the precursors to the standard visual novels we have today.

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

For people interested in playing some awesome PC-98 games: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/Jcomputers/Japanesecomputers.htm

A lot of these games are the precursors to the standard visual novels we have today.

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

For people interested in playing some awesome PC-98 games: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/Jcomputers/Japanesecomputers.htm

A lot of these games are the precursors to the standard visual novels we have today.

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

For people interested in playing some awesome PC-98 games: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/Jcomputers/Japanesecomputers.htm

A lot of these games are the precursors to the standard visual novels we have today.

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

Any idea why a thread about a niche Japanese computer infested with ADVs is being deleted? We've had them for years now.... They're most certainly /jp/ related unless there's some unwritten rule banning pc-98 games. Are niche porn games no longer /jp/ material? Please leave us in peace, meido-san.

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

Any idea why a thread about a niche Japanese computer infested with ADVs is being deleted? We've had them for years now.... They're most certainly /jp/ related unless there's some unwritten rule banning pc-98 games. Are niche porn games no longer /jp/ material? Please leave us in peace, meido-san.

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

Any idea why a thread about a niche Japanese computer infested with ADVs is being deleted? We've had them for years now....

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

pc-98/pc-88 thread.

What games are you currently playing?
I'm currently playing Rusty and it's a pretty challenging Castlevania clone.

>>10021665
No, the pre-Windows Touhou games were developed for the PC98, an entirely different hardware platform.

That's a bit like asking if a Nintendo DS can play PSP games.

Before IBM PC clones forced everyone to follow that standard, Japanese PC manufacturers designed their own hardware platforms, mostly or entirely incompatible with IBM PC software. The Sharp X68000 machines had a different CPU architecture (Motorola 68k), custom video hardware, and a Yamaha FM sound chip. The PC98 machines were based around Sharp's x86 processors, but featured entirely different supporting hardware than what the IBM PC standard mandated.

For a decent part of the early 90s, Microsoft sold versions of Windows modified to run on PC98 hardware. PC clones eventually beat NEC's PC98 architecture on price, because there were dozens of PC clone manufacturers and only one company manufacturing PC98s, so in the mid 90s, NEC switched manufacturing generic PC clones as well and ended the era of Japanese computers being their own special designs.

Enjoy you're history lesson, /jp/!

Does anyone here know anything about PC-98s?

I have an old 486 at 50MHz and was wondering if I could use it to play some of the older Touhou games.

/jp/ uses PC-98

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