/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Deleted the IIDX thread as well.

>>10505453
And soon...YOU

wasnt /jp/ related

>>10505468
I guess the other 9 pages weren't either.

>>10505483
It wouldn't surprise me if they weren't.

Resuming my vigil over this thread.

>/jp/

>>10506171
Me with the stache

>>10506171
Me being held by the guy with the bandanna.

Anybody else played this old Japanese SNES game?
It's like Princess Maker, except you are a teacher who tutor girls (3 choices) and the girls do not grow up.

>>10506301
I haven't, is it good?

>>10506350
Well it has the same system has Princess Maker.
It's called Houkago in Beppin Jogakuin.

I think this is more suited for /vg/.

>>10506391
Not really, this is about as /jp/ as you can get. That is like saying I think the touhou game threads are more suited for /vg/. At least they are all translated to English, the Majority of PC98 games are Japanese.

>>10506391
Please accept being fired with some grace

>>10506391

You're more suited for /q/ - Whiny Retards

>>10506409
Yeah, I would say this qualifies as a "nice Japanese interest."

>>10506424
niche*

What do you do?

>>10506581
Put it in

>>10506581
That makes me physically ill.

I can't stand greasy food like pizza being placed in direct contact with skin.

>>10506581
たっぷりとピザを中に入れる

>>10506581
>たっぷりとピザを中に入れる
>少しだけピザを中に入れる

This is one of those types of decisions that changes the course of a game.

>>10506654
I would go so far to say life changing.

>>10506654
I would go so far as to say life changing.

>>10505440
He's been doing that for the past month.

>>10506581
少しだけ

>>10505440

That game looks like a 1980's version of pokemon.

It go in /v/ or /vp/.

>>10506822
Please leave /jp/, dumbass.

>>10506822
Fuck off, retard.

>>10506581

Anybody here heard of the Lunatic Dawn series? It's a RPG series that originated on the PC-98, and from what I've heard, it might've had more freedom than even Fallout 2 or Arcanum.

>>10507560
ベレトがあると答える

I ain't no beta homo, d00d.

>>10505468
PC-98 is a JP exclusive machine.
>>10506581
ピッザをたべます
そして 姦　

>>10508422
What the fuck are they even saying here?

>>10508409
I vaguely read about it, play it an report back for us.

>>10509368
The game asks what your reply is, choices are to say you have a belt or that one can't be found

>>10509434
Oh I get it, と quoting your answer. Sorry for asking such a stupid question, thanks.

PC98 is clearly /jp/ material. Largely untranslated and has hordes of eroge, including YU-NO. How could this fail to be otaku related?

This seems like /jp/'s kind of game: http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/screen/G0007.html..

>>10510259
Oh my, that last screenshot, very /jp/ related.

fug

Amano jaku, total badass

>>10512622
"Heavenly wicked ogre"? Is he the product of a teen pregnancy?

>>10512881
Uhhh, not quite.

>>10512622
Is this what started the anime?
Amano is bro 4 lyfe.

>>10514286
It's a manga first.
Know your classics, kid.

>>10514286
Nope, manga predated both. Too bad it's fucking boring, though.

>>10514340
Man, that scene, so many faps.

Apparently ITH and AGTH can hook the text on PC98 emus, anyone tried it?

>>10514384
Only Anex86, and I haven't got ITH to work properly, it won't let me pick hooks. With AGTH I just did the shortcut thing, only with /c and so far it seems to work with most games. If anyone has any idea how to get ITH working, it would be much appreciated.

I seriously hope you aren't using this as a crutch

Would you let her whip you?

>>10515241
No.

>>10515241
Maybe.

>>10515241
whipping leads to pegging leads to hormones leads to banging other guys leads to bad end.

no thanks.

is DOS/V software /jp/ related ?

>>10515305
Only if it's Japanese and obscure.

>>10515314
w DOS Japanese software?

obscure as fuck!!
Games? EVEN MORE OBSCURE!

>>10515319
Post away.

>>10515346
i don't have any images really

@10515359
Well discussion is ok.

>>10515554
a background image at the command prompt......


WHAT IS THIS HACK?

pc98 SAFE

>>10515567
PC98 ONRY

>>10519404
Dithering should make a comeback

Anyone recommend a nice pc98 eroge for fapping?

Already fapped to the following:
2shot diary
arbeit
paparrazzo
watashi

>>10519413
Gakuen Sodom is good.

>>10519411
dithering is sexy as fuck

>>10519411
Take off those nostalgia googles.

Dithering was a way to overcome limitations in the color palette of old systems. It's inferior aesthetically.

>>10520058
>It's inferior aesthetically.

That's just your opinion.

>>10520058
not artistically!

>>10520058
>It's inferior aesthetically.
Check your eyes.

>>10520058
While I agree (and dithering blended a lot better on old CRTs), I can think of an example that proves you wrong:
DeviantART pillow shading with gradients. They'd at least look less "stock" if the creators used a lower palette and dithering.

>>10520234
Post an example please.

>>10515567
You can do that on some of the Linux terminals but why would you? It's horrible for actually using them.

Top:
Beautiful, smooth, true color gradient. Makes you feel relaxed and safe.

Bottom:
Awful, scattered, low color wannabe-gradient. Banded and makes you feel like you want to throw up.

>>10520243
>You can do that on some of the Linux terminals but why would you? It's horrible for actually using them.

Why would you have a desktop wallpaper? ¯\(°_o)/¯

>>10520255
fuck off and rot in hell

>>10520255
but bottom only uses 3 colors, so it can even run on a nes.

top would probably need a ps3 or pc to work right.

>>10520285
Even VESA supports 24-bit color now. In fact, the old low-bit color modes were deprecated over ten years ago.

So you can play your chink cartoons on the Linux framebuffer or whatever, without any specialist drivers.

>>10520259
Because you normally read things in a window on your desktop, not plastered on your desktop. Here's an example. The white text is fine, but the blue is very difficult to read except on pure black.

>>10520297
That guy looks like the Xbox360 kid. How appropriate. No video scaling? Come on.

>>10520297
vesa is a pc though.

ps2 era is limited to 16 bit color display as far as i remember, and anything above 8 bit palettized sprites lags its cpu a lot, that's why nobody ever used it (and in fact, they used 4 bit, 16 color sprites a whole lot) and they always did everything in 256 colors or less.

the top gradient is over 350 colors.

>>10520327
It's easy to pick colours that contrast, though. Just desaturate the shit out of the background and then have either light on dark or dark on light. Change your X colours or whatever to match.

It's not like textured backgrounds aren't common, for example. They were all over the 90s web (and still exist here and there, e.g. 2ch). Plus most of the default wallpapers in Windows are/were things like repeating clouds or swirls or whatever, and you could read the icon text fine (granted you could set it so the text had a background or a shadow, but even without it was often readable).

>>10520327
Your font hinting is horrible.

>>10520371
His hinting looks fine (the characters fit the grid okay, but that might be because it's a monospace font).

It's the terrible default subpixel hinting that is the problem. FreeType sucks balls.

There are quick and dirty fixes (e.g. Infinality) but they can be a pain to set up depending on your distribution.

>>10520392
>subpixel hinting

rendering, even

I'd be fine with Linux if X at least provided a good set of default bitmap fonts.

I think X.Org got the rights to some crappy public domain versions of Times, Helvetica, and Courier, and had to render them shittily because Microsoft and Apple have all the good patents. They could have at least fixed them up by hand or something.

Pic related. The Windows versions look way nicer.

>>10520343
Decorating your desktop is acceptable, but you really shouldn't need to do the same for your word processor or terminal. 90s web design is not a good example, sites that do it are worse just because people can and will change the default colours.

>>10520397
>>10520371
>>10520392
It looks OK on my older LCD but OK OK I'll look into fixing it, people always complain.

>>10520431
>90s web design is not a good example, sites that do it are worse just because people can and will change the default colours.

http://www.tesguides.com/tes2/

While I still appreciate the overall focus on content, I'm glad people outgrew this.

>>10520440
The internet was actually fun and bigger back then. and we went backwards, while people had their own websites with music and gifs, now all they have is dome facebook page where they post about what they ate for breakfast while being watched by Google overlords and everyone else..

>>10520431
It looks fine to me too.

I also have an old LCD, and in fact the first thing I ever do when installing X11 is rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-*

Fuck sub-pixel rendering. Monitors are a high enough resolution now that personally I think we don't need it. It would be like applying dithering to the top gradient in >>10520255 just because even though it's fine, we may as well trick our eyes further.

>>10520448
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<MARQUEE>
HELLO WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE
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IF YOU ENJOYED MY PAGE PLEASE SIGN THE GUESTBOOK AND ADD ME TO YOUR WEB RING

>>10520440
That site becomes excellent if you remove the background wallpaper and pink background on the index page. Otherwise yeah, the black-on-marble is difficult to read.

>>10520496
That's exactly what I did.

I kind of miss when you were expected to customize your browser stylesheet (e.g. set your own fonts, colors and backgrounds, and they would apply uniformly across different sites).

>>10520470
Those were the days.

>>10520470
My homepage in a nutshell. But you forgot the DO NOT STEAL javascript.

>>10520440
That's nostalgic.

Which GeoCities neighborhood was your site hosted in, /jp/?

area51 master race.

>>10520533
>reverse image search
>first result is a Japanese geocities page
imagine how many shitty Sailor Moon shrines got destroyed when they took down the US counterpart.
Lots of them where bad but still important to their creators.
>>10520539
never had a Geocities page.
The first time I got on the internet was around 2000-2003 ish

>>10520546
http://www.oocities.org/

Now you can go visit BIG JOHN'S STAR TREK AND ANIMÉ FAN PAGE!!!! all over again!

http://otakuworld.com/jennifer.html

That feel when no otaku gf with a kawaii personal web page.

>>10520578
http://otakuworld.com/index.html?/aboutus.htm

#OtakuPride

Seriously, this website is great.

>>10505440
I wish that was a porn game OP.

>>10520581
>Watch your anime any way you like. It's fine by us. Personally, we like dubbed and subbed both. We'll even watch it untranslated, if we can't get it dubbed or subbed.

That's pretty hardcore. I wonder how many words of Japanese they know.

>>10520578
>>10520581
Wow this is still around? The KISS page is still being updated even.

>>10520553
Fuck yes.

>>10520546
It's quite sad.

>>10520578
>>10520581
Holy fuck, I had this site bookmarked back in the day.

>>10520578
>Jennifer lives as part of a four-person Polyamory, or group marriage, with her three spouses Sandra Woodruff (primary founder of HappyPuppy.com and LinkTown.com), Eldenath DeVilya (expert on medieval studies and costuming), and Stephen Lepisto (master programmer). Together they are a family, first formed in 1982-1984. She finds the Polyamory an absolutely idyllic lifestyle.

Fucking Stephen Lepisto, living the harem dream. I guess being a master programmer gets you all the bitches.

Are there other animated eroges for pc98?
Beside Sogna's Viper series.

>>10525316
There is tons. Also a lot of the listings in vndb are false, I was playing one, and out of no where, there was animation. Forgot which though.

>>10520330
>ps2 era is limited to 16 bit color display
What is this I don't even. PS2 can do 1080i@32bpp, see GT5 for example.

>Pixel configuration: RGB: Alpha:Z Buffer (24:8, 15:1 for RGB, 16, 24, or 32-bit Z buffer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS2#Technical_specifications

There's no place left for dithering nowadays and no excuses either.

>>10528348
*GT4, of course.
>GT4 supports Dolby Digital surround, 480p/1080i (NTSC only) and widescreen modes, however 1080i is only supported in single player races.

>>10525501
Name one please.
The only animated pc98 game I know besides the Viper series are 2 shot diary 2 and Love Escalator.

>>10528427
Well it's not the one I mentioned, I might go back and look through my recently played and get back to you on that, but all of the Immoral Study games have animation.

EHHHH!?!

>>10529777

>>10529841
Nice gif.

Finished playing Perfect Blue.
Why am I not surprised that it has NTR...
Didn't really rage though since the MC is a playboy jerk.

>>10533085
That shit was normal back then, I think these days people have been wanting less and less real life in their vn/dating sims. Perhaps that's a good thing though, along with that split, VNs also managed to distinguish themselves from porn games somewhat more than before.

Played Cherry Moderate,
It's a game where you compete with a rival guy in seducing and fucking as many heroine as possible.

Man, the rival character pisses me off, especially when he succeeds in fucking a heroine and he rubs it in your face. I'm especially pissed when I messed up and he managed to fuck the childhood friend and the twin imoutos. But at least I managed to fuck and deflower his ex that he's still in love with.

Why is there no walkthrough for this game? This is what I hate about pc98 games, you can't find walkthroughs for them.

>>10529777
What VN/game is that.

>>10533319
I think that's what is so great about them. You are coming into possession of knowledge and experience of these games, that very few people have. Feels special.
I like to think that there is some fat japanese otaku out there with perfect knowledge of all PC98 eroge, the PC98 eroge master. Isn't he a standard we in this thread should all live up to?

>>10533320
Filename is good enough to find it.

>>10528641
>Immoral Study
Already played those.

Anyway I discovered one. Power Slave.
It's made by Jellyfish, yes the same Jellyfish that made SISTERS, so it's bound to be good.

>>10533398
How many times a day do you fap? Do you just read through these games without fapping?

Playing Rondo, for some reason the game outputs periods while waiting for the player to move the text on, as AGTH fills up with them. Luckily the language is pretty easy, but it makes me think about the crazy shit Japanese people do when programming. There is some particularly crazy shit in a lot of GBA games, so I guess bad coding is a tradition in Japan.

I love this picture.

>>10533330
Fuck yeah, Rusty.

>>10536930
Finest nip education.

>>10535254
So cute.

Power Slave's text speed is annoyingly slow, and there seems to be no way to adjust it. ;_;
The battles are pretty frustrating too.

>>10538741
Oh, she is also a futanari.

>>10538818
lewd

>>10520327
>That guy looks like the Xbox360 kid.

I don't know man, he looks pretty fly. For a white guy.

Anyone tried installing Windows 3.1 on a pc98 emulator?

>>10543375
Apparently Win 98 can be installed on a actual PC98, so I see no reason the emulator couldn't. I've been tempted to try in the past but never got around to it. If you give it a shot please report back, in return have Alice.

>>10543392
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/417281/ja

Apparently you can even install Windows 2000 and DirectX on it.

>>10543486
Oh wow, someone needs to do this.

>>10543486
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/417281/ja

No way, I've never heard about this. Can someone confirm it works?

http://mirrorstack.com/28ptwuxuawe3

Here's an image if someone wants to try. I don't know if it requires a serial.

>>10543486
That's real fuckin' neato.

>>10523164
well with a last name like "Le Piston" what do you expect

>>10520470
I wonder if there's still a market amongst the PFYs today for a platform that replicates this style of personal web presence, but for the modern age.

>>10515288
Sounds fun, sign me up. Will she also pay for my SRS?

>>10544319
I might go about this.

>>10543392
What's the point of this?

>>10547891
The point of what? Installing Windows 98 on a PC-98? The same as installing Windows 98 on a PC.

ultima VIII pagan for the PC-98

Dinosaur: an RPG that, surprisingly, has nothing to do with dinosaurs.

>>10549373
Oh shit, Ultima on the PC98? I wonder if VII is on it.

>>10549378
Wasn't the main villain called Dinosaur or something?

If anyone does try getting Win2000 running on a PC-98, please do show us. I'm highly curious but a little worried to do it myself in case I fuck it up since I don't want to run off machine-translated instructions from that page.

Ignore Wine.
Run Linux compatible PC98 emulators with Windows 2000 installed on them instead.

>>10552901
This is how all Japanese run windows.

>>10505440
where do i download this?

What pc98 emu can read from cd/cd images? Anex can't.

>>10554764
read thread

>>10554771
read old thread, I posted a list of all the emulators in there, just go through them

>>10554778
Oh wait, my bad, top guy read the old thread too.

coolio PC-98 music

http://www.mediafire.com/?0f3fej8ucip8nu7

>>10557313
Why is it so big? Isn't this something you'd play on hoot?

bump.

No one's adventurous enough to try Win2000 in a pc98 emu? ;_;

>>10560711
Appears not.

Can one of you nerds explain what pc98 is?

Is it hardware or software or both? What do you need to run the games in this thread?

>>10563962
It used to be an OS, an alternative to the DOS/MS-DOS of its time. Used the DOS V/J version to handle special characters like kanji.

>>10563962
Read the thread turbonerd.

>>10563962
It's a lifestyle.

>>10563962
Both, it's a line of computers that ran their own software that was popular in the 1980's in Japan. You can just use an emulator to play the games.

>>10563990
>>10563975
Thanks. What kind of hardware do I need to run the OS? I hope I have something suitable.

Screenshot from the FM-Towns version of Ultima.

>>10564016
Forgot my pic

>>10564016
I own a FM Towns and a bunch of games but I don't own a controller. Apparently they are still rare and expensive as HELL last time I checked, At least it looks awesome on my shelf.

>>10564004
ANy modern computer can run the emulator. If you can play something like Oblivion you can run it.

>>10564004
Any computer that was created past Windows 98 can handle it.

http://www.zophar.net/pc98.html

>>10564018
Japanese piggu killing white doggu.

>>10564026
The newest computer I have is a Pentium MMX 233MHz. Could I run pc98 on this?

>>10564041
It's not like running a PS2 emulator or anything, it's more like emulating DOS which is fucking easy. Anyway stop asking questions and just try it. Go grab Anex86 and the rom from the last thread.

>>10538741
what is she saying?
>>10538818
does she fuck girls?

Is Anex86 the best emu to play these games? any translated oc98 vns or games? Also where are you finding all the japanese vns? any site that has them all?

>>10564121
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=320480

Also found this torrent, this have them all?

>>10564041
Neko Project has the highest system requirements and even it isn't that much. Go with Anex86 since that will run on a toaster.

>>10564121
Not one download has them all. If you put clubbox into the archive search function, you will find a post detailing many different PC98 rom downloads, as well as a list of emulators.

how is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Xentar ? is the pc 98 version the one thats translated? is there a list of translated pc 98 games?

>>10564259
If there was this would be on /vg/.

>>10564259
http://www.pc98.org/english.html

>>10564273
>http://www.pc98.org/english.html
thanks, is that all of them ? Also >>10564259
is this for the pc 98 or do i need to use a dos emulator? I think i remember there being some vns translated for DOS.

>>10564288
Yes, that's all of them. US version for that is DOS.

>>10564317
>>10564288
>>10564273
Does this include fan translations, if not then this list is incomplete.

>>10549373
>Ultima VIII
At least play a good Ultima

>>10565169
>black unicomp
mah nigga

>>10565169
VIII was, sadly, the last time a Ultima game ever had any thought put behind it.

It could've been SO much much better before the EA takeover. They didn't even bother to release the expansion after all these years, it's left unfinished.

I heard the nips actually took a liking to it but it was also plagued with unique bugs to them, for some reason, including a completely new gamebreaker.

>>10565169
VII > the rest

>>10565169
Famicom version
>>10565185
>isometric platforming

Do i need a emu to play Ultima VII: The Black Gate? Is there a complete collection of it for newer computers?

>>10565651
Not really this threads topic.
>>>/vg/

>>10565666
What's this game about? Can you get a translation of it?
>>10565651
I think you'll need DOSbox.

Dungeon Master 2 was first released on the PC-98, apparently

>>10566246
Wat.

>>10566129
Dunnoe, why don't you try it out for us?

>>10505440
>>10505453
>>10505468
Janitor deletes all Japanese Culture related threads.

My wife.

Congratulations on being the OLDEST THREAD CURRENTLY UP ON /jp/ RIGHT NOW!

>>10580498
That's a good thing, right?

I can't believe I missed all these when I was young.

>>10580498
I'm pretty proud, I failed the rhythm game thread though.

Is this a common problem? Intro and main menu were fine, but after I beat the first boss everything becomes gibberish like this, including menus. This is DOS version by the way, in DOSBox.

>>10584173
Either some files are damaged or this is some kind of copy protection trolling you. Might even be a DOSbox emulation accuracy problem.

>>10584173
Play the PC98 version?

>>10584827
Got some other bug with a platform that refuses to move. Screw that, I'll just do what >>10586515 said.

>>10538741
This girl's general attitude is making me hard.
>>10538818
>Oh, she is also a futanari.
No one's perfect.

>>10520588
>>10506822
Game is called 46 Okuken Monogatari: The Sinkaron (4.6 Billion years story: The Theory of Evolution)

You can just call it E.V.O.-98 (E.V.O. Search For Eden)

It's extremely depressing at times compared to its' SNES counterpart and a bit more fucked up. But has over 40 bad ends (What happens if you evolve incorrectly; For example, if you take too much power from a meteorite in the 3rd Era, you devolve into an amoebic creature)

If you want to evolve the "right way" just max out your intellect before reaching the end of the era.

After raising intellect to a certain extent, you don't have to fight most enemies as they disappear from the world map entirely, but you will still gain Evolution points by surviving natural disasters (Storms, Earthquakes, etc)

>>10586702
I liked it better than the SNES version.

Trying to get Welcome to Pia Carrot working in Mednafen. The original game works fine, but then I patch it and I get "irreparable data" errors. Tried both prepatched and patching it myself.

Any ideas? I'm wondering if it might be a checksum thing I can skip somehow. The manual doesn't seem to say anything about it...

>>10586702
>if you take too much power from a meteorite in the 3rd Era

Makes sense. That's pretty much the story of the final boss in EVO. Also, these threads actually made me take up learning Japanese. I never knew there was so much gold that never came over here

>>10525316
Plenty of them have small animations like mouth flapping, blinking, etc. You can check the tumblr above for finding games with full animation.

I would kill for this thread.

>>10594139
Me too.