/vr/ - Retro Games

Japanese Computer Gaming General: Winter Edition

Thread anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpX5ZXjQtpY

//Pastebin//

>Links to vendors, emulators, game info, fansites, &c. Feel free to share it.
http://pastebin.com/g99LycCJ

//Games//

>ROM sites w/games, tools, OS packs, &c.:
http://www.retroprograms.com/
https://archive.org/details/PC98_Games_1813
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php

>Project EGG's for legal downloads (takes PayPal, subscription service). Collecting Japanese PC goods? Suruga-ya's useful for mail order. Try bidding on Yahoo! Japan, too; use a middleman service like From Japan for shipping:
http://www.amusement-center.com/project/egg/
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/
http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/
http://www.fromjapan.co.jp/

>/vr/ Anon's PC-98 dump:
https://mega.co.nz/#F!F59WkSqQ!quGKSFIswBgv0rxAAaF8Pg

//Emulation//

>lllusion City blog has primers on emulating the PC-88, PC-6001, and FM Towns platforms:
http://illusioncity.net

>Guide to making bootable HDI files for PC-98:
http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/pc98/articles/hdi/hdi.html

>MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 work for the PC-98; consider Ko-Window or SX-Window for the X68k (FM Towns has proprietary OS). The 8-bit machines run MS-DOS, CP/M, and Hudson/N88 BASIC.

//Music//

Aspic Special (X1, Fujioka): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fhBGjb7Adw
Grounseed (PC-98, Takami): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZgyIz5X2h4
Illusion City (MSX, Nitta): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpqHfnrCUmQ
Laplace no Ma (X68k, Kosaka/Ishii): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGztF8wpmUg
Jesus (PC-88, Sugiyama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_WZ1aHsgvE
Shamhat (FM Towns, Saito): http://polsy.org.uk/play/nico/?vidid=sm3161695
A-Train 5 (Windows, Nishida): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZx_HQYrNG4

//Translations//

>For NEC/X68k patches:
http://www.romhacking.net

Japanese Computer Gaming General: Holiday Edition

Thread anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpX5ZXjQtpY

|-Pastebin-|

>Links to vendors, emulators, game info, fansites, &c. Feel free to share it.
http://pastebin.com/g99LycCJ

|-Games-|

>ROM sites w/games, tools, OS packs, &c.:
http://www.retroprograms.com/
https://archive.org/details/PC98_Games_1813
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php

>Project EGG's for legal downloads (takes PayPal, subscription service). Collecting Japanese PC goods? Suruga-ya's useful for mail order. Try bidding on Yahoo! Japan, too; use a middleman service like Celga for shipping:
http://www.amusement-center.com/project/egg/
http://www.suruga-ya.jp/
http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/
http://www.celga.com/index.php?page=welcome

>/vr/ Anon's PC-98 dump:
https://mega.co.nz/#F!F59WkSqQ!quGKSFIswBgv0rxAAaF8Pg

|-Emulation-|

>lllusion City blog has primers on emulating the PC-88, PC-6001, and FM Towns platforms:
http://illusioncity.net

>Guide to making bootable HDI files for PC-98:
http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/pc98/articles/hdi/hdi.html

>MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 work for the PC-98; consider Ko-Window or SX-Window for the X68k (FM Towns has proprietary OS). The 8-bit machines run MS-DOS, CP/M, and Hudson/N88 BASIC.

|-Music-|

Aspic Special (X1, Fujioka): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fhBGjb7Adw
Grounseed (PC-98, Takami): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZgyIz5X2h4
Illusion City (MSX, Nitta): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpqHfnrCUmQ
Laplace no Ma (X68k, Kosaka/Ishii): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGztF8wpmUg
Jesus (PC-88, Sugiyama): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_WZ1aHsgvE
Shamhat (FM Towns, Saito): http://polsy.org.uk/play/nico/?vidid=sm3161695
A-Train 5 (Windows, Nishida): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZx_HQYrNG4

|-Translations-|

>For NEC/X68k patches:
http://www.romhacking.net

Thanksgiving break has reached us, and the board's at summer levels of activity for a short time. I've drafted this image for the next OP, am thinking about putting together a macro of starter games for those interested in these machines. Please offer feedback: I think the new side-bars are good, but not everyone might agree with the featured list of companies.