/vr/ - Retro Games

good music too, in this game.
Dead of the Brain also had some great music and graphics

>>10315546
Please don't make this thread. I already fapped like 4 times today and if someone comes in here and posts some amazing PC98 spritework my balls are going to be sore.

>>10315546
a zany perverted jap i follow on twitter (tina_harvel810) posted these mag scans, I censored them with the king censor of video games so its safe and retro. the art was real beautiful gotta say

>>10315598
no gommunism

Any torrent/download links with PC-98 games screenshots/art?

>>10315618
https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17

PC98 more like CP98

>>10315635
Thank you

>>10315639
Go back to gab, schizo

Full screen 16 colors artworks are nice, but I'm more impressed by good looking background, sprites and UI with this constraint.

>>10315795
Kuro no Ken by the same devs also looks nice.

>>10315586
There is a doujin home brew folder in >>10315635 according to the comments. Every picture in this thread is like an old sweater, I want to curl up like a cat. It would be neat to play these on my chinkheld but I bet they use a lot of keys. I will enjoy any more pictures posted, I still draw pixel art just for fun, there is something real comfy about the medium; probably just childhood nostalgia.

>>10315586
Ah, the best censor ever.

>>10315805
Legend of Rouge is the best looking dungeon crawler using D.O.'s engine (like Crystal Rinal and Raidy).

>>10315586
>I censored them with the king censor of video games
kek

>>10315639
It wasn't made by Capcom, silly

>>10315795
The background is amazing.

>>10315828
Capcom loves their lolis too

>>10315904
Longshot also did Mercurius Pretty with a palette similar to Innocent Tour. Brown can be comfy.

>>10315586
I need to replay DK4. I played it blind without knowing Japanese but that I've learned it I still only completed the first three.
Might use the maps from the bonus disk to get all the hidden stat boosts.

>>10315808
>I bet they use a lot of keys
Most PC-98 games can be played with Numpad+ Space, ZXCV and ESC.
Some will be played with a mouse. Full keyboard is rarely needed.

>>10315805
>Kuro no Ken
I know that game, it's on the Vita store

>>10316008
>buying roms from the 90s

>>10316040
Still better and cheaper than buying second-hand overpriced copies of said games

I recommend this account.
https://twitter.com/PC98_bot
>inb4 twitter
Place is good for art just get away from western users.

>>10316057
>Account run by tranny
NO

>>10316061
>>10316057
Follow Harvel instead:
https://twitter.com/Tina_Harvel810
Despite the not great art he does himself, he plays tons of classic ero games, posts footage of them and has a real interest in them beyond screenshots and ancient gifs that have been reposted the past 10 years.

>>10316063
Sorry bro, I can't read nip nip.

>>10316063
Thanks fren

https://twitter.com/chipushishi/status/1712136560592978165
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubD6C20NhGk

a very cute Sill from Rance IV

>>10317497
>958x702
>74404 colors
Didn't the Windows ports allow you to take screenshots?

I recommend looking up user bravomanxx on sadpanda and the like.
Before his disappearance, he uploaded hundreds of galleries of various 90s VNs.
And since these CGs are small enough, you should be able to download most of them without GP.
You might find some gems here and there, but i feel this should give you a complete overview of how awful and amateurish most of them are.

>>10317697
Strangest thing to me is he uploaded galleries for Lakers III twice, and the second time he did he included the battle and hentai animations, but then completely omitted any nudity of one character (which they had included in the first upload so ????)

>>10315805
>Kuro no Ken
A really beautiful game. Pretty casual by JRPG standards but some enemies can still kick your ass. I want to improve my Japanese before playing through it to the end. Think I've read that it is a personal project of the translator from the team that gave us translations for 46 Okunen Monogatari and other games, but I haven't seen news about it. By the way, there's a voiced PS1 version if you prefer your games that way.
I thought that the heroine was a ninja at first but later realized she is actually an onmyoji or mage. Also, I haven't seen much of the game before playing it so it was quite a twist when the game introduced the second hero. Kaies is one handsome nigga.

Are there any other RPGs with such beautiful and animated battle sprites? Breath of Fire (bonus for the same genre and battle perspective), Ragnarok Online and the Nippon Ichi Software games come to mind though they are more on the chibi side of things (it's fine too).

How did they draw these? Don't tell me with a mouse. Some sort of ancient drawing tablet the size of a car?

>>10317962
It depends. Some would draw with a mouse, others would draw linework on paper, digitize it and the colorize it with a mouse.
Light pens also existed but weren't as popular.

From the previous V.G. thead. Two weeks about a niche fighting game series, that's a lot on modern, shitposter-infested /vr/.

>>10317930
>Think I've read that it is a personal project of the translator from the team that gave us translations for 46 Okunen Monogatari and other games, but I haven't seen news about it.

Not this guy but I've had a look at Forest's PC-98 games and they're tough nuts to crack. The main executable is a small .com file that reads from the main disk archive and loads code from it that performs basic services like loading an image or printing text. From there, more compressed code is loaded for the game logic that calls these services via interrupts.
It seems needlessly complicated but really cool from a programmer pov... and hell when it comes to hacking it.

Really a game I'd like to see translated.

>>10318967
Oh, a V.G. bro. The thread died before, but I'm nearly done with the Max sprite sheets.

>>10318967
I wish i could sprite like thar

>>10315618
i live in the lobster

>>10317697
There are also tons of full CG packs on hentai era and hitomi dot la.

>>10315618
http://www.flat2d.com/pc98.html

>>10319690
That’s not a sprite. That’s a scanned high-res image with colors reduced and dithering.

>>10320039
You don’t need any “points”/donations for downloading from these two, btw, which is nice.

Going to dump some of my favourites. My PC-98 is 3.3 GB with 53k pictures so far.
Animajong X - some top-tier animation.

>>10320071
Literally me dot png

>>10320073
Love detailed BGs in PC-98 games.

>>10320074
One more from that game.

>>10320076
This game is spicy. You can play it online with EN translation here, btw.
https://tss.asenheim.org/amys-fantasies.html

>>10320080
When I first saw the screenshots, I thought this was a non-hentai PC-98 game. I was wrong.

>>10320082

>>10320084

>>10320085
Pretty nice enemy designs here. I also love how you get a lewd version of an enemy if it's a girl once you defeat them.

>>10320086
The quality of art in this one is instane. I have no idea how the artist managed to achieve this lighting - it looks ray traced. There is even more impressive art in the game, but I can't post it here since it's very NSFW.

>>10320087
This one is cute and extra spicy at the same time.

>>10320089
I love chibi/joke extra art that some games have.

>>10320091

>>10320093

>>10320094
That's it for now (too lazy to dig through 100s of folders).
There's many other game art that I like like YU NO, Eve: Burst Error, etc. but I get tired seeing the same images over and over again.
P.S. I can also recommend going through the entire list of PC-98 games on refuge.tokyo, finding nice looking games here and then downloading entire galleries on various hentai sites. Don't rely on Twitter/Tumblr trannies spoon-feeding you mainstream games.

>>10320086
Min-Naraken is pretty good.

>>10320087
I don't know the mythical Japanese language, but I want to play this game, because the story may work in this mode according to the CG gallery and my retard:

>Be Das Coommer
>Suddnley, a space-cute-funny-fairy enters in my room.
>Tell me that I am the chosen one or something like that.
>I, das coommer, must improve the lives of several girls (always cute and funny)
>I must win some space-card-game
>If I win, I improve the lives of the two sisters, the sickly girl, the tomboy with the spats and go on... For "improve", I mean give them a good old dose of SEX2
>After I have saved/improved/ all the girls, the fairy transform from a cute and funny space-fairy in a top woman.
>Woman Fairy falls in love with me.
>SEX2
>And everyone lived happily ever after
>End game.

>>10320457
I feel like Google Translate/DeepL is good enough for most of this - just point your phone at the screen and get it autotranslated (or take screenshots and paste it into them, but that's slower). Sometimes it spews garbage, but it's understandable most of the time.

>>10315635
Holy shit, and I thought my 6GB PC-98 compilation had a ton of stuff. This one is 70+ GB! Bad time to be in a storage crisis.
This one is better organized too, in english and by maker. Very nice link anon

I wanna play a ton of PC-98 games, but on my CRT. What are my options for emulation on 6th gen consoles? Is that one abandoned wii emulator good enough? Does the xbox have any?

>>10321454
Glad it’s useful. Invest in a NAS, then 70 GB would be nothing.
Also note that it’s all SFW (as far as I remember), but it’s easy to find a game that you like and find the rest.
I also browsed through the entire collection autistically once. I feel like getting through refuge.tokyo catalogue is a bit more efficient after all.
>>10321463
At this point it’s easier to buy a CRT monitor, honestly.

>>10320457
>PC 98
>Slayers
>Bit Art (or whatever the zoomers call it
>S H A D I N G

How fucking 90s is this? It's so 90s it hurts. I can't stand it and need it in my life but the pain. OH THE PAIN OF IT ALL

>>10321516
yeah but a crt monitor just doesnt look the same as a crt TV.
>though i may try to get one down the line

>>10321463
keep in mind PC-98 games generally run at 640x400 and were designed for progressive-scan PC monitors

>>10321516
>Also note that it’s all SFW (as far as I remember)
Alicesoft is one of the first zips on the list, anon.

>>10321635
I don't think anyone even noticed he linked games and not screenshots/art like that anon asked for.

>>10321674
PC-9801 games are a treasure trove of the PC-9801 art but yeah, nice catch, anon.

>>10321635
Sorry, though it was in response to >>10320042. My bad.

>>10321528
Played PC-98-Slayers with a translator.
It's a nice game even you won't understand the story given the confused automatic trasnlation
(Well, Lina becomes Rina and other things)
Nice ost, curious mechanics for a dungeon crawling (we will command only Lina), Slayers humorism with a "bit" of fan-service (Just see the game cover itself).

i'm currently making a game based on this style so i have a shitload of these saved

>>10322672

>>10322675

i dont think this one is pc98 but it looks cool.

>>10322679
>>10322681
Holy shit, she is sex.
>>10322684
It's Megami Tensei, the one that is actually about a Goddess being reincarnated. It's on PC-88/8801.

>>10322703
That's a new game being developed
https://twitter.com/chipushishi/status/1649968333092003841
Same guy who did the CG work for 16bit Sensation.

>>10321605
interesting, didnt know that. thanks.

>>10319045
>I'm nearly done with the Max sprite sheets.
Eagerly waiting for these.

>>10322679
>>10322681
You can easily tell this is modern based on character design.

>>10316008
>Not using PKGj
ngmi

>>10322830
I thought it was ahead of its time.

>>10320462
You can just hook the emulator.
Which brings me to my usual and who knows now maybe outdated link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/rfiarqfvi9jsyk6/Textractor_emulator_pack_v1.0.zip/file
(PC98 emulator not included, but you can just go to the NP21 website and downloaded the newest version and follow the instructions to enable texthooking)

I wish I knew Japanese. But at least I can admire the art.

>>10323827
>just go to the NP21 website
Which one? There's so many different forks and a lot of them don't have any official site or repository.

>>10323831
https://djtguide.github.io/learn/learnmain.html

>>10324696
Pretty sure I got it from the google sites one, but seems that moved to github. Anyway this is the same credited developer, so it should be the 21/w fork.
Can't find the instructions quickly, so I'll just paste it from the doc where I keep the hooks.
Basically add USETHOOK=true to the ini you will be using (x64 crashes, so not that one). You'll probably add savestates the same way anyway, so it's not even an extra step and that's really it. You then hook with textractor and have to manually add the hooks. I recommend opening the menus of the emulator itself first so you can remove those hooks to get rid of the clutter. Personally I don't use anything else as I just use it for quick kanji copy when I don't get it, but the guy who ported over the texthook capabilities from this emulator to the others also made a useful .lua script that you can use with textractor to remove the very common name first in textbox, as that appears in the same "dialogue box" so to speak. You can repurpose it by making your own list of names as you go through a game. Keep in mind that it is possible it might remove a name when it actually is at the start of a sentence, but that is very rare.

INIファイルの[NekoProject21](または[NekoProjectII])セクションにUSETHOOK=trueを追記すると、テキストフック用の機能が有効になります。 パフォーマンスに悪影響があるので使わない時は無効にしてください。

具体的には、2バイト文字を読み取る際にlstrlenW, lstrlenA, CharNextAをコールし、フックプログラムがこれをキャプチャできるようにします。 ただし、これらの関数がコールされる場所は他にもあります。正しいフック対象の関数は実際に文字列を表示させて探してください。

Textractorというソフトウェアを使用する場合は、H-codeなるものを使用しなければならないかも知れません。
/HS4@0:kernel32.dll:lstrlenA
/HQ4@0:kernel32.dll:lstrlenW

>>10324923
It would help if I actually link the the sites.

https://simk98.github.io/np21w/
https://gist.github.com/Mistranger (either is fine, they are just pre-filled for Legend of Xanadu and Legend of Heroes 3)

>>10324925
Thanks to that I found the one I was looking for.
http://nenecchi.kirara.st/

>>10322830
That and the UI is flat and bland as fuck

Were there any 32 bit games outside of the 9821 ones?
NEC started offering 386 models from 87 onward and the Epson PC-386 came out a year later.

>>10322789
Here you go:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dwCYheBozcujoRZG2qYeI-htWAYG_CJv/view?usp=drive_link

And a cute Kimura girl to stay on topic.

>>10325942
Big thanks!

This thread made me fire up Pia Carrot again. I stitched the beutiful uniform selector screen.
Such an interesting detail, after that, all portrait and CG use the uniform you chose. The bad thing is that you only unlock that one uniform in all pics in the CG collection menu.

>>10325942
Infinitely appreciated, I was the one who asked for those sheets back in that other thread. So thanks again!

>>10315795
Try Ryuki Densho. Very similar look and fun srpg with unique mechanics and an OVA

>>10320094
Do you have the ones from Idol Project

>>10315547
Will never get translated btw

>>10326035
>>10326169
You're welcome. Tbf, it was my first attempt at extracting sprites 10 years ago, before I knew assembly and wasn't familiar with image formats so I gave up.
A few months ago I had a look at Ningyou Tsukai 2 for Windows, to see how they handled text as it would make for a small translation project (all the dialogs are in the executable...) and stumbled upon the image loading code so I had a few sprites on hand, so when you asked for the VGMax sprites I knew I could do it. I also wanted to see how the PC-98 version handled this but that's another story >>10319045

If anyone's interested, I'll try to have the sheets for NT2 (Windows)

>>10326169
With that ponytail and uniform, she looks like Yuka's twin sister.