/vr/ - Retro Games

So this thread is finally back.

http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/index.html

^ Haven't seen this posted before.

Is there anywhere to download the old Windows PC Wizardry games like Empires II? There are apparently translation patches now but nowhere to get the games without forking out stupid amounts of money on auction sites or something.

I love the new banner image - what game's that from?

any PC98 music pack to download?

recently saw that thread about Yu-No so I'm going to see if I can find the right copy to download and apply the english patch

Right now I'm taking a bunch of professional-grade fanmade Falcom MIDI arranges and making playback exports so you don't have to own a later Roland Sound Canvas module to enjoy them. About half of the material's fit for /vr/. I'm just glad they were archived when the original site, Falcom Music Room, shut down several years ago.

>>2944301
Site's awesome. I learned about Eiichi Goto and his innovative computer tech, parametrons, half a year back. Transistors obviously superceded parametron circuits, but it's neat how domestic engineers were finding unique ways to speed up processing in the post-war years.

>>2945008
I've seen uploads of Wizardry Chronicles and New Age of Llylgamyn on Tokugawa, but not the Empire games, so I'll ask if anyone's got a dump available.

>>2945130
Final Crisis (PC-88 shooter), second cinematic following the first boss.

>>2945131
Try setting up packs for playback using the Hoot player: http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/

Someone on Tokugawa is looking into getting a copy of TGL's Dark Solid, another real-time strategy game of theirs alongside Saint Eyes in the late-1990s. They really wanted to push their envelope in a period where even RTSes were radical and risky compared to simple old eroge and train games.

>>2945201
The 2011 Translated version, which is suitable for modern Windows (unofficial/fan-translated I think) is the best one, it comes with voices from the Sega Saturn version all while keeping the gameplay and art from the original version.

>>2946105
Didn't Kogado have an RTS, like in the Power Dolls series?

>>2945246
>Try setting up packs for playback using the Hoot player: http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/
Shame it just loops a single track forever and you have to manually switch them every time.

>>2947350
I'm dreading what those 5pb hacks are going to do to YU-NO.

>>2949469
Power DoLLS 3 and 4 IIRC are top-down real-time-with-pause wargames (Frozen Synapse is a recent example). Kogado's Rasetsu games maybe are closer to real-time tactics (like Saint Eyes, or Commandos/Desperados/Syndicate). Dark Solid seems closest to traditional post-Dune Western RTSes.

Here's some footage of PD4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ntf78asvs
Now the demo movie for Rasetsu: http://polsy.org.uk/play/nico/?vidid=sm8148502

>>2950069
True. Best solution is to record audio, then make VGM packs you can set up as playlists in foobar using the VGMplay component. And that hasn't been done for a whole lot of stuff besides Umemoto, Falcom, &c.

YU-NO-E-N-O

Reminder that Reviver was a technically avant-garde Japanese adventure game for Japanese PCs released in 1987 with custom graphics configuration options, vocabulary-bank conversations, Western-style puzzles/fail-states, and detailed 640x400 pixel art.

I know that some PC98 games had MT-32 support. Is there any way to achieve this in an emulator like Neko Project II?

>>2950108
The new rearranged music sounds surprisingly good.

Also, they managed to do a spiritual successor to Yu-No with Steins;Gate, so maybe they can make it work.

The character designs seem pretty bland, though.

>>2951787
Not sure about NPIIfmgen MIDI compatibility myself, but here's a list of MIDI-compatible PC-98 games: http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1436

You could probably get something working via a virtual MIDI I/O (loopMIDI works best) and either a replica soundfont or genuine sound module. I wonder if you could hack in support for Roland's Sound Canvas VA (VSTi plug-in that others have gotten working for DOSBox).

So what happened to the mercenaryforce PC-98 database? I really liked that one, would be sad to see it gone.

>>2955023
Seems the webmaster got a new site entirely: https://refuge.tokyo/

This is good news because you can now download offline versions of the databases, whether for PC-98 or X68k or all the other platforms Mercenary Force cataloged. It seems like the webmaster's more active and talented than ever, so I wouldn't find much to worry over. You can find the new link in /jpc/'s pastebin, too.

>>2955053
Thank you kind anon. I checked the pastebin and saw mercenaryforce still listed so I didn't assume there would be a link to the new site.

Can I get some advice on what to play? I haven't really played any PC98 game, but I have played the Saturn versions of Yu-No and Policenauts.

If someone can recommend me a few games to try, that would be amazing. The library is so vast, I kinda get lost.

Does anyone know what the current state of X68000 emulation is at? Are the different sound modules emulated well or do you need to have hardware for them? Is there a decent emulator on Linux for X68000?

I have a sweet little laptop and I wanna set it up with plenty of oldschool J-PC emulators and the like! Preferebly with all their OSes and stuff intact, but I'm new to these systems and emulating them so I'm going slow and starting with X68000 first cause it's my favorite.

>>2956225
I'm not fluent in Japanese so the only games I've been able to properly enjoy are Night Slave and Brandish. I've tried some fighting games but they suffer more from the low framerate than Night Slave does. Fairytale's visual novels like Dead of the Brain, Marine Philt and X-Girl look really good but since I can't read them what do I know?

while not completely retro PC related, does anyone know if any of these win95/98 games exist within other communities/trackers?

Puyo Puyo Sun
Renai Simulation Maker 2
Eternal Odyssey
Magical Heroines PLUS
Asteka II Taiyou No Shinden
Kapra W: The Road to Al-De-Baran
Farland Legend
Frane III
Farland Tactics FX
Zwei!!
Ys Eternal 2 (with Omake)
Ys Eternal Anctient Ys Vanished Omen
The legend of xanadu
Virtua Fighter 2 PC
Maid in Bunny
Farland Story Yottsu no Fuuin
Shin Eiyuu Densetsu the new legend of heroes
Giten Megami Tensei Tokyo Mokushiroku
Brandish 4
Revival Xanadu
Angeraze Complete
Sorcerian Forever
megami ibunroku persona
Frane
Farland Tactics III
Langrisser I

I'm just concerned for their posterity and I have no clue what they'd cost in some specialty shop. I can't seem to find ISOs of them anywhere other than the decade old cd-rs I have that are all prolly corrupted to hell and back.

>>2956361
>Zwei!!
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=959085
>Ys Eternal
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=165589
>Virtua Fighter 2 PC
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=864902
>Giten Megami Tensei Tokyo Mokushiroku
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4594768
>Sorcerian Forever
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2134474
>megami ibunroku persona
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4447410
>Langrisser
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3402169

>>2957050
Why are Russians so based?

>>2956225
Chitty Chitty Train (accessible puzzler)
Totsugeki Mix (companion platformer to Rusty)
Dante's Odyssey (platformer adventure based on the Divine Comedy)
Any of System Sacom's mid-1980s/non-Novelware games (Mark Flint series, Marchen Veil, Power Singer if you can find it)
CRW/2 + Power DoLLS series (mecha-based wargames)
A-Train III (localized for DOS/Amiga/Mac by Maxis)
Tokyo Twilight Busters (has a DS remake, no translations for either but this one's your Japanese point-and-click adventure)
Night Slave
Metal Force and Flame Zapper Kotsujin (STG action in space!)
Falcom in general (Revival Xanadu and Brandish are great choices, as would be Advanced Lord Monarch)
Compile Disc Station games (Project EGG has these)
Bio_100%/Onion Soft doujin stuff (former started during the PC-98 era, latter's from the PC-6001 age but made newer games)
Farland Story series
GAGE (Koshiro-scored isometric dungeon crawler, no translation but you don't need one to get far playing it)
Michiaki Tsubaki's JRPGs (Insiders duo, Sword of Kumdor, The Stellar Sign; these games are obscure, and hard to beat without the guidebooks they were packaged in, but very interesting)
Burning Dragon Plus

>>2956257
XM6 typeG's latest English version is very good for most commercial and doujin games. You can even make machine-state files if you're playing a game that for some reason isn't storing custom settings/configuration. MIDI support is good, at least for Sound Canvas modules and soundfonts, and there's MT-32 emulation but I wouldn't recommend it based on low accuracy of sound (not sure about old Yamaha MIDI). XEIJ, a recent Java-based X68k emulator, should run on Linux distros as well: http://mada.la.coocan.jp/xeij/

>>2956361
I already messaged you my take on this elsewhere, but on top of what Rutracker's seeding, I'd upload Eternal Odyssey, Farland stuff, Frane (III), Shin Eiyuu Densetsu, and Kapra W.

>>2959101

Does anybody have any leads on old doujin music disks? It's obvious that there was a scene, but I feel like very little of it has been preserved online. Even if the emulators we have don't have spot-on recreation of old sound boards, I'd still love to hear the kind of stuff that people were writing back when.

>>2957050
amazing, thank you
>>2959101
yes I suppose i will, but I assume anything I upload will be of extremely poor data quality.
thank you

>>2959654
Some rips can be found on nico
http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/12990307
Not the disks themselves, but at least you can listen to them.

>>2959827
This is ear sex. Thanks a bunch, I can't believe I didn't think to scour NND

>>2959654
Hint:
(同人音楽) [Firecracker] FIRECRACKER MUSIC COLLECTION PC-88 Vol.01-34他 (files+rr3%).rar

>>2959654
Not only is most of the Firecracker collection ready and waiting, but there's a shit-ton of PC-88 music disks by Active Gamers and other doujin circles in circulation. A guy on Tokugawa Corps. uploaded a set with all of the above just last December.

>>2959762
Thank you!

>>2960013
Always think to scour NND when looking for J-PC stuff, even if searching on the site is slow and clunky.

>>2959160

Seems like the Brandish 2 fan patch is speeding ahead. That group's doing some magic to get so far on that and the PC-98 EVO game, let alone Hellu and Mr. Richard's Lunatic Dawn projects.

>>2945246
>Try setting up packs for playback using the Hoot player: http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/
How does that even work?

>>2968253
http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/faq.php

If i would buy a J-PC like 88 or 98, can i use any Monitor or they have some special connector where i atleast need an adapter like to VGA? Or are J-PC monitors needed without exception?
Because to get a PC oversea is still possible but monitor is quite annoying..

>>2970572
Why not buy a laptop?

>>2970826
Sure will be Plan B, but not sure how common those are.

>>2970850
Ok, looks like most have an RGB output, and there seem to be adapters to VGA for it. So will try that definitely.

>>2970858
Found images to see here BTW:
http://davy.nyacom.net/machines/
Can maybe added to OP since it has a lot of info and pictures.

>>2970572
I thought about buying one when I was in Japan since the common PC98 models cost almost nothing (like 2000 - 5000 yen), but turned out they are heavy as all fuck, I couldn't just carry one out of the country.
Had to settle for just buying a bunch of games to sit on my shelf as a decoration.

>>2971191
True. Of course i would ship with Kuroneko. Taking as baggage is indeed almost impossible.

RIP Sharp ;_;

>>2973382
Sharp of today's not the Sharp of yesterday, with or without merger. Also, I'm surprised Falcom never put out any X68k games of their own besides the Ys III port. That Sorcerian port in pic related is unofficial and more or less faithful to the PC-88/X1 versions. It'd be nice if Sharp-Foxconn would refurbish old X68k parts so we could more easily order and fix these machines.

>>2970875
Definitely adding this. It's a great collection of pics for J-PCs even I have much to learn about (i.e. NEC-100, Sord M223, &c.).

>>2973732
Nice, in the meantime i also read on that Japanese page, that they/he actually also has an English version of the page and the computers:
http://computer-zoo.org/
Even it lags a little with actuality, it's fine too.

>>2945246
>I've seen uploads of Wizardry Chronicles and New Age of Llylgamyn on Tokugawa, but not the Empire games, so I'll ask if anyone's got a dump available
Yo, any luck on this?

>>2974438
Is it listed on my screenshot? If so let me know which and i will put it up somewhere. Also see folder source on the left to see for which system it is.

>>2975158
Nope, sorry, doesn't seem like it.

It does seem that someone has uploaded Wizardry Empires II to a download site a month ago though doing a quick Google search, so I can at least cross that one out.

This animation plays right before you start a run of Luxsor FM77AV. Even with added colors and hardware sprites Telenet played it safe for this opening. I think more budget went to Valis II, let alone Cyber City on the FM Towns.

hey jpchums, i'm desperately looking for scans of technopolis magainze - but if that's not possible then any other sources for old gaming/computer magazine scans. there is a small collection on archive obviously but i'm looking for more, anyone have any leads?

assorted magazines
https://archive.org/details/gamemagazines?and[]=languageSorter%3A%22Japanese%22

https://archive.org/details/computer-magazine-rack?&sort=-downloads&and[]=languageSorter%3A%22Japanese%22

http://archive.org/search.php?query=Japanese+computers+AND+mediatype%3Atexts&page=7

msx fan scans
http://www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/magazines/msx_fan/

>>2978426
Sadly even on PD they are scarce.. :(

>>2978442
yes i've been searching PD for magazines and i can't find any, it's much easier to find this stuff on english sources it seems.. but are you implying there is some on PD?

here are some technopolis covers for ants, literally the best res you can find of most of them

also heres this firecracker music collection
>>2960234
>>2959654
http://a.pomf.cat/xwivyj.rar

anyone have a PC-8801 emulator for Unix

>>2978575
Quasi88 is open-source and multi-platform, albeit without a translation. More info here: http://illusioncity.net/nec-pc-88-series-emulators-tools-lists/

You could also get M88 running in WINE for more advanced features (like tenkey controls mapped to cursor keys), but that could be more of a pain.

>>2978457
Yes, there are some, some keywords you can search for:
同人ソフト大集合
PCエンジンファン
ゲームラボ
マイコンBASIC
MSXマガジン
月刊コンプティーク
ポプコム or POPCOM
テクノポリス or TECNOPOLIS
トランジスタ技術 - mostly electronics but some mags have some pc stuff
蘇るPC-9801伝説 - ASCII PC98 Special
Inside X68000 - book
PC-9801 プログラマーズBible - book

PC雑誌 - General PC magazines
ゲーム雑誌 - General Games magazines


Atleast what i found so far and already sorted a little on my PC.

>>2978426
Is there an easy way to download a whole collection from archive.org?

>>2978612
i'm new to PD, is there multiple IPs/servers you can get to access different content?

>>2978781
No, it's decentral and always in the same net. But when you search something it may take quite a while until you get results. Also make sure you give enough space for Unity, only when you share enough space for the community you get reasonable speed etc..

I'm giving it two years before Wander Wonder's translation patch is completed, alongside all the PC Lunatic Dawn games, Brandish series, and 46 Okunen Monogatari.

Does anyone know of any old Japanese software akin to KidPix? As in art creation with preloaded stamps/patterns?

>>2981029
PC Lunatic Dawn games are on Steam in JP only... After the translation is complete has anyone thought of the possibility of letting Degica apply it to the games so they can be sold in English too?

>>2981316
I got a feeling they're more likely to send a C&D and takedown

>>2981029
Shit, this is beautiful. That era of Compile is the best.

Speaking of which, why has there never been any sort of console compilation of PC98 games? In particular, especially old Compile rarities/disc station games, considering that Compile Heart owns the rights to everything not puyo-related.

>>2981172
Nothing as forward-thinking and varied as KidPix. IIRC KidPix was localized for J-PCs early on, so maybe there just wasn't incentive (or developers skilled enough and willing) to outdo what already worked.

>>2982336
Degica, let alone Artdink, never sends C&Ds. There was a mostly-full fan translation of A-Train 9 V3.0 a while back, based on the German/Japanese releases, which most fans use at the moment (assuming they aren't playing V4.0 on Steam with a scant few extra trains). I don't think Degica's Artdink team, if there even is one, is likely to integrate Helly/Elegnaim/MrRichard's work into the releases themselves. That's more likely Artidnk's call to make.

>>2982362
I suspect these games' style of dithering and resolution means, if you do a half-assed collection of PC-98 games for TV/large monitor display in full-screen, most games would look beyond awful. Compile really should have done a compilation of their unique Disc Station games, but they ballooned into bankruptcy instead moving off of PC and shutting down Disc Station in order to make a console release viable.

>>2982393
The thing is, Compile Heart currently owns the rights to said Compile games.

Really, I just want a handheld collection of PC98 games. Having a ton of Disc Station games on the vita would be amazing.

Does anyone know how to get different endings in Panic Dolls? I love this game, but I get the same ending every single time.

Spoilered for nsfw, but no nudity.

>>2982336
I doubt it.. Degica seems to be really keen on turning that kind of thing into an opportunity. They're surprisingly community focused.. Only reason I even thought about suggesting it.

>>2982393
Degica does have an A-Train community guy. But afaik it's one person and he talks on the steam forums and a blog and probably doesn't care to C&D something like that... I assume

I think it'd be cool to play those games translated with official steam copies.

Anyone can get to work Mad Stalker x68k with a keyboard?

>>2982817
under Options in Joystick switch Port 1 to ATARI (Standard)

>>2982817
>>2982820
also Device A to 00 JoyKey

>>2981029
You could learn Japanese in that time, you know.

Looks like the guy who brought some J-PCs to my local gaming con for free-play might be getting better CRTs for this year.

>>2982397
They've started a series of Disc Station retreads (RE: Disc Station, together w/Project EGG), so maybe they just don't think Vita owners in Japan are pining for a PC-98 collection. I really want more support for the Windows Disc Station releases/games personally, since most non-Japanese gamers know Compile more for an IP they no longer own vs. stuff like Geo Conflict 4 and After Devil Force.

>>2982872
And I am.

>>2978426
>>2978457
https://archive.org/details/computer-magazine-rack?and[]=BUGBUG

>>2985648
you do realize i linked that collection already right

>>2982414
I swear it's kind of funny that the porn is almost always the most poorly drawn parts compared to things like super gorgeous cyberpunk city background art etc.

>>2987201
To Panic Dolls's defence, it was made by a small circle and I think it's their only game. Still worth a try if you like tower-defence or Dungeon Keeper.

I still find that some games have quality lewd artwork (Night Slave, Ten Sen Nyan Nyan, Viper series...), while I agree that the PC-98 delivers on 16 colors dithered landscape pron.

Still not sure when Olteus came out exactly. I mentioned it being from 1987 once before, but I was under the assumption this was a PC-88VA launch title. Thing is, the game was distributed via mail order and had a 1991 X68k version (Olteus II, a la After Burner/Galaxy Force II) with changes pertaining to that system. Meanwhile Winky Soft was transitioning into their Super Robot Wars period (thought Auleria on PC Engine CD reminds me of Ruin for PC-88).

>>2982362
>That era of Compile is the best.
Is it? I've been going through their catalog a bit ago and nothing really catches my attention. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong games.

>>2990185
If you're mainly a fan of their arcade shooters, the post-Spriggan Mark 2 era, when their shooter devs left to form Raizing mainly, is a barren wasteland ruled by Rude Breaker and Zanac Neo. Puyo Puyo became a console staple in the meantime, while Compile put most of their unique one-offs/less accessible IPs on PC-98 and then Windows. I personally love their Disc Station oddities and high-budget adventures like Wander Wonder, plus the Applesauce games which are like a Japanese equivalent of Humongous Entertainment products. After Devil Force and Geo Conflict 4 also interest me; thankfully you can get most of the Windows-era games via download from Compile Station through Project EGG, DRM-free but unconfigured.

>>2956361
Puyo Puyo Sun has a translation patch and full translated release from Puyo Nexus, unless you already know about that.

>>2945201

>People praising the shit out of this game
>Download it
>Expecting typical VN nonsense
>Receive an odyssey
>mfw

That fuckin' epilogue, man. They spun the dial past ten with that shit.

>>2952319

We'll just have to wait and see, hopefully it won't too watered down.

Kobushi just released a leaner, updated version of the Neo Kobe emulator pack over at Tokugawa: http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1614

There's also at least three new Windows game dumps available for download from them, namely Uncharted Waters IV.

>>2996929
Sweet, I'll download those

>>2973382
NeoGaf for some reason is hyping up the Sharp X1 when it can't even scroll or do anything modern systems or major retro systems can do.

Why not the X68000? That thing has games people actually want, at least it's a little better then the PC-8801.

Even the MSX will be better then the X1, all the X1 has is better version of PC-88 games like Super Mario Bros Special.

>>2997707
>X68k
>"a little better than pc8801"
kek

>>2997719
I was talking about the X1 being a little better than PC-8801.

The X68000 is light years ahead of the PC-8801.

>>2997727
The x68k is ahead of modern systems.

X68K space harrier plays better than the 3DS, PS3, and Xbox 360 versions of space harrier.

>>2997734
Nothing beats M2 as the X68k version has a striped floor when it's supposed to have a checkered floor.

Only the 3DS, 32X & Saturn get it right.

Dreamcast & Wii Arcade VC don't count.

>>2997707
When did NeoGAF become an authority on these kind of things?

>>2997749
I have no Idea, some guy over there even wants Nintendo to make a system on part to the X1 when the X1 is weaker then the NES.

Why not the X68000?

>>2997743
3DS version is broken. Framerate drops whenever there's too many transparencies on screen (SOMEHOW), and it's crippled by the very fact of being on the 3DS itself. You have a choice between buttons which retract too slowly to be mashed, or autofire so fast it breaks the game. The analog slider is incredibly inaccurate, and the d-pad is a piece of shit.

This could be because I have a launch 3DS though. Saturn ver is perfect.

>>2997756
Update to a New 3DS (or XL), the smaller ones have Pokemon Red & Blue when the bigger ones are easier to hold for adult hand.

They also fixed the d-pad as well.

>>2997760
Nah, Nintendo isn't getting any more of my money. I'm done with them. Fuck them for supporting region locking, censorship, and releasing the piece of shit that I bought at first.

Also they fucked up the eshop version of Summer Carnival 92 Recca. Not cool.

>>2997771
>Also they fucked up the eshop version of Summer Carnival 92 Recca. Not cool.
How? it's not like theres a 50hz version of it, plus they got much better after the launch of the 3DS & Wii U.

They don't censor the evergreen titles, just niche titles, and those don't even affect the game play, they're just outfits and petting (who you can still do but only if you get S-Ranks, the Lezing drugging is still in the game)

Just buy 3 systems if reagon locking bothers you that much (Japan, North America & PAL).

>>2997781
For Summer Carnival Recca, they went back and removed all of the special effects, changed sprites, and in general did everything they could to make the game less frenetic to avoid epilepsy issues, without any option to bring them back in for people who can enjoy them (being: the vast majority of consumers).

THAT is censorship. Fuck that.

>Just buy 3 systems if reagon locking bothers you that much
How much of a fucking tool are you? The system's already hacked, I'm already able to import. I have problems with the principle of it.

Anyway, let's get back to talking about retro computers, because that is a FAR more interesting topic.

Anyone have any Sharp X1 recommendations? I've been getting into it recently, but it seems even less-documented than the likes of the PC88.

>>2943984
>/jpc/ #9
Where the fuck was this thread when I was actually in japan and could have used it?

>>2997798
Show me a video showing such things.

That is not censorship, removing a skimpy outfits for characters who are not real is censorship.

>The system's already hacked.
You do NOT do that until the system has been discontinued for respect, buy 3 systems.

Also Wii U homebrew data has not been uploaded yet.

>Anyone have any Sharp X1 recommendations?
All there is is Super Mario Bros Special and you are better off with a NES rom patch that uses the game's stage layout instead.

Euphory has a excellent soundtrack however.

>>2997816
The threads used to be more common but I think the entire board has slowed down in general for some reason.

>>2997749
They aren't. They're just poseurs who only know about Sharp because of those hybrid Famicom consoles they released in Japan.

The X68k has a Final Fight port that's even better than the somewhat overrated Mega CD version.

>>2997824
>changing sprites and removing game graphics to appeal to a wider audience isn't censorship
>you do NOT do that until the system has been discontinued for respect
I already bought the system and I have no respect for Nintendo.
>all there is is Super Mario Bros Special
Okay, so you do have no idea what you're talking about after all. Go figure.

>>2997832
They also know about the X1 & X68000 as well.

It's the MZ series that they have no idea about.

I know you guys are having a giggle about conflating the X1 with the Xbox One as it's abbreviated on NeoGAF (which pisses me off too), but check this /vr/ classic for more laughs and info: http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2058292/

>>2997816
When were you in Japan, Anon? These threads don't disappear from the archives if you really need them.

>>2997798
Exoa II: Warroid is a very accessible vs. fighting game that has decent AI, I'd give that a shot instead of the MSX version.

I have to go to work in an hour, so bullet-point list time:

-Thunder Force (1984 version, scrolls better than every other version, surprisingly interesting beyond historical reasons)
-Reviver (Japanese graphic text adventure with some point-and-click mechanics, plus a lot of realism/simulation detail that add to a straightforward fantasy story)
-Aspic Special (bit harder to get into because of language barrier, but a solid old-style CRPG with first-person dungeons and side-scrolling battle arenas)
-Euphory (two-player hack 'n' slash adventure, has catchy music, okay visuals, and a lot to explore)
-Buuma or Scarlett 7 (they have versions on PC-88, but these are the originals and they play much better; two of the more interesting shooters from the mid-'1980s on J-PCs)
-Sofia (early platformer that's a bit clunky but easy to get into, has a somewhat open world and doesn't bother with scrolling)
-Luxsor (hybrid shooter from Telenet that's got both shot/bomb top-down stages and unique rail-shooter portions that get a little slow but overally make for a varied experience)
-Kagirinaki Tatakai/Brain Breaker (really innovative and cool action/adventure games that came out early on)

There's also some cool doujin shooters like Dialide and Revolty-II.

>>2997829
More than a few people who would have or did post in the older threads have left because of board-wide problems like "not retro"/6th-gen trolling.

>>2997837
It's proper not to use homebrew when the system is still alive, it what killed the Dreamcast.

Again show me proof about Recca.

Super Mario Bros Special is a X1 game.

>>2997843
>I know you guys are having a giggle about conflating the X1 with the Xbox One as it's abbreviated on NeoGAF.
No GAF uses XB1, it's just that the X1 has not been brought up much compared to the MSX & PC-88 (mostly the MSX).

>>2997843
>Kagirinaki Tatakai
Hell yeah, that's the game that got me into the system a while back. I'll be sure to check out the rest of your recommendations, thank you.

I'm actually living in Japan myself at the moment, so games with text aren't out of the question either.

>>2997847
For Recca, compare these two videos of the first boss fight.
https://youtu.be/uZ2Pp1TMFbw?t=75
https://youtu.be/Ft0sfR8W3D4?t=75
Both start around 1:20. Of course, I know you're just going to say "it's not censorship because some people have epilepsy!" ignoring that the changes they made ruin the game, making it impossible to tell whether or not you're actually hitting bosses (they have weak points), and completely destroy the mood of the game.

And it's the fact that you said it's the ONLY X1 game that gets me.

Also, I've never heard of eShop 3D Space Harrier suffering from slowdown in any form. You paying that version or the Archive Collection one that came out later and had some fixes?

>>2997851
Bullshit. They have an MSX community thread, not updated often but it's there and I saw it the last time I searched there. And there's nothing of that sort for X1, PC-88, PC-98, X68000, and FM-7/FM Towns. Kojima games alone mean the MSX2 gets brought up way more often. Admittedly I don't give much of a shit about Super Mario Bros. Special (it's the ultimate Hudson-Nintendo punchbag), but maybe that's what gets brought up more often than I'm considering and has been jacking up X1 name-drops; the game also released for PC-88, though.

>>2997869
I bought the digital release of space harrier at launch, but I either just play the saturn version or actually go to the arcade these days, so it doesn't matter.

>>2997859
Thanks for the proof, they done much worse.

At least it's not the game play.

>And it's the fact that you said it's the ONLY X1 game that gets me.
I said it's the only X1 game wroth bothering with, >>2997843 also has some good pick in there as well as homebrew efforts like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9KdcDr4nvA

>>2997878
God damn is Reinon's Fantasy Zone X1 port looking amazing. I've been following that since he posted the video of the old prototype he dug up for kicks, before his Twitter friends told him to revive and finish the project. This looks way cooler than porting Alphos to X1 if you ask me.

Too many people have hyped up SMB Special as the reason to start emulating the X1 when there's already at least one platformer better suited to the system. All of the games I mentioned are more worth bothering with if you're checking this thread in the first place.

>>2997869
>eShop 3D Space Harrier plays excellently, M2 always does excellent work.

Of course people talk about the MSX much more then the X1, the MSX has games people want.

>And there's nothing of that sort for X1, PC-88, PC-98, X68000, and FM-7/FM Towns.
At one point, but then the X1 got loads of love for some reason.

>it's the ultimate Hudson-Nintendo punchbag.
Think again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qaMgTjcKp0

>>2997883
Thats the X1 Turbo, it can do more then a stander X1.

>>2997824
>>2997798
You guy's realize that you:
1. offtopic
2. not /vr/

Some X1 proto-survival horror for kicks. Produce is more of a trap puzzle game though.

>>2999323
Ho shit, this looks awesome. As a huge fan of Deception, I'll have to go check this out.

>>2999335
Keep in mind, it plays slower than what the GIF shows, and both versions (X1 and PC-88) are nearly the same. There's no confirmation that Produce led to Deception, but one of the the developers was interviewed a while back and mused about how that might be possible. Try getting creative with monster combinations, and keep a watchful eye on the mini-map to stop gaps in your plans. It's almost like a horror version of Amida, but free-form and you need good timing.

>>2999345
Yeah, that sounds exactly like the kind of thing I would enjoy. I play lots of old computer games, so I am of course fine with the standard 10 FPS gameplay.

Now, please excuse my ignorance, but what is Amida? I have a feeling there's no relation to this game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amida_(video_game)

>>2999354
I just made a broad comparison because you have to push and pull the girls/boy in Produce up further into the tower using your monster traps, and how Amida sometimes feels as tense.

Gekirin on FM Towns.

999,999 floors of DIY dungeon-crawling, most of which you can skip unless you need the loot.

Were x68000's more expensive than Amigas back in the day?

>>3001810
Even low-end X68k models were a bit pricey compared to something like the Amiga 500. You had to know what you would get out of such a powerful, focused machine before getting it. The series found a lot of use as a workstation rather than being just for games and hobbies. Let's not forget, though, how much buying power the yen gained after the mid-'80s, meaning it was more expensive to import X68ks and easier for the Japanese to import Amigas (not that Commodore ever gained a foothold in their market because of this).

More X1 shooting. Luxsor's jerky but not unplayable, and it presents both decent music and challenge despite Telenet not being known for shooters before 1987.

I know Japanese and I want to get into some old Japanese games. In general I'm thinking of building a computer with an old operating system, was thinking of using either Win95 or Win98. What should I use? Also, how do I make sure I don't run into any locale issues?

>>2997847
desu I think it's perfectly fair to hack a system to remove its region lock, even if piracy inevitably follows
Region locking is the fucking devil. I had to wait two years to play SMT IV while there was a perfectly fine translation out in America. It's fucking horseshit that has no reason to exist, it should be illegal, and whoever made the decision should be fired.

Apologies, this is getting off topic.

>>2989427
Hey thanks anon, this looks cool.

>>3004809
>win95
>win98
>old japanese games
anon...

>>3001797
Reminds me of those Alicesoft games with crazy numbers of floors like Dungeons & Dolls or Persiom.

Anyone happen to have a copy of Belloncho Body Inspection for PC98? Looks pretty fun.

>>3005287
It's under へ in the OP dump.

>>3005296
Oh shit, I never bothered to actually check that. I had assumed it was identical to the archive.org dump for some reason. Thank you anon!

>>3005301
>>3005296
>I had assumed it was identical to the archive.org dump[...]
...And it actually turns out Belloncho was actually in the archive dump anyway. Fuck, I'm an idiot. I'll go download /vr/ anon's dump for some other games I'm looking for regardless. Thanks!

Any video games that teach Japanese? I want to play and fully enjoy these games.

>>3005583
watch this video and do as the man says.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-3YuvNYcrc

thinking about starting is harder than actually doing it.

>>3005583
Sure, any that are in Japanese. You boot them up, then look up any words you don't know to add to your studies.

Oh, wait, you mean "are there any games that hold my hand through 2000+ hours of study that will take anywhere from 2-5 years to complete". Nope, sorry. The only person who can teach you Japanese is yourself.

>>3005650
>The only person who can teach you Japanese is yourself.
What a retarded thing to say. You're probably serious, too.

>>3005583

Why don't Japs make point and click adventure games anymore?

>>3005732
Noone does anymore m8.

>>3004809
You won't be able to play Windows 3.1 games with either set-up (better off emulating via DOSBox on a better PC), keep that in mind. Win98 sounds best if you want to play some newer games in addition to old Win9X stuff.

>>3005583
Try Koei's EMIT for PC-98 (or consoles). It's mainly intended for Japanese wanting to learn English but can work the other way around.

>>3005732
It's not like they did many at all, not even on J-PCs. Tokyo Twilight Busters and Reviver are the closest I can think of, whereas Heart Heat Girls/Marine Philt (on-screen hotspots but otherwise VNs) and Makyoden (third-person Western-like exploration but command-selection interaction) aren't that close. Compile's Applesauce games might be the closest in terms of mechanics, but structurally they're closer to Humongous Entertainment's games.

Noah's one of the weirder, more PC-98-like X68k games (sort of like Last Tempest in its obscurity) and one of the unlucky M.N.M. Software games w/o a Koshiro soundtrack. Macaw and other Tokugawa people didn't have much luck figuring out how to play it last time I checked. This could be a project for me.

>>3008530
Macaw is so awesome. He doesn't come to these threads by chance, does he?

>>3008530
Do you also stream old weird computer games then?

Do you have a channel link?

>>3005663
He's not wrong about everything else, though.
Practicing by playing games is a great way to make sure you won't quit out of boredom, and
Japanese PC games are the best /vr/ way to do that.
Personally I recommend using a texthooker so you don't have to spend an eternity looking every kanji up manually ITHVNR works with anex and add all new words you see to anki.
It starts slow, but if you work on it daily after a couple of games you'll be reading at a pretty comfortable pace.

>>3005673
Now, that shit is terrible.

>>3009685
>Now, that shit is terrible.
What's wrong with it?

>>3010783
Romaji everywhere, minigames are pretty pointless and the coach woman is not cute.

>>3010816
It's at least a good starter for someone who knows fuck-all.

>>3008550
>>3008553
He doesn't, not that I know of. Guy doesn't even visit Tokugawa very often anymore, even when that would help him.

I have a Twitch channel and streamed for a bit last year but am waiting to resume with better momentum.

>>3010859
Not really, all you'll learn from is how to say basic shit like colors, days of the week, school objects, numbers from 1 to 100.

>>3010859
>>3012357
>>3010816
>>3010783
>>3005673
not /vr/

>>3013040
not /vr/

Report and ignore.

The programmer/director of Glodia's Die Bahnwelt is updating that game's page on his site: http://www.quarter-dev.info/bw/bwmain.php

Pic related is probably the highlight of this new content (better size/quality at his site), but there's also a music gallery and other images up. Based on his tweets I think Kuwata's going to salvage a bunch of Glodia's digitally-scanned artwork which he no longer has access to. The X68k-ready scans will be just fine if that's the case.

>>2945201
Did the pc98 version of YUNO ever get a translation patch?
I only have access to a mac and a pc98 emulator

>>3005915
There was a period when it seemed like PnC games were dead, but they've made a resurgence since then. They're just not the mass market games they once were.

>>3014276
No. But the windows version is from 2000, surely it will run on a virtual machine.

>>2943984
XANADUUUU

What's the best model of the PC98 laptops to get for retro gaming?

Are any of them capable of playing flame zapper kotsujin? Can any play PC88 games? Any with a particularly good sound chip etc?

>>3016897
Seems like the ideal 98 laptop for most games (older ones usually want you play on a PC-98 M or VM) is the PC-9821 NX/C7:
http://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5752.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqEdzqDNEOE

Also, baka @ trashing Thunder Force X1. The channel I just linked put up footage of the PC-98 version and apparently people still think even the best version's crap. I will defend that game for what it is, an open-range Xevious/Time Pilot with more logic behind it than some think.

>>3014325
On another note, it's not like Heart Heat Girls and Marine Philt qualify as PNC to begin with. Tokyo Twilight Busters is the major non-Windows J-PC PNC adventure I know of, with Makyoden superficially resembling a Sierra game but lacking item puzzles and unique deaths. Compile's Applesauce series might qualify too since later games have progression beyond simply clicking things for reactions and playing mini-games.

>>3014276
you know macs can run windows rite? theyre just standard PCs.

>>3018105
>http://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5752.0
Awesome, thank you for the link. I had checked Tokugawa and did plenty of googling, but I forgot about NFG. Cheers.

>>3018128
Worst case I'm sure there's a Wine prefix out there which could do the trick. I use a Boot Camp Mac with Windows 7 on the other partition, mainly because I just couldn't get used to VirtualBox and its sluggishness (fine enough for YU-NO).

jap pc emulation seems a bit harder to grasp than i expected.
i've got several emulators that can play the same games at varying quality, so sorting things has been difficult.

is there a reason a game would have 4 disks and a hdi file? seems i can just run the hdi and be fine.

>>3022298
hdi = harddisk image
so it's just preinstalled on a harddisk without the need to swap. sometimes it's also a cracked version. anyway not the real image of original floppies.

>>3022298
You'll want the floppy images on hand in case you want to install games onto your own HDI and/or try different install configurations. Many later games like Telenet's The Grail Hunter or Duel Succession, are harder to get running than oldies which can't normally be installed.

Old-school Tecno Soft, right around 1985. I'm having trouble finding K. Yoshimura in this shot though, must have been absent.

Kobushi and his pals are now uploading huge sets of J-PC games (by platform) to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@neo_kobe_team

Now you can get FM Towns games via ZIP file if you haven't been using the Russian torrent still being seeded. Sadly there aren't new dumps by the looks of things, just a more convenient set of packs Tokugawa Corp. members have been using for a while.

when the Russian torrent was updated, all it did was add the new stuff that was in the original release of the neo kobe fm towns set 2 years ago. but yeah, there's not much new stuff this time around.

still, kobushi's neo kobe sets are the definitive jpc sets for now.

>>3028672
Still very conveniently sorted for anyone just getting started. I got the contents of this PC-6001 set a few months back but all those games are finally accessible for the majority of people. The Mycom BASIC games are neat to have ofc.

do anex and neko project 2 have any way of launching games through batch files? i'm trying to put my games into a frontend.

like normally with most emulators you'd type the filepath of the emulator and the rom and then make it bat file for easy launching.

>>3032908
I haven't tried it or seen anyone write about whether or not that's possible with either of the emulators. They both require you to reset them after loading floppy/HDI files. Perhaps you could write batches that modify the emulator .ini configuration(s) directly (since at least NPIIfmgen lists currently-loaded media locations in one per machine) and then restarts the executable(s).

Does anyone know where I can find Poinie's Poin? I've looked everywhere but no results.
I don't see ポイニーポイン in the OP dumps.

>>3032908
"C:\emu\np2\np21nt.exe" "Bro.fdi" "Do You.fdi" "Even Script.hdi"

>>3035280
PS2 games don't run on retro Japanese computers.

>>3035280
Where did you get the idea poinie's poin was a retro PC game?

>>3035371
>>3035351
I saw a Japanese general for games when scrolling through the catalog so I thought I'd ask here. My mistake I should've double checked.

>>2947350
Mio best girl

>>2999323
>>2999323
Are you setting traps for the the people with the first person view? At first I thought it was crazy to control 3 people at once through a dungeon, but settings traps sounds fun.

>>3039476
Indeed. Controlling all three simultaneously would be a pain, but all you have to do is trap each of them on each floor and drive them upward. Your goal, as explained in the manual backstory, is to herd them atop this office building so the evilness you made a pact with can exact revenge.

>>2963270
>>2981029
>>2981316
Wait, I've been away for a while. Is someone actually making progress on the Lunatic Dawn translations?

>>3039501
A shit-ton. Basically the two most active RPGCodex translator-hackers, Helly and MrRichard, are going through the whole series on PC. Now that Passage of the Book's nearly done, MrRichard is doing the PC-98 games (wants to do 3 and 4 also) and one of them's going to do The 3rd Book. There's no stopping their progress AFAIK.

wait a minute WHERE DO I GET METAL GEAR 2 for the MSX2

>>3039528
>>3039528
>>3039528
hnnngggg that's too good i can't handle my emotions right now

I haven't been able to get the space shooter game on this FM-7 sound card demo disk working, but at least the demo itself has a psychedelic dancing boy.

does anyone have that gif of the possessioner opening with the part where the ship is flying by and there's a reflection of a girl's face in the window?

>>3042902
neat reminded me of these vids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzEnenrQLIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5lBF4Tn95k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoNlNsjAnpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tOXV0qgpas

I like way the color fills in and draws the lines as the image is loading.

>>3044239
>I like way the color fills in and draws the lines as the image is loading.
Stein's Gate 8-bit uses the same line-and-paint system for that retro feel.

>>3044119

>>3044727
thanks a bunch

>>3044740
You got it, dude!

Speaking of Possessioner, english patch when?

>>3044756
There's actually one in the works, isn't there?

Granted, I'll probably be fluent in Japanese before it's actually finished.

>>3044783
There is? Where can I find info about it?

>>3044810
Seems like we had the big chat on translation-hacking Possessioner almost a year ago: http://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2399271/#q2419407

>>3044850
Oh, I remember that.
If I knew moon I'd help.

Can anyone recommend some good, comfy/relaxing PC98 music?

Something about these games clicks with me just right and gives me the warm fuzzies and nostalgia for an era I never knew. But nothing's coming to mind now that I want to listen to something outside of a game.

>>3045813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxCm9qI5neY

>>3045813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZwOGMEAbQo

>>3045813
Shizuku and Kizuato have some good downtempo songs.

>>3046152
gaaay

>>3045954
This is the song that basically sold me on the PC-9801 and FM synthesis.

>>3046821
no u

>trying to find an interesting game to translate

>>3047091
try possessioner

>>3047091
how about Isaku?

There's a cult classic if there ever was one. Ero horror, no less. Like, none of that genre ever got translated to english.

>>3047110

Looks like some lesbian sci-fi eroge. Might be cool. Has the ROM already been hacked and text-dumped?

>>3047117
supposedly it's as easy as editing a text file

>>3047110
>>3047117
>possessioner worked
Actually, yes, please do that one instead. I've been wanting to play that game for years. I just didn't suggest it because I figured you already knew and didn't want to do it.

>>3047126

Got a convenient download? I don't think I saw it in the PC-98 MEGA link. It also seems like one of those games that only has decent pixel art going for it.

>>3047214
I haven't tested it, but here's something that says "Possessioner - XMas edition."

http://www.mediafire.com/download/8kc42p4ie4vv44o/%5BPC98%5D+Possessioner.zip

I might also look here for info on translating:
>>3044850

>>3047231
don't xmas, that one doesn't work for some people.

>>3047252
In that case, I also have this one in my archives. Haven't run it to test, but doesn't have xmas in the file name at least.

https://www.mediafire.com/?1f5wa0q397qvj5n

>>3047270
i'll just upload mine, it works fine
it has my save data though
https://mega.nz/#!LFMmQRID!c080wFPVHbha0PlLpdzyGl_r5I5IblXNOnkjqcvuqNA

>>3047295

Well, I have no idea how to access the text other than booting up the game on an emulator, so I'll hope that someone who sees this can do a txt dump and take a look.

>>3047328
use editdisk, it's the best thing ever
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013937/editdisk/editd165e2.zip

>>3047295

Is Xmas mode just a thing that always comes with this game, or do you also have the modification >>3047231? Does the mod just force Xmas mode?

>>3047386

Forgot pic.

>>3047387

Well, in any case, I guess I got to the text. There are random Roman letters, but I guess those are just pointers or something.

>>3047408
>あぅっ!んっ!
Nice

>>3047408
Dear lord. How much of the dialogue is scenes like this?

>>3047415

The game looks pretty dense, but the script doesn't look very complicated. The script isn't in chronological order, though. Each character has their own text file with pointers that call the appropriate line/portrait/etc.

>>3047423
That doesn't sound so bad then. I only know elementary Japanese, but if there's anything I can help with, I'd love to try.

If the menus aren't in the same file, perhaps it would be best to try editing the text in the intro to see how it shows ingame?

>>3047386
>>3047387
i have no idea what it is, all i know is that it doesn't work past the intro for me.
also, i found this test someone did, if that helps any

The manual's only 8 pages, disappointing.

where can i find runners high for the pc98? can't subscribe to EGG at the moment.

>>3047506
where did you find this?

>>3047984
Here ya go.
https://www.mediafire.com/?2pcz46n21jwm68v

I'm using anex98 to play some good stuff, but I can't seem to get the jp text working. Any tips? I like this emu because I just load the games and they work right away.

>>3048053
I guess you're missing the bmp font file. Get it from here, and set Anex to use this file. There's a "Font" tab in the config window.
http://www.zophar.net/pc98/anex86.html
If this doesn't work, try setting your system to a japanese locale.

>>3048063
this man is correct.

>>3048047
Thanks!

>>3048053
Anex86 is literally the worst PC98 emu available today. I bet you still use Nesticle and Genecyst too.

>>3047986

From a PC-98 manuals torrent. It's just the plot summary + that character page + the controls.

>>3049196
are there box art scans? i'd love to have a higher res version of this

>>3049035
It already one-ups Neko Project II fmgen because it actually plays games designed only for 386/486 PC-98(21) models (like Duel Succession). Anex86's more useful and easier to use vs. T98-Next in most cases, even if NPIIfmgen is generally the best player.

>>3049347
Someone's doing box scans of a bunch of PC-98 games he bought recently, but I don't know if he's got Possessioner: http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1620

>>3049347

Didn't see any. Your best bet would be an artbook. Did Queensoft ever publish artbooks?

>>3049351
no idea, i can't find any info on them other than the fact that they're long defunct

>>3047408
What program did you use to open this?

I wanna see if I can find something similar for Madou Monogatari. I'd love to try and translate those.

>>3049354

Where can you even buy Possessioner? Mandarake/Yahoo/Suruga don't have anything for ポゼッショナー (Suruga has listings, but they're sold out).

>>3049357

editdisk (DiskExplorer). The dialogue for Possessioner are mostly stored in .msd files, with a few other things (menus, etc.) in the exe.

>>3049358
i'd love to know, i want a physical copy
this game fascinates me so much for some reason

>>3049363
I meant the files themselves (.msd/etc). I'm assuming a hex editor? I can't get anything but incomprehensible garbage out of any file I open. Maybe the hex editor I'm using isn't compatible with japanese text?

>>3049368

msd files are just txt files, I opened with Notepad++ (Shift-JIS).

>>3049370
Yeah, I just realized I should try Possessioner instead of a game I'm not familiar with. That is indeed the case. Thanks.

>>3049382

Some games are just a matter of replacing a txt file, others require a hex editor.

>>3049384
any recommendations on a hex editor that works with japanese? I just tested something out -- opening said msd file in even notepad regular is legible, but this hex editor set to japanese gives me the same garbage.

>>3049387
Binary Editor BZ

>>3049387

I think MadEdit-mod works. Has UTF-8, Shift-JIS, etc.

>>3049358
i found this but it's 90 dollars
http://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/e173089187

>>3049397

>このオークションは終了しています。

>>3049398
i don't into moonrunes

>>3049350
>It already one-ups Neko Project II fmgen because it actually plays games designed only for 386/486 PC-98(21) models (like Duel Succession).
Duel Succession works perfectly in np2fmgen.
Use a properly set up emulator, like in kobushi's new emu pack.

Anex sucks for later games because it doesn't fully emulate the 86 board. Have fun playing Touhou without any percussion sounds.

Thanks for the help so far, guys.

I started messing around with a game I like, Reserve 1/2, because all of the dialogue is plain in the exe file. I can change words to English, but as soon as any string of text exceeds its original length by even a character, the program itself won't run anymore.

I imagine this is a pretty common problem for people getting into this sort of thing -- is there any idea of what my next step should be?

>>3049553
>I can change words to English, but as soon as any string of text exceeds its original length by even a character, the program itself won't run anymore.
Yes this is a very common problem. It happens because some programs reference text by offset, or run a simple checksum to ensure file integrity. Go to romhacking.net for more information.

>>3049405
Why would I play touhou?

>>3048063
Thanks mang, it worked pretty nice.

>>3049403
"this auction has ended"

>>3049567
Thanks for the info. I figured as much for the cause, but didn't actually know how to approach it.

I downloaded and read through all the docs on text hacking on romhacking.net, and haven't found any relevant info yet. You wouldn't happen to have any recommendation of what to search for, would you?

Sorry for all the trouble.

Alternatively, I'm also sort of tempted to do a shitty makeshift hack with the extremely limited dialogue space.

>>3049985
Rather, I haven't found any relevant info except for "this will happen and you can't do anything about it."

If there were a way to find the individual text pointers...

>>3049959
>Why would I play touhou?
I don't know niichan, your life is a mystery to me.

The fact remains that any game audio using the OPNA rhythm section or ADPCM function will not play at all under any circumstances in Anex86. This is only the first of Anex's many problems.

Now that may not matter to you (and if so I feel sorry for you son), but I'm betting at least one other person reading this board would be interested in knowing that. I really wish I had known that there are better emulators than Anex86 when I first got into the pc98 a couple years ago.

>>3050007
I'm aware it has issues, this is just the only emulator a retard like me can use without headaches.

>>3051920
dude, just get the new lite emulator pack that's on Tokugawa. Everything is already configured. It has anex with all the plugins too if you want to use that.

Fun fact: "Anex" is how Japanese people refer to ANal sEX.

You can trust me because I'm from the Internet.

I just got this game and when running with neko project it's just there stuck in the title screen with some nice music sounding. Am I doing something wrong?

>>3052113
Middle click in NP2 to gain access to the mouse
click to start the game.

This game uses entirely mouse. (And is also bad, but kind of cool for existing nonetheless).

>>3052149

Thanks, just played it. It's pretty fun and I like the art. I wonder if there's more cuties if I beat it.

>>3052161
There's CGs between every stage if I remember correctly, but no nudity or anything.

In relentless search of new, unheard of games, what interesting non-game floppies/images have you found so far?

One I quite like is "Nekomimi Donburi," which is a cute little program which mimics a graphical OS, and has a bunch of well-drawn pictures of catgirls.

>>3054193
I love the old PC-8801 doujin music disks, like the Firecracker and NT-3 series. The music is cool, and some of them also have some neat artwork too. Look for the ones that say SB2, because those take advantage of the more powerful Sound Board II board with more FM synth channels and custom PCM sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMcqGOCmU0

>>3052172
Yeah, the CGs between stages are just of you beating the boss. Honestly, for a "bad" game it's really technically impressive and pretty satisfying when you beat a stage.

>>3054861
I very much agree.

Honestly, my biggest problem with it is honestly that all the stages are copied straight from Steel Gunner. I realize it was intended to be a "do the impossible" kinda port, but wouldn't it have been even cooler if they made original stages to better suit the system/controls/etc? I would probably even consider it a favorite if it was completely original.

>trying to download YU-NO
>works fine
>suddenly error and MEGA is stuck retrying
>clear cache, switch browsers, restart download, even download their desktop app and try to sync it
>it still wont download
im pretty fucking annoyed right now

So i installed everything for yu-no and ran it to make sure it worked and everything. I chose the monochrome color option to see what it was like and went into settings a bit to see what the colored version looks like and there was no setting for that so i quit the game and started it up again to switch to the colored mode and i get this error.
Im just running it on my laptop to see if it would work and all so no emulator or anything like that.
Anyone know why this would pop up after it ran fine the first time?
Gonna re-install to see if it works first though

>>3047214
Look under ほ。

Do any of you actually have a PC-88 or old Japanese PC or do you just emulate?

>>3058035
I have a PC-8801, several PC-9801s, and a dead X68000 *sob*.

>>3058082
Why is it dead? Is it repairable?

>>3058090
The PSU died and shat all over everything (not my fault, I got it that way from a junk auction). I bought it with the intention of repairing it, but it's going to take a ton of work. Right now it just sits on my desk as an objet d'art.

>>3058035
Ironically, I had a PC-98 in America but couldn't take it with me when I came to Japan. So I don't have one anymore.

I'm looking for a good PC-98 laptop in its stead, though. but the more I want one, the more I realize that I really don't need one.

>>3058446
>the more I want one, the more I realize that I really don't need one.
This is true. The main reasons I got a real PC-98 were (1) authentic sound and (2) CD-ROM games.

(1) is not really an issue anymore. With the latest versions of np2fmgen, I can't tell the difference in an A/B test. The only pratical difference is the latency.
(2) is still hit-and-miss, because CD-ROM emulation has never really been a priority for any of the emulator authors.

>>3058503
This feeling... is this what being triggered feels like?

>>3058541
the exact moment NEC went to shit

Some good 'ol Engrish for you guys.

I've got footage of the game itself too, not especially fun but a cool polygonal FM77AV game made by the guy who programmed Derby Stallion.