/vr/ - Retro Games

I too love how these games looked like

>>375537

I'll post a few of my favourite PC98 CGs. What they could do with 16 colours was insane.

>>375495
>>375553

God these games are gorgeous. They don't make art like that anymore.

>>375561
But why?
Im guessing is a lot of work?

Still can't figure out what this giant penis thing is, other than it was probably inspired by Akira

I'm really curious about the creation process with these.

They do not fall under "pixel art" do they?

>>375561
Actually there are tons of Japanese PC games with art just like that minus the "pixel filter." Unfortunately these days they're mostly porn.

>>375587
It's a lot of work and I don't think the demand is there anymore. I miss animated "pixel art" but we still see stuff like that from time to time in indie games.

Imagine how long it took to draw some of this in DOS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfAoVX_VWWs

Is there any way to play this shit on a mac? like, right now?

I know, I know
>apple products

>>375629
>mostly porn.
A few sex scenes among tens of thousands of lines of actual story does not make something "porn".

Were these all japanese games? How many were translated, 1% of them?

>>375639

At least not more porn than modern HBO TV shows.

i miss fapping / saving this stuff cause you knew every pixel counted and hard work was put into it

>>375639
Yeah but people buy them for the sex.

>>375642
Only some of the games that got ported to other platforms like Snatcher.

>>375604
>Supercomputerbrain shaped as a penis

This looks like my type of thread.

>>375612
Probably depends on what you define as pixel art. Lots of sprites weren't actually done form scratch pixel by pixel, many started out as drawings on paper that were scanned then touched up.

I hate it when chocolate statues are fucking while I'm in the middle of eating dinner in a restaurant.

>I would

>>375765
Nice harem

>Battlestation

>>375783
Shit man why does it look so good and immersive

There's something about the texture that dithering creates that's very pleasing to the eye. Almost like the texture made by brushstrokes in hand-painted artwork.

>>375765

Sauce, uploaded ROM link and instructions how to run please.

>you will never know a loli who can transform into a magical gambler

>>375802

Sure you will, it just might take 15 years.

>>375801
JAYRO?

>>375821

No idea, my good man, but I also have your pic saved from quite a while ago.

>>375793
They had it down to a art form back then.

the fuck are these games

>>375765
>>375765
>>375765

>>375834

I swear, hentai games really lost that magic when they switched from glorious 2d art to 3d uncanny valley

>>375838
Fuck thats amazing
Cant believe this art is already dead, thats depressing

>>375854

Feels good, man.

>>375848

Indeed... indeed...

Pic very related.

I'm really considering taking on a jap tutor just so I can play these games.

>>375873
>just so I can play these games.
You will fail

>>375796
I'd recognize that bulge anywhere.

>>375873
would chiitrans be of any help?

>>375629
It might just be me, but I feel like the art of illustration in any medium has suffered a backslide in recent times.
It's like most artists have got lazy since digital art and graphics editing software became all the rage, or rather that there are too many unskilled artists getting work over the great ones.
There are of course exceptions, but looking at stuff done with ink and airbrush and pixels back in the 80s and early 90s, it just looks more appealing and detailed in almost every way than what's in the mainstream now.

>>375884

tutor, not class.

If you guys are just going to talk about porn games go to /h/. And if you're just going to post /e/ images, go to /e/.
We're work-safe over here.

>FUCK YEAH, AMERICA!

>>375918
And if you dont care about the thread dont post in it

Total noob here, are there translated roms of PC98 out there or is it mandatory to know japanese to be able to play this games?

>>375918

>>375927

>top-loading heavy weapon resembling Heavy Bolter

Remember that Spehs Mariehns are also PC98 official. Space Hulk apparently had a PC98 release in 1993

>>375994

Walking home alone at night seems like a good idea if you're a school girl

>>375604
>>375821

what games are these?

man I love pc88/98 art

They used a lot of dithering for these. Usually they would create the images on a more powerful computer with a full 24 bit color, then apply a dithering filter to reduce the color depth, then of course follow it up with touch ups to make it look better than the computer could do automatically. I've been looking into dithering shaders but I'm no good at shaders.

>>375931
I am also interested in knowing this.

>>375931
>>376068

There are some translated games, IIRC the old Rance games are translated, but if you wanna play some of the gems of the PC-88/98 it is almost mandatory to read japanese. It will also come handy to read some instructions about running some of the games.

Is there a way to get the soundtrack to the Viper "games"?

I know how to get the games themselves, but I don't want to go to all that trouble just for the soundtrack.

>>376026
Why is that lady giving me boners with her expressions?

>>375580

I laughed way harder than I should have.

>>376261
I've got two archives one for Viper GTS and the other for Viper V12 which has MIDI files inside.

Though these aren't from the PC-98 version, rather the Windows release so I don't know if there's any differences in the music.

>>376232
Damn, that's a shame. Thanks for the info.

>>376264

Which lady?

>>376232

There must be some list of English-translated games somewhere.

>>376261

I'd like to know how to get the soundtrack to PC98 games in general.

>>376487

The Japanese would never have tolerated brown and bloom.

Say, speaking as someone who only recently discovered that PC-98 were a thing, what would be the best places to get started?

Not just on the games themselves, but ideally also on the emulation software required.

Thanks in advance.

>>375580

Couldn't .jpg compression have increased the color count on the gears screenshot significantly? Not that there wouldn't be a few thousand colors anyways.

>>376761
Is it not the same lady?

>>376804

Err, I have no idea, actually.

>>376813
The one on the photo is her mom.

Is there some kind of starter guide somewhere for PC-98 with regards to which emulators to use and game recommendations and such?

Also, am I wrong in thinking 90% of the games are VN / Adventure titles?

I'm amused by all the people praising the dithering when people hate it so much in console games and insist on blurring it to shit with filters.

>>376784
>Say, speaking as someone who only recently discovered that PC-98 were a thing, what would be the best places to get started?
>Not just on the games themselves, but ideally also on the emulation software required.
>Thanks in advance.

The Tokugawa forums are pretty good to start looking for info. Is really scattered so you'll have to look for the threads.

As for emulators, if you are looking for the one with minimum requirements you should try Anex, if you want maximum compatibility at the expense of more resource consumption go with the unnoficial releases of Neko Project II.

Every emulator has its pros and cons... one pro with anex is that it supports AGTH, is the only emulator that can do this in any console. But one of the problems it has is that configuring the CD drive is quite troublesome. Neko Project II doesnt support AGTH but it allows you to mount ISOS without relying on external software.

>>376847

Most games at these days were more adventure-like than the visual novels you see now. There were also lots of RPG's, simulations games (management, trains, etc.) and some hentai dungeon crawlers.

DID SOMEONE SAY RETRO 2D HENTAI GAMES?

>>376898
what the hell are you talking about

>>376962
PC-98: OMG BEAUTIFUL DITHERING
Genesis: LOL SO UGLY LET'S ADD MORE FAKE CRT BLUR

>>376956
Quiet, you oaf.

We need to at least pretend to keep this thread work safe.

>>376992
do show me where the Genesis was mentioned

>>376993
Kuh. Fine, if you want it that way.

>>376992
Because dithering actually makes the graphics better.

>>376992

I guess it's because Genesis dithering is ugly and the games were intended for blurry low-res TV's while PC-98 is not.

That wasn't too hard to figure out, was it?

>>377005
There's been emulator image filter threads in /vr/ since the beginning.

>>377013
Only difference is the resolution. If one looks better blurred so should the other.

>>375838

What is this from?

>>377041
>There's been emulator image filter threads in /vr/ since the beginning.

Maybe you should post in one of those instead of derailing productive threads.

>>377041

Not really, higher resolution means finer transitions; that's common sense.

>>377050
Policenauts, I believe

>>377050

Power Slave
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc98/power-slave

>>375495
Damn, what's this from? I have a dekai chimpo due to that image.

>>377105
I was just about to post the same thing. What is this game called? It gave me weird flashback boners. It's like I'm 16 again, fapping to the H-scenes in "True Love"

>>377105
>>377146

I think it is from lipstick adventure 2 but im not 100% sure.

>>377190

No, sorry, my bad it was Two Shot Diary.

>>377105
I'm quite impressed by your mastery of the Japanese language. Are you interested in fan-translating some of these games?

>>377206
It's not Two Shot Diary, faggot. I just wasted some of my exhentai image quota for the day going through its gallery-

>>377363
Wait, I'm sorry, I'm the faggot. I was looking at Two Shot Diary 2.

>>377363

It is from Two Shot Diary... here there is another pic...

http://advgamer.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-849.html

Damn, this girl is fine. I love it when girls have that smug look on their face because they know they're hot and making guys want to fuck them.

>>377420

Too bad the game is shit. The only thing you have to do is choose some words from a list so you can complete the ones missing on the text box.

>>377085
>Power Slave

sounds kinky

>>377420
That's what we call a whore, anon.

>>377473
most hentia games are shit saddly

>>377657
>implying that whores aren't hot
>implying that there is anything wrong with being a whore

>>377673
You. I recommend the following three eroge.

Daibanchou - Big Bang Age
Sengoku Rance
Kamidori: Alchemy Meister

>>377685
>>>/cgl/

>h-game discussion
Take it to /h/