/vr/ - Retro Games

>>494960
No. Nobody owned a Pippin either.

I don't think anyone here grew up in Japan in the 90s.

>>494986
Yeah but there are collectors on here, right.

Nobody here has an MSX or a PC-98 or a FM-Towns Marty, either.

>>495000

Only if you mean a bunch of fags who only collect NES and SNES

This thing only sold 100k units in Japan. How many games even exist for this?

Apparently the PC FX had the best FMV quality of the 5th generation, but by this point the fad had already passed.

>>495007
Can we please try to keep the /v/ shit to a minimum?

There's been a few threads in the last couple of weeks with people talking about the Japanese computer scene. I'm not sure that many people own the systems, but there's definitely interest in the games and emulators, and more translations are happening all the time.

>>495003
I don't think many of us live in Japan, and the shipping costs for the PC FX, MSX and PC-98 would be off the charts. There might be a few MSX owners in countries like the Netherlands though, where it was very popular.(They actually had a fan translation scene for the MSX in the 90s)

>>495029
Translations are supposedly tricky with these though, aren't they? Has there been any PC-98 game that got fan translated?

>>495017
>sold 100k units
I didn't even think it was that much.

There weren't even many games released for the thing. It was based on old tech, and NEC was pretty much busted already when they put it out in late 1994. It wasn't close to the power of the PS1 or even Saturn.

I remember seeing lots of ads for dating/waifu sims back in the day. I think it got like less than 50 games in Japan. Shamefur dispray, indeed.

>>494986
>I don't think anyone here grew up in Japan in the 90s.

I remember reading ads for this on EGM in 1996, ads not articles.

>>495071
It had exactly 62 games and I think almost half of those were hentai/dating sims

This thing needed more Bonk
and less Anime FMVs

>>495086
Hudson left NEC with Bonk after the Super Famicom started dominating the PC Engine.

I prefer his PC Engine titles though.

>>495113
>I prefer his PC Engine titles though.
Yep. Bonk 1-3, plus Air Zonk. Doesn't get much better. It's like the TG-16 was built for Bonk, what with the turbo on the controllers and all.

>>495086
That's what it looks like. Wiki says it did FMV well for the time, so lots of animu waifu sims. Pretty pathetic although yeah, like >>495063, I do remember seeing ads in EGM back in the day for imports.

>>495113
I belive Hudson would have made Bonk games with the system
I mean they were going to make a Bomberman game for it
which became Saturn Bomberman

This looks neat. I haven't seen this before.
By the way, are your guys's thumbnails displaying properly? mine aren't.

>>495185
wait, I had "hide thumbnails" checked. NEVERMIND!

>>495185
If think that's neat you should see this thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aASbYeBaD7I

I actually finished 3 games on PC-FX (emulated)

Tonari no Princess Rolfee
First Kiss Monogatari
Pia Carrot he Youkoso (only game in English)

>>495196
Although the LT is a really nice piece of hardware, it was another thing they fucked up on. It couldn't be used with the Super CD-ROM2 because it didn't fit, even though it was released JUST after the Super CD-ROM2 got released, even with the same color scheme. Eventually NEC released an adapter for it, which has now become extremely rare.

Cool machine, but it has i think 90 games to its library. Not worth the trouble.

>>495247
see>>495091

>>495218
>Pia Carrot he Youkoso (only game in English)
Is it now? There's a translation?

>>495247

Also, if you cant read japanese it just has like two games and they are really expensive...

>>495262

Yes, there is an english translation. Just look for a patched version.

>>495196
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aASbYeBaD7I
Hey, thanks for the link...
Ha, that's awesome. It's like a gameboy SP, isn't it? Also, is that a cartridge in between his hands, in the middle of the console?

>>495335
>It's like a gameboy SP, isn't it?
Well sorta. It's not really portable since you have to keep it plug-in at all times. It was probably suited for when somebody is hogging the TV or when you're in bed
>Also, is that a cartridge in between his hands, in the middle of the console?
yes

>>495361
that's really cool. Are you trying to get one?

>>495416
No, just some interesting piece of hardware I just found
it can go up to $1000

>>494985
my cousin had a Pippin, I think he got it for christmass, it just sat in the corner of his room gathering dust though

>>494986
I guess it's not so much now, but I remember the PC FX being a pretty popular item amongst early users of 4chan, I even remember people bragging about getting one.

>>495443
I wouldn't purchase for $200, honestly.

>>495049
http://www.romhacking.net/?page=translations&genre=&platform=3&status=&languageid=12&perpage=20&title=&author=&transsearch=Go

also I'm surprised that it seems like no one here knows about this site

>>495443
It's pretty neat, but why get that when you can get a Turboexpress, you know?

>>495091
Were there any non-VN's worth playing?

>>495548

Zenki is the only one that you might find fun if you cant read japanese...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kwYUpByTsU

>>495548
Super God Trooper ZEROIGAR. The only Shoot-em up for the system which is kinda ironic, since its predecessor was bassically the Shoot-em up console

>>495561
My runefu is still pretty weak, but it's more that I don't have much inclination to play storybooks at the moment. Something that is text heavy but isn't a VN would be challenging, but not a turn-off, y'know?

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kwYUpByTsU
>dat Kami-chan opening

>>495564
And thank you, too, my good man.

>>495627

Well, you can use this list here which indicates the japanese level needed to play (kinda) http://web.archive.org/web/20120205023710/http://www.pcenginefx.com/PC-FX/html/pc-fx_world_-_game_language_li.html

>>495695
Ta.

>>494985
I remember going to KB TOYS and looking at a Pippin and wondering what the fuck you do with it

the marketing SUCKED ASS and the only good game was Marathon

>Not owning a Gateway 2000 PC with an Intel MMX processor

Do you even multimedia?

>>494960
Anyone successfully emulate one?

>>495973
it was marketed as a gaming system but really it was basically a web device that was made before most people know what the web was. Maybe they thought people would be scared of it or something if they marketed as a web device, but I think it would actually have faired better if they HAD marketed it as a web device and like made it out to be a portal to the revolutionary new "information super highway" (people ate that shit up back then). Might have even helped to popularize the internet.

>>496010
that really has nothing to do with this thread, nice strawmanning though

>>495548
Der Langrisser FX, best version of the game, has awesome voice acting and cutscenes.
There are a few other SRPGs but they are all generic and boring.
Zenki FX is fantastic
I really like Blue Breaker, although it is really repetitive.
Zeroigar if you don't mind cutscenes in your shmups

Those FMV fighting games were really stupid, but Battle Heats at least looked really cool (same guy that did Fist of the North Star)

>>495218
What emulator did you use?

>>496010
Gateway was hot-garbage bro.

>>496086
>>496061

There is mednafen and magicengineFX. Nowadays mednafen is a lot better than mefx, its compatible with almost any game on the system.

>>496184
what does my post picking on the lame gateway troll attempt have to do with this?

>>496310

Quote mistake, it was actually for

>>496028

>>494960
>>494985
I have both.

>>497867
Me too. PC-FX was like $100 from eBay, boxed with one game (Dragon Knight IV). It has some decent SRPGs (DK, Langrisser...), that FMV fighter is pretty friggin' awesome, too (t's like Supreme Warrior on 3DO) and the only shooter on system is outright awesome. Only problem is that everything is moonspeak and only one or two games got fantranslation. Not bad console but too much FMV crap killed it.

I have one with several games for it.

The biggest hit for me was Kishin Douji Zenki: Vajura Fight though - bought it for 20$ in Akihabara because the shop had put a wrong price tag onto it.

I don't know about PC-FX but I've got a LOT of PC-98 games on my computer right now and I haven't played most of them.

One of better (not FMV) games on PC-FX got translated:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1299/
It's like worse Popful Mail.

>>495003

I had one. They were available in France and most of Europe (west and east alike). Too bad I sold it back then...

>>495003


planning on getting a FM Towns UX20 or a Marty

>>495493
I'd love to try a translation of Policenauts, but it seems really difficult. Will need a Windows 95 VM to decompile the 16 bit exes.

>>498634
>>497482

>>498640
I don't understand what point you are making

>>498634
although at least it seems obvious where to start, there's a binary and four data files and that's the game. I'm following some people making a Touhou PC-98 patch and waiting for them to release and then maybe publish information on how they did it.

>>498296

Same here.
I actually tried playing Necronomicon the other day but I had to look up half the kanji.

>>502343

You can use AGTH with Anex

>>502429

Really?
Oh wow, gonna try it when I get home.