/vr/ - Retro Games

I downloaded the zip file and the readme inside it didn't explain how to patch it or make it work. I am too much of a brainlet concerning PC-98 emulation. I have anex86 and Neko Project II setup to play Rusty but didn't touch it any further after playing that for a while.

Wat do?

>>5614832
Just open the dosbox .exe that's in the folder, it's all setup already

>>5614748
Great, I've wanted to play this for a long time

>>5614840
I see. Thanks for the reply.

Fuckin sweet. Never played a PC98 game but will definitely try this. Thank you!

seriously?
damn, god bless that guy then.

>>5614748
Just learn Japanese they said

Holy fucking shit, I've been waiting for years.
Some dude made a french translation of the pc-engine version but some other guy didn't release it.
I'll give a few bucks to the guy.

Any info on Dead of the Brain 2?

pretty cool game

This is great news to wake up to, I've been looking forward to this for a long time and I thought slowbeef would be the one to deliver.
God bless this dude, what a fucking legend

Visual novel hot stinking garbage

>>5614748
Now that's unexpected. I actually played through the 2nd game just out of curiosity for the series and PC98 emulation, with 0 japanese knowledge.

What kind of imbecile has one got to be to fail to understand the difference between a digital picture book and a point and click adventure game?

Not sure it's going to be a pleasant experience emulating a keyboard system through retroarch but I'll give it a try. So far everything seems to be working fine and it's only asking for mouse input, if it starts asking for keyboard keys I imagine it's gonna conflict with retroarch's actual shortcut keys. But hey so far so good.

>>5616478
The game doesn't require the keyboard at all.
Fuck retroarch, though.

>>5616528
I'd rather use np2fmgen but it handles scaling atrociously

shitty movie game
no gameplay

do choices matter in this game?

>>5614840
dosbox can run pc98 games?

>>5616690
Dosbox-X

>>5616690
It's some fork. Frankly I didn't know such thing existed. But PC-98 is roughly the same architecture as IBM-PC as far as I know, and the system does actually run a version of DOS.

>>5616675
Yes and no: the wrong choices will make you die, but ultimately won't change the story.
>>5616565
Amen.

What a shame there's no midi option for that game

So is this game good?

I'm stuck at the police station hallway. Does anyone know what I need to do or know of a guide? I can't find one

Let us begin then

>>5616460
Didn't you get the memo? Japanese point and click=VN.

>>5614748
Thanks OP. Much appreciated.

nice. click "fit to aspect ratio" under Video btw

Guys. I am running this on linux via wine and I don't have sound. I just started. Is this normal and the sound will kick in or something doesn't work?

>>5617179
There should be sound. You could use the dosbox.conf and use it with the linux version of dosbox.

>>5617225
Thanks for the tip. Thought it was dosbox-x exclisive. Will give it a go.

Cool.
Guess this is going to be what I'm doing tonight. Thanks for the links anon.

>>5617225
Unfortunately didn't worked for me. Thanks for the input nontheless.

>>5617245
What about this?
https://snapcraft.io/dosbox-x#navigation

>>5617179
http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/NEC_PC-9800_series

>>5617310
>>5617346
Thanks. Will try it out.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do here.

>>5617729
LOOK AT THE BLOOD TRAIL FUCK

>>5617738
Don't cuss.

WTF is this game's Title?

>Dead Brain.

>Dead Brain of the...

>Of the Dead Brain?

It runs on real hardware, this really made my day.

>>5617849
Nice

>>5617849
Oh shit nice dude. I bet that must feel great!

>>5617738
Yeah, no shit, but are you supposed to find something other than the flashlight before this point?

look at the memo on the chief's desk to progress in the police station

>>5618219
Use look on literally everything in every room multiple times.

>>5616478
There's a customizable hotkey to disable all ra keyboard functions for this specific purpose. Why else would they even bother with pc98 and dos cores?

>>5618376
I looked for such function didn't find. At least now I know what I'm looking for, I'll give it another look
Thanks

>>5618646
Settings>Input>Hotkey Binds>Hotkeys

Made it past the first zombie attack

I think I broke it. I'm in the "look at the blood on the floor, idiot" room described above for the third time or so. I'm fairly sure I've clicked everything to death in every room, and now every time I enter this room "Go!!" no longer brings up the leave/stay menu and the PC refuses to continue down the hall.

>click multiple time TALK on the doc
>then, you have to use LOOK to tell him a new line
well fuck you too, japanese adventure game logic.

>>5618950
Hmm that's odd. Did you use the phone?

>>5618971
The one in the upper-left room? I did, and tried again for good measure. I also got the item from the lower-left room, and the paper from the lower-right room. I can't seem to grab the gun yet from the upper-right room.

>>5618976
If you're saying you get to use the Go prompt on the room and you've tried all over the room maybe you did break it. My last suggestion is to also check the detectives back pocket

>>5618981
Yeah, I seem to have done that already. Damn. Maybe I really did break it. I'm running the daily git version of dosbox-x. Wonder if it's related to that or faulty logic in the actual game.

>>5618989
Seems to persist in the save file, so I assume the emulator probably didn't fuck it up directly. Guess I'll try a re-run later and see what happens.

>>5614748
Romhacking.net had a in progress page for translation in 2005. I followed that shit for like 7 years and gave up.

Tonight... Im going in.
Thanks for the news based anon

>>5618989
I just broke it too, a little further into the game. I won't spoil it but a conversation just dead ends you in the middle.

I would be cool if someone went through the translation and pointed out how terrible it is. People do this for official VN releases and it's fun to see.

>>5617729
find note in another room, look at blood/shelfs and select go command afterwards.

I like playing with you guys :3
No homo.

>>5619262
>No homo.

>>5614748
>people wanting money for things they didn't make
Disgusting. Reported.

>Why are translators paid for their work, they're just saying what the other person said


Its free anyways, fuck off.

>>5617729
Play a better game.

>>5619341
Not officially authorized translation = no money

>>5619296
>>5619262

>>5619368
They literally were all frat bros but with homosexual tendencies

>>5618672
Thanks my dude. But I'm a little perplexed why they didn't create a toggleable key for this, having to press a key to access the other hotkeys is very silly

>>5616901

Eventually you'll get to the point after searching everything in the other rooms that when you go to leave the armory the "Go" option turns into an icon and won't let you leave.

Click the path near the blood. Had to click around a bit in that area but it eventually worked.

the writing have its Bruh moment.

>>5616885
This.
Is it good or just another style over substance retro VN?

ha, mistake.
>>5616885
>>5620445
I won't lie, it's just "alright". Don't expect anything incredible about it. There is still multiple choice and inventory tho.

Can you save Cooger, the doc?

did my game freak out or am I that dumb?

>>5620650
nevermind, didnt know it was arrow keys.

I hope it doesn't keep softlocking on me. I'm gonna try again later tonight when it gets dark.

Loving this game so far, never played a pc98 game before

How far has everyone gotten?

>>5616386
Ok small brained retard

>>5616386
>>5616604
samefag

>>5620205
You saved me having to start over. Thank you.

>>5621624
NP, happy to help!

Finished the game a few hours ago, had it lock up on me on a choice. When you get a prompt for right or left, choose left.

Don't look at Cathy more than a few times it'll softlock

It irritates the hell out of me how the action sequences tell you what to do and then make it very hard for you to actually do that. Especially towards the end.

>>5621547
doc just got bitten

>>5622025
How long did it take you to finish?

>>5620660
You can right ctrl+f10 to capture the mouse, it's much easier.

I wish emulating PC-98 games wasn't such a fucking hassle.

>>5621547
Cole fucked Cathy raw

I'm stuck at the hospital. Any tips?

>>5622138
It's not. You just can't read the documentation and various guides and tips in Japanese. Then again, the game themselves are in Japanese too, so you're screwed either way.

>>5622135
Awesome thanks.

>>5622187
As usual, look at everything until you get the same message, then use the gun to clear the rubbles on the stairs

>>5622132
Not him, but the game is like 3h long, maybe less.

That was pretty fun.

>>5620531
I believe on the 2nd game he appears as a brain in a jar

>>5622132
I didn't time it closely, but call it two evenings of casual playing while also being distracted by other things. 4 hours, maybe? I had some setbacks at one point and spent a lot of time trying to see if I broke the game or just missed something. I just missed something (hard to find path) at one point, and at another I found that a certain clue was accessible only once and I had to reload.

RAWR

we in

Man I should check my fonts

Just beat it, other then a few little bugs I noticed the translation was fine, hope he does the sequel at some point

The ending was fucking weird though

>>5624856
>other then a few little bugs

*other than a few little bugs

>>5616478
What filters are you using? Looks nice.

>>5624856
Id like to get more games for the PC-98 set up with Dos Box X cause it ran the game great. But fuck me its hard to get this shit to work right...

Found this game though, a Castlevania clone that was translated called Rusty

https://www.pc98.org/images/rustye.zip

>>5624869

>>5616382
I somehow managed to miss this fucking part, I guess you can skip it?

>>5614748
interesting
I just posted a gif of it on the sprites peak thread without knowing it was recently translated

>>5622341
Ahhh thank you!!!!

Just finished the game in one sitting. Took what, 3-4 hours? Instructions were unclear overall so I was stuck in a couple places for long times trying to click through every pixel until something works. Goofy fucking story. Lot of unexplained shit but that goes with the territory of early 90s Jap VNs.

I am surprised at how much Resident Evil took from this game actually. Police chief = Wesker, anyone?

Worth a play definitely, especially since shit is free and so rare. It's a privilege to be able to play old Jap titles like this, truly.

>>5624882
It's on the last door on the left of the Hotel hallway (in the mission where you gotta clear out all the zombies). Yes it can be missed if you accidentally progressed the story instead.

Just beat it, what a fucking game. LOVED IT! THANK YOU. Seriously, this old ass game immersed me like not even the latest "greatest" games can. I need more of this! What should I play next like this.

9/10 loved it.

>>5624863
shaders_glsl > handheld > lcd-grid-v2-motionblur

You need at least 1080p to look halfway decent for this one.

>>5625119
Snatcher for the SEGA CD is the closest.
Famicom Detective Club part II isn't gory but also a pretty fun detective game.
Yu-No isn't creepy but gets pretty atmospheric at times, and it's also a PC-98 game, with a Windows 95 translation patch. However it's an eroge if that bothers you.

You can find some english-japanese adventure games here http://pixelmenu.22web.org/

>>5625119
Marine Philt and Dead of the Brain 2. Same engine.

Can't believe I'm already stuck, any hints?

All my meaningful interactions so far were:
Getting the flashlight
Talking on the radio
Going into the middle room with the flashlight but he refuses to progress because I can find bullets for that gun

>>5625484
In the chief's office , check out the piece of paper on the desk .

Other than that, make sure you look at everything until you get repeating results.

>>5625491
Jesus Christ I can't believe I missed that, so embarrassing. Thank you Anon and sorry for being a dumbass

>>5625493
Don't worry, we all have retarded moments. Enjoy the game!

>>5614748
Back cover, Played the whole thing and I dont remember that top image desu

>>5626158
Isn't that the one that jumps you when you first get to the second floor?

>>5626270
Looks a bit like the police station in the background, my brain I swear is going on me

>>5626325
They're similar, but the door on the left is closed in the police station.

>>5625286
Is dead of the brain 2 in English?

>>5625268
Oh yes I love snatcher too, one of my favorite games. Kojima is so cool. Thanks for the link.

>>5625268

>>5626591

I dont think so. But I hope he can get to it or someone else in the future. Though eventually Id like Marine Philt to be translated. Its on the same engine and looks fucking dope

Game is damn cool, home he get more PC-98 games to play

What a fucking ride. Awesome game.

cool game, though it probably helped i was playing it at 3am

fuck the police armory and the hospital lobby though. typical opaque jap bullshit

This goddamn GIF was so hard to make since in AVI or PNG SEQUENCE form it actually has 3000 frames and most programs don't allow GIFs this large or just crash. However when you do the final step of mixing the similar frames into a single one, it actually comes down to just 250ish frames. But in order to get there no program wasn't letting me import all those frames. Goddamn GIFs are such a hassle, nothing works properly I have to juggle 40 different programs

Why doesn't the old man just give me the goddamn katana

>you will never have a vectrex as a security monitor

>>5626158
Here's your mystery man

See ya next time, all for now.

>>5629381

great work, anon

>>5629381
Thanks gifanon.

>found the photo
>still have no idea what the password is

>>5629791
Doctor's house?

>>5629826
yes

>>5629842
wife's birthday

Bump

>>5630031
no

Are there any other cool PC98 games out there? I'm new to these. Didn't even know they existed t b h, but the artwork looks great.

Is there a way to way skip text?
The standard would be LCtrl but not working with this game.

Take a look at that double space!
Retronomicon, the people demand an update

Mama mia, another bug

>>5631532
>you can only have one girlfriend.
it was a time before projared

Another day, another zombie huntan'

Hell yeah old man

We're gonna bang this broad later on won't we?

It's time to kick gum and chew ass

>>5632104
Or maybe chew some frontal lobe instead

OwO

Haha look at the little guy go

Rest in pepperoni doctor mengele, you are truly an evil man doomed us all

>>5632172
post more anon

>>5625268
I played the policenauts translation on retroarch and I noticed I could make out the border around their mouths when their lips would animate. I dropped it just because of that, does snatcher have the same issue?

It looks really amateurish for an otherwise sleak presentation

>>5632318
That seems like an emulation bug. If you're not, you should be using the mednafen/beetle core in retroarch for either saturn or ps1.
The Saturn is the better port but it's not that much of an improvement over the PS1 version.
Neither Snatcher nor Policenauts have that issue. It's a problem with your emulation. Also Snatcher is a better game imo.

>>5632305
Later Anon-kun

Welp I'm stuck. Any hints?

>>5632540
Check the corpses and the guns until the game starts repeating himself, then you can leave, because there's no item here .

>>5632568
I did leave and there was nothing I could do in the lobby

>>5632569
Please see >>5625491

>>5632586
That's another part of the game entirely Anon-kun. That's on disk B, I'm on disk C right now.

I can't imagine it plays well, but man, the artwork is gorgeous.

>>5632607
It's just a point and click with very limited interactivity. It plays pretty well for what it is, there's no way they could screw this gameplay up.
It's pretty simplistic and even though it gets pretty gory and they slap some tits here and there the story is very cartoonish. Still haven't finished it but having fun so far

>>5632594
My bad then, I could have sworn it was in the very same part...

>>5632626
No biggie I figure it out. Just had to shoot the rubble

>>5632635
Haha damn, I was actually directing you to a wrong reply of mine, I was aiming at >>5622341

Keep it up!

>>5632639
I see how it be.
I'm on Disk D right now, the game's probably about to close up in some gunfight at a rooftop or something. I'll finish it later or tomorrow. The animations backlog is piling up, I have a lot of GIFs to make still

So, when's the sequel?

>>5632702
When the dude gets enough money, I guess.

>>5628716
They're really great gifs, thanks a lot for the effort man

This is very cool, thanks for sharing (and thanks for posting all of the gifs)

>>5616478
>>5616994
>>5617021
reminds me of Re-Animator

>>5633036
It's totally Re-Animator, mixed with other horror movies.

>>5618950
Thats weird, same thing is happening to me too.

>>5633850
Don't worry, it's not broken; you just need to click in what seems to be a very small hitbox.

>>5633857
Thanks! I was just about to give up! I'll have to keep that in mind for the rest of the playthrough.

>>5633895
The pixel-hunting isn't too bad otherwise. The only other thing I think you have to watch out for is that a certain clue only shows up once, and you're not permitted to view it again due to an apparent oversight, even though you can potentially view it slightly before it's (obviously) relevant. Be observant and maybe be generous with your save file distribution.

>>5633909
another weird little thing I bumped into; I got to the hotel where they wanted me to kill this guy's girlfriend, and uh >>5632172 happened, but I never actually wound up killing the zombie girl. But everyone's acting like I did. Hopefully its not too major of an issue.

>>5633990
Someone else in the thread discovered it was apparently skippable. Another oversight?

Was that it? Only the dude and his gf lived, is this the only ending because nothing made much sense.

>>5634347
Yup. Everyone is dead and there was a robot that had power over zombies, but let's eat go eat some sushi while I think about some other chick that I banged.

>>5634347
Also just finished it. It was alright, the atmosphere is way better than the story, and they could've had way better atmosphere with a good composer but the music was pretty subpar.
Weirdly enough it ended having way more similarities to Snatcher than I expected.
Now I have to deal with all these goddamn GIFs to make.

>>5634425
Pic related, I expect I won't be able to complete all of these and I'll skip some.

Dios mio

Heh nothing personnel

You go stud

Look at this dude with a tude

Now this is the face of a guy I can trust, not like the previous rapscallion

Is it possible to save Doc?

>>5634689
No, but he'll be a cameo in the sequel ... well, sort of.

>>5617729
Although I looked at the note I was stuck because I didn't check Chief's chair, that's a tricky one so make sure you do that several times cause you need to look at everything.

>load the save 4 by mistake
>huge spoiler

And who might you little lady be?

Now the next two GIFs are pretty risqué so I'll just post them and delete them. If you want to see them just check the archives. Don't taze me jannies
Even though it is a PC-98 game and did show us tits before albeit in a gore context, I didn't actually expect the game to have a sex scene. Pretty tame though, but it is quite shoehorned in just to tick that checkbox of what's expect in games for this system.

>>5634961
>>5634964
... and deleted. Check the archives.

time to take out the trash

>>5634960
How does one into the archive?

>>5634981
Don't ask questions you can just easily google anon-kun, it would take you less keystrokes and get the answer faster:
>>/vr/thread/5614748#p5634961
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/5614748/#5634961

>>5635089
keep it up, gifbro

>>5635095
i'mma keepin' it

>>5635089
Yeah, I found it shortly after. Sorry about that, dude I'm retarded. Love the gifs.

>>5635102
S'all good

It's gonna get pretty spoilery even by the thumbnails now so be careful, I'll try to enable the image spoiler but I might just slip up.

>>5634961
>>5634964

Noice

>>5637092
And deleted this one as well because tiddy. Though I'm sure the jannies would give me a pass, but I don't want to provoke them

This is the final stretch of the game, every image is basically a spoiler so be careful.

What is this trustworthy figure of authority doing? Maybe I should trust him and see where this goes

> the goddamn side titty that appeared in exactly one scene where she gets banged now becomes an important character
I love this video game

>>5637334
why don't you make a Let's Play in lparchive?
with all these animated gifs?

We did it reddit!

>>5637395
I don't know I just wanted do some GIFs though to be fair I am getting pretty exhausted of it. But it's ending so I'll keep slugging on.
If you want to do an LParchive yourself go ahead and use these GIFs.

>>5637614
Oh no we didn't do it

>>5637619
nah, i'm not good at writing.

>>5637619
I'd watch a Let's Play on Youtube, if you did one, based GIF poster.

I've finished Dead of the Brain. It's the great B-movie experience I was expecting to play, I just want to try more shit like this. Extra points for how good the violent scenes are, they add a lot charm.

>>5638703
See
>>5625268

>>5639610
I've already played Snatcher, but thanks.

>>5638703
Wait patiently for Dead of the Brain 2

>>5639690
I'm not too fond of the art style of the second game, seems like a huge downgrade. Though it does look more sombre so it might be more effective for the tone they're chasing.
The translator guy seems to be working on Makyouden now and should arrive in a month he claims.

>>5639859
are they gonna translate DotB 2 too?

>>5639985
Fuck if I know, ask him:
https://www.patreon.com/retronomicon_games

I'm way more interested in Marine Philt, not that invested in these characters that I'd rather have the sequel when it does seem to at least look worse.

>What are you gonna do, taze me?

>What are you gonna do, taze me?

Just like 1 or 2 more GIF and it's over, I'm gonna see if I can compress the whole credits into single GIF, if it's possible.

Boy was this GIF hard to assemble, but anyways enjoy, that's the last of it.

If you want all the GIFs plus the original .mkv files download the pack here:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4c425oybyn2sauq/Dead+Of+The+Brain+GIFs.7z
I also did something similar in a Yu-No thread a few years ago if you're interested in them:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/606ut6y6qn2iqi1/Yu-No+GIFs.zip

See you in some other thread.

>>5640339
nice

>>5639859
Makyouden looks pretty good, t b h. I hope one of you nerds makes a thread when he drops it.

>>5641856
Doesn't look too interesting to me, but at least we got giant enemy crabs

>>5640339
thanks anon

>>5642012
Ill take what I can get at this point

>>5643875
Sure not saying otherwise. But the system has so many, at least interesting games visually, that makes me wonder "man why did he pick this one?". But I know I'm being very shallow, I'm just looking at the graphics and setting.
I'll at least try it for sure if/when he releases it, but just saying, from what I quickly glanced it doesn't look to interesting to me personally.

How's the PC Engine port?

>>5644917
looks good.
not translateg yet?

>>5616994
wtf this is ripped straight from re-animator

I've never fucked with PC-98 emulation before, is it pretty easy to handle?

>>5646725
Its like Dos Box but worse, luckly the dude made is so you just have to run the EXE. But fuck I tried getting other games setup how he did and I had to give up

In other news these are all the games Ive found in English atm. But wish I could get them to work with Dox Box X

>>5646725
Not really, it's one of the hardest systems to emulate especially if you don't know jap since a lot of the problems would be troubleshooting the Japan error messages. Not a problem for this game though, everything is working smoothly

>>5646886
What's the point of playing PC98 games if you don't know Japanese?

>>5646469
You don't ask that question around PC-98 games. We are absolutely lucky this new translator showed up

>>5646939
I'm surprised he "only" gets 48$/month for this, compared to bullshit streamers and other e-whores.

>>5647080
Considering he only just started I'm surprised he gets that much. And most people don't even know what a PC-98 is.

>>5647080
Hope he gets more so he translates more PC-98 games.

>>5648671

If everyone in this thread threw him a $1 or $5 hes well be over 100, I threw him a $5 and of he can do a game a month then Ill keep it like that

>>5649259
Gave him $5 too. I'll wait a few months to see what he releases and then chose to stop or not.

>>5624869
>>5624871
this looks cool

>>5649259
a game a month. i don't if he can do it by himself. he might have to rely on other jobs to survive. translating retro games might be a side job.

>>5650712
It's definitely not what puts burgers on the table, I think. I wish this guy luck.

Someone should make more PC98 threads. I didn't even know it existed.

>>5652365
There's no point to talk about PC98 with people that don't know Japanese.

>>5649259
I'm doing it. Guy deserves it

>>5632038
I prefer pussy hunting.

>>5637678
Fucking laser terminator in my nippon games!

>>5652365
Oh, you sweet EOP child.