/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5974609

>>5974621
it looks like hikkikomori culture hasn’t changed much in 30 years

Whenever I see this style I think only of COOMIN because of all the dating sims I've played as a kid.

It would be nice if for once people posted screenshots from games they actually played instead of reposting them from other sites.

>>5974975
I would, but I'd be playing the windows version and they decided in the port to blur the pixel graphics of the backgrounds for no reason I can fully grasp.

>>5975058
PC98 original to compare.

>>5975058
Because they scaled them to a resolution of 800x600.

>>5975084
They also have these. But the entire game is window-in-a-window anyway, so it feels strange they'd upscale them like that, crop them, and whatnot... especially since the character pixel art is untouched.

>>5975058
>>5975090
>Upscaled to gorgeous HD!

>>5975746
people are actually doing that on the game-upscale discord with varying levels of quality .
https://imgsli.com/NzQ0OA
https://imgsli.com/NzQ1Ng/1/2
https://imgsli.com/NzQ1MQ

>>5975746
I mean I can get what they're going for, since it makes you focus more on the characters, but I don't think that was ever a problem in the original version. Oh Japanese windows ports, you so crazy.

Is there anyway to emulate pc98

>>5975787

>>5975896
Sorry, it's impossible for you.

>>5975914
you're using SuperEagle on prerendered sprites of-fucking-course it's gonna look like dookey.
https://youtu.be/FLF2jmWIT00

>>5975809
*slap tits*

>>5976239
But remember, they may have BREASTS, but they WILL punch back!

>>5975809
Why didn't they use a crisper font with the higher resolution? The 橘 is barely recognizable.

>>5975809
God I LOVE her aesthetic

>>5975809
>>5976376
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER

>>5974793
Same, always think of JAST USA collection

>>5975935
lmao

is this the ultimate coomer system or what

>>5974975
Lol, /vr/ is full of EOPs though. They can play shit.

>>5976364
That issue's more on me than the game: I don't have native Japanese set so I use a program to display the correct characters (if the system isn't set to Japanese somehow, it just loads junk text). A native Japanese computer would have proper kanji displaying fonts, as seen in this image from someone's blog.

>>5976660
By comparison, mine just results in text that won't turn off the bold.

>>5975809
why not just play it through neko project?

so how tf do you run games that have like 6 .d88's if there's only FDD1 and FDD2?

>>5976690
nevermind i'm retarded

>>5974609
How did they shade pixel art like this? Was it just from scanning in drawings on old tech?

>>5976674
I want to see how workable the Windows version can be on a modern day english computer. It's more for me dicking around than me playing for my dick. Just have to look into ripping the ISO for archival purposes-- the game won't play without the disc.

>>5976376
>bunches and bunches of Kanji
>english letter G amidst it
>the context of the scene
Wonder what that means...

>>5976843
Gパン means jeans (g-pants).
The text is the protag's inner monologue
describing her stripping.

>>5976889
A boob joke goes flat, thanks to knowledge.

>>5975787
>>5975935
uncanney-valley-ish

>>5976889
buzzkill

>>5976889
What does the G stand for in G-Pants?

>>5977259
>日本では、「Gパン」という呼び名がある。これは『G.I.(アメリカ軍軍人の俗称)が履いていたパンツでGパンとなった[要出典]』とする説、『ジーンズを日本に紹介した人物が、ジーン (jean) のパンツの意味で「Jパン」と名づけようとしたが、元の発音に近い「Gパン」を代用した[要出典]』とする説、『「ジーン生地のパンツ」を略して「ジーパン」となり、「ジー」に「G」を当てて「Gパン」となった[要出典]』とする説等がある。
No one is quite sure, but probably just because "G" sounds like "jeans".

>>5977279
ah
>>5977258
what's uncanny-valley about it (specifically the anime one, the DK one I can understand since they just upscaled video footage of the game so there's a weird aura surrounding all the characters)?
https://imgsli.com/NDc2Ng
https://imgsli.com/NDc2Nw

>>5977279
Now I'm disappointed there's no fan art of Resident Evil boss G wearing skinny jeans.

>>5977280
>dat smearing of the kanji in NDc2Ng

>>5977280
>>5975787
Are these supposed to be state-of-the-art algorithms? They look like default photoshop filters

>>5977521
for the dkc I would agree, but for the PC98 art I'm pretty sure photoshop doesn't get rid of the dithering.

>>5977623
Nobody even knows the difference between those two you fucking weeb shit

>>5977623
>Jisatsu no Tame no 101 no Houhou
Still feel bad about what happened to the writer.

>>5977623
10/10

>>5977623
yes, i like pixels

>>5977623
one has soul

the other is modern anime garbage

>>5977647
top: full of soul. story, setting, emotional impact on reader taken into account

bottom: same as modern anime, made to please men's peepees, artistic vision limited by pixels and dithering and made only to look pleasing to the eye

>>5977623
source on top left of the dissatisfied wojack panel?

>>5977661
luv wave

>>5977658

pixels are still more pretty doe

>>5977623
>I'll just arbitrarily compare different things from different times and different platforms

>>5977685
Cheers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zwzHjKbxJ8
This has some good music

>>5977635
You mean how he became a relatively successful anime script writer?

>>5977978
And then ended up broke and depressed because his business partner fucked him over and then committed suicide, yes.

>>5978013
Nothing seems to imply he's kill.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/金月龍之介

>>5978020
Blasterhead, not Kingetsu. Kingetsu is still around, but made a bunch of depressed tweets a few years back then deleted his account. Doesn't seem to be getting a lot of work recently, either.

>>5978032
>2013年3月9日にイベント「Aki-Bug」に出演予定だったが、当日連絡もなく現れなかった。以後ネット上も含めて消息不明。

Hmm, is him being kill confirmed?

>>5978034
Yeah, it was confirmed a couple of years ago.

>>5977623

>>5977623
Might as well try to meme on people who like Street Fighter II over Street Fighter...

Well, after those tests to make sure things run ok, I finally have the results I want, so here we go:

The Windows 95 port of Sei Shoujo Sentai Lakers III. The game won't play without the disc, so this time I made it an ISO. I hope it works-- I haven't really done anything like this before.

https://mega.nz/#!ZbgG3YaQ!EtX3u-7Ce6MDTLMauz_Fv0yuWWgxfFDu1Q2xroUg-ec

>>5979970
Cool. I'll put it in my 1.6 TB eroge folder and never play it. I also have Lakers 1+2 that was shared previously, I presume by you.

>>5974613
Thats a sick battle scene

>>5979970
tybg

>>5979970
Thanks anon

im here to crash this thread, forget 95, its all about Windows Me gang

>>5979991
>I also have Lakers 1+2 that was shared previously,
you happen to remember in which thread that was? couldn't find it myself.

>>5975809
>Lakers 3 Win95
Where did you find it?
Are you the guy who upload Lakers 1 & 2 here months ago?

>>5979970
Thank you so much.
I've been waiting this for years.

>>5982860
>>/vr/thread/5584310

>>5979970
>Windows 95 port
Can it run in Win10 or do I have to use VM to emulate Win95?

>>5982938
I got it to run in Windows 7, though it's locked to 800x600.

>>5982931
Apparently I'm going blind as I didn't see it the first time I was in the thread.
Thanks!

I came for tits and have only seens a few

>>5983578
Is there a font that replicates the early DOS/PC98 japanese?

>>5983570
Source?

>>5983572

>.gif
>not animated of probably one of the cooler pc98 intros

I know most people just look through that archive, but thats less than half of the cool shit the pc98 had on it, same goes for music, people rarely talk about those sweet FM synthesis sound tracks

>>5983623
Searching for はつしば博士 pc98 lead to the source.

>>5983749
Thanks.

>>5983576
is this translated?
if not, i hope that anon who translated that pc98 game a few months ago will do it someday.

>>5982954
Thanks, I'll try it someday.
I still haven't played the other 2 you uploaded.
>>5983113
Probably because I triple posted >>5982908 >>5982931 >>5982938

>>5983762
You mean that guy who didn't know Japanese, made up shit based on machine translations and scammed people in Patreon? Or someone else?

Cause if the former, you can always play in Japanese and make up the story yourself. Tbh this technique was even used for some official releases in the past, e.g. Divi Dead.

Heads up. You can find this Lakers artbook at the usual places.

>>5983769
He is in patreon and he translated Makyouden.
I don't know if it's machine translation of not because I haven't tried it and I never played the original (if I'm not mistaken).
I don't know Japanese either.
>Divi-dead
The official translation is like a rewrite.
I remember there's someone who partially translated it in gamefaqs years ago.
Haven't updated for years though.
I don't think he's in Divi-dead board anymore.
We used to have regular thread there.
Now it's just a dead place.

>>5983770
>usual places
Where? Sad panda? Sogna forum?

>>5983775
Nevermind.
Saw it in panda.
I think I have downloaded that years ago.

>>5983774
>Makyouden
Did he delete all his posts in patreon?
I can't find anything.
Can someone reupload his works?

>>5983774
>>5983779
Makyouden and all his translation were proven and showcased to be machine translations and the guy was proven to know no Japanese at all.

After being confronted, he first cried that he always meant to create made up shit and then deleted his Patreon in shame.

Enjoy his works if you want, just be aware they're made up shit that has nothing to do with the actual games.

>>5983782
Yeah, I'm reading a thread in vndb right now.
They mentioned some links in warosu.
It seems it happened when I wasn't here for some time.
All his entry in vndb were deleted too.
https://vndb.org/t12562
Oh well, I guess it's good to know that it's MTL, not properly translated.
I was so hyped when I know a horror game was translated.

>>5983785
It was a shitshow. Many people defended him cause they're desperate shit-eaters.

It was clear the guy was trying to scam people. He initially mentioned nothing at all about his work being machine translation and not knowing Japanese. Wanted to seem like the promised savior for people interested in PC98 games.

>>5983789
>desperate
It might be because it's kinda rare for someone who's interested to translate PC98 vn games.
Most of the time they are translating console games (RPGs mostly).
I like horror games, so I wish someone would translate games like Isaku or Kawarazaki-ke no Ichizoku 1 & 2, all are from Elf company.

>>5983790
Yeah. At this point I think it's best to learn Japanese yourself.

>>5983797
>learn Japanese
I tried some 20 years ago.
Took a basic Japanese class, forgot most of the grammar.
I can still read hiragana, katakana and some kanji.
I can play those Koei games like RTK, Nobunaga, Taiko series with dictionary (now online like Google Translate and Jisho.org).
But that's all I can, I'm too lazy to study the more advance Japanese.
So I usually say I don't know Japanese.

>>5983807
You're already further in than most people. These days learning grammar/vocabulary is easier than ever and resources are plentiful.

You can check out /jp/'s DJT. The thread itself is a pit of mentally disturbed spammers, but in the OP there should be a link with various resources, textbook PDFs etc.

>>5983810
I tried /jp/ some time ago.
Lurking in the untranslated VN thread.
People were posting their gameplay and had question about how to translate a certain line in the VN.
But I was too lazy like I said.
This is the retro Taiko game I posted in the other thread >>5981948
I just replayed it a few months ago.
Koei made the Taiko series.

>>5983770
It's a good book. Even has a staff interview.

>>5983530
They're adorable. Where are they from?

>>5984761
Dragon Master Silk

>>5984925
This game is hard if you don't grind.

>>5984945
Is it good though?

>>5985154
I like it, but I didn't finish the game.
I don't know Japanese so it's hard to guess who I should talk to in order to advance the story.
Talking to everyone (including area you've visited) eventually makes it advance the story.
Only 2 characters, first is the black hair girl (sort of a mage or spellsword), the other is the blonde swordsman.
You need to play each of their story first before they travel together.

>>5984925
>>5985154
>>5985205
Manual on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/KuroNoKenManualJPPC9801
And for the PS1 version too
https://archive.org/details/KuroNoKenManualJPPlayStationPSX

>>5985341
cool

>>5985420
This has been a very positive PC98 thread.

>>5985423
Sure has

>>5985426
Chun Li clone?
What game is it?

>>5985436
Reverse image search tells me it's Urban Soldier. I've no idea what chun li's doing in it though

>>5985441
Parody of Street Fighter. Its logo looks similar to SF logo. There's Ami (Sailor Moon) clone too.
[quote]
A quiz game tournament with an all-female cast that semi-parodies the Street Fighter games. You select your girl, and face off against the others in multiple-choice quiz question battles, with a correct guess before the opponent answers giving you a chance to damage her, and incorrect answers damaging the player. The loser of each round loses clothes. A look-alike of Ami from Sailormoon makes an appearance in this game.
[/quote]
http://sutorippu.com/node/763

>>5984925
I got the Playstation one a month ago
I forgot it was a PC-98 port
Imma play it soon

>>5985426
hm.. what about the sex doll??

>>5974609
Wasnt that girl in the yellow dress a futa? i seem to remember this ancient hentai

>>5986076
She's called chun-li you misogynist

Love this game.
But I can't run in modern Windows.
Gotta run it Win3.x.

>>5974609
Why is PC98 art so good?

>>5987095
Quality's all over the place, really.

>>5987095
People actually paid for eroge back then instead of just pirating it, so companies could afford to put effort into the artwork.

>>5987229
what do the bad ones look like

>>5987240
What a pathetic excuse for a nation.

>>5974621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4biSWV9zZ8

Best sentai opening

>>5986723
Tried running the pc98 version in NP2.
It's nice that it has music, the Win95 version I played doesn't have music.
But it plays so slow compared the Win95 version.
I think there's a way to make the game faster in Win95.
Either by pressing a key (like Ctrl for fast forwarding the text message in VN, or something).
How to activate the keyboard?
The mouse can be switched using middle mouse button.

>>5987275
>faster
I don't mean the emulation.
The music becomes weird if I set more than 100% emulation speed.
I mean the gameplay.

>>5987275
>It's nice that it has music, the Win95 version I played doesn't have music.

Are you sure it's not just CD-DA and you got a version without the music data?

>>5974609
>>5974613
>>5974621
>>5974624
>>5974629
Why does this shit look so aesthetically good?

>>5987880
Most of the games with CD music I got in the 90s are bootlegs and the CD music are ripped.
They come in a CD with multiple game in it.

How can I achieve this look?

Natsune size? That's not very common in the era of the PC98 games.

>>5987989
Meant for >>5983385

>>5987989
I think her tits are too big in Lakers 3.
Natsune's breasts in Lakers 1 & 2 are good and better.

>>5975787
That looks awful

>>5975058
>>5975059
>>5975090
>>5975787
>upscale
Do they upscale the screenshot or the actual game CG?

>>5988024
>actual game CG
I mean like what byuu is doing with his emulator (HD mode).

>>5988027
HD-Mode works due to Mode 7 tilting a plane so it's possible to add more samples than the original SFC resolution. Think of 3D rendered at higher resolution where the model consists of a single quad.

It should be possible to render vector graphics at higher resolutions but raster bitmaps have a fixed resolution where you can't just generate new information out of nothing.
What some companies did was rescan the original lineart and redo the colorization but most would just run the old bitmaps through a scaling/blur algorithm to pretend it had 16 million colors instead of 16. Since the games were distributed on CDs the larger file size of the scaled images was no longer an issue.

>>5988762
Thanks, Dr Science

>>5989291

>>5977280
>https://imgsli.com/NzQ1MQ
What happens when you run this on Ace Attorney imges

>>5989291
>>5989292
>DK IV
Being horny, I always picked the girl in each city because I knew there would be H scene with girl character.

>>5987930
curvelinear perspective

>>5989376
I think most people did. Why did they even include the male option? Often they even had the same class, the only one I remember being clearly superior is Necromancer over Sayla since magic users are more useful than ninjas.

>>5989396
>Necromancer
Male necromancer? I don't remember.
Got any screenshot of the character?

>>5989292
>>5989376

I assume this is from the same artbook (but not the same game?). Anyone have a link to the full book?

>>5989648

bumping

May I inquire why the lineart here...

>>5989668
looks much better than here?

>>5974609
in other words post 256 color hentai

>>5974609
we need gifs!

>>5989692
Here's a gif

>>5989376
why can't you look like this in mmo's

>>5989508
I meant ネクラマンサー, the alternative option in Michel.
Can't find a screenshot and don't have a fitting save to make one.

>>5989648
>I assume this is from the same artbook (but not the same game?).
No. They are from the same company which is enough reason for the artbooks to use a similar layout.

>>5989684
>256 colors
Look at mister high and mighty here thinking colors grow on trees.

>>5990172
Time for Saturn ports!

>>5990165
Found a pic of DK4 remake cover.
Is Necromancer the green haired guy?
I don't remember much of the guys because I usually pick the girls.

>>5990445
The white haired guy behind Neptune and Sayla.

http://yurasama.sakura.ne.jp/game/comp/elf_dra4.html
Looking through the list I'd say:
Nereid >>> Caltas since range is incredibly useful and she can take down dragons as well
Gorongon > Neptune since he is faster and has higher stats
Mayfare = Claris They are practically identical and I don't remember if their H scene was specific for the half.
Galiban > Santos the long range on the cannon is nice and I never really know what to do with ninjas since they expose themselves too much. Both guys anyway
Necramancer > Sayla. Range and anti-air is king
Pierre > Geena simply due to his stats. But who can resist the loli scenes?
Pavel >> Rabbit 50% more defense is huge. Both guys anyway
Vulcan > Tanyan same as Galiban and Santos though in this case there's a grill.
I supposed you could pick all three ninjas and outmaneuver the enemy instead of steamrolling them with cannons.

The remake did have an extra mode where you didn't have to choose during recruiting but for each battle but you had to beat the game before that.

>>5990169
Well now I feel like a fool

>>5990571
I don't remember most of the names.
Last time I played was the remake and it could be at least 10 years ago.
I didn't finish playing the remake, I was busy grinding the level for the final battle of the first part.
Got busy in life and forgot it.
Happen all time in my most gameplay now.

>>5987989
There are a few.

THIS IS NOW AN FM TOWNS THREAD PC69 KEKS GET OUT

>>5991664
Jesus, look at the size of those shoulderpads

>>5991693
>shoulderpads
My eyes are locked to her big breasts.
I don't know why you are not bewitched by those knockers.

>>5990571
Discussing DK4 reminds me of another game with similar gameplay.
It's Amaranth KH.
I didn't finish it.
I also play the RPG from Amaranth series, it's Amaranth 3 or Amaranth 3D (I think this one is the correct title).

>>5992659
Sorry, it's Amaranth 3, not 3D.
I played the Chinese port in MS-DOS.

>>5992571
Imagine sleeping on them, perfect pillows
>you will never sleep on the hueg tits if a female

>>5992697
I used to have a gf, but her breasts were small, almost flat.
Can't even get a paizuri from her.

>>5992660
what the absolute fuck is going on here

>>5992963
Looks like they are talking to some boss and he's saying mankind is evil and needs to be exterminated or something.
Location is named Temple of Dreams.

>>5992963
>>>/vr/thread/5584310

too much d e t a i l thats what

>>5989669
Because the width of the outline is inconsistent.
You either leave all those extra pixels in the staircase, or erase them all.
Your first pic isn't really good at this either, but it's much better than the second one.

>>5992674
Thank you. Love it!

>>5977521
Doing it "right" is as much a matter of artistic sensibility as it is of technology. The Doom neural upscale project looks better than any previous attempt partly because they recognised the need for a *downscaling* step to restore pixelation.

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/99021-doom-neural-upscale-2x-v-10/

>>5993686
Here's a cropped and scaled version I made, it's now my wallpaper. It's 1080p but should scale fine to 4K.

>>5994723
Nice.

I don't know if this is actually from a game or if it's just a recreation of the style, but I like it

>>5987895
High resolution and passionate artists working within limits to make nice comfy, crisp images

>>5975809
my ex's shirt used to bulge like that
god i miss her

Can any of you fine gentleman help a brother in need?

I've been looking for this game and can't seem to find a rom for it aywhere. It's called

>Mayonaka no Tantei Nightwalker

Inb4 lurk moar

I'm just trying to play an obscure game for an old japanese computer. Pls no bully

>>5996767
>Mayonaka no Tantei Nightwalker
Whelp, it has a tv series anime.
Score is 7.02 in MAL.
Is the tv series that good?
https://myanimelist.net/anime/621/Night_Walker__Mayonaka_no_Tantei

>>5996780
That's actually the reason I'm interested in the game in the first place, because I'm a huge fan of the series.

I'm really biased towards it since it was one of the first animes I watched when I was a teenager, although I never saw more than a handful of episodes back then (it's a short series, only 12 ep, but still I had watched less than half of that).

I'm currently rewatching it, seeing many episodes for the first time, and it's not exactly groundbreaking, lots of vampire fiction tropes, but still has a very interesting "mood", I think.

Also, the intro song by Buck-Tick really sets the mood and theme for me.

>>5996767
You won't find ROMs for that game, only disk images.
Find out who published the game and then go through the Neo Kobe collection.

>>5996785
You, Sir, are my hero and saviour.

I had found the Neo Kobe collection on archive.org, but from the thumbnail I thought it was just a catalog or book about the PC98. Never thought of looking into its contents.

Already found and downloaded the game, thanks a million fren.

>>5989648
>>5989650

I know this is the original Yu-No artbook, but I can't find anything on it on Google. Any idea on the sauce for these? Love the game, would love to find these scans.

>>5998569
https://hentai-comic.com/story/-elf-yu-no-/

>>5998569
Loool, tard, it's at all the usual places.

>>5999010
Cringe gatekeeper

>>5974609
>>5974613
>videogames can't be art

>>5999104
Fucking newfag Redditor.

>>5976376
Those are some nice, big, juicy tits.

>>6000106
She couldn't find a proper bra for her huge racks.

>>5975896
It's easy, and there's tutorials on youtube for it.

>>6000363
Heck, I was doing it back in 2002.

>>5987259
like this

>>6000536
that's less outright bad and more incredibly goofy

It's the sequel to Jesus. That's right he came back.

>>5974609
what game is this?

>>5976724
I don't see it as difficult, the difficulty was to animate the sprite and then to see if the engine is going to support it, these are still images and maybe some smiles or blinks, im not expert, i mean there is a lot of people who like this, but nobody is making it anymore.

>>6001628
https://vndb.org/v8705

>>5998273

>>5999882
>Fucking newfag Redditor.

>>6000029
I like how crisp the background logo looks.

>>5975896
Just download something like Nekoproject and then download some Floppy/Hard Disk images of some sites, it really isn't that hard.

>>6000906
How can anyone seriously be an Atheist after this?

>>6000034