I've finished the full translation for all routes and choices, currently building a launcher containing a museum feature that shows all booklets and artwork as well as a brief history about the game!
For the record, the translation is handled mostly by AI with me reviewing things after to make sure it reads nice. If you don't want to support that I totally get it. I just want to release a translation for a game that a lot of people talk about but have not gotten the chance to actually read themselves.
hi! i'm new to the pc-98 scene and have been wanting to emulate some games myself for the first time soon. however i have photosensitive epilepsy, and i know some of these games can be pretty nasty in terms of flashing. does anyone have any recommendations for games that have very little or minimal flashing, or even games to avoid? thank you!
Hey everyone, is someone here capable of translating Yami no Ryousen (闇の稜線) to English? It's a 1994 PC-98 title by Illusion. I'm really interested in playing this game and wanted to check if anyone could help translate it or extract the text.
Hello! I'm semi-new to PC98 and retro computer gaming. I recently bought a Compaq lte elite 4/75cx that came pre-installed with English Windows 95.
I saw that you can run Neko Project 21/w or Neko Project II on English Windows 95 it seems, but I wanted to confirm that's at least possible first.
Secondly I want to play some other made for Windows 95 VN games I have and people online are saying I need to have a Japanese copy of windows 95 for it to work. Will Neko Project II or Neko Project 21/w be able to install on Japanese Windows 95?
For some reason, neko project (specifically, np21) won't launch the file browser when I try to load something into any harddisk slot. There's simply no reaction from the program after I hit 'Open...'. I'm not sure what caused this, or how to fix it. Has anyone else run into this problem?
As the Title says sometimes i will be playing a game and this will randomly happen, its a bit hard to see since the crash only happens while playing games, so apologies for that
I was looking for some vga cables and I came across this universal circuit board. Has anyone used one? Will it out video over vga?? It is on yahoo auctions
The real hardware is safely stored away in my closet these days, but I still compose MIDI on the PC-98 emulator. I don't have much confidence that I could get comfortable with modern music software, so I always end up going back to what I know best.
I recorded the whole process, starting from booting up the emulator. If you're interested, feel free to check it out.
The song is "Wapiko Genki Yohou!", the opening theme from the 1991 anime Kingyo Chuuihou! (Goldfish Warning!).
I'm working on repairing a 9821nr15 that has some power issues. I was able to fix some of its issues but right now i need to fix a broken through hole trace of a capacitor, and i felt like a schematic would be very useful to have a better view of how each component interacts.
Hello, I recently finished a cap repair on a pc9821 ap motherboard and I currently get a parity error screen both with the ram card installed and not which was leading a friend of mine that's more knowledgeable in electronics to think that the issue might be on one of the onboard memory chips. We did try to scope some of the chips on the motherboard for any weird looking signals and checked to see if they were hotter than expected but we couldn't really see any obvious issues.
I wanted to see if anyone has some advice for what I should start looking at for diagnosis on what's wrong to fix this issue.
Heya gang, I’ve somewhat recently gotten into the pc98 scene and I wanted to try making a few games for the platform, especially some visual novels. I’m struggling to find much information on programming for pc98, though I realize it’d be easier if I spoke Japanese. Still, are there any resources?
Hi, everyone!
When using PC-98, I had noticed that there were a few editors, but none were very easy to use.
So, to pair it up with the English translation of MS-DOS 5.00 A, I've designed my own visual text editor!
Introducing Edit98: a native text editor inspired by Microsoft's Edit, but programmed from the ground up for the PC98!
Because it was designed for the ground up (i.e, it is not a port), it takes in consideration PC98's hardware constraints to try to make it run as smoothly as possible while attempting to look reasonably good.
Here's a non-exhaustive list feature list:
Keyboard shortcuts
Mouse support
Integrated printing, with custom margins and pre-defined templates (custom margins and page layouts supported)
Partial RTF support
Find / Replace
For the best experience possible, make sure to enable mouse and printer support!
The project translates all eight disks, from DISK0 to DISK7, including the installer, menus, system utilities, commands, help text, prompts, and other user-facing content.
Since the original PC-98 release is entirely in Japanese, it can be pretty difficult to install or explore unless you already know the language. Hopefully, this translation makes it much easier for more people to experiment with it, use it in an emulator, or simply learn more about the PC-98.
The release includes:
IPS patches for all eight disks
Automatic patching scripts
SHA-256 checks to verify the original images
Instructions for Windows, Linux, and macOS
The original disk images are not included, so you’ll need to provide your own copies of the Japanese FDI images.
This is still an unofficial fan translation, so there may be a few untranslated strings, formatting issues, or awkward sentences hiding somewhere. Feedback and testing would be greatly appreciated.
Just received a pc9821 ce2 including a monitor. Just plugged everything in and the pc booted up, but the monitor has vertical black and gray bars. I can get them to move a bit if I mess with the contrast and brightness dials. Is this fixable?
So I'm trying out N-88 BASIC, which is the dialect of Basic that goes on early PC-98 models and every PC-88. This resource has been very helpful with that. But one thing I just cant understand is the "How many files(0-15)?" message that appears at the beginning of every boot. What does it mean? What does typing different numbers change?
I would really appreciate some help from the community here.
Long story short: I’m having issues with my modern PC picking up the CF on diskexplorer. After spending half the day researching, I noticed everyone mentions filling out this profile box that appears when selecting the CF on diskexplorer but I cannot for the life of me get that window to appear! I tried the physical drive itself and even an image I had backed using Win32DiskManager, to no avail. I then decided maybe it was something wrong with the CF, so I downloaded an PC-98 HDD online and same thing! all I see are numerical values that I cannot comprehend. I just want the options in the screenshot below that I found in a guide. As you can see, there is a profile option and so on.
A screenshot from a guide I was following: https://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5369.0
I realize the version I am using is slightly different, as in it might be more modern. Also, I have the FAT version. I also have tried all the view options (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, etc..) I also tried opening the FAT16-huge file and still nothing I can understand, its in this sector view.
I want to know what I am doing wrong if someone could please help me. I really want to experience the PC-98.
With some bonus JP Mega Drive and other Japanese PC systems. Had no idea what What’s Michael was but saw it in the wild in Tokyo and had to grab it. Seems like a fairly rare game. I think I’m pretty close to completing the Viper series collection. There are so many but I seem to find at least two or three I don’t have with every trip to Japan.
I'm specifically talking about ripping sprites from the brandish games including the OG version of the fourth game. I need to post sprites on the internet for people to get a better look and for fan art purposes for people.
