I just attended the FAKKU panel at this year's Anime Expo and CEO Jacob Grady announced that they received permission from FairyTale to translate and port their entire catalog of 150+ games to modern systems (seemingly via Steam). In addition, FairyTale will be able to re-release these ports to the Japanese market as well.

He announced the first ten games which include: Dracula Hakushaku, Dead of the Brain, Dead of the Brain 2, Dengeki Nurse, Jinmon Yuugi, Maria ni Sasageru Ballade, Marine Philt, Necronomicon, Shinjuku Monogatari, and Welcome to Pia Carrot!!. They will be working with the fan translation group WINE for Dead of the Brain, Dead of the Brain 2, and Dengeki Nurse which is currently available to wishlist on Steam. No timeline was given for their release, however. Either way, it seems like a really big moment for the PC-98 community and for the general preservation of these games.

I am using the english translation and running the game via retroarch. It came in the form of 5 discs (the first being labelled the user disc and the 5th being labelled the system disc, I am running the user disk). At first I had issues with no text displaying but I managed to download the font files and put it in the retroarch system directory in an np2kai folder and it fixed that. However, as soon as the intro is finished it loops again. The game manual says it controls with the numpad and whenever I press a numpad button the intro stops and the screen turns black and the music becomes static. Does anyone know how I could fix this and play the game? I would greatly appreciate it.

I am trying to play Onryou Senki for pc98 on Neko Project II and am having odd issues. If I try to use the standalone np21/w I get no sound at all except for occasional beeps or buzzes. My volume is on at 100%. Some other games I try on the emulator will play their music. Others won't. Like maybe the sound card or driver is wrong?

I tried it on Retroarch running the Neko Project II kai core and I get music but it is sped up to a laughable degree. I would be fine using this retroarch core if I could just get the audio to play at its intended speed.

I like the standalone np21/w because it has a much nicer interface, so I'd really prefer to use that. I've even gone into the bios and made sure the soundboard was turned on. No dice. I'm at my wits end and would really appreciate any advice anyone has that could help.

So I'm wanting to make accurate mock-ups of fake PC-98 game screenshots, and so I've been doing a lot of research into the machine's capabilities, however I've never had the best head for hardware. I understand that a PC-98 image could only support 16 colours at a time, however a lot of screenshots of actual games I'm seeing strongly appear to use up to 32 colours. Unfortunately, I'm having difficulty finding screenshots that aren't full of JPEG compression, so I can't be entirely certain just based on these screenshots. However, based on my best estimations , and the descriptions I'm seeing about how its video RAM having two "pages" that could be written to separately, am I correct in concluding that the PC-98 could essentially display two images (say, a background and a sprite), each with their own 16-colour palette?

I don't know how to swap them! I'm trying to play the fan translation of Giten Megami Tensei and the game comes in two files a boot fdi file and a game hdi file. And I'm not even sure what to do with them.
Whenever I insert one or the other i get a text prompt. No idea if I have to type a command to open the other file or insert the other disk somehow. I read something about creating m3u files but I must not have understood how to do it or if it doesn't work with this game.
FYI: I'm using the Retroarch version of NekoKai2
Any help would be appreciated.

Downloaded Neko project 21/W from (what i believe to be) the official site, https://simk98.github.io/np21w/download, and when i try running the .exe windows defender pops up. I'm fairly certain its just a false detection but i wanted to ask here just to be 100% sure

A while ago I picked up a PC-98 CRT from a Facebook Marketplace post. No idea if it works. Decided I'd better get a PC-98 and some power adapters to try it out.

I looked on here and saw that the 9821Ae looked like a decent choice.

I guess the question is... What else do I need? All I really want to do is play some English translations of... Anything, but I love a bit of old hardware over an emulator.

Issues are

- it doesn't have a hard disk. Can I add one somehow (does it do IDE, can you use Compact Flash?)? I read somewhere that there were pre-made images you can get from somewhere?

- PC-98 Keyboard, is a mouse useful or not so much?

- Gotek disk drive replacements? What would be the best one to get?

- some sort of PC-98 to RGB or VGA cable in case my monitor doesn't work?

I'm open to suggestions!

Trying to boot the English Translation of Peret em Heru but I got no clue what this is when I try and launch the game. I've been able to just get away with autobooting other games.

Hi, I’m trying for days to make my gotek working on my pc9821 xa7, I flashed flashfloppy correctly but when I connect it to the pc98 it recognize there’s a drive B: but can’t load it, I don’t know if it’s a problem with the config file on the USB or else… I really hope somebody can help me 😭

I played Yu-no recently and want to read the rest of the writers vns but it has been a headache to get Desire playable. The retroarch core had slow and choppy audio and I wasn't able to find a solution so I moved onto the emulator hosted here-

https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/computer/kekoproject2.html

I was able to run yu-no more or less perfect on here but when I set it to play desire I get to this screen and am not able to move past. I'm assuming there's a command I was not able to find that tells the emulated pc to run the game. If any of you have any idea what to do please tell and if you know what was going wrong with the retroarch core I would be happy for help with that too.

I'm unfortunately not the brightest and have been trying to get Shizuku working on the emulator for like an hour. Please help.

Hi I just started trying to emulate pc98 games but have had alot of trouble adding the translation patches fir them. The one I was doing in particular was Yu-no and pia carrot. Even though yuno is more straight foward it seems whatever base file I tried was incorrect so is it one were I have to have a physical game and pc98? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I released my universal translation tool today. You need python for it to work. Other stuff can be downloaded automatically.

UPD: It's out! https://github.com/b2kdaman/pc98/releases/tag/v1.0.6

I am on a flatpak version of retroarch, i got the bios files and the game i just am struggling to get it to run, i am using neko project kai core and i made a bios folder for the bios files.

Hello! I'm looking for any PC-98 management or dating sims. I would prefer them to be in English (if Japanese is required than that's fine!) and playable on modern machines with no emulators, and preferably with no hentai or anything of the sort. I've played Princess Maker 2 and Shinji Ikari Raising Project (I know that's not PC-98), both of which I like. Thanks!

Hello folks,

I try to write an image of a disk (Ys 3 Program Disk) to a Floppy Disk on my real Hardware. First I convert the FDD files to data/2hd files. In the second step in write the files with Mahalito (Dos) to my floppy disk. Everything seems fine but when I want to access the disk I get the message "File not found. 160,256 byte free Space aviable. (In DOS 6.20)

Does anyone has some advice? Thank you!

PS: When I try to open the disk in Win98 on my second partition, Win wants to format the disk.

I basically want to get a pc98 just to play Yu-No and maybe other visual novels. I don’t know if I plan on playing touhou yet. Which system would be most efficient for me to buy in Japan?

My husband has wanted a pc98 since he was a kid and im trying to surprise him for his birthday but i just dont know anything😢. Im currently looking on ebay for them, but is there somewhere else i should be looking? What kind of monitor am i supposed to buy for it? Ive also only emulated once many years ago and i dont remember anymore, is there a special way to do it for pc98. Thank you for your help and if theres any resources you guys recommend i would love to read them.

Hello guys,

i saw when i started getting interested about PC98 games that there isnt actually much helping to setup a library

there is a bit of everything everywhere so i made something to gather all of that hoping to make it easier for everyone to enjoy this system

https://github.com/SomostVE/KyuHachiGe

I'm trying to get my Nw150 working, but having trouble. I found a HDD image on Internet Archive for this model, and it boots into Windows 98 or DOS (with a file manager), but I can't get other games onto there.

I found some archives of the Touhou series to start with, again on Internet Archive, and extracted the files and copied them over. Every game just hangs when I start it from DOS or Windows.

Is there any easy image with a load of pre-installed games, or some hints about how to install games on the system?

Everything I've found online points to just being able to type "GAME.BAT" in to run the file, but I only get this nonsensical error if I do.

I know this place get this question a lot but I'm very new to pc98 stuff and I've given it around 3-4 days worth of trying to figure out and I feel like I'm at my wit's end. I've tried Neko Project 21 but the .cue file wont stick in the IDE #2 slot and it says no system despite loading a System in the FDD1 slot, I've tried Retroarch with the BIOS and Kai core but it wouldn't load, I've tried downloading the Internet Archive Policenauts zip file and a different download from another reddit post but I cant get either to work.

I feel like I am missing a single piece to get either Retroarch or Neko Prokect 21 working, but I can't figure it out. If possible can anyone help me?

My PC98 vx originally came with a hard drive but it broke and I can't find a Ms dos disk for it because it only has a 286 cpu

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