Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Shame about Refight.

How did you get into the game with The Scheme? I have to press 0 or 1 for Normal or Special then I get stuck on a line of Japanese text.

Both options work for me ( no japanese text here) :
[1] normal
[2] special

Just using the normal 1 and 2 (above the Q and W) seem to do the job. Although in n88-basic only the numlock keys could be used.

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Only one I've had no joy with is Night Slave but that has Disks A to J so maybe needs to be installed? I think that might have to be run on .hdi (it looks quite fun so wonder if you guys want to try it?).

.hdi is working. Press "1". The game seems to be a bit slow. Perhaps will improve if you use other cpu or multiplier. (I did not test!)
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AdamBeGood

@Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Only one I've had no joy with is Night Slave but that has Disks A to J so maybe needs to be installed? I think that might have to be run on .hdi (it looks quite fun so wonder if you guys want to try it?).

.hdi is working. Press "1". The game seems to be a bit slow. Perhaps will improve if you use other cpu or multiplier. (I did not test!)

It works for me also, now I've solved my issue. Mine was also slow and I didn't have time to test but I am sure with a multiplier it will be fine. Zering didn't report any problem with it.

I'll try The Scheme today, and I'm going to try translating some games on PC98.

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

I'm going to try translating some games on PC98.

Just curious, How are you going to do that ?

Folly

To all of you.

Tested .m3u on PC-9800 with .d88 and with .hdm
An .m3u with .d88 was not working. (saying "How many files..)
An .m3u with .hdm was OK.

Zering

@folly He'll probably patch them.

The CPU Clock Multiplier is essential in PC98 emulation.
10 did it for me on Night Slave but you may have varying experiences depending on your overclocks. The highest I've had to go was 24 with Rude Breaker and Mystic Square and I don't think games get much more resource intensive on the PC98.

Concerning The Scheme, I'm just realising now my Romsey is quite old. Could that be why I'm having so many compatibility issues?

On another note, it seems playing multi disk X1 games on the Pi 4 is currently impossible. M3u does not work.

Folly

@zering

Thanks for the info.

Zering

@folly Are you having the same issue I'm having with Japanese text in PC98 games by the way?

Folly

@zering
Did you try out my .m3u creator line ?

Zering

@folly Not yet, I got caught up in fixing my PC88 problems, then my PC98 issues, then the MZ series and so on.
I'll try it as soon as I replace my PC88 rom set.

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Are you having the same issue I'm having with Japanese text in PC98 games by the way?

No, don't think so. (I see Japanese text, but it looks good)
But, did not try that many files yet.
This night my Pi was unpacking, you see.

Tested => Gradius'95 => Very nice.

Zering

@folly Yes Gradius 95 is cool. It seems like the PC98 has a lot of great doujin games.

Could you check on your end if Popful Mail.hdm or .hdi has any text? You won't have to go further than the first menu.

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Yes Gradius 95 is cool. It seems like the PC98 has a lot of great doujin games.

Could you check on your end if Popful Mail.hdm or .hdi has any text? You won't have to go further than the first menu.

Seems that I have a lot of luck :), don't know actually why.
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Zering

@folly Damn! Well that's good. While it's frustrating that I can't get text to appear it's good to know I should be able to get those games running properly eventually. Thank you for checking for me.

It seems the PC98 emulator uses two japanese fonts : a FONT.ROM and a font.bmp (or text.bmp).
I'm missing the bmp.

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Damn! Well that's good. While it's frustrating that I can't get text to appear it's good to know I should be able to get those games running properly eventually. Thank you for checking for me.

It seems the PC98 emulator uses two japanese fonts : a FONT.ROM and a font.bmp (or text.bmp).
I'm missing the bmp.

What should be the location of that bmp ?

Zering

@folly I know you can't give me links. Don't worry, I will most definitely find the thing eventually. I'm more interested in the PC98 than any other system currently.

Got FM7 working! The controls are broken but I'll look into it later.
PC-6001 is another story ^^

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I know you can't give me links. Don't worry, I will most definitely find the thing eventually. I'm more interested in the PC98 than any other system currently.

Got FM7 working! The controls are broken but I'll look into it later.
PC-6001 is another story ^^

Never tested FM7, but I recon you are using lr-mess.
press "tap" and configure in "this machine".

Zering

@folly That's right.
I've tried that, but I think the controls are broken beyond that. Not all keyboard inputs are working.

Anyway I think I may have found the font.bmp!

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly That's right.
I've tried that, but I think the controls are broken beyond that. Not all keyboard inputs are working.

Anyway I think I may have found the font.bmp!

No font.bmp in my BIOS directory though.

Zering

@folly Weird. What BIOS are you using? Are you using lr-np2kai or np2pi?