Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Honestly I don't know! I'm heads deep in PC98 and FM Towns stuff. I've actually managed to play games today ^^ Tomorrow I need to try and see if my Saturn CHDs will work on Yabasanshiro and if they do then I'll be back where I was - so a couple of days at least.
I don't mind going through the thread and make a comprehensive list of all the stuff we've figured out. Maybe we could even make a separate thread based on those solutions? ^^
You should get the FM and Sharp MZ series set up on your system. ^^
OK, I understand.
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@folly I've got the wrong file here but your solution is great and I've amended my Autoexec.bat in readiness for finding the correct file. Mine was a .HDS not an .HDF.
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Found this awesome looking game for the Towns and now I'm dying to try it.
It appears to be exclusive to the system. I'm hoping that unlike Alltynex this one works ^^
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
Found this awesome looking game for the Towns and now I'm dying to try it
It appears to be exclusive to the system. I'm hoping that unlike Alltynex this one works ^^
Good luck, Zering!
On Die Banhwelt, I found a translate disk set so thought I'd try that. It's set to MIDI music so there is no music! Arggg. So frustrating.
@Folly - there is an intro disk as well, I think you use "Opening" or something similar rather than BW, it doesn't run if you just load the game normally. Not on floppy anyway, but maybe on yours it does.
Edit: Oh, maybe I can change the MIDI music with the A and B menu. Not sure where that leaves me with my intro disk though... Unless that also has that menu option. I wish I wasn't in bed now, or that I could have just found the Hard Drive version.
Further Edit: I got out of bed. It works! Changing the music through the A and B menu in the main game also sorts out the intro, changing it to internal sound. Superb.
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Just played this awesome game on the PC98.
I particularly love the scan lines, which remind me of the PC88.
There's also a Burning Dragon Plus, with increased difficulty, better presentation, slightly different gameplay and coop multiplayer. -
@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
Just played this awesome game on the PC98.
I particularly love the scan lines, which remind me of the PC88.
There's also a Burning Dragon Plus, with increased difficulty, better presentation, slightly different gameplay and coop multiplayer.Looks good! I'll have a look tomorrow.
I completed Alone in the Dark, the old PC game, earlier. 28 years after I first played it!
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@adambegood I confess the only AITD game I ever played was the New Nightmare on PS1, which I thought was a massive letdown. It does a lot right but it's tedious, unfair and annoying.
Funnily enough I was just reflecting that Alone in the dark is one of the games I have on the most platforms. It's even on the PC98. -
@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood I confess the only AITD game I ever played was the New Nightmare on PS1, which I thought was a massive letdown. It does a lot right but it's tedious, unfair and annoying.
Funnily enough I was just reflecting that Alone in the dark is one of the games I have on the most platforms. It's even on the PC98.I was only 10 when I played it so I wasn't very good! I've downloaded the Trilogy and intend to get through them all to make up for my younger self's short-comings.
I never played New Nightmare. I have the PSP version to look at though.
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@adambegood It's a gorgeous game, oozing with atmosphere. But respawning enemies should not be a thing in a game with tight ammo management.
Is the first one still worth playing? It's always looked fairly antiquated to me but I've never actually tried it.Edit : Tatsujin Ou is awesome, pretty sure it's going to turn out to be one of the best games on the Towns.
Moving on to something goofy now, like Ultima Underworld on a Japanese computer ^^ -
@zering So Tatsujin worked? That is good.
Erm, is AITD worth playing? It was for me, but I don't know how it would be for someone coming to it fresh. It's pretty clunky, in terms of look and controls.
It's very short though, if you play it with a walkthrough it only takes an hour. It scared the s*** out of me when I was 10! It's still interesting I think.
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@adambegood Yep, Tatsujin ran pretty good, albeit with a few little performance issues - easily overlooked though. I've just realized it's actually an arcade game initially, Truxton 2. Supposedly the FM Towns version is the only home release.
I tried playing the Ultima Trilogy, which is english-friendly and far better-looking and sounding than most computer versions of the games from the same era, but it requires the mouse to launch and we all know that the mouse in MESS is a nightmare. I'll look into it later. Ultima Underworld launched, but it hung on a black screen after the first two logos.
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@zering Ahhh okay, I have Truxton 2. I played it the other day actually.
I've translation patched Valis II and Star Cruiser on the X68000 today, and downloaded Galseed. I hear there is a Galseed 2 but I am struggling to find it. I've got a meeting now but I will try again later.
Good luck with the mouse problem. I remember Ultima Underworld on the PC, I had that when I was very young.
Edit: Galseed II is on a V4 HD image I can find, but actually pulling it out of there doesn't seem much fun. I will watch YouTube and see if it looks worth the effort.
Further Edit: Found some more dead links for Galseed II. Found some more good shooters while I've been looking though - Galseed 1 and Xadlak especially
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@adambegood Galseed II is in the NEo Kobe collection, under Doujin.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood Galseed II is in the NEo Kobe collection, under Doujin.
LOL. I've been looking around so much! I'll have a look in a mo.
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@adambegood Can't be worse than me. I spent two months looking for CHDs for FM Towns and then Folly tells me I can use the bin/cue files that are readily available just about everywhere ^^
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Just did my first pull request for the x68000 docs.
Added some compatible extensions.
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@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
Just did my first pull request for the x68000 docs.
Added some compatible extensions.
Curious how this wil go.Great work, mate! You're an asset to the community.
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@adambegood Indeed, that's excellent! I think I'll read through the thread this week or next and write up a recap of everything we've figured out. That way it's easy to find should anyone be interested in getting these machines working! ^^
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Well, I have to learn how this actually works.
But it seems it was succesfull.
It's already merged into the master branche of the retropie-docs
Now I'm curious how long it will take that we can actually see this change in the docs.
Did not add the .cmd extension yet. But next time I can do so.
I saw that they also altered the platform config accordingly.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood Galseed II is in the NEo Kobe collection, under Doujin.
Can you only download the X68000 Neo Kobe in totality? I can't seem to get individual games from it, and it's 14gb.
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