Pc98 Game Plus The Hassle

Sadly I wont play a game entirely in Japanese, thats too much of a hassle.

Part of it is nostalgia, since thats what I grew up on, but I just feel like there was more detail in the art, shading, eyes, and hair.

Each cel looked like a labor of love, like when you look at any still from Macross 84 DYRL, Megazone 23, Patlabor, etc.

There was, of course, a lot of cheap crap too, but the look just appealed to me more.

Only use T-98Next and Anex86 for edge cases (latter has very useful floppy-disk utility though).

Maybe you can all of the above working via WINE if youre a LinuxOS X user.

You see more varied dither patterns instead of pure 50-50 blends like you do in console games.

You see much of the same thing in 16-bit European microcomputers of the time.

Amiga art is uniquely blended, but doesnt depend on dithering nearly as much.

Other video modes existed but werent used by the majority of commercial developers, as resolution superiority was a selling point for the machine and its library of applications.

A lot of times it just happens to be in there, rather than being the focus.

But apparently if you really want that stuff, japanese win95 games is the place to be.

You dont need Japanese knowledge to play stuff like action games (Night Slave, Rusty, and Flame Zapper Kotsujin are common recommendations), but it makes things harder for VNs, wargames, and xRPGs if you arent willing to mess around and keep save states.

Pc98 Game Plus The Hassle

Is it even feasible for people to play the games on original hardware at this point The costs of importing a hefty tower, CRT and accessories (I assume you cant use any old monitorkeyboard) would be insane, plus the hassle of compatibility and such.

It seems unlikely the 25 year old hard drives in them are still ticking along well either.

Also what games are even playable (either fan translated or not) for those with little to no Japanese knowledge Id imagine most screenshots in here are from eroges not available in English.

Most hard-drive images are made either because games require installs or because you can take advantage of them and play on real machines.

Ive had a blast reading the interviews with 80s japanese game devs in the Untold Stories Of Japanese Game Devs books, very informative.

Its called Sumi-kara Sumi-made, and the first game I looked at is one mentioned earlier in this thread: Kuro no Ken.

I wont pretend that Im by any means an expert at this games; I simply enjoy discovering them and their gorgeous audiovisuals, and discover even more as I write about them.

Pc98 Game Manual