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dbSOFT (start-up responsible for arcade-style games like Flappy, as well as action-adventures like Woody Poco).T&E Soft (created early graphical text adventures influenced by Sierra, as well as the direct predecessor to Zelda later made Daiva, a saga of largely similar action-strategy hybrid games, each with a different story, most of which were unique releases for different J-PCs).ASCII (operated many J-PC enthusiast mags and published a wide array of games).KOEI (made the first popular eroge and the first Japanese CRPGs, though ASCII made the first Japanese text adventure just before them).Yoshimura and company (developed Tecno Soft's first games starting in 1982, themed around space combat worth comparing with Game Arts)
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Here's a great series of articles talking about games like Mugen no Shinzou and Poibos:įeel free to post music links, they're joyous. Japanese CRPGs got their start on the early 8-bit machines. More than a few of these games made it to the West for MS-DOS users-Sierra published Game Arts' games up to Zeliard, SoftEgg localized Princess Maker 2, and Megatech brought over Power DoLLS. Some guys like Retroprograms are already pursuing these texts and scanning them for future use. But translating documentation beneficial to J-PC ROM hacking is a long term goal worth pursuing.
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Many J-PC games do not require Japanese-to-x language translations for full enjoyment (titles from dbSOFT or Exact, for example).

At least folks want to translate Micro Cabin's games. Sadly, Illusion City's translation effort has stalled due to reasons. has some translations for NEC machines and the X68000, where you can find patches to play classics like Die Bahnwelt and Marble Cooking: DOS 6.2, MS-DOS, and Windows 3.1 work well for the PC-98, and Hudson made proprietary systems for the X68000 (same with Fujitsu and the FM Towns). Make sure you get an OS for your emulator/computer of choice. Now a guide to making bootable HDI files for the PC-98: There are guides out there specifically for systems more difficult to emulate. A quick search engine for auction items of this sort would be FromJapan:įinally, some Anons here are super cool and have put together TOSEC sets as well as library dumps. Or, if you're collecting Japanese PCs and their related software/hardware, try bidding on Yahoo! Japan Auctions while using a middleman delivery service like Celga.
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If you want to buy classic Japanese PC games as digital downloads, head to Project EGG (they take PayPal, note that it's a subscription service). General purpose, feel free to share it.įirst places to look for the game(s) you want, hassle-free and on the cheap, are at Retroprograms, the Internet Archive, and The Old Computer:
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Here be links to online vendors, assorted emulators, software databases, fan pages, and music outlets. This thread's for J-PC games/emus/devs/pubs, but hardware discussion's appreciated. Puertos de entrada/salida Tape interface (600/1200 baud), RGB video output, composite video output, RF TV output, parallel interface, optional RS-232c interfaceĪlmacenamiento interno One or two 3.The bimonthly format also might not stick if y'all wish for more frequent threads (or if we hit the bump limit quick enough). ROM 32 KB (Basic + machine language monitor) + 32 KB (chinese characters) + 16 KB (voice data) + 16 KB Teclado Full-stroke Teclado, JIS standard layout, 5 function Teclas Lenguajes N66 Basic + machine language monitor The japanese adverts focused on the fact that this computer could sing with its optional speech synthesizer! The N60m Basic od the PC-6001 MK2 has been enhanced to the N66 Basic. The second optional disk drive could also be mounted. The PC-6601 is basicaly a PC-6001 MK2 with a built-in 3.5 disk drive.
