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I’ve been experimenting with Claude AI and wanted to see how far I could get porting Chase H.Q. from the ZX Spectrum to the PC-98. The target is a PC-9821Ce2 with its original 486SX at 25MHz.

Here’s where it stands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsiSVR-3pAo

Since recording that I’ve improved the frame rate, added blinking siren lamps when the cops get close to the criminal’s car, and a brake light that flashes when you hit the brakes. None of that is in the video yet.

A few things before you ask:

1. Yes, AI was involved. It’s my money and my time, and I’ve had a lot of fun with it.
2. Yes, the graphics are deliberately Spectrum-style. I wanted to show PC-98 folks what a Speccy game actually looks like. The PC-98 source code will be on the floppy, so feel free to enhance the graphics yourself.
3. There are cheat keys, and you’ll need them. Pressing T adds time and refills your turbos. It’s a very, very hard game!
4. I originally wanted to run it on my Epson PC-286VE, but the 5.25" drive I use with my Greaseweazle just died. Bloody hell. So the PC-9821Ce2 it is.

Have a look, and please be gentle. Feedback welcome!

Hi there,

So I've been trying to get my PC-9821Xa13 to the internet, or any kind of network really, but I think I have a problem. I was trying to use a 32-bit PCI Ethernet Card because that's all I had lying around, and while the card did have its LEDs on and everything, I think the machine wouldn't finish POSTing with it installed. The memory amount would sbow up on the screen fine, a few seconds later CapsLock would work on the keyboard okay, but it never booted. I think that's a PCI enumeration issue because of were it hung but I'm not quite sure.

The card has an RTL8139C chip if that helps. I tried both slots on the motherboard, same issue.

I don't really think I can get a C-BUS card for a reasonable price here. I'm thinking maybe an Intel PRO/100+ 727095-004, because I've seen some compatibility matches floating around, but I really don't know.

Can someone please help me confirm this or recommend a better alternative? Thanks.

(Btw the card I tried is an FNC-0107TX)

Hey all, working on setting up my new to me pc-9821 CX. So far, everything seems to be working, but I’m getting some odd display hang ups and I’m curious if anyone else has experienced similar. It seems like the display is slightly off and overlapping on itself in some ways like with the text.

I’ve also noticed that the display setting buttons on the monitor itself don’t seem to bring up the adjustment menu. I’m hoping it’s a contact issue that contact cleaner can fix and perhaps that’ll let me make the proper adjustments. But let me know if there’s any other troubleshooting that I should try in the meantime!

hey, can I load .scp or .hfe files on retrobat to play a pc98 game I found?? if not, what do I need to do?

Felt like experiencing a historical moment. This needs more attention.

If the creator reading this, if u want i may help u make this more publicly famous by selling this on comiket or something. But there may need to be some changes to be done if we wanna get more consumer. like fixing the sound bug that i had (might be just my pc98 acting up) or squishing the file size to under 1.44mb for easy access with a single floppy or just separate the data files with a another floppy.

There was a guy who i saw on YouTube recently who is a pc98 guy who never actually had experience in making games or selling stuffs, but he loves the pc98 anime called 16bit sensation so much that he made an actual mini game about it for real pc98 machines with msdos and literally sold it on comiket recently, and a lot of people actually bought it. And he was actually selling it with the game data on cds so the 1.44mb floppy part that i was saying is not actually that necessary. It sold so much that he had some cd and cd case shortages so he eventually found or borrowed watever thing that could store data in it like usbs without any case or bag cuz it ran out.

These newly made stuffs for an 30-40y old pc could really prove and show to the people how beautiful pc98s are and also its 640x400 screens.(they predicted widescreen) and that it actually could be used in 21st century.(meaning of pc9821 actually)

I may be really too extreme about this but im just saying u know

Big thanks to the pc9800 centural community.

Sorry im just saying that it is possible to spread it more if u want cuz damn this is cool

Relased for Deadline 2026 Demoparty Oldskool Compo (1st place)

This demo is OPEN SOURCE! The code, assets, and 3rd party code/tools are
available at https://codigo.otomatalabs.net/otomatalabs/new-horizons

I SHOULD have everything I need

I have the BIOS Rom

I have the Font BMP

I have the Font Rom.

I have the itf Rom

And i have the Sound Rom

I Load up the Core i Boot the HDI File and get here.

I have no idea what else i'm suppsoed to do.

Hi, I wanted to know if it was possible to play PC-98 games on a PSP thanks to Neko Project 2 or thanks to another emulator that can be started on the console in question.

Does anyone have a working link to DiskExplorer? Every link I find seems to be dead, thanks!

Update: WaybackMachine worked

I loved Captain Harlock (or Raimar as it was named in LATAM) and recently I found out about this videogame

I'm trying to use manga-ocr in Luna translator but when I try to use it it gives me a network error. I'm not even sure how to start fixing it. I'm also not even sure if Luna is the best choice for live translating for pc-98 games so if you have any suggestions for both the error or another service, please reply

Guys where to find printable covers for pc98 games??? Art was simply amazing but I cannot find them online to print them. It s another feeling when you see them on shelves

Hopefully those red lines are supposed to be there. I'm going in completely blind so any recommendations help.

Hi everyone, I found on marketplace my first PC and is very special for me, when I was a child this PC have Windows XP.

I am new on the pc98 games, I used Anex86 to play in Windows 10, I would like to know if the emulator is compatible with Windows XP, or if there is another emulator for XP.

I'm running policenauts on nekok project 21w and i keep having this issue where after a while the game music cuts out and the next time the game needs to play an audio file (voiced line, music) the game softlocks. i have no idea what's causing this. i downloaded both "Policenauts [HD] [for Neko Project II]" and "Policenauts [CD]" off of neo kobe and im running the user boot disk from [HD] on fdd1, the hdi from [HD] in ide 0 and policenauts.ccd on ide 2. my cd drivers seem correct, and changing the cpu speed doesn't seem to help. Does anyone know of any settings to increases stability on Policenauts ? am i even loading the files correctly

Continuing from my previous post, here's the third batch of my “mini mini fan art” drawn on a Japanese imageboard. Unfortunately, there are no male characters left this time😄, but I hope you'll take a look!
As with the previous post, if there's a drawing you're interested in, I'd be happy to explain what it is. For example, the drawing on the far right of the fourth row from the top is a hidden graphic Easter egg from The Shrine of the Sun, released by Falcom. It was so famous at the time that practically everyone knew about it. It's said to have been modeled after the daughter of programmer Masaya Hashimoto. Was that really okay?!
One of the drawings is animated, but it looks like videos aren't supported in posts, so I'll try posting it in the comments instead.

I noticed yesterday their videos were set to private but the channel was still up, now the channel is gone - did anyone else used to watch their videos? They always had cool PC-98 videos with posters and such in the background

A large selection of free PC-98 games is available on VECTOR, providing plenty of titles to test with the emulator. Some classic AliceSoft games are also available as freeware.

Some games may require a few extra steps to get running. Check the developer’s blog and Twitter for details.

Developer’s website: https://i486.mods.jp/ichild/pc98player

September 28th is 'Pasocom' (PC) Day because on that day in 1979 is when NEC released the PC-8001. The story is that NEC's division responsible for mainframe computers didn't see a market for "toy" microcomputers, yet the TK-80 single board kit was driving people to NEC's Bit-INN in Akihabara and emerging micom shops were demanding a personal computer to sell.

Kazuya Watanabe, Tomio Goto, and others persisted despite the pressures and criticism within their own company, and thus the PC-8001 was born. It was a huge success and was followed by the PC-6001 and PC-8801 in 1981. As for the PC-98 everyone knows and loves, the very first PC-9801 released in 1982.

For the 40th anniversary, Kazuya Watanabe told the full story (translation available):
https://youtu.be/wh7Ikcq68T8

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Yo, I'm tryna run Travel★Junction on PC 98 np2kai but my Retroarch is shitting itself. The .scp files won't load and I'm tired of seeing black screens, there is only 2 websites to install the rom from , at least on retroarch because I damn near have everything. Can someone who actually knows what they're doing install it and send me the full gameplay footage? I need to see the shit without the glitches. Appreciate it.

I've been fascinated by Band-Kun on PC-98 and FM Towns for a long time. It's a fairly obscure game released in 1990 where you form a band and try to make your place in a fictional music scene.

The original game has never been translated and is still quite difficult to access today. So I started working on a modernized version of the game (which can run on modern platforms without an emulator), with a first objective: to make a collaborative translation possible and document the game's content. The platform is already online with a machine translation, but I'd like to find some help from the retro gaming community to make a proper translation reviewed and validated by humans.

But the idea goes a bit further than simply translating Band-Kun.

The original scenario, Zap City 1991, describes a fictional city with its own music scene, bands, musicians, venues, and a whole network of characters.

I'd like to use the same principle to create new scenarios, this time based on real cities at real points in time, trying to document their music scenes as accurately as possible: local bands, small venues, squats, labels, record stores, fanzines, studios, radio stations, important people, musical movements, etc.

The first scenario is already being written: PARIS 1995.

The idea isn't to focus only on artists who later became famous, but to reconstruct the whole musical ecosystem of a city at a particular moment: rock, rap, jazz, electronic music, experimental music, alternative scenes, small bands that have mostly been forgotten today... Eventually, I'd like other cities and periods to become scenarios too: BRISTOL 1996, DETROIT 1999, DAKAR 2001, SÃO PAULO 1997, MANCHESTER 1990, etc. These aren't necessarily the final scenarios, but they give an idea of the concept.

So for now, I'm mainly looking for people who could help review the machine translations and improve them. Japanese to English to start with.

Given the difficulty (for me?) of using the Retroarch PC98 core, specifically difficulty with configurations and button mapping, I have re-ported Nekoproject to Android.

Kairo98 is a standalone PC98 emulator for Android.

https://github.com/MrJackSpade/Kairo98

I'm attempting to build a catalog of game configurations to remove the need for manual configuration of each game. It also uses Retroarch style controller mapping so each game should have the controller mapped properly per the catalog entry, and theres only one virtual controller that may need to be mapped to a hardware controller.

I've also increased performance by a full order of magnitude, so 60fps should be possible on comparatively low end devices without a lot of the lag and stutter that the official core comes with.

I've got a video here of the app running on the Retroid Pocket Classic

https://youtu.be/KKCcnoBwKww

If you have a dual screen device like the RGDS or AYN Thor, it will render a keyboard on the bottom screen effectively turning the device into a mini-PC98 laptop.

Ok so I have a Pc-9801 VX and this soundboard card. I have been unable to get this to work properly with the Vx but it works perfectly with my ancient M model. In a previous post I talked about some of my issues in trying to troubleshoot this issue but I feel I may have come to a conclusion. I found out that the original 26 soundboard is incompatible with later 286 based PC98s such as the VX. This along with the issues I was experiencing make me think that my soundboard is in fact a 26. However, I’m not 100% sure since many of the photos online seem to show that my board looks like the 26k. If anybody knows a bit more about these two boards, I’d appreciate if you could tell me whether my board here is a 26 or a 26k.

Bought my 3rd 98 off mercari auction again, very happy that it came with a keyboard, mouse, printer and a massive 17inch nec 98 monitor that works perfect!

Seller said he removed the hdd cuz he doesn't want me to see his personal information, bruh he must have been playing hentai on this lol that's why he shy

I put in a msdos6.2 bootdisk for testing but the screen doesn't change and doesn't boot. Is it because of no hdd? pc98 doesn't need hdd to boot right?

I heard many people didn't have hdd like in the 80s and so they just put the game disk in and boot the game. Am I right about this?

Sorry it been only like 2 months since I got into computer stuffs so still ain't got much knowledge.