'80s/'90s Japanese PCs

Hope you like porno VNs, bro

PC98 games might look beautiful but their scrolling and framerates left a lot to be desired.
Sharp68k is the only one worth tracking down, you don't even need Japanese since they're mostly arcade games with a few exceptions.

>>4116829
love the aesthetics of these computers

>>4116851
Is the 10 MHz version sufficient, or is it worth looking for a 16/25 MHz one?

Play sum Rusty and Night Slave, bra

PC-98 is my system of choice. I won't deny that other machines were more powerful and had better graphics or frame rates, but there's some really nice charm in a lot of the exclusive titles for the system that I really like.

I'm not ever going to own hardware though. Not unless I can pay for a guaranteed functional machine with things like an already working CF card for a hard drive. Don't feel like tinkering with that shit to get it to work. Sadly that'll be expensive as fuck, so probably never.

>>4116851
Some companies did manage to achieve pretty decent scrolling on the PC-98. Check out most of Glodia's later games for the system. They all run extremely smoothly compared to a lot of other developers. They mostly made RPGs and strategy/simulation games, though.

>>4116864
Me too. Is that a fucking vertical flip-out CD drive on the front? Never seen that before.

>>4116829
FM Towns Marty is the only one worth getting because of Splatterhouse. Sucks that I can't read Japanese.

>>4116851
>>4116875
you can also overclock the system in an emulator to make it smoother

>>4116912
Even with that, you run the risk of making the game play way too fast with faster enemy movements and shit. Some games even have built in keys for it like Rusty (F1 I think? Check the translated manual, it mentions that), but bumping it up makes the game practically impossible.

MSX definitely had the best games. Lots of good stuff from Konami and Compile.

It had a big following in Europe and Brazil, so lots of homebrew games are made each year. Some of them are actually really good.

Bomberman fan game with campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc0H9t_R8BA

Vertical shooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uOUOcnFeCY

Adventure Island sequel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3eS8N7yjA

>>4116829
I spent a lot of time in Japan and Japanese in the mid 80's through early 90's so I had all the common stuff from that period. The x68k hands down had the best games although other stuff had a better library. The towns could have done everything better but just doesn't have the games. The 98s were the best general purpose machine and I used them for work as well as their massive library of great games. I don't know exactly what aesthetics means to any given millennial so can't comment on that.
I'd buy any I found for dirt cheap otherwise none.

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I'm using a Sharp X68000 emulator, XM6 Type G. I read that MS Gothic was required to show special japanese characters and I have that font, but a bunch of the settings still display just question marks. What do I need to do to have it actually display japanese text properly?

>>4117053
you might need to set the system locale to japanese

>>4117068
Yeah, that was going to be my last resort. But I was looking for a way to not have to do that.

>>4117072
try using this then

http://pooi.moe/Locale-Emulator/

>>4116829
A E S T H E T I C as fuck.

>>4117083
Thanks, man.

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>best games
MSX line
>best as computers
PC-X8 line
>best aesthetics
Marty

I'd buy any one I stumbled upon at a great price but I shop for MSX the most

PC-98 and PC-88 are the only ones with a real library. The competition mainly got scraps.
>Which had the best aesthetics?
NEC has glorious beige boxes but the X1's red is also alluring.

>>4116906
>FM Towns Marty
It's just a Towns with only one floppy drive, little RAM and other limitations.

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>>4116848
Do you not? Are you gay?

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>>4117428
Good ol' Virgin Angel

I've been interested in picking up a PC-98 for a while. What speed CPU should I be looking for to play most games well?

>>4117451
I'd say 75mhz

>>4117451
I tend to go with 20.

>>4117461
>>4117460
How about we split the difference and say 50

>>4117460
>>4117461
So I'm looking at one now with a Pentium 100 MHz and an FM sound board for a decent price. That should be plenty, right?

>>4117474
That should be more than enough.

>>4117479
Neat, thanks. I'll look around a bit more before deciding, but this one sounds promising.

>>4117486
Found this link that might help you out and explains some of the things you might be wondering about, at least as far as the technical stuff goes

https://www.reddit.com/r/pc98/wiki/guides/buyingguideby98digger

>>4116829
Sharp X68000 - Castlevania X68K (better than the NES version)

MSX - Metal Gear 1 & 2 (the good versions)

PC98 - Rusty

Unfortunately the PC98 is mostly just shitty point and click, or choose your own adventure hentai games. If you're into those type of games stick with modern ones like Huniepop or Nekopara instead, they're miles better anyway.

>>4117492
Thanks, that's a helpful read.

Is it really necessary to use a step-down converter for 120V? I was under the impression that it was close enough, since it's usually only 110V anyway.

>>4117519
Huniepop and Nekopara doesn't have that sexy dither and aesthics

and I bet the stories were much better in PC98 games if only I could read Japanese to understand them

>>4117519
You're full of shit

https://www.pc98.org/main.html

>>4117519
>better than the NES version
Well first of all, the NES version is just a port of the FDS version. And second, Castlevania X68000 is a remake of the first game, not a different version.

>>4117550
I think it's reasonable to claim that half of the PC98's library are adventure games, though only a small number are point and click.
https://refuge.tokyo/pc9801/en/Adventure_Novel.html
But the other half is still larger than most other libraries.

>>4117525
Since you're dealing with somewhat rare, old computers, it's probably best to make sure you feed it the correct voltage.

>>4116829
The FM Towns version of Zak McKracken is the best. It uses SCUMM like all other versions, so it's playable in ScummVM, just make sure to get a rip with the RedBook audio included in FLAC-format.

>>4116829
>which one had the best games?

MSX and nothing else even comes close.

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>>4116951
>>4117053
>>4117342
>>4117519
>>4120208
OP said PCs.
X68K and MSX are not PCs but microcomputers.

Only FM Towns and PC98 are allowed in this thread.
No PC88, MSX or X68K, ITT.

>>4120524
That's wrong. X86k is a personal workstation. There's nothing micro about it.

>>4120524
Welcome to /vr/ summer. Thanks for shitposting.

>>4120570
>>4121214
No, he's right.

IBM-compatible computers ("PCs"):
FM Towns
PC98

Non-IBM-Compatible Computers:
PC88
MSX/MSX2
X1/X68K
FM-7

>>4121260
PC98 is not IBM compatible and FM Towns only to some degree.
IBM compatible doesn't mean x86 based CPU and MS-DOS based OS.

>>4121260
Summer and underage and retarded. I wasn't sure of those staked but the stupidity of your post indicates they do.

>>4116887
There are quite a few Hi-fi CD players that had that kind of drive :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5Gek3UI44