A 16/32-bit Japanese personal computer system launched by NEC in 1982. It was the most successful computer platform in Japan and one of the best-selling computer systems of the 20th century. It has a very large video game library with thousands of titles, the majority of which were never released outside Japan. Pc98.org has the largest collection I know of. The only drawback is they only host a few files on the site. You have to email the guy to get stuff that isn't posted.
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PC-88 and PC-98 is kind of confidential outside Japan, but the emulation scene is quite active. PC-88 and PC-98 emulators + downloadThe best emulators are M88 for PC-88 (Windows only) and Neko Project II for PC-98 (Windows / Mac, ported as Xnp2 on Linux). Several other emulators are available for the PC-88, check this page (jp) or this page (en). You may encounter several problems to get these programs running properly on your computer. Thanks a to generous contributor, we host working archives of M88 and Neko Project II :
Some instructions are provided in text files, next to the emulator files. PC-88 and 98 game archivesAfter downloading a game from our pages, you may find a lot of different archives nested in the primary archive. Below is an example for the game Dinosaur: Many PC-88 came on several floppy disks, thus most of the games published in the 90s have several nested archives. You will also find a lot of disks have the [a] tag, meaning it's an alternate dump of the disk. You may come across other tags in brackets, these are based on the TOSEC Naming Convention:
Another example for a PC-98 game, EDGE, which came with 7 disks: Running PC-88 games in M88Most floppy disks are bootable, you need to set the first disk image in drive 1 and reset the emulator. Check the video below to do it. Some usual issues as stated in the English instructions:
BASIC commandsIf a game requires disk BASIC, you need to boot from an N88 BASIC system disk first, swap disks, and then run the desired program. The usual BASIC commands apply: For most cassette games, simply type: Dew point formula excel. More complicated load instructions are indicated at the end of the file names in this set. For example, to run the file 'Fire House (Honoo no Yakata) {V1 mode, MON R Ctrl-B LOAD CAS}.t88', do the following (Boot up in V1 mode): Running PC-98 games in Neko Project IIPC-98 games come in bootable floppy format, in which case you just have to set the first floppy disk image in FDD1 and reset the hardware. As shown in the following video, you may have to display all file types in the file selection window. Some games need to be installed to work, you will have to configure a hard drive. You may also come across pre-installed games, these files need to be set as a harddisk.
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