This is the second PC-98 game in a row that I couldn’t even begin to play. I tried changing a number of settings - to no avail. Resolution seems to have nothing to do with it this time. Surely, playing Puyo Puyo doesn’t require reading any text on screen? It doesn’t, but the screen is still causing trouble. I decided that it might make more sense to test an arcade-style game instead - like Puyo Puyo. There is an option to display the screen at full resolution and pan around with the analog stick.īut that makes for a less than ideal experience. Some scaling options are available, but none make much of a difference when it comes to text readability. If downscaling makes the text unreadable, there is no point in playing them. None of this would much matter if we were playing a Doom or Mario. To fit the image into a PSP screen (480x272), the emulator has to nearly halve the resolution. The PC-98 had a screen resolution of 640×400 pixels. Soon after loading the game though, I hit a brick wall. It is enough to point the emulator to the first two of the four files, and select Reset from the Emulate menu. Unlike DOSBox PSP, NP2 has a GUI - in English, even. Loading the games was surprisingly intuitive.

It does not fitĭead of the Brain comes in four files - floppy disk images with an. Dead of the Brain is one of a handful of exceptions, making it a good starting point for my test. The best-known PC-98 titles are visual novels, few of which ever got an English translation. NP2 is the PSP port of Neko Project II, the most widely used PC-98 emulator. You think DOSBox for PSP is user-unfriendly? How about trying something like DOSBox, but in Japanese? Update: I found a Japanese guide that does an adequate work of explaining how to get the emulator up and running.

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