Today in amazing wizard like hacking- Alpharobo has possibly fixed the stage glitch on the damaged PC-98 Cluju Dump from a weird glitch we ran into with the newly dumped PC-88 dump when two wrongs really do make a right

I forgot to post up my VCFMW table setup yesterday. There were so many lovely folks to chat with and share my love of these systems with. The lead-up work for conventions is so stressful, but seeing so many folks connect with systems from Japan makes it all worthwhile.

got the hardest to find heart soft title, computer no tamago, for 980 yen :^) all it took was five years (and one missed yaj auction)

mug check

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

A horse called norm core

Check this: AFAICT undumped Usagi na Panic EX - a CD compilation that includes 1 + 2 (presumably identical to disk versions, but who knows?) plus a Takarabako extra (presumably undumped). Only copy I've ever seen pop up :^) #PC98

Kasumi: Jukai no Madoushi (霞 ～樹海の魔導士～), afaict previously undumped VN / digital comic by Broccoli (of Di Gi Charat fame) for the glorious NEC PC-9801, now up at archive.org/details/kasu... 🕺

got some mac disks in

those disks better come with mold, or i'm having none of it

Did Spiderman send this? #withNothing

The only King I'll acknowledge

New blog post! Remember when trusted adults promised you that you could be anything? Well, the Raspberry Pi Pico actually _can_ be a ROM cartridge for my beloved NEC PC-6001 home computer. Try not to get jealous of its success. www.leadedsolder.com/2025/06/03/p... #retrocomputing #pc6001 #kicad

extremely magical moment at the Kamogawa river: an ojisan feeding and giving sagely advice to a couple of herons.

rofl there's a guy on mercari with a scsi board inside a little orchestra retail box, and he's selling it as a -26k fm board. someone with an account should go tell him the bad news, cos he's probably just clueless about #PC98 stuff 😸

"This fandom is so dead." Bruh I just found a copy of a late era #PC98 convenience store voyeur(?) romp that returned like two matches in my closed auction search that goes back 17 years. And this post probably gets two likes 😹

OMG, we're back boys - Suruga-ya's adult items have returned :D

just hackintosh things: installing an earlier version of the os just to get drivers for my wifi dongle 😹

Princess Maker #Gainax #PC98 cover art scanned in 1200 DPI archive.org/details/prin...

my surface stopped being usable after updating to win11, so let's see if it likes being a mac

Been a while since I found one of these - rogue Japanese hairs embedded in the original scan of a game's cover art 😸 (from Sanshimai a.k.a. Three Sisters Story for #PC98)

I find it interesting that so many games from the PC88 era make a point of mentioning they're only guaranteed to work on genuine drives. Were people swapping out their TEAC FD-55BR's for something else? In what scenario would that be a reasonable thing to do?

Illustrations from The Story of Melroon PC-88/PC-98 manual (cleaned up). Big thanks to @krugman.net for the original raw scans. i.imgur.com/NkeY0gh.png i.imgur.com/zJD5syY.png i.imgur.com/2pbUQbv.png

Update to the Brian Eno AI message.

Interesting protection patterns on #PC88 The Maze

Got a doujin (categorized as a game) that I can't find anything about. "Saigo no men" = "Last stage"

Don't suppose anyone can find any kind of in-print romanization for ガイロム here, say from mags of the time? There's nothing in the manual, and I need to come up with something for the filenames :P

Youtoden (遊兎伝) #PC98 scanned and dumped in high resolution: archive.org/details/yout...

Suruga-ya has taken down all their adult goods. The word on the street is that their payment service provider prohibits said goods, and they're now trying to sidestep the problem by switching providers. Maybe ultimately splitting the site in two. Just speculation I'm reading on Japanese interwebs

Ok new day, new go at this nonsense. Let's see how I fare with a fresh set of brains 😸

VERY OMOSHIROI AND KYOUMI-BUKAI JAPAN FACT BTW THOSE WORDS ARE UNTRANSLATABLE INTO ENGLISH BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DO WITH THE UNIQUE ANCIENT JAPANESE ART OF FINDING SOMETHING MILDLY INTERESTING WHENEVER I FIND SOMETHING OMOSHIROI IN PUBLIC I TAP MY CHIN AND GO "HMM TOTEMO OMOSHIROI"

Anyone up for a kanji quiz challenge?? If you're unfamiliar with #PC98, just load the .d88 in Neko Project 21/w, and you're good to go. Pls post a screenshot with your score below. I'll probably test my might tomorrow, as it's getting late here (cowardly excuses!!) 😹 archive.org/details/jima...

Planning a vacation to 1990s Tokyo? Radar Freak on PC-FX is an interactive map with details on restaurants and stores, including menus and pricing. In rare cases, video is included. Shiho Niiyama (新山志保), who voiced Record of Lodoss War's Deedlit, gives a tour of a bookstore in this video.

Popping in for a quick moment from my ongoing, indefinite, self-imposed social media moratorium to say… 🎊 Unauthorizon is back! 🎊 Cheers to @pirategamething.com and everyone else involved. youtu.be/x7hyVVDj1h0

after much tinkering, alpharobo has done it and this "tex hooker" works! Now to re-write that guide so we can get others playing Famidisk system games with less headaches

After all these years making PC-88 Paradise on YouTube, I finally got around to one of the biggest PC games of 80's Japan. It even got a release for North American PC's! Please watch this extra-long video and learn all about "Sorcerian". youtu.be/uDn-Izhs3Xo #falcom #jrpg #ys

Fun centerfold art from #PC88 Melroon's manual, which I just finished scanning in high resolution 🕺 archive.org/details/melr...

This is what peak performance looks like

Check this out: A #PC98 kanji test prep quiz game called Jiman Grand Prix, about which I've found (literally) nothing online - it's not in Suruga-ya's database, and even GPS doesn't seem to have it :^)

"No one in the room had ever made it this far--seen what the game had in store beyond the grassy flatlands and carnival mazes of the game's first half. Today, a playground legend would take root." It's real. A #retrogame #review of Bubsy on the #SNES betterletethannever.blogspot.com/2025/05/bubs...

Could someone living in Japan (who I've interacted with here) help me bid on an "auction-style" Mercari item closing tomorrow (saturday), as proxies seem to be unable to handle such listings currently? I will reimburse via Paypal or similar. Pls DM if you can help out 🙂

Now that there is a name for a magazine

僕ら欧米人が子供の頃に遊んだのはこれと全くイメージの違う、ロボット抜きでローカライズされた物でした。今日初めてオリジナルを見て、驚きました。これって元は #スーパーロボット大戦 か何かのライセンス品（あるいはパクり品）だったのでしょうか。非常に気になりますので、どなたか教えて下さい 😹

Psst this was funny enough to deserve a third like (rip posting when north america sleeps)

Added a scan of Night Slave's manual, with original colors intact (unlike the b&w scan in kobe), and OCR 🕺 archive.org/download/nig...

Wait a minute, I remember Barcode Battler from my childhood (in the West), but don't recall seeing these SD Gundam-esque characters, or anything about becoming a "Convenience Store Warrior" to battle the evil "Chuhai Khan" (!!!) 😹😹😹

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

MARX: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains* (*a middle-manager telling you that if they catch you playing PS Vita VNs at your cubicle once more they’re writing you up)

Hiromasa Iwasaki (@hiroiwasaki.bsky.social) wrote an English language biography of Roe R. Adams III, the scenario writer of Ultima IV, and his overlooked contributions to game history docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today I secured my seventh game by Zenryutsu (the final boss of j-pc collecting). Only ten more to go... or eleven if "As you like 2" ever actually came out. (Pics or it didn't happen!)