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If you see screens like this, you need to switch to V1 mode (Control menu). A common symptom of a V1 game running incorrectly in V2 mode is a washed-out bluish-green screen. V1 games will usually run in V2 mode, but with subtle glitches.

Error / Beep / Glitches / blue-green screen: V2 mode games will not run in V1 mode and return an error (or just beep at you).

The buttons are usually some combination of Enter, Spacebar, Shift, Esc, Tab, and ZXCV.

Controls: For games, movement is almost always Numpad 4,6,2,8 or the cursor keys.

Some usual issues as stated in the English instructions: Most floppy disks are bootable, you need to set the first disk image in drive 1 and reset the emulator. Below is an example for the game Dinosaur: Thanks to nekoneko for providing many insights on the PC-88/98 emulation, as well as several missing games.Īfter downloading a game from our pages, you may find a lot of different archives nested in the primary archive. Some instructions are provided in text files, next to the emulator files.

Download DISPELL v1.13 (EPSON check remover).

Download Neko Project II v0.83 (build 4).

Thanks a to generous contributor, we host working archives of M88, Neko Project II and Virtual98 :

You may encounter several problems to get these programs running properly on your computer. You may also use DOSBox-X to run PC-98 games. You can find a lengthy help page for PC-98 emulation on with updated download links. Several other emulators are available for the PC-88, check this page (jp) or this page (en). You can download the check remover, DISPELL, from this page. Therefore some games need to have the EPSON check removed: this fragment of code discriminates whether the hardware is the genuine NEC PC98 or not. It is the emulator of EPSON's PC-286, 386, 486, 586 which are compatible hardware of NEC's PC98. Strictly speaking, Anex86 is not a PC98 emulator. Ningyo Tsukai: the original Japanese version of Metal & Lace), Anex86 has high emulating performance. Although a few games doen't work with it (e.g. However, the most popular PC98 emulator in Japan is Anex86. A modified version of Neko Project II, ported to modern system, is very worth trying. Some recent forks (derived projects) of Neko Project has emerged, like Neko Project 21/W (AKA np21w), aimed at late PC-98 emulation (1993 to 2000).

Some games won't work with these emulators, you may try Virtual98 instead (available below). Recommended emulators are M88 for PC-88 (Windows only) and Neko Project II for PC-98 (Windows / Mac, ported as Xnp2 on Linux). PC-88 and PC-98 is kind of confidential outside Japan, but the emulation scene is quite active.