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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 + download
How To Play Game In Rar File Mac Os
Recommended emulators are M88 for PC-88 (Windows only) and Neko Project II for PC-98 (Windows / Mac, ported as Xnp2 on Linux). Some games won't work with these emulators, you may try Virtual98 instead (available below).
You need to extract the file first on your computer before you can place the game file you want to play using your emulator. Go to the.rar file that you have downloaded and right click the.rar. Select the extract here or extract to and it will show up a folder from where you have extracted it. To open.rar on Mac with Unarchiver: Download the app and place it in the Applications folder Right-click on the archive you need to unpack and choose Open With.
However, the most popular PC98 emulator in Japan is Anex86. Although a few games doen't work with it (e.g. Ningyo Tsukai: the original Japanese version of Metal & Lace), Anex86 has high emulating performance. Strictly speaking, Anex86 is not a PC98 emulator. It is the emulator of EPSON's PC-286, 386, 486, 586 which are compatible hardware of NEC's PC98. 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. You can download the check remover, DISPELL, from this page.
How To Open Rar Games
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, Neko Project II and Virtual98 :
- Download M88 v2.21a (build 2017/06/16)
- Download Neko Project II v0.83 (build 2017/06/04)
- Download Anex86 v2.77 (build 2004/07/26)
- Download Virtual98 v0.28 (build 1999/12/14)
- Download DISPELL v1.13 (EPSON check remover)
Some instructions are provided in text files, next to the emulator files. Thanks to nekoneko for providing many insights on the PC-88/98 emulation, as well as several missing games.
PC-88 and 98 game archives
After 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:
- cr: cracked
- f: fixed
- h: hacked
- m: modified
- p: pirated
- t: trained
- tr: translated
- o: over dump
- u: under dump
- v: virus
- b: bad dump
- a: alternate
- [!]: verified dump
Another example for a PC-98 game, EDGE, which came with 7 disks:
Running PC-88 games in M88
Most 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:
- Controls: For games, movement is almost always Numpad 4,6,2,8 or the cursor keys. The buttons are usually some combination of Enter, Spacebar, Shift, Esc, Tab, and ZXCV.
- Error / Beep / Glitches / blue-green screen: V2 mode games will not run in V1 mode and return an error (or just beep at you). V1 games will usually run in V2 mode, but with subtle glitches. A common symptom of a V1 game running incorrectly in V2 mode is a washed-out bluish-green screen. If you see screens like this, you need to switch to V1 mode (Control menu).
- CPU speed: The choice between 4Mhz and 8MHz is mostly just a matter of convenience, but keep in mind that some older games run too fast at 8MHz.
- Settings: open 'M88 Settings in English.html' to see a translated version of the settings.
BASIC commands
If 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:
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 II
PC-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.
Mac is among the most powerful and reliable operating system used by millions of people around the globe. This operating system has many advanced features such as Touch Support, Launchpad, Air Drop, Auto Save, Full screen Apps etc. In addition systems running on Mac OS are designed to be fast, reliable, efficient etc. Like any other operating system even Macintosh machines supports compressions and extraction of files in RAR format. However RAR files stored on Mac is not free from problems such as corruption or damage
If you are a user with questions like, How to extract corrupted RAR files on Mac? Then your answer is using reliable third party utility like 'Remo More'. With the help of this software you can easily extract all contents from your corrupted RAR file in just few mouse clicks. But before moving towards the extraction process let us see what are RAR files, what are their advantages and software features
What is a RAR file?
Roshal Archive commonly known as RAR files is a compression technique used to compress large files on digital media devices like Mac hard drives, memory cards, mobile phones and so on. Many people prefer RAR files to compress and store their important files such as project files, songs, music, games, videos, movies etc on their Mac computers.
Advantages of RAR files:
There are numerous advantages of a RAR file, like they substantially reduce hard disk space and inturn make your Mac computer faster. With the help of RAR files, you can easily upload, download and transfer large files via internet. They also provide many advanced features such as password protection, different compression techniques, encryption etc. Hence RAR files are very important and if these files get corrupt then it results in many hardships for its users.
How to extract corrupted RAR files on Mac?
Remo MORE is a wonderful utility using which you can easily extract corrupted RAR files on your Mac based computers. The tool provides many advanced features using which you can repair and even extract contents of a RAR file without missing even a single one. More to this the software works on read only mode which ensures neither your RAR file nor any other data stored on your Mac machine is damaged or modified while the repair process.
Eye catching features of the software:
- Runs on all the latest versions of Mac OS X
- The program is available for free of cost
- Designed with a very interactive graphical user interface
- 24/7 free technical assistance to all its users
Things to remember:
- Install powerful antivirus software to remove deadly malwares or viruses causing RAR file corruption
- Regularly backup your crucial RAR files so that it can be restored back at time of corruption
- Never use any unreliable utility to extract contents from your RAR file
- Assign password protection to your important RAR files
Way to extract corrupted RAR files on Mac:
Step 1: Download and install Remo MORE in your Mac system and install it. As soon as the software get installed a main screen will appear. Select “Manage” option from main screen as in .
Step 2: From the second screen select “Compress” option to extract corrupted ZIP file as in .
Step 3: From the third screen select “Open / Update RZip File' option as in .
Step 4: After this select the Zip file you want extract and click on “Open” button as in .
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