Besides the emulator, you'll need a set of floppy disk images (FDI, FDM, NFD, D88.) or a hard disk image (HDI, HDM, NHD.).
The PC-9800 series of personal computers had floppy disk drives (FDD) and hard drives (HDD) which contained the actual games and software to be loaded. Usage Note: This tutorial was adapted from this resource. Able to boot MS-DOS, Windows 98 and Windows 2000, but software compatibility is hit or miss. QEMU/9821 A fork of QEMU that supports PC-9800 architecture. Support for the first batch or so of PC-98 games have started to be added to MAME in 0.201 (Aug 2018).
#NEC PC 98 GAMES DRIVERS#
MAME It has drivers for various revisions but as of version 0.189, all of them are reported as Not Working. While it's very easy to set up, its PC-98 system is not yet complete. DOSBox-X A very active fork of DOSBox that, among other things, adds support for the PC-98 as a target system. Some programs may have trouble running on this emulator due to so-called "EPSON protection" that prevents them from running on EPSON clones. Anex86 Another decent PC-98 emulator, which emulates EPSON PC-286/386/486 series which is a series of PC-98 clone computers made by EPSON Corporation rather than PC-98 series made by NEC. Neko Project II kai A more libretro-focused fork, which has also merged several improvements from 21/W.
Neko Project 21/W Based on Neko Project II but with a focus on PC-9821 series with enhanced options (CPUs, memory sizes, sound sources) as well as support for LAN board, PCI bus, CD-DA, windows accelerators, fmgen and so on. Its major drawback is the non-remappable controls. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Only available as a libretro core outside of Windows and Linux.Ĭomparisons Neko Project II The best PC-98 emulator out there but went inactive since March 2016.