This is good for the main part of the roms, but if you see that a game works very slow or very fast, you can change the clock speed selecting this option and pressing "A" button until you get your desired speed. * Change clock speed: By default, Neko ProjectX emulates a PC-9801 at 10 MHZ. This is usefull if you are playing a game that uses a key that is not mapped in the default controls. Select the button that you want to redefine then a virtual keyboard is displayed, and you can select a new key to map to that button of the joypad. * Redefine keys: You can redefine the keys mapped to the buttons A, B, X and Y. This is the same that you can do clicking on the right analog stick. * Disk in Floppy B: Insert a new floppy disk in Unit B. This is the same that you can do clicking on the left analog stick. * Disk in Floppy A: Insert a new floppy disk in Unit A. The PC-98 will restart with this option, and the game will begin. If this is the case, go to the main menu and select "Reset with DIP SW 2-8". * Reset with DIP SWITCH 2-8: Some games like "Rusty" or "Destructor" will show you an error message when you launch them, asking you to switch the DIP SW 2-8 (even if the message is in Japanese, you will be able to read these numbers!). You can navigate by the menu with the D-pad, select/change options with the A button, and cancel with the B button. You can open the main menu during the gameplay by pressing START. Exit from the Typing Mode with the B button. A virtual Keyboard will appear, and now you can type whatever you want (press with the A button in the keys that you want to type). If you need to type some text, or press a key that is not mapped in the normal controls, press LEFT TRIGGER and RIGHT TRIGGER at the same time, and you will enter into "Typing Mode".
LEFT TRIGGER + RIGHT TRIGGER: Enter "Typing Mode" RIGHT ANALOG STICK CLICK: Insert a new disk in the Floppy Unit B. LEFT ANALOG STICK CLICK: Insert a new disk in the Floppy Unit A. START: Opens the Main Menu (see "Main Menu" section for more info) This is very usefull to move the cursor faster in some strategy games like the "Farland Story" ones!! Use this if your cursor/controls move very slow. If you keep pressed a button, it will send more "push" commands per second. Very usefull in games with menus like "Columns". Use this if your cursor/controls move very fast, and you are unable to navigate by the menus of a game because options are selected too fast. If you keep pressed a button, it will send less "push" commands per second. TRIGGERS: They control the key latency (you can think about it as the "speed of an autofire feature" or the "speed of the cursor"). LEFT ANALOG STICK: It moves the mouse cursor (only usefull in games that use mouse). Y button: It is mapped by default to 2 keys that are used by several games as the "action key": the 5 of the keypad (used in games like "Columns") and the Z key (used in games like "Rusty"). Here is the default mapping (anyways, you will be able to redefine the A,B,X,Y buttons in the main menu, if you need different mappings):ĭ-pad: It is mapped to the directional keys of the keypad (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT) If you need to insert another disk during the gameplay, please read the "CHANGING FLOPPY DISKS" section.Īlthough the PC-98 is a computer and it uses a keyboard, I have mapped the most common keys in all the games to the buttons of our joypads, so we will be able to play several games with the d-pad and the normal buttons The emulator will automatically mount it in the "Floppy Unit A" of the PC-98 and will run it. If you want to play a game that has SEVERAL floppy disk images, you must select the FIRST of them. If you want to play a game that has only one file (for example one HDI file, or one FDI file) simply click on it in the rom list, and the game will be launched. If there is a lot of interest, maybe I can make it accept PC-9821 games in the future, but currently these games (like Doom or Alone in the Dark) are not supported. This emulator currently supports PC-9801 games. but you can use "Virtual Floppy Image Converter" to convert it to D88 (or to FDI if you are lucky). It is easy too, although some games may have several floppy disks images, and you will need to change the disk when the game asks for it.ģ- D88: This is a supported format that will work, but you will usually need to do some things to launch it (write some command.) so it is less comfortable.Ĥ- FDD: This format does not work in this emulator.
Here are some of the supported formats, ordered from the best to the worst choice:ġ- HDI: This is a hard disk image, it is the easiest format to launch: simply click and play.Ģ- FDI: This is a floppy disk image. The emulator supports a good amount of formats, both hard disk images and floppy disk images. Roms MUST be placed uncompressed in the "roms" directory.
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