

Some scaling options are available, but none make much of a difference when it comes to text readability. If downscaling makes the text unreadable, there is no point in playing them. None of this would much matter if we were playing a Doom or Mario. To fit the image into a PSP screen (480x272), the emulator has to nearly halve the resolution. The PC-98 had a screen resolution of 640×400 pixels. Soon after loading the game though, I hit a brick wall.

It is enough to point the emulator to the first two of the four files, and select Reset from the Emulate menu. Unlike DOSBox PSP, NP2 has a GUI - in English, even. Loading the games was surprisingly intuitive. It does not fitĭead of the Brain comes in four files - floppy disk images with an. Dead of the Brain is one of a handful of exceptions, making it a good starting point for my test. The best-known PC-98 titles are visual novels, few of which ever got an English translation. NP2 is the PSP port of Neko Project II, the most widely used PC-98 emulator. You think DOSBox for PSP is user-unfriendly? How about trying something like DOSBox, but in Japanese? Update: I found a Japanese guide that does an adequate work of explaining how to get the emulator up and running.
