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| Lightmaster:
--- Quote from: Onion on April 30, 2017, 03:22:06 AM ---As it turns out, Amusement Makers (read: copyright holder) put up installers for all five games the last four games on their website, for free. I can't get them to work, because my DOS is American, but they're definitely the full games. --- End quote --- A mild correction, those aren't the full games, but the trial versions. If you check alongside the title, there's a little something called "体験版" in japanese, which means Trial or Demo. |
| Onion:
--- Quote from: Lightmaster on April 30, 2017, 04:06:18 AM ---A mild correction, those aren't the full games, but the trial versions. If you check alongside the title, there's a little something called "体験版" in japanese, which means Trial or Demo. --- End quote --- Oh. :ohdear: I just... really wanted it to be so, I guess... |
| 98digger:
--- Quote from: Onion on April 30, 2017, 03:22:06 AM ---You pay 5 digits if you want the jewel case. As it turns out, Amusement Makers (read: copyright holder) put up installers for all five games the last four games on their website, for free. I can't get them to work, because my DOS is American, but they're definitely the full games. If you want The Highly Responsive to Prayers, I don't know. If you want an actual PC-98, it was never released in the west. The APC III doesn't have the oomph needed to play any of the games, and IBM PCs (aka the thing you're using right now) are incompatible. :\ --- End quote --- Hi, Obtaining an actual NEC PC-9800 Series computer is actually not too difficult to do; I personally have a PC-9821 Ce2. I've written guides on how to import one. They aren't very rare at all, especially given their status as the best selling computer series of all time (22+ million units), despite only being sold in Japan, however certain models are more compatible with most games software than others. For a decent model that runs Touhou, expect to pay $300-ish USD. Regarding emulators, those work fine and are technically legal so long as you're using FreeDOS(98) and not the copyrighted NEC MS-DOS 3.3/5.0A-H/6.2 or EPSON DOS. The demo versions of all the original Touhou titles except the first are legally available on Amusement Makers' old site. Technically speaking downloading the full versions of the original Touhou titles is indeed illegal, though the likelihood of ZUN going after you for doing that is very slim. Either way, it's entirely up to you tbh. Seeing that copyright is a major dilemma in increasing fan interest in these games, personally I had started a project a while ago to try and get them released in their original form either for free, as FOSS software, or as proprietary software for some price. It hasn't been updated in a while, but here's the page: https://themasterof9801.neocities.org/98thdimension/operationtouhoupc98.html |
| Kurzov:
Perhaps this should be stickied. I don't know, but this sounds like the question is brought up quite a bit here. |
| Romantique Tp:
Not really. --- Quote from: Onion on April 30, 2017, 03:22:06 AM ---Amusement Makers (read: copyright holder) --- End quote --- ZUN owns the full rights over the PC-98 games, Amusement Makers just helped distribute them. Also keep in mind that they're a student group, not a game company. I think I should also mention that trying to convince any japanese author to make their old games open source is pretty silly and a waste of time. Not only it's very unlikely to happen, the question is easily misinterpreted and ZUN probably doesn't even have the source code for any of these games anymore. |
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