Touhou PC-98 English Patches: Setup Guide

As seen on the Station Wagon forum: w11.zetaboards.com/WalfasStati…

Indeed folks, after nine years of its continuous development and hacking it has finally been released for the entire Touhou community to enjoy!!

Now, I'm making this guide in hope of providing all of the source material you will need to get this set up, in other words, the tutorials are on in the web links I provide here. Please, ask me for help if you run into any sort of problems with the links, or your setup process. I will do what I can to help but everything should be covered.

Here is the official trailer for the Touhou PC-98 English Patches. This includes a download link in the video description:

Notice: I won't provide the emulator .hdi game files in this journal, if you don't have them, please give them a search on your search engine of choice. Don't ask me to provide the five Touhou PC-98 games here.

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First of all, you have three emulators to choose from here:

1) Neko Project II fmgen 

Recommended for absolutely everyone who has an average computer, it's the best emulator choice overall. Runs very well on modern Window PCs. It can be set up for Macintosh and Linux users as well.

Little to no input lag, very fantastic sound and music quality, very good customizable options. It might have a confusing interface at first, it's worth setting up and getting used to, it will give you the best experience playing Touhou PC-98.

It can also load up the font files from the other emulators should you want to change that.

~ Guide to setting up everything Neko Project is listed here:
www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/ind…

~ Here is a backup of the YM2608 samples featured in the forum thread that you will need for this.
mega.nz/#!ol00kSzI!zKU56E8GeFe…

Edit: Touhou 4 Lotus Land Story can lag on this emulator. It's noticeable when bullets are present on screen. Use the patch files in forum link and set your in-game option to "Turbo Mode" for a fix.

Also, in configure, setting the CPU to 2.4576MHz x 24 is another big fix if you're lagging still after patching, this can help with Mystic Square's Extra Stage lag too somewhat.

This pretty much assures a lag-free game in most instances, but if that doesn't work in the end, use the third option here in this guide. Use 2.4576MHz x 32 for every other game outside Lotus Land Story and Mystic Square should you have lag with those two games.
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2) T98-Next

A very powerful emulator that requires good specs on a computer to run games smoothly. It's got effective customizing options behind it, but it has issues running Touhou 3 Phantasmagoria of Dimensional Dream at times, it's a gamble if it will work or not.

It's got a really nice looking built-in font; however, it comes with a few issues with certain characters. But it works rather well overall and a great choice for those with a strong Windows PC.

~ Download (uses second link on the page for the English version):
www.zophar.net/pc98/t98-next.h…

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3) Anex86 

The most popular, but least effective emulator of the bunch. It's good for older and weaker PCs at best, but this is purely an alternative if you are getting lots of lag with the other emulators. I do not recommend this one at all otherwise. Note that it's good for other PC-98 games but not so much for Touhou.

It suffers from not-so-good sound and music quality, input-lag, flashy and/or choppy graphics, and less then helpful work around options.

~ Download (Download the Japanese font file as well to load into the emulator):
www.zophar.net/pc98/anex86.htm…

~ Guide to setting up T98-Next and Anex86:
www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/ind…