Neko Project II 0.82 Dreamcast edition released

[wraggster]

histat has released a new toy for all us Dreamcast owners, heres the details:

Neko Project II for Dreamcast

For more information, latest release at

http://neko.sourceforge.net


1) About

Neko Project II is a pc-9801 series emulator

2) Install

these files should contain in data directory

* BIOS.ROM
* FONT.ROM or FONT.BMP or FONT.TMP
* SOUND.ROM *1

*1 optional

unzip np2--dreamcast.zip
change dirctory np2--dreamcast
put your need file to data directory
and burn data directory at your own way

3) Contact
histat

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[Starscream]

Nice. I hope I find the time to try it.
From the page, it appears, we'll see port of Xmillenium, too.
I'll try to play Thexder with that.

[Blandco]

That's pretty neat.

However I can't think of anything I could actually run off that.

I wonder if I could try to get a copy of Ultima....Oh but I would need an english version. Did they even make any english language software or was the whole PC-9801 craze only in Japan?

[Starscream]

There are some translations (Farland Story) but there are also some arcade-games which you can play without problem.

[geise69]

Plus there's plenty of "other" games to play! Anyways I wonder how well this runs. The port I play on the gp2x is very nice, but I have it over clocked to 280 to use as little frameskip as possible. I'll have to check this out later. Thanks very much for this port of np2. I've never run a pc98 emu and had it running on my tv before. This should be nice.

[Starscream]

It does run pretty well, games are absolutly playable, however, a lot of them have insane flickering, I assume due to the interlaced output on SDTV. Low-res games don't appear to be affected by this.

[gradius1]

Can anyone PLEASE explain me how to burn the files and where to put the games, so that the DC can play it??? I don't understand the short explanation from the author... The 3 needed files I already put in the data directory.

[Starscream]

That confused me at first, too.
I burned it using bootdreams pointing to the data directory, as it contains the emulator bin. I put every other file that comes with the emulator zip also in there as well as disk images and hdi files. That worked.

[gradius1]

THANXXXXX. It is running!!! Yay :thumbup:

[Starscream]

Now I need to ask something myself:
Can anybody tell me if the screen flickering is also happening with the following configurations:

1. SDTV with NTSC Dreamcast (mine is PAL)
2. HDTV
3. VGA Box
?

The flickering is happening in a lot of games, but if you want suggestions, there's Galaga or Sim City (which can be played in English, you just need to set a switch in the inital screen).