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Preserve · rebuild · replay

Lost worlds,natively restored.

Carefully reconstructed PC-98 games, packaged for modern systems with their history—and their limitations—intact.

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Native releases
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Source-media variants
15,000+
Dialogue lines verified
Pixel-art observatory room with a PC-98 computer overlooking a moonlit city
◆ VERIFIED PACKAGE◆ MULTILINGUAL LINUX + WINDOWS TARGETS◆ YM2608 / OPNA AUDIO◆ SHA-256 PUBLISHED◆ ORIGINAL 640 × 400 TIMING

/ 001 — Preservation method

From magnetic media to native package

A release is the final artifact of a traceable reconstruction process—not a skin over an emulator.

  1. 01

    Ingest

    Original media is identified, hashed, and extracted through native PC-98 format tooling.

  2. 02

    Restore

    Scripts, fonts, audio, and engine behavior are rebuilt title by title—not wrapped in an emulator.

  3. 03

    Verify

    Deterministic route witnesses, content inventories, and clean-package checks gate each release.

  4. 04

    Release

    Authorized packages ship with controls, notices, checksums, and a plain-language scope statement.

/ 002 — Release records

What these releases preserve

01 Native desktop runtime

Each desktop target ships once with Japanese and English inside the same package or executable. The launcher selects language, display mode, release, and input before starting the native runtime.

02 Stateful OPNA playback

Captured YM2608 register streams play through a long-lived software renderer that retains state across loop events.

03 Recovered gameplay flow

Scripted event flow, substitutions, menu systems, input handling, map routing, and platform-specific combat scripting are represented natively as reconstructed behavior.

04 Known limitations

Native save/restore, advanced local-map walking, precise original map hit-testing, and all original battle rendering remain outside this release’s scope.

/ Why native preservation?

Keep the strange edges.

Preservation is more than making old software launch. It means documenting what was understood, what was rebuilt, what changed, and what is still missing. These releases keep that boundary visible.

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