Hello,
This is a long post so you may skip to my final question.
So first things first:
I would like to ask about help considering PC 98 "Eye of the Beholder" emulation.
I've searched the net & some sources & it appears there are 2 versions of the game, one from 'Ving' & one from 'Pony Canyon'.
According to the following site, the Pony Canyon version has boot issues. However the site features in game screenshots
that may have been ripped via emulation.
http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/screen/G0061.html'Moby games' also features in game screenshots. The screenshot comments mention that the first thing one should do is create a user disc.
The 1st screenshot shows the titlescreen of the Pony Canyon version. Th 2nd one has a comment refering to creating a user disc.
However it might be that the screenshots are captured from original hardware instead of emulation.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc98/eye- ... creenshotsFinally there is a youtube video showing the intro of the game. I doubt the original PC98 hardware is capable of
recording such quality video of a running application. So this is almost definitely captured via emulation.
Now to the point. I have been trying to run a "Pony Canyon" version of the game through both Next & PN2 Emulators.
Both load the game up to the menu. From that point there are 3 options in Japanese - that I can't read, and if I
choose any of them, apparently they produce an error message. Again I cannot read this message but nothing happens.
When running in Next emulator, the 3rd option exits to a command promt screen similar to the screenshot from Moby Games.
Perhaps this is a way to create a needed "user disc". However since I can't read japanese, I can't figure what to do.
So my question is twofold:
a) Has anyone succesufully run this version of the game via emulation?
b) If yes could you help me on the matter?
For example perhaps someone could uploaded a working "eye of the beholder" user disc image.
Then again my point might be mute, because all the above sites might be using either the real hardawre, or the "Ving"
version through emulation.