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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Actual 1st hand info about Hot-B's name

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 28/09/2026

guys if ur gonna like a post of mine from six months ago, make it a repost so it gets a new life, mkay😆

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 28/09/2026

remember that scene in Otaku no Video where Kubo gets called a City Boy? for all my life i thought they made up that term, cos i had never once seen it used elsewhere - until now, haha! behold, on the back cover of T.G.I.F. for PC-8801: (bad pic from auctions)

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 28/09/2026

for those interested in researching the pc98 game library, here's one of the best resources out there: a 🇯🇵 community-built database of retail titles, available as a spreadsheet from the link. gontajin.s151.xrea.com @gosunkugi.bsky.social some quick caveats in the comments below:

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PC-98x1Gamelist

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 28/09/2026

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 27/09/2026

it's interesting that both this mook and 98list.xlsx (the jp community-assembled database that forms the backbone of refuge.tokyo) agree on the last titles, and both count girigiri paradise, which is a windows-only jewel case cd release. presumably what makes that game pc98 is a soundtrack composed-

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Ogre Run @ogre-run.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have obtained a copy of Hiroyuki Maeda’s perfect catalogue of PC-98 erogē. The earliest title is Koei’s 1983 団地妻の誘惑 (9/30). It ends in 1998 with two games: ぎりぎりパラダイス(1/23) and ラブ・エスカレーター (4/17). However, as pointed out, this does not count dōjin software.

A copy of PC-9801パーフェクトカタログ atop a table.

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 27/09/2026

jeez, idk wth this "C&A Kamata" (?) was, but i figure they must've been in the business of renting out eroge, and deadly afraid of theft, cos they wrote their name over the frigging *cover art*, and not on the plastic, like i thought when grabbing a pile of their old stock for pennies, hahah

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 26/09/2026

it has been brought to my attention that not all of my followers know that i wrote the (imo) definitive guide on preserving floppy disks. it's the main thing i'm promoting here (even though i almost never post the link, haha) so do me a solid and share it with your loved ones 😹 krugman.net/dumping/

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Krugman's Dumping Guide for Japanese Computers

An illustrated guide to preserving floppy disk media

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 26/09/2026

one of the most difficult pills to swallow seems to be my empirical observation that ~98% of 🇯🇵 floppy disks are still salvageable given the right technique, and if you're failing significantly more than that, then the problem is with you doing something wrong, and not with the disks themselves.

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one aspect regarding retro gaming scenes that genAI has been blazingly efficient at is in trust erosion whether it’s fan TLs, FPGA cores, or recomp scenes, within the past year so much optimism and excitement regarding new projects has been swiftly replaced with doubt and suspicion thank you genAI

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 25/09/2026

or more like, tgif (these are the moldy ones in queue😹⬇️)

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 24/09/2026

check out this amazing package on mystery house 2 (btw, undumped?) for Fujitsu #FM-7: it's a micro cabin folder! 😸 so professional... feels like i'm back in biz school (🤢)

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 24/09/2026

here's a fun little detail: a random nod to product manuals that come in multiple languages. naturally only the japanese one actually exists 😹

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 23/09/2026

Happening here as well.

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 21/09/2026

for stuff like magazines where there's zero chance there will ever be proper fan translations, there's an argument to be made for mtl *for research purposes*, but for most media, it's pretty clear that slop is crowding out and devaluing any real efforts at proper translations. hence:

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 21/09/2026

i mainly just lurk on discord these days, but one of my absolute favorite things in recent memory is seeing people react with 🥀 to posts about translation projects that turn out to be slop by the second sentence

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

😘 @romhack.ing

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 21/09/2026

my gaming-related opinions boil down to a single one: if you want to be a niche jp media enthusiast, you really should just learn the language. it's less hard and faster than you think, and the amount of insight and respectability you gain is off the charts. say no to mtl slop & thank me in 3 years

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 21/09/2026

today i read on a translation channel that expressing opinions favoring a learning-oriented community is gatekeeping (toward people who just want to consume mtl slop). the end truly is nigh

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A pro-union game journalist would be explaining the history of Japanese labor unions & strikes to readers. Telling them this is why no one at Nintendo can be easily fired. Instead we get this limp dick "I wish Iwata saved us all 😭" demobilizing nonsense

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 20/09/2026

if there's one thing i hope my dumping project accomplishes (in addition to preservation, and helping people fix their broken copies without paying scalpers), it's that it crashes the collectors' market 😹

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 20/09/2026

what's funny about my dragon summoner girl grab is that it seems to have been made possible thanks to a suruga-ya staff error. it appears they searched their database using the standard kanji for "summoning", which made them miss the existing entry (with 20k kaitori, lmao), cos the game uses

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 19/09/2026

while you were out partying, i stayed at home practicing the sword...

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Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Even in 2026 there's still undumped games to release for the NES/Famicom. Bought a lot of Fukutake Studybox tapes awhile back and they'll be released soon!

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 18/09/2026

just when i thought my dump queue is long enough already

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 17/09/2026

great name for an "english letter writing processor with translation function", for fujitsu fm-7

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Chairman George @superbunnyhop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The most fun thing to learn about this scene was the importance of Yugoslavian "New Wave" punk-rock for the computer fans. This music was included on the tapes of "Kontraband 2," an adventure game where players travel in time to visit Yugoslavia in the year 2000 😨 retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat...

A screenshot of a "Yugosaurus” monster from the Yugoslavian ZX-Spectrum adventure game "Kontrabant 2"

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Dave@Not-Convention Recovery @sasuraiger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

gamesoftrobo.ghost.io/super-real-m... "So throughout, Venus Returns is kind of shocking. Not at all in terms of its sexual content— which is again quite tame— but in terms of the level of detail, the pains taken, the way you can hear buttons unfastening. Turns out video games *are* art, after all."

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Super Real Mahjong: Venus Returns delivers the quaint nudity of another age

So throughout, Venus Returns is kind of shocking. Not at all in terms of its sexual content— which is again quite tame— but in terms of the level of detail, the pains taken, the way you can actually h...

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 15/09/2026

LRP i personally kinda just gave up on the idea of translating J-PC games (i used to fansub stuff a long time ago) when i noticed everyone and their mom with beginner level japanese bills themselves as Translator in their bio these days, making it impossible to stand out as doing something uniquely-

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You just don't have to engage in this shit if you want to be active and involved in the community and pretending to offer something you genuinely can't simply for the sake of clout chasing is, if anything, a demonstration of the contempt you have for the source material to not wanna do it right.

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 15/09/2026

the best part about dumping 9-disk hentais from 1996-97 is that you eventually you run out of 9-disk hentais from 1996-97

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Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Harapeko Pakkun for the NEC PC-8001 has been dumped by @kiwi-tiki.bsky.social. Enjoy this very rare game! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/09/h...

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Harapeko Pakkun – Gaming Alexandria

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You know, you can pirate anime, AND still buy a lot of DVDs.

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 14/09/2026

feels good to be dumping disks for a change 🥰

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 14/09/2026

i made a stand for my drives, but now i'm annoyed cos the wood is not straight

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 13/09/2026

every time i see this title i reconfirm my belief that it has to be the worst one in computer game history

hideyoshi: any monkey can come into power (windows 95)

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's still good stuff in the BEEP junk bins if you are a weirdo like me!

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 13/09/2026

really need to get some irl mahjong going again

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#1 Doukyuusei Fan USA @overthere.banginsummer.love · 13/09/2026

Mahjong with the girls

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 12/09/2026

tfw a kid may have to die cos i spent all my money on a hentai that comes on 40 floppies

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 12/09/2026

i finally secured my copy of the legendary 40-disk version of viper ctr asuka, where all that space is essentially taken up by hentai gif's, rofl. this will make for a good dumping post in a few months, when the boat gets here 😹

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