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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I want to thank whoever made this image. Still one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 6h

but now i wonder if these posts are reaching anyone, until the problem gets fixed 🤔

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 6h

ok phew, looks like this status doesn't inhibit posting 😌

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 6h

my hosting service's server is down so my handle is showing as invalid here. wonder if i can still post 😆

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 19h

right, it seems to say "the data is compatible" with z's staff KiD, art master 400 (whatever that is lol), and ichitaro. the mention of ichitaro in particular makes me think this is mainly about file formats. no clue of other affiliations. this being ported/remade from msx is interesting tho lol

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 19h

oh where does that association become apparent? in the UI? or same companies etc?

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 21h

can anyone find a trace of this graphics editor called Garakuta 98 being dumped anywhere? cos i certainly don't. which is why i just grabbed a copy of it :^)

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 02/10/2026

yet, asking a friend who knows more about msx than i do, they said that choice of colors is 100% intentional 😆 so yeah, remind me next time not to complain about an unexpected spine fade 🤣

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 02/10/2026

cos it looks frigging mint to me, rofl! my best guess is the staffer thought that texture in the art is mold, as they singled out the cart, box and manual all being in bad shape. i can also see them thinking the manual looks water damaged with sun fade, cos that's how the colors would turn out, haha

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 02/10/2026

then, this one may blow your mind, but i noticed a "totally banged up" copy of msx metal gear pop up for next to nothing, so just for the heck of it, and for the semi-reasonable chance that it won't be that bad at all, i took the gamble. well, do you spot anything "totally banged up" here?

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 02/10/2026

first, i bought this game as Rank B condition for PC-88, but what i got instead is the vastly more rare and expensive PC-98 version, and the 3.5" one no less lol. i haven't been able to catch a whiff of this version for all the years i've been looking, & it has been one of my holy grails for 98,haha

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 02/10/2026

when you've shopped on suruga-ya long enough, you've doubtless noticed the staff sometimes make mistakes when labeling the items. when you get unlucky with that tho, don't despair, cos before long the mistake will go in your favor. my latest batch had no less than two such cases:

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 02/10/2026

脱の字を使うと別のジャンルが浮かびますけどね🀄

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

also too coked up to notice most early game ports were missing fm sound 😆

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

meanwhile PC98 chads were too busy counting their corporate paychecks and going to soapland on the boss's dime, so they didn't care enough to rename theirs 😆

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

i have a theory that FM7 owners felt a bit of an inferiority complex toward the vastly more popular PC88, and hence wanted to rename their .D88 files, just to get that pesky 88 out of their face 😹

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

i'm not the most needy and deserving guy on this planet, but if you have a few bucks burning in your pocket, i can turn them into rare J-PC game dumps😁 patreon.com/krugman

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

I'm being told the action game version of Back to the Future has been undumped for the PC-8801, with all images floating online being the adventure game. With the powers of @mp83.bsky.social's team and me combined, we have now fixed that 😸 archive.org/details/back...

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

The ear-piercing beeper rendition of the pink panther theme at the title screen alone is something worth experiencing😹

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

Here's something fun that's apparently been previously unavailable: Microcabin's Mystery House II for Fujitsu FM-7 (1982), i.e. the sequel to Japan's first graphical computer adventure game 😸 archive.org/details/myst...

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

i've semi-recently learned that the OG 🇯🇵 scene way to name .d88 floppy image files was to rename them .d98 when they're for pc98, and .d77 when they're for fm7. looking at the images that are out there tho, i don't think they bothered to do it themselves most of the time, so not gonna bother either😹

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 30/09/2026

got a big "release" coming today, and no, not talking about playing hentais while the missus is away

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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

also, in case you thought that sounds simple enough, some disk magazines actually contain multiple games, so instead of being discounted, they should be adding to the total😆

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

4) to anyone planning on using this to come up with a definitive total number of games, note that you need to subtract CD rereleases, and a wide variety of loosely game-related titles that imo don't really count as games, like add-ons, compilations, cg sets, disk magazines... it gets hard, i know😆

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

e.g. some games came with only a label to be placed on a save game disk you provide yourself, but others provided the disk too, & it's often hard to determine which was the case 3) there's a long list of "unconfirmed" titles at the end, & i'm p sure 99% of them never came out & should be disregarded

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

1) there are quite many misreadings (kana transliteration errors) in the game titles, which is funny because the people responsible are japanese natives, unlike old krug, who's just a pesky know-it-all 😆 2) i wouldn't take the number of included floppies as gospel, cos there's ambiguity about that -

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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:

gontajin.s151.xrea.com

PC-98x1Gamelist

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

*i guess "windows-only" was inaccurate, as on closer look it sez Windows両用, instead of the usual 専用. nevertheless i personally think a more interesting criterion for determining a game's "pc98-ness" is whether or not it still made use of some pc98-specific features,like the legendary -86 sound board

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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 · 28/09/2026

also, this predates otaku no video by eight (!) years 😆

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

also note that the usage is 100% the same, as in the polar opposite of "nekura na pasokon mania" (creepy computer nerd) 🤣👍

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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 · 28/09/2026

i've made a cleaned up version for my own use, but not sure i wanna share it cos that would feel a bit like stealing their work :)

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

iirc they link to it somewhere on the site. it's late here but i can look it up tomorrow if needed

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

obviously a pc98 game originally. would they have cut out the -86 soundtrack at that point, assuming nobody would run ithe game on a pc98 anymore? maybe, but it seems to me more research could be put into games released as late as 99 and beyond, to see if they have remnants of "98 stuff" in them :)

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

for the -86 sound board, without which the game would sound worse. if this is the main criterion, however, i kinda think we might be able to find even later windows releases that fit the bill. e.g. surugaya lists a super late release date of 2000 for jewel case win release of girl 2, which was -

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

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