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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 2328, member: 73"] Yeah, I wish! :cry: The game I mentioned, May Club, was officially translated and ported to DOS, which was the version I had. It came on a single CD, and I was running it through an ancient PowerMac on what I believe was Classic Mac OS 9 (already about a half-decade out of date by the time I was using it). I believe the port is exactly the same as the original, save for a (pretty good!) English translation. It also came with a cheap little manual and some flyers for other Anime Video products, like Slayers DVDs and early editions of the Maison Ikkoku manga (two of which I also had). The PC98, like the PC88 (and even the MSX before it), struggled a lot with moving backgrounds due to the way the graphic system worked. It had a HUGE amount of colours, but that meant there was no memory to store complicated motion integers. I think you could only have a few elements moving simultaneously on the “top” layer of the GUI, so developers focused on mostly-static adventure games where characters look right at you and blink occasionally. If you’ve ever seen any non-game animations from the system, you’ll find that they have to do a lot of workarounds for everything to look right — scenes transition often from one pose to the next, plenty of far-off distance shots of cars moving along static roads, etc. This is also why sprite dithering (like in the first and last screenshots you posted in the OP) was so common on the system — scattered fields of pixels could be added to the top layer and easily replicated on lower ones to fake more movement than was actually possible. [/QUOTE]

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