Progenitor - English Translation PC98

[dakidski]

RHDI

Classic game mods and resources

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[Pikachun]

I really hope a pre-patched image gets uploaded here. I'm having trouble finding the .hdi file for this one anywhere.

 

[dakidski]

I found the HDI file here.

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Post automatically merged: Nov 28, 2025

I have tried patching it via romhack.ing but I'm not really having any luck. I downloaded Deltapatcher and patched it that way.

Thanks for the tip, patched!

 

[GodElite]

@dakidski @McWiggles - care to share the patched file? I've tried running it with Retroarch but no luck, it gets stuck on the command line A: don't know why. Any tips?

 

[thanatos]

@dakidski @McWiggles - care to share the patched file? I've tried running it with Retroarch but no luck, it gets stuck on the command line A: don't know why. Any tips?

I get the same running both the patched and unpatched ROM, so I don't think it's the patch. It probably just means that you need to manually type in the game's command. Sadly, I tried it on my Anbernic handheld console and the emulator core on retroarch has no virtual keyboard, but if you had a keyboard, you could type:

DIR /p

to show all the files and then run the probably only EXE file there.

 

[dakidski]

Taking it down in 24 hours:
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Runs fine on Neko Project 21/W.

 

[GodElite]

@dakidski thank you for the share! It still doesn't work for me tho, it just boots to the command prompt. Here's a video of what happens.

I'm running Retroarch 64bit with the core: Neko Project II Kai

@thanatos yeah happens the same here, with the patched and non-patched version. And I've tried booting the 2 files ("Progenitor (HD Boot disk).hdm" and "Progenitor.hdi"), nothing works... I show on the video that you have no executable to run either.

 

[thanatos]

@dakidski thank you for the share! It still doesn't work for me tho, it just boots to the command prompt. Here's a video of what happens.

I'm running Retroarch 64bit with the core: Neko Project II Kai

@thanatos yeah happens the same here, with the patched and non-patched version. And I've tried booting the 2 files ("Progenitor (HD Boot disk).hdm" and "Progenitor.hdi"), nothing works... I show on the video that you have no executable to run either.

Seems almost like the HD isn't even mounted properly? If PC98 is similar to MS DOS, then A should be the first floppy drive, right? BTW, a lot of games I find for the PC98 are like that. Maybe not set up properly? I might look into if I can somehow open the hdi images and remaster them.

Post automatically merged: Jan 5, 2026

Look on archive.org for nec-pc-9801-translations. They have a collection of already patched roms. Probably easier than painstakingly remastering the images. :D

 

[McWiggles]

I guessed the PC-98 translations archive would be updated with it. Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I was overseas.

 

[Clippy]

I would like to remind everyone that if you're going to share ROMs it should be done in this part of the forum

I took the liberty to move the posts doing so here.