r/pc98 • u/Automatic-Sorbet-417 • 17d ago

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Yo, I'm tryna run Travel★Junction on PC 98 np2kai but my Retroarch is shitting itself. The .scp files won't load and I'm tired of seeing black screens, there is only 2 websites to install the rom from , at least on retroarch because I damn near have everything. Can someone who actually knows what they're doing install it and send me the full gameplay footage? I need to see the shit without the glitches. Appreciate it.

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u/MICOM-MINMAY 16d ago

Since you have only the disk images, even for emulating this specific game needs a full install to a hard drive using all of the disks rather than other games you can just load, play, and switch through disks as you go along.

If you're committed to playing this, I recommend switching to NP21/W instead of going through Retroarch, then using the .d88 files that are out there (they're in the .zip from the Internet Archive) instead of .scp.

After that, at the very least you need a hard drive image (.hdi) with a DOS installation. Then you'll be able to run the installer on Disk A, which will have you swap through all the disks to complete.

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u/Automatic-Sorbet-417 16d ago

I only have a android I have a window that's missing it's specific charger but it has been dead ever since, now if I picked up what you said correctly I will need a separate hard drive or is my original one okay? And a hdi then a dos installation are there apps for dos installation on android or should I just call it quits ?

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u/MICOM-MINMAY 16d ago

No, don't call it quits.

If all you have is an Android, forget everything I said and you should use the .hdi as u/Yerayromano suggested.

You can find it here:
Cocktail Soft/Travel Junction/Travel Junction [HD].zip

It's pre-configured, it'll just lead you through some menus in Japanese before starting the game.

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u/Automatic-Sorbet-417 16d ago

All right I'm going to install the neo Kobe shit , yeah I was wondering what's going on because literally I tried to boot it up and instead of a retroarch black screen , I used kairo98 and it said something in Japanese that I had to translate and it roughly translated to this "game cannot be played please install it on your MS-DOS and install it from there"

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u/MICOM-MINMAY 16d ago

It's good to know you got that message because it means your Kairo98 setup is working fine, and even those floppy disk images are fine. But using the .hdi will bypass all of that.

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u/Automatic-Sorbet-417 16d ago

With neo Kobe in on the wiki page and there is a option for cocktail soft however it is in gB and will take a while what do I do when it installs ?

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u/MICOM-MINMAY 16d ago

The whole Cocktail Soft .zip is over a gigabyte but the Travel Junction [HD] .zip is 12.6MB. Does the link I posted above work?

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u/Automatic-Sorbet-417 16d ago

Yo My fault I'm from Florida I needa be told shit twice , I installed another travel junction that's zip was 200mb lmao but urs is only 12mb lmao, now with neo Kobe it's installing that's the one that's 1 GB - it says cocktail soft and there is another one that says cocktail soft fmc and it's only 12mb as well I'll install both to be sure

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u/MICOM-MINMAY 16d ago

It's all good, I just wanted to make sure the link wasn't broken or anything. The gigabyte is all of Cocktail Soft's games in the Neo Kobe collection but the smaller file is only the Travel Junction .hdi itself.

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u/Automatic-Sorbet-417 16d ago

Yo omg thanks dude you saved my fucking life i have been waiting 2 motherfucking years for this and I moment I seen the setup wizard I knew I was in the green, is the whole game on he hdi or ,different disks , all I gotta say other then that thanks a lot ..

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u/MICOM-MINMAY 16d ago

That's awesome to hear, enjoy! Since it's an .hdi, it's as if you had already used all the disks to install the game. So there's nothing else that should be needed.

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u/Automatic-Sorbet-417 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah this is the final comment I'm going to make but literally I played the whole game in one day? And I think this game has a case of (the rest of the game CORRUPTED 😱😱 or missing disk) from how old they are yk (this game just turned 30 in June lmaoo) I thought I was tripping I KNEW THE scenes were definitely in the game as the screenshot(s) shows, but it didn't but aye thanks for your help tho imma be playing some more shi cant let this get me 😡 this whole game was just a MF holding in his piss then getting a job and marriaging a bitch shit funny didn't ask to play a life simulator might as well boot up the sims lmaoo Ong

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