Oh man! I love seeing Japanese PC's on here. We don't get enough of 'em. Please keep us posted on any updates/troubleshooting/experiments you do with this. What games are you planning to run on this beast?

That looks cool, sometimes I'm thinking about getting one of those...
I'm curious, what kind of scsi hardware do you have requires a PC-98?

I changed the battery (ML2340) and installed the CF frontbay. Was also very easy, set to master, second IDE Port and it shows up. I had trouble formating cf cards on the system. So i used also the yahdi image and delete all the files, works fine for me.
The only thing im missing is a adapter for the joystick port. It use direct input like the MSX. So if you want to use a mega drive controller for example you need an active adapter.
I really need one, the arrow keys are horrible when you used to western ones.
To the Games i want to play Night Slave, Rusty and some shmups. Will see, so many games i dont know..
SCSI i need for a devkit in this timeline, where software only work on pc98.
Afterall pretty happy with the pc

You're right about the arrow keys, they look uncomfortable to use, give Doom a try please!
I should have asked directly what kind of devkit do you need a PC-98 for, I imagine something 8 or maybe 16bits but no later, right?

Been looking to get into the PC98 scene but i'm doing the research first. I am leaning towards an A series 9821 which will give me a good range of compatibility, but also looking at 9801 DO which will let me play PC88.

Jackhead wrote on 2022-08-04, 16:52:

I started to import me a PC-9801 from japan. First at all i need it for some scsi based hardware that need the real hardware. Th […]
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I started to import me a PC-9801 from japan. First at all i need it for some scsi based hardware that need the real hardware.
There serval models, at the time i found this working one.
It runs a 486 DX2 66 with 18MB RAM, has two IDE ports, a 34pin Floppy header as well. So perfect to run some games old/new.
The MB itself has no caps, but i recapped the PSU and add a new fan.

Question: Did you sell this built to germany? I´ve just bought an 9801 BA2 of german ebay and basically its the same build (contains the CF card reader + Card). The drives are missing and anything else, probably ripped from it.

BR
Alex

Yes, i switched to a PC9821.