Hi, I've played the DOS/V version on a set-top box (Cyrix mediaGX CPU) and green monitor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1BB7jABqc

Besides that, it also ran on a 286 with VGA card here, afaik. ^^
But I had EMU386 and DOS-J Plus loaded: Re: Timeline of MS-DOS for NEC PC98 and more

Edit: Quick update. Tested Rusty on 16 MHz 286 again. It works fine.
VGA is Trident 9000 (VBE drivers), sound card is an ESS688. No joystick.
Pictures taken and attached. Rusty moves normally (Y, space, num keys).

Edit: Tip: Try running Moslo or disable caches. Maybe it's a timing problem (joystick detection etc).
Rusty and other DOS/V games originated on PC-98 platform.
The PC-9801 series was comparable to PC/XT class PCs, the PC-9821 comparable to PC/AT class PCs.
The Pentium II is way beyond 8086-80486 performance of the members of either of those.

Hello Jo,

Thank you for the reply and for providing so much information. I really appreciate it!

After seeing your results I went ahead and tried it on another PC and it seems to be working just fine on that one. So yeah, it's odd but it seems like that PC just doesn't agree with it, so that's not a big deal, but strange for sure.

Thank you for the suggestions to fix it as well, maybe one of those will work 😁

I only just recently learned of DOS/V and I'm curious to try it. Do you happen to know if it's been archived and available somewhere? I'm guessing it should fit on a single floppy?

Thanks again for all the information, this was very helpful!

Hi, I'm glad you got it working! ^^
It's nice to see some more DOS/V users here, I think!

Yes, I think you can find DOS/V online, in several places.

Personally, I got a physical copy some while ago. It's MS-DOS/V 6.20.
I do recommended that version a lot, because it's easy to use.
You can switch between English and Japanese mode any time by entering "us" and "jp".

IBM PC-DOS/V and DR-DOS/V also seem to exist, but are different here.
Also please make sure you're getting the right language version of DOS/V.
The most common version is Japanese, but DOS/V also exists with Korean, Thaiwanese and Chinese fonts, I think.

Chinese DOS games are a bit special, because they typically seem to draw their characters as graphics.
So they often run fine on English DOS without doing.

I have some screenshots here (see pages 9/10 at moment): MCGA Games (PC/DOS) - LCD vs CRT
That thread is about DOS games on a CRT TV.
To give an impression how games might have looked on a low-end CRT monitor in early 90s.
Also because IBM had supported 15 KHz monitors/TVs in the 8086-based IBM PS/2 Model 30.
That was the PC with the real MCGA chipset. It had provided 15 KHz output if a certain pin was grounded (if memory serves).

Some DOS/V games on the internet may also be Korean versions.
Using a smartphone application with character recognizion and auto translation can help here to figure out.
If the text makes sense, then DOS/V and DOS/V game use same character set and language.

PS: Also interesting to read, maybe:
Old Japanese Games for PC (DOS/Win9x)
Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

VGA games with only 16 colors
Computing Japan

Windows and others: good Anime games?
early 90's rpg suggestions?