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Has anybody played Rusty on real non-Japanese hardware?

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First post, by Paranoid_Andy

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Hi everyone!

I've been setting up a vintage gaming PC recently, a Pentium 2 450 with Win98.

I'm able to run Rusty through 98 and DOS.

Both start the game just fine, however once I get past the initial cinematic screens it skips right past the main menu and jumps right into the game with the character constantly attacking. No matter what I press, I can't get her to stop attacking.

I'm wondering if maybe I need an actual Japanese keyboard because maybe the game is expecting it?

I tried 2 different USB keyboards and 1 PS2 keyboard and they all yield the same results.

Have any of you dealt with this before or happen to have an idea about this? Any help is appreciated.

Thank you!

Reply 1 of 2, by Jo22

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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.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Paranoid_Andy

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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!

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