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POLICENAUTS FOR PC-9821 BEYOND DREAM IMPORTANT NOTE : There are tons of spoilers in this article, so if you plan to play this game one day on a PC-9821, or on another machine, you might not want to read it. This article will probably remain unfinished. |
Policenauts translation site, with full glossary in English. We also host a gallery of Policenauts game versions, soundtracks, magazines, translations, trading cards, and information. For the PC-98 platform, you can choose 3x3 Eyes: Sanjiyan Henjō, 46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinkaron, Advanced Power Dolls 2, Aerobiz, Aiza: New Generation amongst the results.
Hello, I have a problem with Policenauts on PC98, I use Anex86, and I configured it like you said. I have put the content of the folder 'CD' on a CD-RW, so I have a CD with 'PNauts.bin' and 'PNauts.cue' inside. The CD drive on my computer is 'D:', so I configured the panel 'CDX' of Anex86 to 'D'. For linking please use: This gallery (and all of Junker HQ) was created for the collector, because when I began. Sep 03, 2013 Honestly all versions of Policenauts are fairly adult and Kojima was involved in the production of all them, so I don't think it was censored anywhere near as much as the later Snatcher ports were when he wasn't involved. Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:26 am: SnatcherMkII. Policenauts is a Japanese-style adventure with action elements, similar in many ways to Snatcher. The player interacts with the environment in a point-and-click fashion: positioning a cursor over an object allows the player character to examine it or perform other context-dependent actions.
Policenauts is the kind of game, that you play for 10 minutes, then drop your pad telling yourself 'I want this to last forever .. but it's gonna end. And I'll have to live with it'. That's exactly what I felt when I first played the Saturn version (with the Lightgun) of this masterpiece. I stood in front of BCP HQ for ages listening the XA track looping again and again, or investigating Karen's CD collection for hours. I can also remember sitting in a theatre watching Lethal Weapon 4, I jumped off my seat almost screaming when I noticed that there was a red laser aiming device on Mel Gibson's gun, just like Jonathan's ! My girlfriend thought I went nuts. Long after I played the PSX version and explored religiously the PSX Private Collection and 3DO Pilot Disks. They are particularly informative about the new CGs, anime and additions to these versions. This article is not pretending to be the ultimate reference about this game but more a fan's tribute and an analysis of the PC9821 version. |
OLD L.A. 2040 - Earth is now reffered as 'Home', and there is snow in California, it might be an anticipation vision about climatic changes due to pollution. | If you don't know anything about this game or if you want to know more, I suggest you read this Wikipedia article. If it's a walkthrough you are looking for, one of the best around is surely on the U.K. Policenauts Resource. You will learn most of the plot in these two websites .. and eventually look at Konami's Official Policenauts Website. I first played the Saturn version and was blown away by the experience. Many fans talk about this game as an 'experience'. I think it is, really. It was the first time that I paused the game to listen the music for ages. Policenauts musics were composed by Tappy (jazz musician), Ika-Chan and Motoaki Furukawa. On Tappy's website you will learn (if you look closely) that Karen theme is more than inspired by a NHK drama .. Ika-Chan composed Snatcher themes and is apparently still working for Konami. I consider the Saturn and PSX versions visually identical except for the bonuses and since the PSX version is quite well emulated, I used it as a base for comparisons. Unfortunately, I do not own the 3DO version, and I never seen it running so I can't talk about it. The PC-9821 version is in 16 colors and the screen resolution is 640x400 and is my favourite, the other versions have true color graphics and a screen resolution of 320x240. Kodak esp office 2150 printer driver for mac os 10 12. The anime made by AIC and the cheap CG scenes were not present in the PC-9821 version, all graphics are pixel drawn. |
| Back in 1994, PC-98 games were mostly released on floppies and played chiptune music. Policenauts has been released on a CD and uses it mainly for PCM voices (350 Mb), game data (14 Mb), and CD tracks (5 of them - 181 Mb). This huge work on sound makes Policenauts a gem among PC-98 games and it's deep and intense athmosphere is unequalled except maybe by the Psychic Detective Series. The introduction explains the plot and the player finds himself in Jonathan's office. Some details like the empty beer cans, the Marlboro cigarette pack and the sticker on the answerphone have been added to the most recent versions, there are description for these if you click on them, but no spoken speech. The on-line database (an in-game system allowing the player to access specific definitions and explanations of terms in the game) found on PSX is missing in the PC-9821 version. Not a big loss for me ;). |
This CG is puzzling me because usually, in Ideo Kojima's game intros there are references to his other works. I still remember my surprise when I heard the 'doop-doop doop-doop-doop' in Metal Gear Solid intro. Here, I can see the words 'sports', 'billiard', 'MOC', 'liqueur', and a word that looks like 'Lucey'. Even this weird 'Eyes Eyes Soloscot' sign doesn't ring any bell .. Anyway I was quite surprised by the fact that there is snow on the road but not so much on the pavement (usually it's the contrary), I understood later that this allows Jonathan to notice the footsteps in the snow. Lorraine H么j么 is about to get out of the old fashioned car, to enter Jonathan's Office. Here are a few shots of his 'agency' taken from the intro sequence :12345. Jonathan's Office is a mess just like his life at this point. This page shows the PC-9821 and PSX titles. Lorrainealso looks a bit older in the PC-9821 version. Not much to say about their meeting, Lorraine is leading Jonathan on a case after the death of her husband. While leaving, Lorraine is badly injured by the explosion of her car, in front of Jonathan's eyes. |
Very instructive CG (the 2 screens of the shooting scene have been merged). First, check out the 'Circo Porto' advertising sign : As this page and this page mentions, Konami has a chain of arcade accross Japan. The CG seems to indicate that Tokugawa Corp. now owns the chain. Other Konami games like Parodius contain 'Circo Porto' references. Second, there is a porno theatre in front of Jonathan's. We can read 'open tensai adues (adults) only'. I found references to 'Debbie does em all' which is a porno flick, but nothing about 'Who will be first' and 'Star Angel'. Third, two brands are mentionned on top of the shops : Piemonte Ravioli which is a genuine shop in New York, and Alleva is also one of the oldest Italian stores in NY. Make sure you look at the 'Contact Us' section of their web site and compare it to the above CG, for me it's a proof that the artists took New York as a base to design Old L.A. |
In the next scenes, Jonathan will fight the criminal in a back-street, before he escapes with a bike. Back to the crime scene, Jonathan will see Lorraine die in his arms. He has now to leave for space, facing his cosmophobia, to start investigating. |
Misc notes :
- O'Neill cylinder painting versus Beyond Coast. Here is an interesting Wikipedia article about the subject.
Pc 9821 Policenauts
- Nasa Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC (1 - 2 - 3 - 4) versus Byond Coast AMM (Astronauts Memorial Museum).
Policenauts Pc98 Rom
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I hope this is the right place to post this. I just want to help some fellow Retropie PC98 fans as these tips can't be found in the official Retropie Docs.
I've experimented a bit with the lr-np2kai core and got a lot of games to work. Probably the most difficult to get running was Policenauts, as it uses the HDD for installed files, a bootdisk and a CD for the audio. But I'll come back to this later.
Policenauts Pc98 English
First of all - as in many lr cores - you can set up m3u files with a list of all disks of one game and an easy change of these disks through disk control. One thing np2kai handles differenty with m3u is that the first two disks are inserted into fd1 and fd2 automatically!
This is especially helpful with games that use disks for saving (user disks). So you put in the boot disk in the first m3u slot and the user disk in the second and you are good to go! Nice!
Also, whenever the disks need to be changed, only the one in fd2 is changed.
The only thing missing on the Retropie side is, that you have to manually edit the es_emulators.cfg and add the m3u/M3U extension to the list of accepted extensions for pc98.
(I did another step and put all multidisk games into a subfolder and excluded subfolders from scraping.)
Here is an example: In the roms/pc98 folder I have the file game.m3u with the following content:
In the folder roms/pc98/.multidisk I keep all the mutidisk images. This way I can keep my es gameslist clean :)
But this approach doesn't work with CD images and HDD images. Here, a cmd file comes into play: You can use that to boot games with mixed image types (and even m3u files)!
Here is another example for Policenauts: In the roms/pc98 folder I have Policenauts.cmd with the following content:
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In the folder roms/pc98/.multidisk I keep all the above mentioned images. The type of image to mount (CD, FD, HD, m3u) is automatically selected by the extension of the image. I read somewhere, that you need to use absolute paths, but maybe relative paths work, too. I don't know.
disclaimer
None of this was discovered by me. All the infos for doing it this way I found by googeling and browsing the libretro forums. I just hope I could help someone with that.
Please report any issues on Discord.
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Developer: Konami This game has unused music. |
Hideo Kojima's second adventure game following Snatcher, Policenauts is essentially the adventures of anime Murtaugh and Riggs in space.
The graphics in the original PC-9801 version were made with conventional pixel art instead of the scanned animation cels used in the later console version, resulting in a style that more closely resembles the 16-bit console versions of Snatcher released around the same time.
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Unused Music
Policenauts Pc98 Rom
The PC-9821 release of Policenauts contains an unused full-length version of the opening title track 'Old L.A. 2040'. In the actual game, 'Old L.A. 2040' is shortened and split into CDDA tracks 3 and 4 which are used for the opening cutscene instead.
| To do: Address the dialogue changes. Quite a bit of dialogue was reworked in the home console versions. |