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The vast majority of | The vast majority of visual novels (the Japanese equivalent of graphic adventure games) made for [[DOS-based, Windows 1.0x/2x/3x series|Windows 3.1]] and [[Windows 95/98/ME emulators|Windows 9x]] operating systems are unplayable and unavailable to the public. The only real way of playing any of them (at the time of writing) is setting up [[Wine]], a [[Hypervisor|virtual machine]], or a [[Main Page#Personal_computers_(…)|PC Emulator]], restricting access to these who can play them and significantly reducing the chance they will get re-release, let alone get a translation. | ||
Visual novel preservation has been severely limited to mostly just making backups without an easy way of playing them, there are two main causes of this problem: | |||
* A | * A lack of interest from both game publishers and those capable of developing an engine recreation. | ||
* The understandable but frustrating rules and policies of projects like [[ScummVM]], | * The understandable but frustrating rules and policies of projects like [[ScummVM]], where anything that has NSFW content will be left behind by these projects. | ||
While many visual novels engines need recreations, this is unlikely to happen do to the current interest level and the content that a large majority of these games contain. | While many visual novels engines need recreations, this is unlikely to happen do to the current interest level and the content that a large majority of these games contain. | ||
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===Macromedia Director=== | ===Macromedia Director=== | ||
While ScummVM has support for Macromedia Director, there is no official support for almost all of the VN's made with Director and there likely never will be, even when the versions of Director they run on are supported. there are roughly less | While ScummVM has support for Macromedia Director, there is no official support for almost all of the VN's made with Director and there likely never will be, even when the versions of Director they run on are supported. there are roughly less than 15 VN's that fit their rules and policies. If you want an unfiltered look at visual novels currently work in ScummVM, you can go to the [https://director.miraheze.org Director Database] for that info. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Game_engines#Visual_Novels_.5C_Adventure_Games_.282D_.5C_FMV.29|Visual | * [[Game_engines#Visual_Novels_.5C_Adventure_Games_.282D_.5C_FMV.29|Visual novel engines]] | ||
* [[Literature]] | * [[Literature]] | ||
*[[Preservation projects]] | * [[Preservation projects]] | ||
[[Category:Preservation]] | [[Category:Preservation]] | ||
[[Category:Game engine recreations]] | [[Category:Game engine recreations]] | ||
Revision as of 23:31, 18 September 2025
The vast majority of visual novels (the Japanese equivalent of graphic adventure games) made for Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x operating systems are unplayable and unavailable to the public. The only real way of playing any of them (at the time of writing) is setting up Wine, a virtual machine, or a PC Emulator, restricting access to these who can play them and significantly reducing the chance they will get re-release, let alone get a translation.
Visual novel preservation has been severely limited to mostly just making backups without an easy way of playing them, there are two main causes of this problem:
- A lack of interest from both game publishers and those capable of developing an engine recreation.
- The understandable but frustrating rules and policies of projects like ScummVM, where anything that has NSFW content will be left behind by these projects.
While many visual novels engines need recreations, this is unlikely to happen do to the current interest level and the content that a large majority of these games contain.
Active projects
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- Impacto & Xsystem35 are two of the known recreation projects and need to be described,
- Are there any other recreation projects that need to be added?
Macromedia Director
While ScummVM has support for Macromedia Director, there is no official support for almost all of the VN's made with Director and there likely never will be, even when the versions of Director they run on are supported. there are roughly less than 15 VN's that fit their rules and policies. If you want an unfiltered look at visual novels currently work in ScummVM, you can go to the Director Database for that info.