PC-98 Native Engine Scaffold

A Windows/Linux native runtime scaffold for PC-98 game titles. This is a game-by-game adapter framework with tooling pipelines for extracting, translating, and re-implementing gameplay for specific PC-98 titles.

See the mdbook wiki for full documentation. Build it locally with mdbook build wiki/ or mdbook serve wiki/.

Quick start

cargo build --locked
cargo run -- init <path> [game_id] [game_name]
cargo run -- scan <path>
cargo run -- show-adapters

What it provides

• PC-98-oriented core primitives (src/pc98_core.rs)
• Adapter discovery (src/adapters.rs)
• Concrete starter family profiles (pc98_fam_shining_series, pc98_fam_tensei_visual)
• Extraction tool registry (src/tools.rs)
• Native Rust PC-98 format tools for System-98/DIANA/MIME interpreters, fonts, saves, PANDA MAX, and smaller archives (format help)
• Translation bundle format (src/translation.rs)
• project.toml manifest parser/generator (src/manifest.rs)
• Asset-free, schema-validated toolchain profile bundles for Windows/Linux (plugins/ and scripts/package-toolchain-plugin.ps1)

Format coverage, fixture hashes, provenance, and current runtime boundaries are documented in the PC98VNResearch native coverage wiki page.

Release website

The distribution site lives in website/. It is a standalone Next.js app with a rights-gated download URL, published checksum, release scope, system requirements, and preservation notes.