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Snatcher

SEGA Saturn - 1996
Also available on: MSX - PC-88 - SEGA CD - TurboGrafx CD

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yarpen26 20 Jan. 2024

@POCODOCO Thanks for nudging me in the right direction, although I still had to do my own digging to find out how exactly you can load multiple drives at the same time in RetroArch... Anyway, this is relatively straightforward. The step-by-step guideline to version PC-88:

1) Download RetroArch from the official website RetroArch.com and NOT the Steam version. Just trust me.

2) Download Snatcher_PC-88_EN from MyAbandonware, unzip all of the disk files and then enter the following directories:
- Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 1 of 5)(Program Disk)
- Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 2 of 5)(Data Disk 1)
- Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 3 of 5)(Data Disk 2)
- Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 4 of 5)(Data Disk 3)
- Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 5 of 5)(Data Disk 4)

3) Cut or copy the .d88 files that you'll find inside them and paste all of them into a single folder so they are next to one another.

4) While inside that folder, create a new .txt file and type inside the text between the two lines below:
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Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 1 of 5)(Program Disk).d88
Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 2 of 5)(Data Disk 1).d88
Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 3 of 5)(Data Disk 2).d88
Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 4 of 5)(Data Disk 3).d88
Snatcher (1988)(Konami)(Disk 5 of 5)(Data Disk 4).d88
-----------------------------------------------

5) Right-click on the .txt file, change its name to whatever you want, just as long as the .txt extension turns into .m3u. You have just created a playlist of all the five disks.

6) Open RetroArch, then Load Core/Download a Core, find and select "NEC - PC-8000 / PC-8800 series (QUASI88)".

7) Return to the Main Menu, enter Load Content, then use whatever option is most convenient to navigate to the .m3u playlist file you have just created.

8) If a white screen and then the Konami logo appears, you should be all set. The music kicks in at the Team Metalslave logo, I didn't have any problems with it.

9) Give up on the game five minutes afterwards since you can't speak Japanese like the rest of us. :( My familiarity with Chinese characters only managed to get me through the name selection process, but I have no idea what to do while I'm in the car. Not that would be much use anyway, I won't understand the plot. I don't really know what I was expecting, I mean, I knew this was a Japanese-only release aside from the Sega CD version. Yet in my naivete I still thought that maybe there was some editable text file for subs which I could quickly push through Google Translate... yeah, no such luck.

Oh well. Maybe I'll give the Sega CD emulator a try.

4
Helinux 04 Jun. 2022

clássico!!!!Thank´s!!!!

1
PocoDoco 27 Jun. 2021
Top comment

EDIT ON PREVIOUS COMMENT:
Of course I got the game working just a minute after my last comment. Two VERY important notes on the PC-88 version:
1) To get it running, discs 1 AND 2 need to be loaded into both drives. (Disc 1 in Drive 1, Disc 2 in Drive 2). It gave me a black screen until I did this. I got it running on M88 with recommended settings found in the application's folder. I used the files without the "alternative" file names (NOT [a] or [a2]). Load the discs and reset, and give it a moment. But perhaps more importantly:

2) This version is in JAPANESE. The English flag next to the download icon is incorrect, and if you don't read Japanese you won't be able to play. Please note this before trying to play.

I'm off to play the English SEGA CD version.

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PocoDoco 27 Jun. 2021

Couldn't get the PC-88 version to run -- tried all given emulators, which I tested on other games successfully, and only got a black screen when the game was loaded. Changing to recommended settings and trying the alt versions provided did not work. I'm definitely out of my depth to some degree but I see other commenters couldn't get the PC-88 version working either. If someone gets it working let us know!

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Brujo88 14 Jun. 2021

I'm having trouble running the PC-88 version... I downloaded RetroArch, downloaded the Quasi88 core for the PC-8800 versions, buuuuut... when I extracted the .zip file with the game, it came out to be 5 different discs, and each one comes in 3 sepparated .zip files. It doesn't matter what disc I load in the RetroArch, nothing happens. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Plz help! I'm a huge CyberPunk fan, and I just recently discovered this title and I wanna try it (plus, I love old games, from my childhood ages, it's very nostalgic for me). TKS!

2
WhyleKat 31 Dec. 2020

Does this have English translations?

4
Naniyue 22 Aug. 2020
Top comment

The Sega CD version is the best out of all of them. Ignore all others, except maybe the PCE SCD one, though it's still not as good. This, along with System Shock 2, is one of the very few games to have ever genuinely scared me.

7
SF8083 09 Aug. 2019

The Sega CD version has bin files what do I do with it?
What should I do after I installed retroarch and the cores?

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D0S81 27 Feb. 2019
Top comment

PC-88 is a computer from the 80's just like say, the MSX, and the best way to play this for those not tech savvy or who cant be harrassed fiddling with emulaors, is probably to get 'retroarch' which is free btw, once you have that on your commy, go to online update, and then update cores, which brings up a list of emulator cores, basically emulators for a lot of stuff from ZX spectrum, to gameboy to 3DS to playstation N64 etc, and yes, PC-88, once you click that core (and any other you might wanna try) and you have this game downloaded, go to load content in retroarch, search for the folder you put the game in, click it and it will ask which core you wanna use, pick PC-88 and it should work. now i havent actually tried this myself, but its how i've run pretty much everything ive wanted to emulate on retroarch from snes games, to playstation games, i just do what i described there, and away it goes. its so bloody easy, a monkey from ape escape could probably.....make a mess of it...but anyone else can use it easy. even if you download the sega cd version, retroarch has a sega cd core too.

9
Ignoramus 11 Sep. 2016

What is PC-88 and how i run this game?

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Downloads

SEGA Saturn version
Game file
Japan Japanese
469 MB
MSX version
Disk 1 of 3

DSK format

United Kingdom English
468 KB
Disk 2 of 3

DSK format

Japan Japanese
427 KB
Disk 3 of 3

DSK format

Japan Japanese
437 KB
Disk 1 of 3

DSK format

Japan Japanese
467 KB
Disk 2 of 3

DSK format

Japan Japanese
422 KB
Disk 3 of 3

DSK format

Japan Japanese
416 KB
Disk 1 of 3

DSK format

Japan Japanese
468 KB
Disk 1 of 3 Alt Version

DSK format

Japan Japanese
467 KB
Disk 2 of 3 Alt Version

DSK format

Japan Japanese
427 KB
Disk 1 of 3 Alt Version

DSK format

Japan Japanese
467 KB
Disk 1 of 3 Alt Version

DSK format

Japan Japanese
467 KB
PC-88 version
Game file
United Kingdom English
3 MB
SEGA CD version
ISO Version
United Kingdom English
489 MB
TurboGrafx CD version
ISO Version
Japan Japanese
508 MB
Pilot Disk
Japan Japanese
401 MB

Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
SEGA CD 7 MB English English

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