PC-9801-style Rin vs Flandre by SilSinn9821 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

【東方紅魔郷～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil（PC-9801風）】 冴月麟vsフランドール・スカーレット

[Tōhō Kōmakyō ⁓ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (PC-9801 style)] Rin Satsuki vs Flandre Scarlet

What if this game were made not just for modern Windows-based IBM-compatible PCs, but for a long-forgotten (well, not exactly long-forgotten to a sizeable gaming community) computing platform: the NEC PC-9801 family of computers? And what if a certain playable character ever made it to the final version of the game rather than being cut from it altogether?

This was a collaborative effort between me, two Deviants, one Pixiver, and two YouTubers (all of us also Discord users):
saburo_yam (ミツオ, for his cute renders of Flandre Scarlet)
ABoringGuy64 (for his portraits of Rin Satsuki, three of which were originally designed for one of his unpublished danmakufu scripts)
Tom (for his field sprite of Rin Satsuki, which I believe was originally meant for a secret PC-98 fangame he is developing; and for his custom extended gaiji font incorporating English HUD labels, presumably also meant for his own pet-project fangame)
Zo-me (for designing the colorful tiles used to build this beautiful background)
VasteelXolotl (for the dialogue script used here, which was translated from a headcanon script by AndyPyro)

Although I would have loved to realize this as an actual screenshot from a modified Mystic Square game engine (using Tom’s Mystic Square Toolkit (MSTK)), I had no time to do it, so I assembled all assets above into a GIMP 2.10 mockup (still adhering to the strict PC-98 color and tile-count restrictions), thus qualifying this as a genuine, plausible, hardware-correct “fakeshot” unlike my prior screenshots which were actual screenshots from modded gameplay. This “screenshot” has been used on my own legit PC-9801 chiptune music cover of Flandre’s boss theme U.N. Owen Was Her?_._On Pixiv: pixiv.net/i/78439863

EDIT (2020/10/5): fixed the color of diagonally-hatched dialog-box background fields.