Usajong gaiden ore ga kirifuda! (Game Soundtrack Rip)

I recently played through COMPILE’s うさ雀外伝 俺が切り札！ “Usajong gaiden ore ga kirifuda!” (a ninja-themed Hanafuda Koi-Koi game for PC-98 featured on Disc Station Vol. 10) and took the liberty of recording its great soundtrack as I went along.

Soundtrack download

archive.org/details/usa-suzume-gaiden-ore-ga-kirifuda-pc-98-unofficial-soundtrack

Track listing:

1. Logo (SFX) 00:02
2. Intro 03:00
3. Start (SFX) 00:06
4. World Ninja Atlas 03:06
5. Deal (SFX) 00:10
6. Normal Round 03:07
7. Final Round 03:05
8. Chime (SFX) 00:02
9. Scores (SFX) 00:06
10. Lose (SFX) 00:05
11. Win (SFX) 00:03
12. Ending 01:51

How to play the game

I’m going to recommend using RetroArch to play this:

1. download RetroArch
2. download a zip of the game
3. download PC-98 System files
4. start RetroArch
5. system files will need to go into RetroArch System folder, check Settings > Directory > System/BIOS and move them there
6. download PC-98 core: Main Menu > Online Updater > Core Downloader > NEC PC-98 (Neko project II Kai)
7. start the game: Main Menu > Load Content > (choose game zip) > Load > NEC PC-98

You can play the game using mouse, though I used the right analog stick and a single button of a game controller…have fun!

Notes

Some interesting things about this game:

• a draw results in the round being replayed
• koi-koi increases your “level-up” which counts along a sword, pretty cool visualisation
• your score doesn’t double if you finish a round after the opponent calls koi-koi
• I can’t see any way to check the current score, so i memorise it as i go
• if you lose to an opponent you can simply try again by choosing them from the map screen
• it has a cool soundtrack!