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Want To Play Japanese Import PC Games? Give Kira's Game Virtual Machine A Try!

Submitted by wwong on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 02:23.

 

Play Those Import Japanese PC Games On Your Desktop!

Over at http://www.faroutgames.com, there is virtual machine tutorial posting, covering how one can play their Japanese PC Games on their desktop/laptop, regardless of whether they are running Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux. This is done through virtualization software, like VMware's. Check out the currently being updated tutorial at http://www.faroutgames.com.

Kira's Game Virtual Machine: http://www.faroutgames.com/content/building-kira-game-virtual-machine

More and More Games No Longer Needing Japanese Windows!

If you've been interestsed in those import Japanese games, you will find that more and more of them are being ported/translated for English and more or less no longer need to be handled via a Japanese enabled version of Windows/Linux+Wine. However, for those who still want to, it will be worthwhile to build out your system to handle it!