filler wrote:
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KingMike wrote:
Marty though? That's quite an obscure console. I think it may even be the most expensive console ever released, isn't it? (people talk about the 3DO, NeoGeo and PS3 having pricey launches but LaserActive and Marty I think were far more expensive and more obscure.)
Sadly, it's a point of shame in my game collection. I got it in maybe 2002 or so? Back when you could still find PC98 games and such in Akihabara. I grabbed it for $200-250 maybe? I don't quite remember. No idea what they went for originally. I just thought it was cool that I could try playing PC games, without
too much hassle. I got one game to work on it, then the floppy drive belt broke and it's sat in a box ever since.
I got a replacement for the belt a few years ago, but haven't installed it.
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Just today I bumped into a curious tidbit of information regarding the FM Towns emulation... on the latest
MAME version 0.193 while I was
checking on the
usual emulation update suspects! Also days ago I saw some video(s) online of the enhanced edition of the first
San Francisco Rush racing game (
The Rock - Alcatraz Edition) on Arcade from Midway running properly for the first time on this latest version. Which is really sweet!
News post from the Mamedev team:
Quote:
If you’re at all interested in the FM Towns, you need to give this release a try, as r09 has made numerous improvements to sprites and scrolling, and greatly improved keyboard behaviour.
From inside the whatsnew.txt file:
So you may well want to give that bulky emulation software a go and test some FM-Towns/Marty games on it. See how you go about debugging stuff inside the software if such functionality is available.
Oh, looks like the MAME Dev group has been building in and improving emulation support for the FM Towns machine fast as of
late 2017, through
v0.191 &
0.192.