Conversion hardware: Fujitsu FM Towns

[DamienD]

Hey guys,

Hopefully this is the correct place to post these?

All these games have Conversion hardware: Fujitsu FM Towns:

... 4D Sports Boxing
... 4D Sports Driving
... Afterburner
... Aterburner II
... Awesome
... Battle Chess
... Bubble Bobble
... Chase H.Q.
... Chaos Strikes Back
... Dungeon Master
... Dungeon Master II: The Legend Of Skullkeep
... Final Blow
... Flashback
... Flying Shark
... Galaxy Force II
... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - The Graphic Adventure
... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Graphic Adventure
... Legend of Kyrandia, The
... Legends Of Valour: Volume 1 - The Dawning
... Lemmings 2: The Tribes
... Loom
... Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
... New Zealand Story, The
... Operation Wolf
... Populous
... Powermonger
... Puzznic
... Raiden
... Rainbow Islands
... Rocket Ranger
... Secret of Monkey Island, The
... Shadow of the Beast
... Shadow of the Beast II
... Sim City
... Sim City 2000
... Sim Earth
... Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
... Turbo Out Run
... Ultima III: Exodus
... Ultima VI: The False Prophet
... Ultima V: Warriors Of Destiny
... Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

There's more but that will do for now

[DamienD]

While I know Codetapper's online. He, he, he...

*BUMP*

... has this info been added or is it not really important?

[Belgarath]

Sometimes games have the same name but differ quite substantially in game design, then these aren't really considered conversions as such..

If you could tell us where you got the info from so one of the hol team could take a look ourselves that would be great.

[DamienD]

I have virtually all of these for FM Towns (expect for 3 or 4)

I can take screenshots if you guys want?

[Belgarath]

some conversion shots would be great! hol DBS style please, i.e. one pic of the title screen and an ingame shot side by side.

[DamienD]

Ok, sure

It may take me a while to do though... FM Towns games are pretty big (usually between 200 - 500MB compressed) and the .ISO images I have are spread across about 6 DVDs + 2 external HDDs...

[DamienD]

Phew, after about 3 hours of searching through different media / extract / mounting / loading .ISO files using UNZ (FM Towns emulator) I've finally taken screenshots of the following FM Towns games (32 in all):

... 4D Sports Boxing
... Afterburner
... Awesome
... Battle Chess
... Bubble Bobble
... Chase H.Q.
... Chaos Strikes Back
... Dungeon Master
... Dungeon Master II: The Legend Of Skullkeep
... Final Blow
... Flashback
... Flying Shark
... Galaxy Force II
... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - The Graphic Adventure
... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Graphic Adventure
... Legend of Kyrandia, The
... Legends Of Valour: Volume 1 - The Dawning
... Loom
... Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
... New Zealand Story, The
... Operation Wolf
... Raiden
... Rocket Ranger
... Secret of Monkey Island, The
... Shadow of the Beast
... Sim City
... Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
... Turbo Out Run
... Ultima III: Exodus
... Ultima V: Warriors Of Destiny
... Ultima VI: The False Prophet
... Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

Things to note:
* Some games can played in low resolution with scanlines enabled however I took all screenshots without scanlines for consistency.
* The screenshots get created as .bmp files but I converted them to .gif files to reduce file size.
* I was unable to actually start Ultima III: Exodus + Ultima VI: The False Prophet (due to incorrect User Disks) so there is no in-game screenshot for these.

Finally, as this took me so long to do, I didn't bother creating double-barrel screenshots. The title and in-game screenshots are separate files...

Hope these are ok

<< Note: file removed as they are all in HOL now >>

[Belgarath]

Ta Damien, I'll take a look at these tomorrow. As for your your attachment limit, just go to your User CP, click attachments (near the bottom) and delete your attachments that no longer need to be there.

[DamienD]

Cheers Belgarath, just did that

Let's try again shall we...

<< Note: file removed as they are all in HOL now >>

[Belgarath]

Ok I've updated all the relevant entries and attached all the conversion DBS's

Thanks again Damien.

[DamienD]

No problem Belgarath, good to be able to contribute somehow to HOL (even though it's not strictly Amiga)

Thanks for taking the time to go through all my individual files plus creating all those DBS's

If I get any more AMIGA / Fujitsu FM Towns games then I'll post more screenshots my friend...

[Belgarath]

That would be excellent, oh and you are now on the contributor list (click the team link on HOL).

[DamienD]

Really, that's cool

Didn't even realise that there was a list of contributors

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Really, that's cool

Didn't even realise that there was a list of contributors

lucasart's games seems really pretty ( better that on pc version...)

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by CFOU!

lucasart's games seems really pretty ( better that on pc version...)

loom seems wonderfull, this versions are supported by scummVM?

[Belgarath]

Yeh the FM Towns versions work fine with ScummVM.
There is a PC VGA version of Loom as well though.

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by Belgarath

Yeh the FM Towns versions work fine with ScummVM.
There is a PC VGA version of Loom as well though.

I notice on french page http://www.aitpast.com/games/loom/loom.htm

all lucas games on FM TOWNS was in french too??????? i though only english & japonese version was released...

where can be dowloaded them?
loom/Indy3/zac/Monkey etc for FM TOWNS?

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Belgarath

Yeh the FM Towns versions work fine with ScummVM.
There is a PC VGA version of Loom as well though.

As Balgarath said the PC VGA versions have the same graphics as the FM Towns versions...

... but "most" FM Towns games have full synthesized music / sound effects, something that the PC versions definitely lack. This is why the .ISO files are so large i.e. 300MB+.

Also, this is what makes them so special... Especially when you think about when they were released and compare them to any other console on the market

For example if you can find it, to purchase The Secret of Monkey Island (FM Towns) is about 33,000 yen i.e £157...

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by CFOU!

I notice on french page http://www.aitpast.com/games/loom/loom.htm

all lucas games on FM TOWNS was in french too??????? i though only english & japonese version was released...

where can be dowloaded them?
loom/Indy3/zac/Monkey etc for FM TOWNS?

Ooops, I somehow missed your questions before CFOU!...

You are correct, they are only Japanese / English. But you can get patches for French, German, and maybe even Italian

Retro-Nerd; I know that you've applied German patches before, can you help CFOU! out?

As for downloads, you should be able to find some on eMule although they take an age to get. Also, you will only find the ripped version of The Secret of Monkey Island there. To get a "full" image of this is very, very rare. Trust me...

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Ooops, I somehow missed your questions before CFOU!...

You are correct, they are only Japanese / English. But you can get patches for French, German, and maybe even Italian

Retro-Nerd; I know that you've applied German patches before, can you help CFOU! out?

Hey CFOU!,

the french FM-Towns translations for the Lucas Arts games are here:

http://www.atp-fr.com/

But you need to change some entries in the ScummVM.ini (C:\Windows) because ScummVM only checks the crc's of the untranslated games. Check the forum link below for the details.

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=239