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Has anyone ever played this?

>> No.10064482

>>10064480
I heard it's full of anime tiddies like the Sharp X68000 and the PC-98

>> No.10064493

FM Towns is underrated.
Don't know about Marty.

>> No.10064518
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10064518

Played the FM Towns version of Muscle Bomber because of the soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Ans80tfrU
https://youtu.be/sWFcRghQbAc

>> No.10064540

>>10064480
>launch price is 710 dollars
>for a system with a 16 Mhz i386 CPU
This makes Atari Jaguar and 3DO look like supercomputers. Why are obscure Japanese consoles so pathetic?

>> No.10064546

>>10064540
I mean, there's a reason why they're obscure

>> No.10064570

>>10064540
it still is technically more powerful than the neo geo so it could at least do top quality 2D graphics

>> No.10064576

>>10064540
The good thing about it is that it has no copy protection, so you can just burn cd's of the games and play them.

>> No.10064595

>>10064570
The neo geo is yet another pathetic obscure Japanese console. They could've saved a ton of money and sell it at a low cost by utilizing technology like data decompression method, RISC CPU, and atari/amiga style blitter graphics processor, but they decided to brute force everything with a shit ton of SRAM and fat fucking 90 megabyte carts.

>> No.10064601

>>10064595
The meds, auster

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>>10064595
Yes, yes, yes... Literally the only good machines ever built are the Speccy, the C64 and the Amiger. Everything else is bad and the NES is the worst console ever made and it didn't deserve to be popular

>> No.10064749
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Often considered "the first 32-bit console," though that label is pretty debatable considering it's just a consolized PC much like the Amiga CD-32.

FM Towns are pretty neat. Many of its best games are simply ports of DOS/Win3.11-era PC games with Japanese text but much like the PC-98 there's a fair few exclusives that were never ported or localized from my understanding.

Any good English fan translations or PC ports for games on FM Towns? I'd be down to try checking them out on my Win9X system.

>> No.10064753

>>10064742
>neo geo
>popular
Only the arcade cabinets were popular.

>> No.10064762

>>10064749
>Often considered "the first 32-bit console," though that label is pretty debatable considering it's just a consolized PC much like the Amiga CD-32.
Didn't the i386 have a 16 bit bus? Wouldn't that make the 68000 32-bit too?

>> No.10064771

>>10064762
Technically yeah, but it was explicitly marketed as a computer so no one counts it as the "first 32-bit console."

Bizarrely by some metric the Intellivision is also technically 16-bit, even though it's so weak even the NES can emulate its hardware.

>> No.10064780

>>10064493
it's just the consolized version

>> No.10064889

>>10064762
386 sx is 16 bit externally so has to use 2 16 bit writes to send a 32 bit word while the 386 DX is proper 32 bit.
68000 is not true 32 bit because it handles 32 operations using 2 x 16 bit calculations so you can program it like a 32 bit cpu but it performs like a 16 bit.

>>10064595
Isn't that what atari jaguar did

>> No.10064896

>>10064780
Most games didn't get ported.

>> No.10064906

>>10064889
FM Towns Marty uses 386SX.

>> No.10064984

>>10064480
>FM Towns Marty

Had never heard of it - but looking online, am quite surprised by how many of the Lucasarts point and clicks seem to have been ported onto it.

Also - all the Ultima Games up to 6, and as others have pointed out, a lot of Eroge.

>> No.10064997

I prefer the AM Cities Biff

>> No.10065036

>>10064984
They're all FM Towns computer ports. The console plays the same games.

>> No.10065154

has a lot of western PC games on it
some interesting arcade ports, overall less compelling than the x68k though

has the only home versions of truxton 2 and last survivor

>> No.10065202

I liked the remixed music from the SSF2 port

>> No.10065429

>>10064480
I want to play it but I could never figure out how to emulate it. Apparently there's some way to do it in MAME but I have no idea how

>> No.10065492

>>10064997
Underrated post.

>> No.10065496

>>10064595
Look at this onions kid
That's how things were done in the 90's

>> No.10065498

>>10064753
I guess we should define "popular", but Neo Geo was a desired console, it was just inaccessible.
All of my friends back in the 90s wanted a Neo Geo. Vidya magazines had Neo Geo ads, we knew about it.

>> No.10065714

>>10064997
Make like a tree and get the hell outta this thread

>> No.10065832

The Towns and Towns Marty are essentially like the PC Engine except more desktop than console AND more focussed on arcade ports than anime games.

>> No.10067162

>>10064749
>debatable considering it's just a consolized PC much like the Amiga CD-32.
Irrelevant from the consumer's point of view.
They are consoles.

>> No.10067167

>>10064480
If it was called something other than "Marty" it would have a lot more fans in the west. The name is just dorky.

>> No.10067173

>>10065498
This.
The Lamborghini Diablo was popular in the 90s, doesn't mean a lot of people had them.

>> No.10067212

>>10065832
>AND more focussed on arcade ports than anime games.

not really. FM towns has a shitload of western games on it. the arcade library is paltry compared to the x68k, let alone the pc engine

>> No.10067253

>>10064480
Yes