FM Towns Marty Shooters

[Brian]

If this has been asked, I apologize. I searched for Marty and found nothing on the boards.

I just bought an FM Towns Marty system from Big and I am wondering what shooters I should try to obtain. I know Raiden exists, but what else is out there? I found one called Awesome on Google, but I cannot find any info on it. Any help would be great.

[Kiken]

If this has been asked, I apologize. I searched for Marty and found nothing on the boards.

I just bought an FM Towns Marty system from Big and I am wondering what shooters I should try to obtain. I know Raiden exists, but what else is out there? I found one called Awesome on Google, but I cannot find any info on it. Any help would be great.

Viewpoint got a fairly faithful conversion on the Marty from what I understand.

And there was a topic on this.. but it was on the prior version of the board.. so it's most likely gone for good... unless Malc or someone is willing to dig through the back-up file...

[iatneH]

Tatsujin 2 is on the Marty also.

[GaijinPunch]

and I am wondering what shooters I should try to obtain. I know Raiden exists, but what else is out there?

Check out this link.

Excellent 10 is a bunch of home-made shmups made by every-day normal hiroshis with Shooting Towns software. Tatsujin-Ou, is Tatsujin II, and pretty much a must. Rayxanber also only exists on FM-Towns, and will be pretty hard to find. I saw it on Ebay about a year ago. Finished somewhere around $80.

Splatterhouse, while obviously not anywhere near a shmup, is pretty much the holy grail for the system, and is also (unfortunatley) very pricey.

[Brian]

Thanks for that link, good stuff.

[dczx]

I always wanted to see some screenshots of Rayxanber but never found any

[Jeffrey]

Bump. Any other information?

[Ed Oscuro]

Link doesn't work for me, GaijinPunch.

Anyway, I opined about a few Towns shooters recently on the boards.

Viewpoint seems to work well on the system, and if there's any screen cut off when playing on a television I didn't notice it. Unfortunately, the style of the game isn't really conductive to manic shooting fun. Polarizing game. Excellent conversion however, with arcade accurate sound.

Flying Shark/Hishou Zame is off. There are a multitude of display options, none of which work very well (even the tall-screen mode - not actual tate, though - seems to have less screen space than the original; some of the other modes flicker terribly on a TV set) The music was MIDI-fied and sounds very lame. There is an autofire option, which is hard to adjust to due to the low on-screen shot limit. It probably works well if you fire as normal at most enemies and use the autofire to take on enemies at close range.

I haven't even seen Tatsujin, and Twin Cobra I have seen via Youtube only. I would like to buy both, but not for $330 like the seller on eBay wants (for TC alone). Only if the music is good, however.

Finally - not a "shmup" but Galaxy Force II is a horrible conversion with interesting music. I will be (re-) ripping it shortly as I recieved a request for that.

It probably makes a difference if you are playing on a Towns computer, or via a Marty. There's got to be a reason why all those display modes are there.

[incognoscente]

Ed: the link points to GP's old site. Try here.

[gameoverDude]

GFII's framerate on the Marty might be terrible, but the Saturn one is probably not that much better. I think it even goes below 30. Though I hadn't played the arcade version prior to that, I had a feeling the Saturn one was not as smooth as it should be. Playing it in MAME confirmed that.

After Burner III on Marty has better plane sprites and game speed than the sluggish Sega CD one, but it has no terrain detail.

[rolins]

I just bought an FM Towns Marty system from Big and I am wondering what shooters I should try to obtain. I know Raiden exists, but what else is out there? I found one called Awesome on Google, but I cannot find any info on it. Any help would be great.

Awesome is multi-genre shooting game by Psygnosis. I played a bit of it on the FM-Towns, it's rather cool game borrowing gameplay styles from asteroids, Bosconian, Gyruss, and a dash of Alien Syndrome (well sort of).

http://hol.abime.net/3352
http://hol.abime.net/3352/screenshot


Beside the one's mentioned already there's also...

Image Fight - Great conversion and quite cheap on ebay.
Mahou Daisakusen - Requires FM-Towns computer only. Too bad really b/c it's one the best shooting games after Tatsujin 2 and Kyukyoku Tiger. If anyone finds a way to run this on a Marty 1/2 please let me know.
KU²++ - Haven't played this yet, but I know you can find this on the Sharp X68000 and NEC PC-98. It's a compilation of two shooting games.

Oh yeah, if you see these names "Shooting Towns" or "Super Shooting Towns" on ebay, don't bother buying them if you think they're games. They're just a tools that allows you to create your own shmups.

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[Ed Oscuro]

Ed: the link points to GP's old site. Try here.

I know, kinda confused why he's using it now though :P Hasn't seemed to work for a while.

IRT Mahou Daisakusen: I bet if you could find an external floppy drive (I'm pretty sure I saw one recently) that you could play this game - well, I'm assuming it needs a floppy drive, and that there isn't something else causing incompatibility.

For Image Fight, I'm wondering how the x68000 version stacks up to it (or vice versa). I've already bought the game once, and the $60 or so eBay wants is money that would thus NOT be available for use to buy something else.

[uroko-sakanabito]

Late, but better than never;

Mahou does not / not run on a Marty because it needs a floppy drive
It does not run because it needs 3 MB of Ram.

And it does not run very fast on every Towns PC with the first CPU´s
Here is a vid of it running on my UX without HD install
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvVVy4jn2mc
After HD install it runs much faster but still not "fast"

I think it is only perfect playable on a 486 Towns System

PS; There is no RAM upgrade for Marty´s !

[DC906270]

there is a good fm towns emu

[Gespenst]

And is the first Alltynex is also FM Towns too?

[spadgy]

How was that Raiden port on the FM Towns? I know it's a pricy one, but as a series fanboy I'm really tempted...

[tsuruki]

Do somebody know how much I cost? How long did gamer basicly play it before It was out of order.

[uroko-sakanabito]

How was that Raiden port on the FM Towns? I know it's a pricy one, but as a series fanboy I'm really tempted...

I like it very much;
Here is a vid running it on my UX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsFfJH0QliM

WARNING; it does not look so good on a Marty / TV combo !!!
Imo it looks horrible on a Marty System !.

The perfect way to play FM Towns games is over a japanese RGB to VGA Adapter;



http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1580/dsci0103.jpg

Mod edit - NSFW picture changed to link

[gigadrive32]

Tatsujin II / Truxton II on FM Towns Marty is the only home version of that game released, AFAIK.
From what I remember reading it's missing one layer of parallax, and is otherwise a pretty close conversion.


Galaxy Force II has much more detail than the Megadrive-Genesis version, but not as much as the arcade, and runs at about 20fps. Vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ed8_4xLbfI
The Saturn version has seemingly all of the graphic detail, scaling & rotation of the arcade, but only runs at 20 to 30 fps. The arcade version was 60fps. The only truly arcade-quality port was the PS2 version, it's 60fps and includes enhanced graphic modes with filtering or something, although it's not a remake, it is the original sprite-based arcade game.

Raiden on FM Towns seems really nice, better than the Jaguar version, and probably the best you can get short of the Raiden Project on PS1.

It's neat to know that Rayxanber started on FM Towns, there's vids here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klB9hqfeneM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVPWJXx7_IA