Tutorial: Fujitsu FM Towns Marty with Lr-Mess

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly Thank you. I will follow the instructions to update and respond back with questions/results. I appreciate it!

duglor

@Folly I have it working fine now. Whew! :D

Only trouble is that it is slow. Do you have any suggestions to speed it up? Thanks Folly!

Folly

Great job !
What method did you use to get it working ?
I would like to know and it might be interesting for others too.

Do you use a pi4 ?
Check with F11 how fast it's going in percentage.
With F9 you can alter frameskipping to speed it up a bit.

duglor

@Folly It was very complicated and had lots of random placements and trials. I will soon explain where i have the files and what files, etc. I probably have 3 versions of bios(es) in there and probably half are not needed, but i don't know which ones. lol. The entire set up was very strange with dummy zips and chd files in subfolders and odd bios(es) and an xml file in a strange location. Stay tuned in some days for a very odd writeup on where i placed everything and what i did to make this work.

Retro Arcade Fan

@duglor I look forward to that write up Duglor.

duglor

@DTEAM Is this still the best way to install the fm towns variations at this time? May of 2023? if not, can you point me to a more recent rules version on how to do this?

Folly

@duglor said in Tutorial: Fujitsu FM Towns Marty with Lr-Mess:

Is this still the best way to install the fm towns variations at this time? May of 2023?

What is this way, where are you referring to ?
Which variations ?
The best way, what do you want to accomplish what you can't do right now ?
What do you mean by rules ?

duglor

@Folly said in Tutorial: Fujitsu FM Towns Marty with Lr-Mess:

Is this still the best way to install the fm towns variations at this time? May of 2023?

What is this way, where are you referring to ?

The original instuctions in the very post post.

Which variations ?

fm towns - various RAM - autoframeskip
etc

The best way, what do you want to accomplish what you can't do right now ?

a new simpler one shot installation like one of the main packages

What do you mean by rules on how to do this?

instructions on how to do this

Folly

@duglor

Best way is to use my project and learn how to use it properly.

I made an exception for you.
I generated a module-script with my add-systems-mamedev.sh front-end module-script and reduced the generated script.
So it will install only direct lr-mess runcommands for fmtowns with cdrom and 6Mb memory.
You can find it here (it will automatically be "burned/removed" after a week) :
https://pastebin.com/U4u00Vb2

Place it in ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores and install it from the experimental packages.

duglor

@Folly Heh. Yes. I'm guilty of being old. I was way better with all this just 7 years ago. Anyway thank you so much once more for your help!!! I'll be using this right away!