New FM Towns Emulator

[Storm8873]

Hi all,

I stumbled across a fairly newish FM Towns emulator at http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/towns/Tsugaru/e.html that is still being developed.  While not as capable as UNZ, it is easier to use and comes with a GUI and a command line version.  Be interesting to see how well this integrates into Launchbox.  Anyone had else experimented with this?

[OdinsPlayground]

Thanks for this! I was able to implement it into Launchbox. I have had no luck with previous emulators (UNZ and MAME). This was very straight forward and easy to set up. Just make sure to download the ROM folder they link to on their page, as you need this to launch CD roms also (need to guide emulator to ROM folder in command prompt). The only problem I'm facing now is making it full screen, as I can't see a command working for it. I currently use the scaling feature + Borderless gaming (Windows App) to make it full screen. 

Default parameter to make it work with scaling. Replace FULLPATHTOYOURROMFOLDER with the path and keep quote-signs. 

"FULLPATHTOYOURROMFOLDER" -CD %romfile% -scale 180

The emulator overall seem to work quite good now. A few audio glitches. It's also nice to see it continues to have active development. 

[Lukeyboy67]

Does anyone know how to get LB to launch the games using this emu? It's just loads the emu GUI and not the game, TIA for any help

[Wally]

use the CUI.exe

Here is a screenshot of my setup. The emulator needs more work in order to be more compatible with Launchers (no exit key, no fullscreen param etc). I have set the CPU to 25. Maybe it needs more. I am just starting to get involved with this emulator

 

Edited January 22, 2022 by Wally

[Wally]

Latet Tsugaru build adds support for fullscreen and one button exit

 

Here is my command line

Quote

Tsugaru_CUI.exe L:/EMULATORS/TSUGARU -HOSTSHORTCUT ESC 0 0 FORCEQUIT -GAMEPORT0 PHYS0 -SCALE 200 -FULLSCREEN -FREQ 25 -YESWAIT -CD 

 

[DeadVoivod]

This seems to work fine and it's also easy to implement in LB. Hopefully we will see more updates coming. 

Do you happen to have any GamePad, Keyboard layout? 

[Rlad]

On 2/22/2022 at 5:37 PM, Wally said:

Latet Tsugaru build adds support for fullscreen and one button exit

 

Here is my command line

 

Cheers, i was trying to use borderless gaming but it wasn't working out.

Edited February 24, 2022 by Rlad

[AshleyYan]

Anybody know how to boot games that required boot disk on launchbox?

CD games now working great but I have no idea how to play games with boot / user disk...

Thanks!

[meecob]

On 4/18/2022 at 3:55 PM, AshleyYan said:

Anybody know how to boot games that required boot disk on launchbox?

CD games now working great but I have no idea how to play games with boot / user disk...

Thanks!

That's what I'm wondering too. I have CD's booting no problem. There's 70 gigs worth of CD's available. They need to be bin/cue files in there own folder.

[scan72]

Hi,
Someone is able to start games from a virtual hard-disk with Fm-towns OS?
I have created the links to the game executables (exp or bat) but none start.
Any help? Thanks

[Impact_Thomas]

Anyone can help me with my Xbox Controller ?

Or Keyboard Layout & Mouse ?

CU

Edited October 3, 2022 by Impact_Thomas

[rmetzger]

I know this is old, but wondering if anyone has figured out how to boot HD or FD files from Launchbox?  I have a HD image of Alltynex, as I don't know of a CD image that exists, and through the GUI it loads file, but can't figure out how to load a HD image through launchbox.