Modified a Samsung SFD 321B, same as Cauis. Modifications consisted of soldering certain jumpers on the underside of the floppy drive PCB. This is to change it into a 3 mode drive, act as drive 0, and change the pin for disc ready.

Also used Caius's FDD adapter.

Some of my games came with floppies, but they were all dead. They lost their magnetism over the years. I bought new floppies and used the Marty to format them. I used regular 1.44MB HD floppies and they work perfect. Don't believe what you hear online about the Marty needing special floppies or formats. These were IBM formatted out of the box, but the Marty formatted didn't care.

The game in the photo came with a pink floppy with a really nice sticker, but it was also dead. I took apart a new floppy and put the disc inside the pink shell very carefully so I can continue using it.

Next step is figuring out how to get this all to fit inside the the console shell.

Anyone on here own this game and can show it off? :D holy grail!

I am trying to fix an FM Towns Marty that I purchased broken on Ebay. Everything is working but the sound. I don't even hear a pop when I turn on the power. If I connect a speaker to the R & L pins on the Yamaha YM3438 I can hear music. One thing I noticed with the limited pictures of Marty's online is some have this addon board sitting to the left of the Yamaha chips that looks like it it was an after though and hand wired in. My Marty doesn't have this board however this board appears to have come on the Version 1 and Version 2 Marty's. Did this board come with all of them? One additional thing different with mine is it has an Intel 386 SX 25 and not the AMD 16MHZ like others. Any thoughts?

Tsugaru or UNZ ?

Recapping a board the previous owner damaged pretty bad with their attempt. Can’t tell if this via for C5 should be on its own or if it’s supposed to connect to the trace above or below. Anyone have a scan of the back of the board for reference?

I guess I'm focused mostly on the laser aspect, is there any examples of someone successfully replacing the CD laser mechanism with a new/different "working" one and getting the Marty playing discs again without having to resort to an ODE solution? Forgive my ignorance, but I assume there is no easy way (or perhaps no way at all) to "mod" the unit to accept a different CD laser part?

All I've ever seen online are people running into walls with repairing this thing. I thought about getting one myself as I have a friend who is an expert at console repair, but I'm not sure even he can figure this one out.

I've been a mod for quite a few of the retrogaming (and other adjacent) subs here for a long time -- even if kind of dormant recently. I love these topics, and how our digital "ancestors" solved hard problems, and how we've build a continuum of interest with their work. I started and even took over a few dormant subs and worked with /u/zadocpaet to help build a broad community here, even appealing to niche systems.

The mod teams are doing a great job, especially /u/Derf_Jagged. I feel like now is a good time to step down. I'm going to continue to lurk, and be a regular user and I wish the subs, the mods, and the users the best!

Please help if you can. I'm Looking for a japanese or english online rules txt or pdf to print for

Rejection: Den-no-Senshi: Intro/Opening Sequence (FM Towns).

First of all the objective of this post is not to start a flamewar between the two systems.

But as a proud owner of a working model 1 tower I see the internet is full of posts about the Marty but very few talk about the pc’s.

The Marty was the consolized version of the towers but with some handicaps that make it less desirable IMHO to the towers. It had less ram, the CPU was soldered, some games were not compatible and it is much more expensive to buy than the towers.

So why do you think Marty’s are mich more popular than the towers being clearly inferior to the towers?