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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 31/08/2026

I was able to go the last day there was a Gundam popup store in a local-ish mall. They had a lot of friendly staff helping out. They had a gunpla/gashapon area, a card game area, and the main store. People of all ages were enjoying it. Definitely worth checking out if it comes to your area.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 31/08/2026

More for the Ap2 club. Maybe I'll get a CD drive one day.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/08/2026

Yes, but only some software. The magical pad is certainly interesting. It was interesting figuring out how to take it apart.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/08/2026

One oddity with FMT is that a decent number of games invert the strobe line, pin 8. This is why I created the FM2AND6 as a 1 controller solution for it.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/08/2026

I've used a couple hundred of them over the past few years. They've all been consistent except for 1 individual cable that had 1 row backwards from the rest. I don't know if they're still in production or not, but you used to be able to get just the connectors both male and female.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 20/08/2026

Where the real work takes place

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 19/08/2026

Is that one of those Sinclair personal ev things?

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 19/08/2026

My favorite new find on FM Towns and PC98 is the SRPG Dead Force. There's crafting, programmable ai, day/night cycles, units/sub units, and a decent story.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 17/08/2026

It's handy actually seeing the list of software. The amount of times I've ended up with repeat titles during testing was far from zero.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 11/08/2026

I took this picture of Scott Speed in Project Midnight at the top of Mount Washington Sunday. The morning race was delayed and then shortened due to insanely heavy fog. A few hours later he broke the record in the afternoon race. Climb to the Clouds 2026 was an amazing time.

Subaru Motorsports USA built Project Midnight, a 2024 WRX with 670 hp and weighing under 2500 lbs. Scott Speed drove it during its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this year.

Check out the gravel being spit out from the front tire.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 01/07/2026

Hell yeah! I'm still slumming it with my Loppy pad.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 01/07/2026

Very cool. Just about time to break out the X1 Twin again.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 26/06/2026

Discovering my love for color-coded spreadsheets 💕

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 26/06/2026

Man, it's been that long already? It feels like just yesterday I was guiding poor Keitaro around spinning the wheel of destiny.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 20/06/2026

It's stupid big. The manual is printed on approx 8.5x11/A4 sized paper.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 20/06/2026

Wow, that seems surprising. I will just say that I have the base game for FM Towns, and the box is laughably big.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 18/06/2026

I don't think I've seen a Marty2 faded to Marty1 color before 🤔

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 16/06/2026

I've uploaded dumps of the rest of my recent FM Towns purchases: Game Jang+ High School War Image II Pleria - The Royal Emblem github.com/Unsatisfacto...

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 15/06/2026

You might need to reload the disk image into HxC after the change.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 15/06/2026

In HxC, go into Settings then Internal Parameters. In the fluxstream_rpmfix box, change "NONE" to "300TO360RPM" or whatever speeds you need.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 10/06/2026

I finished the blazer faction playthrough of High School War on FM Towns. One of the enemies has a sweet X68000 Super tattoo/body paint thing going on

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 09/06/2026

At least you probably save a couple Voodoos worth of money. I had to do both rear wheel bearings, backing plates, rotors, and pads on my wife's Subaru followed by rear rotors and pads on my son's 13 year old GTI last month. I love New England, but sometimes it makes life hard.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 05/06/2026

I got some less than common gems in today for FM Towns. High School War is the big one here. It's Marty compatible and it's not dumped according to Redump. I'll dump and scan everything when I get a chance. High School War is a tactical RPG about school uniforms, btw.

High School War for FM Towns. An undumped tactical RPG about school uniforms.

Pleria The Royal Emblem. An adult ADV floppy disk game for FM Towns.

Image II is another floppy disk adult ADV game for FM Towns

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 25/05/2026

It's been a whole year, but I'm continuing work on the FM Towns Marty Master Compatibility List. I'm mostly dealing with more floppy disk games right now, but I do have another undumped game or two on the way from Japan to test. v1.05 coming soon. github.com/Unsatisfacto...

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 20/05/2026

The north coast of Northern Ireland is not a bad place to visit.

The north coast of Northern Ireland between Portstewart and Portrush at sunset.

Northern Ireland looking towards the cost of Portstewart.

Walking towards Carrick-a-Rede in Northern Ireland.

Looking back over the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge in Northern Ireland.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 19/05/2026

Oof, I can imagine. Luckily our latest ones are paid off now.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/02/2026

It required reaming the hole about 1mm to get it through.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/02/2026

Yes, if I remember correctly, s video is ready to tap right off the board. Also, there is an early Revision B or the main board that uses through hole caps. github.com/Unsatisfacto...

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/02/2026

I'm glad someone else made one, and will have something for the community. @partlyhuman.com put one together a few years ago, and I never got around to finalizing mine. Here are a few pics of what I had going. There was more planned as well, but I was infected with Japanese PC disease.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 18/02/2026

Some genuinely amazing visuals and atmosphere in parts, but a disjointed empty mess. My wife and I complained the whole way home.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 18/02/2026

I'm glad I didn't have to pay this much for either of mine.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 10/02/2026

I'll have to look at my expansion card to see if it's one of the ones you have.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 08/02/2026

I just verified a slightly updated version of my FM2AND6 controller. A slight cost savings will help offset tariffs, and I've added an LED to show when it's in 6 button mode.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 01/02/2026

That's a newer version of my FM Towns 2/6 button controller that I'm testing. The RX-78 uses a matrix for the joystick rather than 1 or 2 commons or grounds. I do have a design for it, but I haven't ordered boards. It would only be 4 way instead of 8 though. I also have a joystick in the works

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 31/01/2026

Some test boards are shipping out to me, so I'll be able to test the Zerosen dumps.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/01/2026

I have the dual chip version of Excite Baseball, and there's a single chip version for sale. I'd love to compare the rom dumps to see if it's possible to combine the 2 into 1, but I can't drop another $100 right now. I'll pick it up when I have some extra money

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 28/01/2026

I forgot Zerosen was a dual chip game. I have a repro of that pcb designed, but I haven't ordered them yet.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 27/01/2026

I want to get the Inufuto games to work on hardware too. They don't conform to the standard size, so I tried padding them out with FF, but that didn't work. I'll experiment more later. eRX-78 boots them just fine.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 27/01/2026

I'm using a T-48 to dump, and I want to say I used the Cypress 27c64/128/256 profiles to get working dumps, but I'd have to look at my notes at home.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 27/01/2026

I'll have to check. Things are definitely off between hardware and emulator. 16 and 32k games I have to swap around to get eRX-78 to boot them. For instance, Challenge Golf is a 16k game, and I have to swap the last 8k to the beginning. Likewise, your Gundam dump I have to swap to work on hardware

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 27/01/2026

I've finished verifying 8/16/32kb games work on my reproduction cart for the Bandai RX-78. I need to finish working on the CMT portion for Basic use, as well as look at games with dual 8/16kb chips.

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 27/01/2026

I'm working on a joystick expansion card for Hitachi's Basic Master Level 3. I should probably see if the machine actually works 🤔

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OMPeaRetro @ompearetro.com · 23/01/2026

I also received a Hitachi Basic Master Level 3 yesterday. It is loaded with expansion cards. 2 cards are for an external FDD unit, 1 for joysticks, and 1 expanded ram. I recreated the joystick card, and will make one with DE9 connectors that are compatible with MSX style pads.

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