Look familiar?

[Harrison]

I wanted to d/l the FM-Towns set at Pleasuredome, but I guess all the games are in japanese.

No, they are not all in Japanese, especially as a lot of the games are versions of classic PC titles and remain in English. For some reason the Japanese love to play games in English (which is great for us). Many FM-Towns games are the best versions of famous titles, such as Adventures like Loom, Maniac Mansion, indiana jones etc, and the FM-Towns versions tend to be far superior releases over any other version with full speech and 256 colour graphics. Just look at the SCUMM full set as it supports all of the great FM-Towns versions of many of the adventures.

It is definitely worth getting the FM-Towns set.

[Demon Cleaner]

It is definitely worth getting the FM-Towns set.

Will be EXECUTED!!!

[AlexJ]

For some reason the Japanese love to play games in English (which is great for us).

Well if that's the case, they should do all the RPG's in English and then we'd be able to play the obscure ones that at present don't get translated over here as well!

[Harrison]

Very true and I also wish they would do that too. But most of the Japanese only RPGs tend to be heavily anim based and so Japanese voice acting tends to dictate the language used.

[Demon Cleaner]

I have the Farland Story (1-7) games for PC98, which were translated into english (the ROM files of course). You should d/l them, they look VERY japanime.

[Harrison]

It is great that many groups dedicate their free time to translating old games into English. I've got many translated SNES RPGs like that which is great.

[Agram]

So Eye of the Beholder 2 on FM-Towns will be a superior version? Been trying to obtain it for weeks now, so just hope it has something extra over the other systems.

I know the SegaCD version of the first game had plenty of cut scenes.

[Harrison]

Not sure about EofB on the FM-Towns. I've not tried it yet but if it is based on the console port that appeared than it won't be that great.

The best version of the EotB games is the PC version as it had better sound and 256 colour graphics. Maybe the FM-Towns version used the same graphics as the PC version? They both used the same CPU (Intel 386) at the time after all.