FM7 emulator

[CMR]

I'm trying to get an FM7 emulator going. I've got XM7 but when I try to run it I get an error message. I don't know what the message is because it's all question marks from being in a foreign language. I've heard there's a translated version out there but every link I find is dead. Does anyone here know where I can get the translated XM7 emulator, or another emulator in english?

[ReyVGM]

If no one helps you here, ask here then: fullmotionvideo.free.fr/forum/index.php

Those guys deal with those old kind of computer emulators.

[derboo]

Does your copy of the emulator come with the bios/basic roms? Boot_bas.rom, Boot_dos.rom, etc.?

[CMR]

Yea, it has all those roms. My copy of XP is kind of old so I'm wondering if XM7 might have been made with .NET. That could be a reason for an error, but since it's supposed to be cross platform I think it might be a .dll I'm missing.

[starscream]

M.e.s.s. has also working FM7 emulation. You need to download the Messui (or another Frontend, QMC2) separately now though, since it broke some versions ago. Otherwise it's commandline based.

[copyrightedname]

A working link to the English version was reposted here:
fullmotionvideo.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=827

Hopefully that will help. The download also contains a few games.

[CMR]

Cool, thanks guys I'll give those a try.

[CMR]

I got MESS to work, and it runs FM7 great. The game I want to play doesn't work though. I've tried loading it from the command line and from MESSUI. It loads for a moment and then a loud screach emanates from my speakers. The whole thing basically locks up and I have to ctrl+alt+del to shut the MESS down. I found a second dump of the game that's a single disk file, but MESS won't even load it. Anyone out there wouldn't happen to have a working copy of Death Force would you? Also, can anyone else get on the Tokugowa website? I can't get it to load.

[Trickless]

DeathForce.D77
www.megaupload.com/?d=9ZU1LY8J
Works fine on XM7, just make sure Drive0=DiskA and Drive1=User Disk. No idea about MESS though.

If you're looking for an English version of XM7, I know that V3.4 was translated by BergerH:

XM7 - V3.4 L21a
www.megaupload.com/?d=0DDXO0UU
It's an old version, but Death Force should work. I think right now unoffical builds such as Dash are the most up to date.

And yes, Tokugawa seems to be down at the moment

[starscream]

Oh yes, MESS can only handle standard (non-combined) images. Death Force won't also run on the standard FM7, it needs a FM77AV. Can' test it myself right now though.

[CMR]

Thanks for all the help guys. Trickless the xm7 download works great, but megaupload isn't letting me have the death force files for some reason. I get a message saying the download is temporarily unavailable. Could you check it out for me?

I tried my old files again with xm7 and mess (using fm77av) and they still crap out. On the xm7 emulator it gets halfway through the text before it freezes. The emulator is set for FM77AV so I'm pretty sure the files are corrupted. I don't even remember where I got them, lol. The combined image I have doesn't work either. So, yea, I need those files. Sorry for all the trouble, but I've got a slow internet connection and downloading fifteen different torents till I find one that works just isn't realistic for me. Thanks again.

[Trickless]

www.mediafire.com/?4gddj261sh463wy (p.s. this is a combined image)

Unfortunately, as I just found out, this copy freezes on the intro if you use XM7 V3.4 L21a as well. Game works fine if you skip the intro though.

If you want to see the intro/ want better compatibility, then you should try the later versions.

[CMR]

Thanks. I'll check out dash and see what it's like. I sure hope I like this game, lol.

edit: Well I got it working. I had the same trouble with Dash as I had with my first emulator. I think they're missing some files or something. Anyway, Death Force...... well it's not what I thought it would be, but it's still kind of fun. Thanks again.