Westone licensed the gameplay to Hudson who created the Adventure Island series. Westone took the following Wonder Boy games in a different direction, whereas Hudson kept the original concept going. There are other copies as well.

No emulator, this is recorded from an FM Towns Marty. Tsugaru should work though, are you having any issues with other games? I have not seen a game that Tsugaru won't play yet. Feel free to join the FM Towns Forever discord. The creator of Tsugaru is a member, and very helpful. discord.com/invite/8gAzdqBT

@@OMPeaRetro thank you I will post screenshots on the discords ?

Mistakes were made, completely unintentional.

Did you start with the Redump version of the disc? Did you verify the checksums prior to, and after patching as per the instructions in the repo? If they check out, but you're still having issues, I would reach out to Derek.

@@OMPeaRetro Yes, I did use the Redump version and verify hashes. I'm using Tsugaru. I guess I'll see about sending him a message. Thanks

@@OMPeaRetro Turns out it was a problem with my bios files. Swapped with some from a different source, and now it's all good.

@@fairtradepcrepair1 Great news! I'm glad you got it up and running properly.

It's true. There are roughly 1400 pieces of software for FM Towns. While most of the CDs have been preserved, many boot disks and floppy only games are still missing. Hopefully some will come out publicly soon.

Name definitely checks out! My friend recently streamed Remix on Twitch. Thanks for coming by.

That game sounds trippy, thanks for the suggestion.

@@OMPeaRetro no problem I also subscribed as well!!

@@PlantModes Thanks, super appreciate it! For now I'm going to continue pumping out these intro videos, but eventually I hope to add some more in depth content.

Hey, thanks for checking it out! Be sure to check out the links in the description for more info.

There are some really great soundtracks on the platform. 2 of my favorite intro soundtracks are Tamashii no Mon and Ballade for Maria.

Hopefully more to come! Thanks for checking it out.

Thanks! This is such a good series.

Unfortunately I think HDLBatch is abandoned at this point. Check out HDL Batch Installer as it's still being updated. I do not have experience with it myself. Good luck

Just a different option. Installing on the hard drive gives you a built in backup should your memory card fail or get lost. If you have both installed, the memory card is read first.

@@OMPeaRetro thank you.

I have not used it myself, so keep that in mind. It looks like a program called HDD Raw Copy Tool will be able to clone the drive.

Themes should come in a folder named thm_themename. That folder needs to be copied into the THM folder in the +OPL folder. Themes sometimes have recommended settings, so be sure to read any readme files. The ART folder is in that same +OPL location. There are bundles that you can download, but it's easiest to use HDL Batch Installer to automatically download the needed art for you. Good luck.

Good to know! I've only gone straight to motherboard myself.

No it actually works.

This is where it pays off to have a case with hot swap SATA bays.

Glad it helped you out.

Start OPL, from the games list, hit the start button the go to the main menu, go into settings and make sure "Write Operations" is on, hit OK, then save changes. That enables the ability to delete a game. Now go to the game that you want to delete, hit triangle, go down to delete. Hope that helps.

@@OMPeaRetro thank you very much

How do you add games individually?

@@car1it05WAY You can add them the same way I showed in the video one at a time if needed. If you have an official network adapter it is possible to transfer over the network, but it is slow. There's also HDLBatch Installer which is a bit easier to use and more up to date. I do plan on putting up some more tutorials, but I'm not sure when.

@@OMPeaRetro thanks!

No problem. Hope it helped you out.

I'll check it out, thanks for the heads up!

I see listed the advances of HDL Installer yet at first glance I do not understand how to get started on the program, do you know of a good tutorial in english?

I never got a chance to play it as a kid unfortunately. I would like to get back with this some more soon. It's not a clean run at all, and I only used the skateboard in one part I believe. It's a great series though. Thanks for stopping in!

Well yeah, it was my first playthrough and I went in blind. Thanks for the tips Tony. I'm sure I'll circle back to this series at some point. The hardest game in the series was definitely Wonder Boy III Monster Lair for PC Engine CD. I had to use infinite continues to get through that one. Shooters aren't my strong suit, but damn that one is brutal.

@@OMPeaRetro So you are saying that was your 1st time playing???? How did you know where the hidden bosses were like Madusa, The Legendary sword boss, & every location to talk to get the Bell or Ruby....Not only that but you knew a lot of things that nobody would know if they went into it blind

@@tonyp9313 I believe it took me 3 streams to beat it. This was when I finally did. I did read through the manual, which is something I always do on stream. They are pretty vague on things, but the do drop some hints in there. I spent a lot of time on the last castle just mapping it out since I didn't have the bell the first few times in there.

@@OMPeaRetro Oh ok that makes a lot more sense. Yeah the manual in this game actually helps a lot. It tells you who every boss is for one so if you missed a boss in a play through you would know. It tells you every thing in shops & prices that way you can know how much money you need cuz it gives you an idea. I still give you tons of credit cuz you decided just to use the ceramic boots which no one will ever do in like 3 streams. I played this game as a kid when it 1st came out. As a kid I wasn't reading the manuals or anything like that. So it took me a while to beat this. Plus for a while I didn't know about hidden doors so I would die at that level where Medusa is because I never found her to beat her and would run out of time or just gave up at that point. My brother actually discovered to press up on the platform when it said "Someone Be beyond the Wall" So when he 1st figured that out, then I was like oh ok I better press up on the platforms. Which I did later then found Medusa & then beat the game. When I beat this game though I still didn't find the boss with the Legendary sword because I would fall all the way down skipping enemies. It's really hard beating this game with a weaker sword. I was like no way this game is this hard. I knew I had missed the boss. So months or years later I found him, had everything legendary & beat this game. It was only last year I decided to go with Ceramic boots rather than Legendary boots because the game glitches a lot on that last level for the Brick to Brick jump going up & you'll basically die a lot in the last level if it does that and it does it like 90% of the time so if you beat it it's like a luck thing that it didn't glitch.

@@tonyp9313 I died a ton on that jumping thing at the end. Just slowly running out of time and dieing over and over. I never knew it was because of a boot bug. I did finally figure out how to do it reliably, I forget now, but the order you hit the buttons has to be very precise and methodical. I recently watched someone play another game that had a similar jump puzzle and died inside a little.

Only the 10th World is hard in this if you don't have a hatchet. This Version you need all 36 dolls to go to round 10. If you don't you'll beat this game on level 9-4. You'll get the same exact ending too. The arcade version is a shorter game but it's really hard.

Thanks Phil. It's definitely a game that gets a lot easier after you beat it the first time.