Marty:Marty Compatible Games

Marty came out in February of 1993. All FMT games AFTER March of 1993 had to place a "Marty Compatible" logo or sticker on the box of their game if the game works on FM Towns Marty.

Marty has a 386SX CPU clocked at 16mhz with 2MB of RAM and one floppy drive. Marty cannot have RAM upgraded and cannot use SCSI HDD. Therefore any software that runs on a 386 FM Towns with 2MB of RAM and one floppy drive will work on Marty. The Majority of arcade ports except Super Street Fighter II will work fine on Marty.

There are a lot of lists floating around the net regarding Marty-compatible games. The fact of the matter is there cannot be a Marty compatibility list until Redump dumps and verifies all FM Towns games (which as of June 2022 they haven't).

If you are curious about any games that could run on Marty and there are no markings on the box/auction photos, you can check the Redump database to examine.

For example for Super Street Fighter II in the comments of this Redump page, it says "4MB RAM needed to run". This won't run on Marty. If the box on any auction website doesn't say Marty compatible it likely won't work on Marty.

List of games that have been tested on FM Towns Marty console. The list is under heavy construction, there is probably some mistakes and missing information.

Game	Screen modes	Marty performance (AMD 386SX-16MHz)	Format	Language	Two players	Notes
After Burner III		Runs really well	CD game	Story intro in Japanese, menus and rest of the game in English.		Analog pad (XE-1AP) & Cyber Stick (CZ-8NJ & XE-1AJ) support.
Asuka 120% BURNING Fest.		Fighting runs pretty well. Really long loading times as the game partially loads from floppy drive on the fly.	CD game. Needs boot floppy to start.	Intro and story in Japanese, menus are in English.	Versus mode
Azure		Runs decently. Slows down somewhat when lots of stuff on screen.	CD game	Story intro and text in Japanese, menus in English. Playable.		Mouse support. Marty’s mouse-to-controller driver works.
Battle Chess		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English		Boots from Towns OS. Mouse support. Marty’s mouse-to-controller driver works.
Blandia Plus	Hi-reso, lo-reso, video	Runs really well	CD game	Story in Japanese, menus in English. Playable.	Versus mode
Bomberman: Panic Bomber	15KHz, 31KHz	Runs really well	CD game	Some text in Japanese. Mostly playable in English.	Versus mode
Bubble Bobble	High 1, High 2, Mid 1, Mid 2, Low, Video	Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English	Co-op mode	Super Bubble Bobble mode selectable in menu.
Cameltry	15KHz, 31KHz	Runs really well	Floppy game	Fully playable in English	Alternating turns
Columns		Runs really well	Floppy game	Fully playable in English	Versus mode
Death Brade		Runs really well	CD game	Intro and menus in Japanese, but otherwise no language barrier.	Versus mode
Dungeon Master		Runs really well	CD Game. Needs user floppy disk for saving progress.	Fully playable in English		Boots from Towns OS. Mouse support. Marty’s mouse-to-controller driver works.
Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back		Runs really well	CD game. Needs user floppy disk for saving progress.	Fully playable in English		Mouse support. Marty’s mouse-to-controller driver works.
Evolution		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English
Final Blow	Video (16KHz), Low (16KHz), Mid (24KHz), Hix2 (31KHz), Hi (31KHz)	Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English	Versus mode	Has 3D mode.
Flying Shark	Hi-reso, Hi-reso wide, Lo-reso, video	Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English
Galaxy Force II		More or less constant stutter and slowdown, but the game is still quite playable.	CD game	Intro in Japanese, otherwise playable in English.		Analog pad (XE-1AP) & Cyber Stick (CZ-8NJ & XE-1AJ) support.
Genocide² Square	Low, Low/Wide, High, High/Wide	Runs mostly quite well, sometimes a little stutter when more stuff on screen.	CD game	Intros in Japanese, otherwise playable in English.		Remix versions of Genocide 1 & 2. MIDI support (RS-232C)
Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen		Runs really well	Floppy game	Fully playable in English
Infestation		Runs decently, framerate drops somewhat when more polygons on the screen.	CD game			Keyboard needed to choose game's language, defaults to Japanese when controller is used.
KU²++		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English		Scerious & Comical modes.
Last Survivor	Low resolution, high resolution	Runs ok, framerate overall is mediocre.	CD game	Game intro and menus are in Japanese, otherwise playable in English.	Versus mode	Press SELECT button to get to the menu.
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force		Runs ok, slows downs frequently, especially when there is more than two enemies on the screen which is quite often. Still quite playable.	CD game	Fully playable in English	Versus mode
Marble Madness		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English	Versus mode	Mouse support. Original (FM sound) and Arrange (CD music) options.
Muscle Bomber: The Body Explosion	High, High Wide, Video, Video Wide, Low	Runs really well	CD game	Almost fully playable in English, very little Japanese text.	Versus mode
NewZealand Story, The	Lo-reso, Hi-reso, Hi-reso x2, Video	Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English	Alternating turns
Palamedes		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English	Versus mode	Gamepad has to be connected to the second controller port for playing. Player 2 can play with either keyboard or gamepad.
Perfect Soko-ban		Runs really well	CD game. Need user floppy disk for saving progress & edit floppy disk for stage editor.	Playing instructions and some text in Japanese, otherwise playable in English.		Boots from Towns OS. Has stage editor mode.
Prince of Persia		Runs decently most of the time. Heavy stuttering when more stuff on screen.	CD game. Needs user floppy disk for saving progress.	Intro, story and menus in Japanese, but otherwise no language barrier.
Puyo Puyo		Runs really well	CD game	Main menu & story dialogue is in Japanese, but setup menu & rest of the game mostly playable in English.	Versus mode	Has handy Input test mode in options menu to test both gamepads.
Puzznic	Low, Hi2, Video	Runs really well	CD game. Needs user floppy disk for saving constructed puzzles.	Fully playable in English		In setup menu, you can enable or disable nudity with GAL option. Has a Construction mode where you can create your own puzzles and save them to a floppy disk.
Raiden Trad		Runs mostly well. When there is parallax scrolling areas on the screen the game starts to stutter. Still very playable.	CD game	Fully playable in English	Co-op & alternating turns	Arcade, Competition A and Competition B modes.
Rayxanber		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English
Rainbow Islands - Extra Version	High 2 Wide, High 2, High 1 Wide, High 1, Video Wide, Video, Low	Runs mostly well, minor stuttering when there is lots of stuff and rainbows on the screen.	CD game. Needs user floppy disk for saving progress.	Fully playable in English	Alternating turns	Command option in setup menu looks like a place to input cheats or dip switches. Currently unknown what can be done with it.
Scavenger 4		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English
Splatterhouse	Hi-reso, Hi-reso Wide, Lo-reso, Video	Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English
Super Shooting Towns		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English		Boots from Towns OS.
Tatsujin Ou	Hi-reso, Hi-reso Wide, Lo-reso, Video	Runs mostly well, some stuttering when lots of stuff and explosions on screen.	CD game	Fully playable in English	Co-op mode
Titan		Runs a bit strange, small & medium screen size sometimes feels really fast or normal and largest screen size stutters between fast and slow. Also there seems to be some glitchy screen transitions.	CD game. Needs user floppy disk for saving Hi-scores.	Fully playable in English
Turbo Outrun		Runs well, but the game's maximum framerate is quite average by design.	CD game	Fully playable in English		Mouse, Analog pad (XE-1AP) & Cyber Stick (CZ-8NJ & XE-1AJ) support.
Viewpoint	Hi-reso, Lo-reso, Video	Runs decently, heavy stuttering when lots of stuff on screen.	CD game	Fully playable in English
Volfied		Runs really well	CD game	Fully playable in English