Fujitsu built two families of computers for the Japanese market: the 8-bit FM-7 (1982), a rival of the NEC PC-88, and the FM Towns (1989), one of the first computers sold with a CD drive, which also became a console, the FM Towns Marty.
We have about 110 FM-7 games and about 280 FM Towns games on My Abandonware. Almost all of them are in Japanese.
FM-7 games
The FM-7 needs a ROM copied from a real machine. 77AVEMU is the modern emulator, on Windows, Mac and Linux; XM7 is the old Windows one.
- 77AVEMU (Windows, Mac, Linux): emulates the FM-7 and the later FM77AV, with an English interface. Written by the author of Tsugaru, below.
- XM7 (Windows): the emulator most Japanese players used for years. Its menus are in Japanese, and it comes in three versions, one per machine family.
Both need the ROM files of the machine, which hold its BASIC. They are copyrighted, and no emulator includes them: see our page about BIOS files.
Our FM-7 games are small: floppy images (.d77) or tape images (.t77), from a few hundred KB to a few MB. Put the floppy in drive 0 and reset the machine, or load a tape from BASIC, as on the PC-88. A file marked "Side B" is the second side of a floppy: put it in the second drive.
FM Towns games
The FM Towns runs from a CD or a floppy. Tsugaru is the emulator to use, on Windows, Mac and Linux, and its ROM files can be downloaded free.
Tsugaru is open source, still developed, and has an English interface. Its author also offers a free version of the ROM files for people with no real machine, so you can start at once. UNZ, the older Japanese emulator, uses the same ROM set and is still a good choice.
Our FM Towns games come in two shapes:
- CD games, most of them 100 to 500 MB: open the
.cueor.isofile of the disc. Tsugaru reads.iso,.cueand.mds; for a disc with music tracks,.mdsor.ccdworks best. - Floppy games, a few MB: open the floppy image in drive 0.
Some games need to be installed on a hard disk first, and a few of our archives already hold a user disk for the saves, marked "UserDisk incl.".
Japanese text
Both machines were sold in Japan only, and their games show Japanese text. The emulators display it correctly, so you need no extra font.
A few games were translated by fans, and our game pages say so when we hold such a version. The keyboard of these machines had Japanese keys: if a game asks you to type, check the key map of your emulator.
I need help!
We do not provide support for running abandonware games. These two machines are little known outside Japan, but a few sites cover them in English.
Illusion City keeps a list of FM Towns emulators and tools with English notes. The Emulation General Wiki compares the emulators of both machines.
Checked in October 2026 against each emulator's own documentation and, where it exists, its source code. Game counts and file sizes come from our own catalogue. These guides were drafted with the help of an AI assistant and checked by hand before publishing. If something here is out of date, tell us.