Famicom Disk System

Created to try to low the price of the high cost of the cartridges, in Famicom Disk System it was a disk drive that was connecting to the slot of cartridges of NES, in the vieron the light some of the big sagas of Nintendo, qualifications like Zelda, Metroid or Kid Icarus appeared for the first time on diskette.

Commercialized only in Japan in 1986 (it went so far as to raise the American throwing but it was never carried out), to approximately 100 € approximately, going so far as to sell nearly five million units.

Famicom Disk System has a reader of diskettes of proper format of Nintendo, the discs took a capacity of 64 Kb expensive (Ghost and Goblins was the first game in it filled an entire disc) what towards 128 KB for disquette (if two layers were used the console was having to turn round him to the disc), what was a quite reasonable size for the games of the NES, although some games went so far as to use two discs. 

So that it was working it had to connect at the entry of cartridges of the Famicom an adapter and this one was getting Disk System a job, in this adapter it had a RAM of 32 Kb to allow to improve the load of the games.

The meaning of life of this one peripheral was to low the price of costs, 60 % one became possible to reduce the price of the games and there was a service of discharge of games in the commerce. We were buying an original virgin Nintendo disc at the cost of 2.000 yenes and we take it to the position Disk Writter, there we select our favorite game and we it unload at the reasonable price of 500 Yen. This did that the system was becoming very popular.

Soon the problems would come, the third parties were not much satisfied by the high places royalties that Nintendo was receiving, and someone as Square Enix aimed that of bringing in in bankruptcy because I devote myself to convert PC games to the system with few commercial fortune The piracy presence act did and thanks to one peripheral that was allowing to connect to a computer the system, copy the games there and then spend them to our discs official Nintendo virgins.

All these motives propitiated the abandonment of the system approximately two years later, thanks to the price reduction of the cartridges, nevertheless the system Disk Writter was free until 1993 in the shops and until 2003 if we were sending our disc to Nintendo.

Nevertheless a lot of games were thrown for the system (close to two hundred) and they benefited from the discs to generalize the systems of keeping game, which in Occident were replaced by batteries or odious passwords.

Games like Zelda, Super Mario Bros 2 The Lost Levels, Metroid, Kid Icaruis or Castlevania, and even the first End Fantasy gone so far as to be thought for Famicom Disk System, what does that this one peripheral has a good memory for the Nintendo fans.

Curiosities Famicom Disk System

It was not the peripheral only one to load discs in a Nintendo console, for the N64 also it appeared in Japan of very discreet form 64DD and even went so far as to think about a CD reader for Super Nintendo.

If we were lighting the system without disc there will appear the logo of Nintendo and Mario and Luigi pulling a drawstring to change the color of the icon, many years later in homage to Famicom Disk System, the video of presentation of Game Boy Color we could see different personages changing the color of the logotype of the portable one of Nintendo likewise in the bios of the FDS

Nintendo usually organized video games contests. The pet of these contests was Disk-kun (Mr. Disk). Some of the awards that were granted were two golden diskettes of the outstanding figure Golf that were including a new trip in USA and other in Japan.

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Give http://www.feelthebyte.com
Date September 21, 2008
The most interesting article!
He was not knowing completely his existence, it looks like rather a way of bringing the dessert consoles over to what they were offering the computers in this epoch :)
A greeting

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raul http://gameadaffiliates
Date September 21, 2008
I am glad that you have liked Give!

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Modo7 http://modo7.blogspot.com
Date September 22, 2008
For me in the world of the video game it is quite invented from times of the Famicom, and they demonstrate it cachibaches like this FDS, the modem, the multitap to play four, keyboard, ROB...
A sorrow that most of those peripheral were not coming to Europe, but at least our NES was nicer enough
Very good article, I like that one speaks about oddness nintenderas

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raul http://gameadaffiliates
Date September 22, 2008
You see already it is curious, that in the eighties there were invented so many devices that in fact have stopped being exploited nowadays

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Jarkendia http://jueves13.wordpress.com
Date September 27, 2008
Incidental onlooker. It had not even the most remote idea of his existence:D

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Raul http://gameadaffiliates
Date September 27, 2008
Go since I was thinking that a more well-known accessory was the truth xD

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Jarkendia http://jueves13.wordpress.com
Date September 27, 2008
We go, that you might have invented it to yourself and he had tippled the same way xd

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Raul http://gameadaffiliates
Date September 28, 2008
Man is not that xD either

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