(I'm not THAT familiar with the whole FDS library so I don't know for sure to what extent this goes.) Only a handful of games might be expensive because they're hard to get, such as Kiki Kaikai, possibly Dracula II, maybe a few others. (I have over a dozen games now.) These things are over two decades old and just about every disk I've ever put into my FDS works fine. The only game that cost me over 20 bucks was Zelda, and only because I bought it factory sealed. I can only see a single-sided game like SMB2 working if you dumped its image to a cart.

There's also the limitation where your game should hang indefinitely on the 'Please set Side B' screen if you dump an FDS rom to a rewriteable cart without modifying it to get around that loading point. If you don't want the real deal you may as well use a fucking emulator, at least that way you can hear the audio reasonably correctly. Famicom doesn't have the hardware to play any sounds that require the synth the FDS has. I don't see how a rewriteable cartridge is going to be useful. In addition to all that, it will also play FDS games - without the load times.Ī toaster NES can be modified by soldering a single resistor to the unused expansion port and volla, you can get FDS expansion audio out of the powerpak.įDS games are cool, but they aren't worth the investment. The Powerpak can play nearly any NES/Famicom game there is, saving you hundreds of dollars if you want to play rarities like Bubble Bobble 2, Bonk's Adventure or Little Samson, or if you want to play hacks, prototypes and fan translations. If you REALLY need to get your FDS fix, I recommend investing in Retrozone's Power Pak flash cart. One could argue that the FM synthesis makes some games like Zelda and Metroid better on the FDS, but the you don't need an FDS to play those games. Most of the best FDS titles became NES cartridges. If even one sector of the disk becomes corrupt, the whole thing is a paperweight.įDS games are slow to load, require another power supply (or a crapload of those C cell batteries) and the fact is that there aren't that many exclusives for it.

See, nearly all of the disks themselves have nothing but a paper sleeve to protect the data disk - it's completely exposed.įDS games are encoded into sectors of data which is why you need to flip the disk to load some information. The belts breaking/wearing out is actually the least of the worries you'll have. The Famicom Disk System is a nightmare of hardware failures.

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