NES Anybody with Famicom Disk System Experience?

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's iconTamagotchiTamaHero24]

I want to know, for those who have experience, was it positive? It’s very novel, but was it enjoyable? All I know about the FDS was that it was neat, but ended up having diminishing returns because chips kept being added to games that made them more and more impressive.

(I made too many threads and I’ve had to wait an hour to post this thread lmaooooo)

 

[Iguana-0]

Its alright. Played Zelda 2 and Mario 2 [The hellishly difficult one] on it.

 

[Swagmata]

The enhanced sound in castlevania 3 is really nice.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Played some Mysterious Murasame Castle, went insane, played an SMT game instead
10/10

 

[χKai]

The Famicom Disk System is an amazing experience and has a strong library all it's own, the only thing is to get used to having to swap disk sides and wait a bit for them to load.

If you like old Nintendo games you'll probably be able to find something you enjoy on FDS; I personally recommend Armana no Kiseki.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

Played the FDS version of Castlevania II, only real difference was the music and having load times. I wouldn't say the music is better just "different". Never used or even seen an FDS in person. My flash cart can play the games on a stock NES if that counts. Even has auto disc flipping, though there's a button on the front to do it manually.

The enhanced sound in castlevania 3 is really nice.

CV3 was a cart game with an extra sound chip. Konami cheaped out on the overseas release and didn't include it. They actually did this quite a few times like with Contra's cut down graphics. They axed the extra memory chip.

 

[Eclipse14]

No FDS thread is complete without mentioning this was a thing on it.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's iconTamagotchiTamaHero24]

No FDS thread is complete without mentioning this was a thing on it.
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Would you believe I’ve never seen this?

 

[Eclipse14]

Yep. Wouldn't be the first one, either.
This is both the benefit and consequence of diving deeper into something than most would think of doing.