NES Anybody with Famicom Disk System Experience?

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

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 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 icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

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.

 

[vriska64]

emulated that one game where you played at a cat

 

[ciro64]

The Famicom is cute! >.<

The NES had to look like a computer to deal with the videogame crash lmao. Not that I'm complaining.

 

[Dakarus]

The enhanced sound in castlevania 3 is really nice.

That was on it's own cartridge with a special chip

 

[bjork]

It was a cool idea at the time, and there are some really solid titles for it. Tracking down the games is tougher than finding the hardware, and when you get into those blank ones you could have burned at a kiosk or whatever, I think buying used ones can be a mystery. But the concept isn't too different from using disks on contemporary computers of the day (C64, Apple II, etc). I forget and it's been years since I've owned an NES, but isn't that what the port on the bottom was originally for, but then the FDS never made it out of Japan?
I'd only seen these a handful of times until I frequented Bookoff a bit more, and Bookoff regularly carried Famicoms and the FDS, but separately, never saw them bundled together.

 

[Swagmata]

That was on it's own cartridge with a special chip

huh no kidding thanks

 

[vinzanity]

I had a Twin Famicom but didn't have the FDS disks so I could only see the bootup sequence. I sold it a few years back and can only play the games in emulated form (like Kamen Rider).

 

[Sinmenon]

Apparently, people reused the disks and overwrote their old games with new ones, and because they were made of cheap material, they could snap.

I only played Castlevania, and the games I do have an interest, like the Famicom Tantei Club, are only in Japanese so my actual experience is limited.
There was also this youtuber who made a video on Time Twister, that one sounds like a fever dream.