The solution to this problem was to make the ‘Nintendo’ logo in each Famicom disk card a physical key. At the time, Taiwanese copies of Nintendo games were rampant, for the simple reason that Taiwan didn’t acknowledge Japanese copyrights, but they did respect Japanese trademarks. This Japan-only media was meant for the Famicom, and included a unique trademark protection scheme. The other Nintendo floppy disk on display was the Famicom Disk Card. The drive was a commercial failure, and is best remembered for the reason we didn’t get Mother 3. The most famous, but still extremely rare in the US, was the 64DD drive, an add-on for the Nintendo 64. Yes, different Nintendo consoles had floppy drives. Note the indentations/molding of the ‘I’ and ‘N’ in Nintendo A 64DD game pack The Nintendo Floppies A Famicom Disk Card. He has what is probably the most complete collection of different floppy drive formats on the planet, and they were all out on display this weekend. That’s just one physical format of a floppy disk, and there are dozens more.įor this year’s VCF West,, hardware necromancer and collector of rare and esoteric removable storage formats, brought out the goods. A single unlabeled 3.5″ floppy disk could be formatted as 360, 720, or 1440k IBM drive, a 400, 800, or 1440k Macintosh drive, an Apple II volume, or an Amiga, or an Acorn, or a host of other logical formats.

It wasn’t always this way, and it was much more confusing back in the day when we had floppy drives.

In those rare occasions where that won’t work, a USB thumb drive will do. Nowadays, if you want to transfer a file from one computer to another, you’d just send it over the network.

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