Famicom Disk Writer Cartridge Preserved! | Forest of Illusion
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- Today we’ve preserved the Famicom Disk Writer EEPROM Pack! Looking through the data, interestingly it’s not a fully functioning ROM at all, but instead contains a giant list of product codes of games that users were able to write to their disks via the kiosk!
Written by: Marionova & Togemet2
Edited by: Marionova 
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i once owned this exact cart when i was younger. i sold it on ebay for a pittance ($250) and always regretted it. I'm supremely glad to see it has resurfaced and been preserved.
1:40 Oh wow, I didn't know that 1-up balloon minigame in Super Mario Maker 2 was a reference to this!
Did they really keep these kiosks in stores all the way until 2003? It's crazy to think these were still in the public two years into the GameCube's lifespan. And even crazier to think they were out there from 1986-2003 and not a single unit has been found. You'd think game stores moving shop/shutting down/going out of business in that length of time would see at least a few getting into the wild, unless Nintendo really just locked down their reclamation process for the Disk Writer.
2003 was a big cutoff year where they stopped supporting a lot of old nintendo stuff in Japan iirc. still very cool that it was supported for that long.
One of the old websites from the late '90s (TSR's Archive, I think) I thought said they were only in stores until 1993, and it was until 2003 that Nintendo continued to support the service directly, by allowing players to mail their disks (with money) directly to Nintendo.
@@spartonberry Now that does sound like something Nintendo would do, especially in Japan and especially in that era. Also explains how one hasn't popped up yet, that isn't a massive amount of years for one to slip through the cracks.
I've got a Famicom guide "tells you all the games out on Famicom and disk system" they even mention it stopped in 2003 pretty long time for a retro thing
The Disk Writer and the Spaceworld beta of Super Mario Sunshine are on the top of my preservation wish list. Thank you so much for all your hard work!!
Ooo the disk writer is one of my favorite obscure Nintendo items, thanks for making a video on it!
Amazing work preserving history and a highly entertaining video, everybody share this and make sure It gets all the attention
Disc writer… basically the precursor to the sd card.
Instead of going online to download a game you went to the store and downloaded it onto you famicom disc. How COOL WAS/IS that.
this is how I learned of the Disk Writer... From the GCCX Movie!!
Can't wait until the day i finally stumble across a disk writer. 😊
Dude! Awesome find ❤
There are a few disk writers in collections around the eastern usa. Ive seen atleast 3 of them over the last ten or so years. You can find some smaller akihabara resale stores that arent hard offs or bigger chain stores that owner have as special request items in the backroom but only sell to specific collectors. I saw one for sale for like 5000 usd in hakkaido back in the 00s had no way to get it home or i would have bought it
I hope one day we see the Disk Fax in action
Man, when I found out about the Kiosk I spent a lot of time trying to see if one ever existed in the wild lol.
Also the Yellow Cartridges in the front of the Disk Writer Kiosk, were later used for NES Cartridges in American and European Regions
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Whoa whoa whoa, in 1993 i bought a disk writer kiosk in a okinawa auction. I still have it in my collection. I even have the nintendo sticker on back that says property of Nintendo and the techs that serviced it and dates. Says g. Yokoi 11/1992 pass with a few other names that i couldnt reference. What are u looking for
From what it looks like, the Disk Writers used yellow NES carts for games to write from?
Famicom Dojo on RUclips has the disk checker.
Wait. Were the games in the kiosk housed in NES game pak shells?
Yes, you see videos of it working and first you put in the game you want to copy which was housed in USA/Euro shell cartridges.
I found it curious that the yellow cartridges look exactly like the american NES carts. I wonder if any of those are out there?
Oh hey, nice RUclips Channel you got here!
Someday my channel may actually have budget.
Would Nintendo take it back by force if you refused