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Revision as of 00:01, 22 January 2014

Family Computer Disk System
Family Computer Disk System - FDS - Japan.jpg
Platform: Famicom Disk System
Year: 1986
Developer: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Buy: Amazon
For the platform, see Famicom Disk System.

Family Computer Disk System, often called the Famicom Disk System, is peripheral device of the Famicom. Rather than use ROM cartridges, games are played off of disks which allow storing save games without the need of a battery. Games could be written to disks relatively easily, and back when the device was still popular, you could get a new game written to your disk at a kiosk for a low price. Although the device was quite popular in Japan, it was never released in the USA.

While the Family Computer Disk System isn't a game by itself, it does have a BIOS which features a couple jingles and a graphic demo of Mario and Luigi fighting over a light switch.


Screenshots

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The Famicom Disk System booting up.

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Loading a game from a disk.

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Mario and Luigi fight over the light switch.

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The system was notorious for disks going bad.


Music

The the device needed to be able to read from disks and flip floppies, a little bit of feedback was given to the players in the form of jingles. There is a brief boot up jingle, an even shorter loading jingle, and an error buzz (not recorded). The boot up jingle title comes from the official album, the other track name is unofficial.


Recording

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Title

Composer

Length

Listen

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01 Disk System Hirokazu Tanaka 0:06
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02 Loading Jingle Hirokazu Tanaka 0:01
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Credits

(Missing source, game lacks credits)


Albums

The official album, released to promote the Bionic Commando remake features several of the game's audio tracks, though it is missing most of the shorter songs and fanfares.


Game Rip

Formats

Download

Size

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Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.


Releases

  Japan.svg   Japan
Family Computer Disk System - FDS - Japan.jpg
Title: ファミリーコンピュータ ディスクシステム (Family Computer Disk System)
Platform: Famicom Disk System
Released: 1986-02-21
Publisher: Nintendo Co., Ltd.


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