FW's research and investigations
Famicom World provides some of the best, comprehensive articles on the old Family Computer, our investigations of sorts, looking into Famicom mysteries, lingering questions and oddball occurrences. If you like the Famicom, you’ll like our articles.
Some of these articles are guides to buying the best pirated and unlicensed games, some are about obscure game developers, some are, well, just whatever we felt like researching and writing about.
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American Disk System
Buying Pirated Carts
NES Cart Converters
Super Pig's Computer Magic
Product Codes: FMC and FSC
Product Codes: HVC
Side-Opening Disk System box
The side-opening FDS box is styrofoam entirely encased by cardboard. The box opens at the side.
Pulse Line Cartridges
In the early days of the Family Computer, Nintendo released games with the same label design.
Bypassing the Disk System Lockout
Pirate companies avoided using the "Nintendo" lockout indentation by simply modifying "Nintendo" to say something different.
Lights On, Lights Off
The darn Disk System will endlessly play this little lights on, lights off scene until you insert a disk or shut off the system.