Famicom Disk System (FDS) errors

[ericj]

I've found that with error 27, if you can get to the screen where you choose a saved game, if you delete all the saved games, the disk will work okay again. If you get this error before you get to that screen, your disk is probably shit. Error 27 is 'block end mark seen but ends prematurely'.

I always hold my breath when I load a FDS game, 'cuz you never know when that fuckin' belt is gonna snap or an error code is gonna pop up.

[133MHz]

Why isn't FDSLoadr a solution?
(I don't have a FDS so I never had much interest in it - I wanna know why it didn't take off among FDS fans)

[nurd]

There aren't really any detailed instructions for it.

The kind with close, high quality pictures, and red circles.

Also I'm a child.

[nintendodork]

I was looking through my DDP instruction booklet, and I noticed it had a chart that told what all the BIOS errors meant.  Could someone give me an English list of these?

[ericj]

Is this what you're looking for?:

http://www.famicomworld.com/Disk_System/Error_Messages.htm

[nintendodork]

Yes, actually...

Thanks alot eric!


EDIT** lol how would you get error 2?

Err. 02 = No disk power supply -- batteries and/or AC adaptor.

or error 30

Err. 30 = No space left on disk card (full).

I swear..some of the things Nintendo of Japan thinks of

(I don't have a FDS

Hm?

BUMP

So I take it 133MHz still doesn't have the FDS :-/

no he has it.
plus he knows how to write disks..
but give him time to make a thread about it...k?

HMMMMMMM?

[ckenda1]

It is the Battery error meaning it isn't getting current from the AC or Batteries.

I've tried brand new C batteries as well as an AC adaptor.  I've pulled the board out and hooked everything back in.

Still get the same error.  The board doesn't appear to have been burnt or anything; the system is just not getting power.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[133MHz]

You have to distinguish between the disk drive not getting power and the good battery signal not being generated.
Both of them cause ERR. 02 by different reasons.

[nintendodork]

How can you even get Error 2?  If there's no current going through the FDS, how can it power on and tell you there's an error?

[ckenda1]

How can you even get Error 2?  If there's no current going through the FDS, how can it power on and tell you there's an error?

Because the error comes from the RAM adaptor presumably.  Which is in the FC, which does have power.

You have to distinguish between the disk drive not getting power and the good battery signal not being generated.
Both of them cause ERR. 02 by different reasons.

How would I go about doing that?  What are my options?

Thanks

EDIT: Removed double post.  --JC

[nintendodork]

Oh, so it turns on through the FC..

I get it.

[nensondubois]

How do you even erase FDS saves?

[Rogles]

A magnet?

[JC]

Perhaps that's not even a funny suggestion 'cause someone might take it serious. Each game's erase function may be slightly different. Some games give you the option to kill your save. Some, like Doki Doki Panic, don't have an erase feature.

[nintendodork]

But you can erase the save without harming the disk on DDP