FDS on a toploader

TheNEScollectorTheNEScollector
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Hey. I was wondering if you could connect a famicom disc system to a toploading nes with a Famicom Converter on it.  I don't plan on buying one, but I was just wondering.  I couldn't really find too much info on the topic.  I know you need to connect the disc system through the cartridge slot but I don't know if the toploader is even able to run the disc system, or if there are more hookups along with the one in the cart slot.

Thanks!

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  • EnslavedEnslaved
    I don't think the top loader has the expansion bay that allows for the FDS to be connected the way it needs to be.
  • removed04092017removed04092017
    You could if you wired it up right. But it's not worth it.
  • MasonSushiMasonSushi
    Originally posted by: TheNEScollector

    Hey. I was wondering if you could connect a famicom disc system to a toploading nes with a Famicom Converter on it.  I don't plan on buying one, but I was just wondering.  I couldn't really find too much info on the topic.  I know you need to connect the disc system through the cartridge slot but I don't know if the toploader is even able to run the disc system, or if there are more hookups along with the one in the cart slot.

    Thanks!



    I will checkit with my  toploader for you tonight with a converter.
  • Hades RejectsHades Rejects
    I thought I saw somewhere that you could when I was looking at Doki Doki Panic.

    Imagine that, it was on You Tube!


  • ZingZing
    From what I understand, it can work, however you won't get the extra sound channels from the FDS. The two pins which are intended to connect to the sound hardware in the FDS were redirected to the bottom expansion connector.
  • DuarteDFDuarteDF
    Wow that's much simpler than I thought it would be.
  • TheNEScollectorTheNEScollector
    Wow! I didnt think it had any chance of working, i kind of want to try it now! Next thing to get? Famicom Disc System... Maybe...
  • TanookiTanooki
    I've wanted a FDS off and on over the years, but my concern now though is age. How viable are those old magnetic disks after all these years? Age isn't kind of that kind of media and I doubt you can just go out and buy a 3" disk drive and new blanks easily to recreate all the goodies.
  • EnslavedEnslaved
    Now that I know that it will work, I kinda want to get an FDS...
  • KHAN GamesKHAN Games
    I don't even understand why you'd consider it wouldn't work.
  • ElijahElijah
    Whats the point, seriously, just buy a powerpak!
  • samaronsamaron
    Originally posted by: Tanooki

    I've wanted a FDS off and on over the years, but my concern now though is age. How viable are those old magnetic disks after all these years? Age isn't kind of that kind of media and I doubt you can just go out and buy a 3" disk drive and new blanks easily to recreate all the goodies.


    Like all other floppy disks from the 80s, these too eventually will suffer from data loss. Unless you find a way to create backups. Almost all my Amiga floppy disks and Commodore 64 tapes have more or less died now.

    The FDS use a quite odd size (2.8"
  • TanookiTanooki
    Yeah I had a feeling that was the case, but I've never heard of occasionally running up a disc will re-magnetize it again for awhile.
  • DuarteDFDuarteDF
    Originally posted by: Enslaved

    Now that I know that it will work, I kinda want to get an FDS...

    x2


    Originally posted by: jdheins

    Whats the point, seriously, just buy a powerpak!


    For the same reason that people collect the NES carts... With a powerpak you wouldn't need any of that.

  • TanookiTanooki
    Powerpak will be mine soon. I think once I clear my next round of ebay fodder I'll order it. This way I can enjoy the FDS without the impending sooner than later death of 25 year old magnetic disks. I'll get a game here or there still for NES, the best of the best I know I truly want a legit version of, but I'm dumping the rest so what's moving now is my nicer stuff.
  • samaronsamaron
    Maybe someone will figure out how to make an interface so you can connect the FDS to a modern computer and re-write the software to the disks. I've read some places that they had kiosks in Japan where you inserted blank disks and bought a new game or software that the kiosk wrote onto the blank disk. Maybe someone here on NA could get their hands on one of those and do a "backup restore" service?



    I found a tutorial on how to make a crossover cable for a Commodore 64 floppy drive. Dug out an old computer that had a serial port and Windows 95, and fired up a program called StarCommander (looks like Norton Commander). That program could write C64 image files onto the floppy disks. Really cool to play what ever I want when I want and still use the original software/hardware.
  • ElijahElijah
    Originally posted by: DuarteDF

    Originally posted by: Enslaved

    Now that I know that it will work, I kinda want to get an FDS...

    x2


    Originally posted by: jdheins

    Whats the point, seriously, just buy a powerpak!


    For the same reason that people collect the NES carts... With a powerpak you wouldn't need any of that.




    Mostly refering to the fact there is no sound, I'd rather play on a powerpak with sound, than on a real FDS with no sound
  • TheNEScollectorTheNEScollector
    So we think it would work, but have any of you guys actually tried it? It's not that i dont trust you, just that i would hate to buy one and not be able to even test it...
  • videogamehuntervideogamehunter
    I try it before with my converter and I couldn't get a good picture.
  • TheNEScollectorTheNEScollector
    ^ How bad is it?
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