The Famicom Disk System was a success. Then came the pirates.

A look at Nintendo’s Family Computer Disk System and the tsunami of unauthorized copying it unleashed. Patreon:   / retrobits   Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/retrobitstv/join Shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/retrobits Twitter:   / retrobitstv   Retro Bits earns money from Amazon and eBay Partner Links FDS Tutorials - https://www.famicomdisksystem.com/ Disk Format - https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/FDS_disk_... FDSKey - https://github.com/ClusterM/fdskey/tr... DupliFDS - https://github.com/ClusterM/duplifds Quick Disk Adapter - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:384... Thanks to our awesome Patrons and Channel Members for their support!!! Peter (Melair) Kevin Gonzalez Jon Ingersoll John DiLiberto John Trammell Paraffine Pinay Collectibles –   / pinaycollectibles   Josh K Vince Valenti hertz_donut Justin D. Morgan -    / @jdmcs   jmp 0x0000 William Sullivan Ryan Brooks James Taylor FULLSET Jim Leonard [mi.low] ALVIN L BRADFORD Mark A Andrews Martin Goodwell Don Namron Pierre Kressmann Mitch Hoffman Rayner Daniel Pedersen Wolfgang Behrens Thomas Jager Stefan Jamie Copeland Leslie Marentette Mark Krueger John T Davis Peter HlaviÄka (phl) 00:00 Introduction 00:47 Background and History 02:17 Technical Specs 03:46 Disk Writer Kiosks 04:54 Unboxing and First Look 07:54 Quick Disks 10:07 Disassembly and Inspection 12:48 Demonstration 15:16 Wavetable Audio Comparison 16:39 Piracy 17:42 Attempting our own Backup 22:50 Conclusion