Famicom Dojo: The Battery Backup
See more at FamicomDojo.TV: famicomdojo.tv Season 1, Episode 2 In episode two, we take a look at how the Famicom Disk System revolutionized console gaming (despite never being released outside of Japan), and the subsequent advent batteries of the battery backup cartridge. As a result, games like Metroid required a password “save” system when it came to the US because battery backup cartridges were not yet cost-effective enough. The Zelda games had a battery backup save that imitated the functions of the disk system, but neither game was capable of the expanded sound that the Famicom Disk System allowed, and so had to have its music and sound effects reprogrammed. There’s much more. Read our show notes to find out! Weekly Podcast: famicomdojo.tv Follow: twitter.com facebook.com
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Holy mother of….. It’s a copy of Mother. That’s one mother? Mother? mother of a game.
that’d be? nice.
Some day we should do a Denshimail on how to replace? those. It takes some special tools and some solder, and you’d lose all your save data… although if the battery is dead the save data is gone anyway! :/
My mother cart’s battery died. ;_;
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I was thinking that would make a good? idea for a series of videos. Reviewing the Japanese games that are radically different than their us counterparts.
I’m sorry! I got that confused for another product. Yes, the card cleaner does? clean disks. (Badly-named, but it does the trick!
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The video we originally linked back in 2007 that shows all of the differences between the two versions has since been taken? down. We should just do our own.
The whole lack of Ganon laughing at the game over? screen totally ruins the Japanese version of Zelda II for me.
wait then what is the card cleaner good for if it dosent? clean famicom disk?
No, the Disk games are a different animal. There’s not really much to do that? won’t also damage the data. :/
Don’t worry, i used to work with? a guy who looked like tom green.
What are some? good famicom cartridge games?
can’t the famicom card? cleaner fix/clean the disk games?
why is mother such? a big deal. i have 1-3.
Anyone notice that he is? holding up mother 1 at 0:40 ? He NEEDS to do a vid on that, its such a good game its impossible not to
I really really wish they had released? the cassette drive in the US.
I like cassettes…
Jesus Christ I hope you didn’t actually use that tape as a means to record data
. That is one of the awsomest records ever produced and to erase that tape would be a crime.? Nice insert though
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Oh,? shimuta! LMAO
Glad someone else noticed too! ? I am a bigtime Queen fan.
the joke got old 5 mins after? it started.
the intro theme of Zelda II is sooooo nostalgic. It reminds me of when I was a kid, and everythime I hear it, it takes me? wayyyy back.
I used to have a flesh wound like you. But then I took an arrow to? the knee.