• Irelephant@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Nintendo was planning on adopting floppies iirc, but they were too easy to copy from.

    • Blackmist
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      5 months ago

      There was definitely a SNES floppy drive you could buy for piracy purposes. A few kids at school had them.

      Not sure if it worked with larger games or Starfox which supposedly had an extra SuperFX chip to do 3D work.

      • Cypher@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        No supposedly about it, Starfox was the most famous example but having extra hardware in the cartridge to power games was a thing.

    • hark@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Nintendo did use them for the add-on Famicom Disk System but that was all the way back in the 80s.