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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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