Great video. A lot of new info for me.

Should have been made in the US...

Great video. Excellent presentation and production. No fluff, no filler. You are a good teacher. I always learn watching you.

The Odyessy had the best marketing team, or whoever make the box art for the games. I remember as a kid seeing the box art for Quest for the Rings and wanting so bad, even before I saw the actual game.

TI-99/4a is better, fight me. Mostly because while company that made it didn’t win the computer war, they also didn’t go bankrupt less than a year after a product release ten years later. HEYOOOO!

Phantasy Star.

Great video! Just got myself a 1084 mono version, works nicely but I really need SCART for it and ordered one from ebay.

Thank you.

The mourned return

What's interesting regarding using the MT-32/CM-32L/CM-64/CM-300 was some games (such as Gradius II: Gofer's Ambition) would actually have both FM and LA synthesis at the same time. So if you just used the MT-32 for music, you would be without a good few music channels. Also, some games such as Akumajou Dracula X68k also programmed custom patches for the MT-32 and related LA synthesizers.

64 bits not 64K bits just 64 bits and you thought the 2600 was underpowered.

Now i know which game to get for my ST

I see someone modded his 1084 for SCART.

The Ataris had better colour, the Spectrum had a faster CPU but if you just even look at the C64 demoscene stuff coming out still in 2024 it's clear itwas the best 8-bit all rounder.

Best video about AP! Thanks!

i buy electric guitars from japan and the one thing that i think makes it a good place to buy and import from is that the Japanese are so careful with their possessions , not all but most , so they are generally in tip top condition and complete

Thank you!

Your title makes it sound like piracy is bad or something

great video. thank you.

There was also a second edition of this thing with better background graphics. Ours had the brand Philips on it. Same machine. Pick axe pete was my favorite.

The blue disks are not "later releases" but special releases mainly meant for competitions and uploading your scores to kiosks for chance to win prizes. Yellow disks were very much the standard and were not replaced by blue disks, they just coexisted for special versions

The adult titles were not officially licensed by nintendo. They are much more related to disk system piracy as unlicensed games and dumps and other info on the games identify them as such.

THREE shades of grey, and TWO shades of B R O W N (the best colour)

I came here bc I wondered if it was possible to, rather than circuit-bend, program new words into to the classic TI Speak and Spell.. So, this is the first step on my learning path..👍

I love that lad, a three month warranty.

After looking up what the heck the Laser 128 was, it’s basically a clone of the Apple II manufactured by VTech in 1986 according to Wikipedia, weird 🤔

those carts for the disc writer, look suspiciously like NES carts.

I was only 6 in 1988 when my father showed me how to load games on our C64. I didn't pay much attention to anything else (I was only 6!) I have been interested in revisiting the platform a little more seriously lately and this is definitely going to help in getting a decent setup. I am really interested in building one maybe even cannibalize a mostly dead one.

I have 3 questions for you: 1 - The plastic wrap in which were packed your unit was original o was repacked? 2 - You modified original hardware (the unit and the disk) for creating this video? That would be such a crime. (Even less orignal units from the 80's still alive). 3 - I have a Unit i bought some years ago from Japan and it looks brand new, but how could i know if it is a first edition or have implemented the later copyright protection? (without opening it).

If you want a 32X, I’ll send you my childhood system gratis which is complete in box. I’d be happy for you to have it as I think it’s a good trade for the entertainment I derive from your videos. My son isn’t interested and I certainly don’t use it anymore.

I owned a c128d in those days. But the only command I remember, is "GO 64" ;-)

YES to Disk Writer! Long term FDS owner here!

The fact that Retro-Bits doesn't have 500k followers by now is a shame. Great work as always, Matt!

Am I the only person who thinks its NOT the 1541? But a 154L... That clearly isnt another "1" at the end...

Awesome video - a great follow up to your previous one. Those vending machines to re-write the discs were genius - economical for the consumer whilst still bringing in the money for Nintendo. I didn't know too much about the disc system at all and didn't realise it was packed with all the extra upgrades. You made a solid choice on picking your unit up 👍😉 (ps great job on mcGuvyering that typewriter disc!)

A fair comparison, congrats!

I own 2 of these bad boys... a rev-5 model and a rev 0 (no copy protection). I use a FDS stick to copy my floppies and a PC using a special usb adapter. The FDS stick only has 256 MB of memory but can get most of the library on there. The famicom was light years ahead of what Atari was doing at the time. Amazing what a 1.79mhz CPU, extra memory, good talented programmers can do. The 3d Logo printing was a very very cool idea. Trying to find real disks are getting expensive.

Nintendo has all their kiosks in their warehouse and not one has been leaked outside anywhere, well I think one has and someone did dump that bom but no one has got it working on real hardware

I've got a Twin Famicom all so I could play Metroid as it was originally designed. It's a fun machine, but I could stand to diversify my library of disks.

The FDS Key and FDS Stick are great modern alternatives for physical FDS disks, but I'll happily stick with FDSLoadr on MS DOS. Loaded off a floppy disk, of course. :p

Dremel out Nintendo into a rectangle....bingo

I don't think I'd buy anything to be honest. Between my Evercade with SD flash cart, Spectrum Next, and A500 mini I can pretty much play anything I want. I'm just not into the whole collecting and buying sub-culture. To be honest I think a lot of men that I see buying this stuff have become "addicted to shopping". It's kind of like the old stereotype that women like to shop! , I'm seeing it more with men these days and I actually think it's kind of mentally unhealthy. It's facinating that many men have become addicted to the experience of shopping, the hunt for a bargain, the fascination with the "price" of a game at resale, than actually playing and enjoying the games themselves. There's this sort of fetishization of the packaging itself, a mass market item, that astounds me. For myself I just don't want the clutter (and I'm sure my family doesn't want to deal with that after I'm gone), and my enjoyment of retro games is in playing the games themselves, not it fetishing the box or packaging or caring about the resale price of games or systems. I can't justify buying all this stuff especially if you're only interested in actually playing the games rather than storing a pretty box that nobody I know in real life would even care about or be impressed by. I'm just almost entirely practical about my game and system purchases rather than ornamental; am I actually going to use this to play games on? That's how I tend to look at it. I'd end up visiting Akihibara; looking at everything, then going home and either buying a cheap evercade compilation cart, a cheap indie steam or itch.io game for my PC for a few bucks, or break out an emulator. I don't see any value in supporting the 2nd hand market like this; it doesn't help fund developers or anything like that it just funds redundant resellers and flippers. I'd rather throw $5 towards some small indie developer for their new game on itch than support the flippers on the 2nd hand game market that don't provide any new value.

I would have just removed the front plate of the disk drive where the "Nintendo" bits are instead of 3d printing replacement end pieces. But I guess there's more than one way to pirate Nintendo.

If only it had come to America

Very nice. I would need to do quite a lot to get this stuff working here in Europe, so it's great to see it in action here! Cool!

Didn't the master have 3d glasses aswell?

So with the disk nintendo embossing, if you remove the front of the drive, does that remover the security lock out on the disks?

You have to buy that disk writer that has got to be a unique item and the value will only increase. I'm surprised it is that cheap.

I was always curious on seeing how copying those diskettes for the FDS works. Thank you!