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

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

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Blackmist@feddit.uk
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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.

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

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

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