Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
  • Irelephant@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

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

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      6 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.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 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.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

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