Comment on Famicom Disk Writer Kiosk Advert
addie@feddit.uk 1 week ago
As well as being able to ‘rent’ disk games, the Disk System could also connect to a couple of inputs on the system to play audio, which means the FDS versions of eg. Zelda and Castlevania have another track available for sound, so their tunes are particularly banging on this system.
In the west, those inputs were repurposed for the 10NES anti-piracy system, so we got worse music and a console that was less reliable, particularly with age. Yay.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 week ago
Castlevania 3 sounds quite better on FDS indeed, but cartridge Metroid is by far the worst case of this in my opinion.
Part of the soundtrack is missing channels that contribute to the main melody. Even the now iconic item fanfare was barely recognizable in that version.
Also of course there’s the fact the FDS Metroid had actual saves on the disk, and they just didn’t implement them in the cartridge version, unlike Legend of Zelda. Instead we got that painfully long password system.