Disk Writer

[kite200]

Do any shops in Japan still have them? Maybe featherpluckn' will know when he gets back but I'm really curious

[Nickv]

someone please sell us some game doctors!!!!:-D

[kite200]

someone must make a buisiness. I can envision it now


www.famicomwriter.com


charge 5 bucks to write games to disks.

It'll be nessacary once they all get demagnatized from age

[Doc]

Do any shops in Japan still have them? Maybe featherpluckn' will know when he gets back but I'm really curious

They were discontinued in 2003.

[kite200]

I think 2003 was when nintendo stopped doing the mail order thing. Correct me if im wrong but...

[Nickv]

i wonder if anyone ever got a whole disk writing machine. That would be the ultimate collectors item. Some one must have one if they were in so many stores

[JC]

I'm curious about how the Disk Writer works. I was looking at a pic of one and noticed what are nine windows on the front of it that show yellow NES carts, presumably holding the games to be put onto your disk. Is it really possible that the writer would transfer the game from the cart to the disk?

[kite200]

It probably could, but it probably didnt. Does that even make sense?

[JC]

That doesn't make sense. If it didn't use the carts, then the carts would have to be for aesthetic value or marketing (to show disk games worked like cart games)...but then why would they use NES carts instead of fake Famicom ones? It's gotta be that the NES carts were used to write. Unless, those yellow things in those windows aren't even carts...

[featherplucknfilms]

They do look like the should be real carts, similiar to the ones used in the Hotel Boxes and NES.  It would make sense that they would write from the carts, that would be an easy way to replace and update the games you could write. 
It's too bad I think all the Disk Writers have been gathered by Nintendo and are in storage in the basement or buried with Gunpei.

[kite200]

They're in the basement, if you check jap wikipedia it's pretty much confirmed.

[manuel]

Someone has to work for Nintendo and sneak into the basement.

There must be still some disk writers around. When I remember right, I once saw one on yahoo auctions.

[featherplucknfilms]

Must have been the game case version 

[Nickv]

a full write would be AMAZING!!!!! we must find one!!!!

[JC]

If there was ever one at auction, the price would be astronomical. We'd all have to chip in -- and then probably still couldn't afford it.