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Family Computer => Famicom / Disk System => Topic started by: KirbyGod on May 27, 2024, 06:43:44 pm

Title: What is this pirate famicom device?
Post by: KirbyGod on May 27, 2024, 06:43:44 pm
What is this?
(https://www.nesworld.com/pics/fdscopy.jpg)

To me, it appears to be way to attach a fds to a parallel port. Am I correct?
Title: Re: What is thie pirate famicom device?
Post by: TurtleKirby1234 on May 28, 2024, 11:03:17 pm
I'm not really sure. The picture is too low-res, and it could easily be unrelated to the Famicom. Could you provide more pictures?
Title: Re: What is thie pirate famicom device?
Post by: ericj on May 29, 2024, 08:35:26 am
It's the I Line-PC, but I'm not sure what it does or if it interfaced with the Souseiki Fammy and/or a PC. I've never run across one for sale. Maybe someone else here knows something about it.
Title: Re: What is thie pirate famicom device?
Post by: P on May 29, 2024, 03:52:04 pm
From the clips on the sides it looks like a "Centronics" micro ribbon connector typically used for parallel/printer ports. The name "I Line-PC" also sounds like you connect to some kind of personal computer, but what kind and with what purpose?

I recognize Ai-Tsuu (also written as "I2") as those that made Kosodatte-gokko, Tonkachi Editor and other hacking tools like Disk BASIC (which ports a Family BASIC ROM to an FDS disk) (https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=292927#p292927).

Searching in English gave me nothing, but "コダカラくん" (Kodakara-kun) did work (https://gamecatalog.net/kodakara-kun/) and "Iライン-PC コダカラくん V2.0" (V2.1 is also there) is mentioned in catalogs as a "disk system game" sold for 9800 yen by Ai-Tsuu. There are also other Ai-Tsuu disks there, like one used to convert ROM to QD (disk), I guess using the Souseiki Fammy device.

I should probably read our own threads about the subject, found one here (https://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=13869).
Title: Re: What is thie pirate famicom device?
Post by: KirbyGod on May 29, 2024, 06:35:48 pm
I found it here.

https://www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=nes&data=neshardware_fds (https://www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=nes&data=neshardware_fds)

Picture is at the bottom.