is a disk system worth it.

[Frank_fjs]

Well it looks like im gonna find out

Nice work! Did you grab one from 80sFREAK?

[ulera]

Yes. I really shouldn't have but he is a fantastic tempter with the sale he has going on.

[senseiman]

I just got my first fully functioning FDS about a week ago.  I`m having a great time playing some of the classics like SMB2 so from that perspective it is worth it.

The fact that it took me 3 and a half years, while living in Japan, to get a working one should be taken as an indication of how much of a headache it is to find these things in reliably working condition.  I`ve actually owned about 6 or 7 of them over the years, including a Twin Famicom that I paid a ton of money for since it was alleged to have a working FDS, but all of them were duds.

[HokusaiXL]

It's honestly not hard to get them back into working condition, and the most you're going to pay for a belt is 5-10 bucks.  You just have to have to educate yourself on how to repair and maintain the FDS, be it stand alone or in a twin.

Best information resource so far is http://www.famicomdisksystem.com/tutorials/fds-repair-mod/belt-replacement-adjustment/.  I bought my disk system in 09 in non working condition, but it had a belt packed with it.  Within an hour of reading, and two hours of work, it was working almost flawlessly.  I say almost because I sourced my information from another site that lacked the spindle adjustment information.  After reading that however, my FDS, three years later works like an absolute dream.

Will I replace the belt in the future when it breaks?  You bet I will.  Sit down for a few, read up, do a little homework, and you'll be able to keep an FDS running for decades.