Eggerland/Lolo FDS kiosk-only game

Started by nintendopete, July 31, 2018, 04:00:26 pm

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Indeed. So question remain. Why is the Fax Disks still so rare? According to what I came across they were overwritten by Nintendo of people sending them in. But if that mean Nintendo as headquarter Nintendo (Kyoto only) or local retailer across country? Because the overwrite mail service was available through all country and not only to Kyoto.

So yes, the Disk Writer would likely reject it. Or the clerk him/herself. But that makes no sense because if Nintendo could do it, then they also would be able doing it, unless they used different type of writing soft/hardware in the headquarters because then makes sense that they are so rare and that Nintendo was the only one could do it.

A real mystery.... ???

P

Yeah the disk writing equipment Nintendo used, most likely didn't have any such limitations, or they could be overridden. A normal FDS drive can be used to write disks with, if you have the software (though later drives did have a write protection circuit as we all know).
So a customer sent in a blue disk for a fax event that is already over for rewriting? I see no reason for Nintendo to deny that. On the other hand, a store clerk might not be able to take such decisions themselves, if they indeed were instructed to not rewrite blue disks.

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Quote from: P on August 08, 2018, 03:09:59 pm
Yeah the disk writing equipment Nintendo used, most likely didn't have any such limitations, or they could be overridden. A normal FDS drive can be used to write disks with, if you have the software (though later drives did have a write protection circuit as we all know).
So a customer sent in a blue disk for a fax event that is already over for rewriting? I see no reason for Nintendo to deny that. On the other hand, a store clerk might not be able to take such decisions themselves, if they indeed were instructed to not rewrite blue disks.


Sure, although quality can be anything from between "OK" to "Less OK" compared to Disk Writer quality since the revision earlier for example using a FDSstick connected to PC via RAM is like well, comparable to industry printer vs home printer if you know what I mean.  :P

Anyway, yes. Reason it tend leaning toward Nintendo exclusively did it, simply becuase they are so rare. If any clerk could do it, I suppose they would be more common. Guess we have trying to track down someone that worked in the FDS department of Nintendo, somehow.  :-[