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TakuikaNinja Mar 7

And here's the dev log for the diskmag: https://takuikaninja.github.io/2026/03/06/dreamful-diskmag-devlog.html

Developing Dreamful Diskmag

So what went into that 40th anniversary celebration for the FDS?

TakuikaNinja’s Disk Drive

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TakuikaNinja Feb 26

The sequel

TakuikaNinja Feb 22

I beat the second quest for The Legend of Zelda (FDS) over the weekend to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Challenging but very fun!

TakuikaNinja Feb 21

In other news: Nice collision handling in Nazo no Murasamejou

TakuikaNinja Feb 21

Today (2026-02-21) marks the 40th anniversary of the Famicom Disk System!
Here's an English diskmag to celebrate the occasion.
https://github.com/TakuikaNinja/FDS-diskmag/releases/tag/v1.0
https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=26487

TakuikaNinja Jan 27

I didn't miss out on the FDS homebrew this time!

TakuikaNinja Jan 25

So uh, the hidden FDS BIOS screens are still accessible in ACNH's new FDS furniture item. Why they used the earlier 01 revision instead of 01A, I don't know.

TakuikaNinja Jan 17

Reverse-engineering serial protocols be like

TakuikaNinja Jan 9

so I found out why the FDS has a DRAM refresh watchdog system today...
(image stolen from forple)

TakuikaNinja Dec 31

Micah Cowan Nov 29

I've been working on an annotated disassembly of Nintendo Family BASIC, which is an implementation of BASIC for the Famicom. It came with a keyboard, which had audio jacks to connect to a cassette tape recorder for loads/saves, and could also save one program to battery-backed RAM.

It features a background thread to handle (baked in) sprite animations, so even though it's BASIC, some animation tasks can run fairly fast, even while other BASIC code runs!

https://github.com/micahcowan/fbdasm/blob/main/README.md

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