After 30 years sitting in storage, I decided to get my Famicom system up and running. I knew about the drive belt issues and had replaced it following other videos. However calibrating the disk properly had been a challenge. Other videos showed one way to loosen the hex nut and slowly rotating the spindle and retightening it. This is very time consuming. I followed your method by rotating the gears until I heard a click and then aligned the drive nut. All the games that were showing an error during the load process no longer have errors. Much appreciated. Thank you again. If you encounter another issue such as audio buzz and decide to do a video on fixing it that would be awesome too! The forums I found have not been helpful.
I also went through the hell of replacing the belt and calibrating that thing. After two hours of messing around, I finally got it working. But not for long. After several games of Doki Doki Panic, it has quit its service. I never touched the system again since. But with this video, you awaked something in me. 😄 By the way, I noticed that we live in the same country, so... Mega gudd Videoen mëss du do. Mäin éischten vun dir wor den R.O.B.'s Revenge. Endlech ee gudde Repair-Video iwwert dee klenge Kärel op YT. A super opwendeg gemaach. Respekt dofir. 👍Mäin zweeten wor lo deen heiten. Du hues mëch direkt geflasht matt dénger Professionalitéit am Video schneiden an och am Englësch schwätzen. Maach weider sou. Hun dir een Abo do geloss. 😉
This video is what I watched before finally successfully calibrating my Famicom Disk System- I've been trying off and on for close to 2 years now! Watching someone do the drive head calibration really helped, not sure what I was doing wrong before but I never got my disks to work right. Wondering if my calibration is still slightly off though since I had one game throw an error 27 (and then work the second time I tried it), Metroid seems to load really slowly, doing like 3 passes of the disk each time it needs to load something, and I have one game giving an error 23 when it actually was the one disk that worked fine when I had the drive head *miscalibrated*. It's a factory disk, but maybe a bad write on it? Anyway, thank you!
Is there anyway to adjust the head without an allen key that you know of? I had it working at one point, but now it won't read my games, and I don't have the correct size tool for it. Perhaps there might be a position to rotate it to which might give a better result before plugging it back in?
That was a very cool teardown video. I am having an issue with my FDS in the way that whenever I try to save to a disk I get an "error code 26", which is an Unable to write to disk error. I have tested it with 2 different Zelda games, one of which the seller tested with proof that the system does indeed write to the disk card. i received that particular disk and of course it does not save. I am pretty convinced that it is the disk system itself. The games boot up just fine, I just can't save anything. I have the Power-02 power board, with what looks like the copy protect daughter board. My drive is the FD7201. Supposedly the belt was changed already. I would imagine it is not the belt because the games do boot up. I have tested it with both a 9v power adapter, and batteries. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hard to tell without measuring thru some components but when you ask me i would say the problem could be the motherboard or the ram adapter. The disk system or generally the Mitsumi Quick Disk system uses one and the same head for read and write so when it reads chances are low that it is an issue with the drive itself. Also there is a lock out chip in the system if you are not using an original nintento disk, chances are that this causes an issue aswell....
@@MancaveEffects FWIW, the ram adapter saves fine with the FDS stick. It's like why bother if I have a FDS stick? But I really do enjoy the total experience the way it was meant to be lol.
After 30 years sitting in storage, I decided to get my Famicom system up and running. I knew about the drive belt issues and had replaced it following other videos. However calibrating the disk properly had been a challenge. Other videos showed one way to loosen the hex nut and slowly rotating the spindle and retightening it. This is very time consuming. I followed your method by rotating the gears until I heard a click and then aligned the drive nut. All the games that were showing an error during the load process no longer have errors. Much appreciated. Thank you again.
If you encounter another issue such as audio buzz and decide to do a video on fixing it that would be awesome too! The forums I found have not been helpful.
Words cannot describe just how helpful this video is!
Ultimate repair guide right here
I also went through the hell of replacing the belt and calibrating that thing. After two hours of messing around, I finally got it working. But not for long. After several games of Doki Doki Panic, it has quit its service. I never touched the system again since. But with this video, you awaked something in me. 😄 By the way, I noticed that we live in the same country, so... Mega gudd Videoen mëss du do. Mäin éischten vun dir wor den R.O.B.'s Revenge. Endlech ee gudde Repair-Video iwwert dee klenge Kärel op YT. A super opwendeg gemaach. Respekt dofir. 👍Mäin zweeten wor lo deen heiten. Du hues mëch direkt geflasht matt dénger Professionalitéit am Video schneiden an och am Englësch schwätzen. Maach weider sou. Hun dir een Abo do geloss. 😉
Daat freet mech! Hoffen du kris den Disk System rem un d goen! 🍻🍻
Thanks, great video (Brazil)!
Brilliant work, I just wonder where to get the belt from?
Dude that’s awesome
This video is what I watched before finally successfully calibrating my Famicom Disk System- I've been trying off and on for close to 2 years now! Watching someone do the drive head calibration really helped, not sure what I was doing wrong before but I never got my disks to work right.
Wondering if my calibration is still slightly off though since I had one game throw an error 27 (and then work the second time I tried it), Metroid seems to load really slowly, doing like 3 passes of the disk each time it needs to load something, and I have one game giving an error 23 when it actually was the one disk that worked fine when I had the drive head *miscalibrated*. It's a factory disk, but maybe a bad write on it?
Anyway, thank you!
Is there anyway to adjust the head without an allen key that you know of? I had it working at one point, but now it won't read my games, and I don't have the correct size tool for it. Perhaps there might be a position to rotate it to which might give a better result before plugging it back in?
may i know what grease did you used on mechanical part? cos i dont have an idea. i thought tamiya grease can do that. thanks.
Honestly for this i used regular machine grase from the store, nothing fancy
Lithium
I got one all ready restored there was even game saves on the ram adapter
Fds untested is been restored.
That was a very cool teardown video. I am having an issue with my FDS in the way that whenever I try to save to a disk I get an "error code 26", which is an Unable to write to disk error. I have tested it with 2 different Zelda games, one of which the seller tested with proof that the system does indeed write to the disk card. i received that particular disk and of course it does not save. I am pretty convinced that it is the disk system itself. The games boot up just fine, I just can't save anything. I have the Power-02 power board, with what looks like the copy protect daughter board. My drive is the FD7201. Supposedly the belt was changed already. I would imagine it is not the belt because the games do boot up. I have tested it with both a 9v power adapter, and batteries. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hard to tell without measuring thru some components but when you ask me i would say the problem could be the motherboard or the ram adapter. The disk system or generally the Mitsumi Quick Disk system uses one and the same head for read and write so when it reads chances are low that it is an issue with the drive itself. Also there is a lock out chip in the system if you are not using an original nintento disk, chances are that this causes an issue aswell....
@@MancaveEffects FWIW, the ram adapter saves fine with the FDS stick. It's like why bother if I have a FDS stick? But I really do enjoy the total experience the way it was meant to be lol.