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Floppies and cassettes had slow access times and lacked the ability to use mappers to extend functionality. Pluggable ROM cartridges had a lot of advantages and
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Floppies and cassettes had slow access times and lacked the ability to use mappers to extend functionality. Pluggable ROM cartridges had a lot of advantages and were used by computer systems of the era too.
Besides, Nintendo did have the Famicom Disk System in Japan, which used rewritable floppies.
- bullen 5y agoEverything can do anything, you need to look at what the majority did. And not even 0.0000001% of NES/Famicom owners had a keyboard and a disk drive and out of those probably 0% did any coding since Nintendo to this day does not allow you to run what you want on your hardware unless you hack it.