FDSStick

FDSStick

It's a Famicom Disk System (FDS) drive emulator.
Holds 255 disk sides (128Mbit flash) with a built-in game selection menu.
Write games to FDSStick over USB, then connect to a FDS RAM adapter to play.
Push the button to change disks (once for side A, twice for side B, etc.) or hold to eject.
Leave the USB side connected to run games directly from a PC.
Read and write disks from an FDS drive with an adapter cable (not included).
Game Doctor disk format is fully supported.

For international orders, please go to Tototek.com.

Option

Windows software (last update 17 May 2016) Changelog
~~GitHub repo Multi-platform. Sorry, outdated for the moment, this works with older firmware. Update coming soon...~~

Making an adapter cable

For disk reading and writing, join two RAM adapter cable ends together. Nintendo AV cables (for SNES / N64 / Gamecube) can also be used, you'll need to cut the bumps off them to make them fit.

     ##########################   
  ################################
  ###  C   A   8   6   4   2   ###
  ###                          ### 
  ###  B   9   7   5   3   1   ###
  ################################
  ################################

      End of RAM adapter cable

  Join pins 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, B, C from one connector to the other.
  Leave the other pins unconnected.

Most AV cables have some pins missing (if you know one that doesn't, let me know!) I've found that Cinpel SCART N64 cables have enough pins, but one is in the wrong place.

If you only want to read disks, splice all the same colored wires on a Cinpel cable together EXCEPT black, leave it unconnected.
For writing, also join the black wires, then open up both connectors and move pin 8 to pin 5.

Twin Famicom

Use this pin mapping for connecting FDSStick to a Twin Famicom.

                                                   ##########################   
  ##########################################    ################################
  ##########################################    ###  C   A   8   6   4   2   ###      
  ##                                      ##    ###                          ###     
  ## 12 11 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1  ##    ###  B   9   7   5   3   1   ###    
  ##########################################    ################################    
  ##########################################    ################################     
               Twin Famicom Port C                  End of RAM adapter cable              


  Twin Famicom     RAM Adapter        Other end of RAM adapter cable
  Port C                              (blue connector to cart)

    1    ----------    A    ---------    10 (black)
    2    ----------    C    ---------    7  (violet)         
    3    ----------    B    ---------    9  (white)
    4    ----------    9    ---------    4  (yellow)
    5    ----------    7    ---------    8  (grey)
    6    ----------    5    ---------    3  (orange)
    7    ----------    3    ---------    6  (blue)
    8    ----------    1    ---------    5  (green)
    9    ----------    4    ---------    1  (brown)
    10   ----------    2    ---------    12 (cyan)
    11   ----------    6    ---------    11 (pink)
    12                 8                 2  (NC)

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