Fun fact: the Famicom Disk System has a Y2024 problem!

The FDS stores the disk's manufacturing/rewrite date using a binary-coded decimal year in the Shōwa era (so 1926 is year $01, 1927 is year $02, 1935 is year $10, and so on).

This means that the last year which can be expressed in this system is 2024 - Shōwa 99; which is still out of bounds for the era itself, but acceptable by the Nintendo header standard.

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@asie well, there goes the idea of implementing a Famicom DOS, a little too late to get on that :(

@asie admittedly am curious as to whether the date code is ever actually read by any software, and using hex from A0 would give us about 90 more years

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