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.

@asie doesn't that also mean that all the dates are incorrect since 1989, since the showa era ended?

@foone@digipres.club I don't think the date is displayed anywhere, and according to the NESdev Wiki, post-1989 Nintendo just kept incrementing it, so...

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@asie @foone a pity, that, makes it hard to expand it outside of non-BCD spaces... I guess one could also loop around to before the FC's release

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