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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So I remember this Asian kid I used to go to school with. He had an snes with an attachment on top that took floppy disks. He showed me some overseas games on it. I have no idea what that thing was but that's what this reminded me of

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It was probably a disk copier. Here is a video that goes over how those work. https://youtu.be/MP9YR4BXrzA?si=VTgIynQI2fjaXjxE