*NEW METHOD* Fastest Easiest Famicom Disk System Belt Replacement

A new method of replacing the Belt on the Famicom Disc System or Twin Famicom,
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No spring removal, and no trial and error calibration, just set it and play it! The tutorial is quite long, but hopefully should be easy to follow.

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[JamalTheTitan]

8 years later and this video is still helping people like me. Thank you. Got my drive calibrated and games are working great.

[emmettturner]

Just subscribed after watching your first video from nearly 6 years ago. Waiting for that second video. ;) No pressure or anything!

[dannythegaminggeek]

Just wanted to chime in, but this method didn't work for me. I have the model with the square hole instead of the round. What did work was removing the disk holder, turning the cog till it clicked, loosening the screw and rotating the spindle to face the head, tightening the screw and putting it back to together. This is the same method described at famicomdisksystem.com. I know others here mentioned it didn't work with the square hole model too.

[bitgium]

This probably the best tutorial I have ever followed! Thank you very much. Out of the six discs I own only one I can’t get to work.
The metal piece on my spindle didn’t have the hole. I took a picture it looks different from yours

[james]

I replaced the belt and got my FDS working again using your method, Thankyou very much (:

[einherrjar]

best tutorial for FDS belt replacement.
worked like a charm!
many thanks!

[fatst]

Someone get this man a beer, he’s a genius! Great tutorial, easy to follow, works a charm. Must have been designed like that from the start. I can’t see them ripping drives apart and fiddling with the spindles for hours on the production line and repair centres. Quick and easy. Thanks!

[cremaster]

Thank you for posting this guide. Worked great! The trickiest part for me was getting the spindle plate removed. I still don't really understand how I did it. Oddly, placing it back on was easier.

[thejervis]

Still getting error 22 after doing this! Any help would be appreciated! Even then my belt still keeps slipping upward when the drive runs….

[ragnaroktomorrow]

Worked like a charm. Thanks so much for this.
A couple changes/notes from my experience:
- I didn't bother with the cables, i just lifted the circuit board out of the way enough once the screws were removed.
- my replacement belts were too small to tape together like that so I just let it sit in roughly the right spot with no issues.
- In my initial post repair tests, the system looped infinitely trying to read the disk w/o any error codes. it turned out the black toggle switch the read head slides back and hits wasn't getting triggered. Not sure why this was happening but after sliding the read head back and forth and toggling that switch manually several times, it started giving me the read errors I expected.

[bobfrasure]

This method didn't work with my 1985 (older) model. I had to take the plastic top off of the drive, and align it the hard way (as seen in other videos) - by allowing the spindle to spin until the drive clicks, then rotating the spindle hex screw to face the heads. Before doing that all I got was error 22 and some 21. One tip that this doesn't mention which may save all of you a lot of time is when you test a floppy, hold it in the slot after pushing it in. This simulates the plastic backing which has been removed when you are making adjustments to the hex screw. Before doing that I got a lot of error 27 messages.

[nathantauber]

Thank you for the video, I followed the guide and managed to fix my Famicom Twin. I already had a famicom twin which was fully working so I had a reference but the alignment was different for both. I found that for the white disc hole I needed to line this up withthe notch in the PCB (just a bit more to the right than you had) I tried many different positions, adjusted the drive speed and fiddled around with other bits but nothing mattered. Once I found this spot I was sweet with all my disk games.

[TheSocialGamer]

Commenting to update the last known date of a viewer... lol I just ordered my first Japanese system a Famicom and the Disk System ..!

[AaronWonders]

Very comprehensive! I have a disk system that this could very well remedy 🤔. Thank you for your time with this video sir!

[tombombaci]

This method did not work for me. I too have a square hole in the gear. I also tried the method of removing the disk carrier and rotating for the mechanical click method without success. At this point I figured it was just something I had done incorrectly since one of these methods should have worked. I tested various positions of the gear. With the black square at the 5:00 position, the drive read a factory disk, a re-written disk as well as a disk with a Game Doctor. I hope this helps someone. Could just be dumb luck.

[knuxtaben]

Anyone still get Error 22 after following all of the steps in the video? Any advice would be appreciated

[Spiritwrl]

Fantastic tutorial! This wasn't my first time replacing a belt, but thanks to you, it's been the easiest! Thank you so much!

[Bisen]

Thanks alot! was a bit worried since This was the first time i would try but it all went great, didn't even have to calibrate since it just lined up perfectly from start. very nicely done with all the explanations and pictures to show directions.

[maniaque]

thats alot of job for the easiest way to replace those belts. why they made it so hard to replace a damn belt ? not smart. they should have made it eqasily accessible with only a few screws to remove. not having to disassemble the whole thing. those belts also seem to fail miserably often. they put such a cheap belt in there. i never had a single pc drive or even other drives fail on me in all my life.

[xreel]

This method worked at first but then my drive stopped working after a few minutes of testing and now i can't get it to read any game and get's err 27