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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.
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.