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Remember, you can update the firmware by putting **FdsKey.bin** on your SD card and holding all four buttons on power-on.


## Twin Famicom compatibility
You can use FDSKey with Twin Famicom too. But you need a special cable. It's easy to make one.

![image](https://github.com/ClusterM/fdskey/assets/4236181/256291b7-1692-4cd1-9c2b-ba24c9a80ced)

It has a simple 12x1 dupont connector on the one side, you need to connect it to Twin Famicom's **Port C** on the back-bottom side (instead of the original cable).

Unfortunately, there is a non-standard connector on the other side of the cable. But you can use a SFC/SNES/N64/NGC AV connector:

![image](https://github.com/ClusterM/fdskey/assets/4236181/633a3054-31e1-4f3c-8be1-a10fc0c81377)

You can find it on [aliexpress.com](https://aliexpress.com). But you need to cut a "key" - piece of plastic on this connector, or just use the FDSKey without a case.

Connection diagram:
```
Twin Famicom Port C Connector for FDSKey
(looking at rear of console) (looking from FDSKey's side)
█████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████
█████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████
██ ██ ███ 1 3 5 7 9 11 ███
██ 8 6 2 4 1 3 5 7 9 11 12 10 ██ ███ 2 4 6 8 10 12 ███
█████████████████████████████████████████ \██████████████████████████████/
█████████████████████████████████████████ \████████████████████████████/
Pin meanings
+----+---+-----------------------+
| 1 | O | /write |
| 2 | O | VCC (+5VDC) |
| 3 | O | /scan media |
| 4 | O | VEE (ground) |
| 5 | O | Write data |
| 6 | I | Motor on/battery good |
| 7 | I | /writable media |
| 8 | - | --- |
| 9 | I | Read data |
| 10 | I | /media set |
| 11 | I | /ready |
| 12 | O | /stop motor |
+----+---------------------------+
It's recommended to pull-up at least **/scan media** pin to **VCC** via resistor (5K-10K) if you want to hot plug the FDSKey, because Twin Famicom has no pull-up resistors inside it. Also, don't forget to upgrade the FDSKey firmware to at least **v1.3**.
```


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