The Nintendo Power flash RAM cartridge was a Japan-only peripheral produced by Nintendo for the Super Famicom which allowed owners to download Super Famicom/Game Boy games onto a special flash RAM cartridge for cheaper than the full cartridge would have been. and the Game Boy, During the days of the Famicom, Nintendo developed the Famicom Disk System, a disk drive with expanded RAM which allowed Famicom owners to use rewritable disks. The system was relatively popular, but suffered from issues of piracy and limited capacity. However, Nintendo did see the market for a rewritable game device thanks to the popularity of the FDS. The NP cartridges solve the piracy issue by the fact that they are solid-state, as opposed to being a rewritable medium like the FDS, making their use in duplication limited. The limited capacity issue was solved by maximizing the size of the flash memory in the cartridge to 32 megabits, the largest amount used by the vast majority of Super Famicom games. Each cartridge's flash RAM is divided internally into eight blocks. Unless an 8-block game is loaded onto the cartridge, however, one block is reserved for the game selection menu, leaving only seven blocks for games. In addition, each cartridge has a small amount of SRAM for game saves, which is divided into sixteen blocks. Games are rounded up in capacity (i.e. a 10 megabit Super Famicom game needs three flash RAM blocks (12 megabits), a Game Boy game that needs 100 kilobits of save space would need 2 SRAM blocks (128 kilobits).) The system does have one limitation - games that utilize a special chip (such as the Super FX) cannot be placed on the NP cartridge, as the needed chip was not in the cartridge. A user would first purchase the RAM cartridge itself, then bring it to a store which had an NP copier. The player would select games to be placed on the cartridge, and then had them loaded on. In addition, the store would provide the purchaser with a printed copy of the manual for the game. Game prices varied, with older titles being relatively cheap, and newer titles and NP exclusives being more expensive. (Famicom Tantei Club Part 2 (Remake) was an NP exclusive.)

Famicom Detective Club Part II Characters

You - A clever young detective being trained by Utsugi. It is up to you to help solve Yoko's murder.

Ayumi Tachibana - A clever friend of Yoko's. She is shocked at Yoko's loss, but quickly pulls together to help in the investigation.

Shunsuku Utsugi- A well-known and respected detective and head of the Utsugi Detective Agency. He is your mentor throughout the game.

Yōko Kojima - She was an inquisitive girl and leader of the detective club before she was murdered. All that knew her have fond memories of her.

Tetsushi Komada - The Art teacher at Ushimitsu. He is somewhat absentminded and forgetful, but helpful and cheerful as well.

Tatsuya Hibino - A fragile teacher at Ushimitsu. He is shocked beyond words when he sees Yoko dead.

Toshio Tazaki - The shifty and jumpy janitor at Ushimitsu. He has a grumpy aura around him.

Principal Urabe - The kind-hearted principal of Ushimitsu. All respect him. He treats all his students and staff like his own family.

Hitomi Kawai - A student at Ushimitsu. He is the ringleader of all the hoodlums and punks at the school. He is a gruff guy, but has a good heart. He apparently was close friends with Yoko before she was murdered.

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