I purchased a Famicom Sharp off Ebay with the pretense that it would require a simple drive belt replacement. I have replaced said drivebelt, de oxidised the metal and lightly oiled the gears so everything moves appropriatly, however the system still fails to load. Is it the disk? or are there any calibrations that I may attempt, any help is greatly appreciated, cheers

I have left it over 10 minutes in this state, the game reframes from loading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ4cT-Ohfxg

What do you mean by "side play"?

I'm going to purchase another disk based game to make sure the problem isn't just Akumajo Dracula is wiped (I thought an error code would pop up if that was the case).

I hadn't considered that the loading screen was frozen, I've looked into this and so far most consider freezing screens a belt issue, which wouldn't seem to be the case considering everything appears to be moving.

Thank you so very much for replying I'll get to work on buying another game and make another check to see if the reader head is moving.

*edit* I opened the front panel and the Reader head (the part attached to the spindle) spins appropriately

What is?
I just bought a mint copy of Metroid, if this doesn't work nothing will. My plan B is to buy a standerd FDS that works, stip its internals and replace the drive in my sharp.

Once again thank-you , i'll go check out both those sites.