You’d be surprised. A lot of older hardware had ports available that were literally never used. Or they were only used for one thing many years after release.
The hardware was limited, and they wanted a way to expand the capabilities if a partner wanted to do something “extra”, and it really didn’t cost much to put them in place.
I wonder why homebrew hasn’t taken advantage of it either. I’ve seen people do lots of cool things using unused expansion ports on other systems like Gamecube’s SP2 or the NES’ bottom expansion port.
You’d be surprised. A lot of older hardware had ports available that were literally never used. Or they were only used for one thing many years after release.
The hardware was limited, and they wanted a way to expand the capabilities if a partner wanted to do something “extra”, and it really didn’t cost much to put them in place.
I wonder why homebrew hasn’t taken advantage of it either. I’ve seen people do lots of cool things using unused expansion ports on other systems like Gamecube’s SP2 or the NES’ bottom expansion port.