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NES cartridges also could have their own hardware too. Don’t like the NES sound card? You could ship your own inside of the cartridge. I think notoriously ca
by dogprez 9y ago
NES cartridges also could have their own hardware too. Don’t like the NES sound card? You could ship your own inside of the cartridge. I think notoriously castlevania 3 shipped some custom hardware in their cartridge. Some of the cartridges for the famicom came with an fm synth chip.
- mistercow 9y agoI believe this was even more common on the SNES. The most well-known example is the Super FX chip, which was used in Star Fox and Yoshi's Island among others, but there were actually a ton of these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_chips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_...