A signal is a signal. For system hardware developers it might have been a quick and dirty way to debug the hardware. It could also be an abandoned feature for low level developers and cartridge development teams. We may never know the real answer but it’s not an unreasonable thing to use the thing designed to output waves as a quick hookup point for logic analyzers / oscilloscopes.
I had a major brain fart and forgot you can connect audio over a cable too. Yeah, now that I’m thinking about it more it wasn’t that uncommon to transfer data over aux back in the day. I was imagining using a microphone which would have been silly.
A signal is a signal. For system hardware developers it might have been a quick and dirty way to debug the hardware. It could also be an abandoned feature for low level developers and cartridge development teams. We may never know the real answer but it’s not an unreasonable thing to use the thing designed to output waves as a quick hookup point for logic analyzers / oscilloscopes.
I had a major brain fart and forgot you can connect audio over a cable too. Yeah, now that I’m thinking about it more it wasn’t that uncommon to transfer data over aux back in the day. I was imagining using a microphone which would have been silly.