I have noticed that there is this strange 10-pin port on the back of the FDS RAM Adapter. This port exists in addition to the cable coming out of the RAM adapter that goes to the Disk System. What was it used for, if anything? A port for a slave drive, perhaps?
Just an I/O port, Nintendo never used it. AFAIK, only Hacker's Hacker Pro used it for communication with the box.
Kyuusaku, was it you or someone else that mentioned to me that they thought it was for RAM expansion and that the Hacker Pro is the only one that took advantage of it for this particular reason?
I always thought of it as similar to the port on the bottom of the NES...just in case expansion is needed or other peripherals. I think NOJ was just foreseeing that the FDS disk might be too small one day, but then memory got chep, so they never needed it.
-Rob
Yup it was me. Hacker used it to slowly shuffle data in and out of the RAM box, but serially of course since there's no control. It's not useful for anything other than COM though so maybe Nintendo had a FDS only peripheral in mind.