> > It is elegant though - these cartridges plug into the cart slot on the console > > (-cart1), and supplies you with another cart slot for your game (-cart2). The > second > > cart slot is not present if the pass-through cartridge is not inserted. This > matches > > real life perfectly, and is not going to change. > > No, it is not elegant, and it does not match real life perfectly. > > Having -cart1 and -cart2, indexed thus, implies heavily that the original console has > two cartridge slots. It doesn't. > > The correct way that this should be handled is for the voice cartridge to add its own > child slot, which more accurately reflects how the hardware worked: > > -cart voice -voice:cart kcmunchkin
yeah, gotta agree with Moogly here, this becomes even more important in more complex situations.
there are yet more complex situations still where a single devices needs to be connected in 2 places in order to function, but that bridge can be crossed later.
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