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[โ€“] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You could a little with the later component cables where there were separate ones for the different colors, but the "original" composite cables (yellow, red, and white) only had one video cable and the other two were left and right sound. You could get odd patterns in the static with the sound plugged into the video port, but that was about it. Before that was the single coaxial cable that carried video and sound together, so there wasn't easily available messing with that without damaging the cable or doing magnetic or RF shenanigans against an unshielded cable.

That said, if you get into messing with some of the old hardware in different ways, you can get some real wild effects from those old analog media standards/hardware/cables.

There's small communities online doing stuff with it. Search for analog glitch art, analog data moshing, and circuit bending (although that last one is more abusing where digital circuits and hardware are susceptible to analog style weirdness due to basic physics of how electric signals work "analogly" between components).

[โ€“] owl@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

I looked it up a little, pretty cool what people do, thanks for pointing me towards that. Found a cool website explaining the different disciplines: https://glitchology.com/

I remember seeing a video a long time back where someone powered an NES from batteries and showed how it shut off, not instantly, but gradually. It was straight from a creepy pasta. I found the video again: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zTqcb8hl8YI&t=10m18s