#like trying to make a bot even more compatible with Minicons and get more usage out of them

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So question, how do the Cassettes work?

Like I get that they're Minicons, but they also live inside Soundwave, with their alt modes being specifically for storage and audio playback inside Soundwave's chest. I mean I can buy that Soundwave might have had that compartment built in for them, but how does that work for them?

Were they built specifically for Soundwave? Did they change their alt modes to become cassettes? Why? Or was it just coincidence that they happened to already turn into those? And on Soundwave's side of things, did he already have that chest compartment before the Cassettes or did he get that later? Did he always have the Cassettes?

I know the answers vary between continuities; I think in TFP the Cassettes resided on him rather than in him, in TFA he probably built them himself, and I think in some continuities he might not even have them. But the Cassette situation is strange to me and I want to know how it's supposed to work, especially in situations where they were all their own things before meeting, like in IDW