Flipper

Looking at the schematics (and yes, unreleased documents have a nasty habit of being WILDLY fscking different than reality), the AUDIO pin ties in to the same point as the EAUDIO pin from the cart connector (which we KNOW is a audio input at least). Searching upwards on the schematic, there is nothing that should prevent you from drawing an audio signal from that pin, or injecting one of your own. A crude method of checking this is to measure the resistance between EAUDIO and AUDIO. Less than several megohms and you're probably seeing a true connection. The same appears to hold true for the CVIDEO pin. Injecting your own signal there would be difficult as you have no method of shutting off the internal resistor ladder and color mixer. The MLUM and MCOL pins DEFINATELY appear to be outputs. Building your own resistor ladder should give you SVIDEO out the expansion port. Of course, I have not real hardware, or I'd actually do something about it.

It was on a 7800, but it was years ago, and I only had the one game Ms. Pacman. I was IMMEDIATELY struck by the 'pastel' feel to the 7800. However, I have only seen one game on the real hardware.

Was there a marketing directive that every game must include purple? See the purple clouds in the summer games intro, the red ghost changed to purple in Ms. Pacman. And then the general pastel feel to the video output. The 2600 had such vibrant colors, I'm rather surprised they went that route. Starting to learn to program the thing, and I wonder if there is some color selection issue I'm missing. Have yet to try anything on a real console. Got rid of my 7800 YEARS ago when I thought I'd never get around to develop for it.

How can I convert the resulting .BIN file to something that can be included in DASM? I'm sure someone has an incbin utility for DASM so I needn't reinvent the wheel.