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by dmitrygr 195 days ago
That only dumps the data. That’s the easy part. None of that dumps the melodies.

The pin outs that page links to are also not quite accurate. I need to finish editing my other article on this.

I have indeed looked into the original Pixter. Deeply: I have decoded the bus, documented the device, dumped games, and produced a working emulator.

The cartridges do contain memory. Most of them are about 1 MB in size, split between code (the maximum for which is 32 kB) and audio effects + images which occupy the rest of the space. If you are very, very curious and don’t want to wait for me to finish my editing, email me and I can explain how it works.