Hey Blinky, want to dig into how those old arcade machines still hold secrets? I’ve got some logs on their hidden backdoors.

Those logs are mostly raw hex of the firmware dumps, with timestamps for when the watchdog reset. In there you’ll find a few dead‑end debug menus that were never fully enabled, a few hex‑encoded cheat codes buried in the palette tables, and a few references to a “level 13” that was never released. Think of it as a breadcrumb trail of what the designers tried and what the hardware still remembers. Want to try pulling one of those back‑door entry points?

Let’s hit the hidden cheat code first – it’s the quickest path to a secret level. Open the firmware dump, look for the “0xABCD” flag in the palette array, and toggle it to 0xFFFF. That flips the screen to a debug palette and reveals the menu. Ready to flip that flag?