Excellent 
I like when you talk about «derailed on 6502 assembly».
I ventured myself past year in 680x0 assembly, programming an Amiga with UAE. Then i’ve stopped , thinking «no , there is too much to do with actual technologies».
I love this gaming era, it was when i was a true gamer héhé. Now, i don’t have time anymore, but i like to launch an emulator sometimes. I don’t know consoles very much, and Star Ode does not return results from Google. Is it related to Star Odyssey ?
For the music, do you plan to use a replay-routine, or convert the output of your player to an ogg (like i did for Mulu) ? I’d like to use a true tracked music for my next game, and i’m still wondering what is the best way.
Doing a search on the name, i’ve hit this very interesting thread
I’m impatient to see your progress!