While include_bytes is nice, xxd -i in a makefile is pretty workable solution in the scale of things.

Fair point, however I believe the OP made the game work for many different OSes, and I don't think xxd or Makefiles are the best when you have to deal with Windows (whereas Rust's include_bytes! provides a platform-independent solution).

I had never heard of xxd until your comment though, so thank you very much!

Somehow I'm reminded of the old adage "UNIX is IDE for C"

Now I have to rewrite my arcade game emulator in rust just so I can use that to load rom images...

include_bytes! is for compile-time inclusion of files though, not for runtime.

Yeah but when it only runs 15 games with a max size of 32K... But yeah it makes it non-distributable because it would then include the images.