You are right, apparantly Jason and the Argonauts PAL release had 30 seconds of test signal at the end.
There is also a service test disc you can get from Pioneer which is to used in conjunction with an oscilloscope - something I know Karyudo is looking into.
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Anyway, on the progress front, I've just installed a new 80GB hard drive, so I can get started on this project for real now...