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Wes Fenlon
Personal blog · readonlymemo.com · on HN as wesfenlongameshardware
Wes Fenlon writes Read Only Memo, a personal blog at readonlymemo.com about games and hardware. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wes Fenlon's blog for its coverage of video game decompilation, including a list of decompilation projects. Comments cite it in discussion of Snowboard Kids 2 being fully decompiled.
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Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware.
Most-linked posts?
- The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-01
What Hacker News says?
If you didn't catch the link, a couple issues earlier in the newsletter I did quite an in-depth dive into how emulator developer Nemesis spent the last 15 years finally making it possible to emulate LaserActive games! Much longer than the MAME story if you enjoy the technical stuff :) https://www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-first-the-16-year-o... (And if you don't enjoy the technical stuff, well, now you can actual…
Comment linking /this-is-the-first-the-16-year-odyssey-of-time-money-wrong-turns-and-frustration-it-took-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive/
on “After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64”Submitted After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64 as a story · 343 points
HN discussionAlways nice to see another game decompiled like this. It's a big deal as far as laying the groundwork for possible ports to PC and other consoles is concerned, and will probably aid modders quite a bit. If anyone needs a full list of these projects (which includes this one), there's a pretty good selection here: https://decomp.dev/projects Though these may have a few they missed: https://readonlymemo.com/decompilati…
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on “Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled”Submitted The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive as a story · 305 points
HN discussionSubmitted FromSoft's singular mech game Chromehounds is back online as a story · 160 points
HN discussionSubmitted Year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The year of 12 hour days it took to make the SuperStation MiSTer FPGA console as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted WTF happened to Yuzu, and what comes next? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation as a story · 1 points
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