{"id":99497,"date":"2025-09-02T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=840c1b4c13de66bb401c973048ef7a17"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:57:19","slug":"this-ultra-rare-90s-laserdisc-game-console-can-finally-be-emulated-on-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=99497","title":{"rendered":"This ultra-rare \u201990s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/09\/over-30-years-later-a-rare-laserdisc-game-console-gets-its-first-pc-emulator\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This is extremely cool.  Had to work through over a decade of folks inventing the necessary technologies to make it happen.<\/div><p>Here in the year 2025, it's not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that's just what happened last week with <a href=\"https:\/\/ares-emu.net\/news\/ares-v146-released?ref=readonlymemo.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the release of Ares v146<\/a> and its first-of-its-kind <a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.exodusemulator.com\/Console\/PioneerLaserActive\/Software.html#emulation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">support for Mega LD titles designed for the Pioneer LaserActive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even retro console superfans would be forgiven for not knowing about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LaserActive\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LaserActive<\/a>, a pricey LaserDisc player released in 1994 alongside swappable hardware modules that could add support for Sega Genesis and NEC TurboGrafx-16 games and controllers. Using those add-ons, you could also play <a href=\"https:\/\/segaretro.org\/List_of_LaserActive_games\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a handful of games specifically designed for the LaserActive format<\/a>, which combined game data and graphics with up to 60 minutes of full-screen, standard-definition analog video per side.<\/p>\n<p>Mega-LD games (as the Genesis-compatible LaserActive titles were called) were, for the most part, super-sized versions of the types of games you'd find on early CD-ROM console of the era. That means a lot of edutainment titles, branching dungeon crawlers, <em>Dragon's Lair<\/em>-style animated quick-time event challenges, and rail shooters that overlayed standard Genesis or TG-16 graphics on top of elaborate animated video backgrounds (sometimes complete with filmed actors).<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/09\/over-30-years-later-a-rare-laserdisc-game-console-gets-its-first-pc-emulator\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/09\/over-30-years-later-a-rare-laserdisc-game-console-gets-its-first-pc-emulator\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the year 2025, it&#8217;s not every day that a classic gaming console&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=99497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}