#pioneerlaseractive — Public Fediverse posts

There Was A Mega LD?
The newsletter Read Only Memo has an article stating that at last the Pioneer LaserActive, a laserdisc player capable of also playing games with attachments, has finally been emulated, by someone called Nemesis.

Image from Read Only Memo.

This is weird. This was around the time of the PC Engine and Mega Drive/Genesis, years after the
https://setsideb.com/there-was-a-mega-ld/
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Ars Technica: This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC. “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 the release of Ares v146 and its first-of-its-kind support for Mega LD titles designed for the Pioneer […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/11/ars-technica-this-ultra-rare-90s-laserdisc-game-console-can-finally-be-emulated-on-a-pc/

The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive

https://www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-first-the-16-year-odyssey-of-time-money-wrong-turns-and-frustration-it-took-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive/

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