Show HN: Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate

Category: devtools

Tags: reverse-engineering, game-porting, playdate, decompilation, embedded

Score: 8.0/10 (Innovation: 9, Technical: 10, Documentation: 6, Utility: 5)

A detailed technical write-up of porting the game Super Hexagon to the Playdate handheld by decompiling an unstripped Linux binary, using Frida trace-matching and Ghidra's delinker to rebuild the game, then reusing the original game logic via a 1000-line openFrameworks shim. The project demonstrates an advanced reverse-engineering workflow and novel testing approach with a custom Playdate API shim called playghost.

Target audience: Game developers, reverse engineering enthusiasts, embedded systems programmers

Repository: https://captnemo.in/superhexagon/

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