Randal Linden
Tools And Emulation Programmer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarRandal Linden is a veteran tools and emulation programmer with four decades of experience building high-performance software, firmware and DRM systems, currently shaping emulation tooling at Limited Run Games from Seattle. He founded bleem and R and R Digital, architecting run-time recompilers, consoles-to-PC/Dreamcast emulators and the compact, feature-rich Cyboid FPS for mobile and TV platforms, all demonstrating deep assembly-level and systems expertise. His work spans reverse engineering, custom build systems, compression and copy-protection schemes—several of which remained uncracked for years and earned patents—while also shipping consumer hardware firmware at Microsoft (Band, Kinect, Xbox controller). On GitHub he continues low-level SNES development (Doom-FX), showing ongoing mastery of memory-constrained, bitwise and decompression techniques. Colleagues know him for turning stringent hardware limits into elegant, compact solutions—like squeezing full engines into kilobytes or megabytes—while leading teams and solo projects to production.
6 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (8)
compression10
assembly10
bit10
assemble10
assembler10
compress10
bitwise10
reverse-engineering9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RandalLinden/DOOM-FX
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
Doom/FX for Super Nintendo with SuperFX GSU2A
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Randal appears to be focused on low-level programming and data compression techniques for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) platform. Their primary contributions involve implementing and modifying assembly code to decompress data used in the "doom-fx" project, specifically for the SuperFX GSU2A chip. The commits show a detailed understanding of memory management, bitwise operations, and the SNES's hardware limitations. The changes include modifying and adding functions used to decompress various data formats.
super-nintendoarcadegenesisseganintendo-ds
RandalLinden/ACCESS
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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