diff --git a/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/program.hpp b/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/program.hpp
index 21cc5127..abecf693 100644
--- a/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/program.hpp
+++ b/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/program.hpp
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ public:
   };
 
   ProducerConsumerQueue<RpcCommand> pendingRpcCommands;
-  nall::thread* rpcHandlerThread;
+  nall::thread rpcHandlerThread;
 
   bool fastForwarding = false;
   bool rewinding = false;
diff --git a/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/rpc.cpp b/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/rpc.cpp
index c081ed8b..2b392f53 100644
--- a/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/rpc.cpp
+++ b/bsnes/target-bsnes/program/rpc.cpp
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
-auto Program::startRpcListener() -> void {
+#include <debugapi.h>
 
+auto Program::startRpcListener() -> void {
+	// NB: There is no cross-platform way to read from a pipe in a non-blocking 
+	// way. So instead, we're going to spin up a blocking thread that reads stdin
+	// and processes it. What's even worse, is that we can't even properly 
+	// terminate this thread since there's no timeout on blocking stdin reads,
+	// all we can do is force-terminate this thread on exit.
+	rpcHandlerThread = nall::thread::create([&](auto param) {
+		OutputDebugStringA("HELLO IT WORKED LOOK AT THIS\n");
+	});
 }
 
 auto Program::stopRpcListener() -> void {
-
+	rpcHandlerThread.cancel();
 }
 
 auto Program::processRpcCommands() -> void {
-
 }
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