The moment the hack is public Sony will release an update to block it. And so the game of cat and mouse continues.
That might not be true since there is no need for Sony code if you can replace it with AOSP & the Android remote play client...
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#32If running a moonlight client on one becomes possible, I might be actually interested in buying one, just for casual gaming at home. The Steam Deck looks great but is pretty expensive and a little overkill when I could just stream from my desktop to a less powerful device.
FYI you can probably just use a Logitech GCloud (https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/cloud-gaming/cloud-...), Razer Edge (https://www.razer.com/mobile-handhelds/razer-edge), Abxylute (https://abxylute.com/products/abxylute-handheld-console), or any generic Android portable gaming thing to do that.
Not sure if you even need Moonlight; wouldn't Steam Link work too?
Personally I use a GCloud and stream from GeForce Now, and that works great.
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#33I would pay money to play a silent hill remaster no other choice than to emulate it, it seems
I’d love to play silent hill 1 remastered. It was more concrete than 2, and felt more real and meaningful because of it. Also, didn’t finish it, since it was a rental
Give us rentals back while you’re at it, if the larger industry is reading this
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#34What's the market for a (non-hacked) device like this, when the Switch and the Deck already exist? Surely the appeal of a handheld is that you can bring it with you on the train, airplane, etc. What am I missing?
I have Logitech's version of this (https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/cloud-gaming/cloud-...), one of the earlier entrants into the field, and I use it both at home and when traveling, though only when there's good wifi (so no trains or planes).
In conjunction with GeForce Now, it's better than the Steam link in a few ways for my use case: better screen (1080p and slightly bigger), quite a bit lighter and easier to hold, no fan noise, no heat, much better graphics (since it's not running on a local APU, but a 4080 in the cloud). At the time, it was also significantly cheaper than the Steam Deck, although that's gotten cheaper over time too. There are also a bunch of similar $200 ish streaming Android handhelds if price is the primary consideration.
There are a few downsides, though: Its control inputs are way cheaper than that of the Steam Deck and it feels like crap and has no gyro input. It can't run local games (obviously) except cheap Android junk like Torchlight Infinite. It's co-developed with Tencent, which means China is probably spying on all your games (and your Google login).
But overall... it's fine for what it is? I mostly just play Path of Exile on it (and hopefully Diablo 4 soon) before falling asleep in bed.
I actually got a Steam Deck at one point, tried it for a couple days, and then sold it. It just wasn't as ergonomic as the GCloud for casual play. It was a pain waiting for the OS to update, games to patch and then slowly load, etc.
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#35The moment the hack is public Sony will release an update to block it. And so the game of cat and mouse continues.
It's stupid that in 2024, Sony is still like this :(
Meanwhile Microsoft has gone the other direction, opening up many Xbox games for crossplay/cross-save with Windows, partnering with GeForce Now to offer Game Pass games there (in addition to their own xCloud, which is total crap by comparison because it streams from actual Xbox consoles), and they don't care where you end up streaming it to (including web browsers).
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Notably they still sell retro games on PSN. As long as retro sales exceed the cost to lock the device down you will see stuff like this. I recall one time paying for FF7 which I played on PS3/PSP. That game alone probably makes it worth it.
Nice. I played they FF7 on my hacked PSP. Hacked PSP was a great time to be a gamer. Played through all the greats I missed like Harvest Moon, a bunch of Final Fantasy, some mega man. Nostalgia overload thinking about it.
Plus it was cool to be around for a time when the hack to get boot access was as simple as popping the battery pack open and penciling in one line on the PCB.
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#37Why did it have to be hacked to do this?
Because Sony won't let you run your own code on a product you paid good money for.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice. I played they FF7 on my hacked PSP. Hacked PSP was a great time to be a gamer. Played through all the greats I missed like Harvest Moon, a bunch of Final Fantasy, some mega man. Nostalgia overload thinking about it.
Plus it was cool to be around for a time when the hack to get boot access was as simple as popping the battery pack open and penciling in one line on the PCB.
As I recall Sony just forgot to enable the signature checks on the PSPs 1.00 firmware, and they could be bypassed on 1.50 by giving the executable a malformed filename. Simpler times.
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#39Firmware patch to negate this in 3, 2, 1...
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#40If running a moonlight client on one becomes possible, I might be actually interested in buying one, just for casual gaming at home. The Steam Deck looks great but is pretty expensive and a little overkill when I could just stream from my desktop to a less powerful device.
There are many devices that can do this that are cheaper than a Steam Deck and have great screens and controls. They come in all shapes and sizes.
I'll recommend Retro Game Corps as a great gateway into this scene: https://www.youtube.com/c/retrogamecorps
If you just want a huge list of what's available: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7...
I'll plug my own channel as well as I own many of these devices: https://www.youtube.com/@forthenext