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Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by johnnyanmac »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #15
zerocrates wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Deck is twice the price of the Portal, at minimum. Of course it's also vastly more capable. They're really not competitors, except for the Deck's use case as a streaming sink from a PC; this is more a "you've got these nice controls and screen, sure would be nice if you could use them for more" situation.

You can buy a refurbished 256 GB Steam Deck for $319, and there’s an app to easily use Remote Play with your PS5! For not too much more money than the PS Portal, you can also download your entire Steam collection + non-Steam games (Minecraft w/ mods + shaders), and have a fully-functioning Linux machine! Personally, I’m very confused on who exactly the PS Portal is for, but the only important thing is that people are…

>For not too much more money than the PS Portal

60% more money is signifigantly more. That was about the price gap between the 3DS and Vita and we saw how that ended (even though Vita hardware was far superior). And of course we're comparing used tech to brand new MSRB price as well.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by hx8 »

solardev wrote: post #35
hnlmorg wrote: post #2

The 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)…

In 2023 I looked into these options. The Game Pass games are not compatible with proton and they did not support streaming to Firefox running on Linux. It wasn't exactly an open ecosystem.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by solardev »

hx8 wrote: post #43
solardev wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)…

In 2023 I looked into these options. The Game Pass games are not compatible with proton and they did not support streaming to Firefox running on Linux. It wasn't exactly an open ecosystem.

Not open, but more so than Sony's.

Also, have you tried GeForce Now? Not sure if it works on Linux/Firefox. It runs on ChromeOS at least, so if you're okay with that distro, it ought to be a much better experience than GamePass (but only a subset of GamePass games are supported).

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by scheeseman486 »

doubled112 wrote: post #12
hnlmorg wrote: post #2

The moment the hack is public Sony will release an update to block it. And so the game of cat and mouse continues.

I did enjoy this cat and mouse game when I got my first PSP. That was quite a few years ago.

That wasn't so much a cat and mouse game, rather a bunch of hackers playing keep away with Sony's hat. The PSP's security was "defeated" literally from day one since the v1 firmware launched unsigned executables, then after that there was exploit after exploit, then the whole pandora battery thing and finally the host keys got leaked and it was game over.

I bought my PSP at launch and it spent the vast majority of it's lifespan with some kind of custom firmware installed.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by ejj28 »

solardev wrote: post #32
ejj28 wrote: post #20

If 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 G…

The GCloud and the Razer Edge are both significantly more expensive than the PS Portal if I recall correctly though. The Abxylute does seem similar in price, although I'm guessing the PS Portal likely has better controls (being essentially a Dualsense split in half) and maybe a better screen.

Also yeah, Steam Link would work too but Moonlight/Sunshine generally seems to work better.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by ejj28 »

Shad0w59 wrote: post #40
ejj28 wrote: post #20

If 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…

Very impressive spreadsheet, I appreciate the link.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by hx8 »

solardev wrote: post #45
hx8 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In 2023 I looked into these options. The Game Pass games are not compatible with proton and they did not support streaming to Firefox running on Linux. It wasn't exactly an open ecosystem.

Not open, but more so than Sony's. Also, have you tried GeForce Now? Not sure if it works on Linux/Firefox. It runs on ChromeOS at least, so if you're okay with that distro, it ought to be a much better experience than GamePass (but only a subset of GamePass games are supported).

GeForce Now does not support Firefox. GamePass also works on ChromeOS.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by solardev »

hx8 wrote: post #49
solardev wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not open, but more so than Sony's. Also, have you tried GeForce Now? Not sure if it works on Linux/Firefox. It runs on ChromeOS at least, so if you're okay with that distro, it ought to be a much better experience than GamePass (but only a subset of GamePass games are supported).

GeForce Now does not support Firefox. GamePass also works on ChromeOS.

It's so weird. I thought they were just streaming a video; wonder what specifically Firefox doesn't support?
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