You must log in or # to comment.
The problem isn’t a lack of feral reverse engineers and crackers. Console protections are like catnip to that crowd. The problem is the starting state is a lot worse.
Windows PE files aren’t encrypted (Yes their content may be but the entry point and key loader would still need to be stored as cleartext) and can easily be copied and decompiled. The ability to run debuggers isn’t locked behind having an undisclosed zero day or unpatched device. Arbitrary code execution is available by default. And the APIs aren’t all NDAed
My console is offline 95% of the time, behind a slow connection 5% of the time. No physical media would mean not buying any new game. No new games means there’s no point in buying the latest console to play new games.
It’s different because you can CTRL-C CTRL-V a game
The feral, passionate coders are the true heroes.
I wish it was true for operation Lovecraft, the dev is a complete scammer making more than 100k a year and missing every launch window while making a closed beta game even worse with micro transactions battlepasses, all of it. He even added Denuvo to the goddamn thing because his always online bullshit was easily emulated. The F95 thread has like 1000 pages of discussion of the more than 10 years it has taken for the game to not release.
Well that was an interesting rabbit hole to go down
There are also competing digital market spaces. You can only buy through Sony on PlayStation.
tbh the wonders of the Feral PC Army include several groups writing console emulators. I am successfully running: Wii, Wii U, Switch, OG Xbox and PS3 emulators as we speak. I understand Xbox 360 and PS4 are also out there, but I haven’t got 'round to them yet.
Interestingly, a lot of media for these emulators is just kind of laying around on the internet for anybody to download.
It’s kinda funny to me because the OG Xbox is what I still use for emulation. Mine has a 2 TB HDD and runs XBMC (what eventually became Kodi). I love that thing and it is still my media server as well. Having to use FTP is a little annoying in the modern day, and it has gotten hard to find disc’s to burn to it, but it still runs like a champ.
Wow that’s impressive. The thing was built like a brick. I had one back in the day and had several games (all of which I downloaded and am running for the nostalgia hit).
One game I found I never knew existed is Tron 2.0. I can’t believe I never even heard of this game, I would have been all about it. The nice thing about the emulator is it has an upscaler and games in HD are absolutely dynamite, especially Tron 2.0.
The thing was built like a brick.
Also flies as well.
Tron 2.0 is the true sequel to Tron. All others are inferior.
When I was in highschool I was a huge Tron nerd. I actually sanded down my laptops lid and etched TRON in big letters on it, painted it all up in black and blue. Wish I had a picture of it.
360 might be the single most buggy emulator I play. Shit runs on thoughts and prayers
So it the perfect Xbox 360 emulator?
Worse than OG Xbox emulation? Last time I checked, it was rough to say the least, with absurd hardware requirements.
Honestly, yeah it is. OG Xbox emulator has gotten a lot better, but 360 still has the frame drop issues and a LOT of texture fixing problems. So you can spin the camera in just about any game and the textures are flying at you
We do have decomps in the pipes apparently for those exclusives that keep me hopeful. Fable 2 has one halfway running as of I think a few months ago.
Hahahah
Also, on pc, anyone who wants a physical media are free to create them as they please (assuming no drm or piracy, of course)
GoG is the best place for offline installers
Yes but aren’t they shit people
A company is not people.
?? okay
Aren’t all the people who make up the company shitty, either by direct overt action or by being complicit in their inaction?
Happy cake day :)
Already? Oh, my!
Thanks!
(sob) i love u guys
Thank u
PC master race.
Fair
Oh really? Then where is my pirated version of Marvel Heroes?
I mean, it has to be worth cracking in the first place.
Boooom hahahah
oh wow, that’s impressive
Runs shockingly well too.
I dont even have a disk drive on my self build PC and my next Laptop won’t have either. I let other people built physical media storages. And some of em put them on torrent/Usenet/etc.
2009scape as one example
