PS5 emulators are making good strides of late. AnyPS5 is especially quite the flex: run PS5 games natively your Linux gaming PC. 💪
Piracy is the only way of owning stuff
What about when you have to log in and have the license registered to your account or you can’t play even if you downloaded the game? Genuine question because college textbooks often do this.
College Textbooks are some special kind of evil because there is someone forcing you to buy them. But in the real world without some school trying to screw you? Just pirate something else or use something that is free. There are so many books covering the college subjects.
If buying ain’t owning…
Buying a limited license is not owning… I mean, yes you own the license, but can’t even sell it. Congratulations.
I don’t know that consoles have a future.
The business model is they sell you the hardware at a loss, and they make up for it licensing games.
If nobody is buying (or, more accurately, renting) games, then how do they make money? It’s just a PC with a weird OS at that point.
Won’t buy another console, xbox already tried discless and will again as soon PS goes through with this. Piracy is the way until they get their act together.
I never plan to buy another console, and I’ve been collecting them for over 30 years.
Once Sony stops making discs I will no longer be buying any games for PS5, and I will complete my platform transition to PC (already have most of my shit there at this point).
I don’t rent shit, and I minimize subscriptions. I will continue to own my own shit, bought or otherwise.
I suppose Nintendo could potentially have a desirable future console, but I would never buy something that they can brick remotely at will (such as the Switch 2).
… I guess if Sega decided to try and make a new console I’d have to buy it as a Sega loyalist, but I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
We’re on the same boat. After having everything from the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intelevision, all the way to the PS5,this is where consoles die for me.
I’m waiting for a slight ‘breeze’ in my wallet to build my own Bazzite driven “Steam Machine” and calling it a day.
I did something that you might find viable as an option but there was a lot of work involved to do it, including running wires through my walls and automating some things and writing scripts. But I have a button in my living room that turns on my gaming PC and I can play all my games over LAN via KVM
So basically when I press the button, I have a custom launch screen I built that times down from 30 seconds. This means if I turn my PC on at my desk I can still just choose desktop and use it as normal. If I choose “big mode” or let it time out then it runs a script and turns off PC monitors, sets my video to the TV, sets my audio sink to the TV’s HDMI port (pulseaudio is a motherfucker, why do I have dozens of dynamic audio sinks??), and launches emulationstation. Which is a very nice UI that launches all emulators from NES era up to PS3 and Nintendo Switch. It also launches all my steam games. I use the USB ports on the KVM for controllers.
I fine tuned all my emulators quite a bit. Upscaled graphics to 4K, a couple scripts to make sure controllers don’t get stuck to only controlling emulationstation after launching a game, my original wavebird GameCube controller was pretty bad about this haha. I think it had something to do with the adapter. Most of them work great though, esp if it’s just wired straight to USB
The KVM I got is great. It does 4K @ 60hz with no latency that I can tell. Here is a link. $160 was a small price to pay to be able to play all my games in the living room with a banging sound system, etc. https://a.co/d/07NeJ4NH
I did have to run a dedicated Ethernet wire just for this. It goes from the transmitter to the receiver through my basement. I’m considering running a long USB from the receiver back through my basement to plug in controllers next to the couch, but that’s down the line a bit once I start running speaker cables for surround sound.
This is seriously interesting. Thank you.
Could you share the implementation and architecture with us (minus all the PII, of course).
I have a network closet that runs 2 - 3 cat 6a cables (3 if there’s an AP in that room, 2 if not) to each room in the house plus all the CCTV cameras oitside (direct to frigate in Home Assistant, with Coral TPU and all that good stuff), so it could be I don’t have to run more wires (maybe the USB, sound like a solid idea).
Nice dude.
I’m taking all my friends with me too, got most of them set up with Linux PCs too at this point.
Each one teach one
My friend gave me an ASRock Extreme4 Z97 motherboard. I’m gonna try putting CachyOS on it and see how it runs games. That’ll be my own Steam Machine if it meets my performance expectations.
The Steam machine stats are absolutely pathetic by PC Master Race standards… but that’s the thing–they are actually targetting the median Steam user and they have the data. I think the most common GPU is around a 2060 right now. We reached the start of the top of the S- curve a decade ago, at least.
Edit: Nope, it’s 1060. Bwahahaha.
Edit: Ugh. It was a 1060 I guess when DDG was training it’s AI. Currently 3060.
Most common is 3060? That’s much higher than I expected. I assumed we had all regressed to ancient technology due to shortages
If we do not own the games when we purchase them, then piracy is not stealing. Don’t want to give us ownership when we pay for it, okay. Pirate everything. Jailbreak the PlayStation, download the games, and put them on an HDD/SSD, whatever, and play them. That way, you own the game and can play whenever you want.
That said, I don’t think this sentiment of Sony is new. I think many companies have been doing the “you just get a license but don’t own the thing you purchased” thing for a long time. Sony is just currently the company that is getting the most attention for it.
It is why I always say, “Get a PC, learn to pirate everything, and purchase the software and games from independent developers (indies).”. That way, you own the software and the games while also supporting the developers that deserve it.
This way, you don’t have to worry about the whole “you don’t own the product” thing, keep money in your pocket, which is economically wiser in today’s times, and you can support the developers that deserve it.
There’s really no reason to pirate on PC if your goal is to stay busy and have a good time. Steam Sales are frequent and the library is deep.
Shit, you talk to people who have had Steam for a few years and their biggest complaint is they’ve bought so many damn games they haven’t gotten around to playing yet.
I believe he meant pirating games for other consoles based on the context
But yeah, I get dope shot on Steam and GoG for $5 or less on the regular (and with GoG I get to keep the install files and do whatever I want with them)
Real question: what are the terms of steam sales? Do you own or license?
Real answer: you really can’t completely trust anyone. No doubt they could legally fuck you over somehow if they wanted to, just like everyone else does, but because they are a private, they are not forced to make line constantly go up by cannibalizing their user base.
Apparently Valve allows each developer/publisher to post their own games of sale, albeit some enforcements across the board.
Honestly, I disagree. I will speak for myself, but I can stay busy, have a good time while pirating games, and keep the money for myself (perhaps spend it on something else). Sales or not, there’s still the whole issue with Denuvo DRM (at least for me) and sales are not what they used to be. I have had Steam for years too and only bought a few games and Wallpaper Engine. Not everyone keeps purchasing games on Steam and never play them.
I just think that piracy is the better option nowadays, economically (keeping money for yourself), ownership of the game(s), and not having to deal with Denuvo DRM.
Haven’t heard of Denuvo DRM in a long time. Is that still a thing? I’m running on Linux, and I think Steam is pretty devoted to as open an OS as possible.
And piracy doesn’t have Denuvo, but it sure as hell can have viruses; it’s not risk-free.
I’m not too worried. If Valve ever goes public, I’ll buy a drive and download all my games from the server, but otherwise, Í trust I’ll be able to download whatever I need in the future.
Yeah, Denuvo DRM is definitely still a thing. In fact, they recently announced that they’re suing the anonymous person who is cracking their DRM. They rather sue a person or group that they don’t even know than actually getting their DRM better. Funny, isn’t it?
I know piracy does not have Denuvo; that’s why I love piracy as well. I mentioned Denuvo DRM because people who purchase the games legally still have to deal with it. Certainly, piracy is not risk-free, but if you follow the right guides, use your common sense, and have knowledge regarding technology, the risk is very minimal.
I mentioned Denuvo DRM because people who purchase the games legally still have to deal with it
don’t have to. I’m not living frugally and no game in my library uses denuvo
Yes, but how do I have to “deal with it” on Linux? Is it spyware? I know some games basically want kernel level access to prevent cheating, and that’s Steam’s only real stumbling block on Linux.
many companies have been doing the “you just get a license but don’t own the thing you purchased” thing for a long time. Sony is just currently the company that is getting the most attention for it.
Because Sony decided to explicitly jump the gun and declare the future of video games as “digital only”. Yeah, Nintendo, XBOX and even Steam have declared their digital games to be “licenses”, but at least with the first two, there’s still the option of physical disks/cartridges (for now. I really don’t trust Nintendo not to pull something like this due to the Game-Key Card nonsense), and with Steam, AFAIK, you can easily back up the downloaded software.
