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[-] greenskye@lemmy.zip 92 points 1 month ago

There are also competing digital market spaces. You can only buy through Sony on PlayStation.

[-] morto@piefed.social 66 points 1 month ago

Also, on pc, anyone who wants a physical media are free to create them as they please (assuming no drm or piracy, of course)

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago

GoG is the best place for offline installers

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Yes but aren't they shit people

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[-] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago
[-] morto@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Already? Oh, my!

Thanks!

[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago

360 might be the single most buggy emulator I play. Shit runs on thoughts and prayers

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago

So it the perfect Xbox 360 emulator?

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Oh damn they coded the random red ring of death into an emulator? That's really cool. I wonder how they can emulate the euphoric and absolutely not infuriating experience of scratching a disc for no apparent reason.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It wasn't for no reason, it was caused by having a disc in the drive while changing the consoles orientation. You had to remove discs from the drive before standing it up or laying it on its side due to the design of the tray, otherwise the disc would stick halfway between a slot on the side of the tray and get wrecked by the laser carriage.

[-] SwifferWetjet 4 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

The thing was built like a brick.

Also flies as well.

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago

The feral, passionate coders are the true heroes.

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 27 points 1 month ago
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[-] lumettaria@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(sob) i love u guys

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 22 points 1 month ago
[-] homes@piefed.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Oh really? Then where is my pirated version of Marvel Heroes?

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 month ago

I mean, it has to be worth cracking in the first place.

[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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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

[-] MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

It's different because you can CTRL-C CTRL-V a game

[-] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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