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🚨 SONY SHUT IT DOWN… AND HOURS LATER IT WAS ALREADY BACK 💀
• Overdrive offered 1,600+ PS4 & PS5 games on jailbroken consoles
• The original GitHub repository has now disappeared
• Sony lawyers reportedly sent the developers a cease-and-desist
• Sony has NOT publicly confirmed the legal action
• The original Overdrive app reportedly stopped working
• Within HOURS, multiple clones and re-releases started appearing
• One replacement reportedly already has around 1,800 games
• The code being out in the wild makes completely eliminating it much harder
• Recent PS5 jailbreak progress up to firmware 13.60 helped fuel interest in projects like this
• Piracy aside, this shows just how quickly the PS5 homebrew/jailbreak scene is moving
Sony: “WE GOT 'EM!” 🙌🏻
The internet soon after: “WHICH ONE?” 💀😂
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One of the PS2’s biggest remaining hardware secrets has finally been cracked, 26 years after the console launched.
After four years of work, modder DiscoStarslayer has managed to defeat and dump the MechaCon chip, this is an important part of the PS2’s hardware because it handles the optical disc drive and is involved in the console’s anti-piracy protections.
After decapping the chip, optically dumping its contents and developing a software solution, the MechaCon can now be preserved and studied.
The MechaCon’s contents can now be preserved and studied instead of remaining locked inside the original hardware.
That could lead to new PS2 mods, better emulation, homebrew improvements, and potentially a proper optical drive emulator (ODE).
RED retweeted
The Minish Cap 3DS is officially out! 🎉
Native dual-screen port for New Nintendo 3DS, with widescreen, touch controls, display options, Randomizer support, and more.
Download:
github.com/EstebanPdN/zelda-…
Discord:
discord.gg/TkRJQxgBa
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Many tech-illiterate people have been incorrectly bashing on Minecraft PC's new RTX 2060 and RX 5600 XT's GPU recommendations.
We have the exact same GPU recommendations at RPCS3. Why? Because they're the oldest entry-level GPUs with active driver support.
You hit a driver bug and need support from the vendor? These are the oldest architectures they will ship a fix for. Want to optionally use new API features/extensions for increased performance or new graphical features? Need drivers that support them.
Mojang's decision to move to a Vulkan render, like all modern console emulators, comes late but is completely correct.
People complain about developers not wanting to optimise their application/game, but this change is exactly about that.
Using Vulkan allows them to push previous optimisation limits to optimise Minecraft's renderer even further. Vulkan moves a lot of the optimisation burden from the drivers to the application/game. That's due to the low-level nature of the API and the amount of features and extensions it has. This is especially good for cases where the OpenGL driver is of very poor quality, such as on Intel GPUs and mobile platforms.
Contrary to OpenGL, which is a finished and stagnated higher-level API, Vulkan is a lower-level, more complex API with very active driver development, which sometimes introduces driver issues. We know firsthand how important driver support is: we've already reported many driver bugs to different vendors that have been fixed, some that we couldn't workaround.
So, does that mean you need a GPU that powerful or that recent to run new versions of Minecraft PC now? No. You can use older and/or weaker GPUs that support Vulkan 1.3 such as a GTX 950 or a RX 460. It's just not recommended, as you might miss out on new optional optimisations or fixes that need newer drivers, it's as simple as that. Recommended requirements are not minimum requirements.
Welcome to the @VulkanAPI, @Minecraft.
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>PSN goes down
>can’t press x to jump because Sony’s servers cannot verify my buttons license
>get booted from my single player game with always-online DRM because they couldn’t verify my digital license either
>last save was an hour ago
I 🩷 my enforced all digital future.
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Introducing XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC 🎮🖥️
Play four original XBOX titles across supported PCs and handhelds today, with more on the way: xbx.lv/44ImsEF
ALT Static image with large text at the top reading, "XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC." Underneath there is a smaller line of text that reads, "Rediscover a selection of iconic original XBOX games, now on PC and handheld." Then there are 4 games featured below: BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Fuzion Frenzy, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Conker: Live & Reloaded.
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Brazil has proposed a bill with new protections for gamers 🇧🇷
• After support ends, publishers would need to either enable offline play, provide the community with tools to keep the game running, or offer proportional refunds
• Publishers would have to disclose online-server requirements and guarantee at least 2 years of support after launch in Brazil
• Players would need to be notified at least 180 days before a game's online services are shut down
• Lawmakers have also requested an investigation into Sony’s plan to end physical PlayStation disc production in 2028
(via @pushsquare)
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not even a full 24 hours
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