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 Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:30 pm Post subject: Anyone have any luck with PlayStation Now games? |
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If you haven't heard, Sony made a large library of PS3 games available on PC via their new PlayStation Now platform. You can try it for free for 7 days, but you do need a PS3/PS4 controller. I thought it would be fun to hack around with, but nothing I've tried (including scanning mapped memory and physical memory starting with value type set to all and an unknown initial value scan followed by changed/unchanged scans) has resulted in anything worthwhile.
I've only been trying with Uncharted 3 so far, though. I'm just curious if anyone else has been attempting to work with this.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Haven't looked at this, but if the data is streaming, that could be your problem. That would also be disappointing.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| ++METHOS wrote: | | Haven't looked at this, but if the data is streaming, that could be your problem. That would also be disappointing. |
Indeed. That's what I'm thinking at the moment. There are multiple processes that launch while you're playing a game. I've futzed with all of them, even painstakingly attempting to whittle down values while changing as little as possible and I always end up at 0 results. So, either streaming data or the app fancies shifting values around in memory like hotcakes.
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Disconnect from the internet while playing the game and see what happens. If it freezes completely, it's just streaming a game to you
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Dark Byte wrote: | | Disconnect from the internet while playing the game and see what happens. If it freezes completely, it's just streaming a game to you |
Good point. Just tried that and whammo: the game just instantly shut off and went back to the launcher, lol. What a bummer! I was really looking forward to doing some videos on this topic. Oh well... 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| h3x1c wrote: | | Dark Byte wrote: | | Disconnect from the internet while playing the game and see what happens. If it freezes completely, it's just streaming a game to you |
Good point. Just tried that and whammo: the game just instantly shut off and went back to the launcher, lol. What a bummer! I was really looking forward to doing some videos on this topic. Oh well... |
More than likely it is being streamed to you, but there is a small chance they simply have some sort of code that is restricting it to online play. When you choose a game, does it download data to your harddrive that is of a similar size to what you'd expect the game to be? Does it force you to do this before playing? Are these files still stored on your drive after closing the application, or restarting your computer? If the answer to those is yes, you may be in luck and may just have to remove the call that disconnects at loss of internet.
Wishful thinking, but worth a shot! I'd try and report myself but I do not own a PS3/4 controller. Let us know! If no files of substantial size are stored permanently on your drive, it is certainly just being streamed to you.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| cheat0ry wrote: | More than likely it is being streamed to you, but there is a small chance they simply have some sort of code that is restricting it to online play. When you choose a game, does it download data to your harddrive that is of a similar size to what you'd expect the game to be? Does it force you to do this before playing? Are these files still stored on your drive after closing the application, or restarting your computer? If the answer to those is yes, you may be in luck and may just have to remove the call that disconnects at loss of internet.
Wishful thinking, but worth a shot! I'd try and report myself but I do not own a PS3/4 controller. Let us know! If no files of substantial size are stored permanently on your drive, it is certainly just being streamed to you. |
This will be the next thing I look into. I didn't see anything noteworthy while watching traffic in Fiddler. I looked in various locations (programs and all the user data folders like local, roaming, etc.) to see where the app might be writing data to. Nothing in any obvious places, so once I get back to it, I'll fire up Sysinternals tools to get a better idea of what's being written/saved/etc.
Removing that online/offline check is definitely on the list! That would be a start. I also have on my list to nix the check for a controller, just to see how difficult they've made that. I'm sure someone will soon figure out a way to emulate a PS controller and let people use an Xbox controller, keyboard, etc., lol.
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| Too bad. I was really looking forward to messing around with some of the titles that never made it to PC.
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