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   Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:28:09 JST Christmas Sun
   How about something interesting that is tangentially related to cryptocurrency?
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbw_A9dIWM
   
   So, the yields on PS5 production aren't perfect. Some of the boards/chips have defects and can't be used for a PS5. So the company that manufactures them takes the semi-working boards and repurposes them as linux-based bitcoin miners.
   
   Someone took out the PS5 board, got it running with full GPU using an older version of Linux kernel (later versions mysteriously gimped them) and got PS3 games running on them, proving that it was certainly possible to make the PS5 be PS3 compatible despite Sony's claims.
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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:29:42 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     @sun questions are
     
     > are PS3 games running on emulator
     > do PS3 games use external GPU or internal
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:30:38 JST Christmas Sun

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     @hj he doesn't go into enough detail but it's still running under emulation.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:37:31 JST Christmas Sun

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     @thatbrickster it seems these miners are almost worthless for other purposes when compared to regular hardware but he proved his thesis that it was possible to run ps3 games on a ps5
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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:37:32 JST Bricky

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     @sun Anything that reduces e-waste from imperfect yields is worth a look in. Just like how PCSX2 inspired Sony (IMO) to emulate PS2 games on PS4, watch them seek efforts to get PS3 games on PS5 and get one over on Microsoft's 'backcompat' on Xbox.
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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:08:41 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     • You Will Never Know Why
     @why @Nudhul @sun >two games
     >actually same game twice
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:08:42 JST Nudhul

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     • You Will Never Know Why
     @why @sun i dont rember gc having an n64 emulator
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:08:42 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @Nudhul @sun the same emulator was used on wii for vc
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:08:43 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @sun consider nintendo not emulating anything after n64. even their n64 emulator degraded since its debut on gc, they had to put in work to get the stupid thing to not break muh precious oot gwaficks. isnt emulating your back catalog supposed to be set and forget no effort cash cow?????? make this make cents!!
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:08:44 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @sun yeah but supporting emulation suuuuucks. individually tuning the emulator per game is not something a company wants to spend resources on. especially when the player count will be in single digits day 1 unless they pour advertising dollars into it.
     the only reason for emulators to exist, is to preserve a way to play the games. first party emulation is NOT preservation, it is exploitation. the best thing to do is keep preservation illegal so motivated hackers will continue to work on it.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:12:44 JST Christmas Sun

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     • You Will Never Know Why
     @why that's fair, and tbh I don't even expect companies to say "it's not worth it to do this", I'm not sure what my motivation is because it's mainly to point out how these companies operate but literally everyone already knows how they operate, it's all locking you into custom hardware and doing whatever they want after that point.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:13:52 JST Christmas Sun

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     @why well I say that but a lot of ppl really don't realize that their games on their xbox 360 probably won't work forever like an atari game
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:14:45 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @i @sun thats only an issue for selling the game. microsoft got around this by doing "if you have the disc you can play the game", even though you have to download from servers anyways. so games like ace combat 6 can still be bought off ebay and popped into a series x and run at 4k
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:14:46 JST :blank:

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     @why @sun not to mention the legacy licensing nonsense some of these companies have gotten themselves into
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:18:04 JST Nudhul

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     @why @sun i thought that was a remaster cuz they put it on disc
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:18:04 JST Christmas Sun

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     • You Will Never Know Why
     @Nudhul @why I think these games were all still written in assembler targeting the custom hardware with no abstraction layer, so emulation would be the only way to portr them other than a complete rewrite.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:33:41 JST Christmas Sun

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     @why @Nudhul I was wrong, N64/GC standard was C/C++, from some searching. Still have custom hardware, but if targeting like an opengl lib or something that would make it tons easier. N64-GC sound conversion would be a rewrite.
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:33:42 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @sun @Nudhul not sure though, animal crossing and doshin were ports from n64, im guessing those are much later games written with much more abstraction?
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:35:45 JST Nudhul

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     • ergo
     @ergo @hj @sun @why >universalize the nintento experience with an NOA account so synchronize between consoles
     >you still have to pay twice if you want your 3ds game on the switch
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     ergo (ergo@social.ergo-research.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:35:55 JST ergo

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     @hj @Nudhul @sun @why
     
     400 GBA game cartridge
     
     It's 10 games 40 times