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what's the advantage of a jail broken ps4? Other than running 3rd party Linux binaries, and maybe adding ad-blockers, is there a gaming benefit?

tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
Piracy, I assume?
p1necone 6y ago
Running homebrew, although I don't know if there's much of a homebrew scene for the ps4. Also you can get a second hand ps4 pretty cheap nowadays relative to it's hardware and power consumption - could make a decent home server if you chucked some variety of linux on there (is there much support for the hardware?)
- dogma1138 6y ago
  PS4 is basically a PC at this point one of the main reasons for why no homebrew scene.
TAForObvReasons 6y ago
Check out the Switch or PS3 scenes for some examples: save backups and save editing, game mods, overclocking, normally unsupported game controllers.
- p1necone 6y ago
  The Switch is a good example - afaik there's still no official way to back up saves for a lot of games (botw included), and for the ones where cloud saves are supported it's still a monthly subscription. Your console dies, you lose your saves, no way around it other than jailbreaking.
  - j-james 6y ago
    The Switch hacking scene is also a good example just because of the sheer amount of effort poured into it - Atmosphere, the primary custom-firmware solution, is aiming to be a _full reimplementation_ of the Switch's firmware, kernel and all. https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/ https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesosphere_opensource_nintendo_switch_kernel_now/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher... --- (also, one more particularly cool application made possible through homebrew is game streaming - from a desktop pc or other device.) https://github.com/rock88/moonlight-nx https://github.com/rock88/moonlight-nx
  - sli 6y ago
    Additionally cloud saves are not supported on some games, including single-player first-party games, and Nintendo's excuse for that is because "cheating." Animal Crossing and all four (technically two but you know) Pokemon games have no cloud save support at all, arguably all games for which players would absolutely want cloud saves. On top of this is a pretty long list of third-party titles.
c-c-c-c-c 6y ago
Running linux, ps4 is based on FreeBSD

tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago

Piracy, I assume?

p1necone 6y ago

Running homebrew, although I don't know if there's much of a homebrew scene for the ps4. Also you can get a second hand ps4 pretty cheap nowadays relative to it's hardware and power consumption - could make a decent home server if you chucked some variety of linux on there (is there much support for the hardware?)

dogma1138 6y ago
PS4 is basically a PC at this point one of the main reasons for why no homebrew scene.

TAForObvReasons 6y ago

Check out the Switch or PS3 scenes for some examples: save backups and save editing, game mods, overclocking, normally unsupported game controllers.

p1necone 6y ago
The Switch is a good example - afaik there's still no official way to back up saves for a lot of games (botw included), and for the ones where cloud saves are supported it's still a monthly subscription. Your console dies, you lose your saves, no way around it other than jailbreaking.
- j-james 6y ago
  The Switch hacking scene is also a good example just because of the sheer amount of effort poured into it - Atmosphere, the primary custom-firmware solution, is aiming to be a _full reimplementation_ of the Switch's firmware, kernel and all. https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/ https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesosphere_opensource_nintendo_switch_kernel_now/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher... --- (also, one more particularly cool application made possible through homebrew is game streaming - from a desktop pc or other device.) https://github.com/rock88/moonlight-nx https://github.com/rock88/moonlight-nx
- sli 6y ago
  Additionally cloud saves are not supported on some games, including single-player first-party games, and Nintendo's excuse for that is because "cheating." Animal Crossing and all four (technically two but you know) Pokemon games have no cloud save support at all, arguably all games for which players would absolutely want cloud saves. On top of this is a pretty long list of third-party titles.

c-c-c-c-c 6y ago

Running linux, ps4 is based on FreeBSD