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Jun 18, 2023 11:45
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orange juche posted:Starship Troopers without any of the spirit is just not going to be great imo The spirit lives in the players. I have probably 60 hours in it and not a single round goes by without someone quoting the movie, for good or ill.
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repiv posted:speaking of not enough VRAM, yuzu just landed a major improvement for TOTK I stopped trying to make yuzu play my ToTK because of the weird pixelated lines that darted through most of the landscape, apparently because I'm on a RDNA 3 gpu. Just gave up and played it on my switch like Aonuma intended
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Shipon posted:it feels wrong to make a starship troopers game that lacks the satire element of the movie, but hey maybe they'll pull a spec ops the line orange juche posted:Starship Troopers without any of the spirit is just not going to be great imo So basically just the books then?
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Jun 18, 2023 14:08
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I stopped trying to make yuzu play my ToTK because of the weird pixelated lines that darted through most of the landscape, apparently because I'm on a RDNA 3 gpu. Just gave up and played it on my switch like Aonuma intended i'm near the end now, having played the whole thing at double resolution and 60fps with only a handful of issues i'm on nvidia though which is apparently good for yuzu because there's a cleaner mapping from the switches maxwell GPU to nvidia cards
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Zero VGS posted:I mostly mean it's worth getting with a GPU coupon so assumedly less money goes to the pro-CCP sex pests of Blizzard.
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Jun 18, 2023 17:28
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GruntyThrst posted:The spirit lives in the players. I have probably 60 hours in it and not a single round goes by without someone quoting the movie, for good or ill. I'M DOING MY PART!
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Jun 18, 2023 19:20
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repiv posted:i'm near the end now, having played the whole thing at double resolution and 60fps with only a handful of issues It’s still nuts to me that you can say this about a current gen system. Never happened before afaik (maybe GBA? but that’s a bit of an apple to oranges comparison) and maybe won’t happen again.
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Jun 18, 2023 21:24
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it happened before with dolphin, there's even a handful of retail wii games which use anti-emulator techniques specifically to break dolphin dolphin had a significant head-start with the wii though, with it being largely the same architecture as the gamecube just faster repiv fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Jun 18, 2023 21:29
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Oh right, cause the wii was internally barely different from a game cube, and most of the emulation work carried over? E:b by the edit
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Jun 18, 2023 21:33
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I beat Crash Bandicoot running it on bleem.
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Jun 18, 2023 21:35
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but yeah the switch was the perfect storm, between it using an off-the-shelf SOC (AFAIK the low-level technical documents are NDA'ed but they've all leaked), it getting jailbroken very early thanks to the RCM exploit, and it generally being slow enough to manage the overhead on a decent PC nevertheless it's the first mature emulator for a system with a modern DX11/DX12-class GPU, so it had to break new ground there
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Jun 18, 2023 21:36
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Rinkles posted:It’s still nuts to me that you can say this about a current gen system. Never happened before afaik (maybe GBA? but that’s a bit of an apple to oranges comparison) and maybe won’t happen again. "current gen" really is loose in this case, the Switch is like 2014-2015 era hardware
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I mean that it’s actively being developed on and the successor hasn’t even been announced. And it’s not like Yuzu has only recently become performant. Not to mention plenty of older consoles have worse emulation (even arguably the 3DS in some areas)
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Jun 18, 2023 21:47
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https://www.newegg.com/asrock-radeon-rx-6700-xt-rx6700xt-cld-12go/p/N82E16814930059 this is a pretty good deal on this card, yeah? Is the 6750XT worth the extra $40?
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Rinkles posted:I mean that it’s actively being developed on and the successor hasn’t even been announced. And it’s not like Yuzu has only recently become performant. i'm morbidly curious to find out what that denuvo anti-emulator product for switch developers does, but no devs have taken up their offer yet the wii games with emulator countermeasures used some gnarly code which is dependent on the behaviour of the CPU cache on real hardware, which emulators don't simulate (and couldn't even if they wanted to, it's too slow and usually doesn't matter)
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Jun 18, 2023 21:55
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RoastBeef posted:I beat Crash Bandicoot running it on bleem. Bleem and Bleemcast were insanely impressive. Bleemcast, in particular, ran PlayStation games at 640x480. The only real downside was that Sega's controller had fewer buttons than Sony's, so even if you got a game to run perfectly, you might not have enough buttons to play it.
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:https://www.newegg.com/asrock-radeon-rx-6700-xt-rx6700xt-cld-12go/p/N82E16814930059 Edit: I'm incorrect. The 6750XT is 8% faster for 13% more money, so not really. Yudo fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Jun 18, 2023 22:23
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Yup I forgot about that. Back in the era when Apple welcomed emulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OqMcqRI-xA
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Bloodplay it again posted:Bleem and Bleemcast were insanely impressive. Bleemcast, in particular, ran PlayStation games at 640x480. The only real downside was that Sega's controller had fewer buttons than Sony's, so even if you got a game to run perfectly, you might not have enough buttons to play it. Rinkles posted:Yup I forgot about that. Back in the era when Apple welcomed emulation Yeah, Connectix Virtual Game Station was pretty solid for PSX games that came out closer to launch. I told all my friends that my iBook was a portable PlayStation years before the PSP. I don't remember that more popular, intensive games like FF7 and RE2 ever worked right, but I was able to entirely beat the original Air Combat (Ace Combat 1), get pretty far in Crash Bandicoot, and also almost beat the Star Wars Episode 1 tie-in game. The latter was only derailed by being kind of a crappy game to actually play. I think they stopped updating it and trying to make games run better when the legal trouble with Sony started, and a few years later, Microsoft bought out Connectix for Virtual PC and it was buried anyway.
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repiv posted:the wii games with emulator countermeasures used some gnarly code which is dependent on the behaviour of the CPU cache on real hardware, which emulators don't simulate (and couldn't even if they wanted to, it's too slow and usually doesn't matter) I wonder if they could emulate the cache details only for the Denovo code, once it was isolated.
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Josh Lyman posted:How much of the $70 D4 cost do you think Nvidia paid to Blizzard for each game code in their 40 series promo? Just wild guessing, if someone fully redeems the code they maybe pay $30 or $40? It's a lot of sales that wouldn't have otherwise happened, and Blizzard might even take less money as a loss leader (give out copies for pennies on the dollar hoping some will get hooked and buy DLC or cosmetics). I'm sure they figure the people who were willing to pay $70 already did. I for one was 100% not going to play this if I hadn't gotten it free, and won't be getting the expansions once I'm done grinding. I'll either go back to PoE or  D2R and play it single player.
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Subjunctive posted:I wonder if they could emulate the cache details only for the Denovo code, once it was isolated. knowing denuvo, the emulator checks would be absolutely everywhere in the binary their whole deal is grinding reverse engineers into dust by sheer volume of checks and layers of obfuscation, hence why there's only one deranged individual who defeats it with any regularity there's quite a few things they could do aside from cache invalidation shenanigans. flooding the JIT to tank performance, look for discrepancies in non-IEEE floating point instructions, measure instruction timings... though some of those might cause issues on future official hardware with backwards compatibility repiv fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Jun 19, 2023 03:53
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repiv posted:their whole deal is grinding reverse engineers into dust by sheer volume of checks and layers of obfuscation, hence why there's only one deranged individual who defeats it with any regularity the other bizarre thing is that it's sort of an acquihire play. You're smart and broadly experienced and determined enough to crack denuvo? hey kid how about you want a job? we'll pay you a million bucks a year to help it make it loving impenetrable to whatever poo poo you were writing. but yea it's funny the two people who know how to crack denuvo are (a) absolutely deranged and psychotic findom lady, and (b) a chad who only cracks FIFA, refuses to elaborate further, and leaves. Because Denuvo is robbing the cradle.
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Paul MaudDib posted:but yea it's funny the two people who know how to crack denuvo are (a) absolutely deranged and psychotic findom lady, and (b) a chad who only cracks FIFA, refuses to elaborate further, and leaves. Because Denuvo is robbing the cradle. I really want to read more about this.
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it seems to be working - i get the impression games launching with denuvo are uncrackable for the launch period
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There were emulators for PS1, N64, and GBA while those systems were all current. Dolphin and Yuzu aren't that groundbreaking.
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shrike82 posted:it seems to be working - i get the impression games launching with denuvo are uncrackable for the launch period barring the cases where the publisher screwed up and released a DRM free build by accident it usually takes at least a few months to crack yeah, sometimes much longer if the game isn't in as high demand, or if there's a switch version that people can emulate in lieu of the PC version denuvo cracks are also usually a one-time deal so any fixes or DLCs that come out later are off the table, since that would entail cracking the newer exe all over again repiv fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Subjunctive posted:I really want to read more about this. https://twitter.com/young_particle/status/1631257198327132164?t=4EhHsb0Sg0hFXK89j-FMNA&s=19 full thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/11fnc66/empress_explains_how_denuvo_works_through_the_one/ https://twitter.com/DenuvoScum/status/1628635273042051072 iirc her telegram thing was some findom scam too, charge tons of money to be around EMPRESS? she's like terry davis level SCHIZO and VITRIOLIC (ok i'll stop) but she actually legitimately is breaking DRM that's resisted everyone else. And iirc she does the findom thing instead and only does Denuvo cracking to prove how much better she actually is. She charges $500 and will only do one game till it's finished, which takes her a couple months. She's previously gotten mad at people for criticizing the fact she wants money, which lol, she’s right, that's such a bizarrely nominal sum for the work. Mad as a hatter, through and through. and the other guy only cracks Football Manager games (MKDEV) and supposedly it's an older version of denuvo since football games are infinite refreshes on a single engine. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Bloodplay it again posted:Bleem and Bleemcast were insanely impressive. Bleemcast, in particular, ran PlayStation games at 640x480. The only real downside was that Sega's controller had fewer buttons than Sony's, so even if you got a game to run perfectly, you might not have enough buttons to play it. Yeah, 4x resolution with anti-aliasing and bilinear texture filtering. I have an original gran turismo 2 bleemcast disc, the image was considerably cleaner
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I stopped trying to make yuzu play my ToTK because of the weird pixelated lines that darted through most of the landscape, apparently because I'm on a RDNA 3 gpu. Just gave up and played it on my switch like Aonuma intended I gave up on all the Yuzu issues and just switched to Ryujinx. I would rather things work and play at a stable 30 fps than constantly fight with issues.
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Yuzu TOTK has just been so good on Nvidia hardware for me, AND Yuzu supports Windows 11 Auto HDR somehow which is completely bewildering to me but it owns so much. I had to sell my Switch because it's such hot trash at this point so Yuzu coming up so fast has been a god send. Some games even have a photo mode which jacks the graphics like crazy, and there are mods that make the game run 100% of the time in photo mode and it looks so good. I'm pretty new to it, and only got into switch emu because of Totk but there have been lots of surprises along the way. For example Luigis Mansion 3 looks eye wateringly good at 4K. Then on top of that you can patch out dynamic resolution and other things like depth of field that only really exist in the Switch to obscure how much it sucks. The only lame part is it's kind of sad playing Yuzu because it's so clear that if the Switch had power equivalent to a PS5 it would be insane. Like, by far the best console. It would eat everyone's lunch. But Nintendo is obsessed with making lots of money on console sales and it's the most "can't see the forest for the trees" choice ever, but they ARE very rich so maybe it's me who is dumb. Taima fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Paul MaudDib posted:https://twitter.com/young_particle/status/1631257198327132164?t=4EhHsb0Sg0hFXK89j-FMNA&s=19 Empress is legit loving nuts, she's on Timecube level brain, but you have to be loving nuts to crack poo poo like Denuvo.
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Taima posted:Yuzu TOTK has just been so good on Nvidia hardware for me, AND Yuzu supports Windows 11 Auto HDR somehow which is completely bewildering to me but it owns so much. I feel the same way about totk as I did about gta v when it hit 360/ps3. I waited until it came out on pc, because the hardware was too old to do the game justice. I have a switch, but it'd rather emulate totk; or at least wait until everything's ironed out, then emulate it HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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orange juche posted:Empress is legit loving nuts, she's on Timecube level brain, but you have to be loving nuts to crack poo poo like Denuvo. if cracking denuvo was just another 9to5 job there'd be plenty of crackers you do have to be clinically insane to be able to deal with the internet part of being a cracker though
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Do Intel GPUs have: 1. a super-resolution feature like Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution? 2. a generic upscaler like NIS or FSR/RSR? Truga posted:if cracking denuvo was just another 9to5 job there'd be plenty of crackers isn't that how Denuvo managed to curb the number of crackers? Every time someone did it, they found the person and gave them a 9-to-5. Eventually you're going to get someone who won't take the money, but the person who's like that is... well... that
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orange juche posted:Empress is legit loving nuts, she's on Timecube level brain, but you have to be loving nuts to crack poo poo like Denuvo. Having read all that, it feels more like an absurd smokescreen to cover a denuvo insider who's good at what they do and need the paycheque.
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gradenko_2000 posted:isn't that how Denuvo managed to curb the number of crackers? Every time someone did it, they found the person and gave them a 9-to-5. for that to work they had to reduce the pool of people willing to work on cracks to almost nothing though, that was their main success the old bragging-rights reward for pulling off a big release could only sustain so many months of tedium for each game, so the old school scene basically gave up and now just focuses on churning out games with basic DRM and ignores denuvo games completely
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