PS5 jailbreak proves the console could've been backwards compatible with PS2 discs all along

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• Grayace_Book_Worm@piefed.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  That’s infuriating!

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• gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, but if you’re allowed to play the discs you own, you might not rent a digital copy.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t rent it, you pay a subscription to stream it

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• dog@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You don’t even need to understand how a console works to know this. It’s pretty much a given, because Sony.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Its all x86 computers no?

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    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      PS2 has a custom MIPS-based RISC CPU

      PS3 is PowerPC

      PS4/PS5 are x86_64

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• Mordikan@kbin.earth ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sony executive Mr. Krabbs had this comment to say: "No, it couldn't. Because money!"

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  • ContactClosure@lemmus.org ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    innovation

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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mmmmmmmm I cannot wait to break my ps3-5 to get them doing all the things they were meant to do from the start.

  Mmmm hmmm gimme them jailbreaks, yes yes oh baby. I have a massive disc collection that I don’t have a system compatible to play because my TV doesn’t have aux inputs and I’m not paying for an adapter I will use twice. I have 40+ PS2 discs they are just a pain to use. And oh gosh would I love my playstation to be backward compatible, the thing it always should have been because why the fuck not? They literally always had all the codecs. They chose to gatekeep.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The adapter is dirt cheap and I use it all the time.

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    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s nice, I wouldn’t. Just like I never used the ethernet connection adapter I bought for it.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No shit. Didn’t have to jailbreak the PS5 to know that.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sony have a track record of using fucky CPUs - the PS3 cell processor in particular, but also the emotion engine in the PS2 - and I’d be somewhat impressed by getting 100% compatibility including all edge cases in an emulator.

    Sony have already done it. They have all the original PS2 design docs of course, but they have their own emulator for games you download from them. After paying for shit you already own again, of course. This new “emulator” is mostly Claude bullshit, so fuck it - could have just ported RPCS2 and be done.

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