Remote Play PC
Is the PSP's most useful function about to be available for PC and Mac?Published 20/05/2009 at 11:00 by colossalblue
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Remember Remote Play? Well, that under-utilised but awesome-when-it’s-there function that you can do with a few PSN games and your PSP is apparently diversifying.
Some clever code-monkeys have hacked together a way of making Remote Play happen on your PC or Mac (with, unsurprisingly, the Mac version apparently working best for now). It’s still in beta and I haven’t tried it myself but there are screenshots of it working on a MacBook. Apparently you still need a PSP to set the process up so the pocket-filler isn’t totally out of the picture but if this can be made to work (and isn’t illegal) then I think my PSP might have seen its last charge.
It is early days for this project and it will probably get stamped-down upon by Sony’s legal team but as a proof-of-concept I think this is a pretty interesting development.
One last thing – I would caution you on the legality of doing this. I’m not a lawyer but I think Sony get pretty annoyed with people pricking about with their firmware…
Source: Engadget
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cc_star | 20/05/2009 11:08
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If they allowed the PSP to be all it can be, it would be the best selling bit of hardware around, but they don’t…. so it isn’t.
Averna | 20/05/2009 13:44
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Exactly! Damn you CC! making me agree with you yet again!
The PSP is a fundamental flop, not because its a bad product because it actually is a GREAT product, but because SONY fail to either;
A, Listen to what the consumer wants
B, Deliver what they set out to do in the first place
I swear SONY must be the only Corporation with an Attention Deficit Disorder.
Gamoc | 20/05/2009 11:17
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You say the PSP’s remote play is the most useful feature it has, but mine won’t do it – the PS3 goes off when I try remote play, but not really. The lights stay on but it stops showing anything on screen and stops responding to anything but the power buttons.
Also, I like to think that games are it’s most useful feature…
Tuffcub | 20/05/2009 11:58
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Er mine does that but just says “Remote play in progress” on screen.
Works fine for us – in fact I just called Hubby and he’s watching Lost in his office on the Isle Of Wight, remote streaming from my PS3 in london.
Gamoc | 20/05/2009 14:12
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Well yeah, then I connect the PSP, all the XMB works fine, but when I start a game, such as pixeljunk monsters, it does the above.
Pixl1983 | 20/05/2009 11:39
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I’ve used remote play only a handful of times but having the option to turn it on from work and start downloading demos would be a welcome feature. I get the feeling that we’ll see loads more PSP/PS3 connectivity soon what with this being the year of the PSP n’ all.
CJay | 20/05/2009 12:04
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For this to work, you need a homebrew enabled PSP – so it’s not something everyone could do unless they have one, or borrow one.
CJay | 20/05/2009 12:05
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Or at least that’s what I read when I first saw this news a couple of weeks back.
Non-related note – can we have an edit button please >.<
cc_star | 20/05/2009 12:05
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Why doesn’t store.playstation.com work like xbox.com?
You can queue and download to a 360 from Microsoft’s website wherever you can access it.
C’mon Sony catch up
Averna | 20/05/2009 13:49
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SONY will be playing catch up for quite some time to come, when it comes to the online infrastructure. Microsoft are good at one thing and its not making good hardware (clearly) but delivering top notch online services.
Im starting to wonder how much effort SONY are actually putting into improving the PSN. I know they HAVE to be working hard, but it SEEMS like we aren’t seeing the leaps and bounds that we should be. That being said, I don’t know how hard it is to code for the PSN so *shrug* if its that hard, isn’t that also a failing on SONY for making such a pain in the ass framework?
Just thinking out loud…
money_man | 20/05/2009 13:03
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Personally I prefer remote play on my psp rather than the pc. Don’t want to have to boot up the computer everytime I want to remote play my ps3.
Averna | 20/05/2009 13:51
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I would agree with you, but I would like the option. I work on my Mac all day and I would rather have the Remote Play in a window rather than have my PSP on. Normally I wouldn’t care, but the PSP doesn’t run off the mains when its in remote play (stupid ‘feature’ if you ask me).
That plus I use remote play almost exclusively for seeing who is online and chatting to them, so a keyboard is always a plus.
Kevling | 21/05/2009 10:45
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“the PSP doesn’t run off the mains when its in remote play (stupid ‘feature’ if you ask me)”
It does, it just maintains the current battery charge, rather than charging it up. It’s all to do with the power requirements of the wifi card, rather than a “feature”…
Jeebers | 20/05/2009 13:07
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I’ve thought before how useful PC access would be but i guess that would detract from the PSP being able to do it. What sort of connection speeds do people have that find remote play workable? I can only get a 2 meg connection at home (so not a great upload speed, not sure what it is though) and remote play is well flakey.
Ryan Lineker | 20/05/2009 17:31
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Have got this working will upload screen shot ASAP
Ryan
Ryan Lineker | 20/05/2009 17:34
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http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2918/ps3onmac.jpg
There’s proof.
slates16 | 20/05/2009 20:50
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um. . . . someone should make it easyer to to so normal remote play first! tried a number of times this week with no luck
Lahmy88 | 23/05/2009 19:02
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Sony needs to come out with its own version.. simple.
They also need to allow remote play to register several PS3/PSP combinations.. i have two PS3s at home, and when i get my PSP (awaiting updated version) i want to log into one, check my folding status, log out, log into the other, check folding status, maybe put on some music etc.
Then they also need to have PS3 to PS3 network functionality.. where you can remote play one by the other.. things like synchronising profile information, game saves etc.
The best thing Sony can do right now though is, is come up with a way to have your gamesaves ‘follow you’ online, so if you log onto a mates PS3, but with your account, if it hasn’t already, it should then proceed to download your latest gamesave data that you had uploaded last time you played a game on your own console back home. Sony just always seem to be behind on these sorta cool features they could have.. RIGHT NOW! No need to wait for PlayStation 4 for these sorta things, bring em out now!