PPSSPP will attempt to establish connection to any IP or domain that is put in the ad-hoc server text box. So, much like a web browser, it entirely depends on where you tell it to connect.
That being said, as for any security concerns, I am unaware of any exploits and/or wrongdoings with PPSSPP code, so you should be safe. It only passes the data directly between the emulated games and the chat box feature.
So, for PPSSPP multiplayer, you either need to be in a LAN with the other players or, as you’ve said, forward the port.
So, if you’re on the same LAN as your friend(s), it’s as easy as setting the IP address to the host (on all the clients) and the same wifi channel in PPSSPP settings.
If you wish to play online, it gets tricky. Most cellular data providers are behind something known as a CGNAT, which basically prohibits port forwarding.
The only solution and workaround to this is to use a VPN tunnel that can put you in a virtual LAN with your friends but over the internet. One of the most commonly used software on PC for this is LogMeIn Hamachi. Not sure if there is anything like it on Android, though.
I’ve actually set up a Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force tournament for DLE but that quickly went nowhere after a couple episodes lol
And Firefox Focus too!
Although that one might be a bit annoying for some users as it deletes the data after you exit.
Shining Force. One of few RPGs I played…
Man, I miss it. I know that the “Shining” brand technically isn’t dead but, it hasn’t been the same since after Shining Force 3. Or, heck, even during it.
Absolute madness. I cringe at the thought of making modern x86 asm code.
Great work!
Wait, what? Playstation?
You could say that this isn’t very alarming
Similarly how SilentPatch and the WidescreenFix fixes various bugs and adds improvements, mine does as well.
As a matter of fact, I used to maintain ThirteenAG’s WFP for NFS. Now I’m focused on my own thing mostly. (Forked it off of it but barely any of the code is left lol)
It’s called NFS-MultiFix. (I made one ages ago in 2017 for ProStreet but I’m reviving the project now).
It’s a going to basically be an all-in-one thing. So, from basic things like a widescreen fix, to the added ability to change resolutions of environment maps and shadows, fixing clipped/popin shadows in Undercover, fixing crashes, fixing some crap gameplay features, resizable windowed mode, etc. Basically, making it a version of the game that it deserves to be on PC.
It’s a genuinely pretty massive set of fixes spanning over 80 cpp/hpp files with about 500 lines of code on average. I made sure to optimize every nitty-gritty and I ended up with a smaller DLL size than the average widescreen fix while adding so many more features.
I also have a design rule in place - it must do its best effort to work in every possible version of the game without crashing. This includes demo versions of the same games. (This sadly doesn’t count DRM but nothing I can do about that)
That being said, I am currently focused on ProStreet (as I’m also the main coder in Team Pepega for the Pepega Mod) and I hope to make a release within the next year. It should be available for every Black Box NFS on PC (except The Run and World)
If you wanna check out what I made so far, check out the Reformed mod for Undercover. I made an exclusive release for those guys because frankly, Undercover is the worst one out of the bunch (in terms of code).
Silent is a real cool dude. I’ve interacted with him directly and he’s always been helpful.
I assume the code was closed only because it was a bit of a hodge podge he had to clean up. (Well, that and the GTA modding scene is a bit, uh, toxic, to say the least)
I’m currently in a similar position for Black Box NFS games. It’s taken me over a year so far and I’m still not fully satisfied to release anything because there’s so much code to span over 6 (similar, but different) games.
Yeah I meant don’t use joycons lol
Pro Controller at the very least. CTR is a game that should be played with a dpad for steering. You can use the analog inputs but some more advanced tricks (such as tight steering) will require a solid dpad.
And that’t the crux of the issue. Stenzek doesn’t actually understand the reality of licensing.
The reality is this - you can’t do anything without a lawyer. Laweyrs cost money (pro bono isn’t a thing in the copyright world AFAIK, but IANAL).
If he wanted to avoid this, then maybe he should’ve kept it closed source from the beginning. Chinese sellers on AliExpress couldn’t care less about licensing anyway, so that way he’d have at least some protection.
IMO his course of action so far has been wrong.
What he should’ve done is this:
He could even go after Arcade1up legally if he raised funds, but that’s not even worth the time if you ask me.
I’d recommend getting a proper controller for it. CTR is a dpad and shoulder button masher.
Any Black Box made Need for Speed.
(Currently busy fixing Pro Street, so many bugs…)
To top it off, what matters at the end of the day js this - people generally don’t care about graphics anymore!
Even if you end up with graphics that are worse than a console, you still have:
PS5 Pro makes absolutely no sense to me.
It’s just their ego showing through.
It basically now comes down to the current devs depending on new Rust devs for anything that interacts with Rust code.
They could just work together with Rust devs to solve any issues (API for example).
But their ego doesn’t allow for it. They want to do everything by themselves because that’s how it always was (up until now).
Sure, you could say it’s more efficient to work on things alone for some people, and I’d agree here, but realistically that’s not going to matter because the most interactivity that exists (at the moment) between Rust and C in Linux is… the API. Something that they touch up on once in a while. Once it’s solid enough, they don’t have to touch it anymore at all.
This is a completely new challenge that the Linux devs are facing now after a new language has been introduced. It was tried before, but now it’s been approved. The only person they should be mad at is Linus, not the Rust devs.
Trucy would be trying her hardest to get him to buy this
MTG poops and Yugipoops never get old
Licensing/legal issues very likely. They licensed that version of the engine for Killing Floor and some other games.