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Outer Wilds Transcends to New PlayStation 4 Games Next Week
Headlining the latest PlayStation 4 games next week is the open world mystery video game Outer Wilds, where you can explore a vast universe, throw a Jackbox party or investigate the mysterious disappearance of a merchant ship. 
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Play as the newest recruit of Outer Wilds Ventures, a fledgling space program searching for answers in a strange, constantly evolving solar system. The planets are packed with hidden locations that change with the passage of time.
Here's what else is coming to PlayStation next week from Sony Social Media Manager Justin Massongill:
New PlayStation Games for October 15, 2019
Outer Wilds - PS4 Launch Trailer ...
🛰 Play as the newest recruit of Outer Wilds Ventures, a fledgling space program searching for answers in a strange, constantly evolving solar system. The planets are packed with hidden locations that change with the passage of time.
Here's what else is coming to PlayStation next week from Sony Social Media Manager Justin Massongill:
New PlayStation Games for October 15, 2019
- Children of Morta - PS4 — Digital
- Doors & Rooms - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/17)
- Draw A Stickman: Epic 2 - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/16)
- Driven Out - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/18)
- Felix The Reaper - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/17)
- The Fisherman – Fishing Planet - PS4 — Digital, Retail
- Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/17)
- The Jackbox Party Pack 6 - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/17)
- Just Ignore Them - PS4, PS Vita — Digital (Cross-Buy)
- Megaquarium - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/18)
- Monkey King: Hero Is Back - PS4 — Digital, Retail (Out 10/17)
- The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors - PS4 — Digital
- Outer Wilds - PS4 — Digital
- Pig Eat Ball - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/18)
- Plants Vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville - PS4 — Digital, Retail (Out 10/18)
- Return of the Obra Dinn - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/18)
- Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/17)
- Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Complete Edition - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/17)
- Wands - PS VR — Digital
- Warzone VR - PS VR — Digital
- Worbital - PS4 — Digital (Out 10/18)
- Zombieland: Double Tap – Road Trip - PS4 — Digital, Retail
- Concrete Genie - Original Soundtrack
- BabyMetal - Metal Galaxy
- Lacuna Coil - Black Anima
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
- Arrow | Season 8
- Bare Knuckle FC 8: Bigfoot vs Gonzaga
- Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America - Season Premiere Sunday 10/13 at 12am PT
- The Purge - Season Premiere Tuesday 10/15 at 9/8c on USA
Outer Wilds - PS4 Launch Trailer ...
Mednafen PS4 PKG Port of Multi-system Emulator Arrives via Markus95
Following the Mednafen PS4 Emulator Demos earlier in the month, this weekend tester @Markus95 (aka @Kus00095) made available via Twitter a Mednafen PS4 PKG Port (mednafen.pkg) by @zezu420 (aka Znullptr on Twitter or dmiller423 on Github) who also has a Patreon Page and Github Sponsors Page set up for supporters to follow his work in progress. 🕹 
Download: Mednafen_PS4.rar (31.61 MB) / Mednafen PS4 2-Players Config Mod
For those curious, the multi-system emulator Mednafen covers the following computers and video game consoles with further notes below on the PlayStation 4 PKG Port:
As I announced last week, Znullptr recently shared Mednafen's .self, a multi-emulator that runs on a PC base and can emulate a lot of retro consoles, from the NES. to the PlayStation 1 through the Megadrive, etc...
After a little more than a week of work on emulators, here is a first official version available for everyone. Hang in there because there is a lot of information and explanations in this news...
Remember my 1st news, I told you unfortunately some problems here and there, so today worries with the FPKG are set, it works perfectly, no need for a homebrew annex to launch the .self, the...
Download: Mednafen_PS4.rar (31.61 MB) / Mednafen PS4 2-Players Config Mod
For those curious, the multi-system emulator Mednafen covers the following computers and video game consoles with further notes below on the PlayStation 4 PKG Port:
- Apple II/II+
- Atari Lynx
- Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
- WonderSwan
- GameBoy (Color)
- GameBoy Advance
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom
- Virtual Boy
- PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)
- SuperGrafx
- PC-FX
- Sega Game Gear
- Sega Genesis/Megadrive
- Sega Master System
- Sega Saturn (experimental, x86_64 only)
- Sony PlayStation
As I announced last week, Znullptr recently shared Mednafen's .self, a multi-emulator that runs on a PC base and can emulate a lot of retro consoles, from the NES. to the PlayStation 1 through the Megadrive, etc...
After a little more than a week of work on emulators, here is a first official version available for everyone. Hang in there because there is a lot of information and explanations in this news...
Remember my 1st news, I told you unfortunately some problems here and there, so today worries with the FPKG are set, it works perfectly, no need for a homebrew annex to launch the .self, the...
Sony Holographic Display Patent and Voxon Photonics 3D Demos
This past Tuesday Sony officially unveiled the PS5 console, and recently a Sony Holographic Display Screen patent from September 2019 surfaced leading to speculation on whether the new 3D technology could be utilized with their next-generation console or perhaps an upcoming PlayStation VR2 accessory for video gaming. 
To quote from LetsGoDigital.org who spotted the patent (sony-playstation-holographic-display.pdf):
"The great thing about this invention is that the hologram display will be compatible with a Sony PlayStation console. This makes it possible to experience PlayStation games as a 3D hologram and to play via your trusted DualShock controller. Incredible right ?!
But the possibilities don’t stop there, as the Microsoft (Xbox) and Nintendo (Switch) consoles are also mentioned as compatible devices. Moreover, the 3D screen may also be compatible with smartphones, virtual reality (VR) headsets and augmented reality (AR) headsets.
Whether Sony really intends to market such a holographic screen is as yet unknown."
Although Sony's 360 Degree Display Hologram Prototype (video below) is quite interesting, Voxon Photonics have kicked things up a notch with their own Voxon Photonics 3D Volumetric Display in 4K initially inspired by the hologram from the epic movie Star Wars.
Check out all the related videos below, drop by their page for the Voxon DevKit and Unity Plugin for developers and catch the latest demos on their YouTube Channel!
Star Wars (1977) Chess: Let the Wookie Win
Holochess (Dejarik) - SOLO: A Star Wars Story
Sony Hologram Prototype! (360 Degree Display)
Voxon Photonics VX1 3D Volumetric Display in 4K
Voxon VX1 3D Volumetric Display - Demonstration...
To quote from LetsGoDigital.org who spotted the patent (sony-playstation-holographic-display.pdf):
"The great thing about this invention is that the hologram display will be compatible with a Sony PlayStation console. This makes it possible to experience PlayStation games as a 3D hologram and to play via your trusted DualShock controller. Incredible right ?!
But the possibilities don’t stop there, as the Microsoft (Xbox) and Nintendo (Switch) consoles are also mentioned as compatible devices. Moreover, the 3D screen may also be compatible with smartphones, virtual reality (VR) headsets and augmented reality (AR) headsets.
Whether Sony really intends to market such a holographic screen is as yet unknown."
Although Sony's 360 Degree Display Hologram Prototype (video below) is quite interesting, Voxon Photonics have kicked things up a notch with their own Voxon Photonics 3D Volumetric Display in 4K initially inspired by the hologram from the epic movie Star Wars.
Check out all the related videos below, drop by their page for the Voxon DevKit and Unity Plugin for developers and catch the latest demos on their YouTube Channel!
Star Wars (1977) Chess: Let the Wookie Win
Holochess (Dejarik) - SOLO: A Star Wars Story
Sony Hologram Prototype! (360 Degree Display)
Voxon Photonics VX1 3D Volumetric Display in 4K
Voxon VX1 3D Volumetric Display - Demonstration...
RemotePlayPrototype: PS4 Remote Play Protocol Tool by Grill2010
Since his previous PSJoy Project for PC / Android devices and following the Chiaki free and open source PS4 Remote Play Client release from thestr4ng3r, PlayStation 4 homebrew developer @grill2010 recently updated his Github repository with RemotePlayPrototype... which is summarized as a 'quick and dirty tool to play around with the PS4 Remote Play protocol' for those who enjoy learning through tinkering. 
Download: RemotePlayPrototype-master.zip / GIT
And from the README.md: RemotePlayPrototype info
Quick and dirty prototype to play around with the protocol. This is just a research project there is no support. If there are some enthusiastic reverse engineers out there it would be great if they could contribute to the project.
It was not implemented only by my own, we are a group of developers who are interested in making the remote play protocol open source. The base of the project was taken from https://github.com/grill2010/ps4-remote-play but it seems that the initial creator has unfortunately abandoned the project. I'm not a professional reverse engineer so in case you have some suggestions feel free to let us know.
And again, this is prototype code, it is ugly, and it could contain bugs.
Current status
INFO: REGISTER IS CURRENTLY NOT WORKING DUE RECENT FIRMWARE 7.0 UPDATE
The prototype is able to register with the PS4, it can perform the initial TCP handshake with the console and it can receive audio and video stream data. The streaming protocol uses a GMAC crypto context for incoming data and for outgoing data.
Unlike many other streaming services Sony also likes to encrypt their audio and video frames so you can't just process them unfortunately but you have to decrypt the payload...
Download: RemotePlayPrototype-master.zip / GIT
And from the README.md: RemotePlayPrototype info
Quick and dirty prototype to play around with the protocol. This is just a research project there is no support. If there are some enthusiastic reverse engineers out there it would be great if they could contribute to the project.
It was not implemented only by my own, we are a group of developers who are interested in making the remote play protocol open source. The base of the project was taken from https://github.com/grill2010/ps4-remote-play but it seems that the initial creator has unfortunately abandoned the project. I'm not a professional reverse engineer so in case you have some suggestions feel free to let us know.
And again, this is prototype code, it is ugly, and it could contain bugs.
Current status
INFO: REGISTER IS CURRENTLY NOT WORKING DUE RECENT FIRMWARE 7.0 UPDATE
The prototype is able to register with the PS4, it can perform the initial TCP handshake with the console and it can receive audio and video stream data. The streaming protocol uses a GMAC crypto context for incoming data and for outgoing data.
Unlike many other streaming services Sony also likes to encrypt their audio and video frames so you can't just process them unfortunately but you have to decrypt the payload...
PS5 Backward Compatibility May Not Support All PS4 Game Titles Yet
Previously we saw initial reports that PS5 backward compatibility with PS4, PS3, PS2 and PSX titles may be in development, followed by specifically PS4 Game Support on PlayStation 5 with definitive confirmation of the latter from Sony's Mark Cerny earlier this year. 
According to a recent Famitsu.com article following the PS5 official announcement this week though, PS5 backward compatibility may not support all PS4 game titles by launch as it's currently a work in progress.
To quote, roughly translated: "About compatibility with PS4
At present, the official announcement of SIE is that the PS4 software compatibility, which is described as “Designed to achieve compatibility with PlayStation 4 titles,” we are verifying. Please wait for further information. It is premised on compatibility, but how far titles are targeted is undecided."
According to a recent Famitsu.com article following the PS5 official announcement this week though, PS5 backward compatibility may not support all PS4 game titles by launch as it's currently a work in progress.
To quote, roughly translated: "About compatibility with PS4
At present, the official announcement of SIE is that the PS4 software compatibility, which is described as “Designed to achieve compatibility with PlayStation 4 titles,” we are verifying. Please wait for further information. It is premised on compatibility, but how far titles are targeted is undecided."