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Play PlayStation 3 games on any iOS device with hack

by Kelly Hodgkins Feb 28th 2011 at 5:00PM

The group of hackers and developers known as pandaelf found themselves with a PlayStation 3, an iOS device and some time on their hands. With a bit of ingenuity, they figured out a way to play their PS3 games on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The setup is slightly complex and requires you to attach a capture device as well as an input converter with a USB mouse and keyboard to the PS3. You also need a PC to serve as the conduit between the game console and your portable Apple device.

The capture device sends video from the PS3 to a nearby PC, and the keyboard/mouse converter sends and receives button presses. The iOS device then connects to the computer using a custom build of everyAir, a remote desktop application. Basically, the PS3 sends its info to the PC, which processes the incoming stream and sends it to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch via everyAir. This communication is bi-directional, so the information flows both ways.

Currently, this custom build of everyAir is not available to the public, so the average iOS owner won't be able to do anything with this setup quite yet. While you wait for this build to become available, you can check out a video of the system in action below.

[Via Macstories]



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Mk8ta

What a waste of time??

March 01 2011 at 12:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
orien2v2

Don't even think about the possibility of Sony allowing this in their consoles. This would certainly kill the future of PSP and make Apple the sole leader in mobile gaming. I'm not talking about this build. I mean if one day you could do this all while streaming from your home console. Not like subscription based streaming, this is streaming your game from your home. Apple would certainly endorse this though.

February 28 2011 at 11:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
skoochy

Even if you were just doing a proof-of-concept hack, it seems like it would be easier to use a VAIO PC laptop (that has PS3 Remote Play pre-installed on it) and a VNC client on the iOS device to display a remote desktop. Those that are a little more technologically savvy could use a Linux box with Open Remote Play. The games that one can play would be limited, however.

I use Screen Sharing from my media center Mac Mini to my Macbook Pro all the time, it's fast enough to watch realtime SD video even over wireless.

February 28 2011 at 9:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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jaap

You don't want to use Plex for this..?

March 01 2011 at 12:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gregory Pierce

So they created a very hackish and somewhat playable version of OnLive. For that they should be commended, since their approach doesn't appear to violate any OnLive patents :)

February 28 2011 at 9:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CHRiS

This is pretty much onlive, but with a PS3 instead of a high end PC.
Onlive works very well too, maybe one day PS3 and XBOX360 games can be played from the cloud too - but some PC games (even some on onlive) look better than xbox 360 and PS3 games, so in those cases, why bother.

February 28 2011 at 8:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
macguy90

I fail to see any practicality in this "hack". As an earlier commenter stated, why wouldn't you just go to your PS3 and play it with it's controllers? It's not that people simply don't know how to do this, it's more along the lines of, why bother?

February 28 2011 at 8:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
prevert

I can only imagine the lag would make play nearly impossible.

February 28 2011 at 6:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sparks

Even those of us who could set it up are uncertain /why/ we'd want to. Sure, I could play a PS3 game -- sort of -- on my iPad. Wouldn't it make more sense to walk into the living room, settle down on the couch, and play the game right there on the actual PS3, with the controller? It'd be one thing if it were a PS3 virtualized right on the iPad, loading game images for on-the-go. But for this to have any sort of decent performance, I have to be in my house on the same network as, where -- by definition -- my PS3 is.

That said, as a proof-of-concept, "Look what I did!" example of hackery, it's pretty awesome! I think it just fails any sort of practical "why would I do this" test. ;)

February 28 2011 at 6:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dan.diemer

Even if the build was available, 99.9% of people (including me) wouldn't have the know how to set this up.

February 28 2011 at 5:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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