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Handheld gaming consoles that support piracy? (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I'm thinking about getting a handheld as I'm spending more time away from my house and PC. I don't want to get buy hundreds of dollars of games to go with it.

3ds xl / switch / Steam deck / Legion?

There seems a lot of options and all have plenty of games to them. Is there an obvious choice that I'm not aware of?

Thanks.

EDIT: Thanks for the info, a lot to think about. Basically it seems to come down to money anerbic // new 3ds xl // Steam deck. There'll be games on any system that I'll be happy with.

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[–] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

None explicitly support piracy of course. However, I know the Switch is very difficult to conduct piracy on. You might be lucky depending on the firmware, whether you could hack it, but you can't pirate on a Switch without hacking the firmware.

I personally would go with the Steam deck or the Legion (Linux and Windows respectively), pirating there will be relatively the same as you are used to on PC.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Can confirm for the Steam Deck! Not that it supports it explicitly, but Valve doesn't really seem to care what you do with your hardware lol.

    The only limitations are that it's Linux, so you might run into some trouble with Denuvo/Hypervisor and stuff like that. HV cracks allegedly work on Linux now, but I haven't tried it yet.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    The only limitations are that it’s Linux, so you might run into some trouble with Denuvo/Hypervisor and stuff like that. HV cracks allegedly work on Linux now, but I haven’t tried it yet.

    It's easier on Linux than it is on Windows, and also safer too.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Good to know it's easier! I assumed it'd be safer because Linux generally is lol. Presumably because Denuvo is kernel-level and Linux doesn't let it fuck about with the kernel or something like that?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    Nah Denuvo isn't kernel level, at least not at the moment. The method used on Linux operates entirely in userland using a custom proton build and the cpuid fault instruction. On older systems that don't support cpuid faulting they do use a kernel module, but this kernel module is much simpler than the Windows HV, it only emulates cpuid faulting and doesn't do anything else.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Or get a modchip. Works great for me.

    Don't try doing the install yourself unless you have microsoldering experience. I killed a Switch when I tried it myself.

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