PS4 Remote Play PC – Work still in progress for a release
You might remember developer Twisted, the man who modded the PS4 Remote Play application for Android. Twisted’s Remote Play mods made the official Sony app compatible with more Android devices.
PS4 Remote Play PC lets you use the PS4 Remote play functionality…on your PC
As a side project of the Remote Play app for android, Twisted has been working on PS4 Remote Play PC for quite some time now. He’s been reverse engineering the Sony android app and porting it to PC. His goal: being able to Remote play your PS4 directly from your PC.
Twisted had been sharing some videos between May and July. His first video was showing that he got Video input working, but no audio or controls, back in May.
(In the video above, Twisted’s PSN ID is intentionally blurred out)
Audio and controls where implemented back in June:
In July, Twisted was able to add a GUI, and almost randomly stumbled on a way to get the PS4 Wifi password, meaning people can connect wirelessly if they choose to.
Twisted then went more or less radio silent for a while, with people wondering if he’s given up on the project (given how popular his Android Remote Play app is, there is no question about the PS4 Remote Play PC project being real)
So here’s the tiny bit of news: there is not release date at this point, and no official news for a few months, but Twisted has confirmed to me that he is still actively working on this, doing his best to get it ready for an Alpha release. The basic functionality is in here already as can be seen on the videos, so it’s a matter of polishing the Alpha for a release. As always, real life has a habit if getting in the way, so patience is the name of the game.
In the meantime, you can try to use PS4 Remote Play on your PC through an Android emulator. Yeah, that’s pretty meta but it seems to work.
What would be super interesting for me of course would be a big writeup on his Reverse-engineering process. One has to assume there’s lots of obfuscation going on in the official Sony app…
Stay tuned, and check our PS4 Remote Play page for more details. Also more on Twisted’s twitter account.
Would it help at all for you to have a copy of the PS3 Remote Play app that came with Vaio laptops?
Could you just put the model number of the laptop that has this app, or is there no update/full software package of this on the support page ? , you could strip the identification measures and play on a generic laptop
Vaio VPC-F133FX
https://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=VPCF133FX&template_id=1®ion_id=1&tab=download#/downloadTab
The link should take you right to the software download page. You’ll find it under ‘Remote Software’.
VPCF133-FX. Tried to post a link right to the download page, but it got eaten. You’ll find the download on Sony’s support site under ‘Remote Software’.
What advantage would there be to play PS4 game on PC/monitor? I am genuinely curious
If someone else is using the TV? Or if you wanted to play in another room? I know I’ve used Remote Play from my Xperia phone to log in and collect my daily rewards from Warframe when I wasn’t able to get home.
Typically, if somebody else is using the TV and you want to play, Remote Play on the PC is a nice option
Say you have the PS4 plugged in one room, or downstairs in a two floor house for instance, and you want to play upstairs, or in an other room you wont have to move the console.
Same goes for streamers. this could give the opportunity to stream PS4 games without the need of expensive capture cards.
or you can buy a gaming PC and skip all this console madness(unless its a vita)
The whole reason I’d like this app is to have my end goal of integrating PS4 and Xbox One into my HTPC so I don’t have to switch inputs and could use my own interface outside of the actual game. Ideally, I’d like to find a clean way to launch directly into a game from the Xbox App and from this PS4 remote play application. The Xbox App has a way to launch into a recently played game so I might have to look into what kind of communication my PC is sending out to my console and see if I can emulate that. As for this program… well I’m just crossing my fingers at this point hoping Sony will do something.
PS4 owners can already stream without an expensive capture card; the feature has been built in for a while. They even added YouTube as a new streaming target yesterday.
Yeah but the ps4 always lags for me when i have my gameplay recording lol, especially in gta 5 it’s most noticeable.
I was under the impression that the ps4 was always recording. When I hold the share button it always shows me my last 15 minutes of gameplay, I use it all the time to go through and see what I missed.
I think i am in minority, but i hope i can use remote play as a pass through method so that i can use xbox 360 controller for the second or first player as a cheaper way to play offline multiplayer games
Thats cool. Hope to see more soon
Sweet baby Jesus!
Oh so he’s the one who made the PS4 remote play app for Android
I wonder if it is possible to implement a similar app for iOS, at least for jailbroken devices… mhhh
Nope he didn’t make it first in actual fact he got the idea from TheScriptKitty who had made a port of the android app to all devices at the beginning of the year.
I use my Xperia z2 tablet to play my ps4 when I’m on lunch at work 🙂 I’m surprised at how smooth it is with literally no lag at all.
if i had a faster xperia phone or the normal xperia Z tablet that would be great because there is no way to play with controller on psvita, the touch pad is hard to use on vita.
We need this for the raspberry pi. That would be awesome!
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