I mean, it is plausible: USB can be a door for jailbreak attacks, as it has been in the past Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo consoles. Maybe they deemed too risky to let games have a way to manage storage devices directly and chose to restrict this to the OS only.
Then they’d let us share full res images elsewhere, no? Maybe a future app that works a lot better than the Sport companion app.
Jailbreaking has been a thing since at least the GT5 days, yet this feature has been present in every single GT game since. Except for GT7, of course.
They who? Polyphony* will say is up to Sony offer they the means to let you export full res raw images out of the game.
So your reasoning is that just because jailbreaking is a thing since GT5 they should just do nothing to prevent it? Software safety requirements evolve with time, as attack vectors and the way organisations assess vulnerabilities, and maybe this time around Sony reached the conclusion that they can't afford letting games have free access to USB media storage.
It is rather odd, but yes, you have a point. Kinda.
Well, the tech reason is that the piece of software that runs the game is capable of running at such high resolutions, as you see in the PS5 where it runs native 4K all the time. So what happens is, when you take a picture, you ask the software to output that specific frame at its highest resolution possible, and the console does that and saves that frame into a PNG file.
But why do something now instead of years ago? Your reasoning feels too optimistic, it is based on the assumption that we’re dealing with developers that are on top of everything when you see they haven’t even been able to make a complete campaign mode for a racing game title that is part of a franchise that has existed since 1997.
Won't be going in circles with this with you, I already explained to you that software, threat assessment and the craft of the hacking community are always evolving and you are always reacting to that. One of my latest tasks at work was helping in a complete overhaul of some nasty legacy piece of code that was state of the art just a few years ago and was now proved to be vulnerable by some consultants hired by my employer to do just that: find the weak spots. And boy they did that.
To be able to export them. Like we all ask and the point of this thread.
I understand your point, but not all developers are competent. Look at Rockstar Games, GTA V’s online servers are from what I’ve heard easily hackable, to the point that the IP addresses of gamers are not securely protected and ridiculously easy to access. And I think both of us are aware of just how big Rockstar is, a gaming company that should know how to create secure servers, given that GTA Online has been out for close to a decade.
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I didn't know that actually. If it's true then the whole issue has gone away for me, because that works fine for me.
If I want any more detail I zoom in on my photos and capture them at full zoom using the Share function, then I stitch them together in Photoshop.
Wow , never knew GT rendered beyond 4k.. What is the point if you can't export it !If I want any more detail I zoom in on my photos and capture them at full zoom using the Share function, then I stitch them together in Photoshop.
Because GT7 outputs the photos at a resolution higher than 4K zooming in at the capture stage means you don't lose any quality, but if you capture without zooming in the PlayStation just captures whatever is on the screen at 4K. The resulting images are enormous - landscape images are around 7660x4230 rather than 3840x2160.
Portrait photos are even better using this method because the PlayStation Share function saves them as a small portrait photo in the middle of a 4K landscape image which is super frustrating.
The difference is most clearly demonstrated when adjusting both images to the same scale:
Presumably future-proofing. They did it with the GT6 adaptive tessalation models which are PS4/5 quality, and the PS2 models which were good enough to be included on the PS3.
I'm just assuming there since you can zoom in on any photos you've taken without losing any quality. I could be wrong, it may just render to 4K and upscale or something. I'm not aware of what the resolution of the full size image is when you press X and it renders the photo but stitched images are close to 8K in size with no loss of quality.
I did this one more time myself. The difference is amazing. A really good way if you’re patient! And the legal text + watermark doesn’t need to be cropped out. I love it.If I want any more detail I zoom in on my photos and capture them at full zoom using the Share function, then I stitch them together in Photoshop.
Because GT7 outputs the photos at a resolution higher than 4K zooming in at the capture stage means you don't lose any quality, but if you capture without zooming in the PlayStation just captures whatever is on the screen at 4K. The resulting images are enormous - landscape images are around 7660x4230 rather than 3840x2160.
Portrait photos are even better using this method because the PlayStation Share function saves them as a small portrait photo in the middle of a 4K landscape image which is super frustrating.
The difference is most clearly demonstrated when adjusting both images to the same scale:
I've used Paint.net to do it manually before, it takes some time but it's pretty easy to do providing you zoom in enough. I usually use 9 full zoom photos for it.
I'm on PS5 so it may be different but I usually zoom in after the photo is finished rendering, I haven't tried it at any other point.
But there is still the big question - is it compressed?Not sure if this is new or not, but I just noticed this download button that appears when you view your photos on the GT7 community website:
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This gives me an image of 3240x2160 in the default 3:2 aspect ratio.
Example:
It isn't quite USB export but it makes me happy nonetheless.Not sure if this is new or not, but I just noticed this download button that appears when you view your photos on the GT7 community website:
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This gives me an image of 3240x2160 in the default 3:2 aspect ratio.
Example:
