Remote Play Nintendo Switch

Steam Remote Play has been around yet a lot of gamers are still confused on how it works. In this brief guide, we’ll try to show you how this great feature works and what you can do to use it.

Few days ago I bought my first Nintendo Switch and I have to say the hardware itself is awesome. I’ve read in another thread, that a custom firmware for the Switch is coming this summer and I wonder, if it’s technically possible to use the Switch as a Remote Play device to stream your PS4 games. Controller Replacement for Nintendo Switch, L/R Pro Remote Wireless Controller Comfort Grips Gamepad Plug and Play Auto Connect Compatible with Nintendo Switch Console - Red and Blue 4.0 out of 5 stars 379.

We’ll provide the steps on how to use both Remote Play Anywhere and Remote Play Together.

Remote Play Anywhere makes use of a separate Steam Link app, which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. If you have a Raspberry Pi device, you’ll be pleased to know that this app is also supported.

What is Steam Remote Play?

Steam Remote Play is an interesting feature in Steam application that allows a user to play a game from a remote computer to another Steam-enabled device. You can either play a Steam game via Remote Play on another computer, or on your mobile device or tablet.

With Steam Remote Play, you can invite friends to play your games even when they themselves don’t own the games or have these games installed on their computer, mobile device, or tablet.

If you want to play on a mobile device using Steam Remote Play, you need to install the Steam Link app.

What are the requirements for Steam Remote Play?

In order to successfully set up Steam Remote Play, you’re going to need a number of things. Let’s discuss each of them briefly.

You must own the Steam game.

Not every game on Steam supports Remote Play so you must make sure that the game you want to share with your friends allows this feature. Obviously, you must also have ownership of the game, which means that you should have paid for the game (unless it’s a free-to-play).

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Good working remote computer.

If you are the one hosting the game or inviting other friends to join you for a remote play, you must make sure that your PC can handle the game and your graphics card supports hardware encoding. All NVIDIA GPUs starting from GTX 650 and newer support hardware encoding.

If your GPU has a hardware encoding feature, you also must make sure that you enable hardware encoding in your Steam application.

To do that, simply open the Advanced host options and check “Enable hardware encoding.“

Decent internet connection.

In order to avoid experiencing lag or delay, you want to make sure that your internet connection speed is stable and fast enough (at least 10 Mbps).

While some players have tried using Steam Remote Play with a slower connection speed, experience may vary and there’s a higher chance of lag or delay.

Wired connection.

As much as possible, you want to make sure that both remote computer hosting the game and the other computer that tries to launch it are connected to the router by a LAN cable. Wireless connection is less reliable than a wired setup.

How to know which games allow Remote Play?

In order to tell if a game supports Remote Play, you need to check its Steam Store page like this one from Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI:

As you can see, Civilization 6 Steam version supports both Remote Play on Tablet and Remote Play Together. This means that it can be accessed in a Steam enabled mobile device (smartphone or tablet with Steam Link app) or in another computer via Remote Play Together.

How to use and set up Steam Remote Play?

It’s easy to use Steam Remote Play. Depending on the device type you’re planning to use, you either have to use the Steam Link app or Remote Play Together feature.

Remote Play Anywhere

You can continue to play your favorite game anywhere using your smartphone or tablet as long as it’s linked properly to your remote computer that hosts the game. So, for example, if you are away from home but want to play a Steam game, all you have to do is to link your phone to your computer (must be done ahead of time), use the Steam Link app, and from there, play the game.

These are the steps that you must do to make that happen: Teams microsoft download for mac.

On your computer (host device), log in to the Steam application. This must be the computer where the game is installed.
On your mobile device (smartphone or tablet with a Steam Link app installed) or computer, you can launch the game and started playing.

If you need assistance on where to download the Steam Link app and how to set it up, follow this link: https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about

Remote Play Together

If you want to play together with your friends who do not have the copy of the Steam game you have, you can use the Remote Play Together feature. Here’s what you must do:

On your computer, open the Steam game you want.
On your friend’s computer or supported mobile device, he or she must be logged in to Steam.
On your computer, open your Steam Overlay in-game by pressing Shift+Tab.
Find the name of your friend from your friends list, then select Remote Play Together.
Once your friend accepts the invite, they will be in-game with you.

#Chiaki

Disclaimer: This project is not endorsed or certified by Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

Chiaki is a Free and Open Source Software Client for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Playfor Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, macOS, Windows, Nintendo Switch and potentially even more platforms.

#Project Status

As all relevant features are implemented, this project is considered to be finished and in maintenance mode only.No major updates are planned and contributions are only accepted in special cases.

#Installing

You can either download a pre-built release or build Chiaki from source.

#Downloading a Release

Builds are provided for Linux, Android, macOS, Nintendo Switch and Windows.

You can download them here.

Linux: The provided file is an AppImage. Simply make it executable (chmod +x <file>.AppImage) and run it.
Android: Install from Google Play, F-Droid or download the APK from Sourcehut.
macOS: Drag the application from the .dmg into your Applications folder.
Windows: Extract the .zip file and execute chiaki.exe.
Switch: Download the .nro file and copy it into the switch/ directory on your SD card.

#Building from Source

Dependencies are CMake, Qt 5 with QtMultimedia, QtOpenGL and QtSvg, FFMPEG (libavcodec with H264 is enough), libopus, OpenSSL 1.1, SDL 2,protoc and the protobuf Python library (only used during compilation for Nanopb). Then, Chiaki builds just like any other CMake project:

For more detailed platform-specific instructions, see doc/platform-build.md or switch/ for Nintendo Switch.

#Usage

If your Console is on your local network, is turned on or in standby mode and does not have Discovery explicitly disabled, Chiaki should find it.Otherwise, you can add it manually.To do so, click the '+' icon in the top right, and enter your Console's IP address.

You will then need to register your Console with Chiaki. You will need two more pieces of information to do this.

#Obtaining your PSN AccountID

Starting with PS4 7.0, it is necessary to use a so-called 'AccountID' as opposed to the 'Online-ID' for registration (streaming itself did not change).This ID seems to be a unique identifier for a PSN Account and it can be obtained from the PSN after logging in using OAuth.A Python 3 script which does this is provided in scripts/psn-account-id.py.Simply run it in a terminal and follow the instructions. Once you know your ID, write it down. You will likely never have to do this process again.

#Obtaining a Registration PIN

To register a Console with a PIN, it must be put into registration mode. To do this on a PS4, simply go to:Settings -> Remote Play -> Add Device, or on a PS5: Settings -> System -> Remote Play -> Link Device.

You can now double-click your Console in Chiaki's main window to start Remote Play.

#Acknowledgements

This project has only been made possible because of the following Open Source projects:Rizin,Cutter,Frida andx64dbg.

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Also thanks to delroth for analyzing the registration and wakeup protocol,grill2010 for analyzing the PSN's OAuth Login,as well as a huge thank you to FioraAeterna for giving me someextremely helpful information about FEC and error correction. Osx zip.

#About

Created by Florian Märkl

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See theGNU Affero General Public License for more details.

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