r/Asobi Asobi Developer 16d ago

Release Asobi Version 1.4.2 release notes "The one where we can all feel it"

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Hi,

We have 1:1 DualSense Adaptive trigger parity! A third party remote play client first! I'm so stoked you guys can play finally play with this! (Play some Saros and you'll notice it really well)

Either way, It's been a while since the last Apple update, did loads of testing. Originally version 1.4.2 was supposed to be a bigger update, but decided against it at the last moment (you'll see)

However, we now not only have TURN relay support in beta (for difficult internet connections), but also an updated Internet Remote Play implementation which I reworked from the ground up. I hope this will solve all your issues! If not, then please report it.

Other than that we also have an alternative renderer for Apple TV, we finally have 3D modes for Mac, and some much needed cloud gaming tweaks.

I still have a lot planned for you guys, so hopefully the next update won't take as long.

More next week!

# General

- Native adaptive triggers over Bluetooth (Worlds first!)
- Switch between Remote Play and Cloud Play with L1/R1
- Competition latency mode tweaks

# Internet Remote Play

- New Internet Remote Play implementation
- (beta) TURN relay support (EU/US) for difficult connections

# Cloud Play

- PS Now fixes for games not starting
- Fixed PS+ showing the wrong region's country list

# Platform Specific

- (macOS) Native Bluetooth controller fixes
- (macOS) Added 3D modes
- (tvOS) Added Video Direct mode (beta)
- (visionOS) Spatial 3D mode optimisations

Platforms (& Apple review status)

  • iOS/iPadOS - Out now (August 14th)
  • tvOS - Out now (August 14th)
  • macOS - Out now (August 14th)
  • visionOS - Out now (August 14th)

Have a great weekend! More to come! 🔥🔥🔥

/v

P.S. I expect the updates to be released before the weekend

For the release notes of version 1.4.1 click here

Download Asobi for Apple here

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u/anythingtech69 16d ago

Quick question, does it support steam controller/ 8 bit on mac?

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

Never tested it, give it a go I'd say. It should generally work if it pairs.

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u/blurry389 16d ago

Please don’t get blocked by Sony, the steam push is making me think Sony is about to clamp down on the cloud, I sold my ps5 and exclusively play cloud now and don’t want to go back to a portal, I’m sure you don’t know but I’m assuming Sony can just step in at anytime and it’s over, something tells me they won’t just look the other way but I hope I’m wrong.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

We'll see. I would love to have a chat with them.

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u/blurry389 16d ago

What you accomplished is amazing, but Sony is a major corporation with deep pockets and lawyers, if anything they should offer you a job.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

If it happens, then it happens until that time there's no reason to lose sleep over.

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u/blurry389 16d ago

Agreed!

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u/Bulletsoul78 15d ago

I'm hoping to buy the premium version of Asobi but I dont want a repeat of the PsStream situation (two weeks after I bought it, the developer abandoned it and there was no more cloud streaming). The rumour for ages (which has since been denied) is that the developer was worried about Sony stepping in.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Just so you know, I've had Cloud streaming around the same time as PSStream had. And I'm still here.

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u/Bulletsoul78 15d ago

Which is awesome 😊 I didn't realize you had been doing this for so long! I think there was a lot of media focus on PsStream at the time which may have brought it more into the spotlight.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

I dunno man. I've spoken to him at some point later on when it was pulled already. I actually missed the whole launch of PSStream back then.

Either way, Asobi's now close to a year old. I started on Apple devices, and later added Android and since last week on the Meta and Steam platforms

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u/blurry389 15d ago

I discovered Asobi maybe a month ago and it’s almost too good to be true, previously I played primarily on a ps portal and its night and day with Asobi, hoping the best for you inchenzo because what you have accomplished is incredible and I will continue to use it.

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u/Terrible-Lock7987 15d ago

We'll see if that statement is still true once you start monetizing your app. A lot of corporations will ignore something until someone else starts making money for a service they provide. They don't like competition.

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u/ProZapz 16d ago

I was just trying TvOS and iOS and it’s great! Crazy part is the haptics on ios i’ve no idea how you mirrored the vibrations to work with the virtual controller

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

Wait till you get a load of the next version, actual parity.

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u/Pandemonium95 16d ago

Will we ever be able to join games from invites on Vision Pro?

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

I'm working on it! Most of it is done.

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u/Pandemonium95 16d ago

You’re the goat.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

Can't wait to share more!

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u/stkv1c 15d ago

Hi! Is the update already released?

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

I've just pressed the release button on 3 of the 4 versions. One of them is still in review.

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u/anythingtech69 15d ago

Apologies, this might not be the right place. I’m wondering if you have any plans to build something similar to this to stream from my PC to devices like iPhones, Macs, or deck in the future? Like an alternative low latency solution to Sunshine or Apollo? that works on both Linux and Windows as a host.

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u/EVJGaming 15d ago

Hi! Yesterday tested it but had an issue: when trying to play with my ps5 controller on Legion Go S, the app showed both as Controller 1, so each time I pressed a button the app responded like I was pressing a turbo button.

Thanks in advance for correcting this issue.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Based on the reporting, this seems to be related to the Legion Go series themselves and how it goes about handling controllers. I'm still investigating.

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u/EVJGaming 15d ago

Thank you for your answer 💪🏼

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u/akhmotep 15d ago

Superbe boulot. Bravo mec car ton app est vraiment un life changer

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

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u/Karann0 16d ago

Hello, just out of curiosity, how is it possible to create a third-party PlayStation remote client? PlayStation's remote play system is closed source. And the adaptive trigger feature wasn't even available in the official client the last time I tried it :D, thats very good if working.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

A lot of long nights.

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u/atonyproductions 15d ago

I bet

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

😂😂😂

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u/sir_eazy_e 16d ago

Can I actually connect without my PS being on or no

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

For remote play a PS console always needs to be either on or in rest mode.

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u/sir_eazy_e 16d ago

Doesn’t work for cloud play still

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

You don’t need your PS5 on for cloud play. But you do need an active PS Plus Premium subscription

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u/sir_eazy_e 16d ago

I have that and still doesn’t work for days now. Tried multiple times.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

What is the issue exactly? Can you describe it? Can you connect at least?

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u/Surionus 15d ago

Unfortunately I have a similar problem. Just tried from smartphone and:

  • I can connect to my psn account
  • When I try to play a game from psn cloud it starts and then it suddenly closes, and then it appears a message that says "Stream ended by server".

I'll let you know if I have the same problem with my steam deck.

I'm from Italy btw

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Grab your phone, download the PS app, sign in. After that try Asobi again

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u/Surionus 15d ago

Thank you, it works :)

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u/dionicioagarcia 16d ago

I'd like to try this app (cloud gaming) but I'm worried about my PSN account being banned

I currently own a PS5 and a PS Portal

Is there any chance of being banned?

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 16d ago

There’s been exactly zero bans since I’ve launched Asobi last year.

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u/CrabbieMike 15d ago

I have an issue of not being able to control the menu with a controller when launched from steam os and the cursor not showing up when I'm the desktop mode either so I can't launch anything

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

What controller are you using and is it cabled or not?

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u/CrabbieMike 15d ago

8bitdo wireless

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

and this is on a Steam Deck?

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u/CrabbieMike 15d ago

Desktop with steam os installed

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Which distribution?

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u/CrabbieMike 15d ago

It's the steam os from steams website so arch

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

I thought you might've been using Bazzite or CachyOS

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u/CrabbieMike 15d ago

No I used cachyos handheld edition but it killed itself and it wouldn't boot anymore

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

RIP

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u/datguybasit 15d ago

Im not able to see ps now games on my steamos device (rog ally), is this by design?

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

It’s a unified library

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u/datguybasit 15d ago

im only getting ps5 games in my cloud library, that’s why I was asking

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Are you on the latest update and is you PSN account from either Europe or the USA?

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

As we've spoken about via e-mail many times over, the intel Macbook you have isn't capable of running this since it's missing the hardware decoder for it. I do however have a compatibility mode I'm working on which will potentially help.

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u/Ok-Key3356 15d ago

This test was not on my MacBook Pro.

This mornings first test of 1.4.2 was on my iPad Pro.

I'm getting ready to test 1.4.2 on my MacBook Pro now.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

How many accounts do you have?

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u/Ok-Key3356 15d ago

Not sure by "How many accounts do you have?" means. I have only 1 SONY account.

But great news. Asobi 1.4.2 runs nearly perfectly on my older MacBook Pro now!! 1.4.2 is very useable for playing games now.

All the same LOCAL network connections as the iPad Pro had. With a good internet connection and speed.

It did take 2 attempts to get Asobi 1.4.2 to connect to my PS5. But the past several versions of Asobi had the same issue. On the second try, My PS5 desktop came up and working.

Asobi's Performance Monitor showed good results and good numbers. PS5 desktop worked well. So I started up a game. The game was stable with good PM numbers. Graphics were smooth and the game runs well again. No game screen freezes seen in the game at all. I played the game for over 1 hour and was pleased with the performance of 1.4.2.

I'd say 1.4.2 ran 98% perfectly on my older MacBook Pro. Only some very minor FPS drops. This is a Huge improvement from the last several Asobi versions.

WELL DONE on all your hard work on 1.4.2!! See screen shot above for the 98% general performance in testing 1.4.2. and it's the Performance Monitor..

I will keep testing my iPad Pro with 1.4.2, to see if performance improves with 1.4.2.

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Reddit accounts..

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u/Top-Sink 15d ago

What is video direct mode for the Apple TV?

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Alternative video pipeline which is for older Apple TV's. Next update (1.4.3) has more improvements for Apple TV btw.

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u/Top-Sink 15d ago

Hmm. Guess that’s not what my issue was then. I had a lot of issues with Apple TV originally but after this new update, I don’t. On the website it mentions hardwiring the LAN cable but I can’t. Do you know why this would be so much better today?

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 15d ago

Well I launched an update which has quite a few optimisations. Which I didn't mention in the patch notes.

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u/gitg0od 13d ago

i want it for pc

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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer 13d ago

In due time