If people want to play games in anti-cheat environments, the only sensible solution I can see involves the reinvention of the cartridge.
In this case, make the cartridge a bootable SSD which entirely avoids touching any other disk in the system (perhaps with the exception of an SD card or USB storage stick for saves.)
The downsides include:
- the game company now has to ship a complete OS and do hardware support. They nearly have to do that anyway, so whatever.
- you'll need to reboot your computer for each game.
The other option that is touted a lot is cloud gaming, with services like Stadia.
There are outstanding issues to resolve there, like input lag and visual fidelity, but it certainly removes the ability to cheat at the system level by hooking into game processes and memory.
Aimbots would be still be theoretically possible through MITM video feed analysis (as has been speculated) but that would also work in your cartridge scenario.
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If people want to play games in anti-cheat environments, the only sensible solution I can see involves the reinvention of the cartridge.
In this case, make the cartridge a bootable SSD which entirely avoids touching any other disk in the system (perhaps with the exception of an SD card or USB storage stick for saves.)
The downsides include:
- the game company now has to ship a complete OS and do hardware support. They nearly have to do that anyway, so whatever.
- you'll need to reboot your computer for each game.
The upsides, I think, are obvious.
The other option that is touted a lot is cloud gaming, with services like Stadia.
There are outstanding issues to resolve there, like input lag and visual fidelity, but it certainly removes the ability to cheat at the system level by hooking into game processes and memory.
Aimbots would be still be theoretically possible through MITM video feed analysis (as has been speculated) but that would also work in your cartridge scenario.
Or just ship on consoles with keyboard/mouse support. Current gen consoles have not been jailbroken in their 7 years on the market.