PS4 – What Happens When Pressing L1 or R1 on the Home Screen? Detailed Explanation

The Short:

Basically, QfG is a way for PlayStation to advertise an underused service of theirs by incentivizing users with free content.

The Long:

PlayStation's official YouTube Channel released these videos concerning their Quest for Greatness (QfG):

QfG is an episodic miniquest series (1 and 2 are out and we are expecting a third and more installments). It is made to promote the almost forgotten PlayStation Home. To help bring new life to PS Home QfG offers incentives such as free games and ingame content. All QfG gameplay is free and can be reached through PlayStation home.

A PlayStation employee on the forums recently posted about QfG2 (including a voucher code and a walkthrough), inviting people to share their experiences on the thread.

I've set up various large LAN parties involving multiple consoles (once with ~12 Xboxes for a Modern Warfare 2 party).

If you're only hooking up two consoles, you can generally get away with a "crossover" Ethernet cable hooking between them. A crossover Ethernet cable is wired differently than a standard CAT5/6 Ethernet cable, and is designed to directly connect two devices. This is probably the cheapest solution, a quick trip to Amazon or Monoprice will score you one of these cables for a couple of bucks.

That said, you could try hooking up the two consoles with a standard Ethernet cable - some Ethernet hardware is capable of detecting and auto-switching internally to a crossover mode. There's no risk to your hardware - if it fails, the network just won't work.

If you've got a router, even if you don't have internet access, it's still worthwhile to hook both consoles up to it. Routers have built-in services (DHCP, chief among them) that make setting up a small network much easier. There's no need for crossover cables here, just use standard Ethernet cables instead.