New PSP firmwire icons shown (not yet release) + Compatability with PS3

[miemt11]

Just saw this a sony psp forums.

They posted pictures of the PSP with new features that are ment to be compatible with PS3. This is obviously a system update. Heres the scan

http://img318.imageshack.us/img318/9697/ps33gf.jpg

Since, this has not confirm real or not, so I let the web master/ mr wraggster to decide whether to post to the "PSP News Forum"/Frontpage

[lilvietquoc]

hm...its questionable...but how else can a psp communicate with a ps3?
unless a coder makes an app...............i dont no....
sony is just tryin to make the scene shut down again...

[MaxSMoke]

Sony is always in production of new Firmware, not just to stop all Homebrew development, but occasionally to actually add new features (Imagine that!). That's probably just beta firmware with features only a PSP programmer will ever seen. For one thing, those icons look nearly identical. I doubt real firmware would have icons that look so much alike.

[Moning2]

actual useful features ??? that would be awesome, like the one that made homebrew (temporarely :cool: ) impossible on 2.01 and up :rolleyes:

[Psychondrius]

Those new icons have to do with the new streaming media functions of the PSP I believe... Sony has already announced this feature a while back. It is just a matter of time before it is released in US firmware form, so I suspect a new update will be released soon.

- Psychondrius

[jwilds73]

I haven't yet seen anything that makes me want to upgrade. And since I will not upgrade past 2.0 for the forseeable future this means I will not be buying any new games that require an OS beyond 2.0.

[shadowprophet]

I believe the dude that mentioned it was right.
streaming video from one psp to another.
one for sending/receveing for both stream and full file transfer.
Possible other options.

But if the newest firmware update only offeres a few video options like that and no real update to browser support,
Thats not going to apeal enough to me to worry about it.

And like was mentioned before,
The psp's ps3 connectivity features would have to be included in a firmware update at some point.
I just always figured the firmware update for those features would be released real simmilerly to the ps3 launch.:D

I wont deny those are interesting features, Still not interesting enough to want me to even begin to give thought to giveing up homebrew.
Damn thats just a sad effort on sonys part , laughible almost:p

Edit.. upon actuelly closely examineing the pic very carefully.
Those are supposed to be ps3 connectivity options. Its was silly of me to make a concousion jump like that without looking very carefuly at the pic.
Also This pic. Yeah. I believe its fake.
My opinion, Is sony wouldnt send out of pic of a psp with finger sumdge, esily seen micro scratches and grime on it.(plainly some fans psp) Look very carefully and you can see.
Sony would have a shiny new psp, Not some smudgy worn from use psp for there product apeal.. I mean seriously. how easy is it to fake a psp screen shot with the photo viewer built right into the psp anyway.
Secondly, the dude that posted right under this post is right. The pic the psp is displaying is clearly photoshoped and poorly at that,
The quality of the image the glare on the screen, all attempts to hide the poorly photoshoped truth.

[Stewie2280]

it must be fake what happend to game/music/network menus

[jman420]

maybe sony might have finaly got a brain tho, ya never realy know, one of thesse days sony might just break down and let us play our homebrew, but the problem is that there is panzys out there that just download the games and play them for free. . . . so i dont know how it might be possible to make a firmware that would let you play homebrew, but no iso's. . . . . but hey, ya never do know lets just hope for the time being they add somthing useful, and make homebrew playable like the good ole 1.0 firmware. . .
and if you look at the pic above, it has a memory stick inside a box with the symbol for WiFi so my guess would be they add a file trasfer system, dont know what else tho, maybe they will finaly make that POS Ifrared trasmition useful, in all the time psp has been out it has never had a purpose (that we know of) other then of course the remote app that was released, but sony has never used it for anything. . . . .

Edit:
and as shadowprophet said, he thinks its a fake, well this looks to come out of a magazine, and not accualy a sony production at all, so therefor, yea sony might use a new psp, but these people didnt. . . aswell the fact that this was a story on PS3 and BluRay not even for PSP so it was probobly an add in later on, but maybe not. .

and yea, i am violating your trademark shadowprophet . . . check it out! :D

JMan420

[Sterist]

its actually quite simple... all they need to do is restrict UMD access and allow everything else! im 16 and i figured that out......

[slayer2psp]

I haven't yet seen anything that makes me want to upgrade. And since I will not upgrade past 2.0 for the forseeable future this means I will not be buying any new games that require an OS beyond 2.0.
that means no more new games for you then all of the new games are 2.50 get a second psp

[grandad]

I think its wishful thinking, probably a stunt to promote the sales of PSP. Compatability with PS3 !!!

Makes you think.???

[AtariFreek]

I'm Sorry But This Just SCREAMS!!! Fake :P

[p4ch3c0]

its actually quite simple... all they need to do is restrict UMD access and allow everything else! im 16 and i figured that out......
How would you play a purchased game without UMD access?

[jman420]

lol pach, i was just going to say that, you can limit the umd usage, but hey! that will just make people download the games for free :p

[Illegal Machine]

its definatly NOT fake.

I read on engadget that the psp would be offering a WIDER array of mulitmedia interconnection with your living room devices, and other quasi compatible products.

I figure its NOT out of the question that there would be a newer firmware given to BIG companies to dev with for that CES show that was in las vegas a week or 2 ago?


I saw like 10 displays featured with the toshiba gigabeat S IN action, and its not coming out for another month.


so rest assured theres a new firmware coming soon, if for NO other reason than to support those 8 gigabyte MS sticks that are coming out soon.

[DraconumPB]

Edit.. upon actuelly closely examineing the pic very carefully.
Those are supposed to be ps3 connectivity options. Its was silly of me to make a concousion jump like that without looking very carefuly at the pic.
Also This pic. Yeah. I believe its fake.
My opinion, Is sony wouldnt send out of pic of a psp with finger sumdge, esily seen micro scratches and grime on it.(plainly some fans psp) Look very carefully and you can see.
Sony would have a shiny new psp, Not some smudgy worn from use psp for there product apeal.. I mean seriously. how easy is it to fake a psp screen shot with the photo viewer built right into the psp anyway.
Secondly, the dude that posted right under this post is right. The pic the psp is displaying is clearly photoshoped and poorly at that,
The quality of the image the glare on the screen, all attempts to hide the poorly photoshoped truth.

The caption says that the PSP seen was at the CES.. the magazine I'm sure took the photo itself, and in fact, I'd bet that the hand in the photo is that of the author or photographer from the mag (or another press member at the show). That being said, I would imagine that the firmware actually exists, most gaming magazines are at least SOMEWHAT reputable.

Please guys, stop jumping to conclusions like that without studying the material a little more closely...

[shadowprophet]

That the psp in the pic was? a hands on unit at the CES??
That would explain the mileage on the psp unit itself.
Because I was about to bring to atention that with that supposedly being offical sony firmware, Some fan isnt going to be able to get a copy ahead of its release date.

The only possible solution for this to be real at all would be if that was a pic for a demonstartion to how the psp would work in conjunction with the ps3.
However, I still have my doubts.

If this is the real deal, How come the leak comes from these guys?
And not some even more reputible gameing mag. like Egm?

But really by the time everything is said and done. Real or fake new firmware or not. Im still not feeling it.

Im just not worried about updateing.
If sony thinks people are gonna give up homebrew just so they can have a psp/ps3 hybrid love child. Think again.

There will be two types of people that update to this ps3 connectivity firmware. Those that thought the gamecube/gba connectivity was a great idea (which is like maybe three people total) And those people fortunate enough to have never experienced the flop that was gamecube/gba connectivity.

Not to mention those are the very same people you will hear from three weeks after the update.
IS THERE A EXPLOIT FOR THE 2.70 FIRMWARE YET, I CANT PLAY HOMEBREW!
Asking things like whens it gonna happen ?
Will it ever happen ?
Is there a way to downgrade?
Cause ultimately, The psp/ps3 connectivity wont be the dream solution people are hopeing for, It will be a gimic, like other attempts before it.

*Trust me the reason I bare down so hard on this issue is because sony is betting the farm that ps3 connectivity will all but destroy the psp homebrew front.. Its sad.

Sony is evil, and after its all said and done, There will be few people left that will be able to play homebrew in the end.

I will be one of those people:p

*ps it took you longer to read this post then it did for me to write it so dont ask why my posts are so long :cool:

[omniosiris]

it must be fake what happend to game/music/network menus
they're probly farther over on the right...i'd say this look pretty real. All I got to say is that no feature sony can cook up will make me want to upgrade from 1.50 (unless of course the PSP makes waffles....yummy waffles)

[Sterist]

How would you play a purchased game without UMD access?

smartasses lol..... ok... restrict manual UMD use

[Sterist]

How would you play a purchased game without UMD access?

smartasses lol..... ok... restrict controlled UMD use

[IndianCheese]

Oh No! Someone Ate The Music Icon!

[DraconumPB]

lord knows, all the icons don't fit onscreen at once NOW. ;)

[IndianCheese]

Music is between photo and video. Video is right next to photo in the picture. Maybe Sony added full customization to the icons, order of icons, system sounds, etc. That would be awesome.

[D4rkn1c0n]

It would be simple to fix the iso problem all Sony would have to do is add a little bit of code to the games on UMD disk that tell the PSP only to let they play from UMD and makes them not even visible if they end up on the memory stick

[Madonion]

It would be simple to fix the iso problem all Sony would have to do is add a little bit of code to the games on UMD disk that tell the PSP only to let they play from UMD and makes them not even visible if they end up on the memory stick

hmmm, but what about GTA, no one is playing that game on a v1.5 psp yet so i think whatever sony did is working ;).

[IndianCheese]

Or scan the Memory Stick for any files ending in .iso when a new Mem Stick is inserted or USB is exited and delete it.

[cloud_952]

Or scan the Memory Stick for any files ending in .iso when a new Mem Stick is inserted or USB is exited and delete it.

Oh, that's good and lovely.. until someone stores a totally legit CD image in ISO format on their memory stick. It's my memory stick, and it's my ISO file, I'm allowed to store whatever I want on it. It's not necessarily a PSP ISO. ^_^ Even if that was a sure-fire method, then there's an easy work-around: rename your *.iso to any other extension and then have the ISO loader look for an launch the different file type. The extension of a file is really unimportant. It's just a way for us (humans) to organize and to assign programs to things to make life easier.


It would be simple to fix the iso problem all Sony would have to do is add a little bit of code to the games on UMD disk that tell the PSP only to let they play from UMD and makes them not even visible if they end up on the memory stick

That would work great.. if people weren't using ISO launchers. What you do is.. have the ISO launcher ignore that bit of code, and then launch the game. It's not them showing up on the memory stick that causes a problem anyway. It's not like you just simply rip the game to your memory stick and then have a great time. o_O

So.. yeah. Honestly, I'm just interested in how people come up with these "zomg!! I bet no one's ever thought of THIS before" theories without thinking it through.