Definative firmware guide

[mat_dizzy]

yeah thats a point, if your gonna use something else thats not yours originaly you should always use credit

[benh]

Next time I will promise

[mavsman4457]

I figured that since this guide was "homemade" then it would share the features of a 1.0 PSP. Seeing as it doesn't and it isn't homemade, it is 100% useless and I would rather just go to the Sony site for this info. Thank you b8a for the info regarding the 1.0 PSP's.

[mog]

Yep, this thread is a little pointless...
Also it seems like you are saying all those features listed under fw 1.50 are new features.
So its not really a definitive guide yet...

Here is a simpler version of this thread:

http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/Support/SystemUpdate
http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/Support/SystemUpdateHistory

And here is the full update history -- with the actual 1.50 new features :

http://www.jp.playstation.com/psp/update/ud_01_hty.html

For the fw 1.00 details:
- No exploit needed to run unsigned code.
- Loads homebrew a little faster than 1.50
- Can decrypt the fake 1.00 update leak from Sony.
- Just plain kicks ass!

[b8a]

mog: Thanks for the info!! Would you be willing to do us a favor and document the official differences between 1.00 and 1.50? Like I said, I've read that only Japanese and English are available on it, but before I read that, I assumed that all of the official XMB features were the same.

EDIT: Whoops! That last link does a pretty good job of this already. Thanks again!

translated:
System Software Version 1.50 Update Details [2005.03.24]

[Settings]
-With regards to the displayed language when making settings and displaying information on the PSP (Playstation Portable), support for the following languages has been added to the support for English and Japanese in System Software Ver.100.
German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Russian.

[Video]
-It's now been made so that when playing back video stored on "Memory Stick Duo", you can playback other video without loosing your settings to the screen mode.
-It's now been made so that when recovering from sleep mode while playing back video stored on Memory Stick Duo, you can resume playback from where the video left off. After recovering from sleep, with the Memory Stick icon selected, pressing the ◯ button will select the icon of the video which was previously playing back. If you press the ◯ button once more in this state, playback will start, continuing from where it left off.
*In the case of UMD Video Software, the above functions are already supported in System Software Ver.1.00. However, this function may not be supported by certain software in accordance with the specifications of the content creator.

[Music]
-It's now been made so that you can continue track playback from where you left off when recovering from sleep mode. With the Memory Stick icon selected after recovering from sleep mode, any of the controls below can be used to continue plaback.

-Press the play button on the remote control.
-Press the START button on the body.
-Press the △ button to display the option menu, select "Play" and press the ◯ button.

-It's now been made so that you can use alphabetical characters with accents for the files and folders for MP3 formatted music data. *1

[Photo]
-It's now been made so that you can use alphabetical characters with accents for the files and folders for photo files.

*1
When using alphabetical characters with accents from European languages for folder names and file names, please do so when a language other than Japanese is selected for the display language. Also, when using Japanese for file names and folder names, please do so when Japanese is selected as the display language.

Just as a side note, the "confirm" button in Japan is the ◯ button, whereas (I beleive) in the rest of the world, "confirm" is the ✕ button. So, obviously the above changes would be documented slightly differently outside of Japan.

[mat_dizzy]

b8a: ive had a think about this mate, and your right! sony being my best computer game company will be loosing millions due to piracy!

yet i dont agree in spending 30-45 pounds for one game as in my view its a complete rip of, the psp is a lengendery piece of kit. which for games like gta i would not mind splashing out a bit of money for!

[mog]

Well basically 1.00 has everything 1.50 has, minus what the 1.50 update gives!

I'm not good with the translating, but the small bits I can read are:

- Add German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian languages.
- Fixes problems that might occur with filenames and european language characters.
- Fixes some UMD and MP3 playback issues, some stuff to do with sleep mode.

Sorry that's about all I can figure out, I can't read japanese very well!
I'm sure you could do a much better job of translating.

P.S. Don't take what I did translate as correct. There was quite a bit of guess work in there!

[b8a]

Sorry mog! I realized that that last link had all the information I was looking for right after I made that post, and I updated my post with the translated information.

b8a: ive had a think about this mate, and your right! sony being my best computer game company will be loosing millions due to piracy!

yet i dont agree in spending 30-45 pounds for one game as in my view its a complete rip of, the psp is a lengendery piece of kit. which for games like gta i would not mind splashing out a bit of money for!

Agreed. I can't afford these games at these prices, but if everyone paid for them (and if Sony were honorable, which I think we have reason to expect they would be), then the prices would fall. It's basic economics.

[mog]

translated:
System Software Version 1.50 Update Details [2005.03.24]
[Settings]
-With regards to the displayed language when making settings, displaying information on the PSP [Playstation Portable], support for the following languages has been added to the support for English and Japanese in System Software Ver.100.
German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Russian.

[Video]
-It's now been made so that when playing back video stored on "Memory Stick Duo", you can playback other video without loosing your settings to the screen mode.
-It's now been made so that when recovering from sleep mode while playing back video stored on Memory Stick Duo, you can resume playback from where the video left off. After recovering from sleep, with the Memory Stick icon selected, pressing the ◯ button will select the icon of the video which was previously playing back. If you press the ◯ button once more in this state, playback will start, continuing from where it left off.
*In the case of UMD Video Software, the above functions are already supported in System Software Ver.1.00. However, this function may not be supported by certain software in accordance with the specifications of the content creator.

[Music]
-It's now been made so that you can continue track playback from where you left off when recovering from sleep mode. With the Memory Stick icon selected after recovering from sleep mode, any of the controls below can be used to continue plaback.
-Press the play button on the remote control.
-Press the START button on the body.
-Press the △ button to display the option menu, select "Play" and press the ◯ button.
-It's now been made so that you can use alphabetical characters with accents for the files and folders for MP3 formatted music data. *1

[Photo]
-It's now been made so that you can use alphabetical characters with accents for the files and folders for photo files.

*1
When using alphabetical characters with accents from European languages for folder names and file names, please do so when a language other than Japanese is selected for the display language. Also, when using for the Japanese for file names and folder names, please do so when Japanese is selected as the display language.

That was fast!

After reading that I am proud I got some of it kind of right! but I was pretty far off on the UMD Video part...

Well, now this thread wasn't so pointless after all... I finally have a translation of the 1.50 update features!
Thanks b8a

*EDIT*
Oops, I just noticed I missed out a language イタリア語 (itaria-go) -- Italian...
Maybe I didn't do so well!

[uhoh_hotdogs]

Wow, this prevented me from possibly bricking my PSP. I have a version 2.60 PSP and was going to downgrade . . . but it looks like the PSP doesn't have WPA-PSK (AES) encryption support until at least version 2.5. (My wireless network is WPA-PSK (AES) encrypted)