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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

PSP Firmware 2.7 - Japan version only at the moment

Link to the engadget ref for the update.

In a nutshell, the following has been added:

- you can save rss content to memory stick
- you can now view flash content
- Rss settings in settings menue
- fwd and rev added to umd movies
- acc playback enabled

13 comments:

RuutAckses said...

You go first, Munchk... :)

Munchk said...

Will install tonight and let you know later.

At last they have made the rss functionality useful!

ACC as well.... thanks sony... was really high on my list too.... lol

RuutAckses said...

Doo, my advice would be to hold off until you are forced to upgrade unless any of that jazz is givng you a burning yearning.

I want to see if people mention an improvement in battery life before I do it -- every time I flash I worry that I'll brick it, and mine's almost out of warranty now.

andybeta said...

I'm stuck on the feeble 2.6, it's buggy, crashes more and you can't downgrade. Wish I'd never gone above 2.5, but the Sony site tricked me (hit 'flash to 2.5' hoping to get some codec or other and it went to 2.6 and I still couldn't play the video in question.)

I'm quite tempted to just go to 2.7 for the hell of it.

andybeta said...

You will also be able to boot demos off the memory stick. The first of which is LocoRoco.

I think I will wait for the EU edition of 2.70 though...

andybeta said...

Hmm.. according to this it's a worldwide simultaneous release. (slow to load).

This also implies that the LocoRoco download is available in English, or at least the button to download it is.

andybeta said...

More now... Eurogamer say it's available on the impossible-to-navigate YourPSP.com but that still says it's 2.6 (although the eBoot has no version number in the filename.)

Go to the website, click UK link.
Click Help & Advice
Click PSP System Software Update.

See, it still shows 2.60.. BUT now I remember this is how I was tricked into installing 2.60 in the first place, as it said 2.52 when I downloaded it before!

Gonna download it on my PC and open it with a hex editor, see if I can find a version number. Also gonna get the US one to see if the filesize is the same.

andybeta said...

Confirmed.. it's definitely 2.70. Says so right there in the code.

Screendump.

RuutAckses said...

LOL @ h i r 0 unpacking the PSP firmware upgrade in a hex editor to check the version number.

Only you would do that h i r 0, this is all too 1337 for me, I can't keep up.

I'm heading over to RICHARD's blog to talk about Harvest Moon. ;)

andybeta said...

LOL? Why's it funny? I don't get it...

:p

Munchk said...

all updated and working ok here!

andybeta said...

Cool. Played LocoRoco yet?

andybeta said...

For those of us who don't read Japanese, here's the how-to on LocoRoco demo.

It's only an 8Mb download, so it should fit on even the smaller Duos.