Rumored PSP FW 5.0 has PSN access, new RSS reader, built-in screen capture? |
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Earlier this week, we heard that Sony had already - supposedly! - released the upcoming PSP firmware 5.0 to developers for them to test out. To keep you guys updated on this rumor, we finally hear from PSPGen the list of features that are coming with FW 5.0. Roll in the list!
- Access to PlayStation Network. No, not PlayStation Store... PlayStation Network. This feature will make it possible for gamers to connect to Sony's online network and play, not via ad-hoc, but via PSN.
- New RSS reader. The new RSS reader is to be added and will now supposedly allow the reading of text, as opposed to just images, videos, and sounds.
- Integrated Screen capture function. No need for homebrew apps (iR Shell, etc.) to take screenshots anymore. Looks like Sony's building the screen capture into the system already. Sweet!
Again, note that this is not just a rumor for now, but a rumor of a beta version of the firmware - which makes it twice that hard to place. Given that it's a beta version, it means that Sony may change it when they release the final build.
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there is a Screen capture file in flash0 so I don't think its a rumor, I know this because I removed it to save space in my flash0
If they put in access to the Playstation Network, couldn't that allow them to see if we're using custom firmware, and block us from the network...
Screen Captures? Meh ok I guess, maybe if you found a glitch in game or something... PSN sounds petty cool - maybe we'll get buddy lists..or even better - TROPHIES! Now that would rock...
Then leave the CFW behind and just buy games. Let me guess, you just use CFW for Homebrew apps. Right? DarkAlex should remove the ISO Feature in the upcomin CFW. So the PSP can get the games it deserves.
Totally agree on that one solid0snake!
bring on the good games. get rid of ISO support
if they put trophies in it. i would buy a slim PSP
O_o!!!!!! Awesome!!! I Hope Dark_AleX gets on this FW right when it comes out!!!
seem to be true quite often now-a-days.
i believe it to bad too late for me, im pandorized. open pandorized that is anyway they need friends, trophies and playstation store to save the psp although good games are finally coming out anyway if they were to add them in the phat would be hopeless also CFW could block the check, the reason why theres a little bit of hesitation to hack the ps3 is, if its hack some gimp would probably release it before coming substantial enough to get a cfw out of basically the ps3 needs to leap to a cfw, and if you want to prevent sony from checking homebrew enabled psps, youd not beable to sign in unless your on the latest cfw anyway look at the usb fake ofw thing, i know its different but.... but yh nice features, the rss should have been there what 2 years ago idk though hehe pandora
Good luck with that, kid ;) But the rest of us are sticking with a real gaming handheld.
Yeah but if he's gonna remove ISO support, SONY shold consider a new casing for UMD's. I'm sorry guys but I've had a few cases broken now and I only have ISO's in order to play them. On another note, for the next firmware we need... An equalizer for the music player, PSN, DIVX support, Brightness determined on a slider rather than the 4 default, A flashplayer update, at least flash7 for youtube, At least 10 mb available to web pages, Natural cxmb support, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, Would it kill to give the U.S. the camera attachment?
sony, please include equaliser and make the volume level louder like ipod so we can play music loud on our component hi fi system like ipod does!
I agree with "pspslim2000", It would be nice if PSP had more Apps on the XMB. Sony needs a App store so you could download and remove apps like GO Messenger.So Sony doesn't need more Flash room to include these apps. I'm currently in College and I hate using my cell phone to organize my upcoming events and etc. I'd love if Sony would added a Note taker, a Calender (To add events and notes to), a Calculator (A simple or advance calculator), the ability to contact others on campus with a PSP, and/or just being able to check my email, any email, with out the browser (Like GO Messenger). I want to be able to play games or be on the XMB and have it pop up a small notification bar that informs me that I got class in 5min or just something important I need to do. Oh and a side note: I wish it had a rumble feature so I could have my PSP off and if buzz if there's a notification. Sony you got the technology now push it to it's limits!
CFW isn't only for getting out of buying games, it is for CXMB, CWcheat AND The homebrew games.
I agree with "pspslim2000", It would be nice if PSP had more Apps on the XMB. Sony needs a App store so you could download and remove apps like GO Messenger.So Sony doesn't need more Flash room to include these apps. I'm currently in College and I hate using my cell phone to organize my upcoming events and etc. I'd love if Sony would added a Note taker, a Calender (To add events and notes to), a Calculator (A simple or advance calculator), the ability to contact others on campus with a PSP, and/or just being able to check my email, any email, with out the browser (Like GO Messenger). I want to be able to play games or be on the XMB and have it pop up a small notification bar that informs me that I got class in 5min or just something important I need to do. Oh and a side note: I wish it had a rumble feature so I could have my PSP off and if buzz if there's a notification. Sony you got the technology now push it to it's limits!
I agree with "pspslim2000", It would be nice if PSP had more Apps on the XMB. Sony needs a App store so you could download and remove apps like GO Messenger.So Sony doesn't need more Flash room to include these apps. I'm currently in College and I hate using my cell phone to organize my upcoming events and etc. I'd love if Sony would added a Note taker, a Calender (To add events and notes to), a Calculator (A simple or advance calculator), the ability to contact others on campus with a PSP, and/or just being able to check my email, any email, with out the browser (Like GO Messenger). I want to be able to play games or be on the XMB and have it pop up a small notification bar that informs me that I got class in 5min or just something important I need to do. Oh and a side note: I wish it had a rumble feature so I could have my PSP off and if buzz if there's a notification. Sony you got the technology now push it to it's limits!
The current "equalizer" is pretty disappointing, but if you use one of the TV output cables to hook it up to your sound system (assuming you have a slim) it will boost your volume an incredible amount on it's own already.
1. The screenshot is fake. That's not what you would see for a testtool firmware. Regardless... 2. Access to PlayStation Network. Yes. Absolutely. It's already in Wipeout Pulse. 2. New RSS reader. Wouldn't be surprised, though I'll probably still stick with FreeRadio. 3. Integrated Screen capture function. Definitely. screenshot_plugin.prx has been around for a while; there's even a function in the Internet Radio player for taking screenshots.
yes it does louder if you conect it on tv but its not sensible beause if you just want to listen to music you dont want to turn on the tv isnt it? what I did is connect it to my hifi stereo system but even you adjust the volume to the limit it still not loud. I hope someone can tweak the psp mp3 player to give more audio power like ipod.
This is reply to c74gta4smash. I have a feeling that there might be a good reason for not updating flash, but I don't know. I haven't tried the slim psp online, but the phat one runs out of memory very quickly. This might make it pointless to upgrade flash so that you can view videos. This could also be the same issue for PS3, but again, I don't know. At least you can view youtube on PS3.
I love this. I bet I can name three or four people who voted my post down, even though it's the most factual one here...
I know that but it's not like that's stopped SONY from giving extra features to the slim model which I have. And yes I can watch youtube on my PS3 but I can't take it with me LOL and that browser suffers from some java and memory just like the PSP's.
when home is ready for ps3,who has a feeling psps will get home as well and trophies and all,since the psp is also posed to interact with the ps3 in full unity,according to sony
What would be REALLY neat is if you can piggy back the Ad-Hoc networking with the PSN networking generating a kind of Sony administrated XKai. Man that would be so amazing.
come awn :P ok, the posts went a wee bit off topic, but this one's just confusing... one, you canny count.... two 2's? and what's with the contradiction!?!? 1 it's fake and then 3 it's definate? the screenshot capability has been there, but wont be implimented into use on XMB and all functions, it's there for game function i.e. wipeout pulse had it, and a few other games. screen capture, is a completely different thing. it merges frames into a visual file to be played in sequence. screen shot is independant screen frame saving. check the definitions online. still giving a star tho lol
Dude, open pandora looks awsome, Crap, its wayyyy better than psp.
what is "open pandora"
use the latest version of light mp3 for the psp, there is a volume boost option that will output more power.
he isnt talking about the screenshot feature in the firmware he is talking about the picture of the 5.00 firmware at the top of this page, he is saying its fake you dumb*****
Yup. In articles and vids for ps3: The ps3 has a fully functional internet browser (except for the fact that the ps3 doesn't have much RAM and it doesn't have anywhere near the newest flash and java, etc along w/ other missing features).
for them to let you play mp3s while playing games
yes I did use lightmp3 but some tracks suffers at high volume its not great. Lets make sony hear us so they will improve the mp3 feature of the psp!
» tv? yes it does louder if you conect it on tv but its not sensible beause if you just want to listen to music you dont want to turn on the tv isnt it? what I did is connect it to my hifi stereo system but even you adjust the volume to the limit it still not loud. I hope someone can tweak the psp mp3 player to give more audio power like ipod. Re: majorbb100 - 9 hours ago » light mp3 use the latest version of light mp3 for the psp, there is a volume boost option that will output more power. Re: pspslim2000 - 2 hours ago » lightmp3 yes I did use lightmp3 but some tracks suffers at high volume its not great. Lets make sony hear us so they will improve the mp3 feature of the psp!
hi, just emailed sony for improvement. good day sir/maa'm, My name is Derek, I am one of the thousands complaining about the psp volume level. I / we tested our psp's with different hi-fi system so we can also listen music at our offices and homesbut we are very disappointed with the volume level it is very low even we turn off the avl feature but amazingly with ipod mp3 player it is very loud speacialy with big hi-fi component system. We are here to ask if you "SONY" can improve this feature with your next firmware update please. If you visit one of the furom site like afterdawn.com maxconsole , qj.net you will see how badly need this feature since we dont only use our psp to play games we use it also to play mp3 music with our hi-fi system. We hope you hear us. Looking forward to hear from you soon! Thank you very much and more power! from, psp users all over the world hope someone make a sticky and make poll so we can email the result to sony so they will hear us.
every time a firmware update in is way those mother*****ers always have to have some *****ing info let see more than 1000 time some gay bastards keep saying there will be more video codec those *****ers and there will be no *****ing screen capture the only *****ed up thing will be psp ***** extended more ps1 support and my ass i don't know why sony isn't adding more codec for psp video thats why people ***** sony and wanna hack cause all those *****ing feature in cfw
The thing is, is that Sony doesn't even THINK to even use the memory stick that is almost ALWAYS in the freaking PSP as extra memory. Kind of like windows and the page file system. This could give the extra memory that the web browser needs for storing temporary files that can easily be deleted after using the web browser.
Oh ya, I didn't think of that. I haven't actually used readyboost on Vista. You could probably use a flash drive too, but doesn't the entire flash drive or memory stick get wiped clean to use it as memory? I think that's what you need to do to use readyboost, but I'm not sure.
we don't need three copies of it. Yes, it would be cool to download just the apps we want, like for the iphone. If sony allowed homebrew apps, then we could have many more without cfw.
Sony can't update the flash player because they do not have the rights to tinker with it. It's completely up to Adobe to update the PS3 and PSP versions of the flash players, and i doubt they will do out, giving the time they already had. sorry for that.
indeed, but for the PSN, does this mean friend lists, sending emails, and whatnot?
sshh shlag, no need for the insult, i was simply saying, and he didnt state that. why does everybody get so uptight personal and start blanking words at each other. grow up, your more or a major wanabie, private *salutes teh V's*
if the new post up (http://pspupdates.qj.net/Who-said-it-was-fake-Watch-PSP-FW-5-0-in-action/pg/49/aid/124563) is any consolation, and is real, then perhaps you might wanna revise number one... jus a thought. oh and anyone reading my first response on here, please note I GAVE GOOD REP.
the words sony and kai.. i would hate that to happen
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