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The curious incident of the 3.0 UMD?

Posted Oct 17, 2006 at 9:45AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Firmware, Rumors Tags: MaDSouL, psp firmware, Sony

In the sunny shores of the magical land of Teh Int3rw3bz, a tsunami of pics washed up across various websites about a UMD containing a 3.0 firmware update. It's everywhere. Surely, you've heard about this already, right? Everyone and their grandma's dog probably has. If you haven't, then there's no reason now.

The story goes that a member of YourPSP was sent a copy of this beta UMD firmware update. Sony wanted them to try it out. Supposedly the update supports PSone emulation, .mov, .gif, .wmv, and .flv files. Boy was that a mouthful. Excited? Err, don't get your hopes up. Ever since February, this "3.0 update" was already rumored about, and quite frankly, debunked with a vengeance. (Somebody named MadSoul even put his foot forward and claimed that he was the one who started this "joke".)

Why ditch this as a fake, you ask? For one thing, most of Sony's firmware updates have happened via download. Not through UMDs. Also, it's not in the nature of Sony to go around getting people to beta test their update. "Mass marketing" a beta test of a firmware update could likewise harvest a "mass bricking" of PSPs (thus, bad PR for Sony).

What with the recent FW2.81 PSP from the Sony factory, all these rumors are already starting to get blown out of proportion. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, ok? We're just hoping beyond hope that Sony would finally say something about all this and release whatever they have up their sleeve.

Hurry up, Sony! Before more people send in the clowns...

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Ive been a part of the Sony GAP for almost a year now with my psp, and ive recieved certain demo's or betas to beta test from sony, but ive never recieved any of it in the PSP cases that popular psp games come in, they only come in "sleeves" in the shape of the psp cases, why would they waste money making a case for a beta game, or even worse a beta firmware..

this is highly imposibly or just plain stupid of sony.

# go madsoul — Guest 2006-10-17 11:03

ya whats the point of bringing this up rather pointless madsoul did this along time ago and it was funny

# umd — Guest 2006-10-17 11:03

the only thing that does make sense in this is having the firmware beta on a umd as a software you run inside your exsisting as to protect the user from bricking.

# Feldor... — Guest 2006-10-17 11:08

Did you even read the article?

3.00 is coming out roughly same time as PS3 I am led to beleive. All this talk about PS3s and PSP firmwares is dragging too long now. It's been almost a year surely. PSP scene is a bit dead (I'm grateful people are working on it and I'm sure they still are) but no new releases that have that wow factor.

Plus the fact that I won't see a PS3 will at least early march in the middle of my revision. Life's looking real sunny.

# LOL — Zerow 2006-10-17 11:09

I first saw that pic ages ago. The spelling mistakes on the piece of paper still make me laugh!

# Wow — Urza the Tyrant 2006-10-17 11:12

Yes, #4 is right. This is indeed a fake image composed by a member of our Qj family, Madsoul very long ago. Why this is on the front page? People are idiots obviously.

# uh uh — Guest 2006-10-17 11:13

Felder nice to see another GAP member anyways, we all know this is fake and well i read recently that 2 days from now (that's thursday) sony will be dishing out it's firmware 3.0 as said on playstation forums, is that true? well sony is hosting it's gamer's day in san francisco and i'm not sure what they're going to annouce but propably some news on the ps3 online, playable games, and ps3-psp connectivity. About the 3.0...well i doubt it though some people says the person who announced doesn't spam bs like that...i guess it sound way to good to be true. anyways we'll know on october the 19th.

# whatthe? — Guest 2006-10-17 11:16

where is the mistake? the picture is way small and i remember someone talking about the reading mistake some time ago but the picture(again) is way small i can't see the mistake...what's the word? or where can i get a full size picture?

# Holy **** — Guest 2006-10-17 11:18

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!

# FAKE, BUT FW 3.0 is real, at least in two days I hope — Guest 2006-10-17 11:24

THI PIC HAS BEEN OUT for a long time and this exact pic is fake but there is a real 3.0 which may be released in two days, well find out

# george lopez — Guest 2006-10-17 11:31

Will this work on my 2.71 ?

hahahahaha

# GAP — milkman 2006-10-17 11:32

I became a member today and i was wondering if they send out GAP emails alot...to tell you the truth i wasn't expecting it at all!

# Fake — Guest 2006-10-17 11:35

when this picture was first out i proved it to be fake within 3 minutes of looking at it. Why are you bringing this back up. Get some better news.

# ... — mbslrm 2006-10-17 11:35

Tell the guy who apparently has this to use some homebrew or something, and get the EBOOT.PBP file on the 'net. That should prove his truthfulness.

I am also part of GAP, and games always come in sleeves..... And, the whole idea of a beta firmware is messed up...

# I just did it because Iam gay — Guest 2006-10-17 11:36

yeah.

# FAKE? — Guest 2006-10-17 11:37

if is true, someone dump it and upload this Firmware...

# Sorry — Guest 2006-10-17 11:38

Sorry dudes.

# GAYNESS — Guest 2006-10-17 11:38

YEAH BOYYY!!!!

DOWN WITH FIRWARE UPDATES!!!

# lol — Guest 2006-10-17 11:43

fake

3.0 probably won't be out until next 2 years

not until sony figure out a way to get psx emulator

and who cares if it is the real 3.0

homebrew psx emuator is already around the net and some games already working well

haxor rulz

# GIF? — mbslrm 2006-10-17 11:47

As far as I know, 2.0+ PSPs can view animated GIFs.

# blah — Guest 2006-10-17 11:47

Not fake that picture is. I know somebody that got one.

# dumbass 101 — Guest 2006-10-17 11:57

dude i can't believe you'll do something like this...we all know that madsoul is a staff at qj so i don't think he's gonna be unregistered or misspell his name. IMBECILLE!

# i was the one to answer on playstation underground — Guest 2006-10-17 12:05

i already answered this question in a broke down explanation on the playstation underground when this pic first arrived. if you look closely, its a photoshopped UMD, whoever made it didnt even bother patching his lines and didnt even make a good circle for the UMD, the case is a printout, and half the stuff on the paper is either spelled wrong, spelled OUT, or uncapitalized. whoever did it actually spelled out "bullet" instead of putting a bullet point... they spelled PlayStation 1 in all lowercase letters (sony would never spell their own product wrongly) so believe what you want, but i'm just stating the facts

# Congratulations ! — Guest 2006-10-17 12:15

lol look at congatulations.

# here are the typos... — Guest 2006-10-17 12:19

check out this image for a clearer version of that above image.

http://zemagicien.free.fr/PSP-Images/psp30hs.jpg

There are COUNTLESS grammar errors in that jumble of texts. The miss spelled words are: Avaible and Listining.

Also, the structure of the texts are obviously of an under educated person in the business writing department. If a company asks you for a favor, the one word that WILL apear is "Please".(ala asking for feedbacks. That "Give" word is with a capital G... implying a start word of a sentence.) Also, business writing NEVER uses the words such as "get's to" to imply "an opportunity to". ;)

Lesson from a lit major. ;)

# my mistake — Guest 2006-10-17 12:27

My mistake in the previous post....

I was wrong here:

"Also, the structure of the texts are obviously of an under educated person in the business writing department."

It should be:

"Also, the structure of the texts are obviously of a 10 years old kid who can barely utilize the english to convey an idea."

# me to — Guest 2006-10-17 12:28

ive also receive one of these 3.0 umds

# bad grammar — Guest 2006-10-17 12:41

available not avaible

Photo not Photos

Here are the new features avaible

not Here is

and several more

# Dunno — Guest 2006-10-17 12:41

im a 2.8 and waiting for a downgrader...but im thinking i should update bucause i wont be able to play my games and i dunno how to run a devhook (ive tried it) and its confusing Should i update?

# 2 years — Guest 2006-10-17 12:43

it isnt comong out in two years where have u been? its either this month or next when it comes out

# if any of you — Guest 2006-10-17 13:06

if any of you browse the forums, you will see that madsoul made this as a joke. SAdly the internet makes up alot of weird stuff

# Team-Duck — Guest 2006-10-17 13:26

http://forums.team-duck.com/index.php

# f — Guest 2006-10-17 13:37

i heard this about amonth ago in psp-hacks but it said that the 3.0 beta was really a 2.60 update

# why do you guys continue to bring up dumb stuff thats OLD? — RaiderX 2006-10-17 14:18

i dont mean to be rude about it, but this has been around since 2.0! its totally fake, there are typos all over in that thing, there are obvious flaws in the image on the umd and the case and. its fake and doesnt reflect what sony is going to do

# >> — Guest 2006-10-17 14:24

Yeah.

This is months old and is entirely fake.

Nice one QJ posters, nice.

# real — Dark246 2006-10-17 15:37

if this is real this would be cool cept for the bricking part.that would suck. 3.0!!! PS3!!! 1.50!!!

# old — Guest 2006-10-17 16:09

this joke thingy is *****ing old...

# fake — Guest 2006-10-17 16:44

fake

# ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh hh — Guest 2006-10-17 18:10

i know ur all probally sick of hearin bout it....but how muck longer do u think us 2.80ers will have to wait for a downgrader....just give me light...are u workin on one???...or is it just impossible

PLZ ANSWER!!!

im beggin ya

# WTF.... — MaDSouL 2006-10-17 18:56

THIS is so damn gay that i cant even look at it! 0_o what hell hell is wrong with you bloggers? you never EVER check the forums before you blog????? this is a 6 month old fake that i have made for fun... jesus.... -____________-

# >_> — Guest 2006-10-17 19:28

Lol, I think it's time to hire better bloggers

# Dear god somebody finally figured that out — Guest 2006-10-17 19:43

I was wondering when someone would have known that

# ahahahahahah — Guest 2006-10-17 20:01

hahahahahahahah ahahahahahahaha h ahahahahahahaha h ahahahahahahaha h ahahahahahahaha h ahahahahahahaha h ahahahaha

i know the dude that faked this hahahahaha he made it AGES ago it was madsoul that made it and it was first posted on PSP3D, its FAKE. any1 that thinks its real is pretty dumb!

# xD — Guest 2006-10-17 23:10

yes and ive received MS-Vista from Bill Gates

# look at that — Guest 2006-10-18 01:02

i dont remember anyof my psp umd's Sporting the PS1 !! logo on them hahaha, what a fake, that and yourpsp.com doesnt know crap about this

# . — FLai 2006-10-18 01:19

Go *****cing MaDSouL!

# Annoying — dRaGoNiaZ 2006-10-18 01:50

People who make fake things like this really need something other to do than attempt to get a few reactions out of others.

# rew — Guest 2006-10-18 02:34

FAKE!

he printed it all and took box for psp games and just put it in,sticked the paper cover on umd.

# ***** YOU MADSOUL U ARE NOT FUNNY U FOOL — Guest 2006-10-18 02:53

GET A LIFE U *****ER

# bull***** — Guest 2006-10-18 03:12

hey are the ps1 downloads free?

juz curious =S if not free im not upgrading

as in when it comes out

I DUN BELIEVE THIS CRAP FOR F**K

# At least do a good job of faking it — Guest 2006-10-18 03:38

I'm going to have to say this is a fake because of the dodgy image.

If they wanted to make it look real they might actually print out the letter, case cover and cd label then take the photo instead of editing it and leaving blurs around the text they changed.

# Well... — Guest 2006-10-18 03:50

what did you expect? Madsoul is from Sweeden!

# No don't upgrade unless u really want it — Guest 2006-10-18 03:52

No do not update or you will just be wanting a downgrade for 3.00. think about it you upgrade from 2.7 cause no downgrade you will just repeat history.

# ^ya^ — Guest 2006-10-18 03:54

go dl the 2.71 SE-A custom firmware then u won't need to use devhook

# stunt — Guest 2006-10-18 03:56

probably a publicity stunt for yourpsp.com

# Yeh — Guest 2006-10-18 04:47

Yeh, madsoul made this, me and madsoul decided to make loads of fake images of psp games such as my entry of "resident evil 4 on psp".

he came up with the firmware update fake, but that was AGES!! ago, why bring this up when its like 8 months old

# fake — Guest 2006-10-18 05:21

if this was real then the umd would have been ripped and posted all over the net by now, and we would all be using it, that would be great though.

# i coud — Guest 2006-10-18 05:53

I coud make this (but ide have to be pretty sad)

1. right out the the letter thing

2. split the umb you get with the psp open (the demo)

3. put a piece of paper in a box witch says 3.0

# Yes — Guest 2006-10-18 05:56

Yea its called sony.

# Congratulations I reward you with stupidness. Nooblet. — Guest 2006-10-18 06:09

Lol this is funny. People getting fooled by this s***

# It was a joke, as mannymix03 said. — Guest 2006-10-18 06:13

Seriously, do you think that Madsoul released this picture as a proof of the 3.0 being out? Don't you think he would have thought a little more about grammar and where to put all of his ' :s?

Still, a Swede with bad English grammar is as good as an average 16-year-old American. In your face!

# No, but you're a retard dose that make you feel any better? — Guest 2006-10-18 06:14

What an awesome fake!

# I got one too — Guest 2006-10-18 06:37

all is fake

this guy MADSOUL wants their name to be famous

and SONY... I am talking about SONY do not do such

*****s.. why dont SONY use 3.0 testing with their psps

why will he send the umd case to ***** MADSOUL to check it out all i know is that MADSOUL wants to be famous and one thing more when sony releases new update all around the world will go to www.playstation.com .

sorry for my english..

# lmao — MaDSouL 2006-10-18 06:42

some of you guys are so incredible stupid that it hurts... ^_^ this was made as a joke 8 months ago!! stop acting like its new. if you guys search the qj forums you will find me posting the exact same pics plus other fakes lots of months before. jesus

# that retard is a mother *****er — Guest 2006-10-18 07:40

madsoul thinks he is funny and cool , oh well he is in so cool in an internet forum !! ; get alife u retard

# BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOM — Guest 2006-10-18 08:04

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM HA BOOM

# i dont think im cool — Guest 2006-10-18 09:16

i just think its sad that people dig up old crap jooke fakes for fun and post them as true rumors when half of the public allready knows that its fake. and please stop calling me a retard. i may have been one 8 month before when i posted this pic as a joke. but right now i have nothing to do with this rumor ***** so please stop calling me retarded things. thanks... -___-

# ^^^^ — MaDSouL 2006-10-18 10:31

thats actually me posting but i was not logget in at the moment.

# You guys are alarmingly stupid — Guest 2006-10-18 10:52

Do you all honestly think this was a publicity stunt?

Do you think MaDSouL just wants his name recognised?

That is retarded

This pic was made many months ago, for the purpose of demonstrating graphics skills. The only people who ever claimed it was an actual upgrade were the people who saw the pic posted and posted it at other sites. If you will read the forums, you will see what really happened.

As for the blogger, you might wanna read into this a bit more...

# Let's see... — Guest 2006-10-18 10:54

...how long until firmware version 3.00 will be released. Not that I'll upgrade, that's for sure.

Let's hopen some can crack this version so it would be possible to emulate via Device Hook on 1.50 and homebrew enabled 2.71 systems.

# haha — Guest 2006-10-18 12:21

give the guy a break, it was funny

# Seriously — scuzzy19 2006-10-18 15:39

be less stupid and post some actual useful crap then "im first" *****ing tard!

# This is great — Guest 2006-10-19 02:01

I think this shows the flexibility of QJ.net in posting news from MYQJ after it has got more than 100 jumps. There is really no need to flame anyone about it.

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