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PS3 Firmware 1.6 out now UPDATE (1) |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: Bluetooth, Folding@Home, playstation 3 updates, PlayStation Store, QWERTY, Remote Play, Stanford University
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Well guys, as Ludikhris, Christopher and MESSIAH have managed to tell us, PS3 Firmware 1.6 is out now. If you're a PS3 owner, you may want to try downloading the update now so you can get back to your regularly scheduled Resistance: Fall of Man fragfest. In the meantime, we'd like to ask for your participation in helping us get the word out.
We're currently downloading the update, but if you guys happen to have finished the update, let us know in the comments or on our forums. Inform us of what's in the final changelog for FW 1.6. We'll be scouring the internet for more information, but you can debate the merits of the PS3 FW 1.6 and whether or not we were gimped by this new firmware release on the forums in the meantime.
This post is up for only a few minutes and already the updates are pouring in. Trifecta called our attention and linked us to a post made by user friendly in our PS3 forums. Basically, our good member user friendly has made a list of the changelog for PS3 firmware 1.6 via info from a press release. Here's what he has for us:
Featured Content
Folding@home connectivity, background downloading of content from the PLAYSTATION®Store, support for Bluetooth keyboards and mice, and an optional full QWERTY on-screen keyboard for text entry.
Folding@home

The Folding@home project allows PS3 owners to connect to Stanford University's Folding@home program, a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and many cancers.
Enhanced Downloading
Firmware Version 1.60 also delivers a more convenient process for downloading content to the PS3 from the PLAYSTATION Store. Up to six pieces of content from the PlayStation store can be queued up for download while the user enjoys other functions of the PS3 system, including playing games, browsing the web, using media functions including photo browsing, video and music playback. Progress of downloads can be easily tracked under a new Download Management menu under the XMB's Network icon.
Remote Play by way of the access point
This feature will enable you to access photos, videos, and music on your PS3 system's hard drive from a nearby PSP® (PlayStation®Portable), will be available for the 20GB configuration, when utilizing an external Wi-Fi router or local wireless access point.
Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support / Full size keyboard
Support for keyboards and mice enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology has been added. Text entry is further expanded with the option to use a full QWERTY on-screen keyboard, in addition to the existing single tap keyboard. PS3's built-in Web browser is also enhanced with the ability to zoom in to the optimal viewing size for the selected area of a Web page at the press of a button, as well as an optional tool for reducing flicker when the PS3 system is using interlaced video out (480i or 1080i).
Disc Auto-Start
This new option under System Settings allows you to choose whether or not a disc should start automatically upon inserting the disc or turning on your PS3 system.
Blu-ray Disc Rewriteable (BD-RE) Support
PS3 system can now playback BD-RE discs (version 3.0).
Please visit out PS3 forums for more details on this.
Visit: PS3 News Forums
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I was gonna send a notice of this >.>
guess i'm too slow....
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i've already tested it.
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People on the PSU forums have been going crazy over it for months now, with the answer to every complaint about PS3 being "just wait till march".
Well this is the march update and for what?
Folding? background downloading, and . . .?
Well done Sony, yet another anti climax.
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I am just wondering is it because the in UK isn't out tell the 23 and untill u update the software u can't play it? if anyone knows the answer to this please help me out.
Oh and my ID for the Playstation Network is Blueyescyclonee if u wanna add me u can.(>*^O^)>*
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New avatar icons
Playstation Button only needs to be pressed not held down to access menu / new feature on said menu "reassign controller"
Pic Preview next to game names are animated
"Pic Attach" button in a more easily accessible place in emails
Web browser alot faster
WMA support
Pictures over 1MB can be sent over messages
I'LL let ya know when I find more
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so nyaaah!!!
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I am just wondering is it because the in UK isn't out tell the 23 and untill u update the software u can't play it? if anyone knows the answer to this please help me out.
Oh and my ID for the Playstation Network is Blueyescyclonee if u wanna add me u can.(>*^O^)>*
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I would expect to see wallpaper around 2009 and if judging by the trend of releases for the PSP I would expect the camera and microphone to be released like... never.
Sony what are you doing to us early adopters.
Why such a long wait for expected functionality.
I am happy about some of the updates, but I expected more. Combine that with the lackluster offerings on the PS store and some game developers (NAMCO) not ponying up the downloadable content to the U.S. store makes me very angry.
Oh well, no one to blame but myself.
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The big march update was supposed to be all about multitasking. OOOOH I can download and play at th same time, that's not the multitasking everyone wanted. everyone wanted in-game xmb-pullup to check messages and play music.
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Ludikhris
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Also my PS3 is going to beat cancer before any of yours. I pwn this folding@home game already.
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thanks
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Folding at home is a damn neat addition, and background downloading was ABSOLUTELY needed....
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About this so called 2.0 FW Update i really hope sony gets it together. Home is a great thing, However i noticed there are many elements missing from the ps3 beta that currently these updates lack. and that is ejecting games from XMB. Being able to quit the game through the xmb interface instead of that black dulgy simplistic menu they are providing through these updates, its a shame. Im curious as to why sony has removed these implementations ...
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although, I noticed that the icons show up (as unsupported data), as opposed to earlier, when they didn't show up at all.
Unrelated, but lately my SIXAXIS has been acting goofy on startup; it would be stuck holding down on the d-pad, and it bothers me. Once I go into and exit a game though, it's fine. Also, when I updated to 1.60 and restarted, the damn thing didn't do anything, all I could do was turn the controller or system off. I had to use my keyboard to log in, and then after that the controller worked fine.
What the hell man, anybody having anything similar?
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shouldnt run into any problems
but um why cant they add some kinda networking thing, were my songs on the computer can be accessed from ps3
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and, i am not sure of this one, but i believe when you used to press the ps button while in the xmb, the first option that pops up was whether you would like to turn off the controller, followed by whether you would like to turn off the system right underneath it. but now, i believe it is switched around as it now has the ability to shutdown the system above.
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Your numbers are SOOO off it is not even funny. I personally know 3 people who have gone through at least 2 systems AS well as read NUMEROUS posts here, on Xbox-Scene, Max Console, Gamespot, well known blogs/gaming sites (hell one of them had more than 8 broken), and Afterdawn.com
Wow 1 out of 1000...yeah sure. So by your math it is more because it happens multiple times on that 1 customer so it is MUCH more than you claim it to be really.
What I just can't seem to grasp is if you are so against the PS3
WHY CAN'T YOU ANSWER WHY YOU COME HERE? AND WHY COME HERE ANYWAY?
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Your comment is extremely uninformed. Obviously you are quite inept, if you think that's all that was changed in the update. In case you haven't noticed, you have actually driven people AWAY from buying an xbox360, as they don't want to be labeled with arseholes such as yourself. Please go away and play your xbox360 if it's so damn great.
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WMA support
Autoscrolling in the web browser (when the curser touches edges)
Zooming in the browser is now L3 instead of square
The browser now has font size scaling
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thanks in advance.
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Oh by the way did I mention my 360 died after 6 months and probably less than 100 hours of gameplay.
Anyway, 360 fans shut up. I know you're just trying to make yourself feel better about buying a 360 vs a PS3 but fact is you should have waited. Bottomline, I feel like a got a lot for my money with the PS3, but with the 360 I feel like I got hosed as usual from Microsoft.
Oh one last note, the fans in the 360 produce about 5 times the nosie from the PS3. Nothing like hitting that quiet spot in a movie or game and listening to the whirring of fans.
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theres over 56409 of angry fanboys like yourself saying the samething.
now regarding THIS topic. i think you cannot use 3.10 OE with the 1.6 the 20 gig ps3 does not recognize the psp. (or my psp)
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any ideas??
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othet than folder nothing worth downloading it for, fkn auto-start option, wow took them this long for somthing they could of put there when ps3 came out.
same for everything else that was in the update sony has earned the FAIL BADGE on this update, wear it proudly you sorry bastards..pissing me off with these pathetic teeny tiny updates which they portray as GOD OF ALL UPDATES, NO THE NEXT UPDATE WILL BE GOD! NO NO NO THE NEXT UPDATE AFTER THE NEXT UPDATE WILL BE GOD !!!11
fkn bs
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Patience is a virtue.. although I have to admit my virtous side bagan to fade with the delays, hehe.
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