View Full Version : PSP 3.0 Firmware Out - But There's a BIG catch!
Japanese 3.0 firmware is available through the Network Update feature and includes the new PS One support!
However before you get too excited.
Turns out that Sony's mechanism for this is that you have to connect your PSP to a PS3 via a USB cable and download in that manner.
Net result - people such as myself who have been waiting over a year for the PS One emulator and have no intention of buying a PS3 have been well and truly shafted.
Thanks for nothing Sony.
theambient
21-11-2006, 08:51
thumbs down from me. Im pretty much a handheld only person, and I was looking forward to the Psone feature. There's no chance of me getting a PS3 :|
MetalGearAl
21-11-2006, 09:14
So what feature is that exactly? How would you play PS1 games with it?
Wendelius
21-11-2006, 09:17
:razz:
thumbs down from me. Im pretty much a handheld only person, and I was looking forward to the Psone feature. There's no chance of me getting a PS3 :|
Same here. Was interested in the PSone games on my handheld but am not getting a PS3.
Wendelius
Isn't it the same sort of thing Nintendo did with its Gameboy advance or something, when you had to connect that to a GC for things? I don't know, but i remember something like that putting me off getting one cos I had no intention of getting both.
I suppose all you really need to do is know someone with a PS3 and get the update from them?
fivebyfive
21-11-2006, 09:24
Isn't it the same sort of thing Nintendo did with its Gameboy advance or something, when you had to connect that to a GC for things?
Not exactly the same thing, adding GBA to a cube acted like map screen or another controller
Hmm, Sony acting like a bunch of arses - I'd never believe that previously :oh-hum:
You never had to connect your Gameboy Advance to the cube unless you wanted to take advantage of some little thing like a map or something on the Gameboy screen. I own the cable (got it free when I bought my cube) but I have never even taken it out of its packaging. Always seemed a superfluous to me. But this PS3 thing is just ********, way to go Sony knowing how to treat its customers. Perhaps some nice game shop will have a PS3 set up for people to update their PSP if you ask nicely.
Not exactly the same thing, adding GBA to a cube acted like map screen or another controller
Oh yeah, something like that, but I'm sure owning a GBA unlocked certain parts of games or something as well. Perhaps I'm remembering all wrong.
The PS1 emulator was probably the biggest reason that would entice people to upgrade their PSP's and turn their backs on homebrew and ISO's adn Sony has cocked it up.
Now I'm willing someone to crack the PS1 emu - prior to this news I was quite looking forward to paying for the priviledge but not any more.
Mr Flibble
21-11-2006, 10:06
Not condoning it, but surely it's only a matter of time before someone finds a way of updating the firmware, without the need for a PS3?
Sony do seem to be making a habit of annoying their customers of late though!
MetalGearAl
21-11-2006, 10:40
Can someone fill me in then, how exactly is this PS1 emulator meant to work? Games off the memory stick or what?
Can someone fill me in then, how exactly is this PS1 emulator meant to work? Games off the memory stick or what?
You download the games onto the memory stick, yes.
You do this by connecting your PSP to the PS3 and using the PS3 download manager to buy the game and perform the transfer.
Wendelius
21-11-2006, 11:15
Looks like direct download to PSP will come in time: http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/746/746999p1.html
The big caveat, of course, is that you can only get these games right now by downloading them and then transferring them via your PlayStation 3 ... if you have a PlayStation 3. Sony has not finished the technology to directly download PSone games to PSP (it would require access to the newly-launched PlayStation Store, which only works with PS3 at the moment), so there is no way to directly get these games onto PSP just yet, nor is there a way to download them if you don't yet have a PS3. Sony is of course working on fixing this problem, with rumors of PSone-to-PSP direct downloads by Christmas.
Wendelius
Ooo, FF XII on the PSP. :D
Ooo, FF XII on the PSP. :D
Don't you mean FF VII?
And that :doh:
/goes off to revise Roman Numerals..
By far the most important thing on this update is not the ps1 emulator but the ability to now stop the flippin' psp autobooting discs when switched on. Certainly took them long enough. :clap:
You download the games onto the memory stick, yes.
You do this by connecting your PSP to the PS3 and using the PS3 download manager to buy the game and perform the transfer.
Except when Sony first made a song and dance about offering a download service of PS1 games to PSP the PS3 was nowhere in equation. Now they've suddenly gone *cough*oh yeah and you have to buy our £400 console as well if you want to do it*cough* so people are naturally peeved.
I dont understand sonys logic with this, do they really think that people are going to rush to buy a PS3 in order to play old PS1 games on their PSP ? :nuts:
I dont understand sonys logic with this, do they really think that people are going to rush to buy a PS3 in order to play old PS1 games on their PSP ? :nuts:
If you actually read the article the store is only compatible with PS3 at the moment hence why you need a PS3. An upgrade to the PSP will give it direct access by Xmas and a update to the PS3 will allow it to play PS1 games from early next year.
So buy a PS1 game for around £3.00 and you will have the choice to play it on your portable or your TV. Makes the Live Arcade seem a bit pricey AND a bit crap IMO.
If you actually read the article the store is only compatible with PS3 at the moment hence why you need a PS3. An upgrade to the PSP will give it direct access by Xmas and a update to the PS3 will allow it to play PS1 games from early next year.
So buy a PS1 game for around £3.00 and you will have the choice to play it on your portable or your TV. Makes the Live Arcade seem a bit pricey AND a bit crap IMO.
Yes I did read the article but it sounds like Sony where being a bit sneaky with it. Sony never once mentioned PS3 when they were talking about playing PS1 games on the PSP initially, why didn't they spend all that time getting a direct service working first with the PSP and then work on PS3 compatibility later ? They didn't think about it too well IMO.
Since I have no interest in getting a PS3 until it reduces in price/games I want to play actually appear (probably late next year/early 2008) i'm disappointed in the way Sony handled this, though not really surprised.
earl_roberts2002
21-11-2006, 21:33
If we've only got to wait a month for the games to appear on www.yourpsp.com for direct to psp downloading then that's not too bad really.
Unclegrump
21-11-2006, 22:23
why didn't they spend all that time getting a direct service working first with the PSP and then work on PS3 compatibility later ? They didn't think about it too well IMO.
because PS3 eDI will bring in far more revenue than PSP eDI. Wouldn't make commercial sense to do the PSP first to be honest!
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