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PS3 Firmware 2.40 - Out Not!
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Panajev2001a
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Nisa65 said:
Boot the PS3 up pressing the power button until it beeps loudly.
MotorbreathX
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I would have just been happy with custom soundtracks and the clock. The clock rocks!
ScrabbleBanshee
Member
Nisa65 said:
You seem awfully calm about this. Did you try turning it off and on with the hard switch, and holding down the power button on the console until it beeps a few times and starts up?
Guy Legend
Member
Nisa65 said:
I read on another forum someone with the same problem removed the hard drive and put it in another PS3 so it got re-formatted. They put their hard drive back in their own PS3 and it worked again. I'm guessing the OS got corrupt and if you can re-format it, it should work.
My thoughts on 2.4:
-In-Game XMB is cool, glad we have it. It's really nice to be able to interact with friends while in game. That said, I do wish the overlay was locked at 60fps, instead of whatever fps the current game is. For example, in HSG, using XMB is kinda laggy. Not awful, but you can just definitely tell it's moving half-speed. On the otherhand, using XMB in SSDHD, the XMB is at full speed, and using it is just like using it while not in a game.
-Trophies are going to be really fun, especially when more games support them. It combines really well with in-game XMB, so you can go check out what you have to do to get a specific trophy while in game. (Does anyone else have the problem of a question mark showing up for the trophy icon while at the normal OS screen? If I do in-game XMB, it's actually a trophy, but otherwise it's a ?).
-Clock is cool.
-Custom soundtracks...hmm. It's cool that we "officially" have the feature now. But aren't we in the same boat as before in this area? Sony has repeatedly said in the past, "Custom soundtracks have always been available, it's just up to the developer." And that's evident, as we have had custom soundtracks for SSDHD for awhile now. So if they soundtracks have always been available, but up to the developer, which is the exact same way it is now, why exactly did this update do for it?
With all that said, awesome update.
-In-Game XMB is cool, glad we have it. It's really nice to be able to interact with friends while in game. That said, I do wish the overlay was locked at 60fps, instead of whatever fps the current game is. For example, in HSG, using XMB is kinda laggy. Not awful, but you can just definitely tell it's moving half-speed. On the otherhand, using XMB in SSDHD, the XMB is at full speed, and using it is just like using it while not in a game.
-Trophies are going to be really fun, especially when more games support them. It combines really well with in-game XMB, so you can go check out what you have to do to get a specific trophy while in game. (Does anyone else have the problem of a question mark showing up for the trophy icon while at the normal OS screen? If I do in-game XMB, it's actually a trophy, but otherwise it's a ?).
-Clock is cool.
-Custom soundtracks...hmm. It's cool that we "officially" have the feature now. But aren't we in the same boat as before in this area? Sony has repeatedly said in the past, "Custom soundtracks have always been available, it's just up to the developer." And that's evident, as we have had custom soundtracks for SSDHD for awhile now. So if they soundtracks have always been available, but up to the developer, which is the exact same way it is now, why exactly did this update do for it?
With all that said, awesome update.
Previously released custom themes don't have an icon made up for Trophies. In-game it reverts back to the default Trophy icon.j-wood said:
Less system resources required to run custom soundtracks + devs don't need to program an interface for song selection, etc.j-wood said:
lowrider007
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WTF !!!, you can't disable the clock lol, even my 5 year old cell phone has this option, very annoying indeed.
Can someone add this to the OP???
-2.40 brings better Codec support
http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=150079
Thanx to PS3forum users for the find.
Also not sure if old but, MKV support coming on future update?
http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?p=3031717#post3031717
-2.40 brings better Codec support
http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=150079
Thanx to PS3forum users for the find.
Also not sure if old but, MKV support coming on future update?
http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?p=3031717#post3031717
JB1981 said:XMB is great but it's quite laggy and the framerate is like 15 fps.
Actually TTP said that it might have something to do with the PS3 OS forcing a game to pause whatever it is doing when it brings up the XMB. He said if you pause before you go to the XMB, it runs at normal speed.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
so_awes said:
I know this sounds childish but I'll be half tempted to sell my PS3 if they don't offer the option to disable it, I hate clocks, I never wear a watch, I have them in my house but I don't like them being forced upon me, I play game to escape from reality, I don't want be reminded that my enjoyment on my console is limited by a time schedule, it's takes the fun away from gaming.
tanod said:
The problem with this notion is that it doesn't force it to pause. Some games don't pause, some do (depending on how they're programmed), but it shouldn't be any different than hitting the start button to pause because it's just triggering the "pause" code in the game.
Edit: But what has been verified is that the XMB is rendered at the same FPS as the game, so if the game is running slow the XMB will too.
wow...
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Have they said whether Ratchet & Clank Future is getting trophy support?
Set the time on your console to Japan Time or some other convoluted time from the future so that it has no relevance to you at all.lowrider007 said:
That's cool, but I think it's rather pointless when it's so vague, it doesn't reassure me of anything when the say better codec support. Which codec? What circumstances?Cruzader said:
I don't expect the PS3 to ever get MKV support because it's not really widely recognised, whereas all the rest of the formats it supports are well known standards and such, but it would be really freaking cool if they could have MKV support implemented in order to comply with a future DivX standard.
When is this new DivX expected to hit?
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Princess Skittles said:
This.
I want.
Please.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
hirokazu said:
Of course, that will do for now, cheers mate.
FFObsessed said:So I downloaded the 2.4 firmware and theres awful "?" icons all over the place. I guess the custom themes are gonna have to be updated! :lol
Gonna play Super Stardust HD now
Does anyone know wher you can find the new icon names for updating custom themes?
tanod said:
That's not true, even if you pause the game it runs at a lower speed. I just tried it with MGS4; hitting the PS button will pause the game and the xmb will be slow, pausing the game and hitting the PS button will cause the xmb to run at the same speed as before. Either way, I'd rather have this slow xmb than no xmb at all.
MotorbreathX
Member
lowrider007 said:
Why don't you hold your breath and stomp your feet until they change it?
pr0cs
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It seems a bit presumptuous to figure because Divx7 supports MKV that the PS3 will, whos to say they'll ever go beyond the version they support now?
And the improved media support comment is silly, the guy hasn't a clue what format his video is in and likely hadn't tried the video recently.
I hope the did improve media playback though, I have a bunch of wmv files that the PS3 simply won't play where they play fine on the 360. I'd rather use just one machine for all media playback and right now I can't.
And the improved media support comment is silly, the guy hasn't a clue what format his video is in and likely hadn't tried the video recently.
I hope the did improve media playback though, I have a bunch of wmv files that the PS3 simply won't play where they play fine on the 360. I'd rather use just one machine for all media playback and right now I can't.