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First PS3 firmware 2.5 details?
- Thread starter Steverulez
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Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Shit, so much update hyping lately! In-game XMB, trophies, support for custom soundtrack and Youtube just came. My next dream is to have screen grabbing (think MGO), that would make me complete.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
steverulez said:Lock if old, I searched "PS3 firmware 2.5" and got nothing...
CVG
I've wanted that since the start of the generation, I hope its true
It should be possible and not too hard to do... I'd think that maybe this will be a feature a game would have to account for/be ready for/coded for, but it would not need to reserve a great deal of resources to... apply some optional copyright info (like FFXI) on the finished frame-buffer ready to be flipped and dump it in XDR. Then the XMB reserved SPU could compress it into a JPEG image... even without any scaling...
KZObsessed
Member
I hope it's true, I've wanted to be able to take screens for ages now!
Do you guys think this feature would ever be available for Blu-ray movies as well? Or would that be too difficult?
Do you guys think this feature would ever be available for Blu-ray movies as well? Or would that be too difficult?
Dead Prince
Banned
CVG also told me LBP was regionlocked ;(
womfalcs3
Banned
n1n9tean said:
On a game-by-game basis (I believe only the cat game on the Japanese PS Store and PixelJunk Eden support this feature so far.), you are able to record up to 10 minutes of what you're doing in the game and immediately upload the video to YouTube under your account there.
PuppetMaster
Member
Hell yeah. This would be very good for everyone. Fans would get to post direct captures of the games they are playing. And Sony would get free advertising and publicity.
No more arguments on message boards over shaky digital camera shots taken off TV screens!
No more arguments on message boards over shaky digital camera shots taken off TV screens!
PuppetMaster
Member
womfalcs3 said:
You can also just save the video to the HDD for watching later if you don't want to upload it to YouTube.
Great King Bowser
Property of Kaz Harai
Screengrabbing sounds fun but WMA Pro support too please!
This is the one feature I've thought firmwares should certainly have. LBP's plan of meta-tagging screenshots with players from multiplayer, ala Facebook is something Sony should either enforce as the next big firmware push or make sure PS4 has it as standard with a specific "screengrab" button on the controller.
As for how to do it on PS3, maybe double tap the PS button?
As for how to do it on PS3, maybe double tap the PS button?
TONX said:
Life with Playstation in firmware 2.4x. It was suppose to come out last month but got delayed to August. I think you would need a fw update to use life with playstation.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/07/31/life-with-playstation-update/
If there is going to be a fw update this month, it would have to do with that.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Nice job Sony. In the era of standard system storage and always-connected internet connections, there's really no reason why all systems and all games don't have screenshot modes.
I'm sure gaming blogs appreciate it too. While the big gaming news sites have capture equipment and debug units, the little guys often don't have that kind of scrilla.
I'm sure gaming blogs appreciate it too. While the big gaming news sites have capture equipment and debug units, the little guys often don't have that kind of scrilla.
Wurm said:
In-game XMB, then choose the option, then snap the picture when you're ready?
Though I suppose that wouldn't allow instant screen-grabbing for faster games etc..
Anyway, if it's true, I hope it's something that works 'universally' in all (or most) games. If it's just a SDK update for developers, then..meh..
They should also over time, if not immediately, have a web-exposed service for hosting/sharing screenshots etc. Maybe it'll be linked into Home and the home website.
gofreak said:
I seem to remember Sony hyping up a sort of "Facebook for Home", even remember some video/screens of it. Is that still a part of Home or the beta? If they took that idea along with meta-tagged Screenshots from all PS3 games, trophy updates and Now Playing lists it would be an awesome service.
ChackanKun
Member
Meh if only that :|
Goldrusher
Member
Kyoufu said:
Or
press PS button
select "screenshot mode"
press PS button to take screenshots
hold PS button
select "quit screenshot mode"
Always-honest
Banned
i'd like that.
PuppetMaster
Member
cjdunn said:
But that won't be new at all. Several games already have that. MGS4 for example.
This is clearly something new and universal.
Awesome! Just what I wanted ... maybe. USB keyboard support please! Let me assign my own hotkey please!
(hint: I can press the space bar with my toe easily, PrintScreen not so much)
yes. SD captures=easy, HD captures=OMG wow shit fuck this.
It's the obvious lesson to be learned from the likes of Forza and Halo. It doesn't make the interaction with the game more fun, but people just like to show off, and constantly remind their peers of the game in the process. It's basically free marketing buzz for any game where it can be used. That some people actually try to build their own mini-empires around images and words on the internet makes it only more worthwhile for the platform holder.
(hint: I can press the space bar with my toe easily, PrintScreen not so much)
...Stumpokapow said:
yes. SD captures=easy, HD captures=OMG wow shit fuck this.
It's the obvious lesson to be learned from the likes of Forza and Halo. It doesn't make the interaction with the game more fun, but people just like to show off, and constantly remind their peers of the game in the process. It's basically free marketing buzz for any game where it can be used. That some people actually try to build their own mini-empires around images and words on the internet makes it only more worthwhile for the platform holder.
For what is worth, the 360 Test Unit has this option since day one. It works via PC tho. You need a special PC software, then you hit a button (on PC, linked to the 360 via Ethernet) and the console sends a screenshot to the PC HDD via Ethernet. The game pauses for half a sec during this. IIRC the original Xbox Test unit allowed this as well.
Steverulez
Member
TTP said:
When making the thread I remembered Microsoft saying something like this, it seems Sony are about to beat them to the bunch, I hope both consoles implement the feature though
Facism
Member
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badcrumble
Member
Screen grab hooks and Life with Playstation would be alright but I'd hope there might be more to it. Stuff like downloads finishing in low-power mode isn't sexy enough to hype up as a feature, but it'd be pretty nice.
PuppetMaster said:
I bet each of those implementations were built separately, in other words the wheel had to be reinvented per game to grab the frame and export it out to the Photos folder. A system-wide call to let the OS handle all that, especially at full 1080 resolution, would take a load off of the game engine.