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Firmware Version 2.00 - Official Press Release
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Iron_Scimitar
Banned
Hcoregamer00 said:
Q1 2008.
Solid as a rock.
Goldrusher
Member
TTP said:
Less than 24 hours and we'll know.
Wake-on-LAN and custom themes. Sounds about right. I hope the playlist creation is seamless. Also, PSN gets its own icon. I hope that means I don't need to flip through a ton of menus just to get the latest demos and DLC. I hope the submenu items are "games" "video", etc... Hell, give us something like an RSS feed so we get pop-ups when a new game is available online. Not bad. In-game XMB is what everyone wants, so no one will be happy until then. But for PSP owners, this one will be nice. PEACE.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
New images look really nice. I really love how classy XMB looks 
Not sure if I'm a fan of the new PSN store icon. Why wasn't that kept under Network? What is it that makes it so different and special?
Not sure if I'm a fan of the new PSN store icon. Why wasn't that kept under Network? What is it that makes it so different and special?
It could, but you couldn't turn the PS3 on/off remotely.Odrion said:
Riskbreaker23
Member
tribal24 said:
i think it might be like that ticker tape thing at the bottom of CNN. it probably there so you dont have to go to that icon unless you see a story that interests you.
i wonder since it is connect to psn.ign.com if you will be able to leave comments on stories. it would have been better if they would have also connect the inforamtion board to the US blog or threespeach for europe
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I haven't been keeping up with the PS3 firmware, but if you can't do background downloading of PS Store items, that needs to be prioritized, too.Oni Jazar said:
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Iron_Scimitar said:
Nice, I am getting a PS3 in November and I was hoping to use it the moment I got it, but a Q1 release date is a good consolation prize.
no, no versioning works on a decimal system. the fact that they end their previous major revisions in a way that looks like they are using decimal numbering is irrelevant. The decimal represents a demarcation between version designations (major, minor, patch, etc). That doesn't change. Going from 1.98 to 1.99 is not the same as going from 1.99 to 2.00 in any versioning scheme I've ever worked with or seen. If that IS the way Sony does it (which is highly doubtful) that would be fucking beyond retarded and would make the decimal pointless. why not just do a hexadecimal or straight sequential versioning system at that point? the fact that they use a decimal implies that they are doing a major/minor versioning system.kaching said:
Spider_Jerusalem
Member
Meh. They should have numbered it 1.9999
fatigues_gasolini
Member
twinturbo2 said:
Yes you can
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Oh holy shit - could they really be having a new code that replaces the silky ribbon with the marker pen drawing algorithm?TTP said:
Ragnarok10
Junior Member
:loltwinturbo2 said:
All you disappointed people set yourself up for this ala the impossible Nintendo revolution.
This is a seriously great update. 8.8 great.
Anyway if you've tried remote play you know how amazing it is and it simply blows people away. i love it.
This is a seriously great update. 8.8 great.
Anyway if you've tried remote play you know how amazing it is and it simply blows people away. i love it.
IIIINNNGGAAMMEEE FRIENDS LIST PLZZZZZZZZ!!!!
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I'm so LTTP, then...Nightz said:
borghe said:
Maybe it's a major upgrade behind what we can see. How would we know? Maybe a major upgrade for devs as well which we will never know either.
Anyway, themes look really nice. I have always been really fond of the XMB because how sleek it is and now it will look even nicer.
tanod said:
I wouldn't think of it as a 0.06 update. This is a major revision even if it isn't immediately obvious. I do expect there is a lot more under the surface than we've been lead to believe and I expect a lot of that plumbing will be made use of in subsequent updates.
It's entirely possible that the internal changes have been so substantial that they've held off on feature work to thoroughly regression test what has gone into 2.0. Sony may let 2.0 bake, reel off a few patch releases and then start merging major branches of functionality into point releases. Changes to 2.0 could have been made to footprint, speed, the manner in which the display is rendered and major subsystems such as music, messaging etc. This is what makes me think we'll see a flow of major enhancements in the next few months, culminating with Home turning on.
Visualante
Member
It's not going to happen guys, XMB just uses far too much ram.
innerbits.com has several posts regarding the subject. Probaby get a scaled back version with friends and messaging.
innerbits.com has several posts regarding the subject. Probaby get a scaled back version with friends and messaging.
Metalmurphy
Member
Visualante said:
It can always be optimized to use less ram... And that Japanese downloadable "game" already has ingame XMB.
Anyway, this firmware update is a bit... disappointing
I mean, for a 2.0 point of view. Features are still awesome and welcome.Visualante said:
Correction the system reserves RAM, it doesn't mean it uses it or needs it all. It just makes sense that at the start of a console's life that you give yourself enough space to think about future enhancements. It also means they can free up memory as time progresses as they get a more realistic idea of what they actually need and optimise how they use it. Memory is already dropping and I expect it'll drop further over time.
Zombie James
Banned
Well that's pretty lukewarm :|
Zombie James
Banned
Actually reading through the thread... it's actually looks pretty neat, but I would have still liked more features with substance.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
twinturbo2 said:
You CAN download the items in the background, but with games and demos you can't INSTALL them, which can take anywhere from 15 sec. to 10 minutes in which your PS3 is "stuck" and can't be used. I personally find this annoying but it doesn't seem to bother anyone else.
Furthermore, If I queue up several movie trailers to DL and go play a PS3 game, my "Download complete" notifications don't appear until after I quit back to the XMB, when they appear all at once. If I go to the movies section of the XMB to look at these downloads, the icons are all mixed up with my pre-existing ones, and when I try to play one of the new ones the PS3 usually freezes hard and I have to reboot it. After the reboot everything is fine, and if I don't play any PS3 games during the downloads everything's fine. I don't know if this is a problem for everyone or just me.
I love my PSP but have never really seen a good reason why I should hook it up to my PS3.
It seems a lot of folks here are raving about the wake-on-LAN and remote power-on via PSP update with 2.0.
What's so useful or good about this feature? Is there something I'm missing or is it literally just that you can turn on your PS3 via your PSP? Why would you need to do that?
It seems a lot of folks here are raving about the wake-on-LAN and remote power-on via PSP update with 2.0.
What's so useful or good about this feature? Is there something I'm missing or is it literally just that you can turn on your PS3 via your PSP? Why would you need to do that?
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