Officially Detailed Firmware Updates: PS3 (v2.50) / PSP (v5.00)

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Grand Master

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Dumping a framebuffer to a file is as easy as it gets, why do games even need to be patched? That's what really puzzles me.

I just don't like Sony doing this because it gets frustrating for the developers. Who knows what Sony will "force" them with next time after the games are out.

Well I doubt the PS3 OS is anywhere near as efficient as Windows or other platforms where screen grabbing is as easy as a click :p

Frustrating for developers with released games, but for new games it's no different than trophy support mandates and the likes. These parts of development won't add much time/cost issues.

Hell screen grabbing seeing as the OS does the work is probably just like "flicking a switch" for the developers :p

IMO it's not really a day 1 feature as such, no other console has it. If MS come out with it and it's universal support, then you have questions to ask of Sony. However right now, there's nothing to compare the complexities to, like saying "console x does it universally".

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NXE is a UI enhancement/API update. If you really think its a new OS than you should be really naive. The GUI component was componentized from the start. Last I know the group that was working on the update was trying to integrate objects with each other and with hosted services.

Gaah. I know they didn't start from scratch to build a brand new OS (may be they moved to WinXP from Win2k :p ). But I don't think it's just UI update either.

NXE is a full UI shell replacement.

but it's not just that, there's several changes to the underlying "OS" as well. to facilitate new fucntions in the new shell. Then there's several ucntion that are new fucntions in the "OS" code such as the group chat.

That's what I meant.

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IMO it's not really a day 1 feature as such, no other console has it. If MS come out with it and it's universal support, then you have questions to ask of Sony. However right now, there's nothing to compare the complexities to, like saying "console x does it universally".

Certainly not, it's just an utility. I'm just starting to see a pattern with new features requiring extra developer effort.

As an example, the 360's dashboard has had a lot of improvement since it came out, and I mean serious improvement. Not once (iirc) have developers been hassled with updates. MS really shines when it comes to the software part imo.

I guess I'm still wishing on a "super console": MS software, Sony hardware and Nintendo creativity :cool: .

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Hmmm... it seems as though the 2.50 update has partially broken TVersity. It no longer can detect when to transcode certain video containers and formats. Wish I saw this coming before upgrading from 2.43 haha. Hopefully someone will figure out why this is the case soon.

For anyone else experiencing the same problem: Just set TVersity to always transcode until they sort things out. Any video that appears as MPEG-1 while browsing on the PS3 will actually stream to it as MPEG-2 if you've changed your profiles.xml to allow for MPEG-2 streaming (Checked by playing a file and pressing the "select" button on the controller to show format information).

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Why did screenshots need to be added if developers have to add support for them? Battlefield: Bad Company can already take screenshots.

They probably added an API to allow screenshots to be output outside of game data or a save file.

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so, when does PlayStation Home comes out? have they set a release date? or is it whenever they get it done kinda thing?

i couldn't swore i read somewhere that they said it would come with this firmware.

November 19th

This is the last firmware before Home

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Dark_Alex should stop his PSP work and start fixing the PS3 :p

Why? :p The PS3 pretty much has enough featues that PSP homebrew already offers, and I honestly doubt the homebrew games would be that great either (come on, the homebrew game scene on the PSP is hardly vibrant), so that just leaves homebrew emulators and different shells. Shells take time, and the only 3D console emulation will benefit from high-def emulation IMO, stuff like NES/SNES at 1080p? No thanks. Plus, the PS1 is already emulated.

Admittedly, having N64, DC, PS2, GCN and XBOX emulation on the PS3 would be ridiculously awesome, it's more of a pipe dream then an achievable goal. I just don't see it happening.

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I don't think anyone wants D_A to work on the PS3 to play some lame emulators. More like PS3 rips (Y)

Yup the rips then getting them to run from the Hard Drive given the cost attached to burning Bluray discs.

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Yup the rips then getting them to run from the Hard Drive given the cost attached to burning Bluray discs.

You'll get backed up CDs before you get an ISO loader. Not to mention say bye bye to PSN if you use an ISO loader, unless it's some advanced piece of coding that makes the system think the cd is in the drive.

Anyway 5.00 M33 is out!

http://www.dark-alex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1521

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Another firmware update that has come and gone, yet there is nothing that makes me want to shut my books and force myself to play my PS3. Maybe I should pickup some games as the last game I bought was MGS4? :p

But then again being a student with a limited budget has its effects. :(

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