PSP firmware 3.10 is out

We patiently watched the latest PSP firmware 3.10 make its way 'round Asia. Now, just a few days later, it's here. The update from 3.03 enables MPEG-4 AVC video streaming to your PSP just as long as you own Sony's latest LocationFree base station. Don't have one, eh? Ok, then this update also extends support for PLAYSTATION®Network titles and adds a new dynamic normalization setting to better control music and other audio sources with varying output levels. It also packs a new "conserve memory" mode for the web browser to view a page with more information but with a potential decrease in image quality (presumably due to compression) when enabled. With the 3.03 downgrader just launched, you really have to ask yourself if the 3.10 firmware update is worth it or whether you'd be happier with the homebrew-friendly 1.50 firmware... and possibly a bricked PSP? Besides, word on the street is that 3.10 is already decrypted with a custom firmware release not far behind.

[Via PSP Updates, Thanks cyanide]

[Deluxe @ Jan 31st 2007 4:22AM]

Update ≠ Unfinished

[Anthony @ Jan 31st 2007 5:12AM]

#1 is a nob

[dov @ Jan 31st 2007 4:08AM]

and already hacked.. lol..
http://pspupdates.qj.net/We-kid-you-not-Firmware-3-10-decrypted-on-Day-0-/pg/49/aid/81155

[qbix @ Jan 31st 2007 4:09AM]

3.10 has already been decrypted. Now it's just a matter of time before we see 3.10 OE by Dark_AleX.

http://pspupdates.qj.net/We-kid-you-not-Firmware-3-10-decrypted-on-Day-0-/pg/49/aid/81155

[Veritas II @ Jan 31st 2007 5:14AM]

The bitch about the downgrader is the fact that it requires the old, unpatched version of GTA:LCS. Someone was trying to sell a copy on Ebay for 400 dollars earlier. Ridiculous.

[soopergooman @ Jan 31st 2007 6:27AM]

I bet someone bought it too, I am putting mine on there also for an un-godly amount of money too. It got hacked in about 18 hours after the release. Sony is a bunch of Newbs! Tommy is an idiot who must not own any new electronics or he hasn't the manual dexterity to update any of his gadgets. Poor Tommy living in his gadgetless lifestyle. We feel sorry for you dude, we honestly do. well I kinda do. Don't knock the psp or I'll knock you in the nuts!

[psyko514 @ Mar 8th 2007 5:09PM]

When you talk about Tommy, are you referring to Tommy Mottola, former head of Sony Recordings, who has nothing to do with the PSP?

[Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Jan 31st 2007 8:31AM]

Was that thing taught to display PDF and/or HTML files from memory stick?

The conversion to JPEG is silly, and probably most bogus of all what I have seen people doing with PSP.

[Castle @ Jan 31st 2007 9:30AM]

Could people please stop posting their irrelevant personal blogs. Stop spamming the comments section.

[Joey Geraci @ Jan 31st 2007 9:58AM]

What would be nice is for Sony to uncripple the PSP. If Sony ever decides to get off their asses, and enable full resolutions videos, I might just give them my money! Perish the thought!

[PreGHz @ Jan 31st 2007 2:34PM]

I'm not sure if anyone knows the answer to this...

I have a location free player (works pretty well), but will flashing to the OE firmware nullify any ability to play with my LFPlayer?

I use the Location Free function pretty often, but I also want to play homebrew games/occasion Japanese import.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Gilgad Drumheller @ Jan 31st 2007 4:41PM]

Yep, dark_alex needed to take some things out of the firmware so it would fit on the flash memory (after his additions). The two things removed are korean fonts and the location free player. Sorry man. I don't know of any solutions in the works, but i guess it could be possible to reflash the *.prx. But thats way beyond my experience.

But the more i think about it, if you used DevHook to emulate a firmware version that supports the LF player, it should work.

There's your answer thats not really an answer.

[PreGHz @ Jan 31st 2007 6:21PM]

I appreciate the answer.

Guess I'm SOL

[Reg Muffet @ Jan 31st 2007 5:47PM]

@Joey: "What would be nice is for Sony to uncripple the PSP ... and enable full resolutions videos,"

Yes, yes, yes. God yes.

The day they support MPEG-4 at 480x272 (native res of the PSP screen), I'll buy a brand new unit and won't worry about downgrading the firmwire.

It is really poor of Sony to hobble encoded MPEG-4 video to 320x240 or 308x268.

(Especially since the PMP format that the UMD discs contain is just standard MPEG-4 with an extra header. The only reason for the hobbling is marketing - attempting to prop up the failed UMD video idea and now the downloadable video idea they're working on.)

[SITO @ Jan 31st 2007 5:51PM]

WHO CARES? PSP STINKS

[Jeff @ Jan 31st 2007 8:35PM]

I hope someone out there can help me. I've owned a PSP for over a year now, and it's firmware is only 2.01. My friend has a program that runs devhook on 2.71 firmware, and he wants to copy it for me, but I need to upgrade. This program doesn't downgrade your system for good, only runs through a program. I want to upgrade only to 2.71, not 3.10. I downloaded the PBP us firmware for the 2.71 upgrade off of a site I found on Google, but there was no instructions on how to install it. Can anyone tell me how to install it? Here is a list of the files that were in the PBP file when I extracted it: data.psar, data, icon0, and param.sfo. Am I supposed to just drop these in certain folders on my memory stick, or how does this work. Please help!

[James @ Feb 1st 2007 3:46PM]

Jeff, don't extract the PBP, just drop it into a folder under /PSP/GAME. Make sure you got the file someplace reputable -- I like pspupdates.qj.net; they've never hosted anything that turned out to be a bricker, AFAIK.

Once you go to 2.71, don't bother with DevHook anymore -- it's useful in a handful of situations, but most homebrew needs will be met by 3.03 OE-C. That's currently the absolute best firmware possible to have (roll your own PSX images!), though as the original post pointed out, if you wait a bit, everybody expects Dark Alex to put out a 3.10 OE any day now. Not sure if there's anything worth upgrading for in there, but if you're going to upgrade, may as well get the latest and greatest, right?

[Jeff @ Feb 2nd 2007 11:37PM]

James, thanks for the response. You mentioned I should get the 3.03 OE-C firmware. I would imagine I can get that from pspupdates.qj.net also. But by just dropping the PBP into a folder will actually upgrade the firmware? Also, what my friend has is a TA-82. He learned that he couldn't downgrade without bricking his system, and got this program instead that allows him to run Devhook. Can he just drop the 3.03 firmware into a TA-82 without it bricking?

[Amar @ Feb 3rd 2007 1:23AM]

Yeah, it's out and it's already been decrypted.

[Amar @ Feb 3rd 2007 1:29AM]

Couple things that I am still trying to understand:

Who says I can't run OSX on my PC? Has everyone forgotten that once they added x86 support they virtually opened up the software for anyone that wants to use it?

Bashing Windows while you install it on your shiny new Macbook Pro...how does that make any sense?

I don't understand all this elitism. Once Apple switched over to the x86 architecture for their computers, they just became another PC manufacturer that also happens to sell a proprietary piece of software, the difference is their computers are way overpriced.

[Amar @ Feb 3rd 2007 1:31AM]

What the...how did that comment end up on this page...oops.

[zaqi @ Feb 7th 2007 4:56AM]

dudz...i was updated to sony fw 3.10 all games are not working! so i have to update 3.10oeA by Dark_Alex can u give me info how to do??? or i have to downgrade to 3.03... can u help me pls????? tnx...