PSP firmware 3.95 hits the tubes

The last round of PSP firmware updates brought Skype support, but it looks like 3.95 isn't nearly as exciting: Sony's added in reconfigurable button mapping to PS1 emulation, and made it so that you can choose to either shut down your PS3 or leave it running when you're done with a remote play session. That's about it, but we know you're all compulsively checking for the update now anyway.

[Via Boy Genius]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 4:55PM]

FIRST COMMENT! OMG, I"M SO AWESOME BECAUSE I GOT THE FIRST COMMENT AND EVERYONE HATES ME! OMG> ROFLCOPTERS. Like totally.

[GoodTroll Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:01PM]

Wow???

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:01PM]

whatever.

[Nerdtalker Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:02PM]

So you're trying to demonstrate how underwhelming of an upgrade 3.95 is by making underwhelming, stereotypical first-post remarks?

Ahh, I see what you did there. Clever.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:02PM]

well, at least we know you play doom

[Branhower Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:09PM]

Erm...both your post and your avatar are over-done jokes.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:28PM]

Yeah, I like my jokes medium-well, not over-done.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:35PM]

Sarcasm has its limits.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 7:14PM]

Like, whatever...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 10:26PM]

Your mom must be proud.

"Happy to inform you Ma'am, your child is a dork"

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2008 4:16PM]

There has been 2 firmwares since skype! Imbiciles!

[Marc1972 Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:09PM]

I'm checking for the update alright - the M33 custom firmware update!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:14PM]

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 7:44PM]

as I
and this update definitely is big, I can finally configure those PS1 games with playable controls

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:18PM]

Whenever anybody mentions the tubes, I think "She's a beauty."

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:50PM]

Why would you lie?

[Ryzvonusef Posted Apr 9th 2008 1:55PM]

"PSP firmware 3.95 hits the tubes"
HA! so the internet IS made out of tubes! vindiction at last!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:28PM]

And it's now on my psp.

Oh yeah just wondering I forgot the password on my psp so I reset the
the default settings and made a new one and it deleted my custom theme
that I got on playstation.com I tried to put it back on but it won't show up.

if anyone has suggestons I'll be listining.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:35PM]

Oh and when I mean tried to put it back on I had to go back to the website to re download(I accidentally hit the format memory stick icon by mistake one day).So if there is a step I missed or something completely
different any suggeston would be helpful.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:39PM]

sure,

step 1) donate Taurus
step 2) ???

you know the rest. xD

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:51PM]

Yeah right. the thing is worth the price of a good laptop down to a PS3.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 5:44PM]

NEXT!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 6:23PM]

You guys somehow missed the 3.93 update...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 6:24PM]

Jesus this place has been going down the tubes lately (the comments).

I know I'm not helping by posting this, but FFS get a clue.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 6:27PM]

When's divx support coming to the PSP again? firmware 4.0??? Sony need to hurry!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 6:38PM]

This is barely worth me whipping out the old psp out of my safe, charging it then running an update. Sony should have definitely put this as a combo with the next update, not make it separate.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 6:54PM]

Why is your PSP in a safe?

[maryland157 Posted Apr 8th 2008 9:22PM]

Because he's ashamed that it only has a handfull of good games.

[LiQuiDFuSioN Posted Apr 8th 2008 7:30PM]

Damn it. Too bad I dropped my PSP yesterday and broke the power switch. Have to open it up now to see if I can still get it to work.

Before, the Remote Play thing was quite cool. The menus were laggy on the PSP, but it was certainly an interesting feature. Haven't tried dlding any of the PS1 game yet though.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 8:48PM]

When is the GPS software coming out????

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 8:48PM]

While we're at it, aside from crap business reasons, why can't the original PSP (aka phatso) get Skype support?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 9:33PM]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable#PSP_Slim_and_Lite
Double the onboard memory from 32 to 64MB seems to be the reason.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2008 7:48AM]

Yes I'm aware of the "official" reason, Skype can run on much less (smartphone edition comes to mind, those devices don't have 64 mb of memory); seems like Sony doesn't want it to run on the older version for sales reasons more than anything else, it's a cheap way out.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2008 7:31PM]

well, outside of being in the Skype PSP development team, it's all speculation. Maybe you're right.

I have a Slim and can't say I am even remotely interested in Skype, fwiw. Here we have a device with no keyboard to make Skype chats sane, so basically voip-only pretty much, and I have to have it connected to wifi to use Skype, yet have to live with the cut-downness of the device to do anything sane and/or productive and/or quick online.

Hrm. Can't say it excites me, but a nice (free) novelty for Slim users nonetheless. Probably only useful to a small sub-set of users but a nice buzz-builder for the Slim PSP.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 9:46PM]

Why can't it just take deletable memory from a memory stick.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2008 9:50PM]

flash is slow. ram is fast. two totally different things.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2008 12:24AM]

what a boring update. Thank god they still care a ton for the PSP, they might as well not release anything.