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]

[Jordan @ 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.

[BrettB @ Apr 8th 2008 5:01PM]

Wow???

[Mark @ Apr 8th 2008 5:01PM]

whatever.

[nerdtalker @ 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.

[phanbouy @ Apr 8th 2008 5:02PM]

well, at least we know you play doom

[Backlin @ Apr 8th 2008 5:09PM]

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

[Lowest Ranked @ Apr 8th 2008 5:28PM]

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

[Reader @ Apr 8th 2008 5:35PM]

Sarcasm has its limits.

[Jonathan-DBOSS @ Apr 8th 2008 7:14PM]

Like, whatever...

[dudeInAmerica @ Apr 8th 2008 10:26PM]

Your mom must be proud.

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

[conor @ Apr 9th 2008 4:16PM]

There has been 2 firmwares since skype! Imbiciles!

[Marc @ Apr 8th 2008 5:09PM]

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

[deyanimay @ Apr 8th 2008 5:14PM]

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[JohnTitor @ Apr 8th 2008 7:44PM]

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

[Zak @ Apr 8th 2008 5:18PM]

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

[Dan Davis @ Apr 8th 2008 5:50PM]

Why would you lie?

[Rex @ Apr 9th 2008 1:55PM]

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

[94 taurus owner @ 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.

[94 taurus owner @ 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.

[phanbouy @ Apr 8th 2008 5:39PM]

sure,

step 1) donate Taurus
step 2) ???

you know the rest. xD

[94 taurus owner @ Apr 8th 2008 5:51PM]

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

[94 taurus owner @ Apr 8th 2008 5:44PM]

NEXT!!!!!!

[Hacker @ Apr 8th 2008 6:23PM]

You guys somehow missed the 3.93 update...

[DogEars @ 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.

[leo.hj.chen @ Apr 8th 2008 6:27PM]

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

[Jack @ 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.

[Curtis the Claw: Brawl Code 1075-0441-3284 @ Apr 8th 2008 6:54PM]

Why is your PSP in a safe?

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

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

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ 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.

[94 taurus owner @ Apr 8th 2008 8:48PM]

When is the GPS software coming out????

[crsh @ 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?

[tekdroid @ 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.

[crsh @ 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.

[tekdroid @ 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.

[94 taurus owner @ Apr 8th 2008 9:46PM]

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

[tekdroid @ Apr 8th 2008 9:50PM]

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

[rokerovakero @ 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.