Firmware update 2.70 now available

by Rafael Espiritu { Apr 25th 2006 at 9:50PM }

Looks like another upgrade is upon us. Sony today released their latest firmware upgrade for PSPs, which knocks the firmware version up a smidgen to 2.7. The update adds several new features, the most appealing of which is the ability to play Flash content on the device's built-in Internet browser and save RSS feed content to your Memory Stick. Other enhancements include an option to disable the L/R shoulder buttons during UMD playback, an additional file extension to playable AAC formats, and a handful of menu improvements.

There's a good chance that a fix for the GTA hack for Firmware 2.6 is included with the update, so unless you want to be stuck without all your beloved homebrew apps, we'd suggest holding off until someone out there figures out how to make 2.7 do our bidding.

[Via oreillynet; thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Tags: firmware 2.7, firmware update, FirmwareUpdate, psp, psp firmware

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ins @ Apr 26th 2006 3:38AM

Depending on the system software version, screen images shown here may be different from the actual product.

Forever~Zero @ Apr 26th 2006 4:06AM

It is comfirmed that the GTA exploit doesnt work anymore.

B1gC72 @ Apr 26th 2006 9:04AM

i updated yesterday (dont really use my PSP 4 homebrew/retro games, i just use my laptop 4 that) and i cant figure out wat the hell 2 do wit the damn built in Flash. granted i didnt mess wit it much but the sites i went 2 wouldnt work on it cause the version is so old. i cant see it doing anything except adding more ads to the webpage and adding 2 the, already painful, load time. so can someone please tell me wat the significance of this built in Flash is? cause im completely lost on this 1.

Corn tastes good @ Apr 26th 2006 10:12AM

dang, pspfanboy, it took u guys 4ever 2 post this! this was on engadget and pspupdates.com for about a day before u!

16F84 @ Apr 26th 2006 2:56PM

I updated today without any problems.

tim @ Apr 26th 2006 3:40PM

the flash capability uses version 6 not 8 and the flash capability enables users to do less homebrew because now we can make flash 6 games :) no more laggy mario

still not sure how the controls are thou
think theres only 2
either controlling the mouse and then clicking

slybri @ Apr 28th 2006 3:36PM

On the gamespy website they're pushing the 2.7 firmware by saying "Now we can finally watch Strongbad on our psp!"
Well, thanks to the outdated flash version 6 and lack of memory, Homestarrunner.com flash cartoons are a slideshow and only a few of them work thanks to the lack of PSP system memory. And the PSP doesnt fit the flash to the screen, so you can only see part of the flash without scrolling.
Very disappointing.