PS3 Firmware 2.5 & PSP Firmware 5.0 is out

[andshrew]

I want it so i can access the in game xmb, point at a friends profile and select an invite option. This will then send an alert to said friend who can then accept the invite, this will quit out of their current game and once the relevant disk is inserted the game will start and auto-join the server they were invited to.

While i can see this may require patching for older games i fail to see why it's impossible, it's going to require less effort to implement than the in-game XMB took. Even if it was a feature only available for patched or new games i would be happy, it's the fact that the XMB currently offers no form of invites for developers to work with, even though the in game music app isn't ever used i'm not annoyed as at least Sony have offered it as a feature to devs.

Your right in that it should be easy for Sony to implement something like that, but because of the way existing games all do their network stuff in their own way (I don't think there's any 2 games which do it exactly the same! ), the best we could hope for would be that it becomes a standard feature in future games and maybe patched into popular ones.

There is a basic invite system already (Send an invite from ingame - provided the game supports it, the other person receives it as a message then has to manually load up the game then accept the invite once their ingame), so there's no reason they couldn't expand on that in future.

One other thing I noticed this morning when I was checking it out was a divx VOB registration code (or something like that) in the video settings section - anyone know what that is for?

 

[thecremeegg]

I want it so i can access the in game xmb, point at a friends profile and select an invite option. This will then send an alert to said friend who can then accept the invite, this will quit out of their current game and once the relevant disk is inserted the game will start and auto-join the server they were invited to.

See I think that this is a bit pointless tbh - you may as well just send a message like you can do already? They have to quit their game, which may take a while as they might have to wait for a save point etc, then they have to take the disk out, put a new one in. All this could take a while, and doesnt really achieve anything - they could just load the game up and join you from there?

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Just installed 5.00 on the PSP, quite like the store feature, could see myself using it for the lower price games.

 

[meths]

Been waiting all night for this. Just about to go to bed and then read this thread. Typical!

Seems like a nice update

You stayed up untill 7.58am waiting for a firmware update!!!

 

[TheStig1]

See I think that this is a bit pointless tbh - you may as well just send a message like you can do already? They have to quit their game, which may take a while as they might have to wait for a save point etc, then they have to take the disk out, put a new one in. All this could take a while, and doesnt really achieve anything - they could just load the game up and join you from there?

I don't think its pointless at all, its much easier doing it the way Live does it, I get an invite and accept, change disk and I am taken straight into the online game, much more seemless and less hassle getting everyone into the same room. Its a lot easier pressing 1 button to get 8 people in a game than messaging 8 people to ask it they want to play I think.

 

[Senture]

Cheers for the news. Will stick this on one Ubuntu behaves lol

 

[H4wklord]

Any update to bitstreaming hd audio?