Posted Oct 17, 2006 at 02:45PM by Gino D. Listed in: Firmware, Rumors Tags: Sony, MaDSouL
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FW 3.0 UMD?


In the sunny shores of the magical land of Teh Int3rw3bz, a tsunami of pics washed up across various websites about a UMD containing a 3.0 firmware update. It's everywhere. Surely, you've heard about this already, right? Everyone and their grandma's dog probably has. If you haven't, then there's no reason now.

The story goes that a member of YourPSP was sent a copy of this beta UMD firmware update. Sony wanted them to try it out. Supposedly the update supports PSone emulation, .mov, .gif, .wmv, and .flv files. Boy was that a mouthful. Excited? Err, don't get your hopes up. Ever since February, this "3.0 update" was already rumored about, and quite frankly, debunked with a vengeance. (Somebody named MadSoul even put his foot forward and claimed that he was the one who started this "joke".)

Why ditch this as a fake, you ask? For one thing, most of Sony's firmware updates have happened via download. Not through UMDs. Also, it's not in the nature of Sony to go around getting people to beta test their update. "Mass marketing" a beta test of a firmware update could likewise harvest a "mass bricking" of PSPs (thus, bad PR for Sony).

What with the recent FW2.81 PSP from the Sony factory, all these rumors are already starting to get blown out of proportion. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, ok? We're just hoping beyond hope that Sony would finally say something about all this and release whatever they have up their sleeve.

Hurry up, Sony! Before more people send in the clowns...


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   by first (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » first

first post!


   Re: Luismo (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » Congratulations I reward you with stupidness. Nooblet.

Lol this is funny. People getting fooled by this s***

   Re: scuzzy19 - 2006-10-18
 » Seriously

be less stupid and post some actual useful crap then "im first" *****ing tard!
   by Am I first poster? (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Am I first poster?

Am I first poster?


   Re: Jusina (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » No, but you're a retard dose that make you feel any better?

What an awesome fake!
   by Feldor (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Fake...

Ive been a part of the Sony GAP for almost a year now with my psp, and ive recieved certain demo's or betas to beta test from sony, but ive never recieved any of it in the PSP cases that popular psp games come in, they only come in "sleeves" in the shape of the psp cases, why would they waste money making a case for a beta game, or even worse a beta firmware..

this is highly imposibly or just plain stupid of sony.

   by Madsoap (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » go madsoul

ya whats the point of bringing this up rather pointless madsoul did this along time ago and it was funny

   by caste (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » umd

the only thing that does make sense in this is having the firmware beta on a umd as a software you run inside your exsisting as to protect the user from bricking.

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   by FreakShow! (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Feldor...

Did you even read the article?

3.00 is coming out roughly same time as PS3 I am led to beleive. All this talk about PS3s and PSP firmwares is dragging too long now. It's been almost a year surely. PSP scene is a bit dead (I'm grateful people are working on it and I'm sure they still are) but no new releases that have that wow factor.

Plus the fact that I won't see a PS3 will at least early march in the middle of my revision. Life's looking real sunny.

   by Zerow - 2006-10-17
 » LOL

I first saw that pic ages ago. The spelling mistakes on the piece of paper still make me laugh!


   Re: joel (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » whatthe?

where is the mistake? the picture is way small and i remember someone talking about the reading mistake some time ago but the picture(again) is way small i can't see the mistake...what's the word? or where can i get a full size picture?

   Re: hachieman2000 (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » look at that

i dont remember anyof my psp umd's Sporting the PS1 !! logo on them hahaha, what a fake, that and yourpsp.com doesnt know crap about this

   Re: Eranmane (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » Well...

what did you expect? Madsoul is from Sweeden!
   by Urza the Tyrant - 2006-10-17
 » Wow

Yes, #4 is right. This is indeed a fake image composed by a member of our Qj family, Madsoul very long ago. Why this is on the front page? People are idiots obviously.

   by Joel (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » uh uh

Felder nice to see another GAP member anyways, we all know this is fake and well i read recently that 2 days from now (that's thursday) sony will be dishing out it's firmware 3.0 as said on playstation forums, is that true? well sony is hosting it's gamer's day in san francisco and i'm not sure what they're going to annouce but propably some news on the ps3 online, playable games, and ps3-psp connectivity. About the 3.0...well i doubt it though some people says the person who announced doesn't spam bs like that...i guess it sound way to good to be true. anyways we'll know on october the 19th.

   by dfgdgsujdasgfcuasj (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Holy ****

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!

   by dereileak (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » FAKE, BUT FW 3.0 is real, at least in two days I hope

THI PIC HAS BEEN OUT for a long time and this exact pic is fake but there is a real 3.0 which may be released in two days, well find out


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   Re: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM HA BOOM
   by Skeptical (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » george lopez

Will this work on my 2.71 ?
hahahahaha

   by milkman - 2006-10-17
 » GAP

I became a member today and i was wondering if they send out GAP emails alot...to tell you the truth i wasn't expecting it at all!

   by pancho (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Fake

when this picture was first out i proved it to be fake within 3 minutes of looking at it. Why are you bringing this back up. Get some better news.

   by mbslrm - 2006-10-17
 » ...

Tell the guy who apparently has this to use some homebrew or something, and get the EBOOT.PBP file on the 'net. That should prove his truthfulness.

I am also part of GAP, and games always come in sleeves..... And, the whole idea of a beta firmware is messed up...


   by MAdSoull (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » I just did it because Iam gay

yeah.


   Re: no! (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » dumbass 101

dude i can't believe you'll do something like this...we all know that madsoul is a staff at qj so i don't think he's gonna be unregistered or misspell his name. IMBECILLE!

   Re: Monito (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » haha

give the guy a break, it was funny
   by Cipher (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » FAKE?

if is true, someone dump it and upload this Firmware...

   by MadSoul (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Sorry

Sorry dudes.

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   by MAdSoull (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » GAYNESS

YEAH BOYYY!!!!
DOWN WITH FIRWARE UPDATES!!!

   by Unknown (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » lol

fake
3.0 probably won't be out until next 2 years
not until sony figure out a way to get psx emulator

and who cares if it is the real 3.0
homebrew psx emuator is already around the net and some games already working well
haxor rulz


   Re: Steven (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » 2 years

it isnt comong out in two years where have u been? its either this month or next when it comes out
   by mbslrm - 2006-10-17
 » GIF?

As far as I know, 2.0+ PSPs can view animated GIFs.

   by blah (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » blah

Not fake that picture is. I know somebody that got one.

   by Chaos (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » i was the one to answer on playstation underground

i already answered this question in a broke down explanation on the playstation underground when this pic first arrived. if you look closely, its a photoshopped UMD, whoever made it didnt even bother patching his lines and didnt even make a good circle for the UMD, the case is a printout, and half the stuff on the paper is either spelled wrong, spelled OUT, or uncapitalized. whoever did it actually spelled out "bullet" instead of putting a bullet point... they spelled PlayStation 1 in all lowercase letters (sony would never spell their own product wrongly) so believe what you want, but i'm just stating the facts

   by KillR_7 (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Congratulations!

lol look at congatulations.

   by umd (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » here are the typos...

check out this image for a clearer version of that above image.

http://zemagicien.free.fr/PSP-Images/psp30hs.jpg

There are COUNTLESS grammar errors in that jumble of texts. The miss spelled words are: Avaible and Listining.

Also, the structure of the texts are obviously of an under educated person in the business writing department. If a company asks you for a favor, the one word that WILL apear is "Please".(ala asking for feedbacks. That "Give" word is with a capital G... implying a start word of a sentence.) Also, business writing NEVER uses the words such as "get's to" to imply "an opportunity to". ;)

Lesson from a lit major. ;)

   by umd (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » my mistake

My mistake in the previous post....

I was wrong here:
"Also, the structure of the texts are obviously of an under educated person in the business writing department."

It should be:
"Also, the structure of the texts are obviously of a 10 years old kid who can barely utilize the english to convey an idea."


   Re: Yes (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » Yes

Yea its called sony.
   by i got one (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » me to

ive also receive one of these 3.0 umds


   Re: lol (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » xD

yes and ive received MS-Vista from Bill Gates
   by ,./ (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » bad grammar

available not avaible
Photo not Photos

Here are the new features avaible
not Here is
and several more

   by Confused (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Dunno

im a 2.8 and waiting for a downgrader...but im thinking i should update bucause i wont be able to play my games and i dunno how to run a devhook (ive tried it) and its confusing Should i update?

   by mannymix03 (QJ. NET Staff) - 2006-10-17
 » if any of you

if any of you browse the forums, you will see that madsoul made this as a joke. SAdly the internet makes up alot of weird stuff


   Re: JEMdev (Unregistered) - 2006-10-17
 » Dear god somebody finally figured that out

I was wondering when someone would have known that


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