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After a long wait, sony has completed a release of a new firmware for its Play Station Portable gaming console yesterday at its official Japanese website. The most anticipated and instantly noticed addition to this firmware is the ability to playback flash content on websites. Browser was added to PSP at Firmware 2.0 but it did not support flash content, and eventually there was a homebrew software which emulated a flash player on PSP. The firmware update, whether through network or via memory stick, will be available tomorrow (April 25th, 2006) around 2pm local time.

This update is not intended for any users out side Japan, or thos who do not own Japanese version of PSP (PSP-1000 Series), and it is strongly recommended by Sony that owners of other PSP series do not use this update to upgrade their firmware to the new version.

Also another notable fix was that Sony addressed is 2GB + Memory Stick compatibilty, which was an issue for those lucky ones who owned 4GB Memory Stick Duo Pro sticks.

Read more for the full features of the new firmware.

Following are the features of PSP Firmware 2.70 as published on Sony PSP’s Japan website with help of Google’s Translate service.

Network

[ It reached the point where the Macromedia ® Flash ® contents can be played back with Internet browser ]. * The Flash ® contents are played back, it is necessary [ with substance setting ] of the PSP ® to make function effective. * Macromedia ® Flash ® Player 6 is loaded, (as for part function non- correspondence). [ [ Connection setting ] was added [ to setting ] of Internet browser ]. [ It reached the point where the audio contents of the channel which is registered with the RSS channel ] can be retained in the " memory stick duo ". [ [ Automatic operation ] was added [ to rate modification ] of the location free prayer ]. * Concerning the location freebase station as for details, the http: Please view the //www.sony.co.jp/locationfree/psp.

Music

The file extension of the AAC format which it can play back was added.

Setting

[ [ The Flash ® Player is made effective ] added to substance setting ]. * It sets, connection to Internet is necessary. [ Simple body letter Chinese language and complex body letter Chinese language were added [ to indicatory language ] of substance setting ]. [ RSS channel setting ] was added. [ In video setting ] [ UMD™ The Video L ･ R button ] was added.

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