It’s Official: 2.81 Out Now

You can now lay all your speculations to rest. Sony has just released firmware 2.81. The update was made on September 7, 2006 (as some pointed out, it’s ironically just right after the 2.80 Decrypter was made available) and YourPSP says the system software update included a patch that would address vulnerability in the system software. Naturally, it includes all features contained in previous software versions.

Sony Japan‘s website lists down the Memory Stick related problems that they’ve fixed. Translation from the Sony Japan’s website here are those updates.

• With “ATRAC” files which have been protected in SonicStage and then saved to Memory Stick PRO Duo, the protection management data becomes corrupted, and become unable to be played back
• Memory Stick PRO Duo media which have been formatted from either the PSP or a Memory Stick formatter are recognized as unformatted media when connecting the PSP to a PC with the USB cable

A bore so far? The clincher is this and we quote: “PSP systems with system software version 2.80 or earlier do not correctly recognise high-capacity Memory Stick Duo with more than 4GB of free (recordable) memory space.” However, is this lure of bigger space enough to get people to upgrade?

If you ask us, all that Sony has done in the 2.81 release is that it has given us a choice. If you really, really and we mean really, need more than 4GB then by all means upgrade. YourPSP and Sony Japan is offering the download. Love your homebrew? Then don’t.

Is it a good move by Sony? Well apparently not, cause we’ve just found out that the 2.80 decrypter works on 2.81. What good does that do for us? Well it could only mean that Sony’s newest baby may soon be emulated via DevHook!

Thanks to everyone who took the extra time of tipping us about this update.

Download: [PSP System Update v2.81 US]
Download: [PSP System Update v2.81 UK]

Via yourpsp

You can now lay all your speculations to rest. Sony has just released firmware 2.81. The update was made on September 7, 2006 (as some pointed out, it’s ironically just right after the 2.80 Decrypter was made available) and YourPSP says the system software update included a patch that would address vulnerability in the system software. Naturally, it includes all features contained in previous software versions.

Sony Japan‘s website lists down the Memory Stick related problems that they’ve fixed. Translation from the Sony Japan’s website here are those updates.

• With “ATRAC” files which have been protected in SonicStage and then saved to Memory Stick PRO Duo, the protection management data becomes corrupted, and become unable to be played back
• Memory Stick PRO Duo media which have been formatted from either the PSP or a Memory Stick formatter are recognized as unformatted media when connecting the PSP to a PC with the USB cable

A bore so far? The clincher is this and we quote: “PSP systems with system software version 2.80 or earlier do not correctly recognise high-capacity Memory Stick Duo with more than 4GB of free (recordable) memory space.” However, is this lure of bigger space enough to get people to upgrade?

If you ask us, all that Sony has done in the 2.81 release is that it has given us a choice. If you really, really and we mean really, need more than 4GB then by all means upgrade. YourPSP and Sony Japan is offering the download. Love your homebrew? Then don’t.

Is it a good move by Sony? Well apparently not, cause we’ve just found out that the 2.80 decrypter works on 2.81. What good does that do for us? Well it could only mean that Sony’s newest baby may soon be emulated via DevHook!

Thanks to everyone who took the extra time of tipping us about this update.

Download: [PSP System Update v2.81 US]
Download: [PSP System Update v2.81 UK]

Via yourpsp