After being spotted at Sony PSP's South Korean website, the newest PSP firmware, FW 3.40, has now made its way to the Japanese PlayStation site. So far, the U.S. PlayStation site hasn't updated its System Software Update section, but trust us when we say that we will keep you posted.
As to what's new this time around, we are still not sure. But nonetheless, we'll still share with you the info generated through an online translation engine. Here's they are:
- PLAYSTATION Network title performance in order to play was strengthened.
- PlayStation standard software PSP and PS3 being both, you can use the saving dataIt became the way.
- As for download of the PlayStation standard software which corresponds to PS3, from April 26th at PLAYSTATION®Store it is the schedule which is started.
- [License management] was deleted.
- In [you can verify the information which is indicated license management], with the following operation.
- Choosing the idea contest of the game where we would like to make information indicate pushing the △ button, [Information] is chosen from the option menu.
Update: Tipster whoelse led us to the PlayStation US Boards to show us what the boards' admin assistant Ascalon's post had about the new firmware for the PSPs. There wasn't anything yet on a U.S. release of the FW, but we did manage to get something about some changes in the 3.40 FW update:
- Support for PLAYSTATION®Network titles has been expanded.
- The method of managing certificates under [Game] has been changed.
After being spotted at Sony PSP's South Korean website, the newest PSP firmware, FW 3.40, has now made its way to the Japanese PlayStation site. So far, the U.S. PlayStation site hasn't updated its System Software Update section, but trust us when we say that we will keep you posted.
As to what's new this time around, we are still not sure. But nonetheless, we'll still share with you the info generated through an online translation engine. Here's they are:
- PLAYSTATION Network title performance in order to play was strengthened.
- PlayStation standard software PSP and PS3 being both, you can use the saving dataIt became the way.
- As for download of the PlayStation standard software which corresponds to PS3, from April 26th at PLAYSTATION®Store it is the schedule which is started.
- [License management] was deleted.
- In [you can verify the information which is indicated license management], with the following operation.
- Choosing the idea contest of the game where we would like to make information indicate pushing the △ button, [Information] is chosen from the option menu.
Update: Tipster whoelse led us to the PlayStation US Boards to show us what the boards' admin assistant Ascalon's post had about the new firmware for the PSPs. There wasn't anything yet on a U.S. release of the FW, but we did manage to get something about some changes in the 3.40 FW update:
- Support for PLAYSTATION®Network titles has been expanded.
- The method of managing certificates under [Game] has been changed.

