Sony today released firmware v6.0 for the PSP. Not many major new features, but one unadvertised change makes upgrading your portable firmware much easier. You no longer need to fully charge your PSP and have it plugged in to update the firmware. It’s about time.
There have been an absurd amount of times where I’ve wanted to play a PSP game only to be required to update the firmware first. I’d have to put my PSP down for an hour or two to fully charge before being able to run the update. Thankfully, that’s a thing of the past.
Other changes in the firmware include more colors available under Theme Settings, renaming “Network Update” to “System Update”, and various security patches. You can also group game content by expiration date, which drops hints at possible rental titles coming soon on the PlayStation Network. We’ll see how that pans out.
Actually i’ve been able to update my psp without it being fully charged or needing to be plugged in since 5.00
Interesting. Even the most recent 5.51 (I think) update told me I needed to plug my PSP in to run the update.
that is odd. On my psp-1000 and psp-2000 the screen i get is telling me not to unplug or remove the battery or memory stick. They werent plugged in the first place, granted i had about 60% charge could be the reason why. Oh well, if this now works for all PSPs then great.