Comments on: SCEE announce firmware 2.40 enhancement, bringing you in-game XMB and trophies…

By: Ton Capone

Ton Capone — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:25:15 +0000

@ 32

Epic fail at trying to get people to join in your flaming of me Vincent.
Now crawl back under your stone please.

By: fanpages

fanpages — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:42:05 +0000

As well as the Firmware Revision 2.40 being taken down, the “Super Stardust HD Team Expansion” download is now no longer available either.

Good news for today though…

The European ‘Store update includes “Commando 3: Wolf of the Battlefield” (for GBP 6.99), a “Space Invaders Extreme Demo” for the PSP (for free), and free Add-on packs; Maps for “Rainbow Six Vegas 2″, four “Buzz! TV Quiz” packs, and a track for “Guitar Hero III”. There are also a selection of videos & three themes (one of which is “Elefunk”… but no sight of the game!?!).

Hope the ‘Store doesn’t rely on firmware 2.40 for usage though.

BFN,

fp.

By: Zoob

Zoob — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:59:37 +0000

Aaah. I noticed the network was down at one point last night, I’m guessing this was something to do with it.

I hope developers do add some backwards trophy compatibility system - I’ve kept all my saves specifically for this, even if I have traded in the actual games already…

By: Megapode

Megapode — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:19:22 +0000

^^^^
Should have done a bit more digging first!
it appears that there are issues with the update!

By: Megapode

Megapode — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:50:43 +0000

Silly question…

Am I missing something with the 2.40 update?

My system tells me that I am up to date (v2.36) will not patch to 2.40!

Any ideas?

Many thanks…

By: kulmanister

kulmanister — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:41:07 +0000

It only depends on how easy the trophy system is to implement; if it’s a kind of plugin into the game where certain score triggers a trophy, for instance “shoot x amount of aliens” triggers trophy x then I’m willing to think the developers have some max 30 minute job to implement the trophy feature and it will become standard.

If the trophy browsing feature becomes sort of gamecard so that you can use the interwebs to see other gamers’ trophies it will become free advertisements for the games utilizing such feature and thus publishers make this option mandatory for their own games.

By: Cho

Cho — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:22:13 +0000

Not too fussed about the having to play again thing, but I am worried about the ‘developers choosing’ bit for trophies.

It should be made compulsory, as it is for 360 titles, so that everyone has something to compare, not just a few.

Hopefully I’m just jumping the gun though. Good news nonetheless.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:59:23 +0000

just read on gamesradar that in order to unlock trophies for a game save u already have you’ll need to complete it again oh well at least it gives me an excuse to play them all again

By: Dave Vincent

Dave Vincent — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:28:15 +0000

This is a great week for news, XMB, Dual Shock 3 both this week and the best news of all that Ton Capone has decided he’s not coming to the forum anymore to preach to us! (see /blog/2008/06/kaz-hirai-reveals-new-ps3-programme-life-with-playstation/#comments post 13).

Now Sony just need a Home announcement and then everyone on this forum can live in peace and harmony for once and enjoy the PS3 together.

Well I can hope!

By: laughingmantom

laughingmantom — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:30:44 +0000

@26 & 27
Thanks for clearing that one up for me guys.

No matter how good the reason is (and it is a very good reason), it’s still going to be incredibly annoying to play through games yet again. It’ll save me buying any new games for a while though!