So my brother got a PSP for Christmas. Pretty snazy. It was slick and really nice menus and resolution.
So we try to connect the bugger to the internet. It was a no go. What were they thinking making it so difficult? 90% of the gamers aren't going to understand wtf WLAN is. Personally, I don't know my WLAN, MAC, WEP address/number/code WHATEVER. I don't know anything about a Proxy server.
It's a royal pain in the ass to get the thing online. I need to screw around with the access things on my router to get the bugger to work on it. Not to mention the pain that wireless is, "dont be near radiowaves, don't be near lots of metal" Signals this and signals that, losing connection and last time we set up a wireless connection in my household, every wired connection got shut offline when the wireless one went online.
If there is one thing in the computer world that is confusing as hell, a HUGE pain in the ass (especially on houses with more than one computer) is internet. God damn.
So, we need this "update" to play Star Wars Battlefront 2. GOOD LUCK. You can download the update to your memory card through the PC which I did. Then recharged it, went ahead and started the update to be greeted by a glitchy BLANK screen. I know the text is there, I just can't see it. So the update was not successful.
My last resort, a UMD with the update. Where do I find those? You tell me.
I'm sure the PSP is fantastic, the preview UMD I got really spelt that out for me with the wonderful videos I got to watch of games. Great graphics. If I got to play it'd be even better. And whatabout single player people? They just want to play GTA alone and they have to download an update primarly for online capabilities. Blah, stupid.
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To upgrade the firmware, download the latest version(2.6), connect the PSP to your PC via USB, select USB Connection on the PSP, go to the PSP drive that pops up on your PC and go to PSP/GAME/UPDATE/ and copy the eboot.pbp file there. Get out of USB mode, go to Game, and there should be the firmware update, and run it.
After you do that, figure out what the SSID is for your wireless router and security settings and all that. If your router supports it, I'd suggest using WPA-PSK TKIP, since that's the best the PSP supports.
If you have SSID broadcast turned on, just start up the PSP and go to Settings > Network Connections(at the bottom), make a new connection under Infrastructure mode, do a scan and you should see your wireless router. Select it, select the security settings of your router and enter the WPA code if you have it. Then everything else on auto and test it. It should work if you have everything set up correctly.