PlayStation 3 firmware gets updated to 1.92

Wednesday 05th September 2007, 08:08:00 AM, written by Farid

An unannounced update for the PlayStation 3 was made available yesterday. This update, which takes the PlayStation 3 firmware from 1.90 to 1.92, is only affecting the backward compatibility with PlayStation 1 and 2 games feature of the console.
Change log:
Playability status with the PS3™ system has changed for some PlayStation®2 format titles.

Playability status with the PS3™ system has changed for some PlayStation®2 format titles.

With only the enhancement of the backward compatibility publicised, this update is mainly a hotfix for the existing software. The update is readily available directly from the cross media bar, just choose ‘System Update’ under the ‘Settings’ menu. The update can also be downloaded from a PC and then transferred to the console with a storage device or a disc.

The update and the instructions for proceeding to a system update using a PC.


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Latest Thread Comments (22 total)
Posted by Arwin on Saturday, 08-Sep-07 01:47:03 UTC
I can't connect now to the Warhawk server, and I haven't been able to fix it by shutting off the system or clearing the browser's cache. Not good. :(Re Blast Factor - you still do need some practice to do it right. But if you make the right movement, then it detects it much quicker.

Posted by patsu on Saturday, 08-Sep-07 02:15:04 UTC
Quoting Arwin
I can't connect now to the Warhawk server, and I haven't been able to fix it by shutting off the system or clearing the browser's cache. Not good. :(
Uh-oh ! I have not tried Warhawk yet (It's underneath the table). Hopefully Sony patch 1.92 with 2.x fast :D

Posted by jonabbey on Saturday, 08-Sep-07 05:12:20 UTC
I was able to connect to Warhawk after going to the network setup menu and walking through the IP configuration menus, then saving the setting at the end.

Posted by xmu on Saturday, 08-Sep-07 08:27:57 UTC
Quoting jonabbey
I was able to connect to Warhawk after going to the network setup menu and walking through the IP configuration menus, then saving the setting at the end.
I did that too the first time Warhawk refused to co-operate but it didn't help. Somewhat curiously my active setting was now Wireless, even though I'm 99.999% sure I've tried it on Wireless once ages ago and then switched back to Wired.

Nevertheless, the issues are there and AFAIK no official acknowledgment from Sony or Incognito. I personally don't buy the "the servers will be synchronized soon" crap, sounds really really really weird to me that something like that would take a week or more.

Posted by BoardBonobo on Saturday, 08-Sep-07 12:03:47 UTC
Connecting just fine now. Seems like a little blip on the server side. I've left my box on as a dedicated server as payback for all the excellent games I've had. And as a break from folding!

Posted by patsu on Saturday, 08-Sep-07 16:00:50 UTC
Arwin is saying something similar: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1061303&postcount=87

Looks like they have a pretty major server-side change (This and Limelight).

Posted by Arwin on Saturday, 08-Sep-07 17:33:40 UTC
Yes, let me stress this part:

Quoting Arwin
I only now noticed the official login message that said the servers would be down on Friday (yesterday) to fix the stats issue, at 7 PDT, which is 3AM at night, which happens to be the time I was testing the connection yesterday.

Posted by patsu on Sunday, 09-Sep-07 07:35:43 UTC
Apparently, Sony has a set of instructions for fixing 1.92 connectivity problems:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1061566&postcount=16

It looks like Sony changed server and hosting site. So old URLs and DNS entries need to be cleared right away. Their firmware update probably forgot to do this.

Posted by slider on Sunday, 09-Sep-07 13:42:24 UTC
Quoting patsu
Apparently, Sony has a set of instructions for fixing this 1.92 problem:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1061566&postcount=16

It looks like Sony changed server and hosting site. So old URLs and DNS entries need to be cleared right away. Their firmware update probably forgot to do this.
I updated to 1.92 last night and immediately after logged onto the browser (to check B3D!), PSN and then Warhawk without any problems. And I use the browser fairly regularly - well at least once during a PS3 power-up.

I guess I shouldn't complain...

EDIT: I guess this has something to do with it: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=82794

Apparently the changes only affected US and Japan users.

Posted by patsu on Sunday, 09-Sep-07 16:53:25 UTC
It is possible that all the caches and derived HTML pages have expired by now. If so, the system should work as expected.EDIT: 1.93 firmware update announced on PS3 official blog. Supposed to fix any lingering network issues caused by 1.92.


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