Today's most remote video: FFVII on your PSP

Theres no reason not to expand this functionality to any formats the machine will play. All thats missing is those pesky dual analog controls that sony should have added with the last PSP rev.

Remote Play on PSP/PS3 can be done via internet too, right?

Now THIS is connectivity.

Nothing personal, but...well, this is kind of old hat. I guess it's not "officially" old, but I played through ffvii on my psp a long time ago. All it took was custom firmware and ripping ffvii off of the discs (with a minor hexedit for good measure).

*shrug*

Ahh this is pretty cool! I didn't know the discs would work too!

Dude. I was doing this waaay before this patch came out. It's called hacking your PSP and using Custom Firmware + Popstation to achive this.

How likely is PS2 streming when Sony are dropping PS2 compatability from future PS3s?

Hahaha! Oh I don't see the use of this. I have been able to play FFVII on my PSP for about six months now. And the best part is, I don't need to pay an extra $399 to do so!

This isn't new, this is years old now.

As good as remote play sounds on paper, if you don't have a decent enough internet connection you're screwed. Too slow for me on my 1mb connection. Especially if it's already in use. And MS want to give us IPTV too? bwahaha. Time for a Korean connection me thinks.

I love the insinuation that people who intentionally choose not to void their warranty and risk bricking their system are somehow less-informed than those who spend exorbitant amounts of time and effort to play poorly-emulated versions of decade-old PS1 and SNES games.

Yes, we're all REALLY impressed by your awesome hacking skills and how you stick it to "da man" while playing relics that even the DS would snicker derisively at.

I think Remote Play is pretty awesome. It is actually making me consider getting a PSP, which never really appealed to me until now. Being able to stream music, movies (including DIVX now), and games from my PS3 (which I don't even have to leave on since they introduced Remote Start) is a great feature.

Maybe you could do some of these things before with custom firmware, but that is hardly a reason to diss the great features that are being introduced by Sony.

This is actually pretty cool. It's a shame you need to own a ps3 as well as I own neither and would love to play some old PS1 games again on the move.

Has anyone mentioned that this is old news and that you could play old PSOne games on the PSP for a while now? If not, let me point it out now.

Seriously, I looked at custom firmware recently. It felt more like trying to find out what really is in Area 51 or other national security secrets. There are a hundred guides for each minor revision of the official firmware, and each one is different. Most of them require that you already have a PSP with custom firmware to get certain files, and if you don't have access to one "just Google it". Of course, all Google will give you is 500 links to forum posts that tell you to Google for the files.... No one wants to post said files because "that's illegal!!!1!"

My point is, custom firmware is a lot harder for someone who would want to jump into it now. Did I mention that most firmware methods require the use of either Lumines or a specific software revision of GTA:VCS? Yeah, not exactly a smooth road to ride.

Anyways, neat feature. Not neat enough to warrant a PS3 purchase, but I'll throw this on the tiny pile of reasons to own a PS3.

Say what you want about this being old school, I can now watch Naruto/Bleach(any movie,picture, or music for that matter) that I have on my computer on my PSP remotely, without having to be restricted by my memory stick. Good Stuff!

For everything else ('cept for the DS) owith internet connectivity while you're away from home (phones, laptops, computers) I use Orb to stream videos (plus I get more format support). My phone makes it less useful to use the PSP since, it's restricted to being WiFi. My phone can get it anywhere.
As for PS1 games, again, as stated, custom firmware lets you compress PS1 games onto your memory stick and not need to have WiFi connected to play. 99.6% of PS1 games work since the custom firmware just unlocks the feature Sony partially hid.
The only benefit I see is playing PS3 games on the PSP, but I'll to check on that list as to which games are compatible.

Ok hackers we get it, this is old news for you, but why do you have to knock Sony for throwing in for those of us that do not hack our psp's. It's a cool feature, and seeing little features like this is something that we should be applauding Sony for. The more of these little features that they throw in, the better the system gets, and the more innovative it becomes. The day that innovation gets shot down is the day that mediocrity takes over. So, I for one will say, good job Sony, keep working on little features like this that are nice perks for the consumer. You hackers are fucking idiots.

I'm totally excited about this. I've never hacked my PSP but I know I can and would be successful at it (not saying anything more than that). But I would prefer doing it the legal way.

Unfortunately, I'm thinking about the places where I play my psp and DS and none of them have wifi access. So...this is kind of useless to me. Cool feature, though.

can't wait until i get a psp for christmas, the thought of playing final fantasy 7 anywhere in the world on a handheld is pretty damn sweet.

as for the hackers, drop the bitching we know it's old for you guys. If you weren't busy doing illegal shit then maybe these updates wouldn't be old for you guys, but congrats anyway for proving you can hack a machine...you're all really cool now /sarcasm

I tried this last night and was quite disappointed... it seems like the PSP isn't actually emulating the game. It's streaming a video of the game being emulated from the PS3, which means there's a LONG lag (1/2 a second to a second) between a button press and an action on-screen. This is fine for Final Fantasy or other turn-based games, but unacceptable for anything that requires twitch action.

I haven't bought any of the Remote Play games from the Playstation Store yet... are they also streamed as a laggy video? If so, WTF was Sony thinking. If not, why not use that same emulator for streamed disc-games (or even better, let us load our PS1 games to an SD card and take it with us?)

++Sony for trying, but --Sony for botching it with unresponsive controls.

Insert Disc 2, oh shit! It's a cool feature, but I'd much prefer being able to legally rip a PSOne disc directly to my PSP through PC ala PS-Store. Plus, having to turn on a 200 Watt system to stream a PSone game to my PSP doesn't interest me. It's a cool feature, but there's rumor going around that there's input lag too, which would slay most all of my PSone games.

WE GET IT PEOPLE - YOU CAN ALREADY DO THIS IF YOU KNOW HOW TO BE SO COOL AS TO FIGURE IT OUT