The latest Japanese PSP firmware
adds Flash Player to the PlayStation Portable and Flaunt It's Alexander McCabe is testing the Player with various Flash
games and posting his impressions. He says its slow, has no streaming content, and has only limited Keypad interaction.
Also there seems to be an obvious limit on the amouth of memory the content can use. Jump on over to his site to see
full impressions and learn more about possible content.We have covered Flash on PSP here before and I still think this is going to be limited to the possible accessories for the system and a possible API release from Sony. We should look forward to a lack of user created content though, considering Sony's lack of hack support for the firmware already. The real concern here is weather game developers with take advantage or the player to add content that takes the user out of the box via the camera object that first appeared in Flash Player 6. In the mean time take some of your old projects modifiy them for PSP displays and maybe add some sound fun just to mess with your users.
1. What I've seen so far is that the Flash movie itself doesn't stream into the player - the d-pad interaction looks more promising now than it did a few hours ago, but all reports seem to be saying it is slow. I still think there is an awful that can be done with this - it's the most powerful mobile flash yet.
Posted at 4:33PM on Apr 25th 2006 by Alexander McCabe