Richard Leggett on New Media

First of all I apologise upfront for the quality of these images and videos, I only have the webcam to hand and no time to convert the vid etc. Ok so I've just been testing out the Flash 6 player for PSP, it works great! The player supports optimizations for Flash 6.0.65.0 so that you get some speed increases, too.

Note: After updating your firmware (in this case with the Japanese 2.7 update) you have to go to the PSP settings and enable the Flash Player. It then takes you online to confirm this action.

The first video is Moocks FPS Speedometer with the FLA set to 50FPS. You can see it gets between 23 and 30.

The second video is a particle fountain, you can see I'm getting about 6-12 FPS, which isn't bad at all considering there's almost 100 particles on screen and the original example used Flash 8 with cacheAsBitmap to make up some of the speed on the desktop.

I imagine most Flash Lite 1 and 2 content will also run fine (as long as you don't use things like getNextHighestDepth() in Flash 7) - so give it a go. (If you have a US 1001 series you can update here).

I've left the FPS speedometer up at: http://richardleggett.co.uk/psp if you'd like to test out some content.