More information is slowly surfacing about Flash on the PSP. Please share any other resources you find!

• Bill Perry has posted a thorough list of supported and unsupported features, and other tips.
• Richard Leggett has posted videos of some initial performance tests, and linked to one of them.
• Alexander McCabe has also posted his first-day impressions so far.
• Some experiments are being discussed in the PSP411 forums.
• LordAlex put together a quick PSP Portal in Flash and has more projects in the works.
• New developments are also being covered by Marco Casario and FlashInsider.

There’s real work to be done today of course, but we couldn’t help trying out the new PSP firmware update that includes, at last, a Flash plugin for the web browser.

This post will evolve throughout the day as we continue experimenting.

Current impression: promising!

Notes in chronological order:

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A couple quick notes of interest regarding the Flash player:

Flash on PSP: Sony has announced that tomorrow they will release PSP Firmware Update 2.70 for Japanese-market units, which will include Flash Player 6. Someone translated a disclaimer that “a part of the functions is not supported” — we’ll soon see what this means. In the past, Japanese updates have functioned just fine on US units so we’ll let you know tomorrow! Anything you want us to test for you? Post the links in the comments.

UPDATE (April 25) — the new firmware showed up in “Network Update” on our US model PSP this morning. Downloading and testing now; will post more soon.

The Player Formerly Known as 8.5: When Beta 3 of the next Flash player is released, it will be called version 9 instead of 8.5. (Sadly, we thought of the Prince joke before we read Emmy’s post.) A major version number increase certainly makes sense given the AS3 capabilities of the player (in fact we’re kind of surprised they didn’t call it IX — roman numerals are cool!) The other numbering scheme was probably intended to avoid falling out of sync with the IDE; Emmy’s FAQ clarifies the release schedule.

If you’ve been watching your web logs you’ve suspected this change for a while:

…and it’s also evident that after 9, they’ll be starting over with 1. (But seriously: if you’re the person who visits this site with Flash Player 1 let us know; you might have won… something!)

You’ll recall that Tiffany Doorn, Miss Washington USA, was gracious enough to present the awards at our Film Festival ceremony in Seattle.

Tonight she will do something nearly as exciting: compete in the the Miss USA 2006 pageant on NBC. So tune in and cheer for Tiffany!

A few weeks ago we reminded you that an update to Internet Explorer was coming that could change the way users interacted with certain Flash files and other “Active Content” on the web.

Now the IE patch has been released, and Adobe have responded with an official update to work around the problem when publishing HTML from within the Flash 8 IDE. There is a TechNote about this update, and more info about this and alternative solutions on Adobe’s Active Content Developer Center. (See yesterday’s post by Scott Fegette for more details.)

The update is officially for Flash 8 only but according to Luar, you can manually install the files in Flash MX 2004 and they’ll work.

We still favor the use of Geoff Stearns’ FlashObject SWFObject because it’s just so darn easy. And today Geoff linked to a Breeze presentation he gave about FlashObject SWFObject for the Minnesota Flash User’s Group, if you’d like a tour of how and why it works.

UPDATED April 21: Did we say FlashObject? We meant SWFObject. As of today, anyway…