Since the release of Gran Turismo 1 in 1998, one feature has been on the wishlists of GTPlanet members everywhere: the ability to load your own music into the game. With the release of the new PlayStation 3 firmware update 2.4, those dreams will finally come true. The 2.4 firmware allows you to access the XMB PS3 menu while you are actually playing a game on the system, including all of the music that you’ve loaded onto your PlayStation’s hard drive. As you can see from the video below, you simply turn down the in-game tunes (so they won’t interfere with your own, obviously), fire up the XMB, find your song, and hit the play button**. Also, because the PlayStation 3 is backward-compatible with both PS1 and PS2 games, you’ll be able to take advantage of this new feature in every single Gran Turismo game released in the series. Many of you don’t listen to music while you’re driving, but this is a very welcome addition to the games for those who do! The new firmware will be available to download via your PS3 on July 2, 2008.
**UPDATE: Since this was first posted, more information about in-game music has been revealed. According to this post on the Sony blog, “Currently only music stored on the HDD is accessible in games that support this feature. We’d also like to reiterate that Firmware v2.40 merely enables custom soundtracks. It’s up to developers to include this feature in upcoming games (or to patch existing ones).” That obviously rules out all PS1 or PS2 games, and the current Spec II edition of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. So much for that…
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