Hey guys, i just found out something else, it may in some way help us get an idea of a way to copy UMD's:
I just found out that if you put in a UMD and close the UMD Lid half way just enough so that the UMD itself clicks onto the front, the lid can stay open for a few millimeters from clicking on.

i dont know if you found that useful or not, but that kinda gives me an idea involving a string for some reason. =)

what i was saying was that there should be a way of playing games from the memory stick instead of the UMD. i read somewhere that the psp runs the game from memory and only refers to the umd to like follow up. if some one came up with a umd that would trick the psp that its the game and just keep running the game from the memory.
sort of like they are doing with the movies...

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ive been working on making a games work on my psp from the memory card. ive gotten the ablility to see the picture and the backround i made. but i cant seem to get the game itself to load. it gives me and error. i do this with pbp unpacker, http://www.psp-hacks.com/downloads.php, that allows me to open up EBOOT.PBP and also make my own PBP files. I'll let you guys now if i get any further in this process.

Told ya its gonna have to be the memory card unless they make a unit like they did with the GBA to flash cards. And I dont think sony is up and ready to make blanks and a small burner for our Backing up needs. Fair use rights gets harder and harder practice. Good side is I dont think the disks will die quick since they have that protective shield.

EVERYBODY!!! I got the perfect idea to play PS2 games on PSP!!!

The Idea
ok so, ya know how some PS2 games might be ported to the PSP? well, if we were to play those PS2 games directly on a PSP without a port, we can say that we technically copied the game or have a copy of it.

The Process
aight, so, everybody remember that PS2 Memory Card Exploit? well, hows bout we put a game save from the PS2 memory card that has the exploit and put that on the PSP memory stick!?! Sure, we may be screwed by the controls because the PSP only has 2 shoulder buttons (L + R) but its a great idea isnt it?

just to let everybody know, i have never used the PS2 Memory Card Exploit=)

sweet get working on that thing also how can we put it on the internet so you can download the games that would be sweet.

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oh but my friend, you CAN surf the web on the internet: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050327/1627/

you guys know thos drills they use to make big hols in wood. why dont you take a bid dvd and drill it down to the size of the umd. then take the plastic from the demo disk that comes with the psp. the drill i am talking about is a circle with serrated edges. drill the extra off the sides of the full size dvd. i dont have one of those drills but i would try if i did.

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i saw this crack for FINAL FANTASY: ADVENT CHILDRENS CRACK. would that work.

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I think the easiest way that this would be possible is to create some sort of software where you can rip the game onto your pc hard drive through the usb. After that play the games from there, it would be a little hard to play the games on the go though.

i have succsessfully opened the umd from the plastic case. it is simple.just place sizzors on the 2 grooves on the 2 outides and twist. i did it with the sample disk. the disk is much smaller than a gamecube disk and does not fit in cd or dvd drive well.

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ey Solargame, can you do me a favor and see if the UMD that you skinned is able to be read by your PS2? i got this one mini-DVD with a USB cable that i bought that goes into the PS2 so we can transfer the stuff from the memory card onto the PSP. just triple check to see for sure if the UMD can be read by a PS2 k? can you also check to see if the skinned UMD will still work in the PSP? you dont have to if you dont wanna, but im just sayin, ya know. i just wanna see if it will work or not.

there is a way to flash the bios but its pretty damn hard because you need to fugire out how o do it. me and my friends are working on it. so far we were able make the psp to go online on sites using the built in wireless conection.

how doe it look? in the internet? good?
like a regular computer ?

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Yes like an ordinary computer. the hard part is inserting the names of the web sites. the fact is that i heard a rumor that this became popular so third party companies maybe even selling keyboards. but i hihly doubt it.

i wouldnt doubt it the least bit. sony is coming out with some pretty neat stuuf. although some of you may disagree and think that the idea is dumb...i think its pretty cool. im just waiting for the day when they come out with something that the black, white or "grey" hats can not get into. i find it funny that when something just comes out and really hard to break that people think that it is a dumb idea that it came out. Well what did everybody expect? furthermore, im sure someo one will find or invent a proggy that can either bypass or decode the encryption and release it on the web. Honostly, i hope they don't except for the reason of making a personal backup and allowing that capability for others. i cant wait to see the specs of the new x-box. i like x-box better than playstation. although the psx looks pretty promising.

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any of you know a good psp video converter (working)
it would be nice

yea psp video 9 is very good.

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about video 9, i finally figured out how to use it like yesterday. you see, right after you click on the Convert tab and the file is done converting, click on the Copy tab and select the file you just convered and click on the "Copy to PSP" or "Move to PSP" button.

last night in my dream, i almost drowned but then i floated back up :) oh yea, after that little dream, i had another one: there were these kittens surrounding me and i had a knife like in resident evil 4 and then i slashed the kittens.

Any progress on gettin PS2 games on UMD disks or memory cards. I think that you would be able to put them on the cards just by making a folder in the games folder of your PSP and then adding everything on a games disk to that folder. I have taken everything from GTA SA from the disk to my PC but its about 5GB, so i dont think that that is possible.

yea, ill try that, but i will try doing it with a psone game

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alright. not sure if anyone has noticed, but do an update to firmware, but dont have AC power plugged in.

Device will download the update and save to your flash card. Reboot the device, and you suddenly have a "load game from flash" media option.

Somone needs to read the file associated with the bios update for the device, and work out how it is able to run this way.

Hey every1, look at this.
http://photobucket.com/albums/y20/Platty90/?action=view¤t=pspdebug1.jpg
I think that Sony have to make a decision whether to release blank UMD disks to be cheap and good to put data on, but they may not because of piracy, and people copying games etc. So they will soon make a decision. Well anyway, they may release that UMD burner in the pi. Sweet :)

I copied wipeout pure on stick and it worked also about the picture i think they are already rec UMD's but i am not sure because my source tells me that.

hey did you say you copied theh wipeout pure game itself onto a memory card and were able to play this off the card???

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i got a psp v2.0 but upgraded to 2.6 cuz sometold me i could use the homebrew if i loaded it with gta:libirty city stories. it works but now i want to know were i can get all the emulators and roms for my psp, i hope someone can help me get emu's and roms please some help me, my favorite game is street figther 2 if some could tell me were to download it, PLEASE