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Ripping your UMD's to memory stick?

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sprsk

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Okay, so I've finally started playing PSP again, and I had a friend mod mine for me (I have a fat) and I can not stand load times, I hate them with every fiber of my being.

So.

I heard that it's possible to rip UMD's and put them back on your memory stick, how do I do that?
 
I bought the game, I'm doing the same thing I do with my PS2 and HDD loader, I don't see whats wrong with it!
 
If you're using the latest M33 firmware, press Select at the XMB and a menu should appear. Change the "USB Device" setting to "UMD Disc". Exit out of the menu and put your PSP into USB mode. You should now be able to drag an ISO from My Computer to your desktop.
 
CraigMcD said:
If you're using the latest M33 firmware, press Select at the XMB and a menu should appear. Change the "USB Device" setting to "UMD Disc". Exit out of the menu and put your PSP into USB mode. You should now be able to drag an ISO from My Computer to your desktop.
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Sweet balls, thanks.
 
sp0rsk said:
I bought the game, I'm doing the same thing I do with my PS2 and HDD loader, I don't see whats wrong with it!
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Nothing at all is wrong with doing it, it's just happens that it might be a trap!

If you aren't running m33 you want to find umddaxdumper.zip it's like 63kb then boot that up and dump to the memory stick in iso format, or dumb to the pc, i think that works too. do the highest compression.
 
Grayman said:
Nothing at all is wrong with doing it, it's just happens that it might be a trap!

If you aren't running m33 you want to find umddaxdumper.zip it's like 63kb then boot that up and dump to the memory stick in iso format, or dumb to the pc, i think that works too. do the highest compression.
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Will that program compress iso's that i rip the way CraigMcD mentioned?
 
sp0rsk said:
Will that program compress iso's that i rip the way CraigMcD mentioned?
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I'll boot it up and check

"Insert an UMD"

ok i don't think it will. there is probably a program for windows to compress them.
 
Look for "ciso.exe" to compress ISOs (which is very much worth it). That's a command line program, but there should be GUIs for it, too.
 
Johnkers said:
Remember to run at 333!
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I've always wondered, is there any bad effect from running games at 333? Shorter battery life? Certain games behave strangely coz they were designed at a lower clock speed perhaps?
 
Definitely shorter battery life. And for games with a locked/capped framerate, it won't help (maybe a little with loading/decompressing, but that's it).
 
slidewinder said:
Look for "ciso.exe" to compress ISOs (which is very much worth it). That's a command line program, but there should be GUIs for it, too.
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How do the levels of compression affect performance?
 
linsivvi said:
I've always wondered, is there any bad effect from running games at 333? Shorter battery life? Certain games behave strangely coz they were designed at a lower clock speed perhaps?
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i am always at 333 and never had any issues with any game and battery life is 3,5 hours :-\ no matter what i do ( I have a Phat, Big, Stinky One :D )
 
PSP Filer is great since you don't need a PC. Compression seems to run into problems with the newer games that use 333 mhz by default.
 
I have wipeout pure compressed down to 241megs and the "umd" loads anything instantly still. Content packs from the internet take forever by comparison.
 
sp0rsk said:
I bought the game, I'm doing the same thing I do with my PS2 and HDD loader, I don't see whats wrong with it!
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In theory the DMCA part about circumventing copyright protection measures, but it's obviously not enforced very much.

It's a hell of a lot more convenient having most of your games on a memory card instead of carrying around a bunch of disks. It's been a while since I used my modded fat PSP, I should check out what they've got these days.
 
sp0rsk said:
How do the levels of compression affect performance?
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I use 9 (max) for everything that loads in stages, and have had no problems. The CPU need for decompression seems to be much less of a bottleneck than the actual reading from memory stick (which is reduced the more you compress).

For games that stream, you might need to tweak lower to avoid stuttering; I don't really play any, so I can't say for sure.
 
sp0rsk said:
I bought the game, I'm doing the same thing I do with my PS2 and HDD loader, I don't see whats wrong with it!
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every game on UMD is copy-protected and you are going to bypass this protection and thus it is illegal.
 
YACC is an excellent ISO compressor program for UMD games. You can compress nearly all games at max level (9) with no gameplay, lag issues. The only exceptions are the 2 GTA games.
 
sp0rsk said:
How do the levels of compression affect performance?
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They affect loading times mostly. For example, I tested loading a level of Dracula X on ISO and it clocked 2 secs, but compressed it took 10. So yeah, it has a moderate impact on performance... my advice is to compress games that don't load often(like DracX), if not, you may as well play them on UMD.

PS: and do NOT compress Valkyrie Profile... it's bad enough as it is.
 
ram said:
every game on UMD is copy-protected and you are going to bypass this protection and thus it is illegal.
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Bah! Sue me Sony! Come and get me! (please don't come and get me)
 
YACC
The GTA games are playable if compressed at level 1(lowest) and audio set to no compression and played at 333MHz.
 
Definitely a good idea to dump your UMDs to the memory stick, the battery increase and load time reduction are really noticeable. I don't compress either, it kind of defeats the purpose.
 
Roat said:
It has a copy protection mechanism to stop non-genuine PSP games from being played, like all consoles
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Would you be surprised if I told you that theres a built in loader, written by Sony themselves?
 
spindoc said:
Would you be surprised if I told you that theres a built in loader, written by Sony themselves?
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Sony have an application for you to download your UMDs to a memory stick and play them legally?
 
Roat said:
Sony have an application for you to download your UMDs to a memory stick and play them legally?
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yes they do. If you would follow they great homebrew scene you would know, that there are a lot of great things PSP has and nintendon't :)
 
Roat said:
Sony have an application for you to download your UMDs to a memory stick and play them legally?
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No, but they went to the trouble of writing an ISO loader and embedding it in the firmware so that hackers could expose it... and it's now the preferred loader option for people who want "no UMD" play, meaning that you don't even need to have a UMD in the drive for it to work, something that was always a difficulty for the hacker-created loaders. All those broken lasers and what not :lol
 
Roat said:
Err, as you should know, it's irrelevant if Sony have a program for loading the images, it's the act of ripping the games that is the shonky part. What point are you trying to make?
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Given the general trend of how Sony have adopted most features homebrewers have come up with, I wouldn't put it past that it might happen. The new PSP media manager allows you to buy games from the PSN network, and theres a bunch of PSP games heading that way (Wipeout Pure was one of them I recall)

Thus, as much as you paint it that way, the situation is more akin to ripping a "copy-protected" music cd and listening to it on your MP3 player. The system is in place, the functionality is there and as many have pointed out, it really makes a difference in terms of battery life and performance.
 
spindoc said:
Thus, as much as you paint it that way, the situation is more akin to ripping a "copy-protected" music cd and listening to it on your MP3 player. The system is in place, the functionality is there and as many have pointed out, it really makes a difference in terms of battery life and performance.
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Don't you need to run a hacked firmware to access this loader?
 
Roat said:
Don't you need to run a hacked firmware to access this loader?
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To use it the way I specified, yeah. I assume if you bought a PSP game off the store it should work out of the box.
 
slidewinder said:
No, but they went to the trouble of writing an ISO loader and embedding it in the firmware so that hackers could expose it... and it's now the preferred loader option for people who want "no UMD" play, meaning that you don't even need to have a UMD in the drive for it to work, something that was always a difficulty for the hacker-created loaders. All those broken lasers and what not :lol
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This "loader" is not there to let you play ripped games, is there in advance to PS Store downloadable games. Don't be silly.
 
Which version of the Open Firmware do you have installed?

In the last three releases, you can press (I think) Select on the XMB menu, and then you can choose your output device for the USB connection.

Default is set to the Memory stick, you have to change that to UMD drive. When you then connect it to your computer it will show up as a drive. And you just have to drag the .iso file from that thing to your hard disk... afterwards just drag the .iso back to the memory stick in the 'ISO' folder.

I can't get this method to work when booted into Mac OSX, so you have to use Windows for this.

Hope this makes sense, I can't check my PSP because I was in the middle of the last battle in Metal Gear Acid 2!

PS.
When you have a UMD ripped to .iso, you can use apps to convert that to .cso, which will compress the filesize some.

Edit: Oops! I'm at work and only just skimmed the thread, didn't see that someone already said all this. I guess I wanted to help you so I'd get a tag that would say something like "UMD dumper", so I could start a thread about how that would relate to this traumatic memory I have of my 16th birthday, when my brother gave me a stack of CD-R's as present.

That really offended me as I didn't copy anything except porn. And that stuff isn't safe to keep on CD-R's anyway!

Edit #2: That makes me think, why doesn't anyone believe that porn piracy is bannable? Nobody thinks of someone as a porn pirate.. so why do we accept it, because we're all guilty?
 
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