PSP just added about 2,000 games to its library of just under 300, making it just about 721% more fun than before. Yes, PSP can now fully emulate 99% of all the PS1 games out there and at full speed with hibernation support.
All you have to do is to upgrade your firmware 1.5 to the hacked 3.02 OE-B firmware and convert the ISO image of your PS1 game into a PSP-bootable EBOOT.PBP file using the bundled tool.
3.02 OE-B also allows you to boot UMD ISOs directly from the Memory Stick folder under Games, bypassing the need for Devhook. And of course, it also identifies itself as 3.02 and thus supports all PSP games that are currently on the market.
The first game I tried out was FFVIII because I happened to have it lying around.
Basically the official 3.00 firmware introduced the Playstation Network feature that allows you to download emulated PS1 games through your PS3 and play them on your PSP. The catch is that the selection is very tiny right now and the games cost 5.99 USD each.
Someone realized that the official PS1 downloads are actually the compressed ISO images wrapped with a fully functional emulator and cracked a copy of Hot Shots 2 to accept other ISO images. And It worked.
So now you can emulate any PS1 games on your PSP with the hacked firmware. Of course you need the downloaded copy of Hot Shots 2 from the Playstation Network in order to extract the required emulation files, but there are ways…
Basically what this means is that, licensing issues aside, Sony is trying to charge people 5.99 USD for every single PS1 game downloaded, even though no extra work is required on their part to release more emulated PS1 games for the PSP since they have already created a fully functional PS1 emulator that works with all games.
Free money?
But of course we are all dirty pirates with no PS3s so it doesn’t matter. Ironically, I probably own more original UMD games than most PSP owners in this pirate-happy country. (The average being close to zero…)
To Sony’s credit, the emulator works very well. (Well duh, they were the ones who made both consoles…) R2 and L2 functions are assigned to either the d-pad or the analogue stick depending on your preference, which is sufficient for most games but not all. (e.g. fighting and maybe FPS?) Can’t be helped I guess.
Screen size is of course not ideal. You can choose to play at the original 320 x 240 resolution (leaving lots of ugly black space), stretch to maximum while maintaining aspect ratio (leaving two ugly black bars) or stretch to fill (ugly distorted graphics). Then again, so many PSP games are ports from other consoles that I’m sure that PSP gamers are all used to this dilemma by now.
Here’s a video of the emulator in action.
Why wait for Sony to release PSP ports at full retail price when you can play your old PS1 games on the go for free?
PSP-Hacks has everything you need.
I need to get myself a 4gb MS DUO so that I can carry all four discs of FFVIII and four discs of Tokimeki Memorial 2 around with me.
That’s right. I just can’t stop reliving final fantasy (currently playing IX). Eat that, UMD movies.
O.o is that ur PSP?? thats so cool! How many games do u have??I just got my PSP months ago so I only have 5 games but I only play 3.
lol nice… sad thing you can only play one game at a time :D
*continues renaming the WE10UE’s players to romaji for his bro which is a pain in the butt*
I have everything I need to perform this hack, except the psp… darn!
Now why the hell did I sell off my PSP again?
*slams head against wall*
Cool, gonna try it one day :D
Cool, really cool. I might get a PSP just to play Super Robot Wars Alpha and Alpha Gaiden on the move.
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bridge bunny, lolz , i am glad i bought the psp from you :D
interesting enuf
but dunno why, since i own my psp, i never tried using hacked firmware, thus i never play umd rip on my psp
maybe i have fool thinking, but until now that hacked firmware
somehow i feel troublesome, whether it can run ur psp perfectly without any problem … but first u need big size of memory stick duo to hold the game
and then, from several sites i read, often rewriting large size of data on ur flash disk (in this case for psp, memory stick duo) will reduce ur flash disk lifespan…
but indeed i am interesting enuf to playing FFVII again on my psp! hahahaha
Maybe I should do an experiment whereby I buy a 16mb memory stick and shove it in and out of my USB port to see how many times it’d take to kill it.
I want a PSP….
I’m one of those who was watching this like a hawk and playing shortly after it was released. Unfortunately, something is wrong with either my copy of HotShots Golf or my CD images I rip, so I’m relying solely on rips other people make.
Unfortunately, most conversions have a problem with the save files overwriting each other, the text still references HotShots in some places, and the compression scheme hasn’t been cracked yet. Once all that’s in place, I’ll be an even happier man. Until then, I guess I’ll just stick with one game, if I can decide which one.
It’s time to catch up on that back-library. Now I need a 4GB memory stick, too…
OH SHI-… you are a god DM! Dusted off my unlessed PSP, spent like 2 hours upgrading the FW to 2.71 then to 1.50 then to this. Looks like everything works so far.
Still have to test out my current PSP games to make sure they work, but it’ll be sweet to play some old school PS1 games on PSP as well (SisPri here I come). No clue how to check for homebrews though… or where to go. *cough* any links/suggestions? *cough* ;)
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*cough*Go to http://pspupdates.qj.net for everything on PSP homebrew and stuff. *cough*
Mac: It’s a bit troublesome, but you can use a file manager homebrew software to rename the save files manually when you want to switch games.
But yeah, it sucks that the converted EBOOT is often bigger than the original ISO right now.
moyism: psp-hacks.com has some too it their download section.
Oh boy. Now this has gotten me pretty interesting in getting a PSP. The only problem is…how am i gonna find a 1.50 PSP. :(
You don’t have to. Anything below 2.8 can be downgraded to 1.5. Just don’t get one that uses the TA-82 motherboard…
Actually you’re wrong there, Dark. check out http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewpoll.php?id=60278&p=5. It works totally fine and im on 3.02 OE-B right now. So even more good news, I guess.
Also I hate to ask but does anyone know any good sites for PS1 isos? Right now I got most of my stuff from BT (mainly TPB and mini, both of which have done the dirty work of getting it onto the PSP for ya) but was wondering anyone knew the place to hit for the less mainstream ps1 stuff.
2.80 itself and 2.71 on TA-82 motherboards can be downgraded now.
And the tools are out there to fix the save overwriting issue now. Bonus points if you use a hex editor to do it.
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FFVIII wasn’t my favorite Final Fantasy, but Quistis = love…
Now I have an excuse to get a PSP.
I just finished Xenogears on my PSP. OE-B kicks ass.
how do we differ the motherboard??
i mean from the Ta-82 and the others??
If it;s Ta-82 you should see letters on the chip/motherboard at the back of the UMD drive, Just google it you’ll find an Image… Anyway gotta sleep soon… Nice blog By the way Dark Mirage… I was looking out for Singapore Anime Blogs…
how did you get more than one psx eboot on your stick??
what did you rename it to?
hey so i need hot shots golf 2 to play ps1 isos ?? also is that hot shots golf for the ps1
well i have a 3.11 psp and no lumines…. i wish i could downgrade….
Dunno why, but my cousin has a PSP Slim and he can run ISO games on his MS 4 GB and it doesn’t seem to be hacked version ( the firmware is latest 3.80 ) I couldn’t afford to buy one yet, but when I can I’ll go to the store he told and learn about that.
I really don’t trust any hack version unless you can BACKUP your PSP system and restore it to Default factory setting after you mess it up.
My daughter received a psp that was purchased in Tokyo. We cannot get this machine to play American movies. Can someone assisst. We have been told that it may be due to region codes.
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Amiga disks, NES cartridges, or other old gaming
programs stored away somewhere, you’re in luck, otherwise you’re treading on legally shifty ground.
Also, beware the legalities of Emulation, you
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The next emulator is called Me – Boy Builder; I know,
what a name. Depending on what type of font you’ve opened and what
you’re saving to, the author of Font – Forge offers up a few
suggestions for “tweaking” before converting at the following
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