Hack: Play ripped PS1 games on PSP [update 1]
by Kyle Orland 
{ Dec 25th 2006 at 10:15PM }
Tired of waiting for Sony to release your favorite classic PlayStation game for PlayStation Portable playback through the PlayStation 3's PlayStation Store?* Well, if you don't mind hacking your firmware and breaking what is no doubt a bevy of Sony end-user licensing agreements, you can now play a ripped copy of any PlayStation disc on the PSP.PSP users that upgrade to the Dark Alex's Open Edition firmware 3.02-B can play ISOs ripped off of PlayStation discs right from a MemoryStick. Commenters report that the emulation runs at full speed with perfect sound, but PAL games seem to have some graphical glitches. Still, a nice Christmas gift for the hacking/piracy community.
* - We tried to squeeze the word PlayStation into that sentence one more time, but we just couldn't manage it.
[Update: fixed a typo in the first paragraph. Thanks commenters.]
[Via PSP News]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RoroCo @ Dec 25th 2006 10:37PM
I haven't hacked my PSP in a while. Any idea where I can get some directions on how to install this?
Larb @ Dec 25th 2006 11:12PM
Great, we can now play dead PS1 games on a dead PS handheld
FSK405K @ Dec 26th 2006 2:36AM
Try this, Joystiq:
"PlayStation lovers, tired of waiting for Playstation-developer Sony to release your favorite classic PlayStation game for original PlayStation emulation on the PlayStation Portable playback through the PlayStation 3's PlayStation Store?"
Nathan @ Dec 25th 2006 11:28PM
This is in no way piracy.
It's doing something sony should have let you do from the start.
Rip the games you already own without having to pay again for them.
Ignatius @ Dec 25th 2006 11:33PM
"Well, if you don't hacking your firmware and breaking what is no doubt a bevy of Sony end-user licensing agreements, you can now play a ripped copy of any PlayStation disc on the PSP."
You don't hacking? Don't mind hacking?
Sorry to be a proofreader, but hey, someone's gotta do it on the Intarwebs.
Rodents @ Dec 25th 2006 11:40PM
The only place I'd download that from would be qj.net, by the way. And JOYSTIQ! try to make it notable that you can brick your playstation portable trying to update this, that it is very important to follow the instructions, and possibly note that you have to have a non ta-082+ board, with firmware 2.71 and lower (for you'd want to downgrade SAFELY to 1.5, to update to this). But if you don't have an old enough psp, you're darn out of luck.
404 @ Dec 26th 2006 10:13AM
This is awesome, in addition to the emulation, I'm very close to buying one, but I'm still waiting for a redesign (hopefully with AV out) and price drop, and I just got a DS (plus an M3 Lite). It's too bulky and we only have black here, which gets marked up easy.
hekt @ Dec 25th 2006 11:58PM
omg i need to downgrade 3.0 sooo bad. I've already got the playstation ISO's ripped and waiting. I doubt that a downgrader will be out anytime soon though :(
Platinum @ Dec 26th 2006 1:59PM
#6
Give up and just get a new psp...
Rodents @ Dec 26th 2006 10:09AM
for #6, yeah, no known exploits for 3.x yet for what I know, I can bet the dev community is looking but they're still having a blast now that they have a hybrid firmware.
AceMilo @ Dec 26th 2006 1:39PM
Qj is a pos site, Dark_Alex ALWAYS releases his new firmwares and apps first at maxconsole.net, then every other site just hosts the file.
zAlphaOmega @ Dec 26th 2006 11:09AM
"Well, if you don't hacking your firmware and breaking what is no doubt a bevy of Sony end-user licensing agreements..."
THe grammer and spelling on this site gets worse every day. You a bunch of 18 year olds behind the desk??
Phyer @ Dec 27th 2006 12:59PM
@Larb
I've been following the PSP scene for a long time and it's in no way dead. It's just gone a different direction than Sony intended. I would have bought the PSP even if all it ever did was play the original PS1 games, now it does that and more. While it may not show in revenue for Sony the PSP is still thriving, even more so than the Dreamcast did IMO.
jason @ Dec 26th 2006 1:35AM
Great! This will match up perfectly with all of the ps2 rehash that is already on this system!
KingOfGods @ Dec 26th 2006 3:00AM
Just did it...Works perfectly. This is much better than dev hook. I can still play my nes/snes emulators, run games purchased from the PS Store, rip my old PS1 games, and play retails games I purhased once I upgraded w/o having to run additional software everytime.
Extinction @ Dec 26th 2006 3:26AM
"Great, we can now play dead PS1 games on a dead PS handheld"
Since PSP isn't dead, that means we can play PS1 games on Pocketstation?
buttlover @ Dec 26th 2006 9:06AM
Where are you people getting your facts at? The psp is dead you say, but have you looked at sales figures? The ds may be outselling it but not by as much as you probably think. Since nintendo ruled the handheld market for over 15 years the psp did pretty good for its first handheld. No one expeted sony to just come in a destroy nintendo right away. The true test will be the next handheld systems from each company.
Badison @ Dec 26th 2006 10:22AM
Great news. But, people really do love their "this/that console is dead" rhetoric. I'm not sure that any of the consoles from Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft are "dead" in the way that some systems in the past have been. Like Atari Jaguar .... or ... TurboExpress (though I had one myself and liked it a lot especially Bonk's Revenge ha ha).
In my own experience, When I'm on the subway I see plenty of kids adults with DS or PSPs during the NYC rush hour commutes.
calling you out @ Dec 26th 2006 3:58PM
Hey Jackass, Ignatius? If you are going to try to correct someone...do it properly. You should have put his words in quotes in your attempt at correcting the man. Learn the english language better before correcting others.
chiax @ Dec 26th 2006 9:42AM
tsk tsk.... PSP dead? HAHAHAHA stop chewing on old news #2. The PSP is alive and kicking if you bother to crawl out of that hole that u live in and check the scene once in a while.
AssemblyLineHuman @ Dec 26th 2006 12:33PM
chiax: While you are right that the PSP is not dead, you are wrong about it being "old news." The sales gap between the DS and PSP started out fairly small and has been getting wider and wider (in the DS's favor), not the other way around. So, in that sense, it is more of future news than old news unless Sony does something to turn this trend around.
AssemblyLineHuman @ Dec 26th 2006 12:36PM
zAlphaOmega, #16: "THe grammer and spelling on this site gets worse every day. You a bunch of 18 year olds behind the desk??"
Hahahahahaha! That was a good one! I like how you accidentally capitalized the "h" in "the," misspelled "grammar," and didn't hyphenate "18-year-olds" to make your comment ironic.
>___>
Larb @ Dec 26th 2006 1:02PM
The PSP is a portable emulator.
Why the hell would you want to play games on a stupid nipple of a joystiq? It's badly designed, and the games, for the most part, just aren't fun.
The UMD format is dead, you cannot deny this. Most companies are off board UMD.
So aside from the bad battery life and impracticality,
the PSP has little going for it.
Even the name is dumb.
TopaZ @ Dec 26th 2006 5:10PM
Great news!
But I wonder how/if this will work with Multi-disc games? (FF7 etc)
ds @ Dec 26th 2006 8:34PM
very nice indeed, I'm dumping my PaRappa the Rapper right now :D
-slaps #2 and #19
Emmanuel Miranda @ Dec 27th 2006 10:58PM
I've uploaded a video of the emulator, it's in spanish tough, but you can see it working:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_2arJfeEnQ
ackmondual @ Dec 27th 2006 10:00PM
@ #11
""No one expeted sony to just come in a destroy nintendo right away. The true test will be the next handheld systems from each company. ""
Not quite. The some media as well as fans have dubbed the PSP the "ipod killer" and "GBA/DS killer", so there was some speculation and expectations that the PSP would excel there.
iddly the great @ Jan 7th 2007 7:44PM
this site is heaps cool!
Kyle Orland @ Jan 29th 2007 2:52AM
Why are you arguing about grammar or spelling or the fact that the PSP is dead, isn't this topic about the PS1 games coming to PSP ? 'cause then I can start talking about chocolate or TV or phones or anything... If you wanna chat connect yourselves to msn and chat, but here's not the place, okay ?
Domingo @ Feb 4th 2007 12:25PM
i have a firmware 3.03, anything i can do to get this new firmware instead of my normal firmware?
null @ Feb 5th 2007 9:45PM
the UMD makes for a great hand held gaming platform though. I never thought the thing would take off for movies. every now and then the few that are out are cool but I'd rather rip them to the mem stick then buy a movie I can only watch on UMD. I wish sony would just let us rip the ps1 games to the PS3 HD and do this legally, I will never pay for something I already own. only a matter of time though until someone cracks how sony does this on the psp w/o losing the games when you update to new firm ware.
kenl8888 @ Feb 24th 2007 9:35AM
The custom firmware is very easy to install as there are so many guides out there.. I have more than 100 games which I am learning to convert.. and install on my PSP.. Many thanks to the many helpful PSP owners who offer the knowledge on how to convert the PSX games.. You can even downgrade the 3.03 machines as long as it is not a TA-082 and then install the custom firmware.. nice way to learn about hacking