I have just bought a PSP with 3.52 M33-4 installed (to avoid bricking my daughter's by messing about with it!) Installed and ran a home brew (PSPTube) no problems, great! Tried to copy a UMD (Sonic Rivals) less success. I looked at the UMD contents using the USB link and was surprised to see a single ISO file. Is this something done by the firmware? Anyway, I copied this to my PC and downloaded it to the ISO folder on the PSP. Game wouldn't load despite trying every setting of UMD, NO UMD etc. I checked the file on the PSP against the one on my PC with comp <file1> <file2> and they seem to contain completely different data! My memory stick is undoubtedly a fake but it works ok with video files that are at least as big as the ISO file. I'll try loading it via the slot on my laptop tonight instead of the USB and see if that makes a difference. Any advice would be appreciated.
ok. try ripping the umd again.. the umd really contains only 1 iso file.
but after putting it to your PC rename it as Sonic_R or anything shorter than that before you put it again on you PSP.
then check on the recovery if your umd mode is set to m33 driver - NO UMD.
Well, I have now found a video on YouTube which shows the exact process I went through, so at least I didn't do anything stupid (it is confusing finding out how to do stuff because of all the old info you find, which makes it sound like what I did was too easy!)
I am fairly sure it is, let's face it you don't get the genuine article for £14 of Ebay! What puzzles me is how this causes the problem. As I said, I've had no problem using the card for massive MP4 files (full length feature films) or when using it on my camera. As I understand it "Magic Gate" is a DRM encryption technology, maybe this (or the lack of it in the fake cards) is doing something nasty?
I used my laptop instead of my clunky old desktop and it worked first time! Maybe the USB spec on the desktop isn't up to scratch? I did as i planned, copied from the UMD to laptop directory via USB, then copied to memory stick ISO directory via the laptop card slot. The whole process took less than five minutes and it works perfectly, happy days!!
