How To Create ISO Backups of Your PSP Games
So you’ve got a stack of you Original PSP Games and you don’t have place for UMDs in your pocket. What do you do? With the release of Dark Alex’s Custom firmwares, you don’t have to bring all your bulky UMDs wherever you and your PSP go. The power of having backups is in your hands. So how do we backup our UMDs? How do we convert them to PSP ISOs? How do we dump your UMD into an ISO image? How do we convert UMD into ISO?
That’s what I’m here to share with you guys. Read along and in a few minutes you’ll be backing up our UMDs in no sweat.
Requirements:
- A PSP with custom firmware 3.52 M33 (or higher) or 3.71 M33 (or higher)
- UMD - Universal Media Disc
- USB Cable
Instructions:
- Be sure you have the VSH menu enabled. To enable the VshMenu, shutdown your PSP and restart it while holding the R button. it will bring you to the recovery mode. Go to configuration -> Use VshMenu and enable it. Once enabled, you may exit the recovery mode.
- You will be taken to the XMB. For 3.71 M33 PSPs, press SELECT to bring up the VshMenu. For 3.52 M33 PSPs, press the HOME button to bring up the VshMenu.
- On the VshMenu, go to USB Device and toggle the values by using the left and right directional buttons until it the value is UMD Disc. Exit the VshMenu.
- Now connect your PSP to the computer using a USB Cable. On your XMB Go to Settings>USB Connection then the drive will pop up and you’ll see your ISO file from your UMD. Copy it onto your computer and rename the file to the title of the game. That’s it! Now you have backed up your PSP game from the UMD. You may now copy the ISO file to your memory stick and leave your UMDs at home. Easy as eating pie.
I hope you’ve learned something new. Well the next thing I’ll write about is how to compress your PSP Roms and ISOs.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:33 am
thx for the quick reply.i’ll try IRshell and see whether it works or not.
November 15th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
@joy: Sure joy. You could use IRShell or RemoteJoy. You can Google it for the meantime while I’m thinking of writing about it.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
gr8 guide.thx stylemo.by the way can we play games via usb in 3.52 M33-4 like we could in 3.40 OE-A by enabling the plugins.i tried doing it but my psp gets stuck when i enable the plugins and try to connect it to pc.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:57 am
@Spiff: Yeah I’ve seen those videos at YouTube too. They were using old UMD dumpers that support the older custom firmwares.
What I wrote here is the easiest way ever. So go ahead and spread the good news to all the PSP gamers out there by bookmarknig this post to delicious or digg.
November 15th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Great!
Why is it so hard for others trying to convey this? I have looked a Utube vids, other guides and this is the only post which explains something that (after you read it) is insanely easy!
November 14th, 2007 at 4:14 am
No there’s no help Jologs, you have mac… the worst system out there. If you really want to rip your game, get a windows like a normal person would
November 14th, 2007 at 2:11 am
i was able to follow the right procedure above but when i connected my psp to my laptop (macbook) it doesnt recognize the disc. Is there something i have to install in my macintosh or it just work with microsoft? Please help. Thanks a lot..
November 12th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
i’m having problem with running snes rom and emulator.if you have a guide on this, it will be great!!
November 7th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Cool..Thats a good guide
November 7th, 2007 at 1:05 am
maybe you can write something about emulators. thanks man you are a really big help