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.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
AH THANKYOU!!!
you have no idea how long i’ve been looking for something like this!
big thank you.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:20 am
@Mustard Jedi: thanks for the tip. But I think my method is easier since you don’t have to free any space on the memory stick.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:29 am
another way to do this without a PC is to use PSP Filer. There’s a UMD Ripper when you press [triangle]. Just 2 reminders…
1) make sure you have enough room on your memstick for the new dump.
2) in case of an incomplete dump, delete the incomplete dump before exiting PSP Filer.
great blog!
February 13th, 2008 at 8:39 am
i have 3.80 m33-5 system software now, but the problem is its not charging while i’m in a web browser. how can i fix this?
January 30th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
thank you! thank you! thank you! exactly what i was looking for!! followed it to the letter and now im playing without my umds!