Good news! There’s now a way to run UMD-only games on a PSP Go. The bad news: it’s an unofficial exploit. Coders “Virtuous Flame” and “Coldbird” have released a “Homebrew Enabler” for PSP firmware 6.31 and 6.35. Using that, “Liquidzigong” was able to get the Prometheus ISO Loader program running on the disc-free handheld, allowing copied UMD disc images to be saved and run on the system.
After the break, you can see a demonstration of the hack, in which a user loads up Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep — a high-profile title never released on PSN. While we can’t speak on the legality of using this method to back up your UMD games and play them on a Go (and then on the go), we can confidently condemn the use of this exploit to play games that aren’t yours.
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PSP Go hacked to load game ISOs originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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