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PSP Go finally hacked, able to play UMD-only games

It's not a good time for Sony. Not long after the PlayStation 3 was hacked and an industrious developer released custom firmware for the device, comes news that the PSP Go, too, has been hacked.

Known PSP hacker Liquidzigong has successfully managed to load an ISO loader on the Sony handheld. Apparently some of his files were leaked, and now a few videos have been making the rounds, including one showing a Go running Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. What's notable about this is that the game notoriously was only released on UMD, making it previously unplayable on the download-only PSP Go.

 

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep playing on a PSP Go

The PSP has been struck hard by piracy, so much so that many developers are hesitant to release games for the platform. One of the ways the company was hoping to deal with the problem was through downloadable games. The PSP Go was even designed with no external battery to make hacking more difficult. But based on this news, it looks like those measures weren't enough. It took three years for the PS3 to first get hacked and it has taken less than two for the Go.



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Note that the PSP Go master key was found in the PS3, or something like that.



this site seems to becoming

from VGCHARTZ

to VGPLAYSTATIONHACKZ

 

by all the recent hack threads



snakenobi said:

this site seems to becoming

from VGCHARTZ

to VGPLAYSTATIONHACKZ

 

by all the recent hack threads


Yes, how dare I post video games news in a video games forum!



Great, I am finally able to sell my old PSP slim.



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This hack also works on the PSP 3000.  Unfortunately I have firmware 6.36 from MHP3 :/



snakenobi said:

this site seems to becoming

from VGCHARTZ

to VGPLAYSTATIONHACKZ

 

by all the recent hack threads

way too many for my liking.



PS One/2/p/3slim/Vita owner. I survived the Apocalyps3/Collaps3 and all I got was this lousy signature.


Xbox One: What are you doing Dave?

Sweet...now add homebrew and emulation support and ill buy one.



piracy is killing gaming...

but if you think of it, game developers are killing themselves

if games were cheaper to buy, gamers would buy much more games and would not even care to hack their system

: (



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

dark_gh0st_b0y said:

piracy is killing gaming...

but if you think of it, game developers are killing themselves

if games were cheaper to buy, gamers would buy much more games and would not even care to hack their system

: (


vicious circles are awesome.



PS One/2/p/3slim/Vita owner. I survived the Apocalyps3/Collaps3 and all I got was this lousy signature.


Xbox One: What are you doing Dave?