USB ISO Loader Released for Sony's PSP
According to a post on PSP-Spot, a user named Dark_AleX has released a tool for Sony's PSP that allows the hand-held device to load and play ISO files mounted on a desktop computer. The tool allows users to connect their PSPs via a USB cable and mount .iso files. The PSP-Spot forum administrator claims the following:
- A bug originally from the UMDEMULATOR core has been found. UMDEMULATOR didn't handle the case where the string pointed by the parameter file (sceIoOpen, sceIoOpenAsync), or dev (sceIoDevctl) was not aligned to 4 bytes, causing an exception when that happened. That caused incompatibility with some games (Coded Arms, Mahjong Fight and maybe others), and some homebrews (FileAssistant++, Irshell and maybe others). Fixed. People, try again all the games that worked with Fastloader and not with UMDEmu to see if they work now. Thanks a lot to the person who discovered the bug, well done!!
Previously, users had to load a game ISO onto a Memory Stick and use a utility to custom load the file. Now with the tool called DAX ZISO, the Memory Stick limitation is removed. DailyTech previously reported that Sony had attempted to patch the firmware on its PSP to avoid further cracking by the community but the new firmware again ended up being cracked in a short period of time.
While the PSP is enjoying support by the user community -- although in a manner frowned upon by Sony -- the actual UMD disc format developed by Sony is suffering in terms of industry support and sales.
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