Posted Mar 04, 2006 at 04:31PM by Jake D. Listed in: Hacks & Exploits, Homebrew Applications
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Yesterday MPH announced that he had successfully loaded the Grand Theft Auto UMD on a 1.50, and now he has released this groundbreaking application to the public. This program is the first steps in allowing 1.50 PSP owners the ability to play UMD games that require 2.0+ firmware. GTA is known to work as are a few other games such as SOCOM, but some may suffer from limitations such as the inability to save. Feel free to leave feedback as to what UMD's currently work. Here are the release notes from MPH:


Firmware 2.00 installation :
You will need firmware 2.00 in files format, use psardump to obtain it or my firmware launcher and use the function to install a firmware.

Once that you have the files, create the mphgameloader folder has the root of your memory stick and copy flash0 (kd, vsh...) and flash1 folders inside.

Loader installation :
Install loader (MPHGAMELOADER) like any psp application (PSP/GAME/) and copy mphloader.prx in the mphgameloader folder.

You will have the following structure of folders/files :

Memory stick
|
|- mphgameloader
   |
   |- mphloader.prx
   |
   |- flash0/ (with sub folders and files)
   |- flash1/ (with sub folders and files)
|
|- PSP/
   |
   |- GAME/
      |
      |- MPHGAMELOADER
      |- MPHGAMELOADER%

Launch gta :
Put you umd of gta and then launch MPHGAMELOADER

Welcome to the gta world, 1.50 is not dead ;-)

Download: [MPH 2.0 UMD Game Loader v1.1.0]

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   by roman2k - 2006-03-04
 » -

Works great! Thanks MPH

   by Illegal Machine - 2006-03-04
 » niiiiice

Nice release.


Seems like it's exactly the same thing as the last release with some updates maybe?




1st!

   by Illegal Machine - 2006-03-04
 » niiiiice

Nice release.


Ummmmm I mean 2nd and 3rd!

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-04
 » Multiplayer

Great job, I hope he continues to support iso loading when ever he manages to implement multiplayer support.

   by seventoes - 2006-03-04
 » Ohhhh

Does this mean that 1.5 users can play 2.0 firmware now??

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-04
 » GTA

Heh, GTA doesn't load up for me. Never starts reading the game save from memory stick. Not sure if this is because I have the Cheat Device installed or not. Crashes half way through loading the game.

   by Jakari - 2006-03-04
 » cool

yes it needs the wifi support, i had a big smile onm y face when socom came on but then i started crying when wifi wouldent work

but i suppose it is ment for gta at the min so hopefuly wifi soon :P

   by mupet0000 - 2006-03-04
 » Yeah

People, Cheatdevice does NOT work on 1.5 right now, delete it and GTA will load fine.

I have made custom 2.0 firmware so we can launch GTA:LCS through the game loader but instead of having the flash files taking up 30meg, i sized it to 2mb working.

Hopefully the team at PSP updates will let me host the rar here so you too can have a very small ripped flash.

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   by slack04 - 2006-03-04
 » wheres the firmware 2.0 files?

where can i get the files? (for flash 0 and 1 folders)

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-04
 » screw it

probably the most confusing thing ive tried to do using a tutorial.

   by cory1492 - 2006-03-04
 » !bloggers!

You guys really, really, really gotta check your content. Did you even look to see what is in the source code file that you uploaded to the site? Or relink those Lenneth scans from the other day to make the thumbnails more than just thumbnails?

The "Source Code" to this is just a text file inside a zip that says:

MPH Game Loader
---------------
Source of MPH Game loader program, not yet available.

Version : 1.1.0
Author : MPH
Website : http://mphwebsite.tuxfamily.org

Really makes me wonder about the quality of downloads hosted on this site... I knew there was a good reason for going to the authors site wrather than trusting downloads from here (unverified/untried/untested - just posted instead) :P

On a better note, I went to the mph site and got this a while ago and am extatic that I can now use that GTA UMD for something more noisy than a bookend. :)

   by kensuaga - 2006-03-04
 » what about other games

from what info i have found it doesnt say if you can play other umds besides GTA.

what i would like to know is if it will be able to play MGA2 when it comes out? i think that it will require 2.6.

   by iNCREDiPiNOY - 2006-03-04
 » 2.6 Game Loader for 1.50

It is possible to extract 2.60 Flash files into MPHLoader Folder, so we can play lastest PSP Games that required Firmware 2.60?

   by Slusher - 2006-03-04
 » Cool

Thats so Cool!
but anyway, can i get a Dumped Firmware from somewere?

   by torque310 - 2006-03-04
 » ummm

ok the readme i get sucks, can someone give a step by step guide to do this... that would be good to have

   by prominator - 2006-03-04
 » how to

how do i get flash0 folder
???????????

   by Loonix - 2006-03-04
 » Cool!

Finaly a good use for my UMD...
but..
(compares loadtimes and battery life...)
...maybe it's good to have a backup in the drawer :p

Nice job!


(btw, the CMS drives me mad!
i could not comment for the hack of it til i logged out, back in, changed the article... reloaded the page, was another user??? created a 'member' error... i mean, has this ever been tested before you threw it at your precious site?)

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-04
 » If i have the gta umd, do i still need the umd emulator?

Thats all i want to know.

   by Jake - 2006-03-04

"Did you even look to see what is in the source code file that you uploaded to the site?"

My fault, thanks for the info. I checked the program file, but not the source.

"Or relink those Lenneth scans from the other day to make the thumbnails more than just thumbnails?"

The entire contents of when we were transferred from Blogger to the new CMS was an automated procedure. Very few of you can comprehend the amount of work and things that need to be fixed and attended to because of this transition. That's why news posting has been lacking over the last few days.

We apologize for older articles having their thumbnails broken. It's one on a list of many things that needs attention. It's these sort of bugs and problems that we could really use your patience and understanding about.

"the CMS drives me mad!
i could not comment for the hack of it til i logged out, back in, changed the article... reloaded the page, was another user??? "

It drives me mad at times to as a newposter - which is why my last few since the change look like crap and are plagued with errors, as was pointed out. ;) It'll get better as things get ironed out over the next week or two - promise!

"i mean, has this ever been tested before you threw it at your precious site"

Of course it was. The CMS was rolled out on the other blogs in order of traffic. PSPU was the last to get switched over - and the traffic here at PSPU is enourmous compared to the other blogs. There are some problems you just can't fix until it's in real action.

This new system was completely custom made from the ground up. It's a complex system of programs - like any programs, they go through revisions to fix problems that only arise after the product has been used in a mass capacity.

You can expect new revisions of this site and its software every Tuesday.

(BTW - the solution to log in problems and comment posting at the moment is to do a Shift-Refresh in your browser.)

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-04
 » Max

Very cool, I was able to boot up my TalkMan UMD with v1.5 firmware. Before it required v2.0 and nothing seemed to be able to hack it.

   by Creativethinker77 - 2006-03-04
 » Problems

Hello, I put the files in the correct places and tried to load it up. It says Starting Game... and then it shuts down my psp. Can anyone help me out?

   by TrEonPSP - 2006-03-04
 » Multi & iso

Does the GTA multiplayer now load?


Also does it still load ISO?


I know the loading speed was ALOT i mean ALOT faster. Plu I like to launch it at 333mhz.

   by Illegal Machine - 2006-03-04
 » using .isos

Yea, you can still trick it with UMDemu 0.8c, and load your iso on system menu, fool the psp into thinking its gta, or socom, or whatever, then hit this one up and get your game.

   by anonymous4chan - 2006-03-05
 » 2.00 firmware

how do you get the firmware files for the flash0 and flash1 folders?

   by XClaude - 2006-03-05
 » w00t

Awsome! finally. This is "almost" exactly what I want when version 1.0 was released.

I want to play my UMD GTA:LCS and Me and My Katamari (jap) on my PSP.

   by anonymous4chan - 2006-03-05
 » flash0 and flash1

can someone explain how to get the firmware files

   by caboose1g - 2006-03-05
 » wwe smackdown vs raw 2006

comes up with loading game.... but nothing loads.

and thats with WWE smackdown vs raw 2006

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-05
 » nice

nice

   by eclipse40 - 2006-03-05
 » tutorials

um guys... just follow the tuts...

download a 2.0 update eboot, extract the psar, use the psar prog to get the files onto your psp, sort the folders (this part sucks) then put it in the right folders for the loader

   by Ryu - 2006-03-05
 » ez way

use the MPH FW 1.4.0 to install the fw



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