Posted Jul 25, 2006 at 10:11AM by Kyle M. Listed in: News Tags: Sony, PMF, UMD Tools
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UMD Composer


Somehow the PSP UMD Tools (also known as UMD Composer) used by licensed developers have apparently found their way onto the Internet this week. If you aren't sure what PSP UMD Tools are, they're the tools used by licensed developers in order to actually create PSP UMDs. The 10.8MB archive contains System File Editor v1.0, UMD Image Checker v1.10, UMD Image Generator v1.2.7, UMD Stream Composer v1.5, and UMD Stream Viewer v1.5. Although it is not yet been confirmed that these are the actual UMD Tools used by developers and not some non-Sony mock-up, it's pretty certain that the files have been leaked from the official SDK.

With these applications you can create both PMF Files, and MPS (UMD Video) files, but as most of the release notes and readme's are in Japanese, you probably haven't got a chance making a UMD for yourself. The files all come packaged with PDF files that act as the readme files with instructions on how to use each of the applications. As these tools are highly illegal, we cannot host or link to any sites with the downloads on, but you can be sure somebody from Sony will be getting a firm telling off for this if they are the real Sony deal.

Due to the nature of this piece of news, anybody posting links to the files in the comments will be immediately banned. If it becomes a problems, comments will be turned off. You can also discuss these tools in a thread on our forums that has been going on for the last day or so.

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   by Snigle (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » Awesome

Good news id say.

   by Adam (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » Wow

This could be the start of something

   by LOL (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » Yeah!

Wicked! Another Sony breakthrough

   by steve_723 - 2006-07-25
 » Sweet

nocomment

   by OrkEater - 2006-07-25
 » wow..

Well,
this is most likely for the video umd's
but people are saying its for puting the images of pmfs or something onto the umd.. would this mean that they could put the games onto them?
actually, this is quite usless software, you cant burn anything onto the umd's ... noone had a umd burner.. or even blank umd's for that matter, lol..

   by some ***** (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » got this yesterday

way to be on top of the news qj.

   by steve_723 - 2006-07-25
 » to # 5

On the computer its an iso just run the iso in an iso loader douch

   by steve (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » only video and audio umd...

this is only for video and audio umds ... just FYI

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   by Uber0ne (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » .

Yea i got this way yesterday too. Thanks god i got the link while it was still up.

   by Talbain - 2006-07-25
 » Well, this is quite ****** up now isn't it?

nocomment

   by Jake D. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2006-07-25
 » #6

Unless you sent in a newstip, you have no right to complain.

   by beastlie (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » screw sony i want a wii

Have you seen what it can do OMFG WOW

   by ... (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » ...

could we get sonys encryption key with that?

   by Coolv - 2006-07-25
 » BS

Lol, it's useless as hell.

   by Phil (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » UMD Tools

Yea i have this stuff to, About as useful to me as an inflatable dart board, But maybe of use to someone, one day?


   by tom (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » Intresting...

Could this provide any information on firmware security?

Perhaps lead to more freedom?

   by ys9101 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » BS alright

i got this already... so useless...

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   by WTF!?!?!?!?! (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » WTF!?!?!?!?!

What a knucklehead:

"As these tools are highly illegal"

As opposed to that not really illegal stuff that's illegal.

What makes anyone think that someone from $ony leaked it? It could have been leaked from anyone that has a dev kit.


   by not illegal at all (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » not illegal at all

not illegal at all... i called sony and they said its useless and not illegal.

   by Unknown (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » lol

Then if its not illegal post a link on rapidshare. lol

   by DT (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » It works!

I've already made my own custom gameboot pmf. Took a ****ing long time to figure out how it worked, but it really does work! Now I have a cool custom anime gameboot.

   by ||| (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » Not useless

For those of you saying it's useless, you should look into it more.
working .pmfs have been made already and people will be able to have customized gameboots.

   by SpeedFleX - 2006-07-25
 » COOL

This is awsome I hope this opens up more homebrew!

   by Glennlh (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » Are We Allowed ...

Are we allowed to leave a email address and ask someone to send us it

   by ikgh (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » cool

cool?

   by OrkEater - 2006-07-25
 » useless?

So, if its useless, why are people all excited about it?
It would be cool if someone took the image streaming feature with this and used it to run psp games on the pc.. hmm.. lol

   by some guy (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » ...

if all of the manuels are writting in japanese then why is the gui for the program in english???? i think its fake just b/c of that reason

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   by MarcelP102 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-25
 » WHAHAH

were is the download link, I can't find it :D

   by OrkEater - 2006-07-25
 » ...

to #28 - stfu, whats with you? freak..
to #29 - might be the american version, but they made the manuals for japanese dev's..

   by CesarAndreu - 2006-07-25
 » To #29

Dude, lots of things in japanese have english gui you idiot... Also, this is for making the boot up videos and things like that... If you dont costumize your PSP then ignore this.



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