Will we ever be able to mod the PSP?

[hchuang]

Why is everyone talking about reading UMD on a dvd drive, sony licensing 3rd party UMD re-writables, or etc etc. These hacks are completely counter-intuitive.

Without claiming to know all the technical details, I can already envision hacks installed on the Memory Stick that will enable us to:

1) Rip the entire game or movie off PSP to a computer via USB or the WLAN.

2) Run ripped content in some sort of modified package on the memory stick. There are already 2gb MS out there with 4gb or more coming in the future, so the capacity is hardly a problem.

3) Hacked firmwire that, using the USB cable, can connect to external USB hard drive or hard drive-based mp3 player(such as ipod) for transfering files. Playing video directly off the drive is possible too.

What i think is unlikely to happen is to actually have some sorta of pirated UMD discs running around, because it is expensive and unpractical.

[skub]

What about the speed of the memory sticks, are they slower or faster than the UMD disks, because if they are slower to read than that would be a big problem playing games off of them.

[David88]

Originally Posted by skub

What about the speed of the memory sticks, are they slower or faster than the UMD disks, because if they are slower to read than that would be a big problem playing games off of them.

Very good question.

Does anybody know?

[Spike7]

lol of course the read speed on the memory stick is faster than the UMD.

[wizzer]

With USB II, you should be able to play the games directly from your PC ..
the wirless connection would prob work too, just a little slower.

[David88]

What is the max. speed for the PSP's wifi?

You could save all your games onto your computers hardrive and then just stream them to your PSP.

And then write any games to your memorystick duo so you don'thave to take the actual UMD.

[Spike7]

Originally Posted by wizzer

With USB II, you should be able to play the games directly from your PC ..
the wirless connection would prob work too, just a little slower.

y direct connect? when you could save it to memory stick?

[lufcfan]

PSP uses Wi-Fi 'B' so it's the slower standard of the two currently out at the moment - although it's fine for streaming updates and online play for what I've seen of it so far