PSP Go and ISO Decryption

[shungen2007]

Hi, I am new to the forum, but I have looked around and think that I should post this up. I am planning to buy a PSP Go after months of saving up. But before that I just wanted to clear my mind of some questions that got me very confused... I've surfed around the net and found mixed answers for them... But being a complete stranger to all this, I'm very confused and overwhelmed over the mass amount of information out there. Please help, thanks.

1) I've seen in this forum that the PSP Go is semi-hackable. Others say that it is fully hackable with 6.35 TN-A (hen). Please explain...

2) I already own some UMD Games and have extracted them into ISO already. Then I read that I have to decrypt them before I can play them. How can I do that?

3) All my games are bought in Japan, but I'm currently in Australia. So if I buy a PSP, it would be Australian code. I heard that there are regional codes that might not let me play the games?

The current ISOs I have are:

AKB1/48 Idol to Koishitara...
Monster Hunter 3 Portable
Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus
Gundam Assault Survive

I appologise if these questions have already been posted before, but I' ve looked around for a long time and got more and more confused...

[shivadow]

1) I've seen in this forum that the PSP Go is semi-hackable. Others say that it is fully hackable with 6.35 TN-A (hen). Please explain...

HEN is a semi hack NOT a full hack. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

2) I already own some UMD Games and have extracted them into ISO already. Then I read that I have to decrypt them before I can play them. How can I do that?

IsoTool or the Lazy Patch Pack from alt.binaries.

3) All my games are bought in Japan, but I'm currently in Australia. So if I buy a PSP, it would be Australian code. I heard that there are regional codes that might not let me play the games?

Australia is PAL and Japan is NTSC/J. Regions dont really matter on PSP AFAIK.

[arChaos]

Have you used the PSP GO? I find the holding and analog button very awkward. If I were you I'd head to PlaynTrade and pick up a 1000 for $100, they're the heaviest, but to me more durable, the 2000 for $120 or the $3000 for $140. Save the money and get a 32 gig sdhc card off eBay for $50. The PSP 1000 is the best unit for hacking and the screen is actually behind the casing which saves from ease of scratches.

This works on 1001 and 3001 (I've tested)

http://cgi.ebay.com/microSD-MS-PRO-D...item4ce9d75926

Buy two of these and double the amount of games from the GO

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-16GB-MICRO-S...item3f0596719e

I myself think the original has more value.

[krhym3]

i have both the phat and the go, and i gotta be honest...

I've loved and cherished my 1000 for 3 years at least, but ever since GO specific cfw broke out... i haven't touched my phat psp once, other then to test stuff that i wouldn't want to damage the go with.

I highly recommend the go, don't be shy, it has 16GB built in, which is perfect for us modders. The bluetooth support is marvelous. Also, nothing beats the attention playing a GO in public nets you. It's always cute when people come up to me and go "hey is that one of those NEW psp's?!? WOW YOU'RE PLAYING MARIO!!!!" lol...

anyways...

yeah the go is imo what you want, i ripped all my UMD's from my phat days and they all play just fine. Honestly i don't really know a thing about all this "patching" crap. I just slap a UMD in my phat, rip it, rename it, transfer it to my go and BAM! Never had a hiccup yet.

as far as technicalities are concerned, When they say it's not "fully hackable" it means that you aren't really installing a CFW that replaces the OFW. If you cold boot (turn on from full power off) it will ALWAYS start in OFW mode (if you are like me, you never turn OFF your psp, you only sleep it with the 'slide display closed' feature and your PSP will always start in CFW mode). You then run the CFW from the game menu, the psp will reset, and boom, you are in. if you have 6.35 you will be using PROHEN, but if you are lucky enough to have 6.2 you can use my personal favorite, TN_C. Either way you will be playing all your backed up umd's no problem. (at least imo...)

As far as the region thing is concerned... not sure if PROHEN supports different regions as there is no VSH menu built in (you must install VSH lite separate if you want one), but TN_C definitely has a snazzy and much larger VSH menu with all the bells and whistles including region support.

Don't forget, a downgrader for PRO HEN 6.35 was just released so you can roll back to 6.2 and then run TN_C.

[BeAkErOo]

Love my Go.

[shungen2007]

Thank you for your replies. Certainly gave me some food for thought...

@acouch0220

I was considering the 1000 until I found the the Go had 64Mb RAM and Bluetooth. Otherwise the other option I would consider might be the 3000 seeing it can play UMDs... but I heard that the 3000 is kinda tricky to hack too?

@krhym3

Thank you for the detailed response. So if I roll back from OFW6.35 to OFW6.20, then I run the TN C, I should be able to play ISO without decrypting?

@BeAkErOo

I like the look of it too!