UMD movies region coding - make this an official "hack" thread PLEASE!

OK, I am still awaiting delivery of my PSP 1-2 weeks because I live in New Zealand. I was thinking about how watching movies might be interesting if im in the car (because usually i get tired concentrating on the move - i dont know why lol). Of course, as everybody knows, that movies are going to be region locked, and it would be nice to go and pick up a decent title (they are about half the price of an average DVD in new zealand, and I just found this out after I order the PSP from the states!!) before I go on a bit of a long ride.

Yes, the UMDs are going to be different regions - Does anybody know of a way I can flash or modify the firmware or something to allow different region UMDs to be played? I have ordered the US one, but being able to pick one off the shelf might become a better option than having to wait for it to be shipped and incur charges etc. I am very interested in finding some sort of workaround for this. Thanks for any help in advance.

well, it's simple:
u have japanese movies that u probably can't understand
no european movie (that i know)
and some good american movies
...

why do you want to be able to play different regions? :P
just get us movies

Because like he said, he may want to just pick the movie up off the shelf, and it may be a suprise to you but his local store will have US movies with New Zealand region code!!

No European movies? What about -

Shuan of the Dead
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
28 Days
Trainspotting

Just to name a few. You uncultured swine ;)

Well, depending on how handy you are with your PC you could always just go the large MS route. I know the pricetag is pretty hefty for a 1GB card (not sure of the cost in New Zealand) but it really pays for itself after a while. If your PC has a DVD Rom drive you just need SmartRipper and PSP Video 9 and you can rip pretty easily from a DVD.

hey, i bought the PSP to play, not to watch movies, i've got a portable dvdplayer :P

i know some good european movies, but i didn't knew they were already released to the PSP :P

I will definately be getting a big memory stick, but I dont want to have to rip, encode and transfer all the files which will probably take a while, and I would also like to save some decent amount of space for MP3s, funny clips and pics etc.

Suprisingly, the UMDs are goind to be charged a lot cheaper than I thought (I dont know about the rest of you though!). So if anything comes up that might be useful - please post! Thanks. Also, showing off cool movies to your friends will be awesome!

I think as memory cards become cheaper more and more people will rip movies onto them.

Maybe one day we will get a UMD burner too and that will make it easier to watch the movies we already own on the PSP.

i think that the big problem is that the MSDUO are new tecnology, maybe in about 6 months they get cheaper...

wouldn't count on it, not for nzers anyway

well, if you r good with hardware, i dont remember exactly where i can look it up if you want, but i saw where someone used a cellphone MSDUO>MS adapter and got a normal memory stick working for the psp! however, this is highly inconvienient; though it might look streamlined and nice on a cell phone, its a big lump sticking outa the side of the psp. But if a company decides to make on specially for the psp, that could really help with the expensive memory stick trouble and make it much more common practice to simply rip a dvd onto a memory stick

yea, it was the PSPCrazy guy, and that cellphone adapter was simply ugly

if i had money i'd simply cut off what i didn't needed of the adapter and acoplate the thing in the back of the PSP (don't know if that cable thing would fold enough it may break)

I dont think I would be prepared to open/cut/modify a PSP just to get a different type of card in

no modification in the PSP is needed :P
the thing you would cut is the cellphone thing

u put a wide/slim cable of about 5cm connecting the cellphone adapter and the MSDUO slot in the PSP, then put a MS in the MS slot in the adapter

but the adapter is large and was made to fit perfectly a cellphone, so i'd cut all of it and leave just what's needed, it's core, then tape in behind the PSP

got it?

awesome, I was going to go and check out some prices and compare with the duos. But right now NZ top trading site (www.trademe.co.nz) is down lol.

for the moment, not always like this :)

UMD Movies

US = 14.99$

Switzerland = 39 $

That is why I d'like to change the region code ASAP !!

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