UMD Writer

**Tinnus** · September 2nd, 2006, 03:27

They aren't stupid enough to enable people to burn $10 UMDs with executable code.

Please...

**Mr. Shizzy** · September 2nd, 2006, 18:25

lol. Cool thought. But if $ONY ever did that, piracy on the PSP would shoot through the roof.

**SteveV2** · September 2nd, 2006, 22:40

Originally Posted by Mr. Shizzy

lol. Cool thought. But if $ONY ever did that, piracy on the PSP would shoot through the roof.

Yeah, just like cd writers and dvd writers have bankrupted all these multi billion $ empires

I personally think something like this could work, the PSP is not just a HH games machine. Hell, you could put photos, music or video on one.

**Mr. Shizzy** · September 4th, 2006, 08:48

Originally Posted by SteveV2

Yeah, just like cd writers and dvd writers have bankrupted all these multi billion $ empires

I personally think something like this could work, the PSP is not just a HH games machine. Hell, you could put photos, music or video on one.

Yeah, but what your talking about was never meant to be used to back up commercial stuff. Which is obviously what most interested parties would attempt with a UMD writer. And even if people weren't trying to illegaly back up iso images on them, SONY could never condone using them for homebrew anyway. LOL. (Due to legal issues). You can put plenty photo's ect... on your memory stick. C'mon man, how much of that do you really need with you? The answer is b/c of the price of memory sticks; a UMD writer would be the the cheapest and most convienent way to pirate software on the PSP.
And I don't know where you live bud, but Piracy is running rampant in the DVD/CD market. And it costs corporations (and in the end, consumers) millions of dollars every year.

**AlexRoxUrSox** · July 21st, 2007, 06:58

the bare fact that ISO's are released illegally will ensure sony has a heart attack and two gunshots before releasing UMD-free writing capabilities.
And I doubt they get past a scratch.

EDIT: Hence they released a UMD, not a mini-dvd as their premonitions were.
This made complete security within themselves. Until of course, within the first week, underground hackers broke the
encryption, so then it was pretty bleak for them to trust the gaming community. Considering the coding aspect of the psp wasnt open source, but custom, homebrew was a smack in the face.

**xg917** · July 22nd, 2007, 06:46

im kinda tired so im not sure what exactly everyone is trying to say.

but yea.. im sure there are umd writters because in my country venezuela (and many others) sell burned UMDs on the streets and are able to play on psps.. so yea. but w/e time for me to sleep. good nite.

**AnthonyR48** · July 22nd, 2007, 18:27

I think it is a good idea but it will never happen

**Nicko01** · July 24th, 2007, 01:03

Would it be possible to mod a mini dvd to fit into a umd case and use a homebrew to read the data off of it and use it like that? It should be possible, just hard to do because you would need to handmake each of the UMD's.