PSP Problems

[Sigura]

Whenever I reach a certain point in my games, my PSP freezes. It starts clicking, and vibrates a little. Could you tell me what's wrong, and what I should do?

 

[Syrex]

Are you using the UMD discs? or downloaded ISOs.

 

[Sigura]

UMD Discs. What are downloaded isos?

 

[BenRK]

Isos are essentially digital versions of the disks, used to back up your disks in a digital format. ROMs if you will. And as we all know, sharing and downloading ROMs is called piracy. In your case, as you use UMD disks, you bought your games or got them from a friend or what not, so you need not worry about being called a pirate.

 

[twocows]

Isos are essentially digital versions of the disks, used to back up your disks in a digital format. ROMs if you will. And as we all know, sharing and downloading ROMs is called piracy. In your case, as you use UMD disks, you bought your games or got them from a friend or what not, so you need not worry about being called a pirate.

This explanation is misleading at best. ISO images aren't necessarily used to back up discs, and they're not necessarily illegal. Many Linux distributions are distributed in ISO format, and while ISOs can be burned to a CD, they can also be mounted for other purposes. Microsoft distributes a lot of their stuff on the MSDN in ISO format; I just downloaded Access for my Database course and that was an ISO image. I mounted it using Daemon Tools and installed, easy as cake.

So theoretically, you could have some legal use for an ISO image. However, when you're discussing the PSP and ISO images in the same sentence, you tend to be talking about piracy. That's not always the case, though.

 

[Eureka1]

You two, again.

Anyway, my initial thought was your UMD laser having problems but that wouldn't cause the PSP to freeze up.

Have you tried updating the firmware?

 

[Archer]

It wouldn't have anything to do with the UMD itself, would it? If that's damaged, then it makes sense why it would lock up at certain points in the game. Care to elaborate a little on when it's freezing?

 

[BenRK]

This explanation is misleading at best. ISO images aren't necessarily used to back up discs, and they're not necessarily illegal.

Well, I did say sharing downloading and sharing isos. In that case, I really did mean downloading stuff illegally. Using isos as back up is a completely different story, but I can see my comment being misleading.

 

[Sigura]

It wouldn't have anything to do with the UMD itself, would it? If that's damaged, then it makes sense why it would lock up at certain points in the game. Care to elaborate a little on when it's freezing?

Sorry for posting so late.

The screen turns black, and stays like that. The PSP starts making a clicking noise, and shaking a little. I can still exit out of the game, but the game itself is frozen.

 

[Cherrim]

PSP is gaming-related so this is heading over to Other Games.

 

[Captain Hobo.]

I have a psp i use UMD's too. Mine does the same thing every 3 months. I don't know the problem ethier.

 

[Fox♠]

It's probably your UMD drive itself. You can get around this a few ways.
1) contact SONY
2) Buy new PSP
3) Mod your PSP to play .isos but only if you actually own the games.