I just returned from a week in Alaska traveling on AMHS ferries and staying down in Seward for work. I read Hacking the PSP and a review of the book will be up on Geek.com shortly. I discovered that I was only able to play World Tour Soccer and Spiderman 2 UMDs with 6 others not working on my trip and was getting worried that my UMD drive was failing. I hunted around online, but nothing I found solved my problem and the only solution that looked viable was to send the PSP back to Sony. This wouldn’t work for me since I bought mine used from someone on Craigslist.
I then took a closer look at the actual UMD disks again, I had already cleaned them off and blew out any dust. I found that the clear plastic on the front side, side opposite the opening for the laser to read the disk, along the top was pressed in a bit on the disks. I shook the UMD and it still had plenty of movement, but then bent them around a bit and was able to get the clear plastic to line up again with the rest of the UMD. I popped in Napoleon Dynamite and it worked like a charm. I was very happy after testing all the rest of the disks, but also quite surprised that the UMD drive would be so sensitive to not function with the plastic just slightly, about 1mm, pushed in on only one part of the disk. I now have to watch how I store the disks a bit better and cannot put my headphones into the same case without some kind of disk protector on the UMDs.
15 responses so far ↓
1 Rudolph H Carn // Nov 17, 2006 at 8:35 am
It worked for me too thanks
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3 denis // May 2, 2007 at 3:08 pm
ok my psp has the same problem. i hear the disk spinning then stop. is thi what happened to you??
4 mickey // May 21, 2007 at 7:16 pm
man
lifesaver…i never noticed the protective cover out of whack….i was almost ready to re-purchase the 2 games that were giving me probs.
thanks
ps.
any knowledge of how to change out a umd disk if the cover is cracked??
5 steve // Jun 14, 2007 at 12:33 pm
ok i read everything but my problem is the umd will not appear on the screen
6 homer // Aug 23, 2007 at 9:58 am
then it’s probably your psp system
7 kasey // Nov 3, 2007 at 1:22 am
would u know any way to fix psp that wont read umd and mine wont bring up the umd symbol, it just spins then stops
8 jesus // Jan 2, 2008 at 10:46 pm
THanks alot man that really work ..
live saver iw as really worried thinkign it was teh system but it was umd
9 daoud // Jan 26, 2008 at 11:47 am
can anyone please help me with why my psp wont read umds as soon as I hacked it to 3.71m33-2 on slim psp it wont read umds and the mac address is gone as soon as i pop in a game it spin then frezzes and shuts off if anyone can helped that would be greatly appericated email me at Daoud_F93@hotmail.com
10 eli // Feb 8, 2008 at 10:54 pm
daoud i have the EXACT same problem and i just hacked mines also i dont know whats wrong also when i go to my game icon to run a file such as: battery creator or umd emulater it says game could not be started.region code incorrect. my psp works fine with just the powercord in my psp but once i insert a umd bam!!it freezes then shuts down completly!!
11 Thomas Schmidt // Feb 18, 2008 at 9:30 am
OMG you ARE A LIFE SAVER THANK YOU SO MUCH
god bless
12 zet2006 // Mar 7, 2008 at 3:53 pm
If you open the umd disck cover one the PSP you’ll see a silver shaft that cliped out Use a tweezer to pull it to the left an clip it back in. It workerd for me good luck
13 Aaron // May 2, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Awsome tysm
14 Gaigun221 // Jun 18, 2008 at 7:15 pm
For the ppl that can’t get homebrew software working turn on pwr and hold R to bring up Recovery Menu, then go into configuration and set UMD mode to M33 Driver -NO UMD-
-Hope this helps
15 chuck // Dec 26, 2008 at 10:34 pm
my daughter dropped her psp now it wont read umd
doesnt say umd when loaded in to console my son has same prblm other son has one two all umd work in his any one know what im looking for too fix them
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