By I was playing around with the PSP and I wanted to play a multiplayer game with my friend. But because he did not have the game I was trying to figure out a way to play with only one copy. And I found out that it is actually pretty easy. I tested the game with Twisted Metal and it worked great. To play any multiplayer game on a Sony PSP with only one copy of a game, do the following:
- Place the game into the 1st PSP. Start the game. Start a Multiplayer Ad-Hoc game. (Set the time to unlimited because moving the game between the units takes a while.) Get everything ready, settings ect., except do not enter the game.
- Now remove the game from the unit. A message will appear asking whether you want to exit the game, say NO! The game should go back to the setting screen, where it is waiting for you to press start. (Don’t press start yet on PSP #1)
- Now take the game and place it into the 2nd PSP. Start the game. Now go to Ad-Hoc games and find the server that the other PSP has already started. Once you find the game enter it after choose your personal settings.
- Once the game is done loading on PSP #2 take it out and put it back into unit #1. And press start and it should load into the game!
- And now you are playing each other on two PSPs with only one copy of the game. And if you want to, you can do this with up to as many units as you wish. As long as the game supports that many players.
This works great, but I bet you Sony doesn’t like it. Also to be on the safe side I removed my memorystick to prevent any possible data loss if the unit freezes. Also when you want to exit the game it might freeze. And even trying to power off the unit might not work. To solve this problem just place the game into the frozen PSP and it will do some loading and then resume normally. Any more questions? Then make a comment and I will help you if I can.Update: There have been many comments saying that this does not work, but I tested it with Twisted Metal, Need for Speed, Tony Hawk, and a few others and they worked fine. I have made changes to the instructions above. If these still do not work as of (06/20/05) please post a comment below. Thank You!
Update: I tested them multiple times, but I actually found that it is working perfectly on the PSPs with FirmWare v1.50. But when I tried it with PSPs with FirmWare v1.52 it couldn’t connect both of the PSPs together. I have not tried v1.51 so please make a comment u have tried it with it. (07/08/05)
Update: (07/27/05) First I would like to say that the my Multiplayer PSP hack does in fact work with v1.52! There needs to be a few changes made to the procedure and it will work just fine! I am going to be posting the new set of instructions soon so check the main page of my blog. Also Sony announced some new FirmWare Updates for the PSP v2.0, which will work with Sonic Stage 3.2! – link
NEW – I’ve just created a new video that goes over this procedure. It is only a few minutes long and also has directions in the video. I have also re-written the instructions above for PSPs with new firmware so check out by clicking here: PSP Multiplayer Hack Video
How do u do it with Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition
I tried doing this with Grand Theft Auto:Liberty city stories and it did not work can you please send me some directions to my email address
I tried this with Tennis World Tour, but my psp just froze. This was about a month ago and i still can’t get it to un freez. Pease help
one disc multiplayer is only possible with games that allow entry to multiplayer at any time(non synchronous entry)and that do not have to load during multiplayer games. ie
hi,I tried star wars battlefront2 multiplayer with one umd and right when me and my friend are about to play,the second psp tries to connect to the host again, so we put the game back into the host but it says connection lost because the game doesn’t load fast enough.Does anybody have a solution?
Hey guy’s it is confirmed that Twisted metal does not work properly with game sharing, The only game that works the way it should is GTA Liberty City Stories. ” that i know of “
Does anyone know how to do Game Sharing in general because there is an option to do it instead of selecting the UMD. HOW DOES IT WORK WITH FIFA 06 – THERE MUST BE A SIMPLER WAY THAN SWAPING UMDS OVER SURELY!!! Thanks
Mike T says
Does anyone know how to do Game Sharing in general because there is an option to do it instead of selecting the UMD. HOW DOES IT WORK WITH FIFA 06 – THERE MUST BE A SIMPLER WAY THAN SWAPING UMDS OVER SURELY!!! Thanks
-Check on the back of the box of the game. where it says how many players and how much space each game save takes, it might say gamesharing enabled. If it doesn’t, you can’t gameshare.
My friend told me this works. Can you play with one copy of the game by one person on the game’s wireless lobby and the other person on game sharing? (For example, I have Smackdown vs Raw 2006 for psp. So i go to the wireless lobby and he goes to game sharing.)
uhm what about monster hunters
I have dragonball z shin budokai and smackdown vs. raw on psp and i was just wonderin if it would work on those 2 games.
does anybody know how to work it with world tour soccer?
How the hell do you work GTA LCS with 1 UMD it says “error reading gta umd”
CODED ARMS – yes it does work but you have 2 be pretty precise with timing at loading screen- i know cause i own coded arms and tried it- it fails 60%of the time practically but – hey if you get it on the 40%ur lucky
Edit: oh sorry i thought noone posted confirmation fo coded arms
Has anyone tried this with Super Monkey Balls Adventure? If so please post instructions…
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I was watching a film when my PSP froze and now I can’t do anything, or switch it off please help.
stephen u try removing the battery?if that doesnt work then u probably dropped it or left it in the hot/cold or sun for to long.
Hi there i tried this thing and it does not work on the nba live 06 but i found a way to make this work on a different game by simply doing game sharing on the game called burnout but i cannot do it on nba live 06.
Hey I tried this on firmware 3.01 and does not work well when you use ATV offroad fury: Blazing Trails
Do you think that the multi-player would work with NHL 07??
HELP! Has someone Virtua Tennis: World Tour? I tried to play with one copy, but in game multiplayer doesn´t appear ad-hoc mode. Had someone played with one copy for to PSP’s with this game? tHanKs
I got monster hunter me and my nefue both play it and are kinda good i just tried it but my psp froze and his didnt why?
Edit: When i said………..i just tried it i mean i just tried that multiplayer thing you did but it didnt work.
Ummm……… before i go mess up my PSP does anyone know if it works for BLITZ: Overtime
help none of my games wil load on my psp since a game crashed on me ive tryed taking batteries out while still swithed on but nothing,anyone got any ideas please
well if u have warrenty just go back to the store and tell em ” I was playing my Psp and next thing you know it BAM! it froze and doesnt work no more, and if they ask if you were toying with it just say no, that you were just playing a game and it froze for no reason.
hey do u know that how we can play ben 10 alien force multiplayer in psp