PSP Multiplayer With One Game - April 4, 2005

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

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Muhammad Mohsin says

Thank U so much for ur blog and i have been able ro play many games!!!

njp says

It has to work with another PSP right? and can it go through a wireless router If you now what I mean?

hurleypsp says

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?

by Mathew – 5/5/2006 7:37 PM

go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjY7-3ziQQg

Ashley says

Hello, I’m trying to game share with Smackdown vs Raw 2007, I went to the wireless lobby and had someone try to game share and it would not find it. Now my psp is a newer one while the other is really old would that be a factor in game sharing or not? I have tried everything to get this game to share but it just wont connect can you please help me I really want to share this game please and thank you!

A Guy on a Hill says

Can u gameshare or UMD swap with 1 New PSP and 1 Old PSP

A Guy on a Hill says

All this talk about using only 1 UMD for Multiplayer. What about using 2 UMDs to use Multiplayer. ………… or can u?

dUdeMysTeR says

to: guy on a hill from: dudemyster The reason why people use only 1 UMD is so we can save money 4 another game that we can also hack or gameshare with

dUdeMysTeR says

and what the heck is v 1.52 or v 1.50

Connor and Phillup says

You the bast

Connor and Phillup says

You the best

jm says

can it work without a memory stick

harmon says

you guyies rock i tried it on my need for speed and it worked

h00pz says

hey i tried your lil steps and it didnt work i mean it worked up until we put the game back into the #1 psp and then it said disk error!!! and we tried it over and over again and it never worked so can u help us find a new way please

ravin says

can you game share with GTA VCS

GamEAddicT says

Sharing (umd) i think is the best thing…. ^^ either downloading…

TeKKenLorD says

Sample: tekken dark ressurection
1st psp: choose network,then ad hoc (when entered in the game)
2nd psp: just choose the game sharing (at the desktop)
then, they should meet…
i forgot, the “wlan:” it is a switch… founded on the side of psp…

BOB mArle4 says

i have star wars battle front renegade squadron and i wanted to play with two psp’s and i had the WLAN switch on and did ad hoc but it didn’t work.What did i do wrong?

elvins says

how do u put unlimted time

Ray says

Can someone try the multiplayer with one umd thing with the game NBA live 09 please and tell me how to do it because it’s hard for me to do

ray says

wat does wi-fi compatible (ad hoc)(1-2 players) mean??

ra says

can you game share with NBA live 09

shyam says

am havin nba 09 and want to play using a multiplayer option ,but each time i try to do a online game , its jst keeps searchin, can anyone help me wit the same

shyam says

can you game share with NBA live 09

by ra – 2/28/2009 9:26 PM

i have been tryin to do the same

Eli says

when i play madden 09 i let the first psp load then wen its done i do it 4 the 2nd psp then all of a sudden the 1st psp disconnected. wat am i doin wrong. if do pleaz reply. thanxs

ruben says

what sould i do to play secom fire team bravo 2 in online? what kind of credentials is talking about?

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