PSP Multiplayer With One Game 146
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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Para jugar qualquier juego de multiplayer en el Sony PSP con solamente una copia de el juego, haz lo siguiente:
1-coloca el juego en el primer PSP. Comienza el juego. Comienza un juego de multiplayer Ad-Hoc (coloca el tiempo sin limite, porque moviendo el juego de un PSP a el otro tarda mucho). Entra a el juego.
2-Cuando ya estas en el juego, quita el juego de el primer PSP. Una mensaje preguntando si quieres salir de el juego aparece. Escoge NO. El juego resume.
3-Ahora, coloca el juego a el segundo PSP. Comienza el juego. Escoge “Ad-Hoc” y busque el SERVER que el primer PSP empeso. Entra a el juego.
4-Ahora debes de poder jugar juntos en dos PSPs con solamente una copia de el juego. Puedes hacer esto con quantos PSPs quieras, aun que el juego lo permite.
Sera buen idea de quitar el MEMORY STICK DUO de el PSP para que no se pierde sus datos. Quando quieras salir de el juego, se le puede paralizar? el juego, y hasta apagando el PSP no le trabaja. Para arreglar lo, coloca el disco a qualquier de los PSPs que estan paralizados.
This is wierd. The PSP has been out in Japan for a while – you think they’d have been all over that and it would be fixed…..
I’ve actually heard that this is an intended feature of the PSP; you are indeed supposed to be able to play multi-player games with one copy. If you could do this with a single-player game, then I can see Sony getting pretty upset with the idea. But its competitor, the DS and the GBA, is already able to play a few games with a single cartridge.
How can you say this works with “any psp game”? Another game by access the UMD throughout the game as opposed to only just before the game starts.
Seems like it would work with any game that doesn’t have to re-load once the server is in the level (TM, THUG2 are the only two I can really think of). Other games, like Untold Legends or Lumines access the game when both players move on to other areas — certainly this would cause a problem, right? If only I knew somebody else with a PSP, I’d try it…
I take it you skipped the feature called Gamesharing…you know the one that’s built into the PSP.
The gamesharing feature only works for certain games, and right now, most games don’t seem to support it, and if they do, it’s not explained how.
Yah, I tried the Game Sharing thing with Twisted Metal AND Thug2 and it wasn’t giving me any love. So I looked it up in the manual, and they said look in the game’s manual, and there was nothing in there about it. Any idea what games actually USE this feature?
What the world needs now is less sarcastic people and more informed people.
I wonder if the guy who mentioned Gamesharing even has a PSP…
If this does work with any PSP game (although i have my doubts). It would be an incitative for me to buy a PSP and try the games before i actully went out and bought one…
I tried this with lumines, it doesn’t work, it times out before the other psp had a chance to get into the game.
Well guys sorry to burst your bubble, but game sharing, is of course part of the system’s built-in features but the problem is that none of the game developers have implemented it, therefore if on the back of your UMD case (ie. 1-16 players, wi-fi compatible(ad hoc/infrastructure), etc) it says Game-Sharing compatible then yea u can use it. According to the game companies, games like these wont be around till the future(Q4 2005)now december does seem a little far but u can use Sahas katta’s way of game sharing, may be a little risky, but it’s better to do it this way, and save space on your memory stick(yes it does waste MB on your stick), and it only transfers multiplayer feature not offline mode.
I tried this with Twisted Metal but I get a wireless communication error. What gives?
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My twisted metal is also giving me a connection error when trying to connnect this way…
Anyone know why?????
thanks
Tested this with ridge racer and it works – you need to swap the UMD back and forth after each race, but it does work.
well i tried it with twisted metal and we were both able to get in the game but i couldn’t see him and he couldn’t see me. and then at other times it said there was a communication error with the psp’s. Is there any solution for this??????????????????????
Well if you noticed, the box does say only one game is needed for multiplayer.
Me and my roomate actually got Twisted Metal to work… somewhat. We couldn’t see eachother at all, even if we went to the same place. Have anyone actually got it to work?
I tried this with Twisted Metal as well and go the same wireless communication error. Anyone out there who can confirm that Twisted Metal work with only one umd? Also which game does it definitely work with? Ridge Racer maybe?
i have confirmed that Ridge Racer DOES work after a few swaps back and forth, however Twisted Metal DOES NOT work….players cannot see each other on the levels. Peace
it dont work i hate you
“Archer Maclean’s Mercury” works, you have to (a)host, swap + (b)join, select the level, then wait for it to say “synchronizing machines”, then swap back to the host (a). you can play the level as long as you want, but you have to swap again if you load the next level.
Twisted Metal does work. THUG does work also.
You just have to do it right.
Twisted Metal:
Have the host start a server and make all settings. Swap the disk to the other machine, load into the server, make all setting changes. Leave at this screen (Where you select your car, etc.) Swap the disk to the host machine and load in the map/level. Once loaded, swap the disk to the other player, have him load into the map/level.
THUG:
It’s about the same, but I haven’t tried it enough to tell you the exact details.
We have played many times like this. Just make sure not to touch anything after the first load with the UMD in your machine. When you get the UMD the second time only load into the level, and make NO changes other wise you will get errors and not be able to see each other, etc.
can any one explain to me how to do it right with ridge racer cuz i tried and it didnt work thx
it doent work for MLB
do u need a link cable
do u need a link cable
no, because the PSP has WiFi.
ROFLMFAO…need a link cable??? That stuff is for babies with arcaic gameboys. ahhh, thanks for the laugh though. hehe.
i got twested metal to work but i could c my other friend and he couldnt c me. can any one tell me is it some thing i am doing wrong or does it not work online.
TWISTED METAL WITH 1 GAME on 2 PSP’s
ok im not sure if sahas’s way works, but either it doesnt or the way he explained it didnt work. i looked everywhere and modified what other people said and i finally got it to work. not complicated this is it…. ill try to be as descriptive as possible.
1. Person A loads up game, selects ad hoc, makes a game, selects car and all settings to server, loads game and is just sitting there.
2.take game out, a message will come up asking if you wish to leave game, say “NO”. give game to person B.
3. person B puts in game, goes to ad hoc, looks for A’s game, selects it, and joins server.
*pay attention to this part… not too difficult but confusing*
4. after selecting vehicle, go to join game, and when its loading, wait for it to get to the top of the loading bar, wait about 8 seconds, (at this point it should STILL be at the top of the loading screen), pop out game and give to person A (host) and they pop game in.
in a few seconds the second person will be in game. AT THIS POINT the HOST (A) should have the game in his PSP. NOT sure… but with this process im guessing you can do with up to 6 people, but we only have 2 psp’s here so we only tried 2.
*i have not tried this with THUG… but i SWEAR this works with twisted metal. BOTH PEOPLE CAN SEE EACH OTHER AND BOTH CAN PLAY WITH EACH OTHER.
ive been frustrated seeing this above way (not my way, above that) all over the internet… MY WAY (not really my way but just the way that works) WORKS… 1 game can be used to play with 2 psp’s together.
BTW: i have version 1.5 psp… so not sure if its different with other versions.
i tried this and it did not work 4 me. it said connection lost for twisted metal & need 4 speed….
TWISTED METAL WITH 1 GAME on 2 PSP’s
does work i repeate it does work. but i dont think it works for 3 psps. and one more thing can any one tell me if it works for nba street showdown and wipeout pl and it does how to work it. ok c u guys
i have tried it once with my friend using NFSR, and when you chose head to head and then swap,it didnt work. it just showed searching for player on both on our screens…
Anyone tried Coded Arms yet????
please some one try it with coded arms
hey yeh btw NFS:Rivals doesn’t work, he’s right! me and a friend of mine tried it as well and we had no luck, just the same problem as the other guy above :(
does this work with psp v 152 playin agenst a v 150?? and does it even work on 152 i kno alot of stupid stuff i cant do coz i updated it wata mug i cant do emulators now hopfully they bring new hack soon :D
Thanks on the info on how to make the game Twisted Metal work I couldn’t get it for a while but when I did get it it worked like a charm. Thank You!
Sorry to interrupt your forum but I have a PSP 1.50 the system got left on for a couple hours with no activity. anyways I came back to a dead battery after i charged it up games won’t load anymore it sucks I don’t know what to do. a little circle thing shows up in the bottom right corner but the game doesn’t show up
I have a version 1.50, and my friend has a version 1.51, we are trying to connect Twisted Metal, multiplayer with one disc. when i waited 8 seconds and removed the disc and put it back in my friends psp the host. My game just kept loading forever….does different versions work?
hey needadvice u can fix that i did the same thing well let a friend use he said he turned it off and well he didnt just put it in tge foam case all u have to do u back up ur game saves then put ur psp back to default setting and format the memcard a few times on times is good but i did it a few times to be safe the let the bat charge up put the game in and the saves back in and it booted up
i also buy broken psp’s that are 1.50 firmware my aim name is mykr0@mac.com if u have a broken one and want to get rid of it hit me up member the system is used and broken so prive will vary depending on whats wrong with it or i may beaboe to help u fix it ciao
WipeoutPure
You CAN play wipeout pure multiplayer with one disk on two psp’s by disabling all the music tracks in wipeout options (for both players). This way the screen on the player without the disk will not freeze.
Shame, as the the soundtrack is so phat
Will CODED ARMS work by doing this procedure? Just asking Thanks in advance.
sony’s games has been cracked! Because I know how to play thug2 remix multiplayer with 1 game on 2 psp’s.(also with 2.00 firmware!!!)
step 1: start up a multiplayergame. So host a new game and enter it.
step 2: switch the umd to the other psp and start up the multiplayer mode.(sony ask if you want to end the game: say no!)
Now you’ll see the hosted game by player one. Don’t enter it!!
step 3: Switch the game again, to player one(the host).(sony ask if you want to end the game: say no!)
step 4: On the second psp(the joiner): join the player number ones game, so press join.
NOW HURRY:
step 5: On the psp of player number one appears a message that player two is joining the game. If the message disappears please immediately switch the player number ones umd disc to psp number two. (sony ask if you want to end the game: say no!)
step 6: Now the game will also be loaded on the second psp.
step 7: ENJOY!!
I’ll hope I helped some people with this problem.
CU! Sebastian..
Do You Suppose This Hack Will Work With Soccer Games That Will Be Coming Out For The PSP????
my psp wont load any of my games please help
ive done what mykro said about restoring the default settings and formatting my memory stick but ity still dont work
This is why Sony sucks!
I should be able to play anyone in multiplayer mode.
Geez Nintendo seems to get it right! Wow what a money grubbing Hor of a company!
^^ sorry, but are you stupid?
sony psps are better than any nintendo product for a fact. no one should even try to argue with that. (im not an anti-nintendo person or anything as i am an owner of a N64 as well as 3 gameboys.) you can play multiplayer just fine except you will need a copy of the game per unit just like any other gaming system. all this site is showing is how to trick the unit into playing with a single copy of the game. (nice tutorial btw) and anyways as far as i know you can only play multiplayer games on DS’s with multiple copies of the game. correct me if i am wrong
yes you CAN use multiplayer on nintendo ds (check out super mario 64 DS) my family currently has three DS’s and the multiplayer works fine. NOTICE-multiplayer is on multiplayer wireless compatible games only otherwise you will need two cards to play multiplayer and if there is no multiplayer then that game sucks. our family also has ONE PSP and wanting more. PSP is so much more versatile than nintendo DS, to bad about the freezing when single copy game sharing though! But that was a TUTORIAL and not an OFFICIAL GUIDE. can’t wait until somebody knocks on sony’s door and pops ‘em one in the nose for not allowing multiplayer on EVERY game. so has anyone tryed it with Coded Arms yet?
where can i get free games off the internet to put on my psp
At 12/16/2005 5:27 PM, Jezzica Z. said…
plz someone email me im confused if u have wireless internet and u can connect but if i dont have the update the only thing i can do is infrastructure mode?
next what games are most people on infrastructure mode?
what times are the most people on?
At 12/16/2005 5:28 PM, Jezzica Z. said…
oh yeah i forgot my email is Jezzygurl7@sbcglobal.net or i perfer jezzie2raw@yahoo.com
At 12/16/2005 5:30 PM, Jezzica Z. said…
oh yeah im probably not gonna look on this site again so dont just reply plz email me
Hi,I’m thinking about getting a sony psp,but im wondering about the WiFi connection,can u connect from a networked computer at a house or do u have 2 go 2 a “hotspot”as they call it,can u plz tell me excatlly wat a hotspot is if it say like a shopping centre or airport and so on.and how long is the WiFi conncetion is it like 100 mtres or 200 mtres plz tell me by e-mail=Sgt.terd@hotmail.com
thank you!
your obviously don’t know much about computers to here’s the breakdown. First a WiFi connection is free if you have DSL or Cable at your home. A psp just connects to the wifi router if you want to go online with the webbrowser or play online games which support infastructure mode. most psp games work localy just by being near other psps and no hardware is required to play each other localy other than the psps themselves. An averge WiFi router you have at home usually costs about $30-40 and it will reach about 200 feet. if you are away from your home and you want to use the network you only need to pay for the connection. many times you can find open networks and use them other times places like starbucks give a code to use if you buy something and oteher times they charge you per hour or that sort of thing. the psp is one of the best portable units available at the time so i reccomend getting it.
Yo i think im gettin socom for x-mas and a psp and i only now 1 person wit a psp and i know he does not have socom so
Will this sweet trick work for socom i would think it would but in socom 3 theres a lot of laoding but im wodering about socom ftb thnx
this game sharing does nt work ihave 3 psps and none can see each other all the games that i have used say that they are game sharing
It would be great if someone could make a list of the games that work, the ones that don’t work and the untested all including info about player amount and firmware versions.
yongy, it works fine for me and all my friends and seems to work for most games. you either are doing it wrong or have games that don’t support that.
can game sharing work with gta lcs
What is psp1 and psp2 and does it work on certain games.
Can someone please help me
if some crazy person finds out how to get this cheat to work e-mail me
Games tried:
Socom ftb
Twisted Metal head-on
GTA LCS
Metal Gear Acid
Lumines
Tiger Woods
and none worked… O_O Help me my brain is fried
safe1288@yahoo.com
Games confirmed to work
- Ridge Racer (tested by me)
- Lord of the Rings Tactics (tested by me)
- Twisted Metal (from the video)
Games confirmed by me not to work
- GTA LCS (Which was obvious)
- SW Battlefront 2 (tested by me)
- NBA Street Showdown (tested by me)
I am getting thug2r soon and i’m pretty sure after researching that this technique should work for it. Just wondering if anyone has come up with a name for this thing?
how do you play a multi player game with one UMD for Madden 06 I tried and failed completly.
How do I put unlimited time in my PSP? Also does it work on Midnight Club 3, Madden 06, or Need for Speed Most Wanted 501?
how to put mlb06 in unlimited time
I was with my buddy and i’ve heard of the multyplayer single umd trick. so we linked up our psp’s.
My firmware version is 1.50 and his is 2.00.
I can Confirm that Coded Arms Works with one umd.
The only things i did different was switching the umd right after it reached 100%loaded as opposed to waiting 8-10 seconds, and when the “do you want to quit” menu comes up I left it there till the other one was done. I noticed when i did that the network didn’t time out(“connection lost”) like it did when i followed the method stated above.
heres what i did in detail.
1. turn on both psp’s
2. start the game on the host psp
3. select network game-> host
4. pick your map settings and such
5. swap the umd into the other psp.
6. goto multiplayer-> find game
7. the game name should be the name of the hosts save file,(likely the only one in the list). Select it.
8. give ready signals.
9. swap game back into host psp and start the game
10. let the first psp load,(you’ll notice the second psp’s screen turn’s to a blackish color, dont worry.)Just after after it reaches 100% pop it out and put it into the other psp, leaving the “do you want to quit” menu open. let the other one load.
11.When it’s finished loading the game will start.
thats it.
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um just so u know all the playstations are nintendos designs, its just that sony sponsers the making of them and nintendo makes the first one and then sony makes the rest thats why sonys name is on it. and sony also makes changes to it
and if any1 here says that xbox is the best know this
they tried to make a handheld xbox and it fried withen an hour
Sony and nintendo teamed up first to create the Playstation 1, but after some research or some stupid reason, Nintendo decided to pull out and let Sony take it and decided to go for cartridge games rather than on CD.
Does anyone have a complete list of games that this will work on. I have hotshots golf, ape escape on the loose nba 05, nfl street unleashed, world tour soccer, death jr , detroit hustle, lumines, twisted metal, atv offroad, pi, pacman world 2 and need for speed.
hey guys i really need some help plz if anyone has battlefront 2 i cant get my psp and my mates to connect in multiplayer can someone plz leave a comment with step by step how to do this thanx
p.s any available screenshots would be useful and most appreciated thanks again :)
works with thug2, doesnt with world tour soccer
Help, I cant load any UMD’s …they spin around and freeze everything on startup..then I eject it and get browser, pics, memory stick all working, but no UMD’s..can anyone helpme?
I got ridge racer to work fine,midnight club 3 (dub Edition does’nt seem to,and locked me in game(could’nt quit)I had to take out battery,so not to keen to try anything else incase it damages something?,I have Fifa 06 anyone tried it ?
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…
Ta
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.