Comments on: PSP Internal Hard drive mod

By: Harold

Harold — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:44:51 +0000

This cannot be done in this way… the users who created this mod faked it and was banned from acidmods.com you can check their site for verification.. Currently you can only do either 32GB with an sd mod or if you want a hdd you’ll need an nslu2 network device with modded firmware to be the usbhost.. .too big to internalize

By: CrazyPlatypus27

CrazyPlatypus27 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:38:34 +0000

I think I modded mine wrong. It made a little popping noise and a mysterious substance got onto my hand. Suspecting it was acid, I washed it off. No burn! :)

By: Decius

Decius — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:03:42 +0000

>Okay, The PSP’s UMD Drive can be removed, It’s been done a hundred times before.

>An Ipod HDD Is small, So it will fit into the PSP’s UMD Drive (I have already done this even with the interals of the drive present)

>Okay he took a USB cord and cut the end of it and placed it inside the UMD drive of the PSP?

Sure, All the hardware can fit. It isn’t a laptop hdd. It is an Ipod HDD. You can’t just take a Ipod HDD (or similar) And wire it up to the USB port of the PSP.

The PSP does not interface through it’s USB port the way some are thinking, It use’s 2 Type’s (A and B) A for USB Mass storage which your PC reads, and B to send data in to the PC and out of the PSP.

The PSP Does not Support USB-HOST as you guys think (and as some have already explained)

IRShell only reads USBHostFs if it’s being run on a PC, Unless you made an advanced micro controller to run the USBHostFS like a PC and wired the Ipod HDD to that micro controller (let alone actually having it read as a usb mass storage device) You’d also have to wire the PSP to the microcontroller.

That’s the only way possible, and to top that all off. You couldn’t use the hardware anyways as the PSP by default use’s Type-A in USB mode to read data so you couldn’t even read the info thats on the HDD let alone transfer it?

It’s a hoax. The PSP’s Firmware can only do so much, Especially when it comes to adding on hardware.

By: AJH-PSP

AJH-PSP — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:44:03 +0000

There is approximately 1mm between the screen, and the case, also there is also approx 1/mm between the mini usb port on the motherboard this means that this mod can be done internally. there is also about 3mm of space inside the UMD part of the housing this is plenty of room to make this entire mod and internal one. this can either be one of two things. the usb could be either hard wired to the mother board and connected via wires, or that a female adult usb port could be placed in the indented part of the UMD drive cavity. None the less this is a great and probably the most practical mod. (all casings and housings must be removed from both the female usb and all attachments such as the flash stick.)

By: Onimaru

Onimaru — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:45:19 +0000

Sorry for double post but It just hit me that it would make sense that the seperate cards could be read as diffent sectors on the same device sort of how a normal HDD uses different disks.

With the new 32gb pro duos your psp could theoreticly have 100s of gigs of storage and be able to upgrade or downgrade the amount of memory space to whatever you like.

Plus since the pro duos are pretty small you could carry even more and swap them out making the amount of available space virtually limitless in the same amount of space as a normal umd carrying case.

Now if someone could think of a way to upgrade the Ram or whatever it’s called on the psp that would be truly amazing.

By: Onimaru

Onimaru — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:28:45 +0000

Hello I’m still new to the psp hacking scene so bear with me because this is a pretty simplistic idea but anyways. Shouldn’t it be possible to remove the umd device completely and fill the bay with multiple memory sticks chained together like was earlier said the old psp memory card way and have a button or something to switch between the cards and use CFW programed to alter the code or whatever that reads the memory stick to be able to switch between the cards or use them as one.

Can someone tell me if this is even possible or not because I’m pretty sure thats what he has done in the last video.

By: my NaMe???

my NaMe??? — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:14:58 +0000

someone should post on instructables how to do either one of those. I myself will also look into it. Id prefer a whole hard drive. but ill look at both. plus if I did the hard drive, Id also find another alternate way to poser it, besides sucking the psp battery out.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:52:06 +0000

What kind of moron posts their mobile phone number on an extremely public website for the world to see (and spam)?

By: christian rodriguez

christian rodriguez — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:07:24 +0000

text me at 972 897 7113 if u know how to do this

By: matey

matey — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:20:19 +0000

im pretty sure this is doable

By: mike

mike — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:58:56 +0000

you should check this guys psp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZydvrWHg0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2FCustom-PSP2000-LEDS-64GIG-internal-memory-red-white_W0QQitemZ110400347720QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVideo_Games%3Fhash&feature=player_embedded

By: Knightwolf

Knightwolf — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:29:45 +0000

Mkay, many of the newer iopds are using CF size HDD so size is no longer an issue. As for power, the IPOD and the PSP run on virtually the same amount of juice so granted with the addition of a HDD IF being accessed continuously would deplete the battery in a shorter period of time an extra capcity battery could be purchased. As for the UMD, if you don’t plan on using it for the typical gaming then removal is fine and I’m sure there is an adapter to go between the CF drive and the UMD plugin. Noone ever said all this fun stuff was easy or quick just realistic.

By: Dvndrew

Dvndrew — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:19:34 +0000

y r yall so worried about weter or not it works. at least he took the time to do somethin with his life besides doubt other people

By: Snapper Cleavage

Snapper Cleavage — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:32:05 +0000

I was most impressed by one single line of information.
That was “word to your mother”

Thankyou

By: redmistpete

redmistpete — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:21:33 +0000

8Gig Duo cards are around £10 each now. Buy 10 to give you 80Gig storage for £100. Wire them all together, stick one end in the MagicGate slot and neatly cram the others into the gutted UMD slot with a button switch (neatly located on the PSP housing) wired to a simple circuit to select the cards sequentially (like the old compressed PSX memory cards). A tad expensive but simple and 100% achievable using basic electrics. A relay could be added so that the cards cannot accidentally be switched until a certain period of inactivity (a few seconds or so?) – to prevent data loss. A new 8Gig card can be added as and when funds allow – and that UMD slot can hold a lot of pro duo cards ;) Muahahahaahaaaaaa!!