PSPgo hacked to play UMD disc images

With the release of the download-only PSPgo Sony managed to alienate just about everyone. Multiple Retailers didn’t want to stock it as they couldn’t sell any games for the new hardware. Gamers on the other hand didn’t like the high price and couldn’t do anything with the handfuls of UMD disc games they had previously bought.

Now it seems hackers are solving the problem by modding the PSPgo to play UMD disc images. For someone with a PSPgo and lots of UMD disc games, that’s surely going to be a tempting proposition, even if it’s technically piracy.

Liquidzigong is the hacker who has made this possible. He found a way to get an ISO loader on to the PSPgo. What that means is a PSP UMD disc image can be loaded into the flash memory of the PSPgo and the ISO loader used to play it.