Here is our tutorial on how to play your Playstation 1 (PSX/PSOne) games on your PSP. There are two steps to the process.
1. Making a PSX ISO which we will later convert to an eboot (Skip this is you already have a PSX.iso)
2. Converting the ISO to an eboot. And making it look nice
Firstly if you haven’t already made an ISO image of your PSOne Game lets do that. For this example I’m using Resident Evil 2.
Making an ISO of my Resident Evil 2 Playstation game
In order to convert this Playstation game to an ISO I’m going to use PSone ISO maker. You can also use Nero, Alcohol or an program that can make ISO images. Download Psone ISO maker below:
Extract this file to your desktop, then insert your PSX game.
Insert your PSX Disk and start PSOne ISO maker
Note if your PSX disk is NTSC, select NTSC or PAL select PAL. NTSC PSX games will work best when converting to eboots. (Alot of disk drives might have errors extracting the files or even reading the disk.) Hopefully this wont be an issue!
Extracting the PsOne game an ISO
Wait for the PSOne ISO Maker to extract the image. It can take some time so please be patient. Now we have a Playstation image (.IMG and .CCD files) lets move on to converting this to an eboot which can be use on your PSP.
We are going to use PSX2PSP to make our Eboot.PBP. Download that below:
Using PSX2PSP to make our Eboot.pbp
1. Load the PSX_GAME_Title .IMG you just make or another PSX image you have.
2. Select the output for the Eboot
3. Insert the title of the game here
4. The game ID. This is found on the PsOne disk. Or find it on our PSX Game ID list.
If you want a nice looking PSX2PSP eboot you can customize the images used. To do this click on the customize tab in PSX2PSP.
Here I'm adding some custom images to make the PSX eboot look much nicer.
Above: I have added some custom images to my Resident Evil eboot. This way it looks much more professional. If your looking for icons and backgrounds for almost every American NTSC game I recommend this PSP2PSX Icon pack ->
If you download and extract files to “.\pics\pic1\” most games from USA will show the game cover as shown below.
Megaupload link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XMJE8ZWN
The icon pack contains 1400 icons and is about 150MB.
Now you have the eboot looking good you can preview it by clicking the arrow tabs in PSX2PSP.
Preview your PSX Eboot in PSX2PSP
Once your happy with the Eboot preview, click the convert menu again and then convert. (Note if your making a Eboot from a PAL PSX game, please go to options and patches. Apply the PAL2NTSC patches) Once the PSX2PSP have finished making the eboot place the folder (example SLUSXXXXX) in your PSP memory stick \PSP\GAME. Start your PSP and launch the game from the XMB game menu.
Enjoy!
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March 28, 2009 at 7:06 am
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March 28, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Do games created with this method require custom firmware?
March 30, 2009 at 12:56 am
What do I do if the computer won’t read the PSX disc?
June 7, 2009 at 6:14 pm
it wil! i promise)))
April 3, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Error “The cpyright protection information is invalid”.. What is this mean??? HELP!!
April 3, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Cprighit proteccion is invalid how do i fix that?
April 3, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Where are you getting that error, when copying the PSX game disk on your PC?
April 4, 2009 at 4:18 am
The Error “The copyright protection information is invalid”.. When I copy the game to my PSP. Does PSP without CFW able to play this?
April 4, 2009 at 4:19 am
The Error “The copyright protection information is invalid”.. When I play it on my PSP.
April 4, 2009 at 9:31 am
Sadly it only proves that it needs CFW
April 4, 2009 at 10:45 am
Yes unfortunately you need custom firmware
April 5, 2009 at 3:47 pm
what custom firmware are we needed?
i had try and this app not create keys.bin..
also after convert it has error 0×10003130..
what does it means?
April 10, 2009 at 12:22 am
When my PSP boots up Resident Evil 2, it freezes when the game reaches the screen that says “This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore.” Can anyone give me a reason why this happens? Is there a patch that is needed to fix this problem? I have tried this with 3 different images of this game from 3 different locations. Including making one img myself.
April 12, 2009 at 4:54 am
@ bios:
I’m not 100% sure which cfws it works on, but it works fine on cfw 3.71 -5.00m33. I’m currently using 5.00m33-6 and it works great.
@ PSPFan:
I’m still new at this, I’ve made EBOOTs of Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and a few others, but I seem to be having trouble making one of Dragon Warrior VII. I’ve used Imgburn to make all the previous ones and they all worked fine, but when I load the .IMG file into PSX2PSP, none of the info shows up, I input it myself, and when I hit convert It simply skips straight to 100% completion and claims its done but I get a corrupt file that won’t work.
I’m just wondering if I need to use a different game ID to trick the PSP into thinking its an official EBOOT release, or if its something to do with the fact that there are two discs.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and great tutorial, very concise and informative.
April 20, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I’ve seen plenty of tutorials on how to make a psx2psp eboot. And i’ve got it down for songle disc games. how do u make a multi disc game?
April 25, 2009 at 11:50 pm
In my experience Jegster & trapspringer, I just did one disc at a time line in FF7. Just use the same keys and everything and change only the eboot for the PSX game in the subfolder PSP/GAME/*PSXGAME*.
That’s what I did for FF7. I’m needing to know why my Resident Evil 2 wont proceed past where the game says “This game contains scene of explicit violence and gore:. Why is that/? I’m using CFW 5.00 M33-6. Can anyone help? Both the Leon & Claire disc do this.
May 2, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I have exactly the same situation , freezes on that screen …………………..
May 2, 2009 at 5:22 pm
RE 2 on both discs
May 17, 2009 at 12:24 pm
OH K here’s a fix for this, you need to change both the SAVE ID and GAME ID to the JAP versions of this game. read this thread
http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=60299
May 1, 2009 at 9:55 pm
This program olnly creates the eboot.pbp file, not the keys.bin file. Is this a problem?
May 12, 2009 at 4:07 am
Create iso with alcohol!
May 12, 2009 at 7:55 am
this is what i did !!! and after i tried playing it and it said “ITS CORUPTED” PLZZZZZ helppp
May 12, 2009 at 8:32 am
ohhhh my god this shit is givin me a headache
May 12, 2009 at 7:22 pm
How I did mine…
RE2 SLUS_00592 CLAIRE & 00421 LEON
Made image with Alcohol data type playstation.
Convert with psx2psp v1.4.2 with no compression.
CLAIRE game and save ID 00592
LEON game and save ID 00492
CFW 5.00 M33-6
Popsloader-I choose v3.30
FINE!
May 13, 2009 at 4:12 am
Thanx dl007. I will give it a try.
May 14, 2009 at 12:59 am
CORRECTION!
Change game ID to SLPS01222 for both discs.
Confirmed working with pops v3.52
May 13, 2009 at 7:06 am
If you dont have a program to obtain the ISO file then i suggest alcohol 120%, if you dont have it and cant get it then you can get alcohol 52% which is free
May 15, 2009 at 6:59 am
thanks a lot for this
May 17, 2009 at 11:18 am
hey I made a eboot for Resevil 2.. but when I load it I can’t get past the first screen – “this game contains violence and gore”
anyone else have this problem?
May 17, 2009 at 8:24 pm
What is your game ID, and what pops are you using?
Make sure your created game ID is SLPS01222 & use pops v3.52.
May 17, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I’m using PSX2PSP that is linked on this page.. I used SLPS01222 for Game ID and SLUS00756 for Save ID, for RE2 Dual Shock Leon Disc NTSC..
May 18, 2009 at 9:23 am
Try different pops, quit game, restart and hold R button until pops menu appear, then select different pops. Try 3.40, 3.52, 3.71, 3.72,….
May 21, 2009 at 12:18 am
I’m running 5.00M33 – I’ve been reading that popsloader only supports up to 3.90?
May 22, 2009 at 3:41 am
…up to v4.01
for your dual shock eboot v3.52 or 3.90 should do the trick. are you still having problems?
May 22, 2009 at 3:48 am
lol,
latest pops support cf 5.00M33-6 which i’m using with pops v4.01
May 23, 2009 at 9:42 am
haven’t tried in a few days, got too frustrated starting new games to get to the police station so I’ve given up for a while. but thanks for your help guy
May 29, 2009 at 8:22 pm
wtf i am using ChickenR2 on my psp 3000. does it work with that???
June 7, 2009 at 6:12 pm
you have to use 5.03 GEN-A
June 7, 2009 at 6:12 pm
runs perfect on my psp3000 5.03 GEN-A
June 10, 2009 at 11:00 am
can you please tell me the exact steps you followed to get it running… cuz i have tried it on both xenogears and gen-a and cant get it working
June 10, 2009 at 11:01 am
forgot this shkmdysn@gmail.com
June 11, 2009 at 11:43 am
Hey, how exactly did you get it to work? I have the same firmware and a PSP 3000 and I still can’t get it to work. It loads the game and gets to the Playstation symbol, but it stays at that screen.
June 10, 2009 at 5:07 am
Will this method work for multi-disc games like MGS and FF9?
June 12, 2009 at 6:59 am
how come ff8 is not playin in my psp? it just shows the psp logo then post something that said the game can not be started. i have a cfw, with pops installed. and the eboots are saved in 4 folders. thanks in advance…
June 19, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Mine gets to logo screen only just like PandaExpress 2. I have CFWE 3.30. Can someone explain why this is happening?
June 24, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I got a question that has probably been asked. What if you want a game such as FFVII thats a multi-disk game. Do I do each disc individual and when the game ask to insert next disc i just load the eboot for that disc or what. Someone let me know.
July 6, 2009 at 12:32 am
cfwe 3.50 for psp 300..??
can it play this..???
July 24, 2009 at 11:34 pm
how can i run this EBOOT.PBP in PSP-3004 slim under firmware 5.03 with cfwenabler 3.60?
October 25, 2009 at 6:07 pm
WHY ARE YOU n00b5 EVEN A MEMBER ON THIS WBSITE IF YOU DONT HAVE OR DONT KNOW HOW TO GET CRW!!!! THAT ANNOYS ME!!!!
October 29, 2009 at 2:09 pm
it annoys me more that you really care that much… and have to use all caps to get your point across, on top of that, why would you post in a “thread” that hasnt had any other posts since july..?