UMDs on Vita

Submitted by ASKidwai; November 13, 2011

You are a PSP owner, right? And like every good PSP owner, you ought to have loads and loads of UMDs (except if you have a Go) And now you want the Vita, like every other person who knows his way around gadgets.

But we all know that Sony did not install a UMD reader in the Vita and you want to play your UMDs on the Vita.

Well, here comes the good news, well, for the Japanese only or until Sony clears up the foggy details but you have to buy them again.

Allow me to enlighten you about UMD Passport, a PSN app for PSP which allows you to buy your UMDs from PSN...

It's a rather complicated procedure; apparently you first have to download the UMD Passport application from the PSN for the PSP. Then you register the UMD in the UMD drive to your PSN account, after which you log in to your PSN account from a Vita and from whence you buy the game from PSN for your Vita for a lower price...

Is it just me or do I hear grumblings about buying your already bought games again? And catch this, not all the games are on PSN, so there will only be some games available from your large collection...

Still, at least Sony is making an effort to please you.

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Tags: PS Vita, PSN, PSP, UMD

sony can suck a dick, rotten ripoffs! it's no wonder their psp's and
ps3's are getting hacked, bcuz they cant satisfy the customer without
screwing them over! who wants to buy the games they already bought? even
at a lower price, it is still a chance to rip ppl off! screw sony! 5.00
m33 and 3.55 rebug!

# Guest 2011-11-13 11:13

Sony are under no obligation to provide you with a way to play your UMDS on the new PSP. You have no reason to not keep your current PSP, and don't try to pretend that the only reason you hacked it is because Sony are 'screwing the customer over'.

Sony have just offered a recourse for people who want to port their UMDs over. It's pricy, but then, it's not mandatory. Nor is it really necessary.

# MasterAlec 2011-11-13 11:28

its a pirates life for me. they can go out of business.

# nick6521 2011-11-13 12:35

arrrr

# Guest 2011-11-13 13:15

first ver of vita is asking for prob am going to wait for ver 2 or 3 like i did with my psp

# ccfman2004 2011-11-13 14:00

I can't remember the last PSP game I played. I prefer my DS.

# Guest 2011-11-13 16:50

lol yeah its there way to say screw you guys for fucking hacking our shit...haha..i support both parties but not assholes who sit there and try to scam you out of something you allready bought..it'll be interesting to see what happens after there vita is broken too

# Guest 2011-11-13 17:25

I'll wait till it gets hacked and then buy it, there's no way i'm gonna repurchase games that i already own... well I don't actually own any but I still wouldn't buy any games lol

# jappiatwal 2011-11-13 18:28

totally agree with master alec dude!

# Guest 2011-11-13 20:06

Are you fucking serious? how the hell are these greedy bastards still in business? Basically your already bought UMD game is just a fucking coupon for a goddamn discount. that's it. Might as well just lowered the pricing on the fucking PSN versions and just left this added BS out.

@Sony - I'm gonna pirate every single game you will ever make. Why? Because of shit like this. You want people to buy your games? You know what to do.

# Guest 2011-11-13 21:34

Think you are on the wrong site lol ;)

# Guest 2011-11-14 01:00

I don't usually rant but this is actually one of those times when i actually shake my head in such disgust and dissapointment at sony... not only do people have to go through what sounds like a long fuck tard procedure, but they then expect you to purchase what you already own....they're like school kids that steal someones lunch then make them buy it back... ridiculous. really am getting sick of this fucking company... next we'll be paying 60 odd to rebuy blu rays for our psn only PS3Go.....

# Guest 2011-11-14 02:48

Will lbp be the new lbp on vita with touch ect or will it be standard psp version?

# Guest 2011-11-14 11:33

This must mean isos will be playable on the vita so how about playing the UMD backup?

(of course if this can somehow be done probably using a hack)

i just mean iso support must exist

# Guest 2011-11-14 13:57

ps vita is not a psp so if you bought umds were to play on your psp and psp only...if you want a vita they are offering a way to play your umd games...they dont have to do it and u are not forced to rebuy them,if you wanna play ur old ums,stick to your psp

# Guest 2011-11-14 17:11

Yarr, I concur. My PS3 is on 3.55 Rebug CFW and every game installed on it was STOLEN FROM THE INTERNET. Big thanks to Team DUPLEX for their cracked PSN titles.

# Guest 2011-11-14 17:12

Amen brother. I'm with you all the way. :)

# jappiatwal 2011-11-14 17:55

you are one stupid ass huh? sony shouldnt make us pay for what we already own, we bought it once so we dont need to buy it again. When you buy a psp, for example, you only pay once not twice unless you are stupid enough to pay twice? and by the way that you are bitching, it seems you would.

# jappiatwal 2011-11-14 17:57

exactly! if they wouldnt do dumb things like making people re-buy their bought games for the new console then there's no reason to for me to jailbreak my psp. they screw me so i give em the finger..>:)

# Guest 2011-11-14 18:49

Actually, that is one of the main reasons that the PSP GO failed was due to the fact that it didn't support UMD games straight off the disc. This led to some games that weren't available for the GO, and the only way to play them was to dump them to the memory.

If Sony requires you to pay for them, then what is the point of buying the UMD if you have to pay for it again?

# schah 2011-11-14 21:52

34Lol, gotta love all these rants and comments. I bet those who keeps
whining bitching and wish sony to go out of business will still buy a
vita. I hate those kind of hypocrites. If u really hate sony, well it's
simple. Don't use or buy any of their stuff. As for me, sure i don't
like some of sony's policies including this one. But i never hate them
coz they bring great stuff to the market. Else, i won't have a psp, ps3,
god of war, killzone etc to enjoy. Hacking and pirating bcoz u hate
them is a cheap excuse. If u
don't like, don't use. Move along

# Guest 2011-11-15 03:28

i prefer hacked vita.... As my psp2000 had dead.... Dead by UMD usage....

# Guest 2011-11-15 05:02

Here's the catch retard: You DON'T own a digital copy of your UMD. You ONLY own the physical copy of your game. You have not bought the licence therefore you are NOT entitled to a free download.

Sony didn't even have to add backwards compatibility but they did, so be thankful.

It's cheap assholes like you that ruin games for everyone.

# Guest 2011-11-15 07:36

They should just license people to turn a UMD into a game code then destroy the UMD or make a machine to do it for them. Allow 2 downloads then bam codes invalid.

# Tacoguy123 2011-11-15 09:38

Theoretically owning the UMD of a game IS a physical version of a digital copy of the game, so there shouldn't be any reason for having to pay again for the exact same game.

# Guest 2011-11-15 10:13

guys guys lets not get butthurt for this we could use our old psp's to play the umd games.

# Guest 2011-11-15 11:20

how the f**k are u to get the games free does the UMD have a code on it or u think sony makes notes on every purchase u make u dumb ass so they can't make all the psp games free and then they will lose money since they are losing money and then they will shut down and i bet u won't want that.idiot.

# jappiatwal 2011-11-15 16:53

thanks Tacoguy123! this other fool is hella dumb, he willingly would pay twice for a game, he's obviously sucking sony's cock. whata douche bag, no balls..

# jappiatwal 2011-11-15 17:04

hahaha!

# Guest 2011-11-16 14:25

.....I agree

# Guest 2011-11-17 01:38

Yes it is theoretically a digital copy therefore you should be free to extract your legal physical copy's digital image and play it on your psp. No problems there.

BUT this is a different platform, therefore your argument is invalid. Think of it this way:

The new HD Metal Gear Solid collection is on PS3. It's the same PS2 games I've already bought. Am I therefore entitled to the PS3 version for free?

Answer: NO

PSP and VITA are different platforms. So same rule applies.

Suck shit if you don't like it but Sony are in the right and you're just cheap assholes.

# Guest 2011-11-17 04:51

PSone classics ring a bell? lol

# jappiatwal 2011-11-17 15:38

you are the only idiot here believing your own bullshit, we paid once and that's enough, END OF STORY.

# Tacoguy123 2011-11-17 18:28

Except that there is no PSVita version of the UMD, it is the original PSP version so there shouldn't be a reason to pay for the exact same game.

The new HD Metal Gear Solid collection is a different game compared to the original MGS games (such as how the original Mario Bros. game is different than the Super Mario All-Stars version).

# Games like a Grrl 2011-11-17 22:01

PSP Vita =/= PSP. Whole different ballgame, it's like PS2 to PS3.I own the Sly Cooper games on the PS2, is Sony required to give me a free copy of the Sly collection on the PS3? Same applies for God of War collection, MGS collection, Prince of Persia, etc. You seem to think the Vita is the PSP with a touchscreen, it's much more powerful than the PSP. Ehh, whatever, I have my Go with about 10 games loaded on it, CPS2PSP, Mah NeoGeo emulator, etc. Not giving that baby up when I get the Vita, so it won't hurt me. Why would it affect you if you have a PSP with umd games already?

# Guest 2011-11-18 04:21

we wait until they hack the vita then all games can be free

# Guest 2011-11-18 04:53

Alright different example.

I am fortunate enough to have a copy of Final Fantasy VIII on my playstation, 4 discs and everything. Am I therefore entitled to a copy of it on the psn to play on my ps3?

Not in the slightest bit.

You're paying for the service of porting and downloading it. It's not simply a matter of ripping the game to iso format and stuffing it onto the vita. There's a process behind it.

The only time when you cheapfags would have an argument is if sony wanted to charge you a second-time for digital purchases on psn for psp games you wish to play on your vita. Otherwise, they're in the right.

# Guest 2011-11-18 06:53

I don't know who's who here so I'll just reply to your comment. I made the original reply to jappasomething up above

Anyway

"you are one stupid ass huh? sony shouldnt make us pay for what we
already own, we bought it once so we dont need to buy it again. When you
buy a psp, for example, you only pay once not twice unless you are
stupid enough to pay twice? and by the way that you are bitching, it
seems you would."

But you aren't paying twice for something you already own. You're paying for a digital version of a game you own a physical version of. Do you think that iTunes are also obliged to furnish you with a digital version of a CD you own?

"thanks Tacoguy123! this other fool is hella dumb, he willingly would
pay twice for a game, he's obviously sucking sony's cock. whata douche
bag, no balls.."

lol. Good retort there dude.

I own a hacked PSP and I rip most of my UMDs and PS1 games. But if Sony were to allow me to redownload all of my games for free then it would be open to all kinds of abuse. Only a fool would argue otherwise.

This attitude of entitlement among gamers is pathetic. It's childish, but going off most of the puerile insults here, it seems most users are actually children.

# Guest 2011-11-18 09:31

The more the game industry evolves the more selfish everyone involve in it becomes, gamers and developers alike.

# Guest 2011-11-18 19:06

While I, too, am not entirely fond of the thought of having to, essentially, re-purchase my PSP games, you have to understand that if Sony DID offer them for free, people could potentially abuse it. Each copy of a PSP game does not necessarily have its own serial number like PC software does, therefore, Sony can't track one particulate person's game. Being that, people could easily just borrow a PSP game from their friends, log in to their PSN account, and "Oh look, I just got a PSP game for free! Lolumad Sony?" And remember, Sony did not promise backwards compatability for their system. Would it have been nice? Of course it would. But it's an entirely different system. I'm not saying I 100% support Sony on this whole issue. If nothing else, it would be nice if they did have a unique ID for each individual copy of their games for reasons such as this, but they don't. Accept the truth and get over it.

# jappiatwal 2011-11-19 20:20

dont get your panties in a bunch.. Any of the Xbox originals you could download were all backwards
compatible so your original copy would play if you stuck them in your
360 you didn't have to pay for them again. The downloadable versions
were for people who never owned them.

# Guest 2011-11-21 10:14

I disagree with the last part of this post. Sony isn't doing shit to please us, they're merely shaking out as much money as they can from us. I mean wtf I bought a vita, psp and the umd why the hell should I be expected to dish out more money.

# moviez101 2011-11-21 12:38

UMD was a failure waiting to happen from the start. Its not even original! Look at the OTHER failed attempt with the same media off of the Gamecube!!! Never used my UMD slot, except one time! It fits mega sized condoms perfectly!!!

# Guest 2011-11-21 13:18

Sony dropped the PSP, so why is everybody rushing out to get a vita, they do the same again and screw you.

# Tacoguy123 2011-11-22 00:25

Your iTunes example is somewhat misleading as Apple does not really produce physical media CDs (not including software).

I guess the main issue comes down to what is actually being paid for: whether it is the digital replica of a UMD game, or the service of uploading/confirming/downloading the UMD game to the Vita.

# Guest 2011-11-23 10:14

What exactly has been ruined by piracy? If anything, piracy has played a major role in sony having to reduce game prices so that people arent tempted to hack. Along with piracy comes vast distribution of games which contain adverts (ie racing games with ads on billboards) advertisers would be far more inclined to pay for advertisem ents inside games if they were aware of piracy (which they are) as their ads will be seen by many more people. Not only that but piracy also helps security grow stronger... what would you rather.. a psp or vita that is not as secure as it could be with very expensive games and the likelihood that your accounts could be compromise d due to sony security experts going for a nap or cheaper games with ballsy security? Silly non thought out comment if you ask me... might I also reiterate the point "what has been ruined for everyone by people like him?"

# Guest 2011-11-23 17:54

Complaining about Sony being a dick? Then don't buy their products.

I just have to quote this previous comment, because it's nothing but the truth:

"Yes it is theoretically a digital copy therefore you should be free to extract your legal physical copy's digital image and play it on your psp. No problems there.

BUT this is a different platform, therefore your argument is invalid. Think of it this way:
The new HD Metal Gear Solid collection is on PS3. It's the same PS2 games I've already bought. Am I therefore entitled to the PS3 version for free?

Answer: NO

PSP and VITA are different platforms. So same rule applies.
Suck shit if you don't like it but Sony are in the right and you're just cheap assholes."

# Guest 2011-11-23 21:05

Had the games been free, there would be so much abuse. What would stop me from going to GameStop, buying a handful of UMDs, downloading those games for free, then returning the UMDs as per GameStop's 7-day return policy on used games? If I chose to, I could visit several stores and get every game I want for absolutely free.

At first, I was also slightly annoyed to see them charging for games I already purchased. However, I see it this way: the Vita is a whole new console, not a new model of PSP. Though it would be nice, Sony is not obligated to give me backwards compatibility.

# Guest 2011-11-24 15:39

all my games are on the psn store for downloading anyways.

# Guest 2011-11-25 18:08

you HATE Sony, then dont buy their products.. dont even use or touch it ... i hate samsung and all korean product and never buy or touch 'em... haha

# Guest 2011-11-27 05:53

I agree with this Quote:

"Yes it is theoretically a digital copy therefore you should be free to extract your legal physical copy's digital image and play it on your psp. No problems there."

I disagree with this Quote:

"BUT this is a different platform, therefore your argument is invalid. Think of it this way:
The new HD Metal Gear Solid collection is on PS3. It's the same PS2 games I've already bought. Am I therefore entitled to the PS3 version for free?

Answer: NO"

Why? Because HD Metal Gear Solid Collection is a Remake of the original PS2 and everyone knows that the people with the First Gen PS3 have backwards compatibil ity with any PS2 game. If you wanted to compare something you should have gone with Metal Gear Solid for PS and a Digital copy on PSN.

# Guest 2011-11-27 20:50

What the?

Are you buying UMD because you're going to download it for VITA? Are you a retard?

You bought a UMD because you wanna play it for the PSP, not for the fucking VITA that is different from you're PSP console. Why don't you just play that UMD games for your PSP, cheat it if you want, rip it, upload a copy, masturbate with it and shut the fuck up!

# Guest 2011-11-30 22:35

What is it you are disgusted and disappointed about? Cross-platform gaming? That's what Sony's offering here and at a discounted rate for those with the games for the original platform! I'm disgusted at how many of you can actually bitch moan hate and complain about that. I mean seriously, how hard is it to pull out your PSP and play your original UMD on it? Already I can see this system abused by people thinking Sony owes them something. Sony's doing us a favor, they could just say forget your outdated technology. Or they could do what Microsoft and Nintendo are doing. Re-releasing Halo and Legend of Zelda at a really high price. Sony's the only company being fair in this world of dirty marketing.

# undead rakar 2011-12-01 16:27

why would you need a ps3version when a ps3 can play the ps2 version anyway,,,

# Guest 2011-12-02 12:36

Get EVERY psp game up on the PSN store... if you want the digital copy... MAIL the UMD back to them. Done deal.... yes you the customer pay shipping... thats the cost of going digital. If its worth it to you.... then good... if not ... keep the UMD. As for why I hacked my PSP? ... to play the old PSONE Games that were unavailable on PSN that I OWN! So yes it would be a big deal to make sure that EVERY game is available.

# Guest 2011-12-02 12:49

you said it urself idoit "sony didnt have to make it backwards for psp games"

but guess what they did! so they should allow the games we bought to run without the need to pay again or they should ditch backwards and make the games psn only such as ps1 games on psn

what a idoit fanboy!!!

# Guest 2011-12-02 14:48

dumbass you can convert isos into eboots and as i recall the vita can play eboots

# Guest 2011-12-02 15:17

as i recall the ps vita can play eboots for the psp so convert your iso games into eboots so the vita can play them

# Guest 2011-12-04 20:09

why cant they just install a umd port on the thing? that way it will stop the complaining, people will still buy umds, and people can play their old games with ease.

# Silver-962 2011-12-06 02:52

When will you imbeciles that brown nose Sony learn. yes it's a different system but you should never have to pay twice for a game on disk you already bought twice for Sony's Vita . Because 1. having it on a physical disk is the essentially the same as paying for the license for a digital version of said game and 2. you if your game is on disk and the new console like the Vita has no UMD drive on it you shouldn't have to re-buy a digital image of your game that you already own and have on disk just to play a slightly older game on the newer said consoles' internal harddrive when it has absolutely NO DISK DRIVE and therefor no virtual way of playing a game on disk. Which totally defeats the purpose and also means that Sony is still trying to screw around the little guys or aka the consumers, and making pay twice for a game you're technically entitled too since the Vita has no disk drive to play it on. Unless they make an attachable disk drive for the Vita or something.Which until then there for makes you Sony fanboys' argument null and void thank you very much.

# Silver-962 2011-12-06 02:56

And F.Y.I until recently since Sony has basically tuned into a second Microsoft of the electronic and gaming industry. I was a Sony fanboy since almost day one and I have been playing their games since they first ever released the PS1 when I was 3 years old since before I could ever read. So don't even try to give any kind of BS of hating Sony just because I just pointed out what they're doing with the Vita game deal is wrong and greedy!! Catch Ya later People!!!, and Peace Out!!!

# Guest 2011-12-12 15:08

It is amazing how stupid people can be. Yes it sucks that Sony wants to resell you a game you already own to play on an updated console. YOu have the psp that plays the game. When the music industry came out with the cd did you also feel you were owed a free cd to replace every album you owned on cassette?

# Guest 2011-12-14 10:32

Don't matter i will still have my original PSP to play my PSP games who cares! I wouldn't buy them just to play on the Vita! Thats dumb!

# Guest 2011-12-15 15:55

sony is by far only system that is easy to hack be happy that the psps are hackable or people can hack the sytems still to this day ps3 is sticky and they all use the psps to beef the ps3 security i still say they lure hackers to hack there sytems so they can fix any issues it is a tactical of miltitary or lure mouse in trap. yet in way it leaves us open to this free stuff. i bet there be way to hack this new vita and for a discount i dont mind discount atleast it better then xbox and nintendo they dont discount crap.

# fayt666 2011-12-15 16:11

sony is not stupid in my opinion they want u to hack them why else make such a gap on there system. in way it military tactic but worth it. make there system hackable then beef up fixin holes in there programs makin there firewall security stronger and stonger till hardly no one hacks. yet this is what they want when people do hack they can fix any isues.

now that they are near inpenetrable they themselves are learnin every trick every hacker used an nippin in butt. this is what sony does. game of cat mouse and trappin hacker mice in a big cat trap.

if they didnt want u hack there sytem they wouldnt made this tactic so obvius. in other way they will make some hole in there vita so people can hack it then fix it later.
they want to see how people will approach there hack on there new sytems.

what other company then sony will give a discount on games. nintendo and microsoft jack prices not lower for u buy it so be happy they are bein nice enough.

# Guest 2011-12-20 14:35

If you look at most of the newer ps3s, they are no longer backward compatable to the ps2. They still play the ps1 titles though. I have 2 backward compatable ones but, the cd drives are bad. Got a new one and no more ps2 gaming. :(

# Guest 2011-12-31 08:46

my psp is broken...i own a vita and have tonnes of umd at home any ideas i can get those D: i want to play DJ max 3 on my vita i still have my UMD but none of my friends have a non hacked psp to get the psn store working since its all hacked excepy my broken ones D:

# Guest 2012-01-16 20:09

well that would only be true if the Vita version was a HD remix like the PS3's version there all re coded so they charge for it. If sony didnt remaster the code like the did with the ps3 version then there's no reason to charge the consumer twice.

They up'd the graphics on those remakes.

# Guest 2012-01-17 19:09

the 3DS has backwards compatibility, lets you play your ds games (even though they look terrible) on the new 3DS so why is sony making "the good guys" in sony's eyes (non hackers) who actually own UMDs pay for them a SECOND TIME? What if you paid 5 bucks for the UMD at gamestop, but the 'discounted price' sony is selling them at on PSN is 10 dollars? That would in no way be even a discount!

Sony needs to cut the crap and stop making their systems non backwards compatible, because we all know this isnt the first system of theirs to do this ~cough, ps3 slim cannot play ps2 games!

# Guest 2012-01-26 09:41

Everyone who's saying Sony is ripping you off.... How? I agree with you guys, it's bullshit, but you have the umd and a psp to play the game. They're not obligated to give you the game on vita. If you want to play just take out your psp. The movie and music business didn't give us free cd's and dvd's when we had the cassettes and tapes.

And let's be serious. Nobody hacked their systems because Sony was ripping people off. We hacked our psp's and ps3's for free stuff.

Side note: fuck dlc. I hope everyone pirates those. I'm more pissed about being sold half a game than them charging for a digital copy of a game.

# Guest 2012-02-07 18:42

i dunno 'bout you but i bought the UMDs because i wanted the pre-order bonuses

# Guest 2012-02-10 07:01

No. but if im getting the same exact version of a game that I already paid for, that's when it becomes a problem. I understand that its a different platform, however its not a different GAME. For the people who were hoping to upgrade it becomes a problem. Say, for instance, your psp is limited edition? Or if its broken and you were looking to replace it? The problem here is that it renders one form of media absolutely useless in the next gen market. And you've spent good money on the games. It would have made more sense just to make people pay extra on the vita for a UMD drive if they wanted one. I would do that. The issue is that it's a souped up psp that doesn't play psp games. Nintendo had it right when they had the 3DS be backwards compatible. It's also a different platform, and it still supports what came before it.

# Guest 2012-02-11 04:00

so dont pay again, just keep ur game on psp and move on.
not reason to pay again, its an option, dont like the option, dont do it.
rare ill be digging out my psp once i have a vita, rare ill be wanting to use a psp game once i have a vita.ps2 n ps1 are collecting dust while ive got my ps3 active.

you reeeally want a psp collection on your vita? we are on dashhacks, your answere to your problem will come up here. quit whinging.

# Guest 2012-02-24 01:13

While sony does not indeed hold the responsibility to do this, they are still assholes taking advantage of retards like you. The games that they can charge a customer twice for should be REMAKES and obviously refined versions of the old. If a customer has already bought a copy of a certain game, they can at least provide the customer with the ability to rip their versions of the game and transfer them to work on their psvitas. The matter of the fact is they will not, and in truth is what is hurting their vita sales. Customers that have a huge library of psp games are satisfied with it and do not see the worth of moving to the vita where it has no support for their old handheld unless they not only pay a ridiculous amount of money for the system and REQUIRED memory, and then REBUY only SOME of their titles on the PS store. I would happily pay for some kind of app or tool that lets me send a ripped copy of my UMD to my psvita but alas they do not do it, because in the end they just care about sucking as much money from their loyal fans as they are possibly able to. By the way, the psp did not fail because of homebrew OR piracy, it's just bullshit from their part in order to blame something for their crappy service and selection of games. The DS and Wii both have as much or MORE pirating being done and sell geometrically better than the Sony hardware. Sony is failing because they block innovation just to earn more millions, yes they have every right to do so because its their product, but that does not necessarily make it the right cause.

# Guest 2012-02-25 21:19

read eula's much usually theres somthing in there bout not owning the game just lesing rights to use it. u leases a physical version with no included digital version, now u want the digital verson..u pay the slight markup fr the second coy kinda like some of the new blue ray movies. or if u don want the added feature of playing ure PSP tite on ure VITA keep ure psp..

# Guest 2012-03-04 08:56

Okay, it's been said once but I'll go ahead and say it again. It's not like you're transfering your PSP games to the PSPGo, which is the same gaming system. You're buying a completely different system and expecting them to give you the games you own for free, when they had to go through all the hard work to port them. They've put their time and effort into converting them, you should just be happy they even did make it backwards compatible, it was totally their choice and they didn't have to do any of it. That's like buying a 3ds and expecting them to not only port over the games but to also give you your Wii games for free on it. Yes, they are two completely different systems, but so are the PS Vita and the PSP. Just be happy they even did this for you and stop being greedy little pirates. If it doesn't suit you, wait until it's hacked and risk going to jail over it. Or even bricking your system like the 3ds does when you mod it. Otherwise, be a big kid and deal with it.

# Guest 2012-03-08 07:06

The ps2 had backwards compatibilty for psx games (yes kids it was a psx, ps1 was a revised model) ps3 also had backwards compatibility which was later deemed to costly and ps2 bc was pulled after the original 60gb then the 80gb model.

Umd was a failed venture and will never see the light of day again but the psp emulator exist inside vitas OS so it's Nothing to do with porting games over, they should offer some software to rip an eboot or iso file in the same way you can with custom firmwarewith a means of activating a disk so people cannot use a disc more than once.

The guy above talking about going to jail for hacking a device is nuts, I personally hacked my psps, Xbox, ps3, iphones and more and I am not serving time yet (no bricks either noob, use the readme)

Psp games SHOULD be free to owners of umd discs, its SONY'S penny pinching ways that means they won't be.

# Guest 2012-05-13 07:28

hey i just figured something... why dont we sell our psp games, buy PSN points at gamestop with the credit then buy the titles on PSN?

anyway, remember the Vita has been out forever...soon there shall be a hack that allows us to play ISOs or CSOs on it..

personally I buy games then rip them to pc then sell to friends... amazingly i still have a large collection of DVD cases!

# Guest 2012-06-11 02:25

Then it's not backward compatibility. Sony should not be allowed to market it like that. My old PSP broke down over a year ago. When I saw the previews of the Vita, I was skeptical because like PS2 to PS3, I felt it wouldnt play my old PSP games on the shelf. But when I saw that it said backward compatible with the original PSP games, I figured I might get one until I noticed that there is no UMD reader. After more research, I found that you can only play PSP games that you download from the PSP store and that is compatible with the Vita. So basically, they take old game, tweak it, and rerelease it on the Vita because now that's "backward compatibility".

# Guest 2012-07-19 05:47

It would be cool is they added a UMD adapter, so we can play PSP titles on Vita. It would probably be clunky. Unless they're gonna do the same thing they did with the PS3, and make backwards compatible release for future sales. Sounds like something sony would do.

# WOW — Another Guest 2012-09-10 23:25

Wow lots of comments on this I agree with the hackers and the people who are pissed off lets think back to the ps2 and ps3, Sony started the interchangeable compatibility with in their products, ie ps2 can play ps1 and the older ps3 played ps2 and ps1 now some sticks went up some asses and greed set in. hmmmm lets see how we can screw our loyal customers and make them buy the same shit they bought for top price when it was new all over again, not a good idea, there will defiantly be some loss in revenue for them for that reason people will rebel and our stubborn will set in for the simple fact that I already own it fuck you it should be free so I wont buy it. Profits went down hill when new ps3s came out. Its kind of like here we realize you own a doge viper but the new one looks so sleek and cool but wait it only comes with a 4 cylinder and its twice as much but its just the frame and you have to buy all the parts over again. This doesn’t make scene Sony is going backwards.

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