Running Gran Turismo Portable on PSP 5.00 M33-6 custom firmware without using a ripkit

9 Oct
2009

Gran Turismo Portable PSP boxart

To make Gran Turismo Portable run on 5.00 firmware, you will need to decrypt the game’s EBOOT.BIN, patch it, and recreate the ISO or CSO file. This may sound tricky, but it is actually quite simple and easy to do.

First, you will need a copy of the original Gran Turismo Portable ISO (download it here).

Next, you will need the following tools:

The following steps can be tricky, so read very well and understand to avoid confusion.

Run UMDGen and open the Gran Turismo Portable ISO. You should see something like what I have in the screenshot below.

step1 - open Gran Turismo Portable ISO in UMDGen

Inside UMDGen’s Explorer tab, navigate to the GRANTURISMO / PSP_GAME / SYSDIR directory.

Inside this directory there is a file called EBOOT.BIN – right-click on it and choose Extract Selected…

step2 - extract EBOOT.BIN

Extract the file and copy it to the root of your PSP memory stick.

step3 - copy EBOOT.BIN to your ms0

Install Yoshihiro’s Games Decrypter by copying the GameZDecryptZ to the ms0:/PSP/GAME/ folder on your PSP memory stick.

step4 - install Yoshihiro's Games Decrypter

Inside your PSP, run GAME DECRYPTER Yoshihiro V3 and choose to press O to decrypt and patch your EBOOT.BIN for 5.xx.

If successful, you should now have a new, patched EBOOT.BIN inside ms0:/DECRYPTOR/ of your PSP memory stick.

step5 - run Yoshihiro's Games Decrypter to create a patched EBOOT.BIN

Go back to UMDGen and delete EBOOT.BIN by right-clicking on it and selecting Delete.

step6 - delete the original EBOOT.BIN

Import the patched EBOOT.BIN by right-clicking on a blank area and and going to Add -> Existing File(s)…

step7 - import the patched EBOOT.BIN

Save the modified ISO as new, uncompressed ISO or as a compressed CSO or DAX file.

step8 - save the modified ISO

Finally, copy the modified ISO/CSO/DAX into your PSP, start the game, and enjoy!

As proof, I have made this tiny video showing Gran Turismo Portable on my PSP running 5.00 M33-6.

Good luck!

UPDATE (10-Oct-09): For those of you who are still having problems, I have uploaded my patched EBOOT.BIN here.

UPDATE (13-Oct-09): I have uploaded a mirror of the patched EBOOT.BIN onto MediaFire.

Download that file and extract, then follow steps the remaining steps to create a patched ISO.

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76 Responses to Running Gran Turismo Portable on PSP 5.00 M33-6 custom firmware without using a ripkit

Fenrir

October 9th, 2009 at 5:44 am

Thx. a lot for this awesome tutorial dude :D -you really helped me out!

Fenrir

October 10th, 2009 at 1:09 am

btw. you have to switch your XMB (push Select in the main psp menu > set to m33-driver (at least i had to play the game)

1. From the XMB menu, press the Select button
2. Scroll down to UMD ISO Mode
3. Change the setting to m33 driver – no UMD
4. Press the Select button again to exit the menu

http://blog.codesignstudios.com/how-to-fix-the-game-could-not-be-started-error-on-modified-sony-psp/

jayjay

October 10th, 2009 at 3:01 am

thanks for this!! it really works thanks again!! ^_^

hrvat

October 10th, 2009 at 8:48 am

Thnx soo much 4 ur help. Ive alwys been a fan 4 GT n now I can play on my m33 PSP

Andy

October 10th, 2009 at 9:51 am

Thanks heaps very usefull now i can rip my new games!!!

TeeJay

October 11th, 2009 at 7:21 am

hey, got a problem. i obtained a 5.50 gen patched copy of gt. i used umdgen to open the iso and replace eboot.bin with the one uploaded here. i saved it to *.iso and put it back on my psp. it didn’t work. i also tried changing the umd iso mode to sony and m33 driver. still, no luck. what should i do? my psp is phat with 5.00m33-6 and d copy of gt is the us version. i need help asap. tnx!

Dennison Uy

October 11th, 2009 at 11:16 am

TeeJay this method will not work for the 5.50 GEN patched copy of GT. Try using patched EBOOT.BIN for 5.00 which I have uploaded here.

TeeJay

October 11th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

@Dennison
That’s what I did. I replaced the patch with the one you uploaded. Still, no luck. How come? I already have second thought of downloading a patched copy of GT.

TeeJay

October 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

@Dennyson
I got it working! I’t’s because that I used UMDGen to open the file from my psp (GT). When I saved it, I thought it would overwrite the data but it didn’t. I discovered that the file inside my psp and my pc are different. I deleted the one on my psp and copied the one from my pc. It worked already. Thanks a lot! I’m a fan of GT since I was a little boy. Sorry for the comment a while ago…

Dennison Uy

October 12th, 2009 at 12:38 am

TeeJay: I’m glad you got it sorted out. Have fun buddy!

Sean Johnson

October 12th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

hello man, i did everything. but it wont work

Inumaniac

October 12th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

Uhm dude. I did everything. But when I try to save it as an ISO, it stops at 99% and says it has an error opening EBOOT.BIN and aborted. But the ISO is still in the place where I saved it. Could you please re-upload your EBOOT.BIN to Media fire? I’m sorry, but my computer doesn’t allow me to download from rapidshare, I don’t know why. Sorry if I’m asking too much.

Inumaniac

October 12th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

If you do upload it, you’ll be realy be helping me a lot.. Thank you.

Dennison Uy

October 13th, 2009 at 3:27 am

Sean:

Try using the EBOOT.BIN that I uploaded to rapidshare.

Dennison Uy

October 13th, 2009 at 3:35 am

Inumaniac: I uploaded a copy onto MediaFire. Check the latest post update for the link.

Inumaniac

October 13th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Thanks a lot dude! ^_^

dindoac

October 13th, 2009 at 9:16 pm

“Inside your PSP, run GAME DECRYPTER Yoshihiro V3 and choose to press O to decrypt and patch your EBOOT.BIN for 5.xx.” need help on this.

warriorbeast

October 14th, 2009 at 12:21 am

HI!

When i try to run the game gran turismo, the screen goes black and do anything, i have to reboot the psp, anyone happen’s that?

thanxs

warriorbeastwarriorbeast

October 14th, 2009 at 12:24 am

i forgot to said that i have a psp slim 3004

atmakun

October 14th, 2009 at 3:29 am

will this process work for all games affected by the new version of psp firmware?

l3east

October 14th, 2009 at 11:39 am

Man, I never comment on these, but I was trying to get this game to work for a while and reading a buncha forums. Finally got it working thanks to you! You’re a life saver!… Or time saver is a better way to put it… Thanks a lot for the EBOOT upload yo’!

Alment

October 14th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

Can you upload the game without these things to make it

DAKTARIN

October 15th, 2009 at 12:40 am

Thanks for this worked flawlessly,now i have a patched iso can i put this on any psp or do i need to do the process again,( for example on my brothers psp )

PSM

October 15th, 2009 at 1:45 am

How do you get Gran turismo working on 5.00 m33-4 CFW? i tried it using the downgrader but it dont work. is it possible?

ResaKoso

October 15th, 2009 at 2:43 am

thanx great job

james

October 15th, 2009 at 3:58 am

Im confused on some of the steps(2 ,7 and 8)
on 2 and 7 it says 2 delete or whatever the “eboot.bin” file,
but on the screenshot the “boot.bin” file is highlited…..wich one is it???

and # 8,im confused
any help?

Dennison Uy

October 15th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

PSM: Yes it is possible using the downgrader. If that didn’t work then you probably missed a step or did something wrong.

Try using the EBOOT.BIN file that I uploaded, see if that works.

james: I meant EBOOT.BIN and not BOOT.BIN, sorry if the screenshot confused you.

Marley

October 16th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

I can’t access the original iso flie you have uploaded to ADrive
plz help……….

Marley

October 16th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

The Game works great
btw can i use this same method for motor storm artic edge???

Chris

October 17th, 2009 at 12:16 am

So just one question each time i download an iso if it says its tested on 5.50 GEN A/B/B2 cfw can i also use this steps to decrpyt it back to m33-x so it works on my psp when i play it?? I have googled this EVERYWHERE! but none would help me i would like to hear your opinion btw if this does work then God bless you for the instructions =)

Zaved

October 17th, 2009 at 10:14 am

Please Help
Did every thing it said but still blank screen and I have to restart my psp!!!
(p.s. i downloaded a already patched GT from another site and it was patched for 5.55 so i don’t know if that’s it but i did replace the eboot, the only reason why i downloaded it from a different site was because the one here doesn’t work so if someone can please re-post a working link, if possible.
Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enno

October 18th, 2009 at 7:42 am

Thankz………very Thankz great idea all games go…….also German Versions…….Good Man

dick willy

October 20th, 2009 at 6:00 am

balls

jdmrpm

October 21st, 2009 at 7:24 am

okay so everything went well i got everything put in the right places … it shows up in the psp menu under games nd i see the icon and evrything the game starts the psp logo shows nd then my screen goes black nd it says “the game could not be started. (80020148)”

HELPPPPP ive been trying allllllll day to get this running..

jdmrpm

October 21st, 2009 at 7:28 am

unless something is wrong with the iso i downloaded???????

ill try your iso you uploaded … but it wasnt working at all yesterday…..

HELPPPP

jdmrpm

October 21st, 2009 at 7:49 am

if it helps im running 5.00 m33-6 ..

jdmrpm

October 21st, 2009 at 8:50 am

update!!!!

so i went to psp mod and forgot about the whole “piarcy” rule nd admitted that i achieved another gran turismo psp eboot file from the internet and continued my story nd how i need help or w/e and they banned me

help…

k16

October 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 am

daghang salamat bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(TY. a lot) i was able to copy ur patched eboot. my psp failed to decrypt GT….whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooo……….race time,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,zoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom..

waup

October 24th, 2009 at 10:09 am

i did a different method to play this game in 5.00 m33-6 but the prob is that i get a hang up at intro movie and driving challenge A6. Does this hang up also happens in this method of yours? thanx a lot.

Toolio

October 25th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Hombre!! Many thanks, GT now works as a shine on my PSP lite. I had to upgrade the firmware from 4.01 to 5.00 to run GT PSP Edition and had some troubles along the way, still one thing doesn’t work though (CFW :-( ) but thats doesn’t concerns this topic LOL.

Again, THANKS!!!

wareagle123

October 26th, 2009 at 9:57 am

Do I copy the finished iso into the PSP game folder of the stick? I downloaded the patched bin file, maybe I copied it into the wrong folder, where does it go? Thanks.

Aga

October 28th, 2009 at 1:59 am

i have a PHAT psp 1k
im trying to decrypt gran turismo but it dosnt work.
i tried following all the steps but it doesnt work.
when i ran the decryptor in the psp and opened the folder “decrypterz” suppoesed to be there was a another eboot but then there was none.

i have a cfw 5.50 gen D2 but still it doesent work. hay..
please help me!

Dennison Uy

November 1st, 2009 at 1:42 pm

@Aga You are using a different firmware. This method only works for CFW 5.00 M33
@waup No, it doesn’t hang on mine.
@wareagle You need to copy use UMDGen to patch the original ISO then copy the finished ISO into the ISO folder.

chris

November 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 am

mines nt working done evryfink works up to the part where it goes to auto save feature then goes black help please

Adway

November 3rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm

It freezes at after the message in the begining “the game has auto save please dont switch off…….”

Denis

November 8th, 2009 at 3:16 am

I have the same problem. The game runs well but it freezes showing this message “the game has auto save please don’t switch off…”

I would be glad if you post your settings on Recovery Menu.

Anyway, thanks for the tutorial. I’m gonna try the newest game too.

JD

November 11th, 2009 at 1:30 am

ADrive link is not working

strap

November 29th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

Can U pls upload again the complete iso, i found only ntsc

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ytatakkutakku

December 13th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

i hate for the record to not be straight, SO FOR THE RECORD;

THIS TUTORIAL DOES WORK IF YOU FALLOW IT WORD FOR WORD.

i will post a video if you need more proff.

someone

December 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

I am really thankfull that they are people out there who wants to help, and i dont want to be rude but…… NO IT DOES NOT WORK EVEN THAT I FOLLOW THE TUTORIAL WORD FOR WORD, i have the same problem like some other dudes here, the game starts, tells “the game has auto save please don’t switch off” and than BOOM! Blackscreen nothing happens, so it would be really mice if someone can help.

kay

December 18th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

hi.. can i apply this method to all the new games? will it work?

Daksh

December 28th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

hey man i used your uploaded patch it didn’t work pls pls help

Eva-00 Pilot

December 28th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Hey dude thanks a lot!!!! The game runs really good on my 5.00 m33-6 Firmware, im still having the “game could not be started” problem yet, but if i press the select button to show the vsh menu i can play again….it’s kind of kick in the balls, everytime i want to play….Select button LOL, Happy holydays (delayed) And a very happy new year!!!.

leandro

January 9th, 2010 at 4:49 pm

guys i need help everytime i decrypt my eboot it always says cannot decrypt games eboot unknown

leandro

January 9th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

99% and i’m stucked

jag

January 10th, 2010 at 7:29 pm

Hey, great tutorial, just wondering, i have the same problem when trying to open tekken 6, would it worked if i did all of this with it?

Saif

January 17th, 2010 at 1:41 am

Thanks alot bavo!!! it was really awsome! =D

Mila

January 18th, 2010 at 7:59 am

hey i have an error “the game cannot be started” im using 5.00 m33-6..what im i doing wrong?

Hitesh

January 21st, 2010 at 8:49 pm

Hey t hanks.. it worked on the 5.0.3 CFW… thanks a lot…

William

February 4th, 2010 at 10:02 am

I am lost with this step “Inside your PSP, run GAME DECRYPTER Yoshihiro V3 and choose to press O to decrypt and patch your EBOOT.BIN for 5.xx.” I dont know what icon should be responsible for running GAME DECRYPTER Yoshihiro V3.

zBitzTKO

February 13th, 2010 at 12:20 am

I just want to said TYVM!!!!!!!!!!!!! This really help me!!! I finally get to play Fifa 10 on my Psp which is M33-6, so thank you very much!!!

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wan

February 28th, 2010 at 3:54 am

I have tried orignal eboot fil and your fil. when I start GT it starting with no problem, but when it say auto saving screen going black. Are there any else I do wrong?

hitesh

March 3rd, 2010 at 10:25 pm

Hi,

Does any one has the original link for the game. now link is nt working. i want to download the game….

aaman

March 5th, 2010 at 7:15 pm

thanks u r great.

aasif

March 24th, 2010 at 11:13 pm

i have a psp 3004 with motherboard TA -090 v2. and im using 5.03 gen chickHEN but somehow i am not able to get beyond gen a and not able to play dissidia T.T plz tell me how i can convert to 5.00 m33-6 to play it

kyle

April 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am

is this game works on 5.50 Gen D ???

shane

April 11th, 2010 at 10:13 am

tnx ^_^

Mike

June 8th, 2010 at 8:59 pm

Same problem as some other guys here, after the autosave message the screen turns black. staying like that. you can exit the game via home so it is not completly frozen. Yet the eboot did not decrypt probably i believe. Your version is not working either for me. I am not sure wether I have the PAL or other version of the game but I tried fooling around in the recovery menu without luck…. So if any of you managed to get the game working after all I would realy apeciate a comment regarding how you did it. TY to all of you helping and the one for coming up with this.

El Buba

July 24th, 2010 at 8:34 am

Great!!!! Thank You!!!

pepeter

August 11th, 2010 at 6:22 pm

can i use this to work pes 2010 in my psp

pepeter

August 11th, 2010 at 6:24 pm

i have 5.00m33-6

PINOY!!!

August 13th, 2010 at 9:26 am

THIS IS GREAT!! I LOVE YOU BRO!!! NOW I CAN PLAY ANY NEW GAME IN MY PSP FAT !!!! WOHOOOO DAMN IT!!! YOURE THE MAN!!!!!

Epiphany

August 25th, 2010 at 8:57 pm

can this work with other games and if yes, how?

Sunny

August 28th, 2010 at 2:19 pm

Thanks… Its working :)

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