Midnight Club 3 PSP CSO vs UMD

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The PSP used in the clip is a PSP Slim&Lite with 3.90 M33-3 firmware. The CPU was set to the highest setting, 333MHz.

The CSO was compressed with level 9 compression, which is currently the highest one. However, it is also the slowest in loading times but it's still much better than the UMD.

The Memory Stick used was a 4 GB Sandisk PRO Duo ULTRA II, which means that it's faster than the normal ones. This doesn't help much on the PSP as the data transfer speed on the system isn't enough, you need a proper USB 2.0 memory card reader to really enjoy the faster data transfers.

I dumped the UMD to an ISO to the Memory Stick by myself with an application called UMDumper by PhonicUK.

After dumping it as an ISO file, I transferred it over to my PC and ripped and converted it to CSO with an application called UMDGen.

I have installed the fatmsmod.prx patch to load it from 3.71 so that plugins work and ISOs load faster, made by Dark-Alex:

The small text in the bottom-left of the screen is a plugin called HUD by Darko79, it shows your battery percentage, the current time, CPU speed etc. wherever you are.

The theme I am using in the video is called Sony Black with Red Glow by Hurtween.

I guess that's all... Oh, the load times were as follows (counted from the end of the gameboot to the start of the race):

CSO: 46 seconds
UMD: 1 minute, 25 seconds

Channel: Education
Uploaded: June 21, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Author: JaXeRiR

Length: 00:04:19
Rating: 5.00
Views: 6825

Tags: PSP custom official firmware 3.90 M33 hack mod UMD CSO ISO Midnight Club DUB Edition PlayStation Portable PS2 load time

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xStalkerxx (November 22, 2008 at 5:11 am)
you may use it CSO for smaller size because is being compressed
if that compression is about 400 or even 600mb difference, the game starts to lag and stutter
GTA Liberty City is an example
i always use the uncompressed iso and it runs smooth like butter

hey man do you know a plugin that shows ingame framerate on PSP? im pretty sure ive seen one here but i skipped it
JaXeRiR (November 22, 2008 at 6:29 am)
The plugin I'm using is called PSP-HUD 2.02.
xStalkerxx (November 22, 2008 at 11:27 am)
thx man! it was included in this plugin
it rocks!
Darkseer55 (November 17, 2008 at 4:37 am)
actually i got a question what is a Popsloader?? plz reply
JaXeRiR (November 17, 2008 at 7:53 am)
Popsloader is a plugin which lets you use POPS versions from other, older firmwares. Sometimes older POPS versions support some PS1 games better.
jonny5000951 (November 15, 2008 at 11:53 pm)
how did you change your loading screen?
does it work on 5.00m33-3?
Darkseer55 (November 15, 2008 at 9:01 am)
Games won't lagg if you decompress them from cso to iso lvl9 and if you update your costum frimware to newest 5.00 m33 costum frimware wich was relased recently
JaXeRiR (November 15, 2008 at 9:20 am)
Uhh, obviously ;)

If you also install the Fatmsmod patch you can use the 3.71 fatmsmod on 5.00 M33 which will (in theory) make the games load faster from the MS.
Darkseer55 (November 17, 2008 at 4:35 am)
yo JaXeRir tnx for telling me bout Fatmsmod patch. i didn't know what i did so i never actually tried it lol
JaXeRiR (November 17, 2008 at 7:50 am)
No problem ;)

Anyway, I don't use the Fatmsmod patch because when I use it PSPFiler v5.6 no longer works :/

I'm fine with the default CSO load speed :D