I recently(Last week) recieved my 1GB sandisc memory stick duo and decided to try my hand at backing up some of my Games to memory stick using the build in dumper in fastloader V0.7 the iso size seems to report wrong on most of the games(exceptions are NFS: Rivals and Untold legends) for instance Wipout pures file size reports as being 188MB and the dumper only dumps 188MB before it stops and says rip complete.

Now according to what I read the iso size after removing the dummy files is 830mb,but my complete rip is a small 188MB ,the iso seems playble trough fastloader but I dont trust it one bit...

The games are brand new out of the box,never before playd.
My psp is pluged into the charger.
And I have tryd UMD dumper but with the same results...

Any Idea whats going on?

Maybe the dumper works but just ignores all the sections where there is no data.

Might be but why then is dumps made by "groups" so big,I know that there seposed to use UMD dumper V0.001 but on my PSP the size is smaller.

I playd a couple of stages of Coded Arms(my rip is about 179MB) and it seems fine Im just scared that half way through it will give problems due to the missing files/space.

I forgot to mention before my PSP is a 1.50

the UMD dumper V0.001 alpha works for me .Yet thats the only 1 i use

here is another one that might work

it dumps the umd and if u dont have space on yur 1gb card it will tell ya plus if the game is over a gig u can dump the iso that has already bin dumped to yur pc then u can keep on dumping and there is a software that comes with it that links the 2 together here is the umd dumper

http://rapidshare.de/files/4692036/PSP_UMD_Dumper.zip.html

A full rip of Wipeout Pure should be 241Mb. There isn't any padding in the ISO either (well, very little, 800Kb), so something is missing. The main data file alone is 221Meg by itself.

I'd stick with the alpha-ripper, it works. Or the 0.20 Dumper ledz posted above (never tried it myself).

Failing that, just use File-assistant to copy the files manually. I used it to rip THUG2 which was about 1.2Gb, works fine once compressed to fit on a 1Mb.

make sure you choose the amount of segments you want correctly. Than you need to put them together. I ripped Midnight Club 3 in 200mb segments with no problems.

ledz1, I tryd UMD dumper V0.001 alpha but got the exact same results ,I will try the other dumper that you posted to see if it works.

Optimus Prime, I dont have Fastloader to split my files at all so I dont think it is that.

Stevenz Ill try to use the File-assistant and see if that will make a diffirence at all.

Today I tryd doing the same rip on a brand new 1.50 (Japanese) PSP it gave me the same results,I used my memory stick and the same umd I tryd to dump on my psp,so that kindoff narrows it down to eather the memory stick,user error, or the UMD dont know witch

Ill try formatting my memory stick and trying it again from scratch.

PS Sorry for posting this in the wrong section before

I'm trying it right now, and Fastloader is telling me Wipeout is 252,968,960 bytes. (U.S. version). What version of WO are you trying to dump?

I think its the Jap version of it as it was inported before the PSP was launced here.

I formatted the memory stick now and It seems Im getting a little bit better rip sizes now.

Heres the sizes that I get now:

Coded ARMS 179MB
Metal Gear Solid ACID 196MB
Dead To Rights 188MB
*Wipeout Pure 2470MB

*Wipeout pure seems to be the right size now,but Im just scared of the rest.

DOes this seem a little bit more acurate?

I don't have Metal Gear handy, but the others look perfect.

Thanks Psycho!!

Atleast now I know that the bad rips was due to a badly formatted(or something like that) MS.

Thanks again for everybody that helped!!

Ha! good job on dumping yur games . did the one that i posted help ya out?

No,sorry Leds the one you posted still gave me bad dumps with the bad memory card,but after the format both UMD dumper and Fastlaoder work like a charm

wheever I use Fastloader I have to break Rips into a single PART file then rename it .iso and move it... for some reason whenever I've tried to move it within the Fastloader USB connection the file vanishes but the space is still in use by the card and I have to reformat.

I Just Emptied my Memory Card B4 Dumping... Works Great!!! Dunped Burnout No Problems!!!

tordid can you teal me how i can get Burnout down to 256

what can i remove i do not care if i can laod only 1 map thats fine i jsut whant run it im broke so cant buy a biger card cuse saveing for my trip tokyo so how can ig et it to fit pm me what safe to ripout