What is ISO?? And whats Eboot??

Question

I read those terms on a site while looking for a way to transfer games to the PSP....What do they mean??

Answer 1

Well, depending on the sentence it's used in, ISO could mean a couple of things, but typically when talking about games, people are simply refering a specific format of a CD/DVD image (the single big file that defines all the data of the CD).

Eboot is basically the emulation startup protocols that the PSP will need to run in order to understand what the flop the CD is trying to tell you. The basic assumption here of course being that you are trying to use your PSP as an emulator for PC or other platform games.

Be careful doing this though, while I don't believe it will cause any damage to your PSP, I think using it to emulate other platforms technically nullifies your warrenty.

Answer 2

I could be leading you astray but I figure I would try. ISO as in Internation Standards Organization provides technical standards for developers, programmers, technical people. In other words they provide a guideline or a principle of how things should flow and work.
EBoot or Eboot Loader or also called Eloader is a program that lets you run free, non-commercial software on PSPs with firmware version v2.0 - v2.80 (take a look at www.noobx.eu/content/eboot.html

Answer 3

ISOs are Game Disk Image. In order to run those game, you need a Loader program to run it.

Eboots are PSP programs you can run without any additional software. (Think of it as exe in PC world).