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Need help in getting Sony 16GB Memory Stick Pro Duo to work on PSP
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atellar1
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6. November 2008 @ 00:46 |
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HI, I just bought my son a Sony 16GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Magicgate Mark2. I'm able to copy videos, music, and games in to the memory stick. However, when I look at it on the PSP device itself. Only one or two of the videos would work and the others shows as corrupt. This goes the same with music. And on games only one would show up even though I copied at least 3 games. Any leads would be appreciated. Cost me a lot for this memory stick and it seems like I'm not getting the full use of it. thx.
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6. November 2008 @ 05:56 |
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have you checked if it really supports magic gate? you can do this by going to music,video or games and press triangle then go to information and see if its supported, depending on where you bought it; it may be a fake memory stick and you can also try formatting it with the psp and see if that fixes the problems because even if its fake it doesn't mean it wont work 100% and yours obviously isn't if some work and some don't
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6. November 2008 @ 06:05 |
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atellar1
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6. November 2008 @ 17:57 |
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Thx. I've formatted it multiple times either via the PSP or even to my PC but still only able to get some of the files that I copied over. MP3 songs works great.. Movies and games only 1 or two works... others stay corrupted.. If I format the stick and copied the files that showed corrupted previously first, it works but any files that followed shows as corrupted. In any case, if any one else has any other suggestions, I'll gladly try it out.. thx again.
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shanagans
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19. February 2009 @ 00:02 |
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I have the same exact problem with a 16GB disk I bought from Hong Kong on Ebay. It says it has 16GB available according to my PSP. I can load 19 games onto my ISO folder. Only 3-5 show up on the LCD although the ISO folder itself shows all games loaded. Strange.
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19. February 2009 @ 06:26 |
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What firmware do you have on the PSP, early PSP's could only see 4GB this was increased with firmware updates to 8GB and 32GB.
Also have you got a fake (hacked) card, these show up as 16GB but everything over the real memory is just a corrupt file (will usually show the file but have no content), Sorry but I do not know of a deep formatting program for the Pro Duo card (to get rid of the hack), for micro SD?s, Panasonics SD Formatter always shows the real memory value. I use a twin micro SD to Pro Duo stick, 2 x 8GB micro SD?s and the card for under £30.
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19. February 2009 @ 06:29 |
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Found this - looks like your problem!!
You can determine if the Memory Stick Pro Duo Card is genuine or not by inserting it to your PSP, in the Memory Stick option, press triangle then select Information If under MagicGate, it says Supported, then the card is genuine. Otherwise it is not.
You don't need a genuine Memory Stick Pro Duo to play games in the PSP. The only thing missing in a card that is not genuine is the MagicGate protection, a rather useless feature, in my humble opinion. (An example of a valid use of MagicGate is to protect/DRM music transferred via Sony SonicStage or similar app to the PSP).
Going back to my query, before purchasing this product, I would like to know if this has a HACKED memory. A hacked memory card is a card that reports itself to have a higher capacity than it actually has. Like in this case, it is a 4GB card that appears to have a capacity of 8GB. Putting more than 4GB worth of files in a hacked 8GB memory card will produce read/write errors.
To test if the card is hacked or not, all that needs to be done is to fill up the card with files until it runs out of free space. You don't need to put a single large-sized file (like a single 7GB file) into the card. But it is best to test it in the PSP by putting many CSO/ISO's into the Memory Stick Pro Duo (MSPD) until the until the card is (almost) exhausted with only about around 100MB of free space.
Once the MSPD is filled with CSO/ISO's, test the games if they are indeed working. If there are some errors in the game like not loading, then the card is hacked.
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Demonbust
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13. April 2009 @ 14:58 |
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It's almost as if you can't have too much space filled up in one specific area of the psp, I had a 1.7 gb game on there and a couple other 400mb games, but then I loaded onto it a 1.6 game. Now the smaller games don't even show up, and the two larger games do.
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14. April 2009 @ 09:18 |
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Its hacked memory - a con - usually cheap cards on eBay etc, they take a 1,2 or 4GB card and put a program in the part of the memory not formatted that makes it show up as a 2,4,8 or 16GB card.
No way to solve the issue - other than some applications can erase the program and it will then show its true size.
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EnigmaCM
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14. April 2009 @ 11:12 |
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Originally posted by atellar1:
HI, I just bought my son a Sony 16GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Magicgate Mark2. I'm able to copy videos, music, and games in to the memory stick. However, when I look at it on the PSP device itself. Only one or two of the videos would work and the others shows as corrupt. This goes the same with music. And on games only one would show up even though I copied at least 3 games. Any leads would be appreciated. Cost me a lot for this memory stick and it seems like I'm not getting the full use of it. thx.
It sounds like it might be a hijacked memory stick. I recently bought one from Ebay myself from some seller called Demontrae who shipped from Florida and had actually sold me a 4 gig instead. When I received it, the memory stick read as 15gb, not 14.9 or 14.7gb. I formatted with PSP but when I added games, only two homebrew games worked, ISOs and CSos did not. This time I formatted with ther pc and now the card was reading at 4gb. Thought it was a glitch but then the PSP started not to readthe card at all. I asked for my money back and this guy asked me to send back the card for a replacement. He never got back so I filed a claim to a refund with Paypal and received. So you might be a victim like I was.
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sbains
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3. May 2009 @ 11:59 |
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I had a similar problem where neither the PSP would format the card the first time, nor would a PC when connected through USB mode.
What I did was insert the card into the adapter and then inserted it into my 60GB PS3, formatted fine there. Then inserted into PSP and t was able to format.
Give that a shot, if its not a fake memory stick, this will work.
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EnigmaCM
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3. May 2009 @ 12:13 |
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Originally posted by sbains:
I had a similar problem where neither the PSP would format the card the first time, nor would a PC when connected through USB mode.
What I did was insert the card into the adapter and then inserted it into my 60GB PS3, formatted fine there. Then inserted into PSP and t was able to format.
Give that a shot, if its not a fake memory stick, this will work.
Trust me, the one I received was a fake Memory Stick and his sounds like it could be one of them. I even tried your method through a friends PS3 and I still got the same result, 4gb instead of 16gb
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