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ian h
February 9th, 2007, 14:10
i thought of buying a 4 gig memory stick pro duo off of e bay as there very cheap but ive read that there are fake memory cards that have hollograms on and do not have the memory on them that it says on the card. is this true?
xcjzerox
February 9th, 2007, 15:20
I bought a 4gb from ebay it works 100%
so try it out
HomerSp
February 9th, 2007, 16:23
I bought a 4gb from ebay it works 100%
so try it out
You were lucky. Most memstick on ebay are sadly fake.
S34MU5
February 9th, 2007, 16:38
on the XMB of your PSP go to a thing like "photo" then go to "memory stick" then press triangle.
goto info, if it says magicgate then its real.
xcjzerox
February 9th, 2007, 16:40
It does said magic gate and it cost me 24.00
Method Man
February 10th, 2007, 14:15
i bought a 2gb memstick in ebay and it says that it is not competable, but it works perfectly *looool* *rofl*
hodgy47
February 11th, 2007, 02:37
I bought a 2 gig stick from ebay and works fine, buy from UK seller and check feedback there are a lot with 100%
Fittersman
February 12th, 2007, 03:09
how can a memory stick be fake?
S34MU5
February 12th, 2007, 12:33
They are not the actually speeds, they dont have a the correct storage and they break eventually.
Fittersman
February 13th, 2007, 03:07
o, id be mad if i got one of them.
IamAbe
February 16th, 2007, 05:44
i have a real sandisk 2gb mspd but it runs kinda slow on "certain games", do different cards have different speeds?
ru'
February 16th, 2007, 22:01
Not sure I'm, alowed to mention 'other sites' here, but I speeded up my fake stick totally by formatting to FAT16; don't know why it worked but it did (this is for 4gB ones):

http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/about70024.html

"Before you go any further BACKUP THE MS CARD to your COMPUTER


Say your PSP drive is X

1. Go to Start-> Menu-> Run...
2. Type Format X: /FS:FAT space between : and /

Use windows explorer to reinstall your file structure on the card afterwards

then try your card again"

(Don't worry about the message about 64kb clusters or whatever; that's fine)
Shrygue
February 16th, 2007, 22:05
I though the PSP formats memory sticks with the FAT16 file system.
ru'
February 17th, 2007, 08:39
Seems not to, at least with the 4Gb ones. I had a game backup with an intro movie - this was unplayable before formatting to FAT16, but was fine afterwards.

This really worked for me! :D
Triv1um
February 17th, 2007, 11:27
When you buy memory cards off ebay, its a very risky business.

Be careful, check the sellers feedback.

If there are negative ones, check what they say.

Some people sell as a honest product, some are there to just rip you off.
IamAbe
February 18th, 2007, 01:08
Not sure I'm, alowed to mention 'other sites' here, but I speeded up my fake stick totally by formatting to FAT16; don't know why it worked but it did (this is for 4gB ones):

http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/about70024.html

"Before you go any further BACKUP THE MS CARD to your COMPUTER


Say your PSP drive is X

1. Go to Start-> Menu-> Run...
2. Type Format X: /FS:FAT space between : and /

Use windows explorer to reinstall your file structure on the card afterwards

then try your card again"

(Don't worry about the message about 64kb clusters or whatever; that's fine)

excellent, that worked great on my legit 2gig sandisk