The Dead Memory Card Problem

[shadowprophet]

guys im telling you, youre frying your cards by disconnecting the power source. try just holding the power for 10 to 20 seconds when your game freezes. you do not have to take the battery out ever

For the first time ever rabbidpuppi a statement made in which every word in that post I completely agree with Never once since I put my battery in has it ever been taken out, And yeah hes right somtimes to have to hold that button down for extended peroids of time. But it will finely turn off

[rock_light]

hey my sandisk (blue) 256mb is dead as well...
It shows up on my computer using a converter but it says write protected and takes a long time to read.
It will not work on PSP and makes the PSP act funny when I put it in one.

[shadowprophet]

hey my sandisk (blue) 256mb is dead as well...
It shows up on my computer using a converter but it says write protected and takes a long time to read.
It will not work on PSP and makes the PSP act funny when I put it in one.

Some memsticks have a little switch on the back to write protect them.
Turn that crap off and try again

[Shannon]

Because this is pretty much an official co-developed technology by a major flash card manufacturer.
Here's a link with an official press-release about the Sony-Sandisk partnership:
click it

Interesting... I wonder then why sandisk mem sticks are supposedly faster and cheaper on top of that.

Wouldn't that be a disadvantage for Sony?

[RabidPuppi]

thank you shadow prophet. your stock has risen since you actually freakin listened to me unlike everyone else... go ahead and murder your stoopid mem cards guys, great job! 8O)

[grabnak]

I've had a memory card die on my GP32 while using a MAME emulator.

Kind of the opposite of this, I was playing the smashGP PSP port and while quitting the PSP froze. Then none of my other emulators (all of which worked fine before) would even load. It gave me some common error code. It was odd because even older saves (I save a working backup every time I change/add a program) off of my psp 1 GB SanDisk would not play certain emulators correctly. Eventually I got into the habit of resetting my psp after I formatted the disk, then place an older backup on the disk.

I just never thought the pro duo's would be so wishy-washy. I suppose I have just not had enough experience with flash memory lol.

edit: actually what seems more likely to me, after reading some of this, is that my nes emu crashed/froze and after I hard resetted (holding power button up for a LONG time) it, it corrupted the eboot somehow. Then I backed it up before placing SmashGPSP on my memory stick.