Cheapest Place to buy Memory Duo cards?

Where is the cheapest place to buy some of the larger sony memory stick duos online?[/quote:5a8821f6d1]

ebay or play.

dont buy sony memstick buy san disk. Its cheaper and faster ;) I recently got a 4gb for my psp for about 30 quid.

Oh really? Thanks, I’ll check that out. Is the sandisk in the shape of a memory stick duo, or are you talking about a mini-sd adaptor? Because if there are adaptors, I already have a 2gb mini-sd I bought in Aldi the other day…are there such things as mini-sd adaptors that fit into the PSP? Do you have custom firmware on yours? Do you know if the sandisk works with customfirware?

(Damn Sony and their exclusive storage formats :) )[/quote:06d94d2cf6]

1: Ya you can get san disk in the shape of memory stick duo. Thats the one you want. These go up as far as 8gb, last time I checked. Although rumour was a 16gb was on the horizon.

2: Yes I have custom firmware.

3: Yes it does indeed work, load times are a hell of alot faster than from umd.

Note: Typically, sandisk units are marginally faster than sony ms. One thing you may find is though some psp’s have problems with streaming from larger than 2gb mem sticks (both for sandisk and sony). Video will stutter etc.

If you encounter this problem theres two solutions.

1: try reformating it using your psp system utility (dont just pop in pc, drag over stuff and run). Formatting it properly in the psp will in 90% of cases fixes this problem AFAIK (it did for me).

2: If formating doesnt work you probably need a custom .prx file (its a lib) from a previous sony firmware (which increases the byte read block size). This was reduced for some reason in subsequent versions. If you dont know what im talking about here, google it.

(As for sony storage format being exclusive its not, otherwise you couldnt use a san disk solution ;) )

I think a lot of the Sega team got absorbed by Codemasters (not Peter though)

What would I do without you Pete? :D I heard custom firmware PSP’s don’t like cards above 2GB…what’s that about?

You were working at Sega, right? What happened after the shut-down?[/quote:6fcdffccd3]

Nah my custom doesnt have a problem. As I mentioned some people have encountered shutter, but i posted earlier to ways to try to combat that.

Nah SRS closed its doors in May and got absorbed by Codemasters, to become Codemasters Solihull. I decided at that time to move onto new things (along with a good few others).

Oh didn’t know Codemasters took them over…pretty smart on their part I guess. Ready to go workforce.[/quote:10b6209912]

you’d think, but a good lot of ppl moved onto new things. everyone had experience so finding a job was pretty easy.

you’d think, but a good lot of ppl moved onto new things. everyone had experience so finding a job was pretty easy.[/quote:c03af6a178]

Your just teasing me now!!!! :cry: :cry:

:wink:

Whereabouts are you now?[/quote:c03af6a178]

Haha, but it was true. Me, currently in Ireland on way to games industry in Vancouver.

Ah, going over the pond eh? That sounds really cool, wouldn’t mind that myself after a few years in the UK. You’re mostly a particles effects guy right? (At least that’s what I remember from Sega Rally, right?) Show us your reel :P[/quote:e20adb74a5]

I dont specialise in particle effects, Im a core technology\ game programmer (or in canada they call it generalist programmer). i.e able to work on various parts of the game.

As for a reel, programmers dont have one (we dont really need one). Although in my free time I am developing my own engine. Currently, putting a gears of war style camera system into it, seems the fashionable thing to do these days. Bastard to get right though ;) Might post some shots in the future, until then its a WIP.

Peter doing any homebrew on the psp (or other consoles) ? or just the pc?

Peter doing any homebrew on the psp (or other consoles) ? or just the pc?[/quote:b254279984]

Nah i’m writing the engine for dx9/10 but im writing in such a way its gonna be easy to port to other platforms. Might then port to PSP, AFAIK there isnt many psp targeted engines in the wild, so might be nice to spare someone interested in making a game the hassle of (and understanding) behind a state of the art engine.

7 Day Shop can have great deals sometimes, as can MemoryC on similar items. Hope that helps!