Pandora's Magic Stick Thread

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Originally Posted by l_oliveira

lol guys ... This list is really not necessary as it will work with any MS PRO DUO. Even fakes...

The reason other Memory Sticks don't work is because they employ a slightly different protocol and the boot loader for the allegrex chip doesn't support them. It is a minimal set so it only has driver for MSPD type.

It has to do on how the golden contacts are used to communicate with the PSP on MSPD. There's two kinds of memory sticks. Parallel and Serial. MSPD is parallel with a fallback option to serial. MS Duo is serial only I think... (not sure about this being parallel or serial ony. But I'm sure MS Duo only supports one of the protocols)

That's why the 32MB stick which comes with the PSP value pack doesn't work. It's a Duo card not PRO Duo.

Hmm.. This person is right! lol, but I am stilling putting up a List ahah.

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MS List
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Sony
Sony 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo High Speed
Sony 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo
Sony 512MB Memory Stick Pro Duo
Sony 256MB Memory Stick Pro Duo
ALL SONY's MS w/ tag Pro Duo

Lexar
Blue Lexar 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo
Black Lexar 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo
ALL LEXAR's MS w/ tag Pro Duo

SanDisk
SanDisk 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo
SanDisk 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo
SanDisk 512MB Memory Stick Pro Duo
ALL SANDISK's MS w/ tag Pro Duo

Fakes
Sony 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo High Speed
ALL FAKES MS w/ tag Pro Duo

This is my Fake MS: (lol it faded, had this for almost two years)


*Warning: Fake MS can be tagged as Pro Duo but isn't really a Pro Duo*

Note: Memory Sticks without the tag "Pro Duo" on it, does NOT!! work! Also, anything over 32MB works!! but remember, it has to say Pro Duo!!

original sony 1gb pro duo.

blue lexar 2gig mem stick duo
black lexar 1gig mem stick duo

I have tried backup the nand files before downgrade to 1.5 using pandora's battery and magic memory stick. The nand files is wriiten there but when I tried to restore by pressing x or L+R+Select+Start without success. It said can't opening files. What is wrong??

Originally Posted by celestar32

I have tried backup the nand files before downgrade to 1.5 using pandora's battery and magic memory stick. The nand files is wriiten there but when I tried to restore by pressing x or L+R+Select+Start without success. It said can't opening files. What is wrong??

rename nand-dump.bin to nandimage.flash

Originally Posted by tinman

rename nand-dump.bin to nandimage.flash

Thanks bro.

Originally Posted by celestar32

I have tried backup the nand files before downgrade to 1.5 using pandora's battery and magic memory stick. The nand files is wriiten there but when I tried to restore by pressing x or L+R+Select+Start without success. It said can't opening files. What is wrong??

rename it to nandimage.flash

EDT: forgot to hit Refresh

can i use the memory stick normally again after turning it into a maigcstick?

and would a cheapy ebay battery like this work

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/For-SONY-PSP-...QQcmdZViewItem

I'm running it from a 4gb sandisk memory stick.
use it to unrick/flash and play games from 1 stick.

Yeah, Sandisk 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo here, works like charm.

Sony 256MB MSPD - works

One question on the creation of the Pandora MS. In the readme it saids to "disconnect memory stick and disable USB connection", does this mean that one must physically remove the memory stick from the PSP before exiting "USB Connection"?

DOnt matter much but just wondering. Thanks anyways.

I've used my SanDisk Gaming Memory Stick PRO Duo™ 512 MB.
It works.

Originally Posted by rc_square24

Sony 256MB MSPD - works

One question on the creation of the Pandora MS. In the readme it saids to "disconnect memory stick and disable USB connection", does this mean that one must physically remove the memory stick from the PSP before exiting "USB Connection"?

DOnt matter much but just wondering. Thanks anyways.

I think it is important. as there are reports of people bricking there memorysticks when they do that step wrong or not at all.

BTW: My Sandisk 512mb worked perfect for this

I tried it on a 1gb high speed and on Double Expand Memory Converter and it's works .

Thanks Noobz and all other teams

Sony 512mb works fine.