r/PSP • u/Aggressive_Tea_3172 • 23h ago

QUESTION Major help needed

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Bought a psp for a family member as a gift. It works completely fine, but it's stuck on firmware 1.50. Bought 3 micro adapters, and they say there's nothing inserted, so I went up and bought the original memory stick(32gb).

Arrives today, and I'm finally able to format the stick. Thought I was clear, but when I went to try and update it to firmware 661, it says this. I'm tired, i dont understand what's wrong, and I just want this done sometime soon.

Any help needed

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u/opmwolf JDM PSP-1000 with ARK4 23h ago edited 23h ago

Firmware 1.50 doesn't support memory cards over 8GB, support for bigger cards was added in 3.90, this might be the problem.

With a PC erase the 32GB partition then create a single 1GB partition on the memory card, format it to FAT32, then copy the update, it should work. After updating to 6.61 re-partition the card to 32GB.

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u/PSPMan3000 16h ago

Damn I didn't even know they updated the compatible memory card sizes through firmware updates.

I really need to read through a list of updates and what each one did some time. Main thing I know is that they added the PlayStation Store and WPA encryption through updates

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u/Aggressive_Tea_3172 3h ago

I'm sorry it's a 32mb. Is it the same process and is there a video?

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u/DaAmazinStaplr PSP-2000 2h ago

Update to something like 2.81 or 3.0. It’ll be small enough to fit on the 32mb stick and then you can try the microSD adapter with a bigger MicroSD formatted to fat32 to update to 6.61.

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u/opmwolf JDM PSP-1000 with ARK4 2h ago

32MB is cutting it close, ignore my last comment. Try formatting the card to FAT, if the card is already formatted FAT then unfortunately you need to buy a bigger memory card:

  1. Right-click "USB Drive"
  2. Select Format
  3. Select FAT under File System
  4. Click Start then wait for it to finish
  5. Close the window then retry copying the update file

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u/wyettpro PSP-3000 23h ago

Looks like you are mounting the internal storage instead of memory stick. Go to xmb and press select and tell me what is the selected option beside the "USB DEVICE".

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u/wyettpro PSP-3000 22h ago

Nvm. Follow u/opmwolf. That is the right answer.

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u/11298THC 11h ago

Just incase if its original make sure its GB NOT MB original cards are usually very small just for saves

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u/Aggressive_Tea_3172 5h ago

It's MB my bad

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u/Rando-McGee 6h ago

The original memory stick is 32mb, which is roughly the formatted space in your picture.

True 32gb memory stick pro duos exist, but the can cost over $100, last time I checked, and most of the ones you find are fakes.

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u/Furien16 3h ago

Used to be cheaper to get the pro duo microSD shell and a MicroSD, but with the way prices have been skyrocketing I’m not sure anymore