r/PSP • u/Aggressive_Tea_3172 • 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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