Games only work first time...

[rogilvie]

Hi everyone,

I hacked my PSP about 2 years ago and was happy with it until I decided to upgrade to 5.00 m33. The upgrade went awesome, no issues at all during, how good is that dark alex bloke!

ever since then i've had issues with a select few games, GTALCS and GOWCOO, i can start and play the games the first time but when I try to open the game a second time it just crashes out. Games like Tenchu and FFOC work fine. seems weird, i mean guess it could be my memory stick - i did get it from ebay after all.

just wanted to know if anyone else has seen this fault.

running a PSP fat with CF 5 m33 update 6 on an 8GB memory stick. I've had quite a search around, but the error seems pretty wacky - i might just reset it and start the custom firmware process over unless anyone else has some sweet tips!

Only other small issue is if I copy 6 games onto the memory stick, only 4 show up - maybe its the stick...

thank you

[Ryu]

99% sure you have a fake stick

on the XMB
highlight Music/Photo/Video/GAME MS icon
Press /\ , pick info
MagicGate is
Supported=Real
unknown=FAKE

did you get the 8gb of ebay
most of the time using ebay will get you a fake stick

[over_clox]

There's a known issue with the file system routines on any official firmware 3.80 or higher. I'm running a phat PSP with 3.52M33-4, so I don't know a lot more about it (but I'm picking up on it as I go) except that the standard homebrew fix is to use the module from version 3.71. I don't know if it has to be downloaded separately or if it comes with recent custom firmware, but it can be configured from the recovery menu. That's all I know at the moment, I'm sure you can take it from there and find more in the forums or on Google.

You might want to plug it into a separate card reader and run chkdsk on it to see if the file system is ok.

[rogilvie]

Hi Ryu- thanks for the info and quick reply, yes it does say unknown - its probably where all the random craziness is coming from, I'll go and get a legit one and start trouble-shooting from there.

Hi over_clox- thanks for the head-start on finding out the issue, I'll see if using a legit mem-stick solves the issues and post back my results