[TUTORIAL] How to Speed Up your 4GB Memory Stick

[zer0nis]

Have some of you expirienced SLOWNESS on your new 4GB memory stick? wheather its a Sony or Sandisk????

Well first you need to check if you have a fake or a real one, the biggest way on how you can tell is by looking on your memstick.
Make sure u have "MagicGate" on it.

Another way is to download the PSXReality Memory Stick Tester v1.0

Well heres how you can speed up the Speed on your 4GB memstick
(without FAT16, or FAT, your games may lag no matter what format!

Reason is because PSP reads/writes slower on FAT32 but reads/writes faster on FAT16. 2GB is formatted to FAT16 by default and 4GB is formatted to FAT32 by default.

To increase your 4GB MS speed just like your previous 2GB, you need to format it as FAT16. Now, before you flame me saying 2GB is max for FAT16, you need to research more. However, 4GB FAT16 is not compatible with lower Windows versions (Win95/98/Me/MSDos) but is perfectly compatible with PSP and WinNT and WinXP. This is due to Microsoft hardcoded max cluster to 32k on Win95/98/Me/MSDos but they changed it on WinNT/XP to max cluster of 64k.

You May Ask "HOW do i check if i have FAT16 or FAT32?
Your answer will be answered simply by going to "My Computer" then click on your PSP Drive once and look in the left side, and you will see "File System".

WARNING: THIS FORMAT IS GOING TO DELETE EVERYTHING ON YOUR MEMORY STICK. MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP ANYTHING IMPORTANT ON IT BEFORE YOU DO IT, DUH!

To format your 4GB to FAT16...
1. Go to Start Menu->Run...
2. Type 'Format X: /FS:FAT'(Without Quotes, and Replace 'X' with your PSP's drive letter.


If you see this, Press Y, then Enter... Its perfectly fine, this is what is supposed to come up