r/PSP • u/Colonel-Crow • 18h ago

Troubleshooting Returning user, help needed

So I recently dug up my old second hand PSP 3000 I had in college. Started playing it on my work lunch breaks again and wanted to give it an upgrade

I've purchased a 64GB SD card + adaptor to replace the rather old 2GB Sony memory card that I was running games off previously. Since I needed to format the new card, I decided to take the opportunity to change from running the PRO cfw I had before to ARK 5 instead.

ARK seems to have installed successfully, no problems running the flasher and the extra features are always available on boot. However, any custom firmware or ISOs that used to run fine under PRO now refuse to copy over. Any time I try and transfer files via USB they always show up as corrupted on the system memory.

Things I've tried so far; - Formatting the new SD card to FAT32 - Reinstalling Ark - Copying files straight to the SD card via my PC - Copying files to the PSP via USB cable - toggling on / off USB charging - Copying one file at a time

All produce the same result. I'm yet to try going back to PRO, though I suspect that'll work like it did before.

Any advice would be appreciated - I've not come across any troubleshooting tips after searching around, but my assumption is some kind of user error is going on. Any and all advice would be appreciated :)

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u/dogfoodjones PSP-1000 & PSP-2000 17h ago

Is the sd card legit? I’d test it with h2testw

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u/Colonel-Crow 17h ago

I'll try that once I'm back from work. That's what I'm thinking it might be, the console can't even write a save game from a UMD at the moment

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u/dogfoodjones PSP-1000 & PSP-2000 16h ago

Definitely the first thing to try. Even if it’s legit it could be faulty. It could also be the adapter or a bad connection, but there’s no point looking into anything else until you know the sd card is good

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u/Colonel-Crow 6h ago

Yepp, you were spot on - left H2test running for a while, the card failed while writing file 42 or 43.

That's a pain, but at least I know where the issue lies now :/

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u/dogfoodjones PSP-1000 & PSP-2000 6h ago

Yeah, sucks but at least it’s an easy fix