Hi, i have a weird Memory Card for Playstation that do not work. Why it is weird: When i put the card in MemoryCard Port of Playstation the main menu of MC doesn't show anything, like nothing it is inserted to the port. The story: I have this MC from 15 years already, i'v discover it the other day whyle i'm cleaning my boxes from dust. I decided to open one old box where my first playstation is and i see this MC, it remember me the old tiimes when i was 10 years old and one of my friend gift me this weird MC becouse he don't know how can works... Now i'm registered to this website and maybe its arrived the time to make this MC work. Ok, let me give u a list of my test: 1) Inserting the Memory card to the MC port in front of Playstation and going to the Memorycard Manager nothing happen. I think: "ok the MC maybe it is empty?" trying to insert an other working memorycard in the other MC's port and tryed to copy some saves to the "weird" MC. Nothing... as the MC its not connected/inserted. 2) Opened the case of memorycard: The picture below show the board as is when i'v opened the MC the first time As you can see the 3,3v do not have connection so i have soldered the 3,3v pins and inserted the MC in the MC's port of Playstation. At this point the Playstation doesn't recognize anymore Controllers and Memorycards. Well... an other big problem. I have opened the console and i'v discover the fuse marked as PS605 wasblown. For the easy reason that i don't have a fuse as the PS605, i'v decided to solder a bridge of tin between the pins. Assembled the Playstation and turn it on. Now the controllers and memorycards works again. 3) Tryed to solder c1 pins and c2 pins without 3,3 volts and connectiing gnd too but the MC still doing nothing in MC manager I wonder how i have to solder the Pins on board of Memory card for make it work as usual... I think it is a Chinese low quality board, i'm not sure which is the brand of this MC. Any one have some Experience with some Playstation 1 MC? Please if you know how to make this MC working let me know. Sorry My English ._.
Never seen a Sony memory card like that. I've seen a few design variations but none with just 2 black blobs.
Fake 1mb psone memory card, they use to sell them here, and close to the end of the Psone lifetime they sold for R25 or ($2.50) there crap like assembler said.
As first, thanks to All for replies. This isn't a Sony Memory Card of course. Maybe a Pony one... Explain the Applause please? What should i had to do? Or What you think should be done? Of course i have the housing, i was thinking its irrelevant to show it.
I think it was to be funny. Obviously the fuse blew before, its possible it could happen again. But next time there will be no fuse there and some damage could happen. You should replace the fuse if you can.
well, i thank you all for replies, i'll try to make this MC work when i have more free time... any other ideas should be helpful !! Thank you all again. @Tripedacus: do you know which kind of fuse can i use for restore? i mean without buy an other ps1. The blowned fuse was 15 amp...
Why are you trying to fix this knockoff Memory Card anyway? Just throw it in the dumpster. Many 3rd party Memory Cards died on me. It ain't worth fixing those damn things. If you really want a cheap card you can get them for under 2$ on eBay (with free shipping).