Ordering mine right now!

But, um, I would have liked to have seen an adapter to use other SD cards with the PSP, not just Sony Memory Sticks.

Not only that, but wouldn't it also make the PSP harder to hold?

Some people may already have a load of PRO Memory Sticks that they can use. I think $25 is pretty damn expensive though!

I completely Agree with the above poster. $25 is way too much to pay for something like this. If i'm gonna have something hanging out of my psp, then I would rather have something that's cheaper with more capacity for the buck. Like a SD card or a CF card. CF cards are up to 4gigs now, for less than the price of a 2 gig duo card! I will consider buying this adaptor when it is more versatile.

Wow, is that ugly. Please learn that it is a bad business idea to sell a PROTOTYPE. This is far from a finished product. It's completely barebones, and has absolutely no concealment of the data strip from the card adapter to the MSPD slot, and that green board which emulates the MSPD definitely needs to be either hidden.

Why don't you buy an A.R.M. kit from Expansys, cost is identical, the Green pcb don't stick out of the psp, you can close the MS pro duo slot and the other end sits in a Case (cause it's original for P800 GSM) cut some case and it fits nice on the grip

Cost -> 30 euro shipping included
Reads all Memorysticks classic and pro, even the 4GB (the sell for around €250, that's even cheaper as the 2GB Pro Duo will be)

this is useless compared to the device team executor is going to release at the end of september.

Just ordered a Sandisk 2 giga pro duo... price 229,95€ delivered.
Seems we will see a rapid drop of price

Good idea, but its really only for those who have oldwer MS PROs and cant use them on their PSP. that aint fair now is it. But a better idea, for $5 more is that little box that flashes the Card reader and it will read old MS PROs and that can stick out and be used on as many PSPs as u need and u dont need to have some **** on the back.

Why do people take something portable/self contained and sweet looking and add extra batteries and memory card adapters and stuff to make it look like ass?!

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this is useless compared to the device team executor is going to release at the end of september.

Yea right, that so great MS -> USB convertor. Ow yea, always fun to carry around external usb hd's with batterys, and case. *sigh*

O and thats what it is, they even confirmed it in there forum. Not a MS -> SD or a MS -> CF adaptor, no, a MS -> USB adaptor.

With all the bulk, you end up better of with a small laptop...

You probably didn't know USB sticks exist; they're pretty cheap too..
I've seen 512MB Sandisk USB sticks going for $20... God knows how much 1GB sticks cost... cheaper than MS, eh?

They are defenatly charging more than they are worth but then again we dont know what thier fabrication costs, shipping costs, hosting costs, and staff costs....

Overhead for a small company with one product this early in the game may be more than one would expect.

Just a side note it's only a 10 minute job to build one from scratch ;)

And as for an adapter that suports any thing else.... Not for $25 to build something like that from scratch and then produce the product.... A small company (or group of friends as this team likely is) would go broke building enough to serve the number of people who commented on this article.

But yeah those things probably cost under a buck a piece to build would be my guess. Total profit from one I would guess 20 bucks.

And team x's nyce little USB adapter will be alot smaller than that. I can garantee. That was just a prototype. In otherwords alot of bulk that can be eleminated when fabricating boards and parts that are device specific. So expect something the size of probably a small external Flash memory to USB device that most of us have picked up at one point or another.
(for any one who couldnt guestimate for them selves about 2X3 at most)


Now to adress the functionality of the device....

They defenatly could have minimized the intrusive look of the thing. Rather than Jumper Posts they could have use some sort of trace ribbon connecter. The ms port for the MSPRO is fairly well designed but it would have been nice if they had a plastic case built that had a smooth gradiant feel to minimize the overal intrusive feel of it.... Another posible solution to the intrusive feel of it would be to release a replacement ms bay cover that had the connecter integrated into it there fore eliminating the extremely anoying PCB digging into your hand while you button mash your favorite game.


Over all a good first product release. I know some people have been in need of this for a while now so it's good that they were provided with a device that will last longer than a home made solution. But for future revesions I would hope to see them make it feel more like it's part of the psp and also clean up the look so that it isnt a noticeable modification while in public.

Enjoy those of you who purchase this device. I am going to pick one up simply because it will likely be much more reliable than my home made version which is well versed in the art of tweaking connections loose.

And yeah pspupdates here are a few bytes of data and a posible .5mb of bandwidth use for all that up to date news you deliver. I dont like you guy much but you are the most well runded and up to date site so you get my ocational ad impressions.

But jut know this is a once in a blue moon post. I just had a strong opinion on this topic so I desided that I would put it out there for people to see.

Thanks,
PyroSama
PSP-Media.com

MY 4gb smaller adapter was 10 times better, smaller, and not even as ugly, lol.

this is exciting news, but Compact Flash! how come team xecuter is not publishing or updating us on the memory storage converter they are working on? does anybody have any idea it will come out? some guy said we had to wait for 8 months, thats crazy!