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Help turn USB Pen Drives into PSP Memory |
Listed in: How-To, Mods Tags: psp tips and tricks, Sony
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How would you like to supercharge a Sony PSP with an 80 GB drive? Slythfox is currently trying to figure out a way to do so, but he might need some assistance from homebrewers or people with electrical engineering expertise.
What Slythfox is currently thinking of is an adapter to attach USB drives to the PSP using a Pro Duo connection. To do this, you'd need two Pro Duo to Duo adapters, a Pro Duo to USB adapter, and some skill at molding stuff:
You only need to take apart one of them completely (take off metal cover, then find and take off the plastic weld), attach a thin ribbon cable or wires. As the Duo Adapter case will not fit in your PSP, you need to create a mold: mold it with plastic. The mold itself could just be a clay mold of an actual Pro Duo card. You need to mold it so that the fake pro duo card is strong enough for you to be inserting and taking out of your PSP by pressing on the top (is there any other way?)
You'd then need to solder some wires to connect the two of them together, and then connect those modded Pro Duo adapters into the Pro Duo to USB adapter to convert the appropriate information across the connection into the USB drive.
The idea is simple and rather exciting, but doing it definitely seems a lot harder than it looks. The current problem he foresees is in getting enough power to make any of the transfers from PSP to USB, since those Pro Duo to USB adapters usually get power from the USB side. While it's currently more like theorycraft than anything else, if anyone's got any ideas, check out the forum link below and let's see if we can make the idea a reality, eh?
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"What Slythfox is currently thinking of is an adapter to attach USB drives to the PSP using a Pro Duo connection. To do this, you'd need two Pro Duo to Duo adapters, a Pro Duo to USB adapter, and some skill at molding stuff"
Molding stuff? Like clay? Don't you mean welding? Do you even know what you're talking about? Was this written by a 5 yr old again?
Oh, and all this effort just for 80 gigs is NOT worth it. Then you have this huge box hanging off your psp. Bull*****. No thanks.
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But anyways, the Datel hard drive is just a MSDuo-CompactFlash adaptor, and CompactFlash-IDE adaptors are simple. It wouldn't be that hard to use an IDE drive...
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Now, with a duo adapter.... maybe. But I think the new limit is 8 gb as 2.81 I hear is the first to support more than 4. I definately don't know about 80 gbs. This sounds a little nuts to even make in the first place. Whats wrong with wireless or usb redirection anyways?
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OK. USB draws 5v at a very low amerage.
Remove LEDs and crap you bring it down more.
Not much battery consuming, but some.
You could just attach like a 7805 to a nine volt and use that.
And all this IDE bologna...
IDEs take alot of power.
Well, on a PSP scale
I think they draw 3.3v (correct if wrong) at a fairly high amperage.
So, unless you want to tote around an EXTRA powersupply
Or drain you battery in a matter of minutes.
I think you are better of spending 60 dollars on a 4gb MemStickDuo.
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The research I did half a year ago I found that apparently it(usb drive) needs something about slave or something of the sort(like when you change the amount of hard drive memory on your computer), so although who knows you migth get it to work somehow, I really doubt it.
just in case you are wondering im a electric engineer student at UPRB.
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Windows has a huge library of drives, thats why you just plug it in and it works.
Actually if you buy a new USB thing and plug it in
if you look at the bottom right corner of your screen, you can see Windows looking for drivers and installing them.
Yes yes, not only do you need an adapter + power supply
You need a controller that can essentially "drive" the USB device
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this was done (yes, done, not thought of, but done) just when the psp came out.
and i am also working on an identical project
only everything will be wired inside of the psp and the HDD will be in the UMD slot. (since you really wouldnt need the umd's with 100 gigs + )
and if you try to flame me for some "Pirating" ad; ***** you.
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Anyway, this isn't intended for portability. I wouldn't want to carry around an 80gb hard drive attached to a USB to Pro Duo adapter attached to a Pro Duo to Pro Duo bridge attached to my PSP... Such a mess.
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What about a host system, like the iaudio devices? they are self powered, and designed to sync /w cameras and other devices
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http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-jd-49-en-70-1lz3.html
then the next question is, what if you plugged 2 memstick expanders into a memstick expander, wouldnt it be 16gb?
The next thing is if you really wanted to hook up a extra harddrive, what about taking a HP Jornada 720, adding drivers to windows ce to support usb hd, then usb cabling to the psp to make as much space as you possibly want with usbhostf?
There is alot of ways of doing this, such as using a datel 4gb hd,compactflash to pcmcia type 2 converter, using a pcmcia usb and hooking the hd into that.
http://www.semsons.com/comflastopcc.html
I have a million ideas, just lack of funds.
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So I just dont. Enjoy wasting your time. This is dumb.
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so, on that note, to quote yourself.... STFU
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Also...
Can you imagine playing you PSP with some piece of crap like that sticking out of the side. You think we are going to make this ourselves? How are we supposed to make 'fake memory sticks'. How can WE make informarion travel through a device that we made at speed.
The only way for this to work if it was put into mass production, that will never happen...
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Buy a USB Enclosure, its like a USB connector of a harddrive to a PC without opening up the PC to do it.
And instead of the Double AA ended USB cable, replace it with the PSP one then connect the USB enclosure with harddrive connected inside with the PSP.
But for the PSP to recognize it, u gotta run WINHIIP in windows and format the harddrive into a PS2/PSP format. then the PSP will recongnize it as a external harddrive in usb mode.
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As for the power problem that comes in the form of some trust rumble gaming headphones that has a seperate io jack batt pack in case you want to portable rumble sessions on the move (this to has a part number)
but i be dambed if i can find the manufacture
hope this helps (in case you need it i have spare pen drives and pro addapters you can have for this project free ) (tech6927@gmail .com)
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but I didn't mean to imply that the PSP gave power throught the MS port.
The only way to get power from the PSP is hardware from the battery
or the USB port at the top.
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or faith
I built things for my gaming systems all the time
All you need is knowledge.
On my PS2 I changed the LEDs in the from for the power button
Also, I upgraded the hard drive in it.
All that is basic and simple.
You dont have to rely on brand names for quality.
Mmmm...
Just like Goodwill and their Geogre Foreman grills :DD
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This CAN'T work. I've explained it before, and I'll explain it again.
First off, you've got USB hosts and USB clients. Your PC is a USB host, and your memorycard reader is a client. A USB pendrive is also a client. A host can only connect to a client, and a client can only connect to a host (with the exception of a PSP as it can internally switch between host and client mode, thus allowing you to either connect it to a pc, or connect a camera or other accessoire to it).
The USB port on a USB sony memorystick reader is a client port, and is only meant to connect to a computer. You can't connect a USB pendrive (also a client) to your memorystick reader (also a client).
But there's more!
The memorystick port on your PSP, and the memorystick port on the USB memorystick reader are both hosts! They also can't connect with each other.
Oh and thumbs up for PSPupdates for blindly posting such a piece of crap on your site. I'd expect you to be smarter than this.
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Has a 2nd usb connector for host..
use to get pictures of your cams..
if someone could hack the firmware of the x5.. to support usb host for psp.
or other players with usb host like:
Archos 604 WiFi 30 GB
Archos 504 80 GB
Archos 404 30 GB
Apple iPod 80 GB (5.5G)
Creative Zen Vision:M 60 GB
if anyone can make the firmware i can test it on these players at work.
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this allows for 2 memsticks, no matter what the size. So if you have 2 4gb memsticks then it will send out that it is 8gb. Well if you hook 2 of these into a 3rd one then you can have 16gb.
psp already plans on allowing http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/sonys-memory-stick-pro-duo-pushing-8gb-in-2006/
thats why 2.71 and above allows it.
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When you plug ur psp into ur computer for the first time...what happens?
A driver loads...
What happens when u plug a card reader into a usb port?
A driver loads....
Then how is a psp going to know what to do with a ms reader? especially when its running backwards?
You will need to create an update module that contains the driver for the specific card reader...But then even the driver will have to be changed...
Then every memory stick has a different driver too...they are all constructed differently...A viable prototype would have to be constructed and exactly the same parts be used if there is any way this is going to work...Personally...its alot more than cut and paste...a little more work than this inferier SE firmwares...No offence to Dark_Alex and the rest of his supporters...hey i love 2.71 SE and even the new 3.01 SE though it is lacking vital features...
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the 8gb memstick is already out but its costs.
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http://www.gadgetgreats.com/index.asp?PageAction+VIEWPROD+ProdID+550
jst generate your ideas from there coz this already has an advantage for u simple
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Capacity: 32GB (Specified maximum)
Nuff said?
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http://psp.consolenewsblog.com/525-sony-and-sandisks-32gb-hg-duo/
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