Well.......
The PS TV project went South once again. Sadly, my memory card updated after reboot, all my bubbles disappeared and I thought, "I am done with moving the bubbles over" and formatted my memory card.
Reinstalled everything, however, after I put it all back together I noticed my memory was low (lower than it should have been), so I moved the SD card from the PS TV to my PC and found that although I have 77 gb free, the PS TV only recognizes about 13 gb of free space.
Formatted the memory card (did a full format, not a 'quick format') because I found something on reddit where another person encountered this problem. According to what I read, reformatting at 64 cluster size fixes the problem. Last time I formatted the card I did a 'quick format/default cluster size', for all I know it was 64--but after I move this 215 gb retroarch build over I will know if its working....it shows 477 gb free space now--but it showed that last time until I started adding things....
So with all said and done hopefully this works. I never did manage to bring the Vita games over, and definitely will not be bringing over bubbles...
If this does not work this PS TV is going on eBay, lol. It is starting to seem I may just not understand enough to get it running properly. I suppose I could have settled with a loss of about 80 gigs, but I had not even added my Vita games yet. After doing more PSP's than I can count, and 2 Vitas this thing is proving to be a huge pain. I really thought it would be an easy setup--mostly because all the guides have said the PSTV and Vita are essentially the same. Maybe so, but this TV is way more picky about everything than the Vita was!
Just to vent a little, I am coming off a failed Wii-U project--pretty sure it had the SSB corruption, got Tiramisu installed, but could not add ANY pgms (no advice needed, I will never go back to it, lol)--and now this PS TV is driving me nuts.
EDIT: I would love to try and just copy memory cards, unfortunately I only have one card reader and not enough free disk space (nearly 400 gb) on any of my drives to dump it so I can load it to the new card. Also, the Vita needs some tweaks (especially in Retroarch) and a fresh build is probably best.