Hacking Help needed! Save Data Overwrite Corruption on 1000.

[Phan0verl0rd]

Hi

I currently dug out my Old PSP 1000 and updated the firmware to 6.60 PRO CFW after fetching a new Battery of Amazon to revive the system ( Old system battery was flat dead)
I am not too sure what's is going wrong so allow me to explain my situation.

I currently have ISO backups from my old ripped games on what seems to be an official Sony 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. The games I have tested Persona 3 Portable (P3P), Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (KHBBS) and Fate Unlimited Codes (JP), all work and runs well from what I have . The problem I am currently having that the system has trouble with handling save data, especially when overwriting saves , which I have a habit of avoiding for the very same reason, but cannot avoid many games limit you on the availabile Saves per Memory Stick, which I currently only have one with me at the moment.

The bizarre thing is that Saving during a game cause the file below a save file to become corrupt and then saving on top of that file slot again (which by then shows blank save slot below) causes things the PSP to recognise BOTH save slots as Corrupt. This is REALLY annoying as I usually have accompanied the top 5 save slots as my dedicated saves and the rest as back-ups. The same applies if I save on top of file lower down the list except this time a file above gets corrupted. This is mainly the case with P3P and KH BBS. Peace Walker doesn't have any issues, and Fate Unlimited Codes uses Auto Saves for one File which hasn't currupt yet.

My conclusion is that this problem stems from three things that I cannot approve as of yet

1): It could be related to the New Battery, as this issue started after getting the new battery, but I don't know how to test this theory out without using another untested battery (official ones are hard to find)

2): It could be related to the Memory Stick giving up after 4 years of continuous use ( again official mem sticks are hard to find)

3): Maybe its a sign that the PSP is showing its age?

Anyways, if anyone strolls by here, please offer some guidance. Also, I tried extracting the corrupt data but it says that the directory for the file is missing / corrupt on W10 via USB data transfer.

I know this is a stressful first post, but I had literally nowhere to turn to as Reddit keeps rejecting similar posts.

Thanks in advance.

 

[kaymynd]

Hi

I currently dug out my Old PSP 1000 and updated the firmware to 6.60 PRO CFW after fetching a new Battery of Amazon to revive the system ( Old system battery was flat dead)
I am not too sure what's is going wrong so allow me to explain my situation.

I currently have ISO backups from my old ripped games on what seems to be an official Sony 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. The games I have tested Persona 3 Portable (P3P), Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (KHBBS) and Fate Unlimited Codes (JP), all work and runs well from what I have . The problem I am currently having that the system has trouble with handling save data, especially when overwriting saves , which I have a habit of avoiding for the very same reason, but cannot avoid many games limit you on the availabile Saves per Memory Stick, which I currently only have one with me at the moment.

The bizarre thing is that Saving during a game cause the file below a save file to become corrupt and then saving on top of that file slot again (which by then shows blank save slot below) causes things the PSP to recognise BOTH save slots as Corrupt. This is REALLY annoying as I usually have accompanied the top 5 save slots as my dedicated saves and the rest as back-ups. The same applies if I save on top of file lower down the list except this time a file above gets corrupted. This is mainly the case with P3P and KH BBS. Peace Walker doesn't have any issues, and Fate Unlimited Codes uses Auto Saves for one File which hasn't currupt yet.

My conclusion is that this problem stems from three things that I cannot approve as of yet

1): It could be related to the New Battery, as this issue started after getting the new battery, but I don't know how to test this theory out without using another untested battery (official ones are hard to find)

2): It could be related to the Memory Stick giving up after 4 years of continuous use ( again official mem sticks are hard to find)

3): Maybe its a sign that the PSP is showing its age?

Anyways, if anyone strolls by here, please offer some guidance. Also, I tried extracting the corrupt data but it says that the directory for the file is missing / corrupt on W10 via USB data transfer.

I know this is a stressful first post, but I had literally nowhere to turn to as Reddit keeps rejecting similar posts.

Thanks in advance.

Sounds to me like the problem started after you updated, it could be files from the previous cfw.
I would recommend you backup your games, homebrew, themes, etc. Anything important to you, not the whole mem stick contents, then format the mem stick and copy back your stuff.

 

[Phan0verl0rd]

Sounds to me like the problem started after you updated, it could be files from the previous cfw.
I would recommend you backup your games, homebrew, themes, etc. Anything important to you, not the whole mem stick contents, then format the mem stick and copy back your stuff.

Hi

To clarify about what ,I meant make 6.60 CFW permanent on the System. PRO CFW has a feature where it allows you to mask the CFW under an OFW 6.60 so you could connect to PSN with some games that needed it.​

The only difference is that instead of reactivating the system to boot into CFW, the system automatically boots into CFW when turned on. So I'd really doubt that would be the case. I will try to revert the update and see what happens. Also, reformatting the Memory card didn't help. This may indicate the culprit is the Memory Card?

Anyways thanks for the help.

 

[Phan0verl0rd]

Sounds to me like the problem started after you updated, it could be files from the previous cfw.
I would recommend you backup your games, homebrew, themes, etc. Anything important to you, not the whole mem stick contents, then format the mem stick and copy back your stuff.

Hi

Update on the situation. After trying to extract my Save Data to my W10 PC, the ENTIRE folder of Save Data has become corrupted and cannot transfer over.
At this point, I am 100% blaming the memory card for being faulty.
According to some minor research online. Each Memory has a Finate number of Writes?! ( Source from a Game Stack Exchange froum I can't link out too as my account lvl is too low). If that is the case, how do I find out the number of writes the memory stick is able to perform before kicking the bucket?

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.

If it is an real Sony Memory stick THAT is strange.Please would you be so kind and upload a photo from it (both sides of it please) the we can 100% sure.

We know about "clones" from Memory cards and it it is one,then it would not be so outlandish that the stick was the cause of the problem.

Thank you.

 

[Phan0verl0rd]

Hello.

If it is an real Sony Memory stick THAT is strange.Please would you be so kind and upload a photo from it (both sides of it please) the we can 100% sure.

Hey, thanks for replying.

Here's the photo of the Memory Stick, apologize for the lightening.

To confirm the Back of the stick reads :

MS-HX8A
G912L2L
DUDH20SS000

]

 

[Alexander1970]

Thank you.

I have the same one and size since two months (for PSP-1004) ,don´t frighten me,my friend.

Did you try it in an Memory Stick Card Reader or with an Adaptor on your PC or direct with USB cable from ypur PSP ?

Did you try the Sony Memory Card Tool for recovering your Data ? It maybe tells you also if your Stick has problems.

https://www.sony.at/electronics/support/downloads/00014735
(it requires data from you and your card)

It is strange but sadly not excluded that the Stick is the "wrongdoer".

Good luck.