[TUTORIAL] The counterfeiting of Sony memory sticks

Post by **TGbot** » Thu 17 Feb 2011 14:14

Image unavailable (removed by its host) Image unavailable (removed by its host) Counterfeit Memory Stick Sony You bought a Memory Stick Sony, and you find it doesn't work well? There's a way to find out if you bought a counterfeit one. Start your PSP and go to the Game icon, and scroll down to Memory Stick. Image unavailable (removed by its host) Then, press triangle, the Information menu appears. Image unavailable (removed by its host) Now press cross, a new screen appears and will give you information about your Memory Stick. Image unavailable (removed by its host) The first line shows the User capacity. The second line shows theFree space. And the third line is the one we're going to take a closer look at. Next to MagicGate, you should see the label compatible. If that's not the case, you'll find the label unknown. Image unavailable (removed by its host) The Magicgate label on the Memory Stick isn't everything, it's the PSP that recognizes a genuine Memory Stick from a fake one. I tested with a Sandisk and it is indeed compatible with MagicGate and PSP. You're going to ask me, but what is MagicGate? It's a protection system created by Sony so that their devices work as well as possible, and above all to fight counterfeiting. One last piece of advice, buy your Memory Stick, somewhere other than Ebay, deal extreme, etc..., it's the kingdom of counterfeits.

The most counterfeited Memory Sticks are the 16 GB ones.

Post by **salahpayne** » Thu 17 Feb 2011 14:33

Memory sticks, the most counterfeited are the 16 go

there are all sizes being counterfeited!!

Post by **TGbot** » Thu 17 Feb 2011 14:44

I can confirm that the proportion of counterfeits for the 16 go far exceeds the others!

Post by **Oops** » Thu 17 Feb 2011 16:16

I'll test an 8Go (13€) at DX anyway and I'll give you the feedback (magicgate or not, bug or not)

Thanks for the info
ps: personally I thought some sandisk sold in supermarkets weren't magicgate without necessarily being counterfeits.

Post by **TGbot** » Thu 17 Feb 2011 16:48

MagicGate, allows being 100% psp compatible.

And supermarkets also get fobbed off with counterfeits with Sony packaging!

[TUTORIAL] The counterfeiting of Sony memory sticks