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Fake Memory Stick: Know before You Buy

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XsavioR

Member
Ebay put together this fake MS id'ing post. great to read b4 you buy since fakes are EASY to notice.

http://reviews.ebay.com.au/FAKE-Son...Gate-Cards-Exposed_W0QQugidZ10000000001535703

Don't use focalprice.com users of this forum have found that they are selling non working devices , at super discounted rates. It is not clearly noted that the parts sold are non working...... Best to stay away from them unless you know what your asking for and buying.
 
Fanpire22

Fanpire22

New Member
How I would love to have that help some months before... Well, at least I won't be cheated again, thanks to you
 
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knicky91

Updater/Moderator
great, thanks for the find.

Cheers.
 
karasuman

karasuman

New Member
Well, sigh.

I bought a 4 GB MS on eBay for about $40 because one of my coworkers assured me that it would work fine. It was listed as "generic", but I didn't realize that that meant "fake."

I've looked at some guides to detecting a fake, and the only aspect of it that jumps out is the lack of italicized Ss in the model number.

I'm not sure what to do now. On the one hand, maybe it will work fine. If it works for longer than 60 days and then quits, I'm SOL, but if it breaks before then, I can submit a fraud report through PayPal and hopefully get my money back, I guess.

Has anyone owned a fake MS and *not* had trouble with it?
 
Krelian

Krelian

New Member
Yes. Once. (Ramblings to follow)

A fake Sony High Speed 2GB came with my PSP off eBay.
It was almost perfect! Physically the ONLY earmark was a small holographic sticker on the bottom that said BYI (why would that be there?). In your PSP if you go over to Video and hit TRIANGLE and go into Information it will tell you MagicGate Supported or Unknown... my BYI fake said Unknown.
The only usable issues I had with it was that it's read/write speeds were a bit slower than they should of been but it never caused slower than normal loading or lag for me.
Honestly that was probably one of the best fakes that was out there and it was an exception... none the less I did buy a real one from the store and returned the fake in its place...
Besides the possibility of a fake not being able to hold as much data as the real thing it can also randomly decide to not load data properly (actually a fairly common problem when playing ISOs on a fake).
But if it works well enough it works well enough, if I wasn't an obsessive perfectionist when it comes to my games/hardware I wouldn't have cared about my fake since it never gave me a single issue... yours may...
One last thing: NEVER perform a firmware upgrade/downgrade using a fake memory card! You run a very real risk when you do this, use only high quality memory sticks that report MagicGate Supported!
 
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kittyangel

New Member
How do I tell if it is fake or not if I am only given the memory stick without the package. Even with the package, sometimes I can't tell if it is real or not.
 
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shadowthor

New Member
You can always test in your psp and press triangle when the memory stick is highlighted and it will say information, then click x and it will say magicgate supported if it is real and magicgate unknown if it is fake.
 
Death_Pigeon

Death_Pigeon

All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Im not trying to promote fakes but i got a fake off ebay i checked it said magic gate Unknown and it ran better than my brothers real one which he bought from the stores o well guess ill go out and by a 4 gig from the stores to be sure next time.
 
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knicky91

Updater/Moderator
Fake memory sticks arn't really that bad as people think they are.

The main differences are that they usually have a few less Mb's than real MSPD's, they may be a mm thicker, a bit slower data transfer speed or they aren't as sturdy as a real memory card.

But either than that, they are quite good and should get all of your tasks done.

Also, this goes to karasuman: You can also tell if a memory card is fake by looking at the price. As your MSPD was $40 for a 4GB card, it is pretty obvious that it will be fake.
 
Roe

Roe

Well-Known Member
knicky91 said:
Fake memory sticks arn't really that bad as people think they are.

The main differences are that they usually have a few less Mb's than real MSPD's, they may be a mm thicker, a bit slower data transfer speed or they aren't as sturdy as a real memory card.

But either than that, they are quite good and should get all of your tasks done.

Also, this goes to karasuman: You can also tell if a memory card is fake by looking at the price. As your MSPD was $40 for a 4GB card, it is pretty obvious that it will be fake.
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Fake memory sticks also sometimes do not recognize isos and other homebrew
 
Cheezeball99

Cheezeball99

But I was committed after that birthday party...
Yah, but it's only the big files fake memsticks seemingly have problems with, which leads me to believe that it's more of an issue of just bad media, corrupted fragments/file clusters more than just the Magicgate.
 
Richlando

Richlando

Member
Do I have a fake then? It's a 4GB Lexar MagicGate and it runs everything fine but will not load prx..No in game recovery.prx,cwcheat.prx etc. It did run cwcheat before and ingame recovery.prx but not anymore unless it was already loaded in memory from another stick.
The PS3 and my PC can't seem to get the remaining size right, it says 203MB when there's really 1.75 GB left.(according to the PSP) I can still add files and when it uses up the difference between 1.75GB and 203 MB the PS3 and PC report it ok..

So..what's up with that?
 
x3sphere

x3sphere

Administrator
Staff member
Enforcer Team
Game Info Editor
RJC4LIFE said:
Do I have a fake then? It's a 4GB Lexar MagicGate and it runs everything fine but will not load prx..No in game recovery.prx,cwcheat.prx etc. It did run cwcheat before and ingame recovery.prx but not anymore unless it was already loaded in memory from another stick.
The PS3 and my PC can't seem to get the remaining size right, it says 203MB when there's really 1.75 GB left.(according to the PSP) I can still add files and when it uses up the difference between 1.75GB and 203 MB the PS3 and PC report it ok..

So..what's up with that?
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Nope not fake, Lexar memory sticks are just really slow and not fast enough to load most plugins.
 
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