Chnorzy
Forum Noob
Hello,
I recently bought a Memory Card with FMCB preinstalled and advertised as 64MB Version from aliexpress.
It first worked well and showed a size of 64MB in the PS2 browser like it is printed on the card.
Problem:
After coping some ELFs to it (all together around 9MB) the FMCB stopped working and some other apps also stopped working.
I deleted all apps and installed everything from scratch again. It first worked until I reached over 8MB, when problems happened again.
Solution:
I downloaded Memory Card Annihilator (MCA) to format the MC, tried to format the card as 64MB and a warning told me that this is more than the actual capacity of the MC.
I checked the MC Info in MCA and it showed it is a 8MB card.
I formatted the MC to 8MB and did not have problems anymore.
Just to see what happens I formatted the MC back to 64MB, ignoring the warnings, and saw that it showed 64MB in the PS2 Browser again even it's just a 8MB MC.
In short, the MC sold as 64MB was just a 8MB with print of 64MB and wrong formatting to fool people. If you want to be sure that the advertised size is real always check in MCA.
I recently bought a Memory Card with FMCB preinstalled and advertised as 64MB Version from aliexpress.
It first worked well and showed a size of 64MB in the PS2 browser like it is printed on the card.
Problem:
After coping some ELFs to it (all together around 9MB) the FMCB stopped working and some other apps also stopped working.
I deleted all apps and installed everything from scratch again. It first worked until I reached over 8MB, when problems happened again.
Solution:
I downloaded Memory Card Annihilator (MCA) to format the MC, tried to format the card as 64MB and a warning told me that this is more than the actual capacity of the MC.
I checked the MC Info in MCA and it showed it is a 8MB card.
I formatted the MC to 8MB and did not have problems anymore.
Just to see what happens I formatted the MC back to 64MB, ignoring the warnings, and saw that it showed 64MB in the PS2 Browser again even it's just a 8MB MC.
In short, the MC sold as 64MB was just a 8MB with print of 64MB and wrong formatting to fool people. If you want to be sure that the advertised size is real always check in MCA.

