PocketStation support

[thefaboss]

Hi threre,
Few people had posted on your blog that PocketStation is not compatible with memcardrex.

I did some tries with memcarduino and memcardrex 1.9 and it seems to read PocketStation memory but it's totally unable to write PocketStation rom files on it.

Robson Couto seems to succeed this operation and shares his code on his github.

Maybe someone could implement this on memcardrex in order to write PocketStation *.bin files ?
Perhaps PocketStation rom files have differents extension file name, i'm not familiar with it.

Regards

[TheBlueTroll]

a pocket station .bin is a full memory card dump. try renaming it to .mcr and trying it again.
OR try the python script from the memcarduino repository https://github.com/ShendoXT/memcarduino
as you might have better luck.

[ShendoXT]

Until I get a PocketStation myself I can't confirm nor deny it is working.
Some say that it does, some not. In theory that is just a memory card and the same structure is used but it stores apps and not saves. There may be some oddities in the protocol which I might have missed since I don't have one.

[MachineThing]

My PocketStation can't be read from Memcardrex either but it does seem to have issues reading from the PS3 memory card adapter nonetheless however. My PocketStation has the 2nd release bios (according to Orion's bios dumper tool.
If possible what bios version does your PocketStation have?

However there is a workaround if you have a PlayStation 1 or PlayStation 2 and you write to a normal PlayStation memory card (using Memcardrex), you can copy files from the normal memory card onto the PocketStation and it should work without any problems.

[padraigfl]

Years late reply here:

It's a bit slow, especially to start transferring, but my PocketStations work when the battery has been removed so my guess would be that it's in a different state when it's fully on compared to when powered solely by the PS1.