Memory card problems psone

[Atari 5200]

Just bought a new psone. I am having problems with the memory card. It's a mad catz brand card. When I insert the card it restricts the controller from functioning. When pulled out, everything is fine. I was wondering if the psone recognizes that it's not an official card and blocks access to it. Thanks!!!

[PentiumMMX]

Could be controller port problems. I have a PSX that I can only use a old PSX Digital Controllers (It can't use any DualShock controllers), and when I insert a memory card (Mine is an official Sony PSX Memory Card), it keeps the controller from working.

[omnedon]

""mad catz brand card""

I stopped reading there. Until you test with a real SONY mem card, you don't know anything.

Third party cards are incredibly unreliable. Any time I see one come into the shops stock, it goes straight into the trash. They create all sorts of complaints about peoples consoles, just like yours. It's always solved the same way, ditch the third party card, and the problem vanishes.

[Poofta!]

i have a psone and a few of those old gamepro memory cards... work fine. but yeah, its probably the card. theres nothing in the psone that prevents you from using third party peripherals. did you try inserting it into the second slot and seeing if everything worked fine?

[PentiumMMX]

...I just saw a topic exactly like this on GameFAQs. You're a member there, Atari 5200?

[Atari 5200]

yeah, that was me!

[Kitsune Sniper]

Mad Catz is crap.

Surprisingly, though, Performance and Pelican cards work quite well for me.

[jferio]

Well, I haven't had problems except with one Interact card I bought. Although I can understand the reputation with the cards that had the compression on them. I tend not to trust paging and compression on devices with specific expectations.

[omnedon]

Like I said, until he tests with a real, known working mem card, he doesn't know anything. It could be the PSOne.

There is a 2% chance it's the PSOne, and a 98% chance it's the card, and that is the wisest assumption until proven different.

[Atari 5200]

I just bought a new psone card. It works perfectly. I don't remember if I mentioned this in a previous post, but on the memory card screen, it would actually read the card and show the game files with the mad catz card, but disable the controller, which is what bugs me...Why does it disable the controller? BTW, the card, as far as I know, works fine on a ps2.

So I guess all I needed was a new memory card. Can I now skip the card on water? You know...like rocks? :\

[bangtango]

I just bought a new psone card. It works perfectly. I don't remember if I mentioned this in a previous post, but on the memory card screen, it would actually read the card and show the game files with the mad catz card, but disable the controller, which is what bugs me...Why does it disable the controller? BTW, the card, as far as I know, works fine on a ps2.

So I guess all I needed was a new memory card. Can I now skip the card on water? You know...like rocks? :\

MadCatz sucks like that. I got a MadCatz N64 controller from the free bin at a local video game store. That controller would lock up every N64 system I tested it in. I used it on all 5 of my N64 consoles, all of which are in good working order, and it would either shut those units off in midgame (if it got that far) or in some cases prevent them from turning on. My next course of action was to test all 5 units with a "real" N64 controller to make sure the imposter MadCatz product didn't do any permanent damage. Thankfully it didn't and that controller ended up on Ebay in a large N64 lot (yes, I told the winning bidder it was defective). Not my problem anymore, I got the controller for free so it didn't cost me anything.