Discount PS2 Action Replay with 16 Meg Memory

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This product has been satisfactory, thus far, but I had some difficulty in getting Action Replay MAX to recognize any of my 3 USB flash drives. This was a big problem, as the only reason I bought this program was to copy save games from the internet to my memory cards. Anyway, after doing some sleuthing on the web, I came across some instructions that worked perfectly for me on the first try!

(courtesy of Stone14 on the [...] forums, with a few of my edits)
These directions assume Windows XP (although they should be remarkably similar for other editions of Windows)

"you can use ANY size, brand, and style of USB flash drive (I'm using my mp3 usb drive) as long as
1. it's plug and play and
2. you follow these semi-simple steps to format your flash drive so that your ps2 will see it.

1 insert drive onto computer
2 click on start/settings/control panel
3 go to administrative tools
4 double click on computer management
5 click on storage/disk management(local)
6 find your flash drive (BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT IT'S YOUR FLASH DRIVE)
7 right click on the area that says your flash drive's name AND has a blue stripe above it
*8 delete partition ((it will tell you that you'll lose all of your data stored on the drive)(hence why i said to make absolutely certain that the drive you're clicking on is in fact your usb flash drive)
9 right click on the now unallocated space where your drive was before
10 create new partition: in the popup it will give you some options; volume label, file system, allocation unit size, perform a quick format
11 volume label doesn't matter, file system has to be fat, allocation unit size has to be 16k, and you choose weather to quick format or not (I did just so you know)
12 after it's done just plug it into your ps2 usb port and away you go!!!!"

* - You may not have to delete the partition manually--I didn't. I just went right to the 'format' option when I right clicked on the area with the blue strip. All you really are trying to do is format your flash drive to FAT file system and allocation unit size of 16k. That's it!

I hope these instructions help someone out there. You DON'T have to buy the Action Replay flash drive in order to transfer files...your flash drive will work, but you have to be willing to reformat it to FAT (which WILL erase all of the files on it, so move them or back them up first BEFORE you click 'format')

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