

I’m still not totally sure how I accomplished it but you were obviously right on about the battery being the culprit. I do recall successfully copying files onto the new card during a previous effort when I'd 'hot-swapped' the cards while the PSP was mounted on my mac in USB mode.

All of my games & emulators were all right there and in perfect working order, running from my new 32GB card. I popped in one of the other batteries and the thing started right up. I will download that file and pop in the other battery & give that a shot. So my goal is to just clone my existing card and replace it with the higher capacity one. Since I'm still such a noob & know just enough to be dangerous, I'm not too confident I would be able to start all over again with the Magic Memory Stick and get to where I am today with everything working as it does.but I want to load more PSX games and would really like to ditch my UMDs altogether and run copies from the memory stick because they are a little scratched and I think my UMD drive's days are numbered. At this point I'm not really sure what the Pandora battery does for me at this point. The only emulator that I gave up on was MAME, which seemed to not really work with any of the CF versions I tried. With this firmware I am running emulators for NES, C-64, SMS, Colecovision, and have a few PSX games on there as well. I think I started out with 1.5 and kept upgrading periodically, and recently went up to 6.60 PRO-C (P393) because I couldn't play a UMD I acquired for a more recent game.

I actually have several other batteries I can use, but had this one in because it lasts the longest.

I am using a Pandora battery, but I thought that I'd converted it back to a 'normal' battery after the initial installation of my CF was complete. Ok I think I might have fundamentally misunderstood how the Pandora battery works.
