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Hi Helen please can you help me, I am trying to decide how big a psp memory stick to buy, so i was trying to find how much memory certain games downloaded from the playstation store would use. however it doesn't say on the playstation store how much memory a game will use until after you buy it. can you suggest how i might find this information for downloadable psp games e.g. gangs of london, driver, echochrome or pursuit force
On the North American site, it says right at the top- opposite of the price. However, the only game I could find on there was Echochrome (which takes 45 MB).
Games which require the actual disk to play take up different amounts of memory depending on if anything's installed on the PSP or how many saved games you wish to have.
I personally recommend a 8 GB memory stick. This will be able to hold a good amount of saved games as well as downloadable games and videos. I have one in my PSP and numerous saved games, as well as 6 game demos and 1 video- and I still have 5 GB left! =) A 4 GB memory stick may be good for you as well, but if you play a lot of downloadable games I definitely recommend upgrading to the 8 GB so you won't have to worry about the space it takes and just enjoy your game.
Please let me know if I can help you further or with anything else.
Best wishes,
Helen =)
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Helen Joan Casper
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Ever since I played "Pong" in the early 80's, I've been a video game aficionado. I can answer hardware & games questions about PSP (PlayStation Portable), all PlayStation (1,2,& 3), Wii, Wii Fit, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance, and antiquated systems (ColecoVision, Atari, Sega, etc). I can answer hardware questions about all systems (including PS1 - PS3, Wii, NES, SNES, PSP, DS, GBA, GB, Xbox and Xbox 360). I can also answer PC game questions, especially CounterStrike: Source, Vampire: Bloodlines, Half-Life 1&2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and all Sims & Sims 2 questions. I am ESPECIALLY knowledgeable in Square-Enix (formerly SquareSoft) games such as ALL the Final Fantasy games (I can even tell you really obscure things about these games). If I haven't played the game yet I will research it and help you find the answer, renting the game if necessary. I can even answer questions dealing with the consoles themselves (hardware questions). I cannot answer questions about Action Replay. I cannot answer questions about football, basketball, or wrestling sports games. I also have very limited knowledge about Xbox & Xbox 360 games unless they are cross-platform. If it is an independent game that has not been widely published and/or a game only released in some countries, I may not be able to help with it either (sadly!)
Experience
I currently am employed as a supervisor for a large, national video game retailer. I am also an expert here in games/roleplaying games, weddings, childbirth, and doulas. My husband is a computer programmer and one of the forefront coders for CounterStrike: Source scripts & mods. He has his own forums for coders/scripters at Mattie.Info. I have been an expert here since 2000 (under the name of Helen Chipman) and also volunteer on numerous other game-related websites and forums.
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