31st October 2020, 7:36 PM
That "adapter" is more of a converter. The signals and the way those two cards work aren't directly compatible so it's just a reality of that thing. One of the side effects is that the Memory Stick security system doesn't work when you're using such an adapter. On the PSP, this doesn't matter. Not a single game ever used it and the only content that ever did use MagicGate was a handful of UI themes. The PS3 on the other hand required MagicGate for even basic operations on that port. It's a frustrating limitation. One that you can work around if you instead used the PC, but well...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)