Zio wrote:
I guess that whole Content Manager thing is a result of all the hacking and soft-modding that happened to the PSP. The CM app plus the proprietary memory cards means the only way you can move files to and from the memory card is the Sony way. It's very, very, very shit, especially compared to the PSP's standard memory cards and PC-readable file system, but I can understand why the decision was made. I don't like it though.
To move four game saves from a 4 to a 16 gig card I had to:
1: connect to my PC (why can't I just hold them in system memory and swap cards?)
2: download and install CMS or whatever it is called.
3: watch it insist that it must scan all my media files before running. Try to change the directories it uses for this. Find out this is impossible. "Tell me what's in /pictures, /videos, /music or you can' transfer your save game.
4: resolving to delete it immediately after, concede as you'll probably never use it again then watch it spend ten minutes adding one pixel of green to the progress bar because it's cataloguing a terabyte of data that' stone of it's fucking business and I will never need it to know.
5: quit out and try again to change my media folders using the there-but-unworking button to do so. Fail. I've now had my new card a couple of hours and not been able to start playing any of my new games. I've got to go to bed early and I'd like to try one.
6: reading up, I find that once it has a list of EVERYTHING ON MY COMPUTER it will insist on phoning home otherwise I can't transfer my save game to the card I want to use.
Why? Really, how the fucking hell is that in any way reasonable?
7: Try to run it on a laptop instead, as that's got no media on it to tell Sony about. It refuses to install because I "Haven't got windows media player installed". I haven't got barbie horse adventures installed either. So what? No explanation. I didn't know media player handled video game save files.
8: Try it on another laptop. Same issue. Of course, windows media player is on both of these laptops. It comes with fucking windows.
9: Try it on a third laptop. Fails again. Elect to update media player on that machine, which I don't otherwise need to do, as I'll never use it. CMS suddenly works.
Apparently it 'needs media player 11+ for that media transfer thing'. I'm not trying to do that. Some guy on a forum told me that though, not the installer.
Now I'll never have need to use it again. The most disappointing thing, apart from idiots felling me to 'Just' use PS+ which I don't want or need for cloud backups (on buying the machine I was told you could do cloud backups. No-one mentioned you had to pay for it, even if you just need to do it one time) is that there's a means of stopping the damn thing insisting on phoning home when doing stuff, which renders the entire episode pointless.
The actual backing up of game data works nicely though, so why tie it to unrelated media management. No-one listens to music or watches films on one of these anyway, we've all got phones.
Sony are worse than apple on this score, I vaguely remember the carnage when I installed their media manager for a phone about six or seven years ago. I think in the end I reinstalled windows to get rid of it.