Pre-order your SD2Vita (game cart to microSD) adapter right now via Reddit!
Important disclaimer from wololo: I have not personally verified that people selling preorders for the SD Card adapters through reddit are legit or not, and as such I cannot vouch for users such as Srident or moredrugsmore3somes. We publish Aurora’s article for your information, but as always make sure to do due diligence before sending your money to a stranger.
It seems that the Vita community is currently going crazy over the microSD adapter via the game card slot and another Reddit user has decided to produce some adapters. This time around, Reddit user “Srident” is going to sell these adapters for €15/$17 and they’re available for pre-order.
What’s SD2Vita?
This is the name of the microSD adapter via the game card slot that xyz made public a few days ago. Thanks to taiHEN and software patches from motoharu, these adapters can work on all Vitas, even Slims and FAT Wi-Fi only models unlike Yifan’s microSD adapter for the Vita 3G (which is still a great adapter!). With this adapter, you can use microSD cards on your PSVita which will save you quite a buck as Vita memory cards are expensive and the 64GB ones are said not to be too reliable (although your mileage may vary).
Great! Where can I pre-order the adapter from then?
This adapter is from Reddit user “Srident” who seems to be from Eastern Europe (as per his Reddit post’s title) not from “moredrugsmore3somes” who was the first person to announce that he’s gonna produce some of these adapters. Srident should be producing about 1000 adapters or more depending on the demand from the pre-order forum. Unlike, “moredrugsmore3somes”‘s adapters (which should cost $10), these will cost €15/$17 (or whatever the exchange rate will be when you actually pay for the adapter). There will be international shipping available (like “moredrugsmore3somes”‘s production run) which will let you get the adapter wherever you are in the world. Gold-pinned microSD slots will be used for better durability.
Orders for the SD2Vita should be available in about 2 weeks from today and the first shipments will be out in about 3 weeks’ time. If you decide to pre-order now, you’ll get an e-mail notifying you when you can do you can place your final order. Those who pre-order the adapter will get a 10% discount which means the adapter should cost €13.50 or the equivalent in your currency.
Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/6l0td9/going_to_do_a_mass_production_of_sd2vita_in/
Pre-order form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoFSZ6SVAvJZBSMZSCVNQ3VQRtYVtxVKSM4XqAiHUu-XnvtQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
N.B: This adapter is based on the same design of “moredrugsmore3somes”‘s adapter which is in turn based on Xyz’s schematics with motoharu’s software patches. Both adapters should be more or less the same except for some of the material used so it doesn’t matter too much whom you get your adapter from.
Ordered one just now. By the way FIRST!!
The Chinese factories are probably gearing up productions on these as we speak.
I’d much rather wait for the Chinese clones and derivatives.
just the same, waiting big productions to come. Still have plenty of stuff to play on 3DS & PS4 🙂
I have a question. whats the memory cap on the adapter or if its the system then what would be the cap for the system? I want to get a 256gb sd card for the vita
The adapter is a simple pin adapter. No chips. No controller. Just a microsd slot attached to a board. Software does the rest. The youtube video showed him using a 128GB microsd XC card so I imagine you should be able to go up to 256GB just fine on the vita’s hardware side of things, if not even higher with, at worst, only needing to patch things via software.
Thank you for the response. This is probably the most godlike thing to happen to the vita, plus enso is coming at the end of the month. Im so stoked for this bro. Finally being able to have a great memory capacity on vita. I got a 8 gig and its not even enough
This is awesome!!
I wonder if you can transfer from Sony card or have to format and start over?
This goes in the GAME CARD slot, hence the text; “game cart to microSD”
I understand that. What I don’t understand is if the extra storage combines with or replaces the existing storage (like USB on PSTV) and if the later, can we easily transfer everything (already installed) to the new SD card.
just copy everything over with vitashell i would guess…
Why isn’t everybody just waiting for these to appear on a modchip reseller’s web site? Sending money to random people on reddit doesn’t seem like such a good idea.
They’re going to be selling this on ebay lol.
Theres 0 reason to buy it now. Many other people / chinese / popular website you can trust 100% will produce this later. Of course 10/20$ is not much but you don’t know anything about it now: Is it going to work ? lifespan ? you don’t know.
Of course it works. There are videos proving it.
Now that you mention it
I might as well just wait for china made or someone who live closer to me in Asia
Will this works on pstv too?
Yup
use a hdd for PSTV. Much cheaper much more capacity (Up to 2,2 TB)
Lol. You don’t even need this on pstv. Just the latest version of vita shell and get any usb drive you want to use, then plug into the pstv’s usb slot.
Though as noted it would work on pstv. Just not very practical, for it as this was made for the vita handheld which has no sd slot access for usb drives.
Guys for anyone wondering this would be super easy to build yourself if you have even a little soldering experience. One order of three boards is $5.35 and you can buy a couple of those micro sd ports for a few cents each. Then just solder 8 pins and 3 supports, plug in, boom you have your own made.
But the only homebrew that supports this right now is VitaShell and maybe RetroArch.
Correction: Just remembered that the game card mounts as ux0.
The following phrase (extracteed from the article) is utter gibberish (after “notifying you”):
“you’ll get an e-mail notifying you when you can do you can place your final order”
I’m sorry, it should be “You’ll get an e-mail notifying you when you can place your final order”
Hi Aurora, it’s nice to have a female mind around here – long time user here from the early PSP days. Hoping the activity ramps up until we have another busy PSP like scene again.
Cheers! Yeah, I hope that the momentum keeps on going. I’m doing everything within my power to best support the scene and that mostly consists of writing articles!
china clones, where you? i want this thing!
They’re on AliExpress now, like $12-15 Canadian
Hello, my name is Sergio and I would like to know if I make shipments to Colombia, I am very interested in acquiring the product. I would like also as is the method of payment and if the price includes shipping. thank you very much !!
I would suggest you ask the bloke who did the Reddit post as that guy can help you the best 🙂
There is a new variant of the SD2VITA now, SD2VITA Adapter Gerber Design Released by Gadorach
Has anyone already received an answer, after filling the form?
Good question
Yes,they will reply your in email.
Is there any indication about the maximum transfer speed the device is able to achieve? Is it worth getting a top class SDCard, or the transfer speed will be limited by the device?
Hey Guys!
I’m also doing a batch and looking for at least 50 units
this is basically for those who want to buy from Manila / Philippines
here is the Google forms for you to place your order.
Thank you!
Hey Guys!
I’m also doing a batch and looking for at least 50 units
this is basically for those who want to buy from Manila / Philippines
here is the Google forms for you to place your order.
Thank you!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jRQvREeJohct5g2urJWZ8W1VKhU1vlD0IQ7SqCX5VEA/
Hey there! Is it possible to talk to you first before sending an order? I’d like to ask a few questions as well.
Does it work on all firmwares? I need to know
there is a french store they got the last version : http://store.modchip59.com/produit/sd2vita-ps-vita-memory-card-adapter/