Media
PS Vita Cards
Two types of cards: Gamecards (on which games are sold) and Memorycards (to hold your savedata for games that don't use the storage on the Gamecards)
PS Vita Gamecards
10 pin SD sized card (physical incompatible). ±1.4mm pitch.
Savegames stored on the Gamecards cannot be copied/exported.
Currently produced as 2GB and 4GB cards.
How to disassemble vita game cartridges (and reassemble it)
Pinout
| Pin | Signal | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VSS | |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | VSS | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ||
| 9 | VSS | |
| 10 | VCC | |
Ps-vita - gamecard / memorycard
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PS Vita Gamecard - inside pic1
PS Vita Gamecard - inside pic2
PS Vita Gamecard - inside pic3
PSVita Gamecard - inside module - topside : 'SanDisk D1149 07011-004G MOB49MA3B3.02 China'
PS Vita Gamecard - dumped content
PS Vita Memorycards
PS Vita memory cards come in five variants:
- 4 GB (€ 12 to € 30 -> €3 to 7,5 per GB)
- 8 GB (€ 26 to € 46 -> €3,25 to € 5,75 per GB)
- 16 GB (€ 35 to € 55 -> €2,1875 to € 3,4375 per GB)
- 32 GB (€ 65,- -> € 2,03125 per GB)
- 64 GB (9580 yen, ~$94 -> $1,46875 per GB)
note: current sales price as listed in Pricewatch
Pinout
don't try to take it apart like this
| Pin | Signal | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 4 | ||
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ||
| 9 |
Pinout standard SD (for comparison)
| in SD Card Mode | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pin № | Name | I/O | Logic | Description |
| 1 | DAT3 | I/O | PP | Data 3 |
| 2 | CMD | I/O | PP,OD | Command, Response |
| 3 | Vss1 | S | S | Ground |
| 4 | Vdd | S | S | Power |
| 5 | CLK | I | PP | Clock |
| 6 | Vss2 | S | S | Ground |
| 7 | DAT0 | I/O | PP | Data 0 |
| 8 | DAT1 nIRQ |
I/O O |
PP OD |
Data 1. SDIO Cards share with Interrupt Period |
| 9 | DAT2 | I/O | PP | Data 2 |
Notes:
- Direction is relative to card. I = Input, O = Output.
- PP = Push-Pull logic, OD = Open-Drain logic.
- S = Power Supply, NC = Not Connected (or logical high).
- The extended DAT lines (DAT1-DAT3) are input on power up. They start to operate as DAT lines after the SET_BUS_WIDTH command. It is the responsibility of the host designer to connect external pullup resistors to all data lines even if only DAT0 is to be used. Otherwise, non-expected high current consumption may occur due to the floating inputs of DAT1 & DAT2 (in case they are not used).
- After power up, DAT3 is input with 50Kohm(+/-20Kohm) pull-up (can be used for card detection or SPI mode selection). The pull-up may be disconnected by the user, during regular data transfer, with SET_CLR_CARD_DETECT (ACMD42) command.