ISO/CSO/Homebrew Space Calculator

[Logan]

Bear with me on this, re-read it if it doesn't make sense the first time!

I have several memory cards. I'm always conscious that I might not be maximising the space on my memory cards.

What I am talking about exactly, is an application wherby you type the capacity of your memory cards into it, for example:

468MB (would be usable space on 512MB card)
956MB (would be usable space on 1GB card)
1935MB (would be usable space on 2GB card)
3870MB (would be usable space on 4GB card)

You then start adding details for the homebrew or CSO/ISO you want to put on your memory cards, such as title and size. Continue doing this and as you add more, the program assigns them to your memory cards.

As you add more, and the memory cards are populated - and this is the clever part I suppose - the application would arrange them so they best make use of the space on the cards, maximising the amount you can have on your memory cards.

This then gives you an idea of what to place on what cards, making use of the space to its maximum.

As a secondary function, the application can store these details so you can refer to them or remove some titles, add new ones etc.

Take it even further by adding the ability to then load the assigned content onto the relevant memory card!

I may be behind in the times - so does anyone know if such an application already exists? I haven't found one to date.

I'm sure I'll now be met with replies along the lines of 'do the calculations yourself' etc. etc. Actually I do, on an Excel spreadsheet :P But its not as user friendly as an application would bel!

I have no programming knowledge so this is basically, just an idea.

Your thoughts please?

[tigerfan297]

allow me to quote Captain Jack Sparrow here:

"That makes no sense whatsoever..."

[Logan]

Ok well simply put:

An application that takes CSO/ISO data you input i.e. file size and arranges them utlilising the space efficiently over your memory cards.

Any better?

[Sushi]

Wow that would be a great program that im sure many people will use I hope a programmer sees this and decides to make one. Great idea this will help alot of people who concious about there memory.

[Ravenmasta]

it is a good idea... but i dunno...sounds kinda.... programmers-dont-want-to-do-able

[ZiNgABuRgA]

Programs like these exist, but they're not specific to PSPs (more for CDs and USB sticks). Since I don't believe in them, I don't have any, so I can't put forward any recommendations.

[nekoakuma]

the psp shows a good enough report of free space.
always have some room free for savedata and etc.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by nekoakuma

the psp shows a good enough report of free space.
always have some room free for savedata and etc.

You misunderstand the premise.

[pdiddy]

I don't think this will work "on the fly". It would have to be executed after the fact. When you write to memory, you allocate from the available heap ( contiguous or not ). This function would act like window's defrag program.

[kittyliter008]

i think i know what you mean. do you mean like if you have multiple cards, the program will even out the files so that you will have the maxium amount of space? (it's fairly hard to explain lol)