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USB Memory Cards - Compatibility

In The Groove uses USB pen drives as memory cards.

In The Groove 2

In The Groove 2 is compatible with many more USB devices than In The Groove 1. There is no "Allow List" in ITG2, meaning that the game will try to use whatever USB storage device that you plug in.

There are several devices that have been reported to not work correctly:

• Some Lexar JumpDrive models
• Most high-power devices
  • Apple iPod Shuffle
  • Apple iPod Mini
  • Rio Carbon
  • some off-brands of flash drives

USB drive manfacturers frequently change the chipsets in their USB drives, even if they don't change the model number. Therefore, it's very hard to tell if a particular model is going to work.

We advise that players buy a small, cheap USB drive just for use with ITG. Keep you store receipt, and if you that your drive doesn't work with ITG, return to the store and exchange it for another model.

In The Groove 1

Only a few specific models of USB pen drives are allowed in ITG 1.0. The game will ignore any pen drive that isn't on the allow list (see below).

Formatting the USB memory card

The first partition on the pen drive must be either FAT or FAT32. Otherwise, the game will fail to load from/save to the drive. Nearly all USB pen drives come pre-formatted in FAT or FAT32.

Allow List

• vendor 0x0781, product string contains "Cruzer" (SanDisk Cruzer* drives)
• vendor 0x04e8, product string contains "Kingston|KINGSTON" (Kingston pen drives manufactured by Samsung)
• vendor 0x041e, product string contains "^NOMAD MuVo$|^NOMAD MuVo .X" (Creative Labs Nomad MuVo flash drives but not hard drive players)
• vendor 0x05dc, product string contains "JUMP|Jump" (All Lexar Jump* drives)
• vendor 0x1915 // Linksys USB 2.0 Disk 128MB
• vendor 0x0d7d, product string contains "USB DISK" (some PNY Attache pen drives)
• vendor 0x0ea0, product string contains "Flash Disk" (other PNY Attache pen drives)

Devices known to work

• Lexar JumpDrive 128MB (vendor 0x05dc, product 0xa400). http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/SKU.asp?BCFlag=False&PageType=1&SKU=578886
• PNY Attache 64MB (vendor 0x0ea0, product 0x6828). http://www.compusa.com/apple/product_info.asp?product_code=310575&pfp=APPLE
• Sandisk Cruzer Mini 128MB (vendor 0x0781, product 0x7103). http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AZ67Y/102-7532863-3088128?v=glance
• Kingston Data Traveler 64MB (vendor 0x04e8, product 0x0100). http://www.compusa.com/apple/product_info.asp?product_code=50584677&pfp=APPLE

Devices known not to work

• Rio Carbon (vendor 0x045a). Mounting fails the device frequently fails.
• Lexar JumpDrive 128MB (vendor 0x05dc, product 0xa300). Mounting always fails.
• Iomega Micro Mini 128MB (vendor 0x4146, product 0x2168). Mounting always fails.

Find your device's vendor ID and product ID in Windows

• Plug in your USB device.
• Click Start, and then click Run.
• In the Open box, type msinfo32, and then click OK.
• In the left pane, expand Components, and then click USB.
• Locate the line named USB Mass Storage Device. Click the line to highlight it.
• The string will look something like "USB\\VID_0781&PID_7103\\0002182964" as in the example below. In this example, the VendorID is 0x0781 and the ProductID is 0x7103.