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PS2 Memory Card Utils

What's this?

A few utilities to help with management of PlayStation2 Memory Cards.

The main part is the mymc utility, which does brunt of the PS2 Memory Card management1.

However, SD2PSX doesn't readily work with it.

The reason is that SD2PSX uses raw 512 byte sectors, whereas mymc uses 528 byte sectors (data + 12B checksum + 4B padding).

To that end I wrote two small utils (sectorpad.rb and sectorstrip.rb) that allow you to Hobbit the format2.

How to use

Say that you got yourself shiny new Card1-1.mcd thanks to SD2PSX3.

$ ruby sectorpad.rb Card1-1.mcd Card1-1.ps2
+ Input size OK (RAW 8MB card with 512B sectors)
+ Done.

$ python2 mymc/mymc.py Card1-1.ps2 ls
rwx--d----+----      11 2023-02-26 12:49:52 .
-wx--d----+--H-       0 2022-10-24 05:49:31 ..
rwx--d----+----       6 2023-02-26 12:47:17 APPS
rwx--d----+----       5 2022-11-05 02:32:04 BOOT
rwx--d----+----       9 2022-11-05 02:31:59 SYS-CONF
rwxp-d----+----      11 2022-11-05 02:31:45 BIEXEC-SYSTEM
rwxp-d----+----       6 2022-11-05 02:31:47 BEEXEC-SYSTEM
rwxp-d----+----       7 2022-11-05 02:31:50 BAEXEC-SYSTEM
rwxp-d----+----       5 2022-11-05 02:31:52 BCEXEC-SYSTEM
rwx--d-------H-       4 2023-02-26 12:57:13 BEDATA-SYSTEM
rwx--d----+----       6 2023-02-26 12:49:56 OPL

# other mymc commands here (adding / extracting files, etc)

$ ruby sectorstrip.rb Card1-1.ps2 Card1-1.mcd
+ This is padded 8MB card, cool.
+ Done.

How to create a new card

$ python2 mymc.py blank.ps2 format

# rest of commands (if you wish)

$ ruby sectorstrip.rb blank.ps2 blank.mcd
+ This is padded 8MB card, cool.
+ Done.

How to extract & repackage existing card

Please note: signed/encrypted elf files are specific to the one card. It won't be possible to shuffle them to a different card. That said, looks like sd2psx uses the same ID for all cards. :-)

Also note: extracting and repackaging will break file linking, resulting in more space wasted. You might not care, though. Especially if you use this for sd2psx.

$ ruby sectorpad.rb Card1-1.mcd Card1-1.ps2
+ Input size OK (RAW 8MB card with 512B sectors)
+ Done.

$ ruby dump-card.rb Card1-1.ps2 dump
+ Extracting contents ...
  > mkdir BOOT
    + extract icon.sys
    + extract BOOT.ELF
    + extract BOOT.icn
  > mkdir SYS-CONF
    + extract ICON.SYS
    + extract FMCB_CFG.ELF
    + extract SYSCONF.ICN
    + extract USBD.IRX
    + extract USBHDFSD.IRX
    + extract FREEMCB.CNF
  > mkdir BIEXEC-SYSTEM
    + extract ICON.SYS
    + extract osdsys.elf
    + extract osd130.elf
    + extract DEV9.IRX
    + extract osd110.elf
    + extract ATAD.IRX
    + extract osdmain.elf
    + extract HDDLOAD.IRX
    + extract FMCB.ICN
  > mkdir BAEXEC-SYSTEM
    + extract ICON.SYS
    + extract osd130.elf
    + extract osd120.elf
    + extract osdmain.elf
    + extract FMCB.ICN
  > mkdir BCEXEC-SYSTEM
    + extract ICON.SYS
    + extract osdmain.elf
    + extract FMCB.ICN
  > mkdir APPS
    + extract FMCBapps.icn
    + extract icon.sys
  > mkdir BEEXEC-SYSTEM
    + extract ICON.SYS
    + extract osd130.elf
    + extract osdmain.elf
    + extract FMCB.ICN
+ All done.

# tweak the 'dump' directory as you like

$ ruby card-from-dir.rb c.ps2 dump
+ Formatting card "c.ps2" ...
+ Adding contents ...
> mkdir "BOOT"
> add "BOOT/icon.sys"
> add "BOOT/BOOT.ELF"
> add "BOOT/BOOT.icn"
> mkdir "SYS-CONF"
> add "SYS-CONF/ICON.SYS"
> add "SYS-CONF/FMCB_CFG.ELF"
> add "SYS-CONF/SYSCONF.ICN"
> add "SYS-CONF/USBD.IRX"
> add "SYS-CONF/USBHDFSD.IRX"
> add "SYS-CONF/FREEMCB.CNF"
> mkdir "BIEXEC-SYSTEM"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/ICON.SYS"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/osdsys.elf"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/osd130.elf"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/DEV9.IRX"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/osd110.elf"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/ATAD.IRX"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/osdmain.elf"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/HDDLOAD.IRX"
> add "BIEXEC-SYSTEM/FMCB.ICN"
> mkdir "BAEXEC-SYSTEM"
> add "BAEXEC-SYSTEM/ICON.SYS"
> add "BAEXEC-SYSTEM/osd130.elf"
> add "BAEXEC-SYSTEM/osd120.elf"
> add "BAEXEC-SYSTEM/osdmain.elf"
> add "BAEXEC-SYSTEM/FMCB.ICN"
> mkdir "BCEXEC-SYSTEM"
> add "BCEXEC-SYSTEM/ICON.SYS"
> add "BCEXEC-SYSTEM/osdmain.elf"
> add "BCEXEC-SYSTEM/FMCB.ICN"
> mkdir "APPS"
> add "APPS/FMCBapps.icn"
> add "APPS/icon.sys"
> mkdir "BEEXEC-SYSTEM"
> add "BEEXEC-SYSTEM/ICON.SYS"
> add "BEEXEC-SYSTEM/osd130.elf"
> add "BEEXEC-SYSTEM/osdmain.elf"
> add "BEEXEC-SYSTEM/FMCB.ICN"
+ All done.

$ ruby sectorstrip.rb c.ps2 c.mcd
+ This is padded 8MB card, cool.
+ Done.

# c.mcd is now ready to rock.

License

The sector*.rb are licensed under GPLv2.

The mymc directory is in public domain.

Footnotes

  1. Don't reinvent the wheel, if you don't have to, right?

  2. There and back again.

  3. I'm using already populated card (not an empty one) to make things less boring.

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