Cracking the SoulCalibur II Conquest Memory card
History
This memory card was used by the namco system 246 release of SoulCalibur II for storing the progress of the “Conquest Mode”.
A game mode exclusive to this release of the game.
The memory cards used come from the recall campaign sony did during PS2 launch on japan. these cards, had a bug on their controller chips (usually CXD9585R & CXD9585AR) that corrupted the FAT table of the card filesystem.
SoulCalibur II recycles these cards using a custom filesystem (or raw data?) encrypted page-by-page. as well as custom ECC format (it seems)
The Software
The DONGLEMAN module that SoulCalibur II uses to handle this card does not seem to be a special version. since more than 70 dongles have a DONGLEMAN module with the same hash (0a6ca23ae87aba1d0a12641435f84327) (for example: Bloody Roar 3)
Magic String
This card uses a different magic string
Memory Card for SoulCaliburII (C)1995 1998 2002 NAMCO LTD.
Related files
Based on talks with ExtraWeb1. it seems like the following files inside the SoulCalibur II Dongle are directly related to the conquest card
mc0:PSAC04A
mc0:PSAC05
Next steps
I will soon get one. when I have it. will try to modify the SoulCalibur II dongle contents to get logs and information from the card, everything logged into the ACUART (builtin RS232 on the System246)