Third party memory card question (pic)

[uatora]

I was reading recently that some games will refuse to save on any >8MB and/or non-MagicGate memory card. I have a card that works perfectly as far as I have tested (Resident Evil 4, Katamari Damacy), and I was comparing pictures of official, bootleg, and third party cards. I've read that most third party cards and bootlegs have basically just a memory unit and a black blob. I have a 64MB "Max Memory" that is just a memory unit and a blob, and some games wouldn't recognize it or save on it, although FMCB works on it just fine.

I have a 16MB card that looks pretty well made, and even has it's own chip that I couldn't find any information on, called "Gatecrasher Pro Rawscience 0942", see picture. I'm wondering what this is. Is it some kind of hacked MagicGate chip? This is the card that I have currently have FMCB on.

My "Max Memory" has the same shell as this one, besides the stickers, but is quite different internally.

 

[gDrive]

I was reading recently that some games will refuse to save on any >8MB and/or non-MagicGate memory card. I have a card that works perfectly as far as I have tested (Resident Evil 4, Katamari Damacy), and I was comparing pictures of official, bootleg, and third party cards. I've read that most third party cards and bootlegs have basically just a memory unit and a black blob. I have a 64MB "Max Memory" that is just a memory unit and a blob, and some games wouldn't recognize it or save on it, although FMCB works on it just fine.

I have a 16MB card that looks pretty well made, and even has it's own chip that I couldn't find any information on, called "Gatecrasher Pro Rawscience 0942", see picture. I'm wondering what this is. Is it some kind of hacked MagicGate chip? This is the card that I have currently have FMCB on.

My "Max Memory" has the same shell as this one, besides the stickers, but is quite different internally.

Based on belated and unexpected research, it looks like an off-Sony workaround that spams the MagicGate controller on the host device's end so that it OKs the rogue device in question, a bit like how the dishonest interrogators beat up a detainee to try and extract a false confession that they'll be happy with, ergo the 'Gatecrasher' name.

UPDATE: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/magi...4mb-mem-cards-now-available-from-datel.18958/

UPDATE 2: https://forum.arduino.cc/t/playstation-2-memory-card/65781/12