MechaCon

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MechaCon is short for Mechanics Controller. This chip is the security ic of the PlayStation 2 that implements game disk security and Magic Gate, and KELF file decryption.

There are two known main variants of it.

The earlier one is based on SPC 9700 and used till GH-016.

The newer one us ARM based, codenamed "Dragon".

The chip includes an 512 word eeprom. The content is different between the two main reversions. Seems to be consistent layout in one kind.

On "Dragon" platform the eeprom contains the disk drive configuration, region (encrypted), console id, iLink id and rom patches (encrypted).

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