Memory Card Annihilator

A tool for formatting/unformatting MCs and managing MC images for PS2/PSX


by ffgriever


Version: v2.0a


Compatible across all models

Updated sometimes

Fairly popular



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Description


Memory Card Annihilator is a tool created back in 2007.
Its main purpose is formatting/unformatting memory cards (both PS2 and PSX) as well as managing memory card images (creating images of physical cards and writing images onto physical cards).

It can be used to restore cards broken by other formatters back to normal (eg. when 64MB card has been formatted to 8MB by MCKiller and similar tools).

It has quite nice bad block handling, so even worn cards should work fine after formatting (unless it’s the very first block that got screwed - because of the way mcman handles the cards when recognizing the file system, it might not be possible to solve this kind of error in a different way than hardware block remapping).


The previous version, although worked really nice (got quite a lot of success stories), had two big drawbacks:

  • was all in Polish language
  • display mode was fixed to PAL


Basic usage:
The video mode needed should be detected automatically (for PAL/NTSC - depending on console).
If it fails for some reason, you can always force particular mode by keeping a button pressed during application startup.

The options are as follows:

  • PAL - press dpad RIGHT
  • NTSC - press dpad LEFT
  • VGA (640x480) - press dpad UP