Go to its subfolder called “scripts” → and run CONVERT_to-PSN.bat
#HOW TO MOD PS2 GAME SAVES PRO#
Open up the directory where you packed out Fire Pro Wrestling Returns Save Conversion Kit (Its default folder name is fpwr-sck).Inside the downloaded ZIP, go to C-Drive’s Fire Pro R Save Conversion Kit (v1.0 to 1.3).zip, and pack out fpwr-sck-1.3.zip to some easy-to-find folder. While it’s nominally designed with one specific pro-wrestling game in mind, its Save Conversion Kit can work wonders for PS2 games in general.
#HOW TO MOD PS2 GAME SAVES ARCHIVE#
Download the Fire Pro Wrestling Returns archive ZIP.Also, open up PS2 Save Builder, where you go to Edit → Add File, and insert the (normally three) files of the extracted (previously-)PSV file, one at a time. Choose to extract all its files with the program, into a folder that you know the location of on your Windows system. PSV file, which is located at :/PS3/EXPORT/PSV. (The PS2 Classics file should also show up as a. The old internal savefile should show up on the stick as a. Take out the USB stick, and plug it into your PC.This will create a file in the PS3 menu “Saved program files (PS2)”. Yes, I know, it won’t have your old saves just yet, but it’s necessary. You need to have booted up the PS2 Classics game at least once.Go to the menu for the internal memory card, and transfer the savefile to the USB stick. Plug in a USB (/ SD / CompactFlash / Memory Stick) unit to your PlayStation 3.If you still have the save on a PS2 Memory Card only, then you’ll very logically need to buy a Memory Card Adapter to transfer the saves to the PS3 first.
If you began playing the game on the PS3 in the first place, and want to “upgrade” to a PS2 Classics version of the game, head down to step 2.
#HOW TO MOD PS2 GAME SAVES PC#
I can assure you that there is a functional way to make the PS2 Classic recognise your old save file, through a convoluted file conversion process involving no less than three Windows PC programs to perform a chain of conversions. Somewhere down the line, you’ve bought one of the PS2™®©© Classics from the PlayStation Store, since your original copy of the game was lost to scratches.Īnd as you boot up the PS2 Classic, you find out to your sheer horror that the game doesn’t recognize the save file that is on your PS3’s internal memory card! You are the owner and player of a PlayStation 3 Obese model from 2006-07, and have successfully used a Memory Card Adapter to carry over your old PlayStation 2 save files to your PlayStation 3. You may have found yourself in this situation.
On the increasingly long list of procedural guides that no one ever reads, is this thing. (Last updated on the 7th of September 2018, with a new link for the FPWR Save Conversion Kit.)