Spoiler: Opposite Tutorial

[Tutorial] Transfer Saves from PS3 to PS1

The purpose of this tutorial is to convert saves from a physical PS1 Memory Card to a virtual PS3 Internal Memory Card, using a Windows PC and a PS2 with FMCB, without a PS3 Memory Card Adapter or DexDrive.

In order to complete this tutorial, a PS2 needs to run uLaunchELF to copy the save from the PS1 Memory Card. A USB storage device is also needed to copy the save from the PS2 to the PC to the PS3.

PS1 Memory Card >> PS2 (FMCB) >> USB >> PC >> USB >> PS3 [Virtual Memory Card]

Tutorial: Create PS3 Internal Memory Card


0. Download

• MemcardRex

1. PS2, uLaunchELF

• Insert USB into PS2
• Copy RAW save file from PS1 Memory Card (mc0:/ or mc1:/ )
• Paste RAW save file to USB (mass:/ )

2. PC, MemcardRex

• Insert USB into PC
• Import RAW save file
• Export as .PSV single save
• Spoiler: MemCARDuino

  

3. PC

• Move .PSV into "\PS3\EXPORT\PSV" folders
• Copy "PS3" folder to USB root directory (USB:\PS3\EXPORT\PSV\filename.PSV)

4. PS3, XMB

• Insert USB into PS3
• Select: Memory Card Utility >> USB Device >>
  
  : Options >> Copy >> (PS1) Internal Memory Card

 

[rusty_train]

With Software like freedvdboot, this is even easier to do

 

[MetoMeto]

can this be done for adrenaline ps1 games to ps3?

 

[godreborn]

can this be done for adrenaline ps1 games to ps3?

I don't know if those are different, but psx saves are raw, so just hex them into the memory card. It's very easy.

 

[MetoMeto]

I don't know if those are different, but psx saves are raw, so just hex them into the memory card. It's very easy.

sure its easy...if you know how! x)
They are in VMP format. So VMP to PSV.

But seriously, what do you mean by "hex them into the memory card"?

 

[godreborn]

All psx saves start with SC and run for 0x2000 per block.

 

[MetoMeto]

Actually never mind, this tutorial is relevant even for Adrenaline PS1 saves to PS3 PS1 saves.
I just converted "SCEVMC0.VMP" from my VITA (ux0:/pspemu/PSP/SAVEDATA/"game_code") to .mcs using rex.....
and the rest is in this tutorial.

Thanks zfreeman! Now i can play Tomb Raider on my PS3 where i left off

 

[SolidSonicTH]

For whatever reason I cannot get this process to work for Gran Turismo 2. Whenever I try to do this process to GT2's save it comes up as corrupt on the PS3 side.

Any advice?

 

[godreborn]

For whatever reason I cannot get this process to work for Gran Turismo 2. Whenever I try to do this process to GT2's save it comes up as corrupt on the PS3 side.

Any advice?

Just hex it in or I can do it for you. I'd need the save and your memory card image (vm1 in the vector folder on root).

 

[SolidSonicTH]

Just hex it in or I can do it for you. I'd need the save and your memory card image (vm1 in the vector folder on root).

When you say "memory card image" I assume you're talking about the virtual memory card from the PS3?

 

[godreborn]

Yes, make sure there's already a save on it. Does this memory card have multiple games' saves?

 

[SolidSonicTH]

Yes, make sure there's already a save on it. Does this memory card have multiple games' saves?

Just a single THPS1 save and the GT2 save that won't load.

 

[godreborn]

Alright.

 

[zfreeman]

Just a single THPS1 save and the GT2 save that won't load.

Upload your PS1 saves here. I'll take a look at them.

 

[SolidSonicTH]

Welp, my PS3 decided to corrupt the whole PS1 memory card for some reason. Bizarre.

Here's the save, I guess I need to regain my progress (I started a new save that I think may have been further than this one but whatever).

 

[zfreeman]

This is all that showed up after importing.

 

[SolidSonicTH]

Yeah, that's all I uploaded. I wasn't uploading the entire memory card it came from, just the individual save.

 

[godreborn]

Yeah, that's all I uploaded. I wasn't uploading the entire memory card it came from, just the individual save.

need the memory card image, because of the toc. I can already tell it's four blocks, but without the toc in the first block of the memory card, it will likely become corrupted.

 

[godreborn]

alright, I just hexed it in. however, there's an awful lot of "blank" space in the save you uploaded, so I don't know how to check what's been unlocked. I'm sure you know what to do with this file:

 

[SolidSonicTH]

Should be barely any progress. IIRC I was at the beginning of the game on that save.

Also like I said my entire VMC on the PS3 got jacked up so I couldn't dump it (even though I actually didn't see how to dump it in the first place — thankfully it wasn't much data lost).

The process the first time I went smoothly, I just couldn't load the data in the game, which made me think there was something quirky about the GT2 save itself.