Editing Save Files for different Game ID's

[Annie]

I was playing Dead Space 1 on my PS3, with a European disc that my friend had lent me. Fast forward to months later, and I don't have the European game anymore, so I went out to Gamestop and bought the USA edition. Now my save file doesn't seem to want to work. So games are not region locked, while save files are. I backed up my USA copy and tried editing the param.sfo to various European editions of the game, then copying it back and seeing if the game recognised my save file. It did not find it, even when using Fake Save Data Owner in Rebug. I can see, and have backed up my Dead Space save file.

I think I remember hearing about a way to edit the save file for different Game ID's, as opposed to what I already tried, which was to change the Game ID to that of my save file. There are a lot of European Game ID's even for the same game, so I think this will be much easier. Problem is. I dont know how to do this, or if its even truly possible!

Could somebody help me out in getting my Dead Space save working again? I really don't want to lose my progress >.>;;

EDIT: SOLVED

The steps outlined in this tutorial worked perfectly.
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f180/***...-ftp***-66046/

The problem with my situation was that my save, and all Dead Space saves, had an extra .dat file. Make sure you copy not only the Param.pfd and User-Data.dat but also any other .dat files you may have in your saves. ALSO I recommend ditching FTP all together as it may cause problems transferring such sensitive files back and forth through different file systems. Instead, do it all from within Multiman! Go to the file manager, open up both save's and then copy the desired save data over. In addition to this, I had Rebug's Fake Save Data owner on, which may or may not help and certainly doesn't hurt your chances.

If a Mod could change this thread title and append a [SOLVED] tag to the end, I would be grateful. Also thank you for your time Sonic-Hero! I appreciate it!

[sonic-hero]

try this tool it might help u just follow this link:
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f180/ps3saveunlocker-79744/ (PS3SaveUnlocker)

[Annie]

Thanks a lot and I am looking into that tool now. Sadly it looks Windows specific and doesn't appear to work under Wine. Although this thread also shows some promise:
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f180/***...-ftp***-66046/

I woulda checked these out beforehand, but with all the fracturing, combining, and sheer size of PSX-Scene etc it is pretty tedious to filter through the search results haha. Thanks again mate, and I'll let you know if I get this other method working.

[sonic-hero]

im sorry to hear that
i hope the tut works cheers to u mate

[Annie]

I tried the first application on my Windows PC and it did not work. I also followed the instructions from the second tutorial and that also did not work, although it seemed a bit more promising as I corrupted the data so obviously something happened. Then from the second tutorial I was able to discern that my PAL game was BLES-00308 while my NTSC copy is BLUS-30177. I went back and changed the Param.sfo in the game itself to trick my save data into working on this copy, and mind-bogglingly it still loads up the BLUS save, despite thinking its a BLES game now.

I am at a loss guys, and really kinda want to play this game now haha. Yet I also refuse to start over again, for what would be my third time >.>;;

EDIT: SOLVED - See first post!