Fake Save Owner

[sabin1981]

DO NOT LEAVE IT ENABLED!


It's not all sweetness and light as the name suggests, I'm afraid. While the option does allow you to load save games from other people, with no ill effects for that game, it has the unfortunate side-effect of faking the owner of EVERY save you load - even the ones you already own. I've had FSO enabled since I installed Rebug 3.55.1 back in April, since I sometimes like to test downloaded saves, and I've not noticed anything untoward.... until today I was randomly checking my saves on the machine, cleaning out older ones from games I no longer own or play, and I noticed a few of them had their owner status removed - so I used "Check Owner" and saw "NotOwner(Online)" on a dozen or so games, but "Owner(Online)" for others. I quickly switched back to DEX Menu 2 and disabled FSO, then loaded a game where its save was NotOwner.


.... the game complains that the save is corrupt, or doesn't belong to the current user


Gran Turismo 5, Dungeon Hunter, Alien Breed, DeathSpank, FFXIII, Valkryie Chronicles, Dead Nation, Dead Space 2, Mortal Kombat. All gone/corrupted. Basically every game I've loaded/saved in the last two months since installing 3.55.1 and enabling FSO. The only way they'll load is if I re-enable FSO, which I'm definitely not doing again - lest it corrupts every other game I own. Thank god I haven't loaded Heavy Rain or Demon's Souls in the last two months


Let this be a warning to you guys! Use it if you absolutely have to, but make sure you DISABLE it when you're finished playing a game that is using somebody else's save file. 'Kay? Trust me on this. I've lost a lot of hours in a lot of games

[sabin1981]

Aww man, thank you!!

~edit~

You say copy the "new" saves to a USB stick, but how? Some games are copy-locked and can't be copied.

[lenskip]

just go in the file manager and grab your saves that way

[sabin1981]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. No restrictions that way. Thanks.

[Knurr]

Maybe by FTP server?

EDIT: I was too slow

[A$h x]

Swapping the SFO file doesn't always work - eg Demon souls still recognizes the save as belonging to a different owner. I've got a demon souls save from my YLOD 60gb that I would love to bring onto my slim, but there is way to change it's owner AFAIK.

[sabin1981]

Sadly no, it didn't work All but one of the saves were back to saying "Owner(Online)" -- the one that wasn't was Dungeon Hunter -- but none of them loaded. All complained of being corrupt.

*head meet desk*

Oh well. We live and learn Thanks for the help, guys!

[sabin1981]

Yeah, I copied both SFO and SFD at the same time and it didn't work, so I just deleted the corrupt saves

[sabin1981]

No biggie, it's a mistake I won't make again.. that's for sure The "funny" thing is, I only had one game with one save that wasn't "mine"; Resonance of Fate. Hardly worth losing all my others, eh? heh...

[pip313]

I don't like rebug for reasons like this where the user has to many options and every one seem to have "fine print" but it seams you were ok when you left the freature on so why turn off? couldn't you just have turned it back on and load like normal?