corrupt san andreas save

**willmans** · 12-13-2004,10:11 AM

hi, I used nport to transfer my save from gta san andreas. I then deleted it and transfered it back, but now it shows up as a corrupt save in gta sa. I then downloaded a save file and transfered it to the mc but that also shows up as corrupt. so I wonder what might be wrong? does san andreas use some kind of crc check on the saves? oh the save file was from codebreakers site. I'm playing from disk

**gothi** · 12-13-2004,11:48 AM

GTA checks that everything is ok with the save including it's own checksum and more importantly the actual filesystem properties of all the files in the save (this is an age old problem with the GTA saves and I believe this was the cause).

If I remember correctly nPort does not transfer the actual filesystem information and you are stuffed

As far as I know only the comercial save transfering devices transfer all the needed information, although I welcome to being proved wrong

**zabolyx** · 12-13-2004,03:47 PM

I've not had any problems using my CodeBreaker 8.0 or my AR MAX... and have had n trouble with MC manager from kaylakaze (I can never remeber how to spell that) or Launch Elf.... but PS2Menu killed my Hitman 2 game save... I'm not sure what happened to it though... haven't deleted it or checked it for errors... maybe I'll give that a view tonight after work...

**willmans** · 12-14-2004,07:47 AM

I got it to work by extracting all the files from my nport save with ps2savebuilder.
Then i inserted all the files in a new save and saved it as a armax save.
I loaded the save on my usb stick and transferred it to the memorycard.
What i think fixed it was that when extracting the saves got a creation date, and when putting them in a armax save they keept their date!

markland556 · 12-28-2004,07:57 PM

what usb stick are you using, cause i cant get my ipod to make it work (figures) but idk if i should get the max drive or just a thumstick memory card

**ÇÐ~kÂ??** · 01-02-2005,02:08 AM

keeping the date for the save is lame

**XERO** · 01-04-2005,05:35 PM

got an ACTION REPLAY...? go to the memory card manager....all the saved files will be visible on the left side of the screen.....see the file that has the corrupt data? highlight and delete.... thought this suggestion was going to be too good to be true but another forum reader suggested it and it works....revived three dead memory cards....hope this helps...

markland556 · 01-04-2005,08:11 PM

well how do u make the gta save work, its freakin pising me off.

**propered** · 07-27-2005,07:37 AM

wow williams you saved my skin i corrupted my bro's sa file by trying to get the hot cofee scene sorted for him anyway he is right at the end type thing well 70% and it got corrupted was close to giving up then saw this

get your files from mc save of gta sa as long as you have the old file.b place them all in save builder save as max...load onto usb stick...
place usb in top port
armaxevo put it on hdd load via hdl got to mmanager a
and uncrush to mc1 make sure you have not got the gta sa on your mc already as will not overwrite

im sure this will work witha lot of games
awesome

**Ezekial235** · 07-29-2005,03:40 AM

I'm confused -

Ive done that same thing (SA save corrupted after hot coffee modding). I used FlashFXP to transfer using LaunchELF on PS2 as FTP server. It corrupted.

I do not have Action Replay or anything like that. I guess I'm screwed. (damn I was 87% complete with no deaths, arrests, or failed missions.

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