Transferring data on PS3 virtual memory card to PCSX2

[valinho6]

Hello,

After going in circles for few hours, reading posts and trying to find a similar case as mine, I've just assumed that I've got stuck.

This thread matches my case.

I want to transfer the MGS2 PS2 Classic Savedata played on my PS3 to be continued when travelling in my laptop by using PCsX2. I manage to find the save data in dev_hddo/home/UserNumber/savedata/GameFolder to mi external USB, however what I find in this folder is nothing like what I read in forums. I can't see VME files, nor PSV, but all I see are as follows:

DATA.BIN
ICONO.PNG
MASTER.BIN
PARAM.PFD
PARAM.SFO

Any idea how to use this files to transfer them to play on PCSX2?

Thanks

[jesalvein]

I don't think you can.
Those are in a PS3 format, thus not compatible with pcsx2.
maybe Mymc will be able to rebuild a virtual memcard from scratch, but i wouldn't get my hopes too high...

[valinho6]

I see...

Thanks a lot. I was worried that was the case, but I read so many different threads which were so similar to mine, that I thought it would be an option...

Perhaps if I would have played the MGS2 with an emulator on PS3 then this would have been possible, but being the remastered version of the game... it is actually a PS3 game, isn't it?

Thanks
Juan

[jesalvein]

I see...

Thanks a lot. I was worried that was the case, but I read so many different threads which were so similar to mine, that I thought it would be an option...

Perhaps if I would have played the MGS2 with an emulator on PS3 then this would have been possible, but being the remastered version of the game... it is actually a PS3 game, isn't it?

Thanks
Juan

maybe.
but i don't know what kind of memcard format emulated ps2 games on ps3 will create.
So, i can't guarantee it works

[dr emulator (madmax)]

Hello,

After going in circles for few hours, reading posts and trying to find a similar case as mine, I've just assumed that I've got stuck.

This thread matches my case.

I want to transfer the MGS2 PS2 Classic Savedata played on my PS3 to be continued when travelling in my laptop by using PCsX2. I manage to find the save data in dev_hddo/home/UserNumber/savedata/GameFolder to mi external USB, however what I find in this folder is nothing like what I read in forums. I can't see VME files, nor PSV, but all I see are as follows:

DATA.BIN
ICONO.PNG
MASTER.BIN
PARAM.PFD
PARAM.SFO

Any idea how to use this files to transfer them to play on PCSX2?

Thanks

just out of curiosity how big are each of those files?
as a ps2 memory card is about 8.25 MB (8,650,752 bytes) buut they can go upto 64 mb (non standard card) 
it could be as simple as renaming one of those files to Mcd001.ps2 but i don't know tbph


their is something else that's very very risky that you could try (this assumes you are very tech savy)
and that is to take the hard drive out of your ps3 and try to find the memory card files, but this assumes that 
(a) you know what you are doing 
and 
(b) the file system isn't different i'e fat32 /ntfs
and 
© the harddrive in the ps3 is sata and not pata 
and 
(d) you have some way of connecting the drive to your computer 

i'm sure someone here will have tried the above, although i've never heard of it 

waits for someone to tell me the above is a terrible idea 

[pandubz]

just out of curiosity how big are each of those files?
as a ps2 memory card is about 8.25 MB (8,650,752 bytes) buut they can go upto 64 mb (non standard card) 
it could be as simple as renaming one of those files to Mcd001.ps2 but i don't know tbph


their is something else that's very very risky that you could try (this assumes you are very tech savy)
and that is to take the hard drive out of your ps3 and try to find the memory card files, but this assumes that 
(a) you know what you are doing 
and 
(b) the file system isn't different i'e fat32 /ntfs
and 
© the harddrive in the ps3 is sata and not pata 
and 
(d) you have some way of connecting the drive to your computer 

i'm sure someone here will have tried the above, although i've never heard of it 

waits for someone to tell me the above is a terrible idea 

It is nowhere near that simple. PS3 saves use a completely different format, and PS2 games emulated on the PS3 have their saves encoded into this format. There is a conversion process for the PSV format, however I do not know if the raw format like this is documented at all.

See here: http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/PS2_Savedata

It looks like the PSV format is used when saving to external USB devices; perhaps if you copy the save to such a device, you can then take the PSV into MyMC.

[kozarovv]

I want to transfer the MGS2 PS2 Classic Savedata played on my PS3 to be continued when travelling in my laptop by using PCsX2. I manage to find the save data in dev_hddo/home/UserNumber/savedata/GameFolder to mi external USB, however what I find in this folder is nothing like what I read in forums. I can't see VME files, nor PSV, but all I see are as follows:

DATA.BIN
ICONO.PNG
MASTER.BIN
PARAM.PFD
PARAM.SFO

I think that you are not playing PS2 Classic, but Metal Gear Solid HD Collection that not use PS2 emulation, or at least not use emulators from PS3 firmware. This is PS3 title, and is possible that is not emulating memory card at all. 

But if you are playing using PS2 ISO, or PS2 classic self made image. Then memory card can be easily extracted.

[StriFe]

Perhaps if I would have played the MGS2 with an emulator on PS3 then this would have been possible, but being the remastered version of the game... it is actually a PS3 game, isn't it?

He answered it already. He uses the remastered version of the first 3 games (IIRC) thus it's a pure PS3 game.

[UBCSMercenary]

He answered it already. He uses the remastered version of the first 3 games (IIRC) thus it's a pure PS3 game.

I was looking through this forum but actually looking for help with something different, I had an emulated Save on MGS3 Subsistence on PCSX2 but I'm trying to (ithout having to mod my hardware) get that PSU/Max File and convert it to the .psv format that my internal memory card PS1 and PS2 saves on my PS3's HDD are so I can then use my USB memory card adapter and USB thumb drive to copy it from the USB to the PS3 and from the PS3 internal memory card to my physical memory card, no matter what I have tried doing, nothing has gotten the file once extracted to my USB from mymc which yes my USB is in fat32 format already, when I connect it to my PS3 under the USB option for copying to and from internal memory cards on the HDD the save does not show up.  on the XMB Screen of the Memory Card Utility PS/PS2, above the option to create a new internal memory card, whenever my USB Thumb Drive is connected and my physical memory card via the adapter in that image are connected to my PS3. if clicking inside of them, the saves copied to them will appear. But whenever I try to export my PCSX2 save to my thumb drive and open my flash drive on the PS3 XMB menu, the save is not showing up to copy anywhere else?

[jesalvein]

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