PS3 question from someone technologically inept

[Geck]

So I've been subletting an apartment this summer where I've had access to a PS3, and started playing FFXIII earlier this month. I put in about 25 hours but that's obviously not enough to finish the game.

Unfortunately I'm moving back to my normal home on Sunday, 1500 km away. Don't want my game progress thrown away, so I was trying to find a way to save my game onto a USB memory stick. A friend told me I should be able to do it....but I fiddled tonight for a bit and couldn't figure out how. I generally suck at anything technological.

Can anyone help??

 

[Skywalker]

I don't know myself, but hopefully this might help.

There are others on this forum who know more about the inner workings of the PS3 than I do, though, so hopefully they'll be able to help you.

Good luck, I'd hate to see you have to lose 25 hours' worth of gameplay.

 

[firehawk12]

Unless the save is locked to the system, when you press the triangle button on a save file, one of the options should be "move" or "copy".

The save files can be accessed under the game menu, but by scrolling up instead of down.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

As far as im aware the FXIII saved games are not locked, but with the save game file you will also need the PS3 account that you played the game on, as saved games are locked to PS3 accounts.

To copy a saved PS3 game file to another PS3.

1. On the XMB (cross media bar), go to the Game section.
2. Go to Game Saves
3. Put in your memory stick.
4. Find the game save you want to copy/backup, highlight it and hit the Triangle button.
5. Choose the menu option to Copy
6. Hit the X button on the memory stick and let it copy.


How to recover a PS3 account onto another PS3...

1. On the XMB (cross media bar) "create a new user", go to "join PS Network" and and choose "use existing account".
2. Enter in the details(email and password) of said account you wish to recover, the Ps3 will now download and recover said account onto that PS3.

So if you do all to that and assuming FXIII saved games have no copy protection then you will then be able to continue playing on another pS3.

Good luck and let us know how your getting on.

 

[Geck]

Thanks guys! I got the save file copied successfully. The test now will be whether I can open it again later. Hopefully yes - if not I'll just read a detailed walkthrough and story summary of the end of the game I guess.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^Have you transferred the account the game was played and saved on as well as, because without the account, even if the save game copied ok, the game save wont be found.

 

[firehawk12]

Can you copy an account?

I just assumed you could recreate the account on the other PS3 and transfer it normally.

 

[Geck]

Update - I just bought my own copy of FFXIII, and....well, it sort of worked. I could load my saved game here, but I unfortunately can't save any new games because it's tied to a different user account. So my choices are either to keep playing however many dozen hours I have left in the game without ever shutting the machine off....or starting over.

I'll probably just start over. I was enjoying the game anyway, and thankfully you can skip most (all?) of the cutscenes which will probably shave close to 10 hours off what I had done.

Thanks all for the help anyway!

 

[firehawk12]

Well, at least the game starts off really easy!

 

[crouteru]

Update - I just bought my own copy of FFXIII, and....well, it sort of worked. I could load my saved game here, but I unfortunately can't save any new games because it's tied to a different user account. So my choices are either to keep playing however many dozen hours I have left in the game without ever shutting the machine off....or starting over.

I'll probably just start over. I was enjoying the game anyway, and thankfully you can skip most (all?) of the cutscenes which will probably shave close to 10 hours off what I had done.

Thanks all for the help anyway!

Could you not ask the person whose account you used if you could tempoerally have their login details to finish your game file? They could always change the password once you're done for security.

 

[Geck]

^ Yeah...we didn't get along that well and haven't talked in the 6 weeks since I moved out.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^Oh well, i suppose in the long run your better just starting again and having it on your own actual account.

 

[Geck]

Yeah. I haven't mind playing through it again, actually (up to chapter 6 now). I can appreciate all the foreshadowing and hints early on that I didn't pick up on the first time through because I didn't know what was going on. Despite its overly linear nature and lack of puzzles and all the other usual critiques it received, it's possibly the best written RPG I've ever played in terms of plot and character development.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^Well there you go, a win all round, and can i suggest at some point you backup your saved games, better to be safe than sorry. LOL