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[Paraxial]

 When I transferred my saves from my old 360 to my new 360S, it worked successfully. I can see my old ME1 saves on my HD when I check under the "Memory" tab on my homescreen. The problem is when I load up ME1 to load a save, the game won't acknowledge that the saves exist on my HD. The same happens with my ME2 importer, as far as its concerned I never played Mass Effect before. 

This is very strange, I have all the saves on my HD intact and my game will not recognize them on the new HD I transferred them over to. I attempted copying them over to a memory stick and trying to have the importer read one of the saves from there but the save did not show up on the memory stick either. 

I'm lost here, I don't want to lose all the hard work I put into my Shepard with 87+ hours played, and I would very much like to import and carry over that character to ME2. Sadly my games won't recognize that the saves even exist. Has this happened to anyone else, and does anyone know how I can remedy the situation? Or will I have to play through ME all over again if I want to import a new Shep?

[K2daE]

are you getting nothing when using the mass effect 1 game or any kind of message? if you had DLC for it you may need to transfer the licences. im assuming you also transfered your gamer tag or recovered it from the dashboard. if you can get it to recognise the saves you can load one from just before beating saren, kill him again then it will be available in ME2 importer.

[Gaddmeister]

You'll need to transfer something called "publisher data" as the importable saves are special hidden save files. Publisher data is only transferred if you do one of two things:

1. Transfer the whole HDD using a transfer kit, or
2. Use the feature called "transfer data" or something like that from the memory screen under system settings. You highlight a memory unit and press Y to initiate this if I'm not mistaken (read the instructions at the bottom of the screen). After choosing source and destination you'll get a list of things you can transfer. Scroll down to the publisher data and select that, as that is what you'll need to transfer.

And you'll need to use your old gamertag (which I assume you do). But even if the publisher data hasn't been transferred, you should still be able to load an old ME1 save and start playing ME again from that save (you'll just not be able to import to new ME1 or 2 game). Isn't that possible either?

Modifié par Gaddmeister, 31 août 2010 - 04:16 .

[Paraxial]

Gaddmeister wrote...

You'll need to transfer something called "publisher data" as the importable saves are special hidden save files. Publisher data is only transferred if you do one of two things:

1. Transfer the whole HDD using a transfer kit, or
2. Use the feature called "transfer data" or something like that from the memory screen under system settings. You highlight a memory unit and press Y to initiate this if I'm not mistaken (read the instructions at the bottom of the screen). After choosing source and destination you'll get a list of things you can transfer. Scroll down to the publisher data and select that, as that is what you'll need to transfer.

And you'll need to use your old gamertag (which I assume you do). But even if the publisher data hasn't been transferred, you should still be able to load an old ME1 save and start playing ME again from that save (you'll just not be able to import to new ME1 or 2 game). Isn't that possible either?

I have already transferred my licenses and my gamertag over to my new Xbox, and I got my 360S on one of the first days it was available and therefor did not have access to a transfer cable. I had to use my 16GB memory stick (which I formated for my 360) to transfer all of my saves. That was a terrible idea as halfway through the transfer of my old information the flashdrive stopped transferring and stated that data was "corrupt", it erased all the data and I lost all my old ME2 saves, luckily I still had my ME1 saves. 

I started another ME2 game a couple of weeks ago, I was able to reload a ME1 save to do this. But to be honest I can't remember how I did that. I used that save and luckily got to play, my other Shep though had just as much time on him and had a different background etc. Which is why I want that save back, but i'm getting off track.

When I open up the Mass Effect slot in the memory tab I can see all the save, DLC, and my "Gamer profile" information. But I can't access it, I will try the publisher data technique that you were talking about on my new 360's HD, but I do not have access to the memory on my old HD anymore.

K2daE wrote...

are you getting nothing when using the mass effect 1 game or any kind of message? if you had DLC for it you may need to transfer the licences. im assuming you also transfered your gamer tag or recovered it from the dashboard. if you can get it to recognise the saves you can load one from just before beating saren, kill him again then it will be available in ME2 importer.

I already have the licences transfered and all that jazz. My Mass Effect will just not recognize my saves, I don't get a message or anything. I just get a blank slot, or no option at all when I try to load/start a new career with one of my old Shep's in ME1. It would be like playing Mass Effect on a 360 with no ME save data at all on it. However in my case there is data, its just a ghost I suppose.

Thanks for the help.

Modifié par Bible Doctor, 31 août 2010 - 04:35 .

[Gaddmeister]

Yeah, this is not a license issue. If you don't have your old xbox HDD, then you obviously won't be able to transfer publisher data from that.

But I was thinking, maybe you'll just need to change career (Shepard) on the load game screen? Might it be that simple? When you boot up ME1 and choose to load a game, have you read all instructions on the load game screen? I don't remember which button to press, but you should be able to change career there (something in my mind says it's the Y button, but I could be wrong ). The saves you're able to load when you first select load are only the saves from your most recently played Shepard. All other Shepards are hidden until you switch to that career.

It probably works the same way for ME2, but I don't remember exactly though.

Modifié par Gaddmeister, 31 août 2010 - 11:20 .

[Paraxial]

Gaddmeister wrote...

Yeah, this is not a license issue. If you don't have your old xbox HDD, then you obviously won't be able to transfer publisher data from that.

But I was thinking, maybe you'll just need to change career (Shepard) on the load game screen? Might it be that simple? When you boot up ME1 and choose to load a game, have you read all instructions on the load game screen? I don't remember which button to press, but you should be able to change career there (something in my mind says it's the Y button, but I could be wrong ). The saves you're able to load when you first select load are only the saves from your most recently played Shepard. All other Shepards are hidden until you switch to that career.

It probably works the same way for ME2, but I don't remember exactly though.

No you're right it is the Y button, but I have already tried this too. It was one of the first things I tried, as a matter of fact I turned off my Xbox 3 or 4 times and retried it that way before giving up. Once you press Y it takes you to a drop down list of all your Shep's careers. When I do this though I only get the one. No where else to scroll and no more buttons to press after that just blank, the game doesn't pick up the saves at all. And in ME2 when you use the importer all of your careers are very nicely listed in bright green, again though only the one shows up for me. But man do I wish it was that easy.

Thanks again for the help.

EDIT- Also in regards to the publisher data. I have high hopes that something like that would work but it wouldn't really make a whole lot of sense to me if it did. I was able to salvage that one career I have (luckily) and it works just fine, but if my other saves aren't working because of the lack of the data wouldn't it be logical to assume that the one save that I was able to get shouldn't work without it either?

Modifié par Bible Doctor, 31 août 2010 - 11:31 .

[Gaddmeister]

The save you were able to... er... save, was that something you were able to load and resume playing from a certain point? Or was it a save that you could import to start another career? As far as I know the hidden saves in the publisher data are completely separate from the other saves and are only used for importing data to a new game. If things are not working then maybe it's a result from the corrupted transfer you mentioned? Maybe the ME1 saves were corrupted though they're still visible? Or were they transferred separately?

To give an example of the publisher data:

I have played through ME1 ten times (I have no idea how I managed to do that ), though I've deleted 7 of those careers from the memory. But they still show up as importable for new careers due to the publisher data. So I don't think there is any connection. It's just that whenever you finish ME1 a save is generated in the publisher data section. My guess is that Bioware did it this way to prevent people from acidentally delete their saves in the two years between ME1 and 2. But it seems to me like it has been more trouble than it's worth.

Modifié par Gaddmeister, 31 août 2010 - 12:01 .