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[ace1221]

trading in my old xbox for one of those sexy new black ones.

but ME2 isnt letting me transfer my save games onto usb. is there a way around this? 

thanks

[Pacifien]

An HDD transfer cable might do the trick. Plus into your old xbox's HD with a USB port to the new XBox Slim. If you don't have a transfer cable, you can get one for about $20, I believe.

[musicman4523]

Did anyone verify if this works? I was about to come on here complaining about not being able to back up my game saves, but I found this post instead. I can see copy protecting the game itself, but WHY do game saves need to be copy protected? I back up every game save each day that I play it so that if my hard drive crashes I don't lose countless amounts of play time and have to start games form scratch. So far every game I have played allows me to backup these save files except for Mass Effect 2, and I don't understand why. There's no multi-player, so people can't hack their files and use modded stuff online. By the time Mass Effect 3 comes out I will most likely have upgraded to a new Xbox Slim, and if I can't transfer my files over and import them into ME3 I'm honestly just not going to buy the game. Developers need to stop screwing over the people that actually PAY for your games, especially on something as stupid as making it so we can't back up our saves files. You allow me to back up all of the DLC, but not my saves. It honestly makes no sense. I have a 16 GB thumb drive with every game save from every game I've played in the last year and a half, except Mass Effect 2 ...

[coffeenator]

Was recently complaining about this on on a parallel thread ...the transfer cable *may* work, I don't know. I was looking at buying either a new HD or one of the new slims, but if I can't transfer the save games via USB or transfer cable it's pure BS.

[coffeenator]

I did find one other game that flag the saves as uncopyable ... Arkham Asylum I believe, another UE3 based game... need to check to verify. I'm not worried about using a previous save in a new game to continue a career like ME -> ME2 -> ME3 and ME saves are copyable but will not import the saves into ME2, luckily I still had the MU that the saves were originally played from.



Frankly this is a pretty major oversight IMO for a game that is part of a trilogy that is being released over a number of years.

[HamsterExAstris]

ace1221 wrote...

but ME2 isnt letting me transfer my save games onto usb. is there a way around this?

Are you trying to Copy the saved games, or Move them? The games I've run across this with have been happy to let me Move them to the USB drive; they just won't let me Copy them.

[musicman4523]

If it does in fact let you move the file that would definitely solve part of the problem, for when I upgrade my Xbox. Unfortunately if my hard drive were to crash today I would still have to start ME2 over from scratch, and after playing thru it almost 3 full times already I would prefer not to do that. I just don't understand the logic behind copy protecting the save files, it's really nice to have a back-up in case of a hardware failure. I had it happen once on my PS3 a few months after I bought it, and I had to start Oblivion and Lego Star Wars from scratch. I was not very happy, and now I back every save file up in case of another hardware crash.

[Br0th3rGr1mm]

I complained about this an hour after I first got ME2. You can ONLY MOVE the save games, not COPY them (to ANY storage device). I never got any reasoning behind this and it's possible it was just an oversight on the Devs part.  I see no real reason why they blocked the copying of the save games, as all this does is keep legit gamers from backing up their save games.  The save game files can still easily be edited using the MOVE command (tho it is more risky).

To backup your save games now REQUIRES you to obtain a utility that can decipher the X360 USB formating. There are several of these out there. and they are pretty simple to use.  You MOVE the saves off to a USB, use the utility to copy the saves to your PC, (where you CAN edit them with a few other tools) then you can MOVE them back to the HDD (if you want...or you can just play them off the USB).

I would think by MOVING them you can easily do what the OP wants (as long as he is moving them to the same Gamertag on the new X360). You CANNOT MOVE them to another GamerTag profile (tho, I think the PC tools I mentioned above can get around that as well).

Modifié par Br0th3rGr1mm, 08 septembre 2010 - 08:01 .

[Akinra]

If I can hijack on the back of this thread, I have a similar question to the OP



I live in the UK and am moving to America soon and I'm wondering what to do about my xbox save games (ME1+2 in particular). So similar to the OP, can I transfer to a new hard drive? Or would one of those transfer kits you can buy do the trick?



Something else I was wondering was if I was to buy an Arcade xbox in the states does anyone know if I could just use my current hard drive on it?

[christopher1234]

Br0th3rGr1mm wrote...

I complained about this an hour after I first got ME2. You can ONLY MOVE the save games, not COPY them (to ANY storage device). I never got any reasoning behind this and it's possible it was just an oversight on the Devs part.  I see no real reason why they blocked the copying of the save games, as all this does is keep legit gamers from backing up their save games.  The save game files can still easily be edited using the MOVE command (tho it is more risky).

To backup your save games now REQUIRES you to obtain a utility that can decipher the X360 USB formating. There are several of these out there. and they are pretty simple to use.  You MOVE the saves off to a USB, use the utility to copy the saves to your PC, (where you CAN edit them with a few other tools) then you can MOVE them back to the HDD (if you want...or you can just play them off the USB).

I would think by MOVING them you can easily do what the OP wants (as long as he is moving them to the same Gamertag on the new X360). You CANNOT MOVE them to another GamerTag profile (tho, I think the PC tools I mentioned above can get around that as well).

This is because of Microsoft xbox rules, not developers. (notice that on PC you can actually download saves from other people and they will work fine on ME2 and ME1).
MOVE works because it forces a career to be associated with a file.  If you copy it, you could give the saves to your friend who could then get all the gamer points, etc.  Obviously not all people are technically capable of this, but if a few are - it's enough reason to prevent it.

[musicman4523]

I've seen many of my save files be associated with a gamertag, and you can't copy them unless you are logged into that gamertag. That is how the Mass Effect save files should have been done, not how they currently are.



It's possible that if you really want to back up the saves you can MOVE them onto a USB drive then copy the save folder onto your computer, then move the file back onto the Xbox. I'll probably try that later with one of my older saves from my first play-through rather than my Insanity one that I wanna keep. At least if this works I'll have a backup of the careers and be able to get them on my new Xbox in the future.

[dilmonen]

the transfer cable works just fine for moving your stuff from an older 360 to the new black shiny ones.



i've done it personally, so i know it works just fine. in fact, i did it to move from 120gb to 250gb to 360S.

[Relix28]

musicman4523 wrote...

It's possible that if you really want to back up the saves you can MOVE them onto a USB drive then copy the save folder onto your computer, then move the file back onto the Xbox. I'll probably try that later with one of my older saves from my first play-through rather than my Insanity one that I wanna keep. At least if this works I'll have a backup of the careers and be able to get them on my new Xbox in the future.

Yeah, I've used this method to backup all 7 of my Sheps.
I've moved the saves form my Xbox HDD to USB drive, extracted the saves (using USBXTAF) onto my computer and then moved the saves back from USB drive to Xbox HDD. The saves all work fine and I've got my backups done.

Modifié par Relix28, 13 septembre 2010 - 12:55 .

[Gaddmeister]

christopher1234 wrote...

Br0th3rGr1mm wrote...

I complained about this an hour after I first got ME2. You can ONLY MOVE the save games, not COPY them (to ANY storage device). I never got any reasoning behind this and it's possible it was just an oversight on the Devs part.  I see no real reason why they blocked the copying of the save games, as all this does is keep legit gamers from backing up their save games.  The save game files can still easily be edited using the MOVE command (tho it is more risky).

To backup your save games now REQUIRES you to obtain a utility that can decipher the X360 USB formating. There are several of these out there. and they are pretty simple to use.  You MOVE the saves off to a USB, use the utility to copy the saves to your PC, (where you CAN edit them with a few other tools) then you can MOVE them back to the HDD (if you want...or you can just play them off the USB).

I would think by MOVING them you can easily do what the OP wants (as long as he is moving them to the same Gamertag on the new X360). You CANNOT MOVE them to another GamerTag profile (tho, I think the PC tools I mentioned above can get around that as well).

This is because of Microsoft xbox rules, not developers. (notice that on PC you can actually download saves from other people and they will work fine on ME2 and ME1).
MOVE works because it forces a career to be associated with a file.  If you copy it, you could give the saves to your friend who could then get all the gamer points, etc.  Obviously not all people are technically capable of this, but if a few are - it's enough reason to prevent it.

No, there are games that let you copy saves. And you couldn't give copied saves to a friend anyway because of the gamertag association mentioned above. So it is probably a developer decision.