Corrupt Saved Game on MHP2G after firmware upgrade.

Hi all,
My friend has like 3 saved game files that average about 85 hours a piece for MHP2G. I didn't realize this at the time but I upgraded their PSP from 3.40 OE to 5.00 M33-6 CFW. Every time we try to load a saved game or even save a new created game we get a save corrupt error. Now I installed the game on my PSP with 5.00 M33-6 and I can create a new saved game fine. I find this really odd and don't understand why they can't even create a new saved game.

Can anyone shine any light on to why this happening and also if there is any solutions so I can get the saved game to work on 5.00 M33-6 for them. Else I think I'll have to figure out how reflash their PSP with 3.40 OE?

Thanks for your help.

EDIT: In case anyone was interested in a fix I might have found one but I need to decipher what the person was saying. Someone on the Dark-Alex forum mentioned you could do this to fix the saved game:

Patch the save file with freecheat and sed
On cross-system one of the ways to restore the archive (this method is based on FC useless to do prior to export archived data):
First of all, backup your original archive -> delete the stick on the original archive -> enter the game to start Games -> open the FC management of the archive and select "Export" -> Game archived once (FC this process will generate a directory KEY and SAV files) -> will be the KEY file SED directory (note the file name format, the file name is not included "-" symbol, and follow-up were renamed as the "bin") -> copy the backup archive Back to the stick -> to open its SED choice of rehabilitation (this process will generate a directory of the stick simply BIN file) -> the BIN file will be generated SAV coverage FC (note the name) -> enter the game to start Games -> open FC archive management and select "Import" -> in the game archive operation a -> completed

Then I found this link in Japanese that I cannot understand at all where he must have gotten the info:
http://psper.tw/PSP-Savedata-fix/

If anyone would like to elaborate on this fix or has any success stories from bringing saved games from an old firmware to a new one, do post.

I have the same problem and until now, i haven't found any solutions so i just gave up playing MHP2G. I still have the back up file of the saved game (i'm now on HR 6) on my PC before i upgradedmy psp it to 5.0 firmware. . i hope somebody out there can help us with this issue for i really wanna be able to play Monster hunter P2g again..

Wow I figured it out after 2 days.. Luckily I was able to babelfish that URL I posted above from chinese to english. I'll try to type up more details about it in case more people want to know how to do it.

File downloads:
25455_FreeCheat1.0.12.18.zip
SaveDataE-D_cn.rar


1. Extract FreeCheat to the root of your memory card

2. Extract SED to /PSP/GAME/

3. Follow instructions on readme to install freecheat.

4. Back up your corrupted save game to computer.

5. Start the game and start to create a new saved game. Before you actually save the new game to the memory stick you should press the note key which will bring up the freecheat console. We need to tell freecheat to go into dump memory mode so when you save the new game it creates the files we need. On the freecheat console go to Mem Manager -> SAVEDATE Manager -> Operate Mode -> Dump. Now hit X to back out to where you can confirm to save the game. Save the game to the memory card.

6. Now exit the game and enable USB to browse your memory stick and go to /FreeCheat/SAVEDATA/ and you will see 2 files. I have:

ULJM-05500.key and ULJM-05500_0.sav

You only need to rename the ULJM-05500.key file to ULJM05500.bin removing the "-" and renaming extention to .bin. Copy this file into /PSP/GAME/SED/gamekey directory on the memory stick.

7. Backup the new save game that you created from /PSP/SAVEDATA/ to your computer for later.

8. Copy your corrupted save game from computer back to /PSP/SAVEDATA/

9. Run SED and it will load a list of save games you have. Press /\ (Triangle) on your corrupted save game and press O on the top option. Then select "Yes" and hit O again to decrypt your corrupted save game to a .bin file on the root of the card. Mine is called: ULJM005500.bin

10. Now copy your new saved game you backed up on the computer back to the /PSP/SAVEDATA/ directory. The directory of the saved game should match the name of the .bin file you just created. If it doesnt rename the .bin file to match it.

11. Load up SED again and find the new saved game and Press /\ (Triangle) to bring up the options and select the 2nd one down from the top and press O and select "Yes" and press O again. This will encrypt the .bin file you just created into the new saved game which is the old corrupted saved game info!

12. Now just start up the game and load your old save game that use to be corrupted!

I'd imagine this would work for any game that is having issues because of new firmware.

Hoowahman

I made an account on this site just to post this.

Young man, I'd like to choke you and give you a kiss on the cheek. YOU FIXED MY GAME!!!111111

+1 SUCCESS STORY!

The game I had was Phantasy Star Portable. I had just updated my PSP from 3.71 m33 to 5.00 m33 and then my savegames would not load and gives the "Corrupted" error.

When I plugged my memory onto my brother's PSP (which was still 3.71) the game would load perfectly fine! So at that I was absolutely sure its a Firmware update compatibility problem.

I spent 1 day Googling to find this forum post. But if I were to do the research you did above it'd have taken me atleast 5 days. I appreciate the effort!



Oh, some notes to the solution you provided above:


* The "Note button" is the tiny button to the left of your Select button on the PSP that looks like a tiny musical note. (Believe me I had to look for it since I never used it before)

* As for the .txt files needed to be copied to the SEPLUGINS folder on your PSP: The instructions on the FreeCheat readme file have some mistakes (Extra spaces and upper case), so, just create a text file and have this as the first line:

ms0:/FreeCheat/fc_3xx.prx

Then make 3 copies of the file, you'll now have 4 text files total. Rename them to: vsh.txt, pops.txt, game.txt, game150.txt. Then copy them to SEPLUGINS folder on your PSP

* SED is short for Save Data Encrypt Decrypt, or SaveDataE-D_cn. (I'm posting this in case download mirrors go down and you are searching for that program)

* To make your life easier. Create a folder for your Savegame Recovery project, then create these subfolders to organize your work:
1 - FreeCheat and SED programs
3 - Instructions to install Freecheat (the text files)
4 - Backup of corrupted save
6.1 - FRESH save data dump files
6.2 - FRESH save data dump files renamed
7 - FRESH save backup
9 - SED bin dump File of CORRUPT save
11 - Encryption of CORRUPT save over the FRESH save data!



Also, I think its a good idea if you could upload these 2 valuable programs to the site or to a reliable mirror, just in case.

Thanks again for everything !

hah sweet, I knew someone would value this info. It took me a long time to figure out all the steps in Chinese. Glad it worked out for you as I couldn't find any tutorials about this stuff in english.

Thnx you guys....have been looking for sucha fix.....just one thing guys, the url for SED is not working and i cant find on google...can you please upload it again on either mu or ifile..
please i m in dire need of it!!!!!

Never mind....
after hrs of work..finally found it...

http://www.mediafire.com/?ulfja4vee4z

Ah ok well I updated the links in my post above to go to an upload site of the files I used. So it should be working there now.

YA-HA!

I finally saved my Savegame from Star Ocean First Departure after I read this here...but it wasn't working for me...not all...bcs I think it was a bit harder @ SOFD.... I must have used a tool called Save deemer...

But hey,everything else was just fine....thanks for this posts here. /bow

SO the rest I did...was:

to create a folder with same name of "New saved game" in PSP/SAVEPLAIN (this folder is created when you follow the instructions of Savedeemer)

and copied the .bin file of the PSP ROOT to the PSP/SAVEPLAIN/"New saved game"

then typed in the "GAME.txt"

ms0:/seplugins/deemerh.prx

and activated this plugin after a shutdown and restart and so on... instructions are in readme

and then I started the game and loaded the new savegame where I was lvl 2 (LOL)


but surprise surprise I was at my old savegame....YEHA and then I saved at a new place and now I can save and load the game even without the plugin

here is the link where I got it from:
h.t.t.p://dl.qj.net/CFW-3.93-Update-2-(with-HellCat-s-Savegame-Deemer)/pg/49/fid/16767/catid/151 <- sorry I'm not allowed to post links XD so just take out the "." of "http"

you only need the sgdeemer of the 2 zips.

and yeah. so Thanks a lot again and I hope I can help some ppls too... So have a good night and all these things XD

PS: It took me 4 hours to get my savegame back XD and we have now 4:46am in germany.... XD

and sorry for bad english...I'm german XD

Actually you don't need a save deemer. SED and freecheat are enough. You might be thinking that it isnt working because you might have checked your fixed save game from save manager. In description it does show the description of unfixed new save data however, when you load the save from the game you will notice that its actually fixed. That is because SED just fixes the data part not description.

It took me 2 hrs to understand that even if the save description says otherwise...the save has been fixed already. BTW i fixed midnight club l.a. save. I was 100% on L.A. then i updated and save got corrupted. Even after fixing, the description showed 0%. But when i loaded the save i realized that it have been fixed!!

Surely....I tried to load ANY...and I mean ANY... the new and the old corrupt data to load...haha old corrupt was still corrupt and new data...was lvl 2 in front of beginning village... so no FC und SED ONLY don't helped me... but I needed the .bin file from the SED created.

And I even not checked the data on savegame manager I just loaded the game and yeah and then presses-> Continue-> and I tried both...but hey I fixed it now and everything is fine and when somebody has the same prob I wrote the answer in my 1st post here ^_^

so good luck while fixing game datas ^_^...cya '-')7

Hhmmm....then it means different games have different save fix treatment.

anyways thanks for the info. should be helpful to pplz

Yeah... my files were ULES01154SOXXXXX (X= other numbers) And every savegame has other numbers... so I think that was the problem...

my corrupt data had ULES01154SO10013 and my new savegame was ULES01154SO10023 and my earlier corrupted savegame now is ULES01154SO10023 bcs I edited it with Savegame Deemer with the bin file...there stand: lvl 2 and so on @ loading screen but it worked...I was lvl 40again,had all my Characters and was @ my last save point so I created a new savegame with this stats and now it is ULES01154SO10000

ok so I am having the same issues here. I am playing Crisis Core Final Fantasy and I have been playing it for some time and I decided yesterday to upgrade the firmware to 5.00m33-6. I start playing Crisis Core and then go to save and the game locks up the reboots its self. I heard about this and so I tired it. Well it does not even want to run correctly. I followed the instructions but not all goes as said. I made the 4 files in the SEPLUGINS folder and named them exactly as said and put ms0:/FreeCheat/fc_3xx.prx in all of them. I go into recovery menu and only POPS VSH and GAME appear. No GAME1510. I enable anyways and exit recovery and hit the note button. Nothing happens. I try a game and nothing happens. What should I do here?
I have kernel 150 as well.

Is it at all possible for me to upload this game so someone can do it for me maybe? or does it HAVE TO BE ON MINE?

I found another freecheat but it is a version below the one provided and it some how works on mine but sadly it is all in chinese and I cannot understand it. maybe some one can tell me where to go. I know that you pick the first one (mem manager) on the top right hand corner, after that I have no clue

Are you sure its the save game that's the problem. Because i too have updated from 3.71m33 to 4.01m33-2 to 5.00m33-6.......no problems in my crisis core save game.

And are you also using popsloader and/or cwcheat plugins???? because if you are you have to disable them in order to use freecheat. it caused instability in my psp.