I have a PS3, and my roommate has one too. Currently both are hooked up to the big good HDTV in the living room (one at a time though). We use them both for playing Gran Turismo 5, because we each want to be able to retain our save data on our own machine. It's a bit of a pain having to play on two different machines though, but I know the game doesn't let you copy the save data because its locked, just like a ton of other games.
But now with the 1.05 update, it appears that the game save data can be "backed-up". This is great, because that game data is priceless; hence why we want to retain our data. But now that the game save data can be backed-up, does this mean that we could actually both play on one PS3 machine, and then transfer one person's data to the other machine?
I'm guessing it could be done, but I'm not sure exactly how. Would the game data being copied have to be under the same user account name as on the machine its going to? And the biggest question of all, would it really copy EVERYTHING? In other words, once copied over to the other machine, would that machine behave and play my GT5 game just as if I had been playing it on that machine all along? Would any data be missed? Would there be any little tid-bits of game data or stats, etc. that wouldn't transfer over? Or what about the trophies?
It's really a pain having to switch machines each time the other wants to play (requires switching wires, etc. and we're worried about weakening the connection ports), and if we can just both play on one machine and transfer one game save over to the other person's machine once we're done with GT5, that'd be great! But if its at the cost of losing any data that won't get copied over, its not worth it.
So, will I lose anything? And if this WILL work, how do I copy it over? (I need pretty simple and precise instructions, I'm not as experienced with dealing with PS3 stuff). Thanks very much!
But now with the 1.05 update, it appears that the game save data can be "backed-up". This is great, because that game data is priceless; hence why we want to retain our data. But now that the game save data can be backed-up, does this mean that we could actually both play on one PS3 machine, and then transfer one person's data to the other machine?
I'm guessing it could be done, but I'm not sure exactly how. Would the game data being copied have to be under the same user account name as on the machine its going to? And the biggest question of all, would it really copy EVERYTHING? In other words, once copied over to the other machine, would that machine behave and play my GT5 game just as if I had been playing it on that machine all along? Would any data be missed? Would there be any little tid-bits of game data or stats, etc. that wouldn't transfer over? Or what about the trophies?
It's really a pain having to switch machines each time the other wants to play (requires switching wires, etc. and we're worried about weakening the connection ports), and if we can just both play on one machine and transfer one game save over to the other person's machine once we're done with GT5, that'd be great! But if its at the cost of losing any data that won't get copied over, its not worth it.
So, will I lose anything? And if this WILL work, how do I copy it over? (I need pretty simple and precise instructions, I'm not as experienced with dealing with PS3 stuff). Thanks very much!
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