PS1 Save Converter

A PS1 memory card holds 15 blocks of 8 KB. Most formats are that same 128 KB card with a header in front. Single-save formats hold one save and its directory entry.

1. 1

   Open your save

   Drop a memory card, or one or more single saves, onto the converter. Single saves are placed on a fresh card, and a card plus single saves gives that card with the saves added.

2. 2

   Check what was found

   The converter names the format it found and lists the saves inside, with any problem it spotted in the file.

3. 3

   Pick the format you need

   Press the button for the emulator or device you are moving the save to. The new file downloads straight away.

4. 4

   Copy it into place

   Put the downloaded file where your emulator or device keeps its saves, using the name the game expects.

Yes. A PSP and a PS Vita refuse a .VMP card whose signature is wrong. The converter signs the card with the same keyed SHA-1 the console uses, as MemcardRex and vita-mcr2vmp do. Its checks verify the signatures on cards written by a real PSP, by vita-mcr2vmp and by save-editor.com.

Name the file SCEVMC0.VMP for slot 1 or SCEVMC1.VMP for slot 2 and copy it into the game's save folder on the PSP or Vita. On a Vita you need a tool such as VitaShell to reach that folder.

Type the game file name exactly as it sits in ux0:data/pcsx-awo/roms/, for example Chrono Cross (Disc 1).cue, and pick slot 1 or 2. AwO looks for a card named after the lowercased file name and an FNV-1a hash of its full path. The converter builds that name and the card together.

Pick a save and press PS3 .PSV. The file is named the way the PS3 expects, the game code followed by the save name in hex, and is signed. Copy it to PS3/EXPORT/PSV on a USB stick and import it with the memory card utility.

• PS2 Save Converter: PCSX2 .ps2 cards, EMS .psu, Action Replay .max, CodeBreaker .cbs and PS3 .PSV.
• N64 Save Converter: EEPROM, SRAM, FlashRAM and Controller Pak saves, RetroArch .srm, EverDrive 64 and DexDrive .n64.
• GBA Save Converter: Raw .sav, RetroArch .srm, GameShark .sps and .gsv, Action Replay .xps, with resizing.
• DS Save Converter: Raw .sav, DeSmuME .dsv and Action Replay .duc / .dss, with trimming and padding.
• GameCube Save Converter: Single .gci, GameShark .gcs and MaxDrive .sav saves, and whole Dolphin .raw cards.
• Game Boy Save Converter: GB and GBC .sav and .srm, with the MBC3 real-time clock carried across.
• SNES Save Converter: .srm and .sav for emulators and flash carts, Retron 5 saves, resizing.
• Genesis Save Converter: Gens and Kega Fusion, RetroArch Genesis Plus GX, Retrode, MiSTer and MegaSD saves.
• Saturn Save Converter: Mednafen .bkr and .bcr, Beetle Saturn, Yabause and plain memory images, plus single .BUP saves.
• Dreamcast Save Converter: VMU images, Nexus .DCI saves and .VMS with .VMI pairs.