360: Transferring save games between profiles/consoles

Russinating · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:14

Me and my flatmate have got a PES2011 master league going on his 360. I however have just bought a 360S and as my room's a little bigger we want to transfer our saved game over to mine. We don't care about achievements or anything, just the saved game file.

Anyway, I get a "This item cannot be transferred between profiles" error when I try to move it across using a memory stick. Is there a work around?

5punk3monk3y · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:56

No save games are locked to profiles so you would have to have his profile to play it, any other method you come across will get you banned from XBL.

orderoftheflame · 8 Jun 2011 at 20:40

Certain games allow you do transfer saves between profiles, but you're disabled from gaining achievements, and those that actually let you do it are far and few between.

If you can't do it through the console for PES, I wouldn't consider the alternative methods you might find. You won't get banned from XBL, but you stand a large chance of your entire gamerscore being reset, and being marked as a cheater on your profile (at least they used to).

Can't you just whack the save and his profile on a memory stick and move it to your console whenever you want to play? You don't need to move it across to your profile.

Russinating · 8 Jun 2011 at 21:36

orderoftheflame said:
Can't you just whack the save and his profile on a memory stick and move it to your console whenever you want to play? You don't need to move it across to your profile.

How do you put the profile on a memory stick? I thought that would require recovering his profile on my console (and then back on his again afterwards).

orderoftheflame · 8 Jun 2011 at 21:46

Russinating said:
How do you put the profile on a memory stick? I thought that would require recovering his profile on my console (and then back on his again afterwards).

Nope.

You just find it in the Storage section, and move it.

You can only have the one version of it, but you can just move it back when your done, or leave it on the stick plugged in.

5punk3monk3y · 8 Jun 2011 at 23:09

orderoftheflame said:
Certain games allow you do transfer saves between profiles, but you're disabled from gaining achievements, and those that actually let you do it are far and few between.

If you can't do it through the console for PES, I wouldn't consider the alternative methods you might find. You won't get banned from XBL, but you stand a large chance of your entire gamerscore being reset, and being marked as a cheater on your profile (at least they used to).

Can't you just whack the save and his profile on a memory stick and move it to your console whenever you want to play? You don't need to move it across to your profile.

http://www.techpowerup.com/43451/Mi...-Users-who-Share-Their-Accounts-to-Cheat.html

Microsoft don't see it like that and have enforced the rule for some time if a save game file is found to be shared it is a banable offence on XBL. Even if the user was just literally sharing the save. Microsoft just flags it all the same no matter if the intent was innocent.