Save Files Between Regions?

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:44 am

If I were to have a save file for the American version of Super Dragonball Z, would I be able to load that save file up in the Japanese version of Super Dragonball Z? How about other Dragonball games?

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:58 pm

Hm, that's a really good question.

If it's a different region save file, I don't think it would work. That's just from my knowledge of Japanese and USA games and their similarities and differences when it comes to this kind of thing.

Anybody with more knowledge is more than welcome to prove me wrong.

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:34 pm

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work, but I could be wrong. The only game I have two different region saves on is Budokai 2, but that had more content in the Japanese version so the save data would be different.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:59 pm

If they are anything like PSX game saves, they're tied to the game's ID number, which would differ between the two regions.

El Diabeetus · Post by **El Diabeetus** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:30 pm

Kendamu wrote:If I were to have a save file for the American version of Super Dragonball Z, would I be able to load that save file up in the Japanese version of Super Dragonball Z? How about other Dragonball games?

Well, I think I can help, I have both Sparking! METEOR and Budokai Tenkaichi 3, and my PS2 memory card considers them to different games, and I had Tenkaichi 3, pretty much beat, way before I got Sparking! METEOR. When I got Sparking! METEOR playing, it didn't even read Tenkaichi 3's data. If it helps, I could post a picture of it later.

Just for now here's how it was.

They both have the same icon on the memory card, but the names were written differently.

Sparking! METEOR was written as: ドラゴンボールZ スパーキングメテオ (METEOR might have been written in English Capital letters, but Dragon Ball and Sparking were written in Katakana.)
Budokai Tenkaichi 3 was written as: DBZ BT3 (along the lines of that)

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:05 pm

Okay. So, essentially if I start playing Japanese Dragonball games on PS2 I'll just have to start from the beginning. No biggie.

tinlunlau · Post by **tinlunlau** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:11 am

I have both versions at home and I can confirm to you that the game save files from the American version of Super DBZ will not work on the Japanese version.

Darknat · Post by **Darknat** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:50 am

They could work if you hex edit them as long as the content is the same.
But for that you need to put them on your computer and understand how they work...

If you mean the save in the memory card then no, it won't work

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:56 am

I'm so glad Atari was too lazy to put the Funimation voice cast on the PAL version of the game.

I recently got back into it, I'm currently getting all the costumes, I just got Kuririn in his "KULILIN" cap!

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:28 pm

Kendamu wrote:Okay. So, essentially if I start playing Japanese Dragonball games on PS2 I'll just have to start from the beginning. No biggie.

I was disappointed when I picked up DBZ, 2 and 3 after beating the Americn versions of all 3 original Budokai games. But whatever, playing it in Japanese back n those days of no Japanese tracks was a real treat anyways.

Kanzenshuu

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