u/zanesix

I have been trying for hours to get my saves from RPCS3 transferred to my CFW PS3 and each time I think I'm getting close I hit another roadblock. I've tried so many things I've forgotten them all but I'll try to catalog them the best I can:

ATTEMPT #1: First, I went to Mr. Mario's video and followed what I thought was a straightforward process. However, there were two problems: First, the game he shows uses the exact same folder from the source folder and the new save file. with him seemingly replacing the files. Meanwhile, one of the games I'm trying to copy, The Godfather Don's Edition, uses a differently named folder depending on where it was saved. The new game I made on my real PS3 uses a folder named "BLUS30023-THEGODFATHER20185188" while all of my other RPCS3 saves use any other combination of numbers at the end, so they cannot be directly replaced. Also, I later noticed that he's talking about transferring files from PS3 to PS3, NOT emulator to PS3, which is a problem since (apparently?) RPCS3 does not use any save encryption. No problem, I thought, just encrypt the save... how hard can it be?

ATTEMPT #2: I proceed to play around with Apollo save tool and see what I can do. I try resigning it a million different ways with every given option. I try decrypting the file, re-encrypting it, replacing files on top of one another, and each time when it looks like it's about to work it hits me with a 80120003 error when trying to load the save.

ATTEMPT #3: After doing some hardcore googling and watching some really poorly made youtube tutorials I find this seemingly ancient "bruteforce savedata" tool for save games, thinking this is my saving grace. Multiple tutorials say to "decrypt" my real PS3 game and re-encrypt my RPCS3 ones, but never go into much detail about how to do that. No matter what I do, both the "encrypt" and "decrypt" buttons in the program are greyed out. This program looks super old and is impossible to find any good documentation on, so at this point I decide I've strayed too far from the beaten path and decide to come here as a last ditch effort to see if anyone can wrap their head around this.

TLDR: So basically, I have a lot of RPCS3 Godfather saves (plus more I haven't gotten to yet). 11 to be exact. I can resign them with apollo, and they show up fine in the menu, but when I try to load them they throw up the same 801 error. Nothing I seem to do fixes it and tools and documentation seem very limited for this sort of thing, and not to mention very old. I'm looking for someone who has some experience with doing this thing that can help me.

If you don't mind, give DETAILED instructions please. Assume I know nothing, because I don't.