[Mirrorboy]

first off, hello to everyone. i just joined here. now onto my problem. i downloaded 2 .gme memory card files for Crash Bandicoot 2, but i'm having problems using them. at first, i was on a witch hunt to find a program that would convert the .gme files to .mcr files and couldn't find anything (all the links i found were from the stone age of emulation and they were all dead). then after about an hour or so of that, i found out that ePSXe supports .gme memory card files. so i tried running the original files and it still didn't work. my question is this: is there a problem with the way i'm using them or are the memory card files empty? because when i go to load a game from either of them, they both come up empty. so i'm either loading them wrong or they've been falsely advertised as 100% beaten.

 

[Shendo]

Do the saves show when you go the the Memory Card manager in BIOS?

Btw: For Memory Card conversion you can use PSXGameEdit or my MemcardRex.
PSXMemTool is also good and the latest 1.20b version works on Vista but sadly Simon's page is messed up at the moment.

 

[Mirrorboy]

they both show up in the BIOS, but still nothing in the game.

 

[KrossX]

If the saves show up on the BIOS, then maybe they are for another
version/region of the game.

 

[Mirrorboy]

so how do i use them then?

 

[Mirrorboy]

thanks Shendo, memcardrex worked perfectly.

/edit
ok, memcardrex only worked for one of my games. it didn't work for crash 2 (still), but it worked great for X6.

/edit 2
it turns out that your utility worked fine and it's a problem with the game. for some reason, the game isn't reading the memory card file. but that's a problem for another thread.

 

[Shendo]

As KrossX said it's probably a region issue. You could try editing a save header and entering
a different product code and region. It may work but results aren't guaranteed.

 

[Mirrorboy]

that isn't it, all the regions match up. it's an american copy of crash 2 and an american save file. and as i said before, other games detect the save. the file shows up in the bios and in crash 1. but for whatever reason, crash 2 doesn't detect anything. and yet it detects the save i made myself on one of the other memory cards.

/edit
here's a picture of what comes up in memcardrex when i open the file. maybe something looks wrong?

 

[KrossX]

Does the "Product code" match then?

 

[Mirrorboy]

i looked up the product code and it matched the american version of crash 2. but i can't find anything on the identifier. my only guess is that something doesn't match there, but i wouldn't know what to change it to.

/edit
i downloaded 2 different memory cards from gamefaqs and they each have different identifiers. neither of them worked.

 

[Mirrorboy]

i got it! i was thinking to myself "it only reads what it creates, not what i downloaded" and then it hit me: edit the downloaded files to match that of the files it made. and that worked thanks for all your help guys.

 

[KrossX]

*removes stuff*

Nevermind, enjoy the game.

 

[Mirrorboy]

lol thanks