[PS3] How to transfer ME1 Shepard to ME2?

Under "New Game" in ME2, you may have up to 4 options: "New Male", "New Female", "Import ME1 character" and "Import ME2 character".

In order for the "Import ME1 character" to appear, you need to first start the ME2 configuration tool from the launcher. In the menu on the left of that window is a line that says "Save Games". You need to click on that and then the button "Copy Mass Effect 1 save games". This will copy the needed files from a completed ME1 game into the correct folder in the ME2 folder structure and allow the Import option to appear under "New Game" in ME2.

The "Import ME2 character" appears once you've completed the ME2 campaign.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

I have had similar problems with transfering my ME1 character to ME2. My system is XP and I have the Trilogy version. I played ME1 to completion and started an ME2 game with about 10 hours of gameplay and just wanted to see the differnces with a new ME2 game with a charater transfer.

I have followed all the recomneded steps you outlined with no success.

As I understand the process, the ME1 folder created by the Configuration Tool in the ME2 Save folder also transfers a System Information XML document. I have not read any mention of this XML Document anywhere or whether or not it needs to be moved somewhere other than the ME2 Save folder.

For me, the ME2 Configuration Tool only creates an empty folder named "ME1" and the System Information XML document. There are other steps though. This ME1 folder needs a file or files from which the character transfer process must draw from, namely a Charater file from ME1. As recomended by the site Masseffectsaves.com, I have tried manually copying just the Character file from my ME1 and after that did not work I copied all of the saves except, as recomended by other forums, the Profile file. This did not work either.

To be more correct, what did not work for me was after I did all of the above and clicked to play ME2, Origin said the Save files were out of sync. Either option, Cloud saves or my PC saves, did not launch the game. I still cannot find where the problem is with this.

Where should the System Information XML document end up?

Guys he/she has it for ps3, not PC....

I have ME1 2 and 3 but I bought it from the PSN and 2 and 3 I have the disk version. Does anyone know if this will make a difference?

I bought ME1 as a download from the PSN store. I subseuqently finished ME1, then bought ME Trilogy on disc.

I can confirm that ME2 disc from the Trilogy is not seeing my ME1 saves. It has the menu option for import from ME1 but the list is blank when selected.

Quite disappointing.

EA hi. Your solution to this prolem does not help, does not see ME2 saves ME1, although the patch was installed, if there is any solutions to this problem, i ask you to help.

It is 2016. I can confirm that the patch that is supposed to 'fix everything' for the PS3 does not work. No matter what I try (and I have been searching all the forums for a full YEAR and tried EVERYTHING), all I see when I select the "Import ME1 Character" option is a blank box, even though I have finished the first Mass Effect multiple times, uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. Please, PLEASE, all I want to do is to play this game. With MY character. Not with the default Renegade. EA, fix it.

Y'all should have fixed this problem by now...... Look how long these games have been out, and for as much money as we pay for these games they should work right the first time we try them (with No Hassles)...... it's false advertising to say we can transfer our ME1 Shepard to ME2 and it don't when we try it........ I bought the ME Trilogy when it was released and it has never transfered my ME1 Shepard to ME2....... I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this "wrong" should be compensated just for the hassle of many pointless hours trying to get it to work I for one just want it to work properly with "NO HASSLES!!!!!" PEASE EA DO US ALL "RIGHT" ALREADY STOP PLAYING AROUNAROUND!!!!!