PSU

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The PSU file format is an archive format used by PS2 save data management tools like uLaunchELF and mymcplus.

Usage

Obtaining a PSU file

From an actual PS2

By running uLaunchELF on an actual PS2, one can export PSU files from the PS2 Memory Card to USB or network.

From a PS2 emulator

PCSX2 stores the PS2 savedata in a virtual memory card file whose extension is .mcd. Each per-game savedata contained in the MCD file can be extracted to a PSU file by using mymcplus tool for example.

Extracting a PSU file

The best way to extract a PSU file would be to use pypsu by McCaulay if it was not bugged (for example on Jak X: "[-] month must be in 1..12", and on games that have a filename identical as the folder name, cannot export that file).

A GUI tool for PSU file edition is

So the current workaround is to convert PSU to another savedata format. For example, you can use

In the past there was a tool named psutools (link requires registration, to mirror)

A good tool might finally be

Structure

See also