Ok iām being dumb here, and have spent several evening trying to do this now with no luck.
Due to a mistake last week when i gifted a car to a friend which turned out to be a Unicorn (i didnt know i dont play the game enough!) my main account got a perm ban from Forza 4 online.
So Iāve started a new profile/ live account, and all i want to do is grab my old save (car list,XP,level etc) and import it to use under the new profile.
This i thought was simple with Horizon Diamond. But noā¦ i cant get it to work.
Iāve read these threads.
Moving saved games to another profile
How to import save games???
Cannot inject to new profile
And Iām doing as guided, namely this:
Cannot inject to new profile
And at the end I get a Save game that has the name and owner of the new profile, I move it from the USB to the hard drive. There are no other Forza 4 save games for that profile on the hard drive.
BUT when i start Forza it start as if it the first run, I get Clarksonās chat then the 458 race.
When i quit the game and have a look at the saves i now have a new save with all the same name/owner details as the save i imported. (2 save with same details on the same device? but different creation dates)
I noted that someone said about decrypting the Forza save but is this really necessary? Iām not sure it is as i somehow managed to move a save during testing between 2 non live accounts but i cant replicate this or work out what i did now?!
Does this not work anymore (due to MS updates in the last couple of days) or am i messing something??
Forza has its own game code that allows it to lock profiles by ID to prevent exactly what you want to do from happening. However, I can look into what would need to be done altogether to transfer a full profile.
I have no idea what happened with this other save then. All I know is it has all the same cars as another account but itās never been used,
Iāll get it off the Xbox and take a look at it.
This, couldnāt you mod your stats and money and repurchase all your cars. Sadly, youād have to redo the races, but Iām guessing thatās what youāre most likely after.
As unknown said, Forza has a way around this, but maybe we could find a go around
The reason you canāt simply transfer the gamesave from one profile to another is because the game uses the profileās Id for hashing and encrypting the data. So basically all that needs to be done is to decrypt the gamesave with the profile id that created it, and then encrypt it back with the profile id that will be using it. I created a Forza4 ForzaProfile Editor that you can do this with. I will not post links here but it can be found with Google.
Thatās the āsimpleā way of doing it though, in that for example if you wanted to convert a whole profile including liveries and most likely the garage, that wouldnāt work.
