LBP2 Profile Importing Guide

[Nacho212]

It appears that stuff made in the LBP2 Beta won't carry over to the full game, so people in the Beta that have had fattened up profiles might need to use this guide. That being said, I now have to use this guide after my LBP1 splurge.

[bikerider12]

In the full game, it is as simple as pressing yes when it asks you if you want to import.
It just took a little bit to get started. No problems at all.
(yes, i won the game, but dont have it now)
EDIT: i dont know how big my profile was.

[Nacho212]

I know you just gotta press a button to import, but sometimes it will freeze, or only load your profile halfway causing some serious bugs (I was a victim of that). This guide simply shows how to fix this, if it occurs.

[Nacho212]

UPDATE: People are already experiencing this in LBP2 full game. Follow the steps and you should be good!

[RottenAvocado]

I have TONS of stuff on my profile, and it took... 3 seconds at most? Sweet

[Nacho212]

It seems to be a luck thing, me and my friends couldn't find any consistent trends in which people could import easily and which couldn't. All we really know is that a small profile makes it easier to import. I did fine with a 14MB profile today, but my friend has a MASSIVE profile and couldn't import.

[FreeAim]

Soo... One thing. Does it begin the importing automaticly when you first go in LBP2 or do you have to do something befor that?

[Dangerlove]

My LBP game save is downloaded from the internet (I wanted all the stickers!! :P). Will that work in LBP 2??

[Aya042]

My LBP game save is downloaded from the internet (I wanted all the stickers!! :P). Will that work in LBP 2??

Reports suggest that copied saves will not import into LBP2.

[Chazprime]

Not sure how much this will help out, but one thing that might help is to check your profile for corrupted items before you import your profile into LBP2. I read about all the troubles people were having yesterday, so when I got home last night I went through my LBP1 profile and cleaned out some troublesome items. I'd noticed that some of my old costumes - ones I'd saved from 2008 - gave me a error and the red exclamation point icon when I selected them. One even crashed and deleted my pod decorations. Basically any saved item (costume, sticker or saved object) that I came across that I couldn't load...I deleted, then I backed it up and imported into LBP2 after the intro level. It hasn't frozen on me yet (knock on wood)

[Nacho212]

Ok, that sounds good. Thanks for your input, I'm gonna stick that in the main section of the guide. If anybody else has something they can contribute, post it here and I'll stick it in the guide.

[kirbyman62]

Shrunk mine today, took it from 17MB to 10MB. Thanks for the help, now I just need the actual game

EDIT: Dang, I have loads of corrupted costumes :/

Looks like my work is not done.

[Nacho212]

You should try it with corrupted costumes, and then without them to see if it makes any difference. If you can go in with corrupted ones, then you get to keep them instead of deleting them, and it may turn out that you didn't have to.

[kirbyman62]

You should try it with corrupted costumes, and then without them to see if it makes any difference. If you can go in with corrupted ones, then you get to keep them instead of deleting them, and it may turn out that you didn't have to.

But if you can't wear them anyway, is there any point? Also, they're all just costume 'sets' (e.g Dinosaur, Cowboy), so they'll be easy to remake.

[Nacho212]

I meant to test if corrupted data really makes a difference when you import profiles, but too late now. Tell me how your importing goes, and with what size you did it with if you can. I'm trying to find a magic number for importing size.