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[GyjYa]

Big problem here.

I went out of town to visit some family, whereupon I created a new character for Dark Souls.  Now my vacation is over, I want to bring this character back to my house.

You cannot copy dark souls characters to anything except the PS+ online storage.  No problem, I've been thinking about getting PS+ anyways, so this is another good reason for it.

Now the problem: I created the character on my brother's user.  When I try to sign in to my PSN account under my brother's user, I get the error "You cannot sign in using another user's sign-in ID (e-mail address)."  I've read that you can create a new user to sign into the PSN, but that won't work for me since my Dark Souls character is under my brother's user.

Anyone have any ideas to help me out here?

[GraphiteGB]

You have smegged this right up..

What you are trying to do IS steal another users content THATS NOT ALLOWED.

1 account is locked to a single person.

If its not your account you dont have any right to access the content as far as PSN goes.

You should not even Know your brothers password. 

Your brother on the other hand can install his account on the PS3 and give you access to play his content under his account if he lives in the same house.

( if he does not live there, he can't, its then called Account sharing and can result in being blocked/banned from PSN if done a lot )

So yep he would install his PS3 USER then his PSN ID and things would be fine.

Ok this is were you smegged up. 

You can not transfer any User locked SAVEs between accounts.

What you should Allways do is play every thing Under your PSN ID on any PS3.

New rule for life "Do research first  Or get burned a lot".

You just have to restart the game again on your PSN ID.

You also Need to cancel PS+ If you started it, as its locked to your Brothers PSN ID as you likely Signed up on his account. Thats why His PSN ID was on the store. unless he had it allready. 

[GyjYa]

No, I'm not trying to do anything except transfer the dark souls character to my PSN ID's online storage.  I'm not under his psn account, I'm under his USER.

USER's are different than PSN ID's.  USER's do not have a password associated with them.  Both of my brothers have user accounts on their PS3, and when I came over to visit, I decided to use their name, since I figured I could transfer my game saves using my USB stick.  Many games do this, however Dark Souls is one of the few games where this isn't possible.  I didn't find this out until just today when I tried to transfer my game data.  For Dark Souls, the only acceptable place to transfer the game data is to the online storage (only available using PS+ account).

I obviously don't want to sign my brother up for using a PS+ account, I want it under MY PSN account.  The problem is that the game saves are under his user (I don't have a user account on his PS3).

As for my brothers PSN password, I don't even know it, he has it set up so that it auto-signs on when he logs into his USER name.  Don't assume anything that I didn't specifically mention, it makes you look like an ass.

edti: and no I don't want to use his PSN account every time I want to play Dark Souls, that would just be silly.  I want to transfer the character, just the character, to my own PS3 back home.  As I said before, many games let you do this already.  As an example, I copied my Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 campaign data to my USB stick so that I can continue it back at my house, and it worked just fine.  I have done other games like this as well.  For some reason Dark Souls does not allow this however, which is why I'm looking to transfer it to the PS+ online storage as a workaround.

Anyone with some actual useful info here?

[Farscape247]

if you copied it to the online storage and it is a locked save you have to wait 24hrs before you can access it on another ps3 to retrieve it.

[homerjnick]

It sounds like you are on your brothers local USER account on his PS3 and you want to link it to your PSN account?

Does the USER local account on your brothers PS3 already have a PSN account associated with it? If it does your stuffed..if it doesn't then you need to associate your PSN ID with the local USER account...are you trying this? You do NOT create a new account but sign in with an existing account making sure that your PSN ID is not online on your PS3 at the same time.

Once you have linked your PSN ID to your brothers local USER account on his PS3 and you sign up for PS+ you will then be able to copy the Dark Souls save to the cloud...

24 hours later you can then copy this to your own PS3...

However this will mean your brothers USER local account will now always be linked to your PSN ID...

You really should have created a new local USER account on your brothers PS3...

[SuperFastZombie · Accepted solution]

Hi guys,

I can confirm that one you Sign in to a PSN account then that account is permanently linked to that User.

As you created the Dark Souls character under your brothers User it will be linked to that user and his PSN account.  As such you will not be able to transfer that character to your PS+ online storage folder. 

SuperFastZombie  

[homerjnick]

SuperFastZombie...his brothers USER local PS3 account has no PSN ID associated with it as far as I understand...

Thus if he associates his PSN ID to that local USER account can he not transfer it to PS+ and then transfer it to his own PS3?

A savegame is surely NOT linked to BOTH the PSN ID AND the local USER account on a PS3?

[GraphiteGB]

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homerjnick wrote:

A savegame is surely NOT linked to BOTH the PSN ID AND the local USER account on a PS3?

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They are normaly as I SAID in first Post. 

[SuperFastZombie]

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homerjnick wrote:
SuperFastZombie...his brothers USER local PS3 account has no PSN ID associated with it as far as I understand...

Thus if he associates his PSN ID to that local USER account can he not transfer it to PS+ and then transfer it to his own PS3?

A savegame is surely NOT linked to BOTH the PSN ID AND the local USER account on a PS3?

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When he try's to log into his Account the message "You cannot sign in using another user's sign-in ID (e-mail address)" is displayed.  This would indicate that a PSN account has been linked to that user. 

[homerjnick]

If that is true he is stuffed then...