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Tutorial: How to inject individual CAWs and ARENAS on WWE 2K14 PS3 + Save Mega Pack

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Hello everybody, it is my pleasure to share something original with this community that I have discovered all by myself. I'm very excited to give back to the community from which I have learned so much in the past few years.

Back in late 2016 I began thinking how can this be done. In the summer of 2018 I made first real attempts to make it happen with X-Packer 2017 v7.0.0 but it sadly just did not work and I gave up in the following days. Now fast-forward to February 2020 I once again decided to revisit the topic and decided to give another go using the methdod I used back in 2018. Nothing changed. First off I must say that I'm not a programmer or a hacker. I can't code. I can't make any tools therefore all of this requires no tools :D anyhow I kept thinking and thinking, inspecting how PS3 version of the game save is made and how it is structured.

What got my gears turning was this information posted by @mean dalenko which was even unrelated to the PS3 CAW injection since it deals with created arenas.

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If you just want the arenas and have an unlocked save you can easily copy them over, just copying the CAA.00 - CAA.49, CAA.HED, & CAA.LST onto an existing save will work fine without any resigning with the tool.

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So logically thinking these files should be responsible for CAWs: CAS.00 - CAS.99, CASHED.DAT and CAS.LST.

From @kim666 discovery I learned that you can enter /dev_hdd1:HDD:1/ folder where uncompressed files of the game save are dumped once you launch the game.

Did you know that if you open your CAW in the CAW editor the game decompresses the CAS.XX file in above mentioned folder which expands usually to about 60 MBs in size. Well after seeing that I decided to switch those files with another CAW I wish to replace but that did not work at all. After many attempts I came to the conclusion that messing with individual CAS files will not do it. And then there is this CASHED.DAT file. One file that always is uncompressed when the game is launched to the /dev_hdd1:HDD:1/ folder and its size is only 180 MB. It turns out that file holds the complete CAW model data. That is minus moveset, name, attire names and entrance. So I decided to try and do exactly this to the WWE 2K14 game 🤣

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The tutorial begins here. You obviously must have PS3 with CFW for this to work.

1. Resign the downloaded PS3 game save to your PS3 console using this neat homebrew software - Apollo Save Tool.
2. Load the WWE 2K14 game with the save which has the CAWs that you want to inject INTO YOUR MAIN SAVE.
3. After the game loads go to Create a CAW list and note the number of the CAWs you wish to import and how many attires they have. For the sake of this tutorial let's say I want to inject a CAW which is slot #73.
4. Using a FTP client go into PS3' /dev_hdd1:HDD:1/ and download CASHED.DAT file. After that quit the game.
5. Load the WWE 2K14 game with your main save where you want to inject these new CAWs to.
6. After the game loads go to Create a CAW list and copy any CAW which has all 4 attires to the slot #73.
7. Go into /dev_hdd1:HDD:1/ and RENAME CASHED.DAT file to CASHED.DAT-org.
8. Upload the CASHED.DAT file you downloaded earlier in Step 3.
9. Navigate the CAW list and open CAW in slot #73.

You will see that the CAW loaded is the one you want to inject! 🤩

Not so fast just yet.

10. After the CAW full loads go back into /dev_hdd1:HDD:1/ and RENAME CASHED.DAT (which you just uploaded) file to CASHED.DAT-source.
11. RENAME CASHED.DAT-org file to CASHED.DAT.
12. Take the controller, give the CAW it's real name, input other details and save it.
13. Repeat steps 7-12 to inject another CAW and do so until you inject all of those which you want.

That's it! The CAWs' model has been successfully injected into your main save! 🤯

X-Packer cannot be used to transfer that CAWs' moveset (by injecting .moveset files), entrance, bio nor attire names. You will have to do that manually. I suggest you to load the source save and take your phone and snap a few pictures with the information of the particular CAW like this.

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P.S. Ring announcer name: Horse 🐎 🤣🤣

And manually enter that data when you load your main save.

Now regarding the moveset transfer - there is a way. You must first copy the moveset of the CAW you wish to export to a superstar (ex. Zack Ryder) then take the uncompressed SAVE.DAT file from /dev_hdd1:HDD:1/ open it in X-Packer via decrypted save PS3 -> Moveset and entrance option and extract the moveset then load you main save inject the moveset to a superstar and from there copy it to a CAW and restore original superstars' moveset. Voila. Took me 3-4 days to copy 50 CAWs to my save.

Now regarding ARENA injection. You have to use the same logic as you inject CAWs but you must perform all the switching with CAAHED.DAT file and not CASHED.DAT (which is for CAWs). You simply feed the source decompressed CAAHED.DAT to the game when you open an arena in C-A-A mode and once it is opened put back in your original CAAHED.DAT and save and it becomes yours. :) Only downside I noticed so far is that if the arena is done using apron glitch trick - those do not get saved therefore you must reglitch if you have the apron logo. One more important detail I'd like to draw your attention to is if an arena that is in your target save has different initial settings (stage, audience, venue size, filter) you must change those prior into going into CAA to match your target arena.

Now you ask where do I get some saves? I got you covered too!!

Download this WWE 2K14 PS3 Save pack (initially reuploaded by @N'Jadaka and probably includes the work done by @mean dalenko, @MeanGeneSimmons, @BernieLomax, @RDK,  @kim666, @Judders and others) from here: https://mega.nz/folder/KEFxEI6R#ThXiiafl-fl3aAtpFcTvBg

Each save has lots of CAWs and Arenas and I took the time to print each of the out just for all of you!!!

There you will find 6 saves:
• WWF '84-'91

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• WWF '92-'96

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• WWF '97-'02

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• WCW '89-'94

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• WCW '96-'01

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• Impaler's mixed save

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Now I just only wish that somebody would come forward and figure out how to port moves from WWE 2K15 and 2K16 into 2K14 and make that game LEGENDARY.

 

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Great find. Good work on posting the tutorial. @UndertakerWLF , anything to add? You're the expert on ps3 modding.

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Added information to include individual ARENA injection! We can inject those too! :)

And added my own save to the mix which includes these characters and some more others.

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Can someone help me I have the modding tool to inject the caw from other save but after 5 caws I can't inject more am I doing something wrong. I am on xbox360 

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@MKKHAN I'm sorry but I think you should read this topic first and post questions there because it deals with XBOX 360 version.

This topic here deals strictly with PlayStation 3 version and information in here is of no use to you.

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zdp777 Explorer

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Is there a save with Ruthless Aggression Era wrestlers for PS3? If not could someone provide a tutorial so I could do it myself.

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Not that I know of. Would be cool if such a save would surface here.

What kind of a tutorial you are asking here for?

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I wanted to know how to inject caws so that I could create a save of my own

6/6/20 Edit: Nevermind I see that in order to inject caws I would need to have a CFW PS3 but at least I was able to use the saves that are already provided in this thread

6/26/20 Edit: I recently installed an HFW(HEN) on my PS3 Slim and have installed Apollo and now I'm attempting to follow this tutorial wish me luck also does anyone know if it's possible to inject caws downloaded from the near 700 CAW Vault

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afblandon10 Newbie

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Hi man, good work, Is this possible with wwe 2k17 ps3? Thanks, sorry for my english

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Thanks @afblandon10 :) I have no reason to believe why it shouldn't work if the save structure is the same. I have not checked it though. Just try to follow these steps in 2K17 and see for yourself.

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Hi, crack.

Thanks for your reply, I tried but isn't work, 2k17 savedata is protected. I'm gonna try it and tell you. I have another question, you know about a superhero savedata, it doesn't matter wwe 13, 2k14, etc

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man, please help me, I make the steps 10 and 11, what´s next? I press accept to change name and the ps3 got freeze

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well then 2k17 must be different then in some way I'm not going to be able to test this for you.

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  On 6/6/2020 at 12:33 PM, zdp777 said:

I wanted to know how to inject caws so that I could create a save of my own

6/6/20 Edit: Nevermind I see that in order to inject caws I would need to have a CFW PS3 but at least I was able to use the saves that are already provided in this thread

6/26/20 Edit: I recently installed an HFW(HEN) on my PS3 Slim and have installed Apollo and now I'm attempting to follow this tutorial wish me luck also does anyone know if it's possible to inject caws downloaded from the near 700 CAW Vault

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did you have any success?

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  On 9/22/2020 at 6:04 AM, lukey2k said:

did you have any success?

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If you do it right like I said - you will have success. You don't need to ask him. And no it is not possible to inject CAWs from the vault because they are XBOX 360 and not PS3.

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My guy I’ve been looking for this for at least 4 years. The only problem I have is I’m trying to follow the directions without seeing you do it. Can you make a video. I’ll cash app you. Email me brooklynas21@gmail. You don’t understand how long I’ve been looking for this 

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  On 4/5/2020 at 4:29 PM, Impaler said:

If you just want the arenas and have an unlocked save you can easily copy them over, just copying the CAA.00 - CAA.49, CAA.HED, & CAA.LST onto an existing save will work fine without any resigning with the tool.

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explain more of that pls

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  On 3/25/2021 at 6:41 PM, wwe2k14fan20144444 said:

works with hfw ?

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Yeah!

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XoVlone1k Newbie

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Hi, ik im late but do you think you would be able to make a video on this because im kinda having trouble understanding how to do this. It alright if you can't... Thanks

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advancegameryt13 Newbie

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Hi Guys,

Does anyone  have WWE2K14 PS3 100% save with whole 30 years of wrestlemania unlocked?

Europe Region

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sorry then I guess I dont have it.

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