Ah, apologies. I forgot to mention that you need to convert one of the US saves into Japanese. Use a program called "PS2 Save Builder".
Two things.
1.) I hate doing shit like "conversion" and "modding" for games. It's techie crap, and techie crap ain't a strength of mine. I'm lucky that I even figured out how to "mod" a disc tray so that I could use Swap Magic, learned to pull & uncrush AR Max saves from the internet, or got on a private MGO1 server.
2.) I said "screw it" and gave the PS2 Save Builder a shot like you suggested. I saw a bunch of annoying tutorials that only stated 'NTSC-to-PAL' conversion so I just got fed up and winged a NTSC-to-JP conversion.....and it worked. I used a NTSC save from GameFAQs with File 3 NPCs and converted it to a JP save. You definitely know your stuff, buddy. Thanks.
It's not hard to do, but it's definitely not spelt-out for people like me who suck at this stuff. And some tutorials that claim to "explain it simply" were obviously done by someone who doesn't talk to normal people that much.
Thanks again for your help, everyone.
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