console-saves

The Save Manager moves your progress into the port and keeps it safe. The PS2Recomp runtime does not use a card image: it keeps memory card slot 1 as plain folders in mc0 next to the game's ELF, one folder per save, exactly as the game names them (mc0/BASLUS-20312GAME/...), and slot 2 in the sibling folder mc1 (ps2xRuntime/src/lib/Kernel/Stubs/MemoryCard.cpp, getMcRootPath). memcard.py reads your old card, writes those folders, and then backs them up and syncs them.

Honest limits: card images are read only (writing them back needs ECC and is out of scope; PCSX2's own memory card manager can import a .psu). Saves from other formats (.max, .cbs, .xps) need a converter first. A save copied to another region's version of a game usually will not load. Whether the port loads a given save depends on how far the port is: test it.

${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} below is this skill's folder (where this SKILL.md lives).