Overview
Following these few steps you will be able to play with your PS3 Final Fantasy VIII game data in the PC Steam version
Requirements
- PS3 with Final Fantasy VIII save data
 - Free USB drive FAT32 formatted
 - “Hyne” FFVIII save editor software for Windows (download here latest version: [link])
 
Steps
Prepare your USB drive
- Connect your USB drive to your PC and go to “My Computer“
 - Right click the USB drive and select “Format…“
 - Format the drive using a FAT32 file system
 
WARNING: You will loose all the data in the USB drive
WARNING: Other file systems won’t work, so please make sure you are using “FAT32”
Transfer PS3 save data to the USB drive
- Connect your USB drive to the PS3
 - Select “Game” into the PS3 XMB, then “Memory Card Utility“
 - Open up you Memory Card and select the block using the direction pad, then press TRIANGLE to display the options
 - Select “Copy“, then your USB drive as destination.
 - Repeat for every block you need to copy.
 
Download and install Hyne
- Download Hyne from the following website: [link]
 - Unzip the utility then launch Hyne.exe
 
Convert the save files
- Click “Open…” to open the save files you just stored in the USB drive 
 - Go into your USB drive and select one of the blocks 
 - Click “OK” on the warning. We don’t mind since we are not saving in PS3 format but converting to PC format.
 - Click on “File“, then “Export…” 
 - Go into your Windows user documents folder, Square Enix, FINAL FANTASY VIII Steam, user_xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is a random number). For instance: C:UsersYour_NameDocumentsSquare EnixFinal Fantasy VIII Steamuser_123456
 - In the “Save as” dropdown, select “FF8 PC Save“
 - Name the file following the other saves you have in the folder. For instance if you already have a slot1_save01.ff8, name this file slot1_save02.ff8
 - Launch the game and enjoy your converted save!