We are in 2025, and I think this post should be deleted. Judging by all the replies, it’s clear that this save never worked — it only supposedly worked for one person that the OP mentioned. But for everyone else who downloaded it, it simply doesn’t work. The only thing the OP keeps saying is “check your game region,” with no clear answers or an actually helpful tutorial.
Well, I tested it in multiple ways, and it’s impossible to get the platinum trophy using this save in this game. That should’ve been obvious already — it’s a live service game. As soon as you connect to the internet, the server loads your online profile and all your progress: in the Krypt, online battles, etc.
I don’t care about the platinum trophy — I just wanted the skins, fatalities, taunts, etc. unlocked. But to my surprise, all of that is tied to your online profile. I even deleted my save from both the console and the PS Plus cloud backup, and still, when I launched the game, it loaded everything I had already unlocked — exactly how I left it.
Also, there’s no autopop — or maybe there was at some point, but there isn’t anymore. Regardless of whether you’re on the PS4 or PS5 version, whenever you start the game without a save, it says your save is outdated or something like that. No trophies popped, even though stuff like the tutorial is already completed. It still shows the message saying that if I complete the tutorial, Shao Kahn’s voice will be unlocked — as if it were the first time — even though I already have everything unlocked.
So the conclusion is that this save has nothing. It might unlock a few trophies on PS4, but there’s no autopop on PS5. There are no skins, no Krypt progress, nothing unlockable — only. just offline stuff like Story Mode and the tutorial. It’s practically a useless save. The only thing it actually unlocked for me was Shao Kahn’s voice, and that's it. The rest doesn’t even matter for trophies.
That’s why I think this post should be deleted or at least have its title changed to "PS4 Save Only."