need save help please

ive modded my ps3  and now can play ps2 games on ps3  took ages but so please with  what ive achived   but  theres one thing iam stuck on 

i got  fire pro wrestling  returns great game but  iam not too keen on the alt names ( badd blood ie bret hart )    i discoverd you can use ps2 saves on ps3  but iam having troubles  with this  for following reasons 

i got fire pro  via ps2 gui   so i saw some vids  saying about   the vmv  is where you place the save  i did this  and nothing happend  come to find out that the vmc is for disk format  

so i looked it up  and it said to go to ps2 save derectory ( not the vmc )    i  did  this but nothing showed up in the usb i try the following 

usb -ps3 -export-psv inside psv  the baslus conveted save 

nothing happend 

i tryed  the ps3  save data  psv

nothing 

then ps2  export  psv  

still  nothing 

i know  this  is  a  old  game and iam playing in 2024    and  therefore  the  saves might  be old or not working  but does  anyone  know anthing i can try  oh i conveted the max files  for example   thanks