How to get unlimited Golden Keys

A guide for beginning players to be able to acquire as much purple/E-tech loot from the Golden Chest as needed.

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Follow this guide by Microsoft

Go to Documents > My Games

Then double click on Borderlands 2

Then Double Click on Willowgame

Then Double Click on Save Data

Then click on the long chain of numbers (Yours will be different than mine)

Then find the Profile.bin file and right click it and click Properties

Set the file to read only and then hit apply and exit

Opening the chest and Reverting the change

Now launch Borderlands 2 like you would normally do and open the chest like you would normally do. You should be able to open the chest as much times as you have golden keys. Dont worry when you open the chest, your golden key number will drop down. It is supposed to happen. Once you completely run out of keys, go to save and exit and completely exit Borderlands 2. Then, if you did the previous steps correctly, once you relaunch the game, your golden keys will have been returned to you and you can continue to open the chest.

When you are done getting all the gear you want, make sure to go back into your files and de check the box for read only so that the file can continue to save your bada## ranks and then stuff in claptraps vault.

Why and How does this work?

The Profile.bin file is the save data for your cross character items (claptraps vault, golden keys, badass rank). When you set the file to read only, this makes it so that the game cannot save to the file. Usually when you open the golden chest, it marks that you have lost one golden key but since the game cannot save to the file, it tries but it just cant. You open the chest and pick up the items and since your character's save data is saved on a seperate file (Marked as savXXX.sav), you save the items while you dont end up using a golden key.

Is this cheating/will this get me banned

This game is not VAC secured so you will not get a VAC ban from Valve.

Morally, I dont think this is cheating that hard as you can acquire purple rarity loot quite easily in later stages of the game.

In my opinion, its fairer than using something like a save editor.

Have fun with all your cool new stuff!

Conclusion

So this is my first Borderlands 2 Guide. I didnt really see any good guides on this so I decided to make one.

I'll take any tips on improving this current guide.

If any one wants more guides I can create some (How to farm unlimited quest rewards; UVHM Guide)

thanks for visiting!

[The Marathon Man]

[iranarmy]

i think you didnt understand my word sorry i am bad at english i am saying if you play steam (if you using steam client) then go ahead and delete this trash epic launcher and trash store

[Charmander787]

@iranarmy This guide does not take into account the epic games version

[iranarmy]

great guide man thx but next time delete epic games if you play in steam

[Mr_November]

Thanks mate! it worked!

[dankster]

oh shut how i gonna fix it?

[treato]

THANKS MAN GOT VAC

[☦Viktor☦]

uh i dont have the "Profile.bin" though

[Black_Wolfy [TAG]]

you can also just... y'know edit the .bin to give you 999 golden keys with like 2 clicks? it's quite simple. if you're running this explot might as well just give yourself infinate keys. and at that point you might as well just skip the middle man and hack your save to give you the weapons you're using this exploit to farm from the box. and that way you don't fudge up and accidentally forget to turn read only off and lose your badass rank progress.

[Chicken Josephine]

mine was already set to read only. what does that mean?