How to get sav files for almost any game.

by **hibbijo** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:22 am

Feel free to copy and paste this at any forum anywhere, it's good to spread the info and have a world with less noobs.
No credit needed, just do it.
Yay finally figured out why pictures weren't showing!

This will be a topic on how to get a .sav file for nearly any game(as long as someone has uploaded it).
Download the converters

r4ds-save-transform.zip
G6SaveConverterv033.rar

NOTE: .NET Framework needs to be installed on your CPU for this to work.
1. Download the ds game's .duc save from gamefaqs. http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/
Pick whatever game you want on the site.

2. Open up G6 Save Converter v0.33.exe and choose input save and browse for the .duc file.

4. Click convert.

5. Once you have converted the 256k .duc save to a 256k .sav, open up SAVE Transform.exe and find the .sav that you just made. Then name the output .sav file and convert to a 512k .sav

6. Rename the .sav file you just made to the EXACT SAME file name as the rom name that you have for the game. If your rom name is something like " Sonic Rush Adventure.nds", so rename the .sav file "Sonic Rush Adventure.sav" In theory just copy paste the name of the rom and replace .nds with .sav.

7. Put the newly made .sav file onto your R4.

8. Have fun!

For an alternate way without any program downloads do this:

1: Same as before. Go to gamefaqs download the .duc, yada yada.

2: Go to this website: http://www.shunyweb.info/convert.php

3: Select these settings.

4: Rename the .sav file you just made to the EXACT SAME file name as the rom name that you have for the game. If your rom name is something like " Sonic Rush Adventure.nds", so rename the .sav file "Sonic Rush Adventure.sav" In theory just copy paste the name of the rom and replace .nds with .sav.

5: Put the .sav on your R4, have fun.

6: Have fun with this

7: Thanks macbastard for this alternate way.

by **macbastard** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:37 am

This website is handy too:

http://www.shunyweb.info/

by **jcm4** » Sun May 25, 2008 1:29 pm

Stickied. I like you, new member whose name I can't seem to write that I know starts with an h. Oh, and I fixed up a few typos as well. :pirate:

by **jigs_theman** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:32 am

mine doesn't detects it... I'm using r4

it's the same right? why is it not working?

by **rjn** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:28 pm

help i got this problem i putted in 2 my r4 and r4 says no save games found create new one

by **jcm4** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:39 pm

You always create a new .sav file. Also, try

by **hibbijo** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:18 am

Then new pokemon games don't seem to work with the .sav files posted on gamefaqs. I don't know why, It works perfectly with other games and if it says that there is no .sav file than you did one of two things wrong, possibly both:
1) You didn't properly rename the file OR
2) You didn't convert it to 512KB.
But, good job on finding a sticky. They're epic hard to find for most new people.

by **jcm4** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:27 am

Erm, I'm not seeing the relation between rjn's and Hibbo's posts.

by **rjn** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:09 am

i use pokemon diamond rom and u use the save same name but the save is 512kb and its a sav file i dont know whats wrong with it

by **jcm4** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:59 pm

Make sure it's named the same. For example:
pokemondiamond.nds
pokemondiamond.sav