Homebrew Official [Release] SaveMii - Wii U/vWii savefile manager

Mysterio33 · Apr 15, 2017

For some reason I can't get any Savegame working.. Here are the steps I'm doing:
1.Launch Mocha CFW with loadiine.ovh
2.In Mocha CFW I'm launching Homebrew Launcher 1.4, also with loadiine.ovh
3.Launch SaveMii
4.Back Up Savegame (e.g. Mario Kart 8, Slot 0, with Common files)
(4.1 Wipe save, tried it out, but makes no difference)
5.Restore the downloaded save (from here - https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-save-files-compilation.427761/ )
6.Go back to the WiiU-Menu and launch the Game
7.Game doesn't recognize the savegame - creates a new, stock one

I've tried all offered savegames, but none of them are working. Additionally, my backups aren't getting recognized either! -.-
In Super Smash Bros U, the Game launches, but then gets directly stuck at black screen.
The same thing, when I'm switching the files manually via FTPiiU_everywhere.

In Zelda BoTW, the Game only recognize my old saves, not the new "injected/downloaded" one. I don't want to delete my old saves. I'm afraid, that it doesn't recognize my backup either if I want to restore them..
Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?

spacorn · Apr 16, 2017

I just found out about this tool. Thank you so much for making it! I just used it to backup a couple of games, and also restoring successfully from downloaded savefiles from this forum.

I just wanted to report one use case where it didn't work as expected. Please let me know if there's a problem on my end:

I made a backup of my Breath of the Wild (USA) savefile to transfer it to a different user in the same Wii U.

The backup works ok if I restore it on the same source user. It also works ok in Cemu.
So I moved on to renaming the backup folder to restore it as the id of the second user (source was 80000008, second one is 8000000F).

The renamed folder is recognized, so far so good.

So first I tried restoring over an already generated save file on this second user (barely past the intro of the game, as soon as I could save), but it seems that after restoring only some of the files would be recognized: a couple of autosaves show up and can be loaded ingame, but the pictures in the album and Hyrule Compendium won't show up. Then if I make a new savefile from there, these dont work at all, they take me to the start of the game. The preview snapshots show up black.

Then I tried doing a clean wipe and restoring, but the savefiles gets completely ignored. Launching the game starts a fresh new savefile.

At this point it seems to me that not only some of the files can't be read, they can't be overwritten by the game either. But since the backup works ok when restored on its source user (and was also tested on Cemu), maybe there's a problem in the restoring process for this particular game over a second user.

Maybe there's something else I should be doing besides simply renaming the user id of the backup? Why else would it work ok on the first user but would only be partially functional in the second one?

edit: forgot to mention, this is a game installed in USB HDD, CFW Mocha

spacorn · Apr 17, 2017

After further testing, I realized the reason why most games worked but in the case of BotW only two save slots worked, is that files first created by the console in-game could be overwritten and be fully functional, but files created from scratch during the restoring process get corrupted. So what happened with BotW is that only two autosave slots were made automatically after the introduction of a new game (the only files created first by the console), and could be correctly overwritten, while the rest of the files (other four save slots, album photos, etc.) would get corrupted when created from scratch by the restoring process and then, for some reason, the game wouldn't be able to read them, or write over them either.

My solution (or workaround, more like) was to wipe data on the destination user, make a new game, play enough to fill all six save slots were filled, and then only restore the save slots related files from the source backup (I manually deleted all files related to the picture album and other stuff from the backup). The result is that I ended up with a fully functional save file on the destination user, that could normally be overwritten, but I lost all my album and compendium images. Fortunately the only consequence is that the album shows blank images, but then I can simply take the pictures again and the new pictures would be created normally. (This didn't matter much since I wasn't too big on filling the album carefully anyway...). Eventually, if I cared enough, I know I could manually replace them to the backed up files after I generate new files for each picture in-game.

I wonder why files made from scratch would end up non functional? Or if there's something I could do about it to not go through all this next time?

edit: sleepy/drunk grammar

drewby · Apr 17, 2017

Great program! Love it! Just gotta figure out how to make it work on HaxchiFW...

RupeThereItIs · Apr 17, 2017

spacorn said:
I wonder why files made from scratch would end up non functional? Or if there's something I could do about it to not go through all this next time?

Seems like one of two things. Either newly created files don't have the correct filesystem metadata set, or there is a file somewhere that contains a list of path references that don't match the new files. I sorta suspect it's the former, something in the FS that homebrew doesn't know how too, or doesn't know exists. Perhaps the wrong permissions are being set on the newly created files.

YodaXY · Apr 17, 2017

Hey guys ive got an error by any game *failed to create file.*

yes i startet Mocha first and i tried to test it with another sd card (128gb , 512mb) and all 3 vers. 1.0.0 , 1.1.0 and 1.2.0.. thank you !

spacorn · Apr 17, 2017

RupeThereItIs said:
Seems like one of two things. Either newly created files don't have the correct filesystem metadata set, or there is a file somewhere that contains a list of path references that don't match the new files. I sorta suspect it's the former, something in the FS that homebrew doesn't know how too, or doesn't know exists. Perhaps the wrong permissions are being set on the newly created files.

I figured it could be something like that.

Well, at least I figured out how to get around it in my particular use case. I hope my report is useful for other people and the author. Hopefully future versions will be able to create working files without needing to first create them in-game.

Zoma · Apr 19, 2017

Mysterio33 said:
For some reason I can't get any Savegame working.. Here are the steps I'm doing:
1.Launch Mocha CFW with loadiine.ovh
2.In Mocha CFW I'm launching Homebrew Launcher 1.4, also with loadiine.ovh
3.Launch SaveMii
4.Back Up Savegame (e.g. Mario Kart 8, Slot 0, with Common files)
(4.1 Wipe save, tried it out, but makes no difference)
5.Restore the downloaded save (from here - https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-save-files-compilation.427761/ )
6.Go back to the WiiU-Menu and launch the Game
7.Game doesn't recognize the savegame - creates a new, stock one

I've tried all offered savegames, but none of them are working. Additionally, my backups aren't getting recognized either! -.-
In Super Smash Bros U, the Game launches, but then gets directly stuck at black screen.
The same thing, when I'm switching the files manually via FTPiiU_everywhere.

In Zelda BoTW, the Game only recognize my old saves, not the new "injected/downloaded" one. I don't want to delete my old saves. I'm afraid, that it doesn't recognize my backup either if I want to restore them..
Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?

I'm having no issues doing the same as you (I don't wipe my save data because you need an already existent save data in your console to restore a save-backup).

Maybe the saves that you are downloading from that thread are not compatible with the game that you are using.
I'm using savemii to edit my save file of Breath of the Wild with this editor and I have got 0 problems.

Mysterio33 · Apr 20, 2017

Ankh said:
I'm having no issues doing the same as you (I don't wipe my save data because you need an already existent save data in your console to restore a save-backup).

Maybe the saves that you are downloading from that thread are not compatible with the game that you are using.
I'm using savemii to edit my save file of Breath of the Wild with this editor and I have got 0 problems.

Okay, thanks, I will give the savegame-editor a try

didn't know, that something like that exists (Y) sadly, there is no Save-editor for Mario Kart 8 out, yet

Pib · Apr 21, 2017

this doesn't seem to work with an external drive plugged in. it gets to "loaded 1 wii u titles" and locks up, but with the external drive unplugged, it works just fine. this unfortunately means i can't back up any of my saves, since all of my games are on the external drive

Mysterio33 · Apr 22, 2017

Seems to be your external drive.. All my games are on external drive too, and all are getting recognized..

Keylogger · Apr 26, 2017

Mysterio33 said:
For some reason I can't get any Savegame working.. Here are the steps I'm doing:
1.Launch Mocha CFW with loadiine.ovh
2.In Mocha CFW I'm launching Homebrew Launcher 1.4, also with loadiine.ovh
3.Launch SaveMii
4.Back Up Savegame (e.g. Mario Kart 8, Slot 0, with Common files)
(4.1 Wipe save, tried it out, but makes no difference)
5.Restore the downloaded save (from here - https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-save-files-compilation.427761/ )
6.Go back to the WiiU-Menu and launch the Game
7.Game doesn't recognize the savegame - creates a new, stock one

I've tried all offered savegames, but none of them are working. Additionally, my backups aren't getting recognized either! -.-
In Super Smash Bros U, the Game launches, but then gets directly stuck at black screen.
The same thing, when I'm switching the files manually via FTPiiU_everywhere.

In Zelda BoTW, the Game only recognize my old saves, not the new "injected/downloaded" one. I don't want to delete my old saves. I'm afraid, that it doesn't recognize my backup either if I want to restore them..
Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?

I have the exact same problem and what I am doing is restoring the saves with Saviine.
Idk why savemii doesn't let me restore my saves

lordelan · Apr 26, 2017

Keylogger said:
I have the exact same problem and what I am doing is restoring the saves with Saviine.
Idk why savemii doesn't let me restore my saves

So (worst case scenario) restoring saves with Saviine is working even if they have been made with SaveMii?

Keylogger · Apr 26, 2017

lordelan said:
So (worst case scenario) restoring saves with Saviine is working even if they have been made with SaveMii?

Yes

lordelan · Apr 26, 2017

Keylogger said:
Yes

Okay so backing up all my games with SaveMii is wise and keeps me on the safe side of life although it's sometimes written in this thread that restoring has issues.
But as long as I can you Saviine as a fallback and the backup mechanics of SaveMii are working I'm fine. Thanks.

Ryuzaki_MrL · Apr 26, 2017

lordelan said:
Okay so backing up all my games with SaveMii is wise and keeps me on the safe side of life although it's sometimes written in this thread that restoring has issues.
But as long as I can you Saviine as a fallback and the backup mechanics of SaveMii are working I'm fine. Thanks.

Restoring seems to be working for some games and not for others. In general it seems the Wii U dislikes messing with the files if not in the game or system settings.

ChokingVictim87 · Apr 28, 2017

Odd question-would it be possible to rip the save from Earthbound VC on Wii U and transfer it onto the VC Earthbound on New 3DS?

lordelan · Apr 28, 2017

ChokingVictim87 said:
Odd question-would it be possible to rip the save from Earthbound VC on Wii U and transfer it onto the VC Earthbound on New 3DS?

If you're talking about the actual save and not the savestate (which is something emulator specific and in this case the VC itself is the emulator), it should work as the savefiles (that you create by ingame save menu) are in a general format as the roms are.

ChokingVictim87 · May 1, 2017

lordelan said:
If you're talking about the actual save and not the savestate (which is something emulator specific and in this case the VC itself is the emulator), it should work as the savefiles (that you create by ingame save menu) are in a general format as the roms are.

Yeah Im on about the actual save file

Thanks!

Heres another one-I had a rom of Pokemon Blue I was playing on Gameyob.I wanted to inject it into my real VC Pokemon Blue save,but when I do it says "Save Data Corrupt". Is there any way to make this work? The file opens in PKhex

Ryuzaki_MrL · May 1, 2017

ChokingVictim87 said:
Yeah Im on about the actual save file Thanks!

Heres another one-I had a rom of Pokemon Blue I was playing on Gameyob.I wanted to inject it into my real VC Pokemon Blue save,but when I do it says "Save Data Corrupt". Is there any way to make this work? The file opens in PKhex

Try deleting the title's secure value.

FBI > Titles > Pokémon Blue > Delete Secure Value

Homebrew Official [Release] SaveMii - Wii U/vWii savefile manager

New Member

Member

Member

Well-Known Member

Member

Active Member

Member

Active Member

New Member

Active Member

New Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Green Thunder

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Green Thunder

Similar threads

Popular threads in this forum