ROM Hack Question FF9 Save Conversion

bluedart

Well-Known Member
OP
Member
Joined
Nov 13, 2016
Messages
270
Trophies
0
XP
2,253
Country
United States
Hello. I just got FF9 for the switch, and I was hoping to be able to move over a 30 something hour file from the steam version I'd been playing earlier.

Attempt:
I started a new game and got to the first moogle to save. I backed up the save with checkpoint and got 5 files with no extensions whatsoever. I figure what I want to replace would be "DATA_SLOT0_FILE0", which is 42KB. I found my steam save for FF9, which was in .dat format. I found a save-editing utility for the steam version that works, and was able to extract the latest save from a specific slot, which ended up being named "FF9_2016_save__slot2_file1". This file was 18KB, and the editor has no problem with this one. It cannot, however, recognize the 42KB file when I try to import it into the program. I went ahead and made a copy folder in checkpoint's data named "pc_save", then I copied over the extracted pc slot and named it "DATA_SLOT0_FILE0". Restoring this with checkpoint simply has it load endlessly, so restoring the original backup is what I had to do to fix it. So that doesn't work.

My question is, does anyone know how to get my steam save copied over onto my switch so I can continue playing there, or do we need more time/information for this?
 

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • NinStar @ NinStar:
    I'm going to melt
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    Good night
  • RedColoredStars @ RedColoredStars:
    Going to smoke a bowl, eat pizza, drink a beer, and watch I Saw the TV Glow.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Why do people on YouTube keep making themselves glow
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    oh joy, heat wave all week where i live
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    plus there's thunder and lightning outside, and it'll rain soon, there's somehow no tornado watch tho
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    and to make it worse, the heat didn't sway my brother away from wanting to spend some time swimming on his birthday tomorrow
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    idr where in the US the heat wave is
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    idk if I'm in it or not
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    midwest, near me and bigonya
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    ah fuck NJ is in the heat wave
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    we're cooked, possibly literally
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    if you have a habitable basement, the heat shouldn't be down there and that's where you should hang out
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    No, but, the air conditioner in my living room gets fuckin icy
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    In a good way, not as in a "my coils are freezing" kind of way
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Not everyone lives in theirs mom's basement gosh
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    nah, my mom's basement is just for the weekends to check in on the family
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    i usually live in your mom's basement
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    saves a lot of time fr
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    It's 11:30 PM here, I just took the trash out and my god is it awful outside
  • Sicklyboy @ Sicklyboy:
    This heatwave can eat my ass
    +1
  • MysticStarlight @ MysticStarlight:
    omg same, it's VERY hot here, too
    MysticStarlight @ MysticStarlight: omg same, it's VERY hot here, too