yeah, that's what i was asking - so great, you didn't need to run near. ok, works for me too.i edited the saves with the p4g save editor and put them back in my game and they worked and changed fine, so i can't see how that would work without them being decrypted
just to be clear i'm still running the game icon with molecular shell booting in it's place and ftping in, so the system still thinks the cartridge is running, it's just starting molecular shell's eboot instead of the cartridge one
maybe near is only needed to be run for the actual game files, but not the save...?