Hacking Saving games with Gateway

[moonknight]

To save with Gateway, we have to press the Home button and then the X button, correct?

How come some games says "Saving" after I do that, but other games don't save this way?

For example, Mario Kart 7 saves fine like this. But with Zelda Ocarina of Time, it doesn't say "Saving" when I press Home and then X.

Why is that?

 

[cracker]

It might be a difference between card 1 vs card 2 saving. Either way there is always a risk of losing saves. That's the price you (may) pay for playing games with any flash cart.

 

[moonknight]

It might be a difference between card 1 vs card 2 saving. Either way there is always a risk of losing saves. That's the price you (may) pay for playing games with any flash cart.

What do you mean? Both games are the same card... They are both 3DS games.

 

[cracker]

Card 1 means there is a seperate chip for saving on the game cart. Card 2 means there is a chip that combines the game data and save memory into one so saving needs to be handled differently in those games.

 

[masterzero]

I think it's the older games that don't say that.

 

[moonknight]

I think it's the older games that don't say that.

So with older games we don't have to press Home and the X button to save?

 

[Doran754]

So with older games we don't have to press Home and the X button to save?

You should always save this way. In game saves work but I believe they don't write the save to the SD card, but home>x does.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

So with older games we don't have to press Home and the X button to save?

According to Gateway, you don't have to use Home + X period. That was in one of their recent firmware updates. However, I just stay on the safe side and do it every time. Neither MK7 or OoT are Card 2, so that has nothing to do with it. I recommend using Home + X fairly regularly, because as I discovered before, if a game were to crash for whatever reason, the save wouldn't, well, save.

 

[moonknight]

According to Gateway, you don't have to use Home + X period. That was in one of their recent firmware updates. However, I just stay on the safe side and do it every time. Neither MK7 or OoT are Card 2, so that has nothing to do with it. I recommend using Home + X fairly regularly, because as I discovered before, if a game were to crash for whatever reason, the save wouldn't, well, save.

With MK7 it does save with Home and X button. But when I do it for Zelda OoT, it just closes and doesn't save.

That's why I'm asking if I "must" to do it for Zelda as well since it doesn't even save when I do it. It's not a big deal.. I'm just wondering why some games save and some don't when I press Home and X.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

With MK7 it does save with Home and X button. But when I do it for Zelda OoT, it just closes and doesn't save.

That's why I'm asking if I "must" to do it for Zelda as well since it doesn't even save when I do it. It's not a big deal.. I'm just wondering why some games save and some don't when I press Home and X.

Oh, I'm sorry, I completely misunderstood. The reason why MK7 saves is because it auto saves after races and whatnot. You still need to actually save in games. What doing Home + X does is take that save and puts in on your SD card.

 

[moonknight]

Oh, I'm sorry, I completely misunderstood. The reason why MK7 saves is because it auto saves after races and whatnot. You still need to actually save in games. What doing Home + X does is take that save and puts in on your SD card.

So when I save with Zelda OoT by pressing Home and X, it just closes without saving, but are you saying it still saves even though it says it doesn't?

 

[Pedeadstrian]

So when I save with Zelda OoT by pressing Home and X, it just closes without saving, but are you saying it still saves even though it says it doesn't?

Unless you actually save in-game, by either autosave or manual saving, home + X won't do anything. But yes, if you save in game, then use home + x, your game will be saved.

 

[dontay0100]

Broooooo you're making it so much harder than it needs to be!

 

[moonknight]

Unless you actually save in-game, by either autosave or manual saving, home + X won't do anything. But yes, if you save in game, then use home + x, your game will be saved.

That's weird.. In Zelda OoT you have to save manually. Then when I press home and X... it just closes without saving.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

That's weird.. In Zelda OoT you have to save manually. Then when I press home and X... it just closes without saving.

So do you have to start over every time you turn on the game, or did saving used to work but now it doesn't?

 

[omarroms]

saving in-game does not save to the sd card (gateway loads the save on the sd card when starting a game), you have to do home + x to save. it's just the way gateway saves. you have to save in-game first then do home + x to actually save it to the sd card.
if you play a game doing in-game saves and the game crash, the next time you load your game it will continue from the last time home + x was done.

 

[moonknight]

So do you have to start over every time you turn on the game, or did saving used to work but now it doesn't?

It saves, I'm just trying to figure why it says it doesn't save.

 

[moonknight]

saving in-game does not save to the sd card (gateway loads the save on the sd card when starting a game), you have to do home + x to save. it's just the way gateway saves. you have to save in-game first then do home + x to actually save it to the sd card.
if you play a game doing in-game saves and the game crash, the next time you load your game it will continue from the last time home + x was done.

That's what doesn't make sense... I save in-game... and then I do the Home + X... I get a message saying it doesn't save.

But other games, I get the message saying that it's saving.

 

[an07her]

I never used home + x, yet all card1 and card2 save automatically to sd when I save in game (or the game autosaves)

 

[Abcdfv]

Home + X is how you should save. When gateway was talking about fixing saving issues, they meant when the battery ran dry, or manual powering down with the power button.