is there a way to get a game save back after making a new emunand?

KacplayerX · 2026-06-19T17:20:36+0100

i did some very stupid things, which resulted in me making a new emunand and losing all my progress on games i had on the old emunand

question is, does it make sense to try putting the sd card in software such as recuva to try and restore the save?
are emunand saves even stored on the sd card?

thanks, and sorry for the possibly stupid question!

Grimpus · 2026-06-19T17:41:46+0100

Maybe a backup tool from the HB store, There is thousands of apps there, And i usually like using sysnand, So if emunand corrups im good.

master801 · 2026-06-19T17:53:45+0100

They're gone.

The chances of you recovering the saves from a newly overwritten partition are very slim.

The Real Jdbye · 2026-06-19T19:32:15+0100

KacplayerX said:
i did some very stupid things, which resulted in me making a new emunand and losing all my progress on games i had on the old emunand

question is, does it make sense to try putting the sd card in software such as recuva to try and restore the save?
are emunand saves even stored on the sd card?

thanks, and sorry for the possibly stupid question!

Your saves were on the emuNAND partition, which you overwrote.
Data recovery is much more difficult on flash storage due to wear leveling built into the controller firmware. Once the master file table is lost (overwritten) you are pretty much SoL. The best you're usually going to get are recognized file types like images that are smaller than 64 KB (or whatever the cluster size of the partition was). Because the data is not contiguous so it has no idea which 64 KB chunks of data belong together.
Add to that the fact that the emuNAND partition is encrypted, so there is nothing recognizable by a data recovery program, making it basically impossible to recover even a single file when the data isn't contiguous.

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