Homebrew Question Where are my XCI Game Save files in MicroSD card after I save in the games themselves?

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Im Using SX PRO CFW and im trying to see where are those Game Save files so I can save them in my PC for backup.

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You mention your using "SX PRO CFW", however a little more info would lead to a more accurate answer. If you set up a EmuNAND then your game saves are saved to your EmuNAND (weather its SysNAND, SD Partition, SD File) or if your booting your SysNAND the game saves will get saved to your SysNAND.

If you want to save your Game Saves to your SD card you will need a homebrew program to do so like Checkpoint or SX Save Manager (I personally use Checkpoint), this will save the game saves to the SD card and then you can back them up. I will say that not all games are 100% issue free, like for instance Animal Crossing which requires a little more work
 

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You mention your using "SX PRO CFW", however a little more info would lead to a more accurate answer. If you set up a EmuNAND then your game saves are saved to your EmuNAND (weather its SysNAND, SD Partition, SD File) or if your booting your SysNAND the game saves will get saved to your SysNAND.

If you want to save your Game Saves to your SD card you will need a homebrew program to do so like Checkpoint or SX Save Manager (I personally use Checkpoint), this will save the game saves to the SD card and then you can back them up. I will say that not all games are 100% issue free, like for instance Animal Crossing which requires a little more work
Thank you very much for the help, I already did have emunand created and ready in the SX OS menu, but because I did not know what it does in the SX OS menu (Which you can choose Emunand enabled or disabled) i ran it disabled most of the time. So I just have to Save the game while in SX OS Emunand enabled and im alright? Just in case I need to install the game again, while I have the emunand enabled and im ready to go I guess?
 

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Thank you very much for the help, I already did have emunand created and ready in the SX OS menu, but because I did not know what it does in the SX OS menu (Which you can choose Emunand enabled or disabled) i ran it disabled most of the time. So I just have to Save the game while in SX OS Emunand enabled and im alright? Just in case I need to install the game again, while I have the emunand enabled and im ready to go I guess?

No Problem, all have to learn stuff at some point. EmuNAND is a way of making a copy of your SysNAND (which is like your computer Hard drive) that's normally saved to SD card, some people use this so they can pirate Games on their EmuNAND and play online safely with the SysNAND, Some People do it to keep the console safe from any *bold* Homebrew/games. If EmuNAND is active your games will be saved to the EmuNAND, if you don't have EmuNAND active the games will be saved to the SysNAND.

If you Use Checkpoint like mentioned earlier the program will say them to the SD card and I imagine the same place regardless of if you loaded up EmuNAND or not so you could save them in EmuNAND and use on SysNAND and vice versa too
 
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No Problem, all have to learn stuff at some point. EmuNAND is a way of making a copy of your SysNAND (which is like your computer Hard drive) that's normally saved to SD card, some people use this so they can pirate Games on their EmuNAND and play online safely with the SysNAND, Some People do it to keep the console safe from any *bold* Homebrew/games. If EmuNAND is active your games will be saved to the EmuNAND, if you don't have EmuNAND active the games will be saved to the SysNAND.

If you Use Checkpoint like mentioned earlier the program will say them to the SD card and I imagine the same place regardless of if you loaded up EmuNAND or not so you could save them in EmuNAND and use on SysNAND and vice versa too
Thank you very much once again, I will install the checkpoint program soon, will put updates up on how it goes.
 

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Cool and if you have any questions I'll try to get back though my answers might take a while to reply :D Merry christmas ^^,
Well, I went and gave it a try. this is how it went (Pictures attached)
Did I did it correctly?
 

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Well, I went and gave it a try. this is how it went (Pictures attached)
Did I did it correctly?

Looks good though I admit when I do a backup I "backup all at once" so don't see first image. check your SD Card and see if the saves are there, I recommend Zipping them as they can get a bit big. also I think your date is a little off, if I remember the first part of the folder name is the date
 
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Looks good though I admit when I do a backup I "backup all at once" so don't see first image. check your SD Card and see if the saves are there, I recommend Zipping them as they can get a bit big. also I think your date is a little off, if I remember the first part of the folder name is the date
Oh ok, I did not select all at once, I selected backup individually so I could see first if it worked. I deleted an XCI game completely and I already had the backup ready so when I installed the game again I started where I left off. So far so good, it works.
II have to check the folder in the MicroSD card, will post more updates.
 

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Oh ok, I did not select all at once, I selected backup individually so I could see first if it worked. I deleted an XCI game completely and I already had the backup ready so when I installed the game again I started where I left off. So far so good, it works.
II have to check the folder in the MicroSD card, will post more updates.

cool quick by the way, if you archive instead of deleting the game it won't take up any space on your NAND/SD but when you put the game back in/download/install it'll continue where you left off
 
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