ROM Hack FAQ: PokeSav

[Migugu]

gr8 job, zinic
It really helped much !

 

[Bloodloss]

So, Pokesav only works on illegitimate roms? There's no way to use it on an official copy? Let me get this straight, I need:

- A flash card (preferably M3 series)
- Pokemon Diamond or Pearl rom on it
- A USB thing to connect it to my PC
- Pokesav

Correct?

 

[iamwhoiam]

correct

 

[Zinic]

So, Pokesav only works on illegitimate roms? There's no way to use it on an official copy? Let me get this straight, I need:

- A flash card (preferably M3 series)
- Pokemon Diamond or Pearl rom on it
- A USB thing to connect it to my PC
- Pokesav

Correct?

Correct. And saying it will not work on legimate roms is not entirely true, as there are ways to make it work. I've heard of people backing up their save on a cheat device of some sort, converting that save, using pokesav, reverting the save and then putting it back in the game successfully. How you'd go about doing this I have no idea though.

For the M3 series, you'll need a flash memory card, and a card reader for your PC to put stuff on it. There are other Flashcarts that work that are also compatible with PokeSav, and it is possible to convert saves to make it work with most, if not all, of the flash carts on the market. You can find plenty of information and reviews about the different flash carts out there here on GBATemp.

(I use a M3 Perfect MicroSD with a PassKey3, and find it an excellent choice as long as you don't mind having to patch your roms first.)

 

[Bloodloss]

Ah, so all the non-legit Pokemon people trade on the GTS and whatnot are all made by people who go through the trouble of getting them on a legit copy? That's surprising

Anyway, thanks.

 

[Kaiyumi]

Um, sorry for the newbie-ish attitude. But...

...it won't even let me load the SAV file I have. I'm using an emulator... the No$gba Emulator. >.O And...I dunno why, I just try opening the SAV file (and it says it's an .sav too)! but then POKESAV tells me it's the wrong file type...

...um, why?

 

[BakuFunn]

sorry if im bothering something impossible but...

Will this app ever be converted to java so macs and linux can use it or to .app for macs?
it sounds interesting but unfortunatly i will never be able to use it unless it is in mac .app or in java .jar

If anybody can do this out of their sweat and pain then much thanks, i really appericiate it, along with all the other mac/linux useres out there!

 

[sheldon3]

I don't know if I'm posting in the wrong place or anything but for Croagunk, it has two abilities: Anticipation and Dry Skin. How do I make the pokesav let me use those two abilities cause I can only choose 1..

 

[Deaddy]

I think it's one ability or the other, not both.

 

[chango]

Hmm, here's a question I haven't seen asked.

I'm using the english translation. A lot of words and letters have a | between them which is supposed to be a space, but once saved it becomes a ?. Example: BOX|1 (In Pokesav) once saved will be BOX?1 in the game. So if I delete that character and put a space, it has a larger gap than it is supposed to have! Such a minor complaint, but I need a fix, anyone have the answer?

 

[Zinic]

Hmm, here's a question I haven't seen asked.

I'm using the english translation.  A lot of words and letters have a | between them which is supposed to be a space, but once saved it becomes a ?.  Example: BOX|1 (In Pokesav) once saved will be BOX?1 in the game.  So if I delete that character and put a space, it has a larger gap than it is supposed to have!  Such a minor complaint, but I need a fix, anyone have the answer?


Simple answer: Don't use Space.

Um, sorry for the newbie-ish attitude. But...

...it won't even let me load the SAV file I have. I'm using an emulator... the No$gba Emulator. >.O And...I dunno why, I just try opening the SAV file (and it says it's an .sav too)! but then POKESAV tells me it's the wrong file type...

...um, why?


While I did say that PokeSav would work for emulators, I did so simply assuming it would. I don't know what .sav format No$GBA uses, but from what I've heard it's not actually fully compatible with NDS games (You can save and load just fine, but to any other prog aside from the emulator itself just sees it as gibberish).

Unfortunally, PokeSav isn't being updated anymore and as such I doubt there'll ever be support for No$GBAs save format.

sorry if im bothering something impossible but...

Will this app ever be converted to java so macs and linux can use it or to .app for macs?
it sounds interesting but unfortunatly i will never be able to use it unless it is in mac .app or in java .jar

If anybody can do this out of their sweat and pain then much thanks, i really appericiate it, along with all the other mac/linux useres out there!


Developement for PokeSav has stopped and there'll be no new versions that I know of. Unfortunally, you're stuck with having to emulate the prog using wine, or you'll have to recode it yourself, or find someone who will.

Oh, and Java sucks.

QUOTE(sheldon3 @ May 10 2007, 09:17 PM)

I don't know if I'm posting in the wrong place or anything but for Croagunk, it has two abilities: Anticipation and Dry Skin. How do I make the pokesav let me use those two abilities cause I can only choose 1..

You aren't really posting in the wrong place, but this question seems more directed at the game itself rather than the editor. Some pokemon have two possible abilities, but all pokemon only have one at a time. If there's multiple abilities for a pokemon, it means that the game will choose one or the other when it generates the data for that specific pokemon. As such, you can only choose one.


*phew* Think I caught up with everything now.

 

[Deaddy]

Hmm, here's a question I haven't seen asked.

I'm using the english translation. A lot of words and letters have a | between them which is supposed to be a space, but once saved it becomes a ?. Example: BOX|1 (In Pokesav) once saved will be BOX?1 in the game. So if I delete that character and put a space, it has a larger gap than it is supposed to have! Such a minor complaint, but I need a fix, anyone have the answer?

I encountered this problem, but I didn't realize that adding a new space left a larger gap. This is no big deal, I replaced the marks with spaces and I didn't even notice a difference.

 

[Kaiyumi]

While I did say that PokeSav would work for emulators, I did so simply assuming it would. I don't know what .sav format No$GBA uses, but from what I've heard it's not actually fully compatible with NDS games (You can save and load just fine, but to any other prog aside from the emulator itself just sees it as gibberish).

Unfortunally, PokeSav isn't being updated anymore and as such I doubt there'll ever be support for No$GBAs save format.

Ah, thank you very much for pointing that out. ^^

...uhm, in that case, would I be able to obtain another DS emulator that is compatible with Pokesav? Could you point me in the direction of any/recommend me to any in particular? : )

 

[Xenophobe]

Actually, you can use No$GBA with Pokesav, just need some tinkering. My friend's tried this and it works, here's a guide:

Okay, I figured this out.

1. Go to your NO$GBA BATTERY folder and copy your save file somewhere else in order to back it up in case you mess up.

2. Open NO$GBA.ini in notepad, scroll down to the line:
SAV/SNA File Format == Compressed
and change it to:
SAV/SNA File Format == Uncompressed

3. Open No$GBA (make sure your save type in NO$GBA is FLASH 512 kbytes) and continue your game. Save the game, and then quit NO$GBA. Check the size of your save file in the BATTERY folder. It should be over 500kb.

3. Use the follow program to convert your save file, it will remove the first 76 bytes of your save:
Freeware - No$GBA > VBA Battery Converter | [email protected]
To use it, click the "Configure" button and set the directory to where your new big save file is. In the empty text box named "New .sav File" enter a name for the new file you will make. Now select your Pokemon save and press convert file. It will create a new save file with the name you typed in.

4. Download the Pokemon save editor:
RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting
Open your new converted save file (the one you made in step 3) with it, and when you are done cheating your ass off, click save. Now take the new save file you just cheated with, and put it in your NO$GBA save folder. Now name it the same name of your original pokemon save, so that NO$GBA will load it when you play the game. That's all. Now I shall enjoy my 99 of every TM, and I had a sex change just for the hell of it.

Lastly, once you use your hacked save in NO$GBA and save, you will not be able to hack it again right away. Once you have used your hacked save in NO$GBA and saved, you must use the NO$GBA>VBA converter, then hack.

(From http://forums.ngemu.com/no-gba/88632-how-h...tructions.html)

What you're basically doing is using the uncompressed No$GBA saves instead of the default compressed ones and then lopping off a 76byte No$GBA header so it's like a normal NDS save.

This is the link to the No$GBA save converter.

 

[Zinic]

Ah, thanks for pointing that out Xenophobe. So it's because it was compressed that it caused problems.

 

[deity307]

Does PokeSav work with the DS-Xtreme? I tried to load a .sav file from my DS-X, but I got an error message. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

 

[BoneMonkey]

Hmm, here's a question I haven't seen asked.

I'm using the english translation. A lot of words and letters have a | between them which is supposed to be a space, but once saved it becomes a ?. Example: BOX|1 (In Pokesav) once saved will be BOX?1 in the game. So if I delete that character and put a space, it has a larger gap than it is supposed to have! Such a minor complaint, but I need a fix, anyone have the answer?

I encountered this problem, but I didn't realize that adding a new space left a larger gap. This is no big deal, I replaced the marks with spaces and I didn't even notice a difference.

you can change the name of the box in game

i changed it to BOX 1 and its back to normal

 

[poonti]

I can't change the game to english. It always says Diamond (JAP). Can someone help me? I have an AR.

 

[Kaiyumi]

3. Use the follow program to convert your save file, it will remove the first 76 bytes of your save:
Freeware - No$GBA > VBA Battery Converter | [email protected]
To use it, click the "Configure" button and set the directory to where your new big save file is. In the empty text box named "New .sav File" enter a name for the new file you will make. Now select your Pokemon save and press convert file. It will create a new save file with the name you typed in.

Ooh, thanks much. ^^ I got all the way up to this part...

...I downloaded the VBA converter, and when I started it up and hit 'configure,' it gave me an error message. Like some file is missing or whatnot. And it wouldn't let me open my save file in the VBA converter....

...am I missing something?

 

[Xenophobe]

It works perfectly for me. Maybe you're missing a VB runtime? Just google the file that you're missing and download it and put it in the same directory as the converter. Failing that, you could also hexedit the save yourself, just remove the first 76bytes of your No$GBA save (the exact same data as in header.inf)