Homebrew Discussion How to Back Up Game Updates

[REDNikolai]

I am looking for a thread that discusses how to back up and restore game updates. I think this is a good idea, first from a historian's perspective, to preserve different states of a game's development post-release, as well as to speed up re-adding updates to archived titles and to save space on SD media for games that are not currently being played. I have not begun the investigation into how this may or may not work, but it's always good to have input from those who may already be in-the-know, so please comment or reply with anything you can add to this thread. Thanks!!

 

[Deleted User]

I'm not entirely sure of the process but I'm with you on the preservation front. Some of these day 1 updates make a huge difference and sadly just owning the original carts means nothing for long-term storage and completion. I've personally been holding off on doing the dlc/update tasks because so far it's involved using either layeredfs/devmenu and those two are just asking for trouble. I'm hoping we get an easier payload based method like how we dump our carts/keys/certs right now.

 

[REDNikolai]

I'm not entirely sure of the process but I'm with you on the preservation front. Some of these day 1 updates make a huge difference and sadly just owning the original carts means nothing for long-term storage and completion. I've personally been holding off on doing the dlc/update tasks because so far it's involved using either layeredfs/devmenu and those two are just asking for trouble. I'm hoping we get an easier payload based method like how we dump our carts/keys/certs right now.

That would be nice. I've been told that it is possible to back up game updates currently, but I haven't seen the specifics yet.

 

[Deleted User]

That would be nice. I've been told that it is possible to back up game updates currently, but I haven't seen the specifics yet.

I've only seen them released from the scene groups so far, they clearly have some tricks up their sleeves that aren't open source yet

 

[ressit]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/manually-updating-romfs-bin-for-backups.509834/
all here