Need game save location on SD card

[Mario0504]

My SD card seems to be corrupted as the partition shows RAW on my PC. I can use data recovery software to restore the files and I only want to restore the game saves. Do you know where is the game save location on my SD card? I played them in emunand so I believe all the saves are in SD card. My idea is to recovery the game saves, and then format the card. After that I'll use this card again, install the games and put the saves back. Is it possible?

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

If you were using a partition based emmc then everything is on a separate partition.
There are tools to create an image of that partition and then you can mount that on a PC.
Then you should be able to extract the save games from the /USER/save folder

If you were using a file based emmc then all your save games are all inside a file based binary.
Sorry but I don't know the actual filename of the image.
It's the only file that is about 32GB.
From that image you can extract the save games.

If you can pull the data without any corruption from your SD card then it should technically be no problem.
But if the PC recognizes the partition as RAW, then most likely you will have lost all data on it, especially if the SD card was formatted with exFat.
We've all been there....

 

[Mario0504]

How do I know if it is a partition based emmc or file based emmc? I can use the file recovery tool like Recuva in my Windows PC to detect and restore files. It shows me thousands of the files but I don't know which ones are the game saves.

 

[Hayato213]

How do I know if it is a partition based emmc or file based emmc? I can use the file recovery tool like Recuva in my Windows PC to detect and restore files. It shows me thousands of the files but I don't know which ones are the game saves.

Partition base would have a seperate partition on the card depending on the size of emunand you set.

 

[Mario0504]

FYI this is how my SD card looks like:

And this is part of the results of files I can recover.

Any thoughts about where the save files are?

 

[Hayato213]

It looks like your emunand is intact since the 29GB is your emunand, your 209 GB that rest of your data, that got corrupted since you got a raw partition. You can reformat the 209GB and your save should be intact though as that 29GB is the internal storage of your emunand.

 

[Mario0504]

It looks like your emunand is intact since the 29GB is your emunand, your 209 GB that rest of your data, that got corrupted since you got a raw partition. You can reformat the 209GB and your save should be intact though as that 29GB is the internal storage of your emunand.

So, after formatting that 209GB, what should I do? I assume the games and saves are in that 209GB. So if I format it, will I lose the saves? Or are you saving that saves are in that 29GB, but 209GB are something else?

 

[Hayato213]

So, after formatting that 209GB, what should I do? I assume the games and saves are in that 209GB. So if I format it, will I lose the saves? Or are you saving that saves are in that 29GB, but 209GB are something else?

No, the save is on the 29GB partition but your installed games are gone once you format, I doubt that recuva recovered files would work 100% correctly.

 

[Mario0504]

No, the save is on the 29GB partition but your installed games are gone once you format, I doubt that recuva recovered files would work 100% correctly.

So, are you saying that I can go ahead to wipe out that 209GB partition. Then copy the Atmosphere, Hekate, homebrew apps, etc again. Then I should be able to boot into emunand, and install the games, and after that, the orginal game saves will be auto-magically connect back? My save includes the NES, GBA, SuperNES, N64... those nintendo switch online items (of course I can't be really online. They're just the copy of the oline ROMs).

 

[Hayato213]

So, are you saying that I can go ahead to wipe out that 209GB partition. Then copy the Atmosphere, Hekate, homebrew apps, etc again. Then I should be able to boot into emunand, and install the games, and after that, the orginal game saves will be auto-magically connect back? My save includes the NES, GBA, SuperNES, N64... those nintendo switch online items (of course I can't be really online. They're just the copy of the oline ROMs).

If the save were stored on the emulated emmc it will be there.