(*) You’ll need the homebrew channel to run this stuff on a wii. It’s a bit weird to play a game with someone else’s save (Link had no shield!), but still beats playing from God knows when. Then start the game, cross your fingers… yes!!! Then, install the save game back into the wii with SG Manager. sav file is then placed in the PAL directory, replacing the one there. I just took a simple one, xvi32 to do this. In my case, one must change “SOUE” to “SOUP”, which can be done with a hex editor. sav extension) seem to differ in the first four bytes, which are just the game code.

Fortunately, I found this invaluable post, in which they treat the inverse problem (NTSC to PAL).Of course, the Manager won’t let you transfer save games into your wii if the regions are different. The SOUE games are stored in a directory ending in “45”, while the savegames extracted from the wii to the SD by the SG Manager are in a similar directory ending in “50”. The default directory is in sd:savegames/horrible_coded_dir. First of all, the very nice SaveGame Manager GX (*) can extract (from a wii) a number of files from main.dat and put them somewhere. The “E” is bad news, I need SOAP game saves, as I have the PAL region (it is possible to run games from other regions, but that’s another story). But!! In my case the game code is SOUE.In it, the main.dat file can be replaced by the one downloaded (easier on a PC, but I guess it could be done from a wii only, through the internet channel), then transfered back. In the wii data menu, when a save game info is transferred onto a SD card, a directory is created in sd:private/wii/xxxx, where xxxx is the 4-letter code for the game.A more complete one can be found in this speed-runners forum, and one of the files (Lanyari_2 or such) would suit us nicely. These are main.dat files, which is the file used by the wii to store this sort of save data. There is a project to do so explained in this post in Zelda Universe. In my case, I needed a save before the point where I got stuck.Not only if you are stuck: you can jump straight to advanced stages of a game (or earlier ones) for whatever reason. This is actually a bit hard (details below), unless you are stuck in the famous Song of the Hero bug, which is amply covered in the web (with Nintendo offering a channel just to fix it).Īnyway, I think it is interesting to know how to install save games from other people, even from another region.

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