Copy savefiles from Dolphin to Wii - Skyward Swod

[Medard22]

Hi guys, I admit i am at my wits end. Before I ended up buying Wii i played couple of games in Dolphin. My biggest concern is the Skyward Sword (PAL version), I am almost halfway through the game and I don´t want to lose my progress. My Wii is homebrew enabled, everything is set up properly and I use USB Loader GX to run the wbfs disc dumps from the harddrive.

What I tried so far

- Exporting save from Dolphin to data.bin, moving it to SD card and then trying to copy it via System menu - it cannot be copied
- Exporting save from Dolphin to data.bin, trying to copy it via Save Manager GX - crashes when "Loading data.bin structure" back to USB Loader GX - tried latest 3 revisions
- Copying files (.bin, .dat, .sav files) from Dolphin Wii save folder to SD card and then install it via Save Manager GX - once I do that the save from the Wiii disappears, the game won´t
  recognize the save and makes an empty one.
-  Enabling Remove NoCopy Save File Protection in Priiloader and the trying all methods mentioned above again - still doesn´t work.

Seriously I don´t know what I am doing wrong, both Dolphin and Wii use the same dumped disc image. When I export the saves from the console it makes exactly the same three files I see in my Dolphin savegame folder. The only thing that is different is that Savegame Manager reports the Wii savegame size as 2 blocks and the imported savefile from Dolphin as 1 block.

I use latest Dolphin revisions from GIT.

[JMC47]

You can only copy a save with Save Manager GX is a save already exists. Try making a save early on into Skyward Sword, then install it.

[Medard22]

I started the Skyward Sword on Wii and let it make the save before trying those steps. After I install the save via Save manager gx the save in the console disappears and the game will create a new one.

[Medard22]

So I tried to reverse the process. I created and empty save on my Wii and the copied it to the SD card via Wii Menu and via Save manager GX.



On top are the files from Dolphin - including the exported data.bin, below are files from the console.

Now when I copied data from console to the Dolphin the  game started fine with the empty save. So why doesn´t it work other way around. Am I doing something wrong?

[Medard22]

Ok I finally managed to transfer my savegame. I shall leave the solution here just in case anyone else run in the same problem.

First of all, I asked dj_skual, developer of Savegame manager GX, why the tool cannot copy saves from Dolphin to Wii. Unfortunately he had no idea.
So I tried this.

1. Launched System Menu in Dolphin
2. Copied saved games to SD card via Wii Data Management
3. Mounted sd.raw file via ImDisk driver
4. Extracted data.bin file and put it to Wii SD card
5. Copy from SD to console via Data Management
6. Now it works.

The bottomline - The Export Wii Save function in Dolphin doesn´t work properly and the save is not recognized by console.
Savegame Manager GX or my Wii has some weird issue while importing games which doesn´t matter anyway, now that I can move my saves around the other way.

[JMC47]

Can you try this again in the latest development versions? we had a bug in the save expoert which would have been present around when you posted this.

[Medard22]

Can you try this again in the latest development versions?  we had a bug in the save expoert which would have been present around when you posted this.

It might be actually fixed, because previously the data.bin file that Dolphin exported had wrong size 144kb instead of 125kb. I tried exporting data.bin yesterday and it had correct size (I always update to the latest dev build). Will test it on the console later on.

[dkookz]

I've exported my save file for Pokemon Rumble by using the "Export All Wii Saves" function in Dolphin. I'm trying now to move it to my Wii, and when I try to do it via the Wii's Save Data Management, I get the message saying "The data may not have been copied." When I load up Pokemon Rumble on my Wii, the save data is not appearing.

I'm using Dolphin v5.0-9413. Is the "Export All Wii Saves" still having issues? Do I need to do the method that Medard22 used? If so, how do I access the System Menu in Dolphin?

[MayImilae]

Do not necropost, please make a new thread!

*waves her magic moderator wand*

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