Want to learn about some things

[coty-crg]

So. Recently, I've acquired a need to be able to sort through Gamecube Memory Card data.

Long story short, I'm making a PC game, that I want to be able to make a save file, and be able to use the same save file on the Gamecube. (SA2 Chao Data, to be exact)

You guys are doing the emulator, so naturally, you should know how to read/create save files for games, or decrypt them so I can know what variables need to be stored, and in what format, right?

Help would be greatly appreciated!

[Billiard26]

Dolphin does not handle saves like you think.
It only reads/writes bytes, it has no notion of what any of these bytes mean and what "variables" are being stored.

You could look at the code of Dolphin's Memcard Manager to see how a GC memcard can be manipulated,
and how the individual saves can be accessed.

But if you want to figure out the format of a specific game's save files, you will need to do a lot of testing, or googling(if someone else has already figured it out).

[coty-crg]

(11-27-2010, 07:14 AM)Billiard26 Wrote: Dolphin does not handle saves like you think.
It only reads/writes bytes, it has no notion of what any of these bytes mean and what "variables" are being stored.

You could look at the code of Dolphin's Memcard Manager to see how a GC memcard can be manipulated,
and how the individual saves can be accessed.

But if you want to figure out the format of a specific game's save files, you will need to do a lot of testing, or googling(if someone else has already figured it out).

Thanks for reply. And..aww. That sucks, but I suppose it's understandable.