Question regarding pak saves

[byc]

The N-Rage way worked for me, you probably just had to change mpk to n64 in the file browser, it's a dropdown.

This might be easier though. It's a mempak/dexdrive reader. Not exactly user friendly but it works. Drag over the .n64 file and open the JS console (Ctrl + Shift + K), and type in extract(0). It'll save the contents as a file and you rename that to whatever your ROM is named. [Old pic]

EDIT: Improved version of the tool above. It's a full-fledged controller pak viewer/editor.

Though for extracting SRAM/EEPROM saves, you'll have to strip off the first 32 bytes of the exported notes, to work in emulators etc.

[mistamontiel00]

OH MY GOD !! I emulated DK64 to see it , but then I put in my 64drive to believe it

Tsumi_to_Batsu_-_Chikyuu_no_Keishousha AKA Sin & Punishment. Japan exclusive game , I used extracted save on Zoinkity's translated S&P and works like a charm !!!

You sire are AWESOME !!!! Thank you so much for your kind work , I will be going to work for quite a while so expect to see me there a bunch

[mistamontiel00]

Welp .. I still have trouble with the pak saves .. so I decided to attempt that compilation of saves (I understand N-Rage now .. open .mpk then extract note)

Some of them the MEMCONV does not like ? As for TWINE it asks me some more stuff and then it hangs there

Gave another go at SF Rush , doesn't ask me nothing but the new file still comes up empty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBvH1atTUVU

[byc]

First off, the DOS converter can't handle long file names, that is why it saves an empty file. Just load mpk / n64 files in N-Rage, save the saves you want in each one as .a64 files, then Insert them all into the save you want to compile into.

[mistamontiel00]

Sweet works great again

The SRAM/flash saves are not working in 64drive .. I load up my Paper Mario or JFG and just doesn't detect although filename are one and same

Perhaps this is the "endian-swapped" bit I somehow must do to them

[byc]

Do a search for "Command-Line Package (Neill Corlett)". The dude's site went down, but you can still find it. It comes with a bunch of useful utilities, one of which is byteswap, and it does what you want. You'd run it like this:

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byteswap -s 4 filename.fla

This would change the endianness from little-endian to big-endian, basically "wordswapped". The -s 4 part is important because it specifies that 4 bytes be swapped, which is how flash and sram is typically saved from emulators.

[mistamontiel00]

The improved one seems more complex ..

Just did this again for tests and .. could I slap the .eep extension on this yet or

http://i.imgur.com/4QDTNk4.png

[marshallh]

It's too large, probably has a header on the beginning.
You can generate a new S&P save and compare it with the downloaded one to see where the "real" data starst, and chop off what's unneeded.

[byc]

Though for extracting SRAM/EEPROM saves, you'll have to strip off the first 32 bytes of the exported notes, to work in emulators etc.

There is indeed a 32 byte header when exporting notes (544 - 32 = 512). This is to allow note files to be importable into other MPK files. It was made to be a general editor for Controller Pak dumps, so i didn't see a reason to add "Export without the note header" option.

All you need to do is delete the first 32 bytes in a hex editor like so: http://i.imgur.com/dnjzu61.png

The 32 bytes represent the raw "Note entry" data - the game code, publisher code, game name, extension etc.

[mistamontiel00]

Bring back the old one o.0 As it's not broke really whatsoever

I don't know if it's that I may have all the native saves I need/want ..

Cheers