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SVLeafar

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Sep 28 '06

Hi, I got an Upgraded Action Replay with a function of copying the battery save file of Rom Cassette (Pokemon Leaf Green in my case) to your computer. There I can revert it back to the rom if something happens with my save file on the cassette.
But what I wanted to know is if I could change the type of the save file (copied with the AR) into the .sav file which VBA supports.
So I could trade with the games I played on the computer.

Schimassek...
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SVLeafar

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Oct 24 '06

I've searched for a program named: sav2xps. but i get problems running it.
Anyone here uses it?

Oh yeah andi got a double  post, but the last time I posted was 2 weeks ago.
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raven!gaming

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Oct 24 '06

Above all things you should still use the Modified Button and just add an [EDIT] to it. First off i dont think there is a way, and sav2xps is just a program that converts your game saves from the computer's emulator to an actual game save that you can import into your actual game.

What is the extension of the save game when you dump it from action replay?
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aoikazemaru

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Oct 24 '06

[quote author=HeLlFiRE link=topic=26284.msg150262#msg150262 date=1161704328]
Above all things you should still use the Modified Button and just add an [EDIT] to it
[/quote]

i'll show you the proper way...

DOUBLE-POSTING IS NOT ALLOWED, USE THE MODIFY BUTTON INSTEAD. PLEASE READ THIS
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snuffles

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Oct 24 '06

[quote author=aoikazemaru link=topic=26284.msg150280#msg150280 date=1161707006]
i'll show you the proper way...

DOUBLE-POSTING IS NOT ALLOWED, USE THE MODIFY BUTTON INSTEAD. PLEASE READ THIS
[/quote]

They was simply bumping a topic no one replied to in over 2 weeks. Give them a break ffs.

Try Googling for a .sav exchanger program.
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aoikazemaru

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Oct 24 '06

[quote author=snuffles link=topic=26284.msg150284#msg150284 date=1161707266]
They was simply bumping a topic no one replied to in over 2 weeks. Give them a break ffs.
[/quote]

hey, rules are rules, and the bumping was not the problem. it was the DOUBLE-POST, he waited for 2 weeks for someone to reply so he could post again, no one came, so he posted again. That's why i show my tutorial on "how to modify your posts" ;D
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snuffles

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Oct 24 '06

[quote author=aoikazemaru link=topic=26284.msg150286#msg150286 date=1161707536]
hey, rules are rules, and the bumping was not the problem. it was the DOUBLE-POST, he waited for 2 weeks for someone to reply so he could post again, no one came, so he posted again. That's why i show my tutorial on "how to modify your posts" ;D
[/quote]

No you showed it as an insult. If he edited his post it still would have been falling at the bottom of the forum. I love how your so quick to judge people but not so quick to help.
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SVLeafar

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Oct 25 '06

Well...I waited pretty much time, would I just edit my post I could also forget it and make another topic.
Now to the sav2xps, I searched the entire 3 pages of google but only found broken links all over the place (like http://www.emulation64.com/downloads/sav2xps.zip for example).
When I dump it I get an .xps file. The import from VBA makes a .sps file. The sps is used in America I think, while xps is european. As the AR is european it can't identify the sps files.
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aoikazemaru

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Oct 25 '06

[quote author=snuffles link=topic=26284.msg150293#msg150293 date=1161708304]
No you showed it as an insult.
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i don't see it like it, give me 666 reasons why it sounds like an insult

[quote author=snuffles link=topic=26284.msg150293#msg150293 date=1161708304]
If he edited his post it still would have been falling at the bottom of the forum. I love how your so quick to judge people but not so quick to help.
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^^^ true, but i never said i'm here to help (now i sounded like Devon), i'm just pointing the fact of the double-post, since there are a lot of users that still don't know where's the damn Modify Button! and i wasn't judging, good purposes or not, it still is a double-post... i didn't smite him, neither banned him, just warning...
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raven!gaming

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Oct 25 '06

So what your saying to us is that you get a SPS from your AR correct? XPS is an extension of gameshark not AR. The VBA emulator should not be telling the difference between which version is which, for example it should not neglect the fact that you are using a computer in europe or a computer in america. Try copying the sps file and then renaming it to xps and see if that works, occasionally it doesnt because SPS and XPS have different writing style and they usually dont match. If all things fail, try this

If you hadn't gotten the sav2xps file that is.
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SVLeafar

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Oct 28 '06

[quote author=HeLlFiRE link=topic=26284.msg150359#msg150359 date=1161786471]
So what your saying to us is that you get a SPS from your AR correct?
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No no, I am...arw, I have always difficulty in explaining things...well, I make it in steps:
- I have a: GameBoyAdvance, ActionReplay (with USB cable and Programme for AR), a cassete of PokemonLeafGreen, a Computer, and a VBA v1.7 (with a ROM: PKMN Leaf Green and PKMN Ruby);
- What I want to do is to: Pass my save file from my PKMN LG cassete to the VBA (already done with no problems);
- Then link PKMN LG and Ruby to pass my pokemons from Ruby to LG (done and with no problems);
- After that I wanted to put back the save file created by VBA to my cassete using the ActionReplay (now here is my problems).

While VBA doesn't differ from .sps or .xps format (talking about the entire file format, not only the name), the AR does.
When I export a .sav file using the VBA I can only export it to a .sps format, but the AR I have ONLY accepts .xps format saves.
I also can't just change the extension name because that wont alter the actual code of the file.
So as the AR only accept .xps files and the VBA can only export .sps files I can't find a way to put those files on the cassete thorugh AR.

Hope I explained it well.

Because of that i'm searching a programme that changes a file from .sps to .xps or .sav to .xps (a bit like xps2sav but on the other way).

Note for some: The AR can be used to import or export sav files, originally made to be able to mack backup saves in case a code corrupts the save.
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raven!gaming

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Oct 29 '06

I understand what you are saying. So basically you want a program that will convert .sav files into .xps files and/or .sps and vice versa, .sps and/or .xps to .sav correct?
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SVLeafar

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Nov 2 '06

Almost that.
Basically what I want is a program that converts .sav files to .xps files or .sps files to .xps files.
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