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Long shot - How to get old .sav file to work with modern gameboy color emulators? (imgur.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a very old Caanoo that I have been playing pokemon pinball for over 11 years. The game system has been repaired many times and still works(which is awesome). Recently, the system has been showing its age. It has to be plugged in to play more than 10 minutes and the joystick is getting pretty run down. I had to 3d print a repair and it looks...pretty ugly if im honest.

I have a score of 15,000,000,000+ ATM. I would like to keep it, somehow. Anyone know how to use the .sav file in another emulator? From what I understand, the Caanoo used the ohboy emulator back around 11 years ago? I can pull the files off the system, but not sure what else to do.

Let me know, I still have the gameboy cartridge and the Caanoo.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey, you're playing a game from almost 30 years ago!

The data is actually exactly the same as what would be on a cartridge. The same way you can use a .gb file from the 90s, you can use a .sav file from the 90s too. Emulators were made to read those original files, not the other way around. Every GB emulator should have no problem reading those files.

Now save states is where you'll run into trouble. Those are unique to the emulators, since the consoles never had them, meaning each emulator had to create them from scratch. You might find some cross compatibility, but generally not, I'd think.

This should generally be true for most emulators. And for most consoles themselves, actually -- you could run most ROMs from a console and even .sav files between emulators and consoles! (e.g., with an EverDrive)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This is awesome.