User Guide: Transfer Save Files

Note: "Save Files" in this guide refers to in-game battery/SRAM saves or memory card saves and NOT Save States.

1. GBA: VisualBoyAdvance (deprecated and removed) to mGBA

2. SNES: SNES9x to BSNES

3. PSP Memory Stick to OpenEmu

GBA: Transfer save file from VisualBoyAdvance to mGBA

1. First open the game with the mGBA core plugin so that all necessary folders are created. While running the game, click the cog wheel icon on the HUD bar, choose Core > mGBA.

2. Navigate to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/OpenEmu/VisualBoyAdvance/Battery Saves (~ meaning your Home folder where ~ is your username. See the guide here if you don't know this).

3. Copy the <ROM name>.sav2 save file to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/OpenEmu/mGBA/Battery Saves

4. Right click on the copied <ROM name>.sav2 in the .../mGBA/Battery Saves folder and select Get Info. From the "Name & Extension" section, rename the file extension from .sav2 to .sav, resulting in <ROM name>.sav

5. Launch OpenEmu, go to the Library sidebar, right click on "Game Boy Advance" > Default Core, and select mGBA

6. Go to OpenEmu > Preferences > Library, click "Reset warnings"

7. Open your game and click "No" if prompted to "Continue where you left off"

SNES: Transfer save file from SNES9x to BSNES

1. First open the game with the BSNES core plugin so that all necessary folders are created. While running the game, click the cog wheel icon on the HUD bar, choose Core > BSNES.

2. Navigate to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/OpenEmu/SNES9x/Battery Saves (~ meaning your Home folder where ~ is your username. See the guide here if you don't know this).

3. Copy the <ROM name>.sav save file to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/OpenEmu/BSNES/Battery Saves

4. Right click on the copied <ROM name>.sav in the .../BSNES/Battery Saves folder and select Get Info. From the "Name & Extension" section, rename the file extension from .sav to .srm, resulting in <ROM name>.srm

5. Launch OpenEmu, go to the Library sidebar, right click on "Super Nintendo" > Default Core, and select BSNES

6. Go to OpenEmu > Preferences > Library, click "Reset warnings"

7. Open your game and click "No" if prompted to "Continue where you left off"

PSP: Transfer save file from the PSP memory stick to OpenEmu

1. Connect the PSP to your Mac via USB and browse to PSP/SAVEDATA in Finder.

2. Each save file is present in a folder with a unique name. In order to find your specific games, you may want to browse the individual folders and look at the icons (.png and .ico files). These files may also include replay data. Copy the folders you want.

3. Navigate to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/OpenEmu/PPSSPP/PSP/SAVEDATA/ (~ meaning your Home folder where ~ is your username. See the guide here if you don't know this). Paste the folders here.

4. Launch OpenEmu, go to OpenEmu > Preferences > Library, click "Reset warnings"

5. Open your game and click "No" if prompted to "Continue where you left off"