corrupted save!

[Sharkbyte]

So I got another wii today and decided I wanted to copy over a guitar hero 3 save i go to www.wiisave.com and go here http://www.wiisave.com/index.php?cid=147 and i download this save http://www.wiisave.com/index.php?dlid=3859 and copy it over. I had a feeling i shouldn't have done that cause the damn save is 6KB larger and now I tried deleting the save from data management and it says its gone but then I go to any title deleter and its still there but as unknown. i delete it, reboot, go back. its gone. i try copying over a regular GH3 save and it says I can't copy it over. I already have priiloader patched to copy these kind of saves and i know it works cause i can copy mario kart back and forth. This piece of shit save was the first one in the list and now I can't even get saves on that game again. -_- This person should be banned and that save should be removed. I am going on 4 hours of sleep. The question now is how to I get saves for that game copied back???

here is what a regular save looks like in a hex editor


Here is that loser's who uploaded a corrupted save



WTF am I supposed to do now??? I just got another wii and already have bad luck. Is there any way I can edit their save so I can copy GH3 back and forth like I should be able to do?!!?

[Thomas83Lin]

Have you tried booting the game and let it create a new save.??

[dcx2]

My first thought is - why on earth would you patch your system menu again with PriiLoader/PreLoader considering all the trouble you have had before with it?   :P

If you want the ability to copy savegames that are copy protected, you can use Gecko OS rebooter to patch the system menu and remove the copy flag.

You could also try the Savegame Manager.  It should let you copy saves to and from the NAND, though I think the saves that it copies are unencrypted (it says "data.bin not supported", and data.bin is the encrypted save that gets transferred to the SD card when you use the System Menu).  It might let you delete the infectious save, but I don't know since I've never used it.  http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Savegame_Manager  It does say stuff about making sure there's a save already made for the game or you get an error.

Or you can try this one, which puts a pretty GUI on top of that app.  http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SaveGame_Manager_GX

The fact that you have legible text in a hex editor means that the second one probably isn't encrypted.  It really is suspicious.

After you delete the game, and start Guitar Hero, does it ask to make a new save?  What happens when it asks this?

[dcx2]

Isn't there some way to format the Wii like it came from the factory?

[Bully@Wiiplaza]

this is a retarded talk.

Just follow these steps or "reformat" your wii in the data management. ;)

1.) Install Cios 249
2.) Boot Savegame Manager GX
3.) Install the clean save file OR delete the exisiting one (must have an exisiting default save file if you want to install a save)

DONE

I never ever had problems similar to yours while using Savegame Manager + Cios.

It works perfectly and those decrypted save files can easily be modded using a hex editor.
There are only advantages and no hassle.
If one refuses to use Cios, own misfortune.
Why difficult when it´s plain easy... :P
preloader is shit. It often bricks Wiis and disconnects Wiimotes, just evil.
It kills more Wiis than other homebrews did *together*! Seriously, installing it is the dumbest move one could do. >:D

[Bully@Wiiplaza]

uhm, wtf?
There are no Wii viruses, are there?
Wouldn´t it work to overwrite the "viral save" using a clean one?

Seriously, if that doesn´t get fixed, I install it by myself xD
What´s your actual problem with it, when it doesn´t do harm?

[dcx2]

He's tried to over-write the save and his Wii says no.  Even after the save has been deleted using Any Title Deleter.

[Thomas83Lin]

@bully if you want to experiment yourself go download that save from the link in my post and delete a GH3 save if you have the game and copy it over. but be warned, its going to be really hard if possible at all to uncorrupt the save.  

@dcx2 I've deleted the save over and over through anytitle deleter and it keeps coming back by itself with "unknown" instead of the game save description as guitar hero 3.

I'm not sure what I can do now.

You was aware that the save you downloaded is a datel powersave in .wii format, what method did you use to install the save.

edit:
yep just downloaded the save, after using a Converter Tool it looks exactly how it should like in your top pic.

heres the tool i used

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[dcx2]

Are you using Any Title Deleter 1.1 by bushing?  The wiibrew page says that deleting disc-based titles will delete the save data.  Is that what you're doing?

Also, thomas83lin makes an excellent point.  There are a wide variety of save formats.  The saves that the System Menu's Data Management will copy over must be encrypted data.bin files.  If you try to copy over a save that is not an encrypted data.bin then who knows what will happen.

The homebrew SaveGame Manager does NOT use encrypted data.bin, instead it uses the raw data directly from the NAND.

Datel powersaves are different as well, not sure if they're encrypted or if they have some kind of header (and/or trailer) that you would need to strip out in order to get at the raw data.

You must use the corresponding method for how the save was acquired.  If the save was from a data.bin copied to the SD card, you must use the System Menu.  If the save was from Datel, you need to use their powersave tools.  If the save was from SaveGame Manager, you need to use that.  Mixing and matching will create problems, and they aren't the uploader's fault.

[dcx2]

The save that you linked in your original post is not a data.bin.  It ends in .wii which means it is Datel powersave.

I just copied it over to the wii system memory.

This is ambiguous.  What method did you use to copy it over?  Data Management?  I'm actually quite surprised that it would let you copy over a file that wasn't a data.bin.  Did you manually rename the file?

Do you have bootmii as boot2 installed?  Otherwise I would be very hesitant to touch the System Menu.  You might be able to use DOP Mii or a similar tool to re-install the same exact System Menu.

[Thomas83Lin]

oh shit I guess I did rename it to .bin.  I don't remember doing that. I was too damn tired.

@thomas83lin How do I get that program working? I just downloaded it and opened it and it closes right away.

I used data management and it copied right over. Is there a simpler way to get the original system menu back like just install the wads through wad manager?

copy the program files and the save straight to c:\ then in command prompt type in exactly what i did in the pic i uploaded. you'll also need to give the app admin rights.

[dcx2]

I would think that downloading wads (which requires you to figure out exactly what wad you need to download) and using wad manager would be more complicated than letting DOP Mii download the right stuff for you automatically.  DOP Mii just feels like it's less likely to screw things up than doing it by hand with wad manager.

You also didn't mention whether you have bootmii as boot2 or as IOS.

[Thomas83Lin]

ok I got the data extracted but it still won't let me copy it over.

Well in the pic I named it g.bin, which you'll need to rename it to data.bin. other than that, its been ages sense i last used the program, and it sounds like you still need to fix your problem before you install the save anyways.

edit: I wonder if priloader is what allowed the save to be installed in the first place, I'm almost sure you can't normally just rename the save like that and install it.

edit2: surprisingly it does let you, but the save would have been a Big ??, and you also get the data may not have been copied error when copying. I'm going to quit before i mess something up.lol

[dcx2]

Can you just delete the whole title/00010000/52474845 folder?  The whole shebang, all of it.

[dcx2]

The forum no longer supports attachments, you'll need to use mediafire or rapidshare or something like that.

If your good NAND doesn't have it, and you restored your good NAND backup, and it's still there, my guess is that your restore didn't actually restore anything.

Not entirely sure how it all works, but I would think Any Title Deleter would get rid of the whole folder.  I'm surprised that there's anything left at all.

You might want to try PMing 111 to get his attention.  He knows a lot about Wii internals.  You may also want to try getting giantpune's attention.  You could also try going to #wiidev on EFNet and maybe someone there might know how to help you.

If you go to #wiidev, don't mention anything about WADs though, they hate piracy worse than we do on this forum.  Just mention that you downloaded a save from wiisave, it was a .wii and you didn't know what to do with it, so you renamed it to data.bin, and PreLoader let you transfer the save, and now you have this problem where you can't get rid of it.