Corrupted saves upon restoring

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Back up a gamesave to SD.
2. Delete that save in memory card.
3. Restore the backed up save to memory card.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected to see the same file.  Yet instead what I would have is a
corrupted save, both in the app and the save manager in Wii.  Game doesn't
load save.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The game was "Tales of Symphonia".
The memory card is a cheapo 128MB bought from dealextreme

Please provide any additional information below.
-I haven't try other memory cards.
-Saves obtained from gamefaqs.com do not work either.
-Backing up saves works; it's just upon restoring the save becomes corrupt.
 The "D" serial numbers (the serial found below the game name in the app,
checksum?) of the backed up save and the restored save do not match (from a
leading 1 serial number to a 4xxxxxxx... ).
-Used NuGaSa, exact same thing happens.  Although... I'm not sure what
happened but it worked once with the game "Fire Emblem" but then after that
it doesn't work anymore.
-Other than this the memory card works fine under normal condition.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by trivoldu...@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 4:27

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More info:
-I analysed the restored save (by back uping it to the SD) and what happens was 
that
95% of the content was garbaged.  To be exact, every byte after offset x40 are 
F,
every single one of them.
-Beside GCMM and NuGaSa, I've also tried Gamecube Saver.  It refused to write 
to the
mem card by displaying an error message and then hang up.

Original comment by trivoldu...@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 6:10

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I can confirm there are problems restoring saves. When I tried to restore Fire 
Emblem
PAL and then check the save in the Wii's data manager, the icon was missing and 
the
description showed up as lots of vertical bars. However, the game appeared to 
load
the save file anyway.

Original comment by bbi...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2009 at 12:15

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i keep getting a error like 
6 file - -/dir ent broken

what does this mean?

Original comment by Carltong...@hotmail.com on 15 Aug 2011 at 10:59

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There are legitimate issues with restoring PAL saves.

also exported PAL saves may not work in dolphin due to the bytes at 0x00000007 
being incorrect in some games.

Original comment by danialho...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 12:26

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Is there any save that ALWAYS fails to restore?

Original comment by sulokuTDCmago@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2012 at 11:02

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Original comment by sulokuTDCmago@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2012 at 11:02

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I've tested luigi's mansion and Tales of Symphonia, all working with r21, both 
tested with official card.

Particularly Tales of Symphonia savegame was a downloaded from gamefaqs and 
converted from USA to PAL before restoring, it worked correctly (it was a 
before end of game savegame with everything 9999 and so on)

Seems fixed to me.

Original comment by sulokuTDCmago@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2012 at 9:30

• Changed state: Fixed