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Tech and Homebrew => Turbo/PCE Game/Tool Development => Topic started by: widdiful on January 21, 2022, 03:13:07 PM

Title: Simple BRAM Save File Manager
Post by: widdiful on January 21, 2022, 03:13:07 PM

Hi, I made a simple BRAM manager for emulators and real hardware (tested on mednafen, SSDS3 and IFU)

(https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8471483/150586497-7533613d-6088-4f57-a0bc-535fd23ccd1f.png)
https://github.com/Widdiful/BRAM_Manager (https://github.com/Widdiful/BRAM_Manager)

You can use this to manage the individual save files on your BRAMs. Reorganise, delete or copy to another BRAM file.
Hopefully this is of use to people, I think it'll be useful for things like migrating save data to or from the SSDS3's or an emulator's per-game backup memory.

Let me know if you have any feedback, bugs or suggestions.

Title: Re: Simple BRAM Save File Manager
Post by: Necromancer on January 21, 2022, 07:38:28 PM

Pretty neat, thanks for sharing.  How do you use it on real gear?

Title: Re: Simple BRAM Save File Manager
Post by: widdiful on January 21, 2022, 08:04:53 PM

Quote from: Necromancer on January 21, 2022, 07:38:28 PM

Pretty neat, thanks for sharing.  How do you use it on real gear?

I wrote about how to do that in the readme, but in short you boot the PC Engine with a Tennokoe Bank and an SSDS3. It'll load SD:/bup/backram.bup automatically and that'll be treated as the internal memory, which you can use to copy data to and from the Tennokoe Bank.

Title: Re: Simple BRAM Save File Manager
Post by: Necromancer on January 22, 2022, 12:40:04 AM

Oh, cool.  Sorry I didn't look at GitHub for more (RTFM!).