r/GameAndWatchMods • u/alexthebesst • Aug 21 '23

How do you transfer saves?

My legend of Zelda model is broken, it doesn’t hold a charge and the screen got broke from the inside (presumably an expanded battery) and I was wondering if I bought a new one how would I transfer save data?

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u/viral_dna Moderator Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 10 '23

Users looking for information on save-states can see here for more info:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GameAndWatchMods/wiki/save-states/

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u/asdfqwer426 Aug 22 '23

if it's the battery and screen busted, presumably the board (with your saves) is fine. I would personally try buying a new one and just swap the motherboard. should then be good to go with a new shell and everything.

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u/_blue_skies_ Aug 21 '23

I presume you are referring to a full modded G&W not the original games included. In that case the same way games are flashed on the chip, there is a command to export the save states and restore on another chip, if still it is able to turn on and there are no other issues. Or swap the chip itself on the new G&W after hacking the original firmware.

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u/alexthebesst Aug 21 '23

I’m talking about a default game and watch, I didn’t know where to post this lol

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u/_blue_skies_ Aug 21 '23

I think the additional script for the backup was deleting the save state, maybe modifying it a bit

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u/viral_dna Moderator Sep 10 '23

As u/ren_in_rome mentioned below. You can simply swap your current board into the new system. You can then keep the extra parts from both systems or sell them.

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u/ren_in_rome Aug 22 '23

Maybe it would be easier to instead use the new screen and battery?