N64 Save Converter

An N64 cartridge saves to one chip: EEPROM, SRAM or FlashRAM. Some games save to a Controller Pak instead. RetroArch keeps all of them in one .srm file.

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   Open your save

   Drop the .eep, .sra, .fla, .mpk, .srm or .n64 file. If it is an .sra or .fla, say whether it came from an emulator or from an EverDrive 64 or cartridge dump.

2. 2

   Check what was found

   The converter names the format it found and lists the saves inside, with any problem it spotted in the file.

3. 3

   Pick the format you need

   Press the button for the emulator or device you are moving the save to. The new file downloads straight away.

4. 4

   Copy it into place

   Put the downloaded file where your emulator or device keeps its saves, using the name the game expects.

Project64 and Mupen64Plus store SRAM and FlashRAM with the bytes of each 4-byte word reversed, because they keep it the way the emulated memory is laid out. An EverDrive 64 and a cartridge dump keep the console's own big-endian order. EEPROM and Controller Pak saves are the same everywhere.

The converter swaps SRAM and FlashRAM when you pick an EverDrive output, and swaps them back when you open an EverDrive file. Its checks compare the result with savefileconverter.com's output on real F-Zero X and Pokemon Snap saves.

RetroArch's Mupen64Plus-Next and ParaLLEl cores write one 290 KB file: 2 KB of EEPROM at the start, four 32 KB Controller Paks, 32 KB of SRAM and 128 KB of FlashRAM. A game uses one or two of those parts. Unused parts are blank, and empty paks are formatted.

• PS1 Save Converter: Memory cards (.mcr, .mcd, .srm), PSP and Vita .VMP, DexDrive .gme, PS3 .PSV and single saves.
• PS2 Save Converter: PCSX2 .ps2 cards, EMS .psu, Action Replay .max, CodeBreaker .cbs and PS3 .PSV.
• GBA Save Converter: Raw .sav, RetroArch .srm, GameShark .sps and .gsv, Action Replay .xps, with resizing.
• DS Save Converter: Raw .sav, DeSmuME .dsv and Action Replay .duc / .dss, with trimming and padding.
• GameCube Save Converter: Single .gci, GameShark .gcs and MaxDrive .sav saves, and whole Dolphin .raw cards.
• Game Boy Save Converter: GB and GBC .sav and .srm, with the MBC3 real-time clock carried across.
• SNES Save Converter: .srm and .sav for emulators and flash carts, Retron 5 saves, resizing.
• Genesis Save Converter: Gens and Kega Fusion, RetroArch Genesis Plus GX, Retrode, MiSTer and MegaSD saves.
• Saturn Save Converter: Mednafen .bkr and .bcr, Beetle Saturn, Yabause and plain memory images, plus single .BUP saves.
• Dreamcast Save Converter: VMU images, Nexus .DCI saves and .VMS with .VMI pairs.