Converting a "Not64" fla save to Mupen64 format for Batocera (raspberry pi 4)

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Richard Winters

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Aug 4, 2021, 2:41:51 AM8/4/21

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I'm switching over from Wii homebrew emulation (the Not64) over to a nice new Raspberry Pi 4 with a Batocera install. I'd like to bring my Majora's Mask save file over, which I thought would be as easy as dropping in the *.fla since Not64 is a fork of Wii64 which is a port of Mupen64. However, doing so results in no save files showing up in game.

I loaded the save into a majora's mask save editor (zs-flash: https://github.com/cxd4/zs-flash) and the editor says it's "hardware accurate data". I considered using this editor to simply recreate my save file from scratch, but to be honest, the syntax of this program seems just slightly out of my skill range.

Researching the problem further, I found this reddit post from over a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/WiiHacks/comments/ddoc9z/converting_a_wii64_not64_save_to_a_mupen_save/

According to that post, Mupen64 saves can be dropped into Not64, but not the other way round, as Not64 adds some strange data every 8 bytes for some reason. That said, the zs-flash did say hardware accurate, so I'm not sure what's up with that.

For reference, I've uploaded the *.fla file in question to google drive here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nP0m8hY16dQ8WvCe8Vq-8H9_zYj54MKY/view?usp=sharing