User:HunterMario/SwitchSaveExtraction

Extract your user saves via RCM

Step 1: Getting the saves

What you need:

• The latest release of TegraExplorer
• A payload injector (Example: TegraRcmGui)

Instructions:

1. Launch TegraExplorer via your chosen payload injector
2. Navigate to Browse EMMC or Browse EMUMMC, depending on your needs
3. Navigate to USER
4. Navigate to save
5. Navigate to Current folder options
6. Select Copy to clipboard
7. Back out to the main menu
8. Go to Browse SD
9. Press Clipboard -> Current folder
10. The save folder is now located on the root of the sd

Step 2: Extracting the saves

These saves aren’t done yet! these are still packed up.

What you need:

• Your prod.keys file
• Python 3.6+ (Install with Add to Path checked otherwise this will fail! Download Python here)
• The latest version of hactool (The Windows version is bundled with SaveExtract, only needed for other operating systems)
• Your save folder acquired from Step 1
• SaveExtract

Instructions:

1. Extract the SaveExtract folder out of the SaveExtract.zip to somewhere on your pc
2. Place your prod.keys and hactool.exe (extracted from it’s zip) in the SaveExtract folder
3. Place your save folder from your sd card (SD:/tegraexplorer/save) in the SaveExtract folder
4. Open a terminal window and run py extract.py on Windows or python3 extract.py on any other operating system to start the save extraction. Your saves should be located now in the out folder, ordered by titleid.

(Optional: Put your sd card back into your switch, select Mount SD, go to Exit, and hit either Reboot to Hekate or Reboot to Atmosphere)

This guide was originally written by suchmememanyskill.