PS3 [Update] Apollo Save Tool v1.8.4 released

Berion · Jul 18, 2021

It means that Apollo can create "dev_hdd0/home/<user number>/exdata/act.dat", which means You no longer need Sony network to anything related to licenses. If they one day, turn shit off and You will need to format or change HDD, or just move to another but "clean console", thanks to Apollo You can still activate PS3 and in consequence been able to use licenses, which means be able to playing digital games.

This is nothing new for CFW users as we have in the past ReActPSN, but new for HEN users which have nothing like that until now.

brucelee599 · Jul 18, 2021

Berion said:
It means that Apollo can create "dev_hdd0/home/<user number>/exdata/act.dat", which means You no longer need Sony network to anything related to licenses. If they one day, turn shit off and You will need to format or change HDD, or just move to another but "clean console", thanks to Apollo You can still activate PS3 and in consequence been able to use licenses, which means be able to playing digital games. This is nothing new for CFW users as we have in the past ReActPSN, but new for HEN users which have nothing like that until now.

Thank you very much for your anwer

bucanero · Jul 19, 2021

A new version is out:
https://github.com/bucanero/apollo-ps3/releases/tag/v1.6.4

Notes: I've addressed an issue with the db rebuild option reported by @jcorrea . Now if the user edited trophies and scheduled a rebuild, Apollo will reboot the ps3 on exit.

I also added a custom save-data decrypter for DW8XL, and some custom checksum fixers, along with new cheat patches that I found around the BSD forums.

Apollo Save tool v1.6.4 change log:
Added

Added setting to re-detect user/console IDs
Added custom decryption support
- Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends
Added custom checksum support
- LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
- LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
- Tales of Zestiria
New save-game cheats
- Atelier Rorona Plus
- Atelier Shallie
- Battle of Tiles EX
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Class of Heroes 2G
- Death Spank
- Deathmatch Village
- DuckTales Remastered
- Everybody's Golf
- Iron Man 2
- J-STARS Victory VS+
- Kick Beat
- Monster High - New Ghoul in School
- Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
- Narco Terror
- Sacred Citadel
- Shrek Forever After
- Silent Hill: Downpour
- Super Motherload
- Tales of Zestiria
- The Awakened Fate Ultimatum
- The Expendables 2
- Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
- Wizardry The Labyrinth Of Lost Souls

Fixed

Fixed freeze issue when DB rebuild was scheduled
Fixed comments in .ps3savepatch files

Kernell · Jul 20, 2021

@bucanero Thanks for more this update, I love this tool....
Please, one question: why some trophies unlocked by Apollo don't receive the PSN sync flag?

bucanero · Jul 21, 2021

Kernell said:
@bucanero Thanks for more this update, I love this tool....
Please, one question: why some trophies unlocked by Apollo don't receive the PSN sync flag?

Apollo won't set the sync flag. So it can only be set by the PS3 itself when it sync with the servers.

Note: Some users have reported some issues while sync'ing edited trophies, so I suggest to keep a backup if you want to sync edited trophies back to the servers.

Kernell · Jul 22, 2021

bucanero said:
Apollo won't set the sync flag. So it can only be set by the PS3 itself when it sync with the servers.

Note: Some users have reported some issues while sync'ing edited trophies, so I suggest to keep a backup if you want to sync edited trophies back to the servers.

That's exactly what I meant. I was also one of those who noticed that by editing a trophy in Apollo, some of them does not receive PSN flag. That's right then, thanks for the explanation. (Sorry my bad English "google translate").

Algol · Jul 23, 2021

@bucanero

J'ai tenté la conversion de fichier ".VM2" en ".VME" via Apollo v1.6.4.
Procédure employée :
1) Transfert de fichiers "generic_0.VM2" et "generic_1.VM2" dans le dossier "/dev_usb000/PS3/EXPORT/PS2SD/".
2) Ouverture de la commande "USB Saves" de Apollo et lecture du dossier "PS2 Classics Placeholder" (PS2U10000).
2bis) Ouverture identique de la commande "HDD Saves" ...
3) Selection de la commande "Import a .VM2 to SCEVMC0.VME", affichage du bouton "select".

Mais là, rien ne se passe, aucune autre commande n'apparaît, aucune activité sur le DD interne. Seul le bouton "O" de la manette permet un retour en arrière et une sorti de Apollo.

Qu'ai-je mal fait, que faut-il faire pour que cela fonctionne ???

In English via G-Trad :

I tried converting ".VM2" file to ".VME" via Apollo v1.6.4.
Procedure used:
1) Transfer of "generic_0.VM2" and "generic_1.VM2" files to the "/dev_usb000/PS3/EXPORT/PS2SD/" folder.
2) Open the "USB Saves" command from Apollo and read the "PS2 Classics Placeholder" folder (PS2U10000).
2bis) Identical opening of the "HDD Saves" command ...
3) Selection of the "Import a .VM2 to SCEVMC0.VME" command, display of the "select" button.

But there, nothing happens, no other command appears, no activity on the internal HDD. Only the "O" button on the controller allows you to go back and exit Apollo.

What did I do wrong, what needs to be done to make it work ???

Bien cordialement.

PS : travail réalisé sur une PS3 de modèle SuperSlim (CECH-4204C) sous le HEN-3.0.3.

bucanero · Jul 23, 2021

Algol said:
@bucanero

I tried converting ".VM2" file to ".VME" via Apollo v1.6.4.
Procedure used:
1) Transfer of "generic_0.VM2" and "generic_1.VM2" files to the "/dev_usb000/PS3/EXPORT/PS2SD/" folder.
2) Open the "USB Saves" command from Apollo and read the "PS2 Classics Placeholder" folder (PS2U10000).
2bis) Identical opening of the "HDD Saves" command ...
3) Selection of the "Import a .VM2 to SCEVMC0.VME" command, display of the "select" button.

But there, nothing happens, no other command appears, no activity on the internal HDD. Only the "O" button on the controller allows you to go back and exit Apollo.

What did I do wrong, what needs to be done to make it work ???

Bien cordialement.

PS : travail réalisé sur une PS3 de modèle SuperSlim (CECH-4204C) sous le HEN-3.0.3.

from what I remember, that USB folder is only for VME, try placing your VM2 files in this path on your hard drive:
/dev_hdd0/savedata/vmc/

(also you can try /dev_usb00x/PS2/VMC/ but I think the import is from HDD... need to review the code)

Algol · Jul 24, 2021

C'est OK, les fichiers VM2 placés dans le HDD dans le chemin que tu as indiqué sont biens vu par Apollo et bien transformés en fichiers VME. J'ai lancé "Gran Turismo 3", il voit bien les fichiers que j'ai fait importé depuis ma PS2 Slim.

@bucanero, je te remercie par avance pour tous tes bons conseils.

PS : Apollo ne peux pas encrypter des VM2 de plus de 8Mo, il reste en boucle sur l'affichage du texte "Encrypting VM2 Card ..." avec le trait noir qui tourne autour de l'icône d'Apollo.

It's OK, the VM2 files placed in the HDD in the path you indicated are well seen by Apollo and well transformed into VME files. I launched "Gran Turismo 3", it can see the files that I had imported from my PS2 Slim.

@bucanero, thank you in advance for all your good advice.

PS: Apollo cannot encrypt VM2 of more than 8MB, it remains in loop on the display of the text "Encrypting VM2 Card ..." with the black line which turns around the icon of Apollo.

bucanero · Jul 24, 2021

Algol said:
@bucanero, thank you in advance for all your good advice.

PS: Apollo cannot encrypt VM2 of more than 8MB, it remains in loop on the display of the text "Encrypting VM2 Card ..." with the black line which turns around the icon of Apollo.

good to hear it worked from the HDD path

About the bug, the VME code for 16 / 32 Mb memcard files was never tested because I don't have any of those type of virtual memcards. If you can upload the original .bin and .vm2 files, I'll take a look and check what's failing when converting to VME.
I think it might be a small bug that I never saw because I had no way to test it.

You can .zip those .bin/vm2 files and send me a link via PM. (uploading to mediafire.com works fine for me)
thanks!

user727 · Jul 24, 2021

Apollo Save Tool is great, easy to use, save game editing works without any problems, and most importantly, we don't need to use any computer tools.
Hats off bucanero.

Algol · Jul 25, 2021

@bucanero.

Je viens de t'envoyer 3 fichiers de VMCs : 8, 16 et 32Mo.
Fais-en un bon usage ...

I just sent you 3 VMCs files: 8, 16 and 32MB.
Make good use of it ...

Sonic3320 · Jul 26, 2021

I am havin a issue with apollo lately.
When I transfer saves the usb drive to the hdd they have exactly 99kb and corrupt the save. (Example, I am trying to transfer a save game that has 240kb, but when I am using apollo to resign them to my console, it goes to 99kb and the game fails to load the save)
I am using 4.88 hen without fake act.dat since one of the profiles is PSN activated.

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edit: nevermind, I managed to copy it properly:
first I used apollo save tool just to remove copy protection and resign the saved game on the usb drive
then quit the program and copied to the hard drive through the saved data utility on the xmb.

bucanero · Jul 26, 2021

Sonic3320 said:
I am havin a issue with apollo lately.
When I transfer saves the usb drive to the hdd they have exactly 99kb and corrupt the save. (Example, I am trying to transfer a save game that has 240kb, but when I am using apollo to resign them to my console, it goes to 99kb and the game fails to load the save)
I am using 4.88 hen without fake act.dat since one of the profiles is PSN activated.

To copy saves to the hard drive, try using the XMB. That's the best way to transfer and confirm that it's not corrupted. No need to use Apollo.

You can resign on USB and then copy with XMB.

mardab · Aug 12, 2021

I've tried re-signing my recovered Just Cause 2 saves with 1.6.4, now the game straight up says "Failed to open file" and I have no idea how to fix that.

Paperjoe · Aug 18, 2021

@bucanero, I downloaded the latest version and my UFC Undisputed saves successfully resigned! I am over the moon right now, thank you for the amazing work you've done! I thought I was on the latest version but apparently I wasn't, so I downloaded it and decided to try resigning my UFC Undisputed 2010 save, which I tried with an earlier version to no avail, I didn't have a lot of hope that it'd work, I just thought that the Undisputed games (2010 and 3, haven't tested 2009) were just unresignable, perhaps because they added extra checks in the PARAM.PFD file. But, to my surprise, it worked!

So then, I thought, well, okay, Undisputed 2010 works, so... maybe Undisputed 3 will as well? And it does! I'm so happy right now, thank you so much for this program and for continually updating it as one of the recent ones must've had something changed which no longer causes the saves to become corrupt. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again. I was resigned (pardon the pun) to the fact that I'd never be able to resign my saves for the Undisputed games (I was mainly wanting to resign my Undisputed 3 saves, but it's nice to be able to do it for the older games, too). Thank you again!

bucanero · Aug 19, 2021

Paperjoe said:
@bucanero, I downloaded the latest version and my UFC Undisputed saves successfully resigned!

I was resigned (pardon the pun) to the fact that I'd never be able to resign my saves for the Undisputed games (I was mainly wanting to resign my Undisputed 3 saves, but it's nice to be able to do it for the older games, too). Thank you again!

I'm glad to hear that Apollo worked with your UFC savegames!

Like you said, probably in one of the last releases I added a change or fix that solved your issue... I can't truly say which version because I have added a lot of stuff to Apollo

Apollo is quite stable now, and I think that in most cases it should work as expected. I know more features can still be added, but I don't have time for all my projects. (I still want to do a few things for the PS Vita and PS4)

ramzidz15 · Aug 26, 2021

Really great job you do for the community,I also love your work
PS3 ISO utilities better
PSV Save Converter better
Thank you for these beautiful programs.

ramzidz15 · Aug 26, 2021

bucanero said:
I'm glad to hear that Apollo worked with your UFC savegames!

Like you said, probably in one of the last releases I added a change or fix that solved your issue... I can't truly say which version because I have added a lot of stuff to Apollo

Apollo is quite stable now, and I think that in most cases it should work as expected. I know more features can still be added, but I don't have time for all my projects. (I still want to do a few things for the PS Vita and PS4)

I hope you provide us with programs on Ps4.

atreyu187 · Aug 26, 2021

Always enjoyed your work on the Dreamcast. Still use your tools from time to time when I pull out the DC. Anyhow got to try this out tonight and can't say I'm surprised this is an amazing tool. That and the name is genius, keep up the amazing tools. Can't wait to see what you have in store for Vita & PS4

PS3 [Update] Apollo Save Tool v1.8.4 released

Berion

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Kernell

bucanero

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Algol

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