Convert gameshark .gds save file

[boliao]

Hi guys,

Is there any tool/way that can convert .gds save format (found in gameshark DS website) to any of the popular .sav format etc?

thanks in advance

[FRuMMaGe]

I would also like to know this, as it's the only format i found a 100% diddy kong racing save in.

I would assume that as it is only about 10kb, it has been compressed. I remember reading that there was another form of compressed save that you could extract by trimming the first 24 bytes off it and saving it in .7z format, then extracting

[haedoas]

You haveto extract the save from the .gds

Trim off the first 24 bytes with a hex editor and then save the gds as "save.7z" then extract it with winrar

Quoted from FRuMMaGe @ http://forums.r4ds.net/showthread.php?p=4814

Except, I tried that method and it didnt seem to work at all for me. :\

this is what I tried for children of mana.

First I downloaded the save file directly from http://xs.gameshark.com/xploder/xploderui.asp?PID=94&SID=4332744&gameid=19562&tab=gs

Then I Opened it with a Hex Editor

and I started with

44 53 58 53 01 0E 79 08 9C 00 00 11 41 53 45 45 43 68 69 6C 64 72 65 6E 20 6F 66 20 4D 61 6E 61 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 4F 4D 41 4E 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4E 65 77 20 47 61 6D 65 2C 20 4C 76 39 39 2B 4D 61 78 20 43 61 73 68 2C 20 41 6C 6C 20 49 74 65 6D 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00 02 0B ED D3 31 0A C2 40 14 84 E1 D9 C5 C2 CE 40 9A BD 88 B5 20 C1 0B 08 A9 D3 58 88 5D CE 61 11 10 0F 93 DB E4 0A 9E 60 35 9B 10 C4 C2 B8 98 20 C2 FF C1 63 9B 79 BC 62 99 AA 3E 5F 2F 45 D5 64 7B E5 4A B5 3B 94 E5 F1 A4 B7 36 DB 95 16 FA 80 B7 F2 9A 9D 19 0B D8 7E 10 C5 05 FD 33 B5 EE 80 22 72 CF 33 B2 E2 FE CF D4 9F 67 BF 2F 55 5B 5D EB 1F 86 3A BF 64 92 44 BA 2D 4D 28 A0 59 53 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 E7 EE A0 6A 7B DE 00 20 00 00

So I trimmed off the first 24 byte which turned the file into this

20 6F 66 20 4D 61 6E 61 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 4F 4D 41 4E 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4E 65 77 20 47 61 6D 65 2C 20 4C 76 39 39 2B 4D 61 78 20 43 61 73 68 2C 20 41 6C 6C 20 49 74 65 6D 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00 02 0B ED D3 31 0A C2 40 14 84 E1 D9 C5 C2 CE 40 9A BD 88 B5 20 C1 0B 08 A9 D3 58 88 5D CE 61 11 10 0F 93 DB E4 0A 9E 60 35 9B 10 C4 C2 B8 98 20 C2 FF C1 63 9B 79 BC 62 99 AA 3E 5F 2F 45 D5 64 7B E5 4A B5 3B 94 E5 F1 A4 B7 36 DB 95 16 FA 80 B7 F2 9A 9D 19 0B D8 7E 10 C5 05 FD 33 B5 EE 80 22 72 CF 33 B2 E2 FE CF D4 9F 67 BF 2F 55 5B 5D EB 1F 86 3A BF 64 92 44 BA 2D 4D 28 A0 59 53 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 E7 EE A0 6A 7B DE 00 20 00 00

Tell me if I did something wrong here because I'm a noob at hex editing, so the only way I tried was from a guide from wikipedia. They said "Hexadecimal is primarily used in computing to represent a byte, whose 256 possible values can be represented with only two digits in hexadecimal notation." and "Each 2-digit (1 byte)".

Then I saved the file as save.7z, but I couldn't extract the file with winrar.
I would get the error message "The file type is either in unknown format or damaged."

[Ertyui]

I don't know why you guys are doing it so difficult, just use gds to sav:
http://www.zshare.net/download/gds2sav-zip.html
:D