ekianjo
Hardcore Member
I was talking about this in August and time has passed faster than I had thought. Anyway, here it is, fully functional (and hopefully bug free... we'll see about that).
http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=bgs
Here's the sales pitch !
"Ever wondered what would happen to the saved game file of your favorite PS1 RPG (53 hours in and counting...) if your SD Card gets corrupted once day ?
Don't wait for that to occur and wonder what you should have done."
BGS is a small application which will check the presence of saved games for a number of set emulators and native games, and save them all together for you, automatically, in a single-file archive on your SD Card.
It will also duplicate that file on your second SD Card (if inserted) in order to maximize data redundancy and avoid that you lose everything if one of your SD Card dies. It's rather unlikely that your second SD Card would get corrupted at the exact same time.
It currently supports backup up saved games for the following applications:
- Gambatte, Gameboy emulator
- Pcsx_rearmed, PS1 emulator
- Drastic, DS emulator
- PPSSPP, PSP emulator
- gpSP, GBA emulator
- UAE4ALL, Amiga emulator
- Snes9x4p, SNES emulator
- Gpfce, NES emulator
- Gngeo, NEO GEO emulator
- Fba, arcade emulator
- Apkenv, Android games (not emulated)
- Darkplaces, Quake engine
- Dune dynasty, Dune2 Reboot
- Scumm VM, LucasArts (and others) adventure games emulator
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- PicoDrive, Genesis/Megadrive emulator
- Freespace2
- Exult, engine for Ultima7
- Chocolate Doom, Doom engine
- Solarus DX, Zelda-like game
- Pewpew2, polygonal shooter
- Duke Nukem 3d, come get some
- 8Blitter, Master System/GameGear emulator
- Pushover
- Projectx, Forsaken-like game
Once the backup is done...
... the program then makes a duplicate of the file on the second SD Card.
Note that in my case the archive is pretty big as you can see since I have tons of games in progress on PS1 with many save states for each, and that makes up for several megabytes each ! Same for Drastic...
For this kind of "big backup" the process took about 3 minutes on my 1Ghz. But if you have much less saved games to backup, it could take only a few seconds. Don't take my example as a benchmark!
I need your feedback in case you want other applications to be supported. Let me know !
And if something does not work for you... please shout!
http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=bgs
Here's the sales pitch !
"Ever wondered what would happen to the saved game file of your favorite PS1 RPG (53 hours in and counting...) if your SD Card gets corrupted once day ?
Don't wait for that to occur and wonder what you should have done."
BGS is a small application which will check the presence of saved games for a number of set emulators and native games, and save them all together for you, automatically, in a single-file archive on your SD Card.
It will also duplicate that file on your second SD Card (if inserted) in order to maximize data redundancy and avoid that you lose everything if one of your SD Card dies. It's rather unlikely that your second SD Card would get corrupted at the exact same time.

It currently supports backup up saved games for the following applications:
- Gambatte, Gameboy emulator
- Pcsx_rearmed, PS1 emulator
- Drastic, DS emulator
- PPSSPP, PSP emulator
- gpSP, GBA emulator
- UAE4ALL, Amiga emulator
- Snes9x4p, SNES emulator
- Gpfce, NES emulator
- Gngeo, NEO GEO emulator
- Fba, arcade emulator
- Apkenv, Android games (not emulated)
- Darkplaces, Quake engine
- Dune dynasty, Dune2 Reboot
- Scumm VM, LucasArts (and others) adventure games emulator
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- PicoDrive, Genesis/Megadrive emulator
- Freespace2
- Exult, engine for Ultima7
- Chocolate Doom, Doom engine
- Solarus DX, Zelda-like game
- Pewpew2, polygonal shooter
- Duke Nukem 3d, come get some
- 8Blitter, Master System/GameGear emulator
- Pushover
- Projectx, Forsaken-like game

Once the backup is done...

... the program then makes a duplicate of the file on the second SD Card.
Note that in my case the archive is pretty big as you can see since I have tons of games in progress on PS1 with many save states for each, and that makes up for several megabytes each ! Same for Drastic...
For this kind of "big backup" the process took about 3 minutes on my 1Ghz. But if you have much less saved games to backup, it could take only a few seconds. Don't take my example as a benchmark!
I need your feedback in case you want other applications to be supported. Let me know !
And if something does not work for you... please shout!