A quick CheckPoint homebrew question

[medicaldoctor]

Hey there. I'm planning to take a look at the CheckPoint homebrew app to backup my saves. Does this homebrew app copy the saves stored in the hardware to the sd card in a folder or the root?

I'm on v8.1.0. Is there any compatibility issue that I should be aware of? I looked up the forum but couldn't find anything helpful. I did lookup on Youtube but those videos are just bad, confusing, and no straight to the point.

 

[mmajunkie77]

It doesn't really matter what firmware you're on when you're backing up saves.

Place the checkpoint.nro inside the switch folder on your sd card. After you back up a save, a "checkpoint" folder will automatically be created with the saves you backed up inside of it. Drag them to your PC/Mac for safe keeping. You can restore them on your console, or another console (as long as it's hacked) at any time.

 

[medicaldoctor]

Is there another homebrew app that can backup save files? i'm not able to get checkpoint to work. As soon as I bring up the app, the screen turns red and it gives a message that I can't be on "applet mode". I have no idea what this means. I googled it up and nothing useful. Plesae shed some light. thanks

 

[mmajunkie77]

Are you using SXOS or atmosphere?

 

[medicaldoctor]

I'm on SX OS latest beta, 2.8.x

 

[mmajunkie77]

Load checkpoint regularly, you don't need to hold R while opening the album or an nsp or anything like that. SXOS has a built in homebrew menu. Just open the album like normal, then go to the "homebrew" tab. Open checkpoint there.

 

[a2a]

Is there another homebrew app that can backup save files? i'm not able to get checkpoint to work. As soon as I bring up the app, the screen turns red and it gives a message that I can't be on "applet mode". I have no idea what this means. I googled it up and nothing useful. Plesae shed some light. thanks

I had same problem — the author had some issue with applet mode a few versions back, and apparently solved them by not running it in that mode. The red screen is supposed to tell us we need to do it different...

...aaand I tried all that to try and NOT run in applet mode, and still always got the dumb red screen.

So, I rolled back to the version that doesn’t nag!

I ne’er had crashes or whatever he had problems with, old version works fine for me. I just moved some Links’s Awakening saves around flawlessly, so a-ok with recent releases, too.

Version 3.60 and I run SX OS 2.8 on 8.1 firmware in emunand.

 

[medicaldoctor]

So, what should I do? This checkpoint app is really crap. I did launch checkpoint from homebrew in sx os, and I'm still getting that sh*t red applet mode message. I'm on v8.1.0. That checkpoint app doesn't really work on v8.1.0 i suspect. and what the hell is applet mode?

 

[a2a]

So, what should I do? This checkpoint app is really crap. I did launch checkpoint from homebrew in sx os, and I'm still getting that sh*t red applet mode message. I'm on v8.1.0. That checkpoint app doesn't really work on v8.1.0 i suspect. and what the hell is applet mode?

TL;DR my previous post? Cool, I will be more direct:

Use Checkpoint version 3.60 instead.

 

[medicaldoctor]

Thanks buddy. I'm now using Checkpoint v3.60 and it's working fine.

 

[donvasco]

Ok, for everyone having the red screen issue here´s what worked for me. 1) Select any game and press the A button to start it. 2) When required to select a user profile, press the R trigger button and simultaneously press the A button. Don´t release the R trigger. 3) You will be taken to the homebrew menu and there you´ll be able to run Checkpoint without any problems.

Using SX OS 2.9.2 / Checkpoint 3.7.2

 

[mmajunkie77]

Correct, the latest version of Checkpoint now requires more memory (it didn't when this post was made).

Now you will need to hold R while launching any nsp/nsz game. Keep holding R until after you choose your profile and the hbmenu with full RAM access will pop up. Launch your homebrew from there.

 

[matrixneo]

You are a life saver...worked perfectly..
Backed up 300 hours of my BOTW gameplay finally

Ok, for everyone having the red screen issue here´s what worked for me. 1) Select any game and press the A button to start it. 2) When required to select a user profile, press the R trigger button and simultaneously press the A button. Don´t release the R trigger. 3) You will be taken to the homebrew menu and there you´ll be able to run Checkpoint without any problems.

Using SX OS 2.9.2 / Checkpoint 3.7.2