GameCube Saves

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This is a full guide on how to manage your GameCube saves.

Use of any GameCube peripheral with a Family Edition Wii or Wii Mini require soldering on GameCube ports and/or memory card slots.

Uploading an Individual Save (.gci File) to a Physical Memory Card

If you are looking for 100% completion saves online, you can find them here.

If you are looking for save game exploits for booting into Swiss, you can find a list of them here.

Extract GCMM and put it in the apps folder on your SD card or USB drive.
Place the .gci file in a folder called MCBACKUP on the root of the SD card or USB drive.
Insert your SD card or USB drive into your Wii and launch GCMM from the Homebrew Channel.

Insert your physical memory card into Slot A or Slot B.
Select the device you want to restore from.
In GCMM, Press X on a GameCube controller or + on a Wii remote.
Select the slot your memory card is in.
Select the save you want to restore. If you have multiple saves to restore, you can press R on the GameCube controller or 1 on the Wii remote to restore all of your saves.
When restoration is complete, press any button to continue.

Extract GCMM and put it in the apps folder on your SD card or USB drive.
Place the .gci file in a folder called MCBACKUP on the root of the SD card or USB drive.
Insert your SD card or USB drive into your Wii and launch GCMM from the Homebrew Channel.

Insert your physical memory card into slot A or slot B.
Select the device you want to backup to.
In GCMM, Press Y on a GameCube controller or - on a Wii remote.
Select the slot your memory card is in.
Select the save you want to backup. If you have multiple saves to backup, you can press R on the GameCube controller or 1 on the Wii remote to backup all of your saves.
When backing up is complete, press any button to continue.

Extract GCMM and put it in the apps folder on your SD card or USB drive.
Insert your SD card or USB drive into your Wii and launch GCMM from the Homebrew Channel.

Insert your memory card into Slot A or Slot B.
Select the device you want to dump to.
Press L and Y at the same time on GameCube Controller or B and - at the same time on the Wii remote to backup your to a .raw file and select the slot your memory card is in.
When the dump is complete, press any button to continue. It should be saved in a folder on the root of your SD or USB called MCBACKUP.

If you are trying to restore a save from Dolphin, go to the File tab in Dolphin, select open user folder, open the GC folder, and find the .raw file.
If you are restoring a Nintendont emulated memory card save, navigate to the saves folder on the root of your SD card or USB.
Insert your memory card into Slot A or Slot B.
Select the device you want to restore from.
Press L and X at the same time on GameCube controller or B and + at the same time on the Wii remote.
Select the slot your memory card is in.
It should restore the .raw file to your memory card. When restoration is complete, press any button to continue.

Insert both memory cards into the Wii.
From the System menu, navigate into Wii Options, Data Management, Save Data, Nintendo GameCube.
Find the save you want, select it and select Move or Copy.