PS4 / PS Vita Cross-Saves with Apollo Save Tool and VitaShell Tutorial

Hello everyone, found out how to save and replace saves from and to PS4-PS Vita for games that have been released on both platforms.

Normally, the cross-save function baked in the games require PSN, so this is a way to get around that.

Requirements:

• Both PS4 & PS Vita need to be hacked/jailbroken. Firmware doesn't matter, game versions don't matter either.
• For PS4: Apollo Save Tool
• For PS Vita: VitaShell
• Games need to follow the same or similar structure on both platforms (PS4 / Vita)

Copying and replacing the saves:

• Open Apollo Save Tool > HDD Saves > Your game.
• Export Decrypted Save Files and select your USB drive.
• Apollo will create a folder on the USB drive (PS4 > APOLLO). The save file should be called SYSTEM.DAT.
• Simply rename SYSTEM.DAT to system.bin (make sure you do rename the extension dat to bin and not system.bin.dat).
• Some games might have different naming schemes for the files but as long as both the Vita and PS4 have similar naming schemes then the games will most likely work.
• Copy the save to your Vita (any folder).
• On PS Vita make sure you open the game and wait until it makes a save. You need a save to be created so it can be replaced.
• Open VitaShell and navigate to ux0 > user > 00 > savedata.
• Once you see your game ID, press Triangle button > Open decrypted.
• Copy and replace system.bin.
• Done.

Final notes:

• Note that "Checking DLC content" will show again on your Vita. A bit annoying if you have all of them, you will have to spam X. This is only a first time issue tho.
• Tested and confirmed working on Persona Dancing series (3, 4 & 5) & Gundam Breaker 3 Break Edition.
• To do the same but from Vita to PS4, just follow the tutorial but backwards.
• If you test a game, please comment if this method works for that game, as I plan on making a list on my wiki.

 

[Endracion]

Absolutely love that this is possible! I just recently dug my Vita out, and this is an awesome feature - now if we could have a half-automated tool, that would be even more amazing!

 

[Jab5401]

Awesome work! Like what @Endracion was saying, I wonder how automated we could get this?

My initial thoughts are to have ftp running on both the ps4 and vita, while having an rsync job running that looks for any change in the save file, then renames it and sends it to the other device in the correct directory. However I am not sure how to automate the Apollo decryption and VitaShell.

 

[nadriethiel]

Thanks a lot for this!

 

[husker91]

Thanks for writing this up!

 

[kimchisoo2]

I'm trying to convert my P5D Vita save file into a PS4 save file, but unfortunately I don't have a PS4 to run the apollo save tool; I only have a PS5, which doesn't seem to run the apollo save tool even though it installs it no problem.

Any way I can get this working in some other way?