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Apollo Save Tool
Apollo Save Tool
General
Author	bucanero
Type	Utilities
Version	2.3.2
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2026/05/12
Links
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Latest revision as of 09:39, 15 May 2026

Apollo Save Tool is an application to manage save-game files on the PlayStation Portable.

This homebrew app allows to download, unlock, patch and resign save-game files directly on your PSP.

Features

Easy to use - No advanced setup needed.
Standalone - No computer required, everything happens on the PSP.
Automatic settings - Auto-detection of User settings.
Multi-format - supports PSP and PS1 saves.
Localization support - Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
Save Management:
- Save files listing - Quick access to all the save files on Memory Stick and the internal PSP memory (+ file details)
- Save PARAM.SFO updating - Rehash and update PARAM.SFO information when changing data files.
- Save files patching - Complete support for Save Wizard and Bruteforce Save Data cheat patches to enhance your save-games.
- Save import/export - Allows the user to decrypt and export save files, and import decrypted saves from other consoles.
- Save downloading - Easy access to an Online Database of save-game files to download straight to your PSP.
PS1 Virtual Memory Card Management:
- VMC saves listing - Quick access to all save files on Virtual Memory Cards images.
- Supported VMC formats - .VMP, .MCR, .VM1, .BIN, .VMC, .GME, .VGS, .SRM, .MCD
- VMC saves import/export - Export saves on VMC images to .MCS/.PSV/.PSX formats, and import saves to VMCs from other tools and consoles (.MCS, .PSV, .PSX, .PS1, .MCB, .PDA supported).

Installation

Just download the latest apollo-psp.zip package and install it on your PlayStation Portable.

On first run, the application will detect and setup the required user settings.

User guide

Data folders

PSP	Folder
External saves	Your saves must be stored on `<ms0/ef0>:/APOLLO/SAVEDATA/`.
Memory Stick saves	Save-games will be scanned from `ms0:/PSP/SAVEDATA/`.

PS1	Folder
External saves	your saves must be stored on `<ms0/ef0>:/PS1/SAVEDATA/`.
Exported PSV saves	.PSV saves are saved on `<ms0/ef0>:/PS3/EXPORT/PSV/`.
Virtual Memory Cards	VMC images will be scanned from `<ms0/ef0>:/PS1/VMC/`.

Tools and resources

To decrypt PSP save files, game-specific save keys are required. You can dump the required keys using PSP plugins, such as:

How to use the plugins:

Install the plugin on your PSP (ms0:/seplugins).
Enable it using the recovery menu.
Start your PSP game and let it load/save so the plugin can dump the key.
Once the key has been dumped, Apollo will detect it, and use it as needed to decrypt, encrypt, apply patches, or rehash the PSP save.

Tip: if you have PSP save keys, use Apollo's Dump Save-game Key option on your PSP save, and then share the gamekeys.txt file so all these keys can be added to the next release.

Where to find game saves:

Controls

Up/Down - Scroll through list

Cross - Select the save-game file, Apply selected patch

Triangle - View item's detail

Circle - Return to the list

Square - Reload the list

L1/L2 or R1/R2 - Move pages up or down

Screenshots

Media

Download game saves directly , Apollo Save Tool for PSP - (PSP Mav)

Changelog

2.3.2 2026/05/12

Added:
- Bulk FTP upload support for PSP saves:
  - Upload multiple saves to FTP server in a single operation.
- Localization support:
  - New languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Korean, Russian.
Misc:
- Apollo Patch Engine v2.0.4:
  - Add des3_ecb, hmac_sha256 support.
  - Fix offzip decompression bug.
- Use mbedTLS library for cryptographic operations (AES, HMAC, SHA1, SHA256):
  - Remove polarSSL dependency.

v2.3.0 2026/02/22

Added:
- Apollo Patch Engine v2.0.2.
- Add Python scripting support:
  - Run custom Python scripts on the console (for save-game editing).
  - Add apollo module for Python scripts to interact with Apollo's features.
- Add Hex Search option to Hex Editor.

2.0.4 2025/11/09

Added:
- Localization support.
- Auto-detect system language setting.
- Languages: English, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish.
- Show save details window for items in Online DB (Triangle button).
Misc:
- Updated Apollo Patch Engine to v1.4.0.
- Update custom mod tags.
- Support multiple mod options per line.
- Add AES CTR, Blowfish CBC encryption.
- Add DBZ Xenoverse 2 custom checksum.

v2.0.0 2025/07/12

Added:
- FTP Server support (Saves Cloud Backup):
  - Zip, Upload, and backup saves to a user-defined FTP server.
  - List, Download, and restore saves from a user-defined FTP server.
  - Backup PSP and PS1 saves.
- Delete PSP save-games.
- Auto-detect system Account-ID value.
- Settings Menu:
  - Added FTP Server URL option.
  - Persistent Debug log option.
Fixed:
- Fix .PSV header when exporting PS1 saves.
- Fix network dialog bug when NetconfInitStart fails.
Misc:
- Updated Apollo Patch Engine to v1.3.0.
  - Fix SW code skip search bug.
  - Add djb2 hash function.
  - Add tag support for user-selected options on .savepatch files:
    - E.g., {ZZ}val=name;03E7=999 gold;...;270F=9999 gold{/ZZ}
    - Support for SaveWizard and BSD codes with multiple options.

v1.3.2 2024/07/20

Added:
- Delete PS1 saves from VMC images.
- Sort saves by Type (PSP/PS1).
- Custom checksum support.
  - InviZimals (UCES01241).
Misc:
- Updated Apollo Patch Engine to v1.1.0.
  - Improve code parsing.
  - Fix SW Code Type D issue with CRLF line breaks.
  - Improve SW Code Type 3 (Subtype 3/7/B/F).
  - Improve SW Code Type 4 (Subtype 4/5/6/C/D/E).
  - Add AES CBC encryption command (aes_cbc(key, iv)).
  - Change compress and decompress command syntax.
    - decompress(offset, wbits)
    - compress(offset)

v1.3.0 2024/02/17

Added:
- Proper save resigning using KIRK engine CMD5:
  - Uses unique per-console Fuse ID.
  - Fixes save ownership in games like Gran Turismo.
- Manage PS1 Virtual Memory Card images (VMC):
  - Supports .VMP and external formats (.MCR, .VM1, .BIN, .VMC, .GME, .VGS, .SRM, .MCD).
  - List, import, and export PS1 saves inside VMC images.
  - Import - Supported formats: .MCS, .PSV, .PSX, .PS1, .MCB, .PDA.
  - Export - Supported formats: .MCS, .PSV, .PSX.
- New cheat codes:
  - Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (ULUS10391/ULES01213).
  - Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (ULJM05500).
- DLC Quests codes:
  - Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (ULUS10391/ULES01213).
  - Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (ULJM05500).
- Custom save decryption:
  - Patapon 3 (UCUS98751/UCES01421).
  - Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (ULUS10391/ULES01213).
  - Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (ULJM05500).
  - Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (ULJM05800).
- Custom checksum support:
  - Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (ULUS10391/ULES01213).
  - Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (ULJM05500).
  - Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (ULJM05800).
Misc:
- Updated Apollo Patch Engine to v0.7.0:
  - Add jhash, jenkins_oaat, lookup3_little2 hash functions.
  - Add camellia_ecb encryption.
  - Add Monster Hunter 2G/3rd PSP decryption.
  - Add RGG Studio decryption (PS4).
  - Add Dead Rising checksum.

v1.2.0 2023/10/30

Added:
- Support ef0 storage (PSP Go internal memory).
- Added AHX background music player.
- Added on-screen keyboard.
- Added URL Downloader (Network Tools).
- Auto-detect X/O button settings.
- Compress .ISO files to .CSO.
- Decompress .CSO files to .ISO.
- Added Save-game Key database for PSP games.
- New PSP cheat codes.
  - Persona (ULUS10432).
- New PSP copy-unlock patches.
  - InviZimals: Shadow Zone (UCES01411, UCES01581, UCUS98760).
  - InviZimals: The Lost Tribes (UCES01525).
  - SOCOM: Fire Team Bravo 2 (UCUS98645).
- Custom checksum support.
  - InviZimals: Shadow Zone (UCES01411, UCES01581, UCUS98760).
  - InviZimals: The Lost Tribes (UCES01525).
Fixed:
- Online DB: fixed file cache.
- Simple Webserver: fixed folder links.
- Fixed timestamp on debug logs.
Misc:
- Updated apollo-lib (Patch Engine) to v0.5.5.
  - Add host callbacks (username, lan mac, wlan mac, sys name, psid, account id).
  - Add murmu3_32 hash function.
  - Add MGS5 decryption PS3/PS4.
  - Add Castlevania:LoS checksum.
  - Add Rockstar checksum.
  - Fix SaveWizard Code Type C.
  - Fix right() on little-endian platforms.

v1.0.0 2023/05/01 Added:

Hex Editor for save-data files.
Improved save-game Web Server (Bulk Save Management):
- Backup and download saves as .Zip.
Network Tools:
- Simple local Web Server (full access to console memory stick).
New PSP cheat codes:
- BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II.
Custom checksum support:
- BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II.

v0.7.0 2023/04/02

First public release. Dedicated to Luna ~ in loving memory (2011 - 2023).
PSP save-game management.
- Import and export saves.
- PARAM.SFO hashing.
- Cheat code patching.
- Export to .Zip.
Save data decryption/encryption (Game Key required).
- Option to auto-install Save-game Key dumper plugin.
Online DB with PSP saves for over 400 games.
- Networking code using libcurl with TLS 1.2 support.
Apollo patch engine v0.4.1.
- Save Wizard (Game Genie) cheat codes support.
- Bruteforce Save data (BSD) cheat scripting support.
Includes PSP save-game cheat patches.
Misc tools: Zip, 7-Zip archive extraction.
VMP PS1 memcard resigning.
- Export VMP PS1 memcard to MCR.
- Import MCR PS1 memcard to VMP.

Credits

Bucanero - Project developer.

Acknowledgments:

Apollo supports multiple languages for its user interface. Thanks to the following contributors for their help with translations:

Bucanero (Spanish), TheheroGAC (Italian), yyoossk (Japanese), Phoenixx1202 (Portuguese)

External links

Author's website - http://www.bucanero.com.ar/
GitHub - https://github.com/bucanero/apollo-psp
Documentation - https://deepwiki.com/bucanero/apollo-psp
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dparrino