On October 17, 2026, bucanero shipped Apollo Save Tool v2.4.0 on the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita builds simultaneously. It is a feature release, not a maintenance patch — here is what actually changed, straight from the official changelogs.
The Headline: Dreamcast Comes to Apollo
Apollo now manages Sega Dreamcast VMU saves — a sixth platform family for the app. It reads VMU images (.bin/.vmu/.dcm) and saves (.vmi/.vms, .dci), lists and extracts them, and can rename Flycast VMU files. Our Dreamcast VMU guide walks through the workflow. The Vita build gained a bonus: export Flycast VMU files to Apollo’s own folders for further management.
Patch Engine v3.0.0
- New game decryption support on PS4: Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, Goat Simulator 3, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle, Jump Force
- New decompression: Dishonored 2
- New custom checksums: Digimon World: Next Order, Dishonored 2, JoJo ASB, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor / Shadow of War, Monster Hunter Rise, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil Resistance, Resident Evil Revelations 2, Resident Evil Village
- Details: v2.4.0 patch-engine support list
PS4-Specific Improvements
- Faster HDD save scanning — the library builds noticeably quicker.
- apollo-lib update for PS4 save mounting (2.2.0 in this release line).
- Re-signing improvements that landed in v2.2.4 — FTP client support, user-defined Online DB URL, and resigning saves that need an activated (fake) Account ID — carry forward.
PS3 and Vita
Both builds share the Patch Engine v3.0.0 update and the new game support. The PS3 build additionally gained extended PS1/PS2 virtual-memory-card handling in this line; the Vita build received the Flycast VMU export noted above.
How to Update
Download the new build for your platform from the download page and install it over the old one — your saves and settings are untouched. Checksums for all three v2.4.0 packages are published there and on each platform hub (v2.3.2’s PS4 package, for comparison, was 22,806,272 bytes; v2.4.0’s is 22,806,528 bytes — close enough that you should verify the hash, not eyeball the size).
Related Guides
Download Apollo · Version history · Dreamcast VMU guide · Platforms & Versions