The Formats Apollo Speaks

• Save Wizard patches — the code format of the commercial Save Wizard PS4 editor. Apollo fully supports applying them.
• Bruteforce Save Data (BSD) patches — the format of aldostools’ PS3-era community tool. Apollo fully supports them.
• Game Genie codes — supported on the PS3 build.

Apollo’s own cheat definitions live in the companion apollo-patches project as plain-text .savepatch files, and its Patch Engine (v3.0.0 in Apollo v2.4.0) handles per-game decryption and custom checksums so edited saves validate. Applying them is covered step-by-step in how to apply cheat patches.

Editing a Save vs Cheating in a Live Game

Apollo edits save files on your console. It is not a runtime trainer, does not inject code into running games, and cannot help you in competitive online play. That distinction is the whole safety story:

• Offline, single-player use is the use case the tool is built for.
• Taking modified saves online — syncing trophies, joining multiplayer with edited stats, uploading edited saves to leaderboards — is where platform enforcement lives. Publishers and platform holders have banned accounts for save manipulation.
• There is no such thing as an “anti-ban protocol” for save editing. Any site (including this one, in an earlier version we have since removed) that publishes rituals claiming to make edited saves undetectable is making it up. The only honest advice is: keep modified saves offline, and never risk an account you care about.

Our Rules on This Site

• We document formats, sources and workflows — from the official Apollo documentation.
• We don’t publish “how to avoid bans” content, because nobody can back it up.
• We always say “back up first” — the one protection that actually exists.

Related Guides

Download Apollo · Apply cheat patches · Apollo vs Save Wizard · Game Saves & Cheats

New Save Decryption Support (PS4)

• Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
• Goat Simulator 3
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle
• Jump Force

New Decompression Support

• Dishonored 2

New Custom Checksum Support

• Digimon World: Next Order
• Dishonored 2
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Resident Evil 3
• Resident Evil 6
• Resident Evil Resistance
• Resident Evil Revelations 2
• Resident Evil Village

What This Unlocks in Practice

For these titles, the full loop now works inside Apollo: decrypt the save, apply Save Wizard / BSD-format cheat patches, and let the engine reseal the file with a valid checksum. Before v2.4.0, several of these games could be viewed but not safely edited, because an edited save failed the game’s own integrity check (the classic “corrupted save” outcome).

Keeping Perspective

Support is per-title and cumulative — the engine’s catalogue already covered many games before this release, and the apollo-patches companion project continues to add cheat definitions between releases. If your game isn’t supported yet, editing its saves safely may not be possible yet; forcing it produces corrupted saves, not progress.

Related Guides

Download Apollo · What’s new in v2.4.0 · Apply cheat patches · Game Saves & Cheats

Step 1: Find a Save

Open Apollo’s Online Database and browse to your game (matched by Title ID and region — a save from a different region edition of the “same” game usually won’t load). The library is community-sized, not complete; if your game isn’t there, the library tour explains what exists.

Step 2: Back Up Your Own Save

Adopting a completion save replaces your progress for that game. Export your current save to USB first (and keep it in your backup library) so the swap is reversible.

Step 3: Re-Sign (Mandatory)

The downloaded save belongs to its contributor’s account. Run Apollo’s re-signing on it — PS4 guide / PS3 guide — or the game will refuse it or call it another user’s data (mismatch fixes if you hit that message anyway).

Step 4: Load and Check

Start the game and load the save. Check the state matches the index description (completion %, unlocks). Some games bind extra data (DLC entitlements, online-linked progress) to the original account — those parts may not transfer, and no save tool can change that.

The Trophy Caveat

Loading a finished save can pop trophies in ways that look unnatural on a synced profile, and platform holders have historically flagged accounts for trophy manipulation. Apollo makes no safety promises and neither do we. If your profile matters to you, use completion saves on an offline profile. Background: cheat codes — sources and safety boundaries.

Related Guides

Download Apollo · Online Database guide · Re-sign PS4 saves · Safety boundaries

How It’s Organised

• Saves are stored per platform (PS3, PS4, PS Vita…) and per game Title ID — the code like BLUS12345 printed on the game’s case and save folders.
• Each game’s folder carries a saves.txt index describing the saves inside (progress point, character state, what’s unlocked).
• Apollo fetches an index from the project’s GitHub Pages hosting when you open the Online Database menu.

An Honest Word About Size

The project’s own README says it plainly: the list of available games is still limited, and it grows only when users contribute. That honesty is worth repeating because third-party sites sometimes market the database as a giant complete archive. It isn’t — it’s a good and growing community shelf, strongest on popular titles.

Using Downloaded Saves — The One Rule

Every downloaded save is encrypted to its contributor’s account. Re-signing is mandatory before a game will load it: PS4 · PS3. Most “the downloaded save doesn’t work” reports are this step being skipped.

Contributing Your Saves

1. Export a worthwhile save with Apollo (a 100% completion save, a New Game+ start, a rare unlock state).
2. Follow the contribution instructions in the apollo-saves GitHub repository — saves are submitted per Title ID with a description for the index.
3. Your contributed save can then help every Apollo user stuck on that game.

Good Candidates

Completion saves are the most requested category — our guide to using 100% saves explains the etiquette and the trophy caveats that come with them.

Related Guides

Download Apollo · Online Database guide · 100% completion saves · Game Saves & Cheats