Lichii Save Files: Backup, Move and Restore Your Progress

Saves live outside the app

The most reassuring fact about the lichii emulator is architectural: games, saves and settings live outside the app package. Installing a new build over your existing copy does not touch them, and even the project rename on desktop kept existing Eden and Eglantine data folders and settings exactly where they were. Start from Lichii official site for the tested build and the full picture.

That design is why updating is low drama, and the update guide leans on it. But outside the package is not the same as backed up: a lost phone, a cleared app data folder or an experimental build having a bad day can still take your progress with it.

The backup habit

Back up before you test a new build. The project itself gives this advice for its fast moving releases, and it costs two minutes: copy the save data for the games you care about to another folder, cloud storage or a computer, named by build number in the folder if you are feeling organised.

Back up per game, not just globally. The save you will actually miss is the forty hour adventure file, not the settings of a game you tried once. Know which titles are precious and treat those folders like photos of a passport.

Moving between phones

A phone upgrade is a copy job: install the emulator on the new device, set up keys and firmware from your own console, add your games, then bring the save data across into the matching game folders and launch. The game should greet you with your progress exactly where you left it.

If a restored save does not appear, the usual causes are a mismatched game version or update level, or save data placed one folder too high or low. Match the game build first, then check the folder shape against a fresh save the new phone creates itself. The first setup page shows the folder logic the saves follow.

Related reading: the first setup page.

The file itself waits on the Lichii download page whenever you are ready.