iPhone How to recover game save from iTunes backup?

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Here's the context:
  • Got really far in GTA Vice City
  • Nephew played game and started new game thus losing my progress
  • Would like to restore from an old backup of the phone without losing everything I currently have
  • iPhone 5 - iOS 9.1

Options I think I have:
  1. Backup phone, restore old backup, extract game save using a tool or a file explorer, restore latest backup and restore the game save data
  2. Extract game save data directly from iTunes backup file

What I've tried so far:
1. https://iphoneappbackup.wordpress.c...a-progress-from-iphone-to-another-ios-device/ however, CopyTrans App backup doesn't work on iOS 9 onwards.
 
Update:

Tried to use iExplorer but it says "This app does not have iTunes file sharing enabled. On devices with iOS 8.3, the developer of the app must enable file sharing in order to view the app contents"

This is what the iExplorer site says about this: Macroplant | The Apps section isn'''t showing all ...

I cannot dive into any backups as it's not showing any app folders (or I'm just not looking in the right place).
 
I found the answer with iMazing iMazing | iPhone, iPad & iPod Manager for Mac & PC. Transfer, Copy, Backup Music, Messages, Files & More . What I did was copy the entire iTunes backup folder from my USB drive to the iTunes backup folder in my machine. Then I ran the app and went to the app (app has to be installed) in the connected phone. Then I right clicked the app and select extract. At this point, I selected extract from current backup (which would be the historical backup containing the app data I want to restore) and saved the extract file to my desktop. Once done, I select "manage apps > restore" from the bottom of the screen and select the file I just extracted. Phone restarted after restore and it was all restored perfectly!

If you get stuck, they are very responsive on twitter, which is where I got help to do this.
 
i think it is not possible to extract the Save from the backup
 
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