A Heart-Gold (for DS on DSI) save help

[PokemonPlayer]

OK, heres my problem; I have my microSD card in the action-replay microSD slot. I see my games flash down my screen. I click codes and it reconizes my game as Pokemon Heart Gold. So I press B and go to saves. I open the mysaves folder and find the .duc file. I go on it and press A. It says "would you like to restore this game?" If I press Yes It then says "Warning No Game Card data found?" What does this mean? Am I doing something wrong please tell me. I feel like a :bidoof:

I used a sav to duc converter (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=70GQ4X4E) to make the duc file, for the sav file look at attachment.

Pokémon Heart Gold version.sav

[evandixon]

Heart Gold and Soul Silver have an IR port on them, which is on top of the save chip, so that it is a little harder to access the save.

The Action Replay DSi is unable to read/write to it, but there are alternatives:

The NDS Backup Adapter Plus: http://www.consolesource.com/ecomm/catalog/NDS-Backup-Adapter-Plus-p-3018.html

And this: http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?12405-A-tool-to-backup-HG-SS-saves

Oh, and there's another alternative:

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=215641

Do that, and it should be readable by the ARDSi.

[Aroenai]

If you're a little confused, this might help. It's possible to use your AR DSI to backup/restore your saves but it takes a little work.

Download gmtf.dldi from here: http://dldi.drunkencoders.com/index.php?title=Datel_Games_%27n%27_Music_%28microSD%29

Download Pokedoc's savegame manager (that evandixon mentioned) here: http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?12405-A-tool-to-backup-HG-SS-saves

Follow the instructions on this page to patch savegame_manager.nds: http://dldi.drunkencoders.com/index.php?title=Win32_GUI

Use this to run an FTP server on your computer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/smallftpd/

I'm not going to go through the process of setting up the FTP server, but it's really easy.

Now modify savegame_manager.ini with the IP address of your computer, user name, password, and port you set for your FTP server and copy it to the microSD card you use in your Action Replay. Turn on the DS with just the AR inserted, go to files and select savegame_manager.nds. The program will run, press B, choose backup or restore, eject the AR and put in your Pokemon game when it asks.

[Soladept]

I tried this, and I cannot get the savegame manager .nds to work, when I load it in with my AR DSi it comes to its startup screen that says press B, I do, and then the bottom screen is blank and the top screen is stuck, it only shows the program name, version number, and author.

and I did use the DLDI file referred above.

[Aroenai]

Hmm, not sure what to tell you then. Try using a different microSD card, that DLDI driver only works with 2 GB and below and compatibility isn't the best (I'm just using a 64 MB from an old cell phone). I've attached the one that worked for me, you're doing this on an original DS or DS Lite right? I don't think it'll work on a DSi since you have to eject the AR then swap it with the game and that resets something but I don't actually have one to test on.

EDIT: oops, be sure to copy savegame_manager.ini, I forgot to add it to this zip.

savegame_manager_ardsi.zip