Invalid save file loaded. Aborting

[Lord_Zaon]

Hi everyone. I'm getting this error in my HG save for desmume. Before getting this all was normal as always. I edited a pokémon's nature and saved. then I opened the game and saved without doing anything. Next, when i was attempting to load the save pkhex gave me this error. I tried using a previous savestate but it didn't work. What went wrong?

 

Pokemon HG.dsv

[BlackShark]

1 MB is too large, the valid size is 512 KB. The emulator somehow mirrored part of the save, Removing that part fixed the file.

Pokemon HG.dsv

[Lord_Zaon]

Thank you. So it was an emulator error.

[MagnaRedux]

It's not the emulator. I started getting this same issue after I upgraded to the newest version of PKHeX. Whenever I save in PKHeX, the file size of .DSV files increases from 513kb to 1mb. When I load the exact same .DSV file it gives me the error "Invalid save file loaded. Aborting.". I've managed to fix the issue myself but making any changes in PKHeX then saving increases the file size again. The workaround I'm currently using is to load the .DSV in DeSmuME, export the save as a .SAV file, load that up in MelonDS, import the .SAV file, then go back into DeSmuMe and import the .SAV now the size is back down to 513kb. Like I said though, if I open that "fixed" file back up and save in PKHeX, it breaks it again. PKHeX has a new issue with .DSV files.

[MagnaRedux]

I should add that I have no problems opening, editing and saving .SAV files in PKHeX, only .DSV have an issue now.

[MagnaRedux]

15 hours ago, Lord_Zaon said:

Thank you. So it was an emulator error.

The issue has been fixed with the newest version of PKHeX. You should redownload it.