11 Year old Corrupted pokemon platinum save file (german version)

[michaljeksen]

I tried recovering my old pokemon platinum save off of my r4 card but it appears to be corrupted. 
I tried opening the save in PKSM on my CFW homebrew 3ds but it was showing bad eggs and it crashed as soon as i tried navigating.

I also tried it on pkhex but it didnt even open the save can someone please check if anything is recoverable.

Thanks for reading.

1523 Pokemon Platin Edition(DE).sav

[BlackShark]

There is nothing to recover, your save is empty.

[michaljeksen]

How is that possible? i retrieved this from my r4 that i left untouched after i abandoned my ds for years.

Could u tell me the method you used to check?

[BlackShark]

1 hour ago, michaljeksen said:

Could u tell me the method you used to check?

Open the file with an hex editor like HxD https://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD20
If you only see 00's or FF's, the file is empty.

Besides that the proper save size for Gen 4 is 512KB, yours is twice as large.

Are there any other files on your card where the data could have been saved to?