Managing GBA Saves: Extracting and Injecting Save for Bootleg GBA Pokémon Carts

[Yuya]

Hiya, just want to check if anybody has experience this one, i followed the instructions here, it worked for a while, then suddenly the injector tool does not work anymore. It can still extract the save file but injecting it back does not work. There's no error message, the message that it injects successfully is still there. however if you extract the save file again, the save file was not really injected back. if that makes sense

[theSLAYER]

  On 3/21/2025 at 6:57 PM, Yuya said:

Hiya, just want to check if anybody has experience this one, i followed the instructions here, it worked for a while, then suddenly the injector tool does not work anymore. It can still extract the save file but injecting it back does not work. There's no error message, the message that it injects successfully is still there. however if you extract the save file again, the save file was not really injected back. if that makes sense

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And how would you know the save file wasn’t injected back?

also, don’t rename the extracted save.

[Yuya]

  On 3/22/2025 at 1:42 AM, theSLAYER said:

And how would you know the save file wasn’t injected back?

also, don’t rename the extracted save.

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didnt rename the save file. here's photos of what i've recently done. as you can see, the deoxys ive placed in box 1 using pkhex was not carried over to the save file as seen on the last screenshot

another thing i used to quickly verify, is on the same gba extractor, after injecting the save file, i extract it again and run on pkhex to see if there are any changes on the extracted save file.

 

previously the injector works fine. dont know what happened.

Edited March 22 by Yuya

[theSLAYER]

  On 3/22/2025 at 3:57 PM, Yuya said:

didnt rename the save file. here's photos of what i've recently done. as you can see, the deoxys ive placed in box 1 using pkhex was not carried over to the save file as seen on the last screenshot

another thing i used to quickly verify, is on the same gba extractor, after injecting the save file, i extract it again and run on pkhex to see if there are any changes on the extracted save file.

 

previously the injector works fine. dont know what happened.

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Can you try making a copy of the save bin to your desktop, rename the file (maybe to ruby edited.bin), then try to use the tool, then afterwards send the save back to your cart?

If that doesn't work, may need to get files from you (we will need to trim it and take the part after the ROM, to make sure I don't get the ROM)

[Yuya]

  On 3/22/2025 at 11:20 PM, theSLAYER said:

Can you try making a copy of the save bin to your desktop, rename the file (maybe to ruby edited.bin), then try to use the tool, then afterwards send the save back to your cart?

If that doesn't work, may need to get files from you (we will need to trim it and take the part after the ROM, to make sure I don't get the ROM)

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yeah it didnt work either, whats the next step how do i trim it/