Help with GBA Backup savefiles

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

Hello, new user here.

I heard about GBA backup tool to get my savefiles saved, and I wanted to do it on my old emerald cartridge, so I downloaded it, and made a .sav savefile a while ago, some time later I wanted to send some pokemon from it to my diamond cartridge and reload that it so that I had them again in emerald, so on top of that first savefile, I made another savefile .sv1, but when I reloaded that savefile, I got the NEW GAME menu, tried the old savefile too, but still nothing, I checked the HxD hex editor and saw it had many 00 and FF, after searching a bit around here I saw that the savefiles were corrupted, so I wanna know if there's any way I can recover the game of any of these savefiles and what to edit in them, or if they're useless and the game lost. I'll also attach the .gba rom, I thought it was legit since I got it from an official store, but just in case.

Thanks in advance. 

POKEMON_EMER_BPES00.sv1Fetching info... POKEMON_EMER_BPES00.savFetching info...

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

I don't think it matters but I did glitches ingame, like the dewgong with a 1HKO high priority move, and the Vileplume with an instant flee move, or hatching glitched eggs with legendaries like Deoxys and cloning stuff, but maybe it does so I'll send it.

[Desmondcsz]

  On 6/15/2023 at 7:41 AM, Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña said:

I made another savefile .sv1, but when I reloaded that savefile, I got the NEW GAME menu

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Can't quite help with the other save but you messed up here since you changed the save file extention, the ".sav" makes it a proper save file, changing it results in stuff like this happening.

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/15/2023 at 1:52 PM, Desmondcsz said:

Can't quite help with the other save but you messed up here since you changed the save file extention, the ".sav" makes it a proper save file, changing it results in stuff like this happening.

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The GBA backup tool made It that way, since It already had a .sav file with the same name, when I chose to make a new file it had that extension.

Thanks for replying 

[theSLAYER]

Don’t upload ROMs here, it is against our rules. 
 

To be sure, drop your .GBA file into my program and run it. Does it detect save for you to spit out?

 

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/15/2023 at 7:34 PM, theSLAYER said:

Don’t upload ROMs here, it is against our rules. 
 

To be sure, drop your .GBA file into my program and run it. Does it detect save for you to spit out?

 

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I can't execute that in my computer, not even in administrator mode, so I don't know. In any case, it seems that my saves are completely corrupted and unsalvageable so I don't think I'll give it much more thought, I screwed it up when I should have checked first before restoring a corrupted savefile and deleting the old save, thanks a lot for the help still.

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/15/2023 at 10:09 PM, Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña said:

I can't execute that in my computer, not even in administrator mode, so I don't know. In any case, it seems that my saves are completely corrupted and unsalvageable so I don't think I'll give it much more thought, I screwed it up when I should have checked first before restoring a corrupted savefile and deleting the old save, thanks a lot for the help still.

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Also sorry, I didn't know I couldn't put my .gba rom in here.

[theSLAYER]

It’s weird that you can’t launch the program. What OS are you running on?

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/16/2023 at 12:19 AM, theSLAYER said:

It’s weird that you can’t launch the program. What OS are you running on?

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Windows 10

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/16/2023 at 6:28 AM, Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña said:

Windows 10

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I guess it's my antivirus or something.

[theSLAYER]

@Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña I’m on windows 10 and I built it

what’s the error you get thrown at you?

Also, what the heck is this


Those strings should not be in a save.. does not look like a save.
Looks like stuff for Animal Crossing.

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/16/2023 at 6:40 AM, theSLAYER said:

@Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña I’m on windows 10 and I built it

what’s the error you get thrown at you?

Also, what the heck is this


Those strings should not be in a save.. does not look like a save.
Looks like stuff for Animal Crossing.

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I'll send you what it says when I return home, but still, I see that the GBA backup really messed up that savefile, idk what it did.

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/16/2023 at 8:45 AM, Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña said:

I'll send you what it says when I return home, but still, I see that the GBA backup really messed up that savefile, idk what it did.

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It also happened with my pokemon Ruby savefiles, they appeared corrupted if I recall, so maybe the problem is in the GBA backup?

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/16/2023 at 8:55 AM, Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña said:

It also happened with my pokemon Ruby savefiles, they appeared corrupted if I recall, so maybe the problem is in the GBA backup?

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But it doesn't make much sense since I downloaded another savefile online, and I could import it to the cartridge, so idk why I can't backup my cartridge savefiles.

[theSLAYER]

maybe it is the software version of the backup tool. trying using a different version

[Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña]

  On 6/16/2023 at 8:59 AM, theSLAYER said:

maybe it is the software version of the backup tool. trying using a different version

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I used the 2.0 and 2.1 versions, but still, if the savefiles are unusable there's not much else to be done right? thanks for the help