Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 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.sv1 POKEMON_EMER_BPES00.sav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmondcsz Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 6 hours ago, Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña said: I made another savefile .sv1, but when I reloaded that savefile, I got the NEW GAME menu 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 20 minutes ago, 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. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSLAYER Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 2 hours ago, 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? 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 2 minutes ago, 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. Also sorry, I didn't know I couldn't put my .gba rom in here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSLAYER Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 It’s weird that you can’t launch the program. What OS are you running on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 6 hours ago, theSLAYER said: It’s weird that you can’t launch the program. What OS are you running on? Windows 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 4 minutes ago, Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña said: Windows 10 I guess it's my antivirus or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSLAYER Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 @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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 2 hours ago, 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. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 8 minutes ago, 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. It also happened with my pokemon Ruby savefiles, they appeared corrupted if I recall, so maybe the problem is in the GBA backup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 Just now, 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? 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSLAYER Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 maybe it is the software version of the backup tool. trying using a different version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Carlos Fernandez Piña Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 1 hour ago, theSLAYER said: maybe it is the software version of the backup tool. trying using a different version 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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