New To This-Need Save Editing Help

[TheWarpStaff]

Hello everybody, 

I'm new to this stuff and I couldn't find any help online. I modded my 3ds before the eshop closing, but recently I wanted to do backups of my saves. Apparently, I didn't save a backup of the original save file of my physical copy of Pokemon Moon, all I did was fixed a few pokemon with PkHex and tried "Restoring" the save file with Checkpoint, and the game says corrupted. Tried reverting the changes and it doesn't change anything. I only changed the pokemon in the storage, game was already beat, that sort of thing. 

I used Checkpoint to extract the main file, messed around, tried inserting the save file and it fails. I'm wondering if there's a fix to this. I see the file isn't corrupted since Pokehex can still see it. I made sure the main file is still named main, but cartridge is still reading a corrupted file. I'm wondering if anyone had this problem before and if there's a fix here so I can use the physical cartridge with the save file. 

[ERNESTO JG]

3 hours ago, TheWarpStaff said:

Hello everybody, 

I'm new to this stuff and I couldn't find any help online. I modded my 3ds before the eshop closing, but recently I wanted to do backups of my saves. Apparently, I didn't save a backup of the original save file of my physical copy of Pokemon Moon, all I did was fixed a few pokemon with PkHex and tried "Restoring" the save file with Checkpoint, and the game says corrupted. Tried reverting the changes and it doesn't change anything. I only changed the pokemon in the storage, game was already beat, that sort of thing. 

I used Checkpoint to extract the main file, messed around, tried inserting the save file and it fails. I'm wondering if there's a fix to this. I see the file isn't corrupted since Pokehex can still see it. I made sure the main file is still named main, but cartridge is still reading a corrupted file. I'm wondering if anyone had this problem before and if there's a fix here so I can use the physical cartridge with the save file. 

Upload more information or with your sav (main) it would be enough to know

[TheWarpStaff]

Not sure what else you want me to add besides the main file. 

I'm just wondering how exactly I can swap save files. I am currently figuring out how to swap out save files using the digital version of the game, Pokemon Moon. Now I'm wondering if I need to reset the physical cartridge for it to work, but in the mean time, I'm trying it out on the digital version. 

[TheWarpStaff]

So first things first. The "save file" on the physical copy is probably trying to figure out what the hell happened. It says corrupted, but I think I got the fix. Using the previous theory, putting the save file over a clean copy of the game works. So I think I need to reset the physical copy of the game and put the save file on it, making it work fine. But I did get this to work and I am beyond happy. I'm not sure if this is the correct way to fix it, or if I brute-forced my way. But if someone decides to do this wacky thing, make a backup of the save and if it does corrupt, just reset the game and put the save file over it, it worked for me.