Corrupted ORAS cartridge save - My childhood pokemons are there

[Chiving]

Hello guys,

I wanted to move my pokemon's to Nintento Switch using PokeBank but today just turned on my 3DS and I saw that horrible message saying "my game save was corrupted" (I was waiting to move them to nintendo switch because Pokémon sword does not allow to transfer all pokemons I had at the moment).

I need to recover my pokemons because they have been travelling with me since the game boy advance series (fire red), kindly give me some steps to do it.

Also I think I have only a month or so to do It as I heard pokebank servers will be offline for 3ds

If there is no possibility to recover them, it will be a very sad story.

I saw that I need to share a file here, where can i extract that file to share with you, I am a newbi ewith this topic

I remember that my ORAS got corrupted when I was in the battle maison and I accidlently pull the cartridge when saving. (no hacks or anything added to the game, I was just playing the original cartidge).

Thanks

Edited March 1 by Chiving

[ERNESTO JG]

4 hours ago, Chiving said:

Hello guys,

I wanted to move my pokemon's to Nintento Switch using PokeBank but today just turned on my 3DS and I saw that horrible message saying "my game save was corrupted" (I was waiting to move them to nintendo switch because Pokémon sword does not allow to transfer all pokemons I had at the moment).

I need to recover my pokemons because they have been travelling with me since the game boy advance series (fire red), kindly give me some steps to do it.

Also I think I have only a month or so to do It as I heard pokebank servers will be offline for 3ds

If there is no possibility to recover them, it will be a very sad story.

I saw that I need to share a file here, where can i extract that file to share with you, I am a newbi ewith this topic

I remember that my ORAS got corrupted when I was in the battle maison and I accidlently pull the cartridge when saving.

Thanks

Here you have a Guide on how to extract your sav(main)

 

[Chiving]

16 hours ago, ERNESTO JG said:

Here you have a Guide on how to extract your sav(main)

 

Thanks for the clear steps

 

here is my main file, kindly help to rescue my pokemon or diagnose the problem

main

[Chiving]

Anyone?  

Edited March 1 by Chiving

[Chiving]

On 2/28/2024 at 4:16 PM, Chiving said:

Thanks for the clear steps

 

here is my main file, kindly help to rescue my pokemon or diagnose the problem

main 472 kB · 11 downloads

As a fact:

When I did use the checkpoint, it throws a fatal error whenever I try to generate the backup, does this mean something? It only shows  that witrh my pokemon alpha sapphire

Edited March 1 by Chiving

[Chiving]

@evandixon Seems you are the expert are you can be able to help as I saw a post from you before.

 

I downloaded also PkHex and the error that is displaying is the following one: "Attempted to load an unsupported File Size: 483328 bytes (0x76000)"

 

Also you can help me @BlackShark, I saw that you solve corrupted files also in the past to another user, please I only have this month to transfer my childhood pokemons to switch  

Edited March 1 by Chiving

[AlamosIT]

Probably checksums were corrupted, I replaced the final block (0x200) copying it from another save file.

(By the way, the Pokémon Bank will not shut down along with the other online services, it will in the future, but not now. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/p/605/c/874/a_id/63227#s1q2)

main

 

Edited March 1 by AlamosIT

[Chiving]

Thanks so much for your help.

You are a true hero @AlamosIT

 

I will have in mind the info you shared to me,.

 

 

[AlamosIT]

Edited March 2 by AlamosIT