Trying to Restore Corrupted Pokemon Emerald copy

[justsomefool]

Hey all,

So it's my first post here and I'm in dire straits. My copy of Pokémon Emerald save got corrupted my gba micro cut off randomly while I was saving and I just keep getting this message. I'm desperate to get this data back because it's my file from childhood and I'm so close to finishing the pokedex. Any help you all can offer is greatly appreciated. I've included a dump of the sav.

 

POKEMON_EMER_BPEE00.sav

[Kaphotics]

Block 4 was missing from both main & backup, so that section of box data is gone.

Other than that, we can do the same rebuilding/rearranging of blocks to create a new save file.

 

POKEMON_EMER_BPEE00.sav

[justsomefool]

Oh my God thank you. I'm looking through the last thread you linked and would opening it in HxD allow me to repair the pokedex info?

[Kaphotics]

6 hours ago, justsomefool said:

Oh my God thank you. I'm looking through the last thread you linked and would opening it in HxD allow me to repair the pokedex info?

Block 4 is the first box & half of box 2. Every other block is present, so everything about game progress is there.

I uploaded a fixed save for you

[justsomefool]

Hey again I’ve been playing through the file and I noticed that the Walda npc wallpaper is busted and talking to her dad now causes the game to crash. Is it possible that the info from block 4 got shoved into her data block? Really just curious about all of this now especially after reading through a bunch of forums. 

[Kaphotics]

Actually yes; block 4 is the tail end of the game progress block. You can try zeroing that block out and re-exporting with PKHeX.

[justsomefool]

Oh wow that’s neat, thanks for the info!

[justsomefool]

Okay hopefully the last time I post otherwise I'll make a new thread. I can't seem find the correct block to zero it out. I'm still trying it on the fixed save you uploaded. I tried consulting this post to at least help me figure out how to narrow down it's location but maybe I'm missing something.