Corrupt FireRed and LeafGreen Saves

[Ackbar223]

My FireRed and LeafGreen cartridges are reproductions, the FireRed save was corrupted because I tried to migrate Pokemon from it to my original copy of HeartGold and it seems HeartGold broke the save file. LeafGreen was corrupted because I tried to save and the battery died while I was saving the game. If anyone could recover the saves for me or tell me how to do it myself I would greatly appreciate it!

Pokemon - Leaf Green Version (Rev 1).sav Pokemon - Fire Red Version (Rev 1).sav

[Kaphotics]

Since repro carts are just a single chip that store both the ROM and the Save File together, usually sequentially, you'll have to dump the entire chip not just what a dumper thinks is the save data.

The two files you have uploaded are not anything close to valid save data, so nothing can be recovered from those two files.

[theSLAYER]

Try this. Ensure you keep safe backups.

 

[Ackbar223]

Okay, thanks for the replies. So right now, other than my Gen 3 Pokemon games, I have; a DS lite, an Epilogue GB Operator, PKHex, and Epilogue Playback. Is there any way to dump the whole cartridge data with what I have or maybe another application or two that I can download for free? I was hoping now that I have a GB Operator I could do it with what I have. I'm definitely keeping backups of my save files once I get this sorted out, I didn't have the hardware to connect my cartridges to the PC until recently and both of these save files have been corrupted for a bit. FireRed was corrupted like a year and a half ago, and LeafGreen got corrupted like 2 months ago now.

Edit; I do also have an "R4 SDHC Plus" with a memory card that has DS ROMs on it.

Edited Saturday at 05:13 AM by Ackbar223

[Ackbar223]

On 1/2/2025 at 10:01 PM, theSLAYER said:

Try this. Ensure you keep safe backups.

 

I'm reading my way thru this I'll give it a try after I've read it thoroughly enough to fell confident I can do it safely.