Old Pokemon Ruby save file and hall of fame data corrupted

[butters44]

When I boot up my Pokemon Ruby game on an emulator I get the "save file is corrupted. A previous save file will be loaded." message. With the cartridge, it says "internal clock has run dry". I backed up my save file back in 2010 and I'm pretty sure the clock wasn't dry at the time, and I don't recall seeing the corrupted save file message. When I try to view my HoF, it says the data is corrupted before booting me off of the PC.

For context, the original dumped save file was 64kb. I've converted it to 128kb using an online save file converter. I have attached both save files just in case. Is it possible to recover the hall of fame data? I appreciate any help

 

Edited February 17 by butters44

[Kaphotics]

No, by virtue of how Gen3 stores save files. 

Since you had a misconfigured save size, only the first half of the save data was being retained. The save data is compromised of a primary save, a backup save (can be either order), followed by the hall of fame and e-reader block (if applicable). Since your save file is truncated, it only stores one save file (could be either the primary or backup), and a sliver of the other primary/backup. It's cut short well before it would have saved the hall of fame data.

The fixer you used to extend the save file to the right size likely just copied half the file to the other half (or just zeroed out the latter half when extending), which isn't the correct fix. I've uploaded a Gen3 save file fixing program in the past month, if you want to try that, but again, your Hall of Fame data is gone, because of the misconfigured save file size.