I have GameBoy Advance Pro Action Replay save file But How to check it?

[CanisM]

Hi budds, I have a File from Gamefaq which Is under Gameboy advance pro action replay ( japan) 

This save file is not working in pkhex I converted and tried and with sizes too but its showing error of wrong file. 

I couldn't able to work it on any games too 

Maybe I am making mistakes Anybody can help?pokemon-ruby-sapphire-emerald-version.7496.xps

May not be a special file but I am wondering why is it not working so clearing it out will be help.

[theSLAYER]

2 hours ago, CanisM said:

Hi budds, I have a File from Gamefaq which Is under Gameboy advance pro action replay ( japan) 

This save file is not working in pkhex I converted and tried and with sizes too but its showing error of wrong file. 

I couldn't able to work it on any games too 

Maybe I am making mistakes Anybody can help?pokemon-ruby-sapphire-emerald-version.7496.xps

May not be a special file but I am wondering why is it not working so clearing it out will be help.

I can't seem to find the xps2sav program anywhere, so I hand converted it to a .sav that PKHeX can use.

It is not perfect, and may not load in VBA.

There's a bunch of illegal Pokemon, presumably cheated in with bad codes that doesn't account of the language of the Pokemon.

pokemon-ruby-sapphire-emerald-version.7496(1).sav

[CanisM]

19 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

I can't seem to find the xps2sav program anywhere, so I hand converted it to a .sav that PKHeX can use.

It is not perfect, and may not load in VBA.

I tried after converting it to .sav and pkhex check it but didn't work, How'd you check?

 

If it's cheated then I won't be using it for any use but It only said to be saved on Mirage island thats all,

[theSLAYER]

6 hours ago, CanisM said:

I tried after converting it to .sav and pkhex check it but didn't work, How'd you check?

When you say ‘you converted it’, did you just change the extension to .sav? Cause there’s paddings on both ends of the sav structure, so changing the extension alone wouldn't work.

I used the program HxD to look at the raw data and removed the padding. Afterwards I duplicated the save, as regular saves used by the game and emulators are twice the size (in this instance each .sav file has 2 partitions, once as a backup and one as current)

 

Edit: While it isn't the main goal of my program, it will now dump .sav files that are nested within .xps or .sps files

 

6 hours ago, CanisM said:

If it's cheated then I won't be using it for any use but It only said to be saved on Mirage island thats all,

I didn’t check the location but yeah the PC contained cheated stuff.

[CanisM]

7 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

When you say ‘you converted it’, did you just change the extension to .sav? Cause there’s paddings on both ends of the sav structure, so changing the extension alone wouldn't work.

Oh nope I used The File converter Tool which works always never encountered that thing before. Tried converting it into 68 kb file which I know doesn't work and also tried 128 kb file, both didn't work.

[theSLAYER]

6 hours ago, CanisM said:

Oh nope I used The File converter Tool which works always never encountered that thing before. Tried converting it into 68 kb file which I know doesn't work and also tried 128 kb file, both didn't work.

No idea why that tool freaked out and not gave a working file

[CanisM]

On 4/30/2025 at 2:28 AM, theSLAYER said:

No idea why that tool freaked out and not gave a working file

Its alright, Thanks for your help