My Pokemon Emerald in game save was corrupted - Analogue Pocket

[wiil]

Hey there - I am playing my first play through of Pokemon Emerald on the Analogue Pocket (it's been really fun!) I have been saving my game through in game saves (no save states) and I was ready to sink my teeth in to more game time but I was greeted with a corrupt file. I have a long trip coming up in two days and would love to continue this play through if possible. I have tried RecoverSaveGen3 with no luck (MissingCriticalBlocks). Not sure if anyone can help - but it would be greatly appreciated. 

Pokemon - Emerald Version.sav

[theSLAYER]

3 hours ago, wiil said:

Hey there - I am playing my first play through of Pokemon Emerald on the Analogue Pocket (it's been really fun!) I have been saving my game through in game saves (no save states) and I was ready to sink my teeth in to more game time but I was greeted with a corrupt file. I have a long trip coming up in two days and would love to continue this play through if possible. I have tried RecoverSaveGen3 with no luck (MissingCriticalBlocks). Not sure if anyone can help - but it would be greatly appreciated. 

Pokemon - Emerald Version.sav 128 kB · 2 downloads

Do you also have a previous save file? Perhaps could try to Frankenstein the save, if it is indeed missing blocks 

[BlackShark]

This save is missing every block, except blocks 0, 12 and 13 which are repeated multiple times.

Block 0 is Trainer Data which contains your Trainer Name, TID/SID, Pokedex data and a few other minor things (no flags or progress related things)

Blocks 12 & 13 are the last box slots (which are empty here) and your box names and wallpapers.

So there is not really something to rescue in there.

[wiil]

7 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

Do you also have a previous save file? Perhaps could try to Frankenstein the save, if it is indeed missing blocks 

I just checked this morning to see if there were any previous versions I could roll back to (great ideas), but there wasn’t. I’m pretty new to this community, but I’m not sure how I would achieve Frankensteining the save. 

[wiil]

3 hours ago, BlackShark said:

This save is missing every block, except blocks 0, 12 and 13 which are repeated multiple times.

Block 0 is Trainer Data which contains your Trainer Name, TID/SID, Pokedex data and a few other minor things (no flags or progress related things)

Blocks 12 & 13 are the last box slots (which are empty here) and your box names and wallpapers.

So there is not really something to rescue in there.

Rip. Thank you for your insight and reply. Sounds like I will have to start over. 

[wiil]

Hey Team, I am back with another corrupted save file. Can anyone see if this save file could be restored? Thank you in advance. 

Pokemon - Emerald Version (USA).sav

[wiil]

I also have some save state files as well - not sure if any of these are revivable. 

20250703_112738_USR_00000000_Pokemon - Emerald Version (USA).sta 20250624_202347_USR_00000000_Pokemon - Emerald Version (USA).sta

[Kaphotics]

On 7/15/2025 at 11:18 AM, wiil said:

Hey Team, I am back with another corrupted save file. Can anyone see if this save file could be restored? Thank you in advance. 

Pokemon - Emerald Version (USA).sav 128 kB · 5 downloads

not a valid dump; open it in a hex editor and you'll see it looks nothing like a valid save file

Save states: these are just RAM dumps from the emulator, so the save file is not present in RAM; box data is only pulled in when needed.

You can technically pull out data from the RAM dump but I don't think it's worth the trouble:

[wiil]

I somehow manage to revive something somehow using PKHex. I think I’m missing stuff? Or set back a little, but none the less I didn’t lose everything. Thank you for the reply though this is an amazing community