Is this Pokemon Y save salvageable?

[SusiTerry]

I haven't touched the cart in a while when I dumped this, no save edits or hacks or anything. I tried opening it with PK hex and it said it was invalid. savefixproject said the save size is correct. Is this salvageable in any way? Unfortunately I cannot redump the save as I no longer have the physical cart it was on. I'm no expert but I compared this save to a valid one in notepad and the valid one had more stuff at the beginning. 

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[theSLAYER]

3 hours ago, SusiTerry said:

I haven't touched the cart in a while when I dumped this, no save edits or hacks or anything. I tried opening it with PK hex and it said it was invalid. savefixproject said the save size is correct. Is this salvageable in any way? Unfortunately I cannot redump the save as I no longer have the physical cart it was on. I'm no expert but I compared this save to a valid one in notepad and the valid one had more stuff at the beginning. 

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Are you using FTP to transfer the save to your computer?

The data is truncated to a weird degree. When I shifted your data, it partly showed up correctly, but became truncated again down the line.


This can be explained by the FTP setting being incorrect.

[SusiTerry]

I have before though not for this. I did originally transfer it by putting the sd card into my computer directly. All copies of it appear to be identical though. I do remember it had trouble reading the cart too and it took a few tries for it to show up. 

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Edited July 21 by SusiTerry

[Kaphotics]

Same issue as others are having with whatever dumper/transfer method that drops 0x1F bytes at the start of the file/inserts 0x1F bytes of data in the boxes.

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[SusiTerry]

I used checkpoint back in 2021