Fire red save backed up from cart will not open in PKHeX

[mrtylersquared]

So I made a new save in Fire red. The cart is real. It is my childhood copy and I have never had any issues with it before. 

I backed up the save file using a Flash Boy, but it will not load into PKHex. My leaf green copy loads up just fine as do my other cartridges. 

I'm not sure what I'm missing. But I am concerned my cart might be bootleg after all? I opened the cart and looked at the chips and it all seems to be correct. 

The game seems to save properly on cart.

I am getting this error message about the flash memory... is the chip broken somehow? I cant seem to import other saves over it because of this. Is my cart bootleg after all? Or something else?

Any help is very much appreciated!

POKEMON FIRE_BPRE.sav

[Poke J]

@mrtylersquaredhave you tried to dump the save again? How far did you make it into the save before you tried to dump the save? Because right now the save block index order is 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11 which the expected for your save would have the save block have the following order 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The long short of the block order is blocks 0-13 need to be present to be a valid save and they rotate by 1 each time you save so that is why block 8 is the first block which is normal. However, in you dump blocks 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 are missing and multiple blocks are repeating. In order for a save to be valid all 14 blocks need to be present in a rotating numerical order. So my suggestion is since it is a new save file is to make sure that the save does load on the cart, save 2 times in game, and then try to dump the save again. In terms of the cart itself it looks like all of the images of a FireRed cart board that I can find online so I believe its a real cart.

[mrtylersquared]

That first save is from a brand new game before picking the starter. I have now advanced to getting the pokedex. I extracted the save again and it seems to be doing the same thing, unreadable by pkhex. 

My concern is making a lot of progress on this cart and never having the ability to truly back it up in case something happens. 

Attached is the further progressed save. Does it look any different in terms of those blocks?

 

Edit: So I tested all of my other gen 3 carts, English and Japanese, exporting saves and loading them into PKHeX. All loaded up correctly. I tested my english Fire Red last (the one i'm having problems with) and it finally loaded up but my name is incorrect and my trainer ID? It should be MrTyler  with TID 58336.

 

 

I then attempted to extract the save again. I was receiving this error message.

I removed and inserted the game into the dumper and I was then able to extract the game and it loaded into pkhex correctly. 

Still not sure why this happened with this specific cart. Perhaps the contacts on the board need to be clean to make the dumper read the cart all the way and thats why I was getting problems with extracting the save.

POKEMON FIRE_BPRE.sav

Edited 7 hours ago by mrtylersquared