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It looks like you had multiple glitch pokemon in your boxes. After withdrawing the glitched starter Pikachu into party slot 6 (cannot be released, since it behaves as a starter Pikachu) and deleting several others until the boxes appeared no longer glitched/didn't contain any remaining glitch pokemon, the save loads: YellowSave.sav Chances are PKHeX just had trouble reading your boxes with all the garbage data that was there.

Thanks for double checking, I missed one final thing... It was one of the oldest implemented code sections, so I figured it would be better to rewrite it -- should be fixed for good now. Thanks for reporting back!~ https://github.com/kwsch/PKHeX/commit/f5358e0e374f9cf903fe8dee8fd274dd72a23a83

Yeah, that's the thing that baffles me the most. I would assume that you would have saved multiple times leading up from the start of the game to Sky Pillar, so if the 26 second came from a very early point of your playthrough, that should have been overwritten at this point. Anyway sorry I couldn't help.

Quick update. After opening the GBA cartridge I did some searching for ways to extract saves from corrupt fake copies with the all the text and numbers that are on the internal parts but sadly couldn't find anything useful. However after cleaning the circuit board with an alcohol wipe and reassembling it and then testing it in my Nintendo DS Lite, the cartridge worked again, or at least it gave the message that the save would be loaded. But of course, the save it loaded was the 26 second save. So with that I think it's fairly save to assume my old save is just completely gone. RIP Rayquaza. Once again, thanks for your help theSLAYER and sorry for wasting your time.

Glad to be here! I was told to come here from the GBATemp forums, I'm a pretty newbie hacker but I've got some decade old experience hacking old GBA games lol!