captaingrovyle

i thought this was crazy sounding but i tried it on my brother's old DS lite and it actually worked! i don't know why my 3DS was completely unable to read it, but this is definitely more workable. i wonder why that would be like that. could it have something to do with CFW? anyway, i'm content with this for now. sorry to have wasted everyone's time.

yeah, i noticed the codes were slightly different, but i wasn't sure what to make of it. i am still pretty confident it's a legitimate copy; purchased brand new around late 2008-early 2009. no, i haven't. the only things i've transferred to gen 5 were the few things i traded over to my HeartGold. which is the main reason i wish to get into this save. and if memory serves, the save went dead long after it had done any communication, even with other gen4 carts.

I've just watched a video on how to differentiate a bootleg, and it's 100% authentic. Pretty sure it's a day 1 copy actually. Would you be able to point me in the right direction for one of these reader/writers?

alright, looks like the problem is bigger than i thought. i've tried a handful of other save extractors, and they can't even read the cartridge. (TWL crashes the 3ds entirely trying to read it) i've looked around and tried what i could find. cleaned the gold pins, etc. seems like there's something seriously wrong with the cartridge itself. what's weird to me is the DS still reads it as a plat cartridge. i attempted to see what i could get by dumping the cart with gm9, but as far as i could tell all that would have yielded me were two .nds files, neither of which contain save data to my knowledge. just the rom itself. i tested with a working cartridge and this was still the case. unless i'm wrong and i AM able to retrieve save data from a .nds and/or its trim file. but it's looking like as of now getting the .sav through normal save editors isn't possible. i'm not sure where to go from here, feeling hopeless. game's been dead for probably around a decade now. if it helps, the exact error message i get when booting is "The save data could not be accessed. Please turn the power off and reinsert the DS Game Card."

Hello, I am looking to see if there is a way to recover my old platinum save file. trying to load it on hardware has the blue screen saying it's corrupted. i did manage to extract the sav with Checkpoint. PKHeX can't read it, and when i import the save to a cleam rom on an emulator, it seems to be read as empty and enters the new game sequence. if anyone is willing to help me recover the pokemon on the save, or at least point me in the right direction, i would be very grateful. thanks POKEMON PL.sav