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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.

Very interesting, I'll do some more digging and researching. If I find something I'll post it here. My tool does show the ROM's checksum, do you think that's of any use in looking for a way to extract it? FYI; It's 3AM here right now, so this will be my final reply for today. I'll start searching tomorrow.

Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I at least don't remember making a new save that early into the game and override my old save. Last time I used the cartridge was years and years ago. And last I remember from when I did play all those years ago is that I was close to finishing the game and had caught Rayquaza.

I guess it's time to throw in the towel. Still, thanks again for all your time and effort!

Ahh, thought you meant the biggest one with SRAM in the name. I've attached the 8M DACS 1008kb file now. POKEMON EMER_BPEE-8M_DACS_1008kb.sav

Sure, I put the Save Type on "Unlicensed 1M SRAM (128 kb)" and made a backup of the ROM and Save Data. See settings below: I've attached the exported .sav file. (Hope this is what you meant.) -edit- I've also tried the tool to extract the save from the ROM with this new export. This is still calculating. No saves found. -edit 2- Just now I tried loading the new exported ROM with the new exported save file. This time the game gave the message "The save will be loaded." But after that the save file still had 0 progression, only my username. POKEMON EMER_BPEE.sav

That makes sense yeah, I was quite young at the time of purchase. I made a ROM backup with my tool and then tried the quick and full search options but sadly both say "No saves found!". After that I tried another tool which I found here. This tool did come up with something: But after trying this save in my emulator it goes back to the first warning: The save file has been erased due to corruption or damage. I've attached the save file from this other tool. Anything we can do with this? <This portion was cut out, cause it was checked and verified to be just a dump of the portion of the ROM>

After watching some videos on it I believe it's probably a fake copy. It doesn't have the glistening on the label and there's no number printed above the Nintendo seal on the right. Guess I got scammed, luckily I didn't pay more than 10 buck for it at the time. Currently I don't have any other method to dump the cart, the GBxCart RW 1.4 Pro Reader is all I have.

Ah, that's strange. Seeing how I before I started this thread I couldn't even get the game to start because I was never able to get past the initial error. Oh well, thanks for all the effort you put in. I'll just have to start over then.

Ahh, okay. I put it to 128 and made a new backup. Settings below. Then loaded it into PKHeX but that sadly already showed all the boxes and party as being empty, screenshots below. (Last screenshot is the red triangle's warning - but I assume this is for adding a new Pokémon from the left hand menu.) After loading it into my emulator it showed the same error as my previous post. The save file is corrupted. The previous save file will be loaded. If there's a way to just salvage the Pokémon I had that would definitely be great (even if it were just the stats and whatnot). I don't necessarily need the progression in the game. The reason I'd like to recover this is so I could transfer the Pokémon I had into the newer generation games. I've attached the new save file and the PKHeX save file. I really appreciate your help so far POKEMON EMER_BPEE.sav POKEMON EMER_BPEE-export.sav

Hi, thanks for your reply. As you asked I created another save file but changed the ROM Size to 128MB. See the screenshot below: After loading this in the simulator it shows another error now and the game does load a save file, except that the save file only has my name and 0 progression. The save file is corrupted. The previous save file will be loaded. I made a little clip as an example (cut out some Windows explorer paths for privacy reasons): Any other suggestions I could try? -Edit: Added the .sav file POKEMON EMER_BPEE.sav

Hi all, Recently I tried my GBA copy of Pokémon Emerald with my Nintendo DS lite but sadly got an error message when starting the game. The error message is as follows: The save file has been erased due to corruption or damage. So after some research I found out that this might be because my copy is not a legitimate version but possibly a knock-off. It's been a long time since I bought it so I don't recall where I got it, but it wasn't in a physical store but at some online retailer. After looking around on the internet I figured I could try and buy a device that can read the cartridge so I bought the GBxCart RW 1.4 Pro Reader and was able to detect the cartridge and download my save file. I'm not sure if this info is relevant but below is a screenshot from the program. I've also attached the .sav file. After this I downloaded the VisualBoyAdvance emulator to see if the save would load there but sadly I got the same error. So, after some Googling I saw quite some posts on this forum with people asking for help recovering their save file. So here I am doing the same. If someone has the knowledge and time, I'd highly appreciate if you could take a look to see if anything is salvageable. Please let me know if any other info is needed. Kind regards, A nostalgic Pokémon player POKEMON EMER_BPEE.sav