KJB

UPDATE my friend in my hometown said he will help me; he's an electrician and has a soldering kit with reflux. I will update with pictures and stuff when we work on it in mid june when I drive home after grad school ends to finally meet his wife and hang out for a bit.

I tried but unfortunately the in game button combo doesn't work. i'm also really sorry about upsetting you with the multi-replies... I just decided to give up. My gf who does some circuit-boarding for her degree says it's either an internal component of the chip failed or the soldering broke (but she said my game's soldering looked fine) if the modded 3ds software also can't access the save. At this point, i'm just going to wait till I finish my degree and have some disposable income to get a secondhand authentic cart. it's unfortunate. I wish nintendo would just release a ds collection for switch...

This is what I see when i use godmode9 which one is the save? would it be possible just to put a new .sav onto the game and then just delete all data? or are there any other dumping tools? okay so i found some legit sav files. tried also injecting save with godmode9 injection, checkpoint, twl, etc. all have failed. the only thing I can think of is that the game has loose soldering and i will need to fix that

So I got TWLsavetool, but once i boot up the application it just freezes here when i try to power off this happens I'm okay if the save file needs to be wiped clean or whatever at this point i just want to save my cartridge :,( here is the "crash dump" thing from twltoolsave crash_dump_00000000.dmp

okay dumping the file with twlsavetool! will post again in a few minutes!

SAV file from checkpoint btw as silly as it seems, this game means a lot to me so i'll be here whenever needed to help if someone doesn't mind assisting me in saving this cartridge ...

Hi, So I bought this game on release in the USA in 2010. I have played through the game twice although the last time was in 2013. when i booted up the game a few days ago to replay it, I got the error message "The save data cannot be accessed" no matter how many times i turn off, replug, and turn back on. I have cleaned the contacts and opened the cartridge to clean with isopropyl; no effect i tried pksm, it fails to load the save file. Haven't tried pkhex becasue I have a mac. checkpoint can back it up, and dream radar can recognize it as heart gold. I really love this game so much and am so lost about how to fix it. Can anyone here please help me? I will attach the save file. POKEMON HG.sav