Well, so it happened to me. I was playing on my GBA SP and the game glitched while saving. I rebooted the game and it loaded the backed up save file, so far so good. When trying to save the game it just froze. There was nothing I could do. Left the console on for over 30 minutes and nothing. I proceeded to reboot the game once more and met with the "The save file has been deleted" message below.
I got a GBFlash and dumped the save file (attached below). Tried opening it with PKHeX and nothing. I am no expert into digging the hex code of the save files myself, but I know there is something still there because I can find a few FEEBAS (C0 BF BF BC BB CD) somewhere in the file.
Is it possible to recover or transplant this save?? Please I am completely desperate here. I had a bit over 40 hours of gameplay and was going ok with my pokédex, even managed to capture that darn Feebas There were some meaningful monsters there I wanted to transfer over to my Pokémon HeartGold game.
Pokemon - Ruby Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 1).sav