mrtylersquared

That first save is from a brand new game before picking the starter. I have now advanced to getting the pokedex. I extracted the save again and it seems to be doing the same thing, unreadable by pkhex. My concern is making a lot of progress on this cart and never having the ability to truly back it up in case something happens. Attached is the further progressed save. Does it look any different in terms of those blocks? Edit: So I tested all of my other gen 3 carts, English and Japanese, exporting saves and loading them into PKHeX. All loaded up correctly. I tested my english Fire Red last (the one i'm having problems with) and it finally loaded up but my name is incorrect and my trainer ID? It should be MrTyler with TID 58336. I then attempted to extract the save again. I was receiving this error message. I removed and inserted the game into the dumper and I was then able to extract the game and it loaded into pkhex correctly. Still not sure why this happened with this specific cart. Perhaps the contacts on the board need to be clean to make the dumper read the cart all the way and thats why I was getting problems with extracting the save. POKEMON FIRE_BPRE.sav

So I made a new save in Fire red. The cart is real. It is my childhood copy and I have never had any issues with it before. I backed up the save file using a Flash Boy, but it will not load into PKHex. My leaf green copy loads up just fine as do my other cartridges. I'm not sure what I'm missing. But I am concerned my cart might be bootleg after all? I opened the cart and looked at the chips and it all seems to be correct. The game seems to save properly on cart. I am getting this error message about the flash memory... is the chip broken somehow? I cant seem to import other saves over it because of this. Is my cart bootleg after all? Or something else? Any help is very much appreciated! POKEMON FIRE_BPRE.sav