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I understand the sentiment. Send the sav over after you get it dumped

Yeah if it’s just saved in the void and the data seems intact, the map coordinate deserter would likely work (it was made to deal with void problems after all). If it doesn’t, well, I have other tricks up my sleeve that should work. For now, just read through the guide carefully and safely hack your 3DS first.

You could first try the map resetter tool I linked, and if it fails I can give it a go and yes PKHeX fixes checksums for you.

Well, hacking your 3DS is the bare minimum. 1. Hack 3DS 2. install a save manager 3. dump the save game 4. keep a back up of the save game on your computer elsewhere (that won't get modified ever) 5. try to figure out what's wrong with the save (check a hex editor, check PKHeX, send to someone who may know etc). There's a chance your save file is dead, but we won't know until we check it.

“Will my saved files not show?” Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, let’s restart: To be clear, if your 3DS isn’t hacked (homebrew usage or full CFW) you won’t be able to extract your NDS save file. It’s stored on the cartridge of the NDS cart. There’s no official way to dump saves, so AFAIK having an updated eShop isn’t relevant. Thus, save files “will not show for download” by default. Every 3DS model is hackable, you can read https://3ds.hacks.guide on how to do it, all at your own risk. The (more painful) alternative would be using an NDS flashcart (such as R4) and to transfer the save over FTP. You’ll need a NDS or NDS lite for this. Skylink also pretty much said what was required in a well structured reply above..

Don’t make any more changes, and do not do any more saves in the game (Your decision was right). For now, immediately make a save back up for each game. My personal hope, as improbable as it is, is that the data is still in the backup. (After gen 3, each save as has 2 segments). Just to let you know, if many of them were stolen from the same save, the they would likely have overwritten the save multiple times. If if was via poke transporter, I’m hoping it is a “they took it all once and didn’t touch the game again” scenario. If that fails, the next best thing will be recreations based on data that may exist within the save. Maybe it is hiding in the Hall of fame. Maybe in competitions. For certain games that allow a different trainer to be saved for battle purposes (maybe battle tower, Secret bases etc), maybe we can try looking there. It won’t be 1:1, but at least if the crucial data is there, we can do a “best match recreation”. what would be good would be excel file with pokemon species, nickname, and moves to be expect, and origin game it was caught in, etc. for your favourites/stuff you wanna grab back.

Not sure what is causing the issue, may give it a look later. In the mean time do not unnecessarily ping mods.

From my understanding, the site recently purged saves and pkm files with illegal/hacked mons, where such saves didn't clearly indicate that they were illegal or hacked. I'm guessing you were caught up in that. I tried to look for your page+files in our hidden quarantine area, but did not see it there. It is a good warning though; in addition to that, the staff reserves the right to review any new uploads and remove them when they do not meet specifications as dictated in the file section description, at their discretion. Hope you understand that. edit: For context, also discussed here: Cheers

don't see how it's linked to eshop. I don't reckon. Is your 3DS hacked?

Use Checkpoint or JKSM. Install as CIA or use 3DSX (launch via homebrew launcher) May need to reload/refresh titles. Once you see the game, just dump it. 1. Dump the save 2. Use the tool I link above to fix coordinates 3. Open the 'fixed' save in PKHeX, then save using PKheX (this is to fix checksums) 4. Restore the save into the game. Make sure you keep safe save backups throughout the process, in case anything goes wrong.

If the Mon’s origin (game caught in) is the same pair as the game deposited from HOME (eg: Lechonk caught in Scarlet, sent in from Violet), then it is safe to wipe the tracker. It is not safe to wipe tracker when game caught in doesn’t match what game is sending it in (eg: Arceus caught in Brilliant Diamond, to be sent in from Scaret: not safe) While HOME keeps track of all data, it should be fine, but at a risk (currently HOME doesn’t do anything to clones, presumably because 1. Some games do result in clones at certain circumstances and 2. Shedinja is a clone of the evolving Nincada)

No idea why that tool freaked out and not gave a working file

When you say ‘you converted it’, did you just change the extension to .sav? Cause there’s paddings on both ends of the sav structure, so changing the extension alone wouldn't work. I used the program HxD to look at the raw data and removed the padding. Afterwards I duplicated the save, as regular saves used by the game and emulators are twice the size (in this instance each .sav file has 2 partitions, once as a backup and one as current) Edit: While it isn't the main goal of my program, it will now dump .sav files that are nested within .xps or .sps files I didn’t check the location but yeah the PC contained cheated stuff.

Either they had a hacked ROM, modified the file before sending to me, or there some kind of anti-piracy feature that we don’t know about Despite claiming the file to be the same, it seems to be not the same, as the required XP for next level differs from their screenshot to mine. (They needed negative XP, which seems ridiculous.) Consider hacking it into your PC as opposed to your party, maybe that’s one issue.

I can't seem to find the xps2sav program anywhere, so I hand converted it to a .sav that PKHeX can use. It is not perfect, and may not load in VBA. There's a bunch of illegal Pokemon, presumably cheated in with bad codes that doesn't account of the language of the Pokemon. pokemon-ruby-sapphire-emerald-version.7496(1).sav

As long as you have NSO you can communicate with a sysbot yeah. Yeah you could clone whatever you want. Note that some sysbots wipe HOME trackers, so if your friend’s Mon has been through HOME, be mindful of that. Ideally try to find one that doesn’t wipe HOME trackers, as those are important. use it all at your own risk, of course.

Someone on the main page of the repro cart program mentioned GBABF worked after they changed their R4 cart setup, maybe give that a try (do backup the original setup that worked for you. When I get time I shall upload my setup..)

Switches with Sysbot are a hacked Switch. And Sysbot isn’t a system used to receive saves over the internet. The official save transfer system only works locally, not over the internet. Basically the only options should be what I’ve previously said.

You need to have at least one hacked switch somewhere in the process (either yours or your friend’s) if you want to manipulate save games. If you just want to hack in pokemon but don’t need to modify your save, you always could trade over the internet with a Sysbot.

Both updated. They've been made with the latest PKHeX Core requirement as per the Dev Build (for longevity), so use the plugin on the dev build before reporting any issues. If you experience any issues, please describe it, like if the error message pop-ups up immediately, when you try to inject a mon then it errors out, etc Thanks!

Whatever you personally feel, ultimately it is their games and their rules. The games tried to improve QOL and make it easier to build teams, but they did not go as far as to revoke their own rules. Their house, their rules, it is all official, plain and simple. But enough of that already, your post was surgically broken down and answered to with valid points. I think you should get it already On a different note, I feel that. When games start to feel like jobs it turns me off. It is the whole reason I've stopped playing Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I really want to finish the game so I might just get back to grinding it out. Not beyond cheating in a single-player experience, and we're okay with it too. I may just go back to trying to make a super fused master sword again.

PKM files and user contributed PKM files (BDSP save and onwards cannot be shared on site, due to it having online user validation of some sort) Save files and user contributed save files. Also, you could just use PKHeX's Tools> Data> Encounter Database and it will generate a mon template for you. Please search harder; there is absolutely no need to clamor and seek our the old files with illegal mons. The links I've given are a start, but you may have to delve into other sections depending on what you want. Cheers