InsaneNutter

My offer from 2022 still stands, you vanished back then and did the same again in 2023 without posting it from what I remember: As we are both in the UK you can send it to an InPost locker so neither of us have to reveal our addresses if you feel better doing it that way. Or if you purchase something like this: Cart Flasher for GameBoy from J.Rodrigo on Tindie I can help you dump the save over remote assistance. I also have a tutorial on how to do so: GameBoy / GameBoy Colour USB Save Game Backup, its pretty straightforward once you have the hardware to be fair So you have a few options on how to save this Mew if you really want to.

You can, you'd just copy the save back to the same location on the Switch's sd card and restore the modified save with Checkpoint.

If you simply boot Atmosphere (the cfw which will allow homebrew to run) with the fusee.bin they provide (no sigpatches or any other modifications on your sysnand) you'll be able to launch homebrew such as Checkpoint to dump your save games. I do this with the Switch in aeroplane mode, then power it off once the saves are dumped. In addition I'll remove any files relating to Atmosphere from the sd card before the Switch goes back online. Perhaps I’m a little over cautious, as I know people who have done a lot more on the sysnand and are not banned either. It's about how much risk you are willing to take. The above is probably the easiest way to get started for only save backups and such, which is all I’m really interested in. If you want to do any more than that i'd create an emulated nand to be safe and ensure this NEVER goes online. If you want to go all out and create an emulated nand this is probably a good starting point: https://switch.hacks.guide/ - read that guide a few times from start to finish and understand what you are doing, before you do it.

I can confirm that does fix the problem on Fedora Kinoite 43, however PKHeX is then no longer skinned with your KDE theme. An alternate fix I found is to leave "Allow the window manager to control the windows" enabled, then in winecfg set the "Windows Version" as "Windows 8" on the applications tab. PKHeX then seems to work fine and is still skinned like any other native app:

Yup, that's correct. You need to be on the sysNAND to do that.

The only way to do anything with your current save still involves buying an original Switch. You'd have to hack an original Switch (that is not banned), transfer the save from the Switch 2 to the original Switch. After that you can use homebrew tools such as JKSV to backup the save to a micro sd card, which you could then edit on your PC. Finally that you can do the reverse and restore the hacked save to the original Switch and send it back to the Switch 2.

Use JKSV to moves saves between your Sysnand and Emunand: I wouldn't connect online using an Emunand though, which you have to do to make use of Switch Gift Data Manager. If you really want to use it set everything up on the Sysnand, boot the Switch with no CFW running, connect online to receive the mystery gift, then go back offline. Repeat for any other mystery gifts you desire. I'm not sure if anyone has ever got banned for doing this, all I will tell you is I personally don't think its worth the risk messing about with your Sysnand. I personally don't want risk getting banned, everyone's risk tolerance is different though.

What a fantastic first post and back story! thanks for taking the time to dump and preserve this part of early Pokemon history. I like how the OT of this Blue event save is GARY and the OT of the previously dumped Red event save is ASH. Nice attention to detail from whoever was responsible for setting up these saves back then. Edit - I presume if you dump a rom of this Blue cart, the SHA-1 is the same as the retail English Blue cart? d7037c83e1ae5b39bde3c30787637ba1d4c48ce2

I've dumped a save game with a Gen 1 "UK" Mew distributed at the Bluewater Shopping Center in Kent, England back in the year 2000 - https://digiex.net/threads/pokemon-gen1-legit-uk-mew-event-download.16922/ I don't believe you have one on the sites event gallery at the moment: https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/category/75-english/ (Three UK Mew's are on Github however).

Do you have an antivirus program scanning your downloads? generally that would happen when such programs see the .exe as potentially malicious. PKHeX (24.03.10).zip seems to download and unzip ok here. SHA1 is: 0701d5a43d34e274affe7463ed860ee94f0cd315 Size: 23.2 MB (24,427,674 bytes)

Cheers for the tips, I got PKHeX working great on my laptop running Pop! OS 22.04 LTS. First I installed Wine as per the Ubuntu 22.04 instructions. I couldn't seem to get Wineticks to install dot.net 7 and dot.net desktop 7, however I simply downloaded the 64bit installers from here: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0 and installed the .exe as you would on Windows. After that I could run the PKHeX perfectly fine:

If any Japanese Gen 2 events have got preserved I don't think any of them are available available online to my knowledge. The saves would have had to have been dumped a long time ago now due to the battery in the cart dying, or transferred to Pokémon Stadium GSC.

The save you have uploaded is 64KB, a full save should be 128KB. This is probably why Pokemon Box thinks the save is corrupted. How did you dump the save? and are you sure your copy of Pokemon Emerald is genuine? I've seen fake copies where the save is only 64KB.

You can restore your save game to an actual GBA cartridge using a DS Lite and the homebrew app GBA Backup Tool, then migrate it though the generations as normal. Or use PKHeX to migrate it to Gen 7 and restore that save on a 3DS with CFW installed. You can then use Pokemon Bank to move it from your Gen 7 save to Pokemon Bank, then finally migrate it to Pokemon Home and move it to a Gen 9 game from there.

I would probably be sensible and restore your saves, then boot back in to OFW before going online if you wish to be extra careful. I’ve always tried to be sensible using CFW on my Sysnand. To be honest all I have ever done is boot Atmosphere with my Switch in aeroplane mode, backed up my saves with JK's Save Manager, then powered my Switch off again.