How to fix corrupt pokemon saves (HG / SS)

ok i understand your point and i shall add your idea to the guide. stating "this guide is only a quick way of getting back your Pokemon data without having to redo it. Please back up you data like "Insanecrazy07 has stated" this is the only future proof way in which to stop your game sav been corrupted and it saves you the hassle of having to follow this guide again."

is that ok. I fully understand your opinion though and i fully take it onboard. thank you for your contribution. as i wouldnt off put that on my guide, but i agree that it is the best method.

please dont take me as been sarcastic or anything. as i may sound in my posts :/

 

so stupid question, but this pokesav works with poke SS and HG? I thought it only worked for Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.

 

Right. I just got a corrupt file yesterday on SMT: Devil Survivor.

 

yes it does work with SS/HG

this one works with Diamond/Pearl/Platinum/SS and HG i think. I'm pretty sure anyway. Because if you go to gym badges im sure it lists the diamond and pearl ones. that's why it doesn't save the changes because it detects you have a SS or HG file.

is that clearer?
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hm cant help you there unfortunately. unless there is some sort of program out there like pokesav. if there was you could still use this guide i guess. But i dont think there is one cus its not that popular of a game

 

bump

 

My problem even screws with the back up file. It sucks.

 

what do you mean? as in the clean sav you created

 

Well when I used pokesav it messed up my sav so I can't load my save, and I don't know how to merge the clean sav and the corrupted one.

 

well copy ur messed up sav onto ur desktop. then start a new pokemon game and save so it creates a working sav. then follow the instructions to merge your messed up sav with your working save

 

thank u very much hope this helps me with soul silver on ttds

 

Well Pokesav screwed up my sav file (Middle Finger to Pokesav) so basically nothing is right when I open my corrupt sav. I'm thinking that I should just give up because everyone is pretty much saying "Go screw yourself."

 

hm well i dont fully understand your problem, but i can try to help where i can but in your case im not sure what the problem us (apart from pokesav) it seems :/
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i hope it helps you too i can safely say though, that i now have a working sav with all y previous items and pokemons. it made me happy indeed

 

Since I'm on my mom's computer and my computer is in the shop, I can't post an image on what happened, but when it gets fixed I'll post it.

 

that would be good as id love to help you

 

You must have done something totally off the wall to corrupt it so bad that it isn't readable. This is exactly why we make periodic backups.

If you do anything other than simply editing Pokemon box data, you're only asking for trouble, especially if you don't know what you're doing.

 

Well what happened was that I didn't convert it thinking it was good as it was, but now I can't open my sav file even if I click revert and so far nobody has a fix for it. And when I converted No$GBA to VBA, it made a backup. Even the backup got messed up. I still have my corrupted my sav file, so I can upload it and someone can see what might be wrong if needed.

 

You're not using the right Pokesav file format. Needs to be 512 .SAV, preferably the CycloDS, R4, M3, Acekard type.
Didn't we discuss this before?

 

Yeah I know...but I can't convert my sav file because it always says the file upload has failed, and so far I don't know how to fix that. Should I just give up?

 

no dont give up....

erm wasnt there shunyweb converter. that converted any sav file to any other sav file



just so you know my corrupted sav file was 516 kb and my new working sav is 512kb

 

Speaking of which, couldn't you just take your "corrupted" save file and run it through the converter to see if it corrects the issue?