How to fix corrupt pokemon saves (HG / SS)

insanecrazy07The only way you can screw up my way of doing it is if you don't do it at all...or simply overwrite your most recent backed up save with your current one, which is unwise as you found out the hard way. If you had made several backups, like I suggested, you could just go back one more save file and find if that one is also corrupt, then go back another one until you find one that works. It's the "System Restore" method, which is probably the one "Windows feature" that I like to use as a concept because it actually works when you do it, unlike the real System Restore, that no matter how far back you go, you still have the files you had most recently...If it truly made a snapshot of your system, any files newer than the restore date would not exist, but here we go with more recent files than the snapshot...fail...If you find that even the very first save (from when you started your adventure) doesn't work, then I'd say it would be something wrong with your system, not the save. I usually get the corrupted save issue quite a bit because I'm impatient and end up shutting off the system before it fully saves, even though it says I have saved the game, but luckily the game takes my last known good save and reloads that. I don't know why yours doesn't do that. It's a feature in the ROM itself, not my doing.If you don't bother to make an archive of all your saves, I guess that's purely your fault, and you run the risk of losing all of the data. Your method sorta works, but requires cheats to fix the broken parts...I'd rather just pokesav my original pokemon over, change the ID to match so I don't get boosted exp and disobey issues, and fly through the main part of the game tripping all of the switches correctly so I don't run into issues like that you just encountered. Really, using a high level pokemon, with 100% catch rate on, you can fly through the game in less than 6 hours. I flew through doing just a speed run and finished under 11 hours, but that was with severely underleveled pokes.

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.

Broccolli1500 · #22so stupid question, but this pokesav works with poke SS and HG? I thought it only worked for Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.

yes it does work with SS/HGthis 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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Replying to #23

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

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

Replying to #26

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.

Replying to #28

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."

Replying to #31

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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hot-dani · #30thank u very much hope this helps me with soul silver on ttds

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.

Replying to #33

that would be good as id love to help you :)

ASuch · #31Well 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."

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.

Replying to #36

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?

Replying to #38

no dont give up....erm wasnt there shunyweb converter. that converted any sav file to any other sav filejust so you know my corrupted sav file was 516 kb and my new working sav is 512kb

Replying to #39

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?