What happens and how do you fix a corrupted Pokemon Soul Silver game file?

Answer 1

I recently had the problem of me going to boot up Pokemon SS only to find it instantly loads up a new game. I spent ages trying to figure out what was wrong. The first thing i thought was that the save file mustn't be there. So I turned to my comp to copy my backup save I had backed up just a day before. No, it was still doing the same thing. I then thought that perhaps the save game is spelt differently. No, that wasn't the case either.

After some hundred hours later I found a post on gbatemp (From another user) who had some of my symptoms but was a different issue. that suggested that the Sav data was corrupt. I was like "no way" because I had spent roughly around 33 hours in the game.

(The data save data that was backed up on my computer was already corrupt, but I didn't know because when I backed up my data I hadn't played Pokemon since.)

Just so you know, having a corrupt Sav file can also corrupt your game.

I went around the web only to find no solutions, all the solutions were start from scratch (as its the only ting you can do).

I said to myself, there must be another way and, I found it. In fact I'm not sure if anyone else has found it as this method would also work with Diamond / Pearl / Platinum.

But yes, I discovered a way. It is a lengthy process if you want your exact items and what not then your going to have to put in some effort. But getting your Pokemon back Is very easy, with exact stats. Your money is also recovered too. In fact pretty much everything.

BTW, you may want to know how to recover you save data just in case this happens to you.

Using: DSI

Acekard2i - Akio 1.6 (latest loaders etc)

(it doesn't matter on the flashcard, so you know ^^)

1. You need to download Pokesav from here http://projectpokemon.org/editing/files/Po....03a_PP.org.zip or if you have a smaller screen resolution from herehttp://projectpokemon.org/editing/files/Po....03a_PP.org.zip (there is absolutely no difference between version, i prefer the second link because its smaller)

2. You need to make sure you have your corrupted .Sav file on your computer.

3. Now that you have your corrupted .Sav file (backed up) you need to start a new game and get it to create a clean working Sav.

(I had an issue where it would Sav in game but not keep the progress. I solved this by. When the game is on the press start bit at the beginning press B - Select + up. This completely removes all traces of data from the game) (This didn't completely make my game work, I also had to download a new Rom. I used the same region as before (U). You can download the Rom.)

4. Once you got a Sav up and running, pick a different starter (To the one you picked before) and get to the point where you can catch Pokemon. This is just after you choose the name from your rival etc

5. Now if you want to keep that new starter in your original game. follow these steps (Actually you don't need to do it cause pokesav can do it all for U)

1. Catch a wild Pokemon anything, Pidgy even. and put your starter Pokemon in the PC storage box

2. now the tricky part comes here. you need to put the starter Pokemon in a non occupied box. Because when you put your original

Pokemon back in the game it will overwrite this Pokemon unless you put it in a space of its own

Eg. corrupt Sav - BOX 1 i have a mew BOX 2i have a Lugia ( I would need to put the Pokemon in box 3 so it doesn't get overwritten)

Eg. Clean Sav - PC storage (Empty) (just make sure it in a space of its own)

You can check what Pokemon are in your PC box if you open up Pokesav and open you corrupt Sav in it (You can drag your Sav onto it (while its open) if you don't know how to use the open function ^^)

6. Now that you have a clean working .Sav file in which you can save (Without loosing progress) we can continue with the guide.

7. Copy the clean .Sav file onto the computer (Make sure you know which is the corrupted file and which is not)

8. We are now going to put everything back into our clean Rom. (Depending on how many items you had in your previous game, this process can take a while) (You can choose to not have any of your items, as you can find them all again) (I Choose to have my items and now i have twice as many master balls, because i had one in the previous files too ^^)[/b]

9. Open Pokesav and open up you corrupt Sav

10. Open Pokesav again and open up you clean Sav

11. Now save all of you Pokemon one by one. (I didn't have many so it didn't take me that long.)

Where it lists your party (corrupt version) choose save and save it as your Pokemons name. (This is saving that Pokemons data, so When when we load that in the clean save it should copy the Pokemons data across.

12. Save all you Pokemon, including those in the PC box (saving them all to desktop with make things easier).

13. Now that you've saved all your Pokemon, its time to import them. Go to your Clean Sav and click load. (Make sure you load all your Pokemon in there original places. (So you don't accidentally erase your new starter Pokemon from Step number 5.)

Don't forget those in the PC boxes too.

14. Now that you've imported all your Pokemon, you can delete the (PKM) files that stored you Pokemons data, as you no longer need these.

(I ADVISE BEFORE CONTINUING WITH THIS LONG PROCESS, THAT YOU SAVE THIS PROFILE AND LOAD IT UP IN YOUR GAME JUST TO CHECK YOU GOT ALL YOUR POKEMON AND THAT IT WORKS. I DON'T WANT YOU TO DO THIS PROCESS TO FIND IT DOESN'T WORK AND THEN BLAME ME.)

15. (BEWARE....... VERY TIME CONSUMING)

Ok, now it's time to put all our items back into our game.

1. View the corrupted Sav and where it says (Bag Edit) then Under neigh Items - Click edit. (It should now list all the items you had in the previous game.

Now you need to add those items to your clean Sav

Do process 1 to your clean Sav

The layout should look like this

(On your clean Sav, click a space that says none then on the scroll down box under neigh, find the item your wanting)

Eg. I want 1 Everstone in my clean Sav - I click the top empty space because that is where it is on my corrupted file. I then find my item (pressing the E key) will jump me straight to the E section. i then put in the quantity and choose modify.

Do this for every single one of you items. (including all your KEY items, Pokeballs etc)

Pressing OK saves all the items you've chosen

(PLEASE DONT CHEAT AND GIVE YOURSELF 99 MASTERBALLS AS YOU ARE ONLY CHEATING YOURSELF AND RUINING A GREAT GAME.)

16. Now that you have pretty much everything in place, you just need to put in your correct money and time spentplaying the game. (unfortunately if you had your mom saving money for you in game. You cant get that back) - I lost well over 200000.

You can change your ID back to your original if you wish. The game will now think that these Pokemon were obtained in a trade so they get bonus EXP when battling.

Now go to save as and save it as what ever you want. (Keep a backup of your original clean Sav.)

Don't forget tho that in order for the game to read the Sav file you need to name it the exact name of you Pokemon game

Eg. Pokemon game - Pokemon SS.Nds

Sav file - Pokemon SS.Sav

Restoring your Gym Badges

In order to restore your gym badges, you need to use a Homebrew app. in fact its pretty much Pokesav but on the DS. You can edit everything on the gohttp://www.csdgn.org/files/psds/PPSEDS_r10.7z

I used this to restore my 15 badges. I recommend battling all the gyms again though for the TMs and EXP. The restoring badges method messes certain event up later on in the game. And you have to use the walk through walks code in order to get past it

This error occurred when trying to battle the 16th gym, he said i had no badges when i in fact had 15 and i had to use walk through walls to get into his gym.

But that's it (Elite 4 and things work fine though)