#Anyone familiar with this error message?

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karmic arrow
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Have been trying to fix a faulty Japanese ruby cartridge that was seemingly broken but after messing with a file dumper and save editors have actually made some headway into getting it working. However when running the .gba file in a emulator and on actual hardware this message pops up before booting into the save menu, I can't seem to find a English error screen with a exclamation mark at the end so I am unable to guess or attempt to translate what it means, picture 2 is my friend's best guess at what it's saying.

Anyone have experience with error messages and able to tell me what it says?

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void graniteBOT
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sour forge
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It says that the save data was not correctly written, the previous save data will be read

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in this case レポート does translate to "report" but they mean the save data

karmic arrow
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Thank you, I was 50/50 on what it actually said because it had a exclamation mark at the end and ive never seen a error message on the English copies with one of those before. I was worried after all this hassle I had a broken battery installed and would have to do all this all over again.

sour forge
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if you don't care about the save file here's what you do. start a new game, save it **twice in a row **and then power off/on. it should behave normally after that

karmic arrow
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Originally all the saves and the actual Rom itself I pulled of the cart with my GB Operator would not work in any emulator or save editor until launching it with Bizhawk. Forcing a 129kb SAVERAM file (which is too big) onto the cartridge and then putting a 128kb save back onto the cart has seemingly fixed the issue.

sour forge
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if you want to keep the save and have a backup, then try loading the file after that error message. Then save 2 times and see if the message is gone when you next power cycle it

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why 2 times is the game keeps 2 copies of the savegame. saving twice overwrites both of them

karmic arrow
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Ah okay that explain a lot, then I guess the save I was always trying to make was saving into slot 2 and the corrupted slot 1 file was causing hassle?

sour forge
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using a save editor? yes something like that might have been happening

karmic arrow
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Doing a double save in VBA and a soft reset has got rid of the popup message so I'm gonna stick it back on the cart and hopefully we have fixed it.

sour forge
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perfect!

karmic arrow
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Emulating it straight from the cart seems to have worked

sour forge
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that all looks good, im glad it's sorted 🙂

karmic arrow
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You are truly the goat thanks again, can actually start working my way to Groudon for a another cart to add to the shiny hunt now

sour forge
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you're welcome!