Backup tools mostly read only, doesnt write on the chips ROM or memory.
not sure what you are trying to say, but you can restore a save using theese backup tools just fine.
they can read and write to the save data.
I am currently playing Pokemon Firered on an emulator(GPemu) on my computer. I want to transfer my progress to an actual Pokemon firered cartridge. I am trying to use Rudolph's gba backup tool and I have a ds lite and an r4 card. However, this method isn't working for me. Can anyone help me?
can ya give more details on whats going on?
i will give some info meanwhile:
keep in mind, you need to import battery saves, if you are using save states, theese don't work.
make sure you are using a propper clean rom in the emulator.
firered and leafgreen have 2 revisions. i think i restore my save once from a 1.1 rom to a 1.0 cart just fine, but you may check on that
the firered revisions are easy to identify, Version 1.0 does not show "PRESENTS" on the Game Freak logo screen
but i dont think the revisions being different is the problem.
make sure your cart is an official one, if you are not sure, provide good quality pictures of the cart, in the back you can find 4 gold squares. theese are a very good indicative of being official, if you find plenty of tiny round dots, its a fake cart
rudolphs backup tools or similair may be unable to write or read from fake cartridges.
rudolphs backup tool will look for the files in specific folders, you might want to backup your save from the cart to create the folders.
the save you must restore should be a ".sav" with the size of: 128KB. if your emulator created something different, its probably a save state which you can't use with another cart or other emulators.