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    Bricked Pokémon Pearl Cartridge with Action Replay Code

    The save data still being dumpable is not unusual because there are cartridge pins dedicated to interfacing with the save chip. I can't say for certain that an Action Replay *would* cause damage, but if the AR were manufactured in such a way that it bridged two pins unexpectedly, or provided...
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    Bricked Pokémon Pearl Cartridge with Action Replay Code

    It's not possible to rewrite a ROM chip on a DS cartridge; the gold contacts physically do not have a write-enabled connection to the chip, so the bad code from the Action Replay isn't explicitly the cause for the incomplete ROM data when you dumped it. The cartridge assuredly has some kind of...
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    Daigasso Band Brothers DX / Jam with the Band - User Created Content Help?

    Did you ever solve this? I've had the same issue lately, but with the original 2004 DBB game. What you're looking for is the Degausser tool, which you can find on GitHub. The current version, last updated in 2017, actually removed DBX support "temporarily", but never added it back. You can...
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