i've read most of "the notes" (unless there's something specific you're referring to or something i'm just missing, in which case please feel free to elaborate), but it seems like you don't really have to patch it if you don't care about rtc and the internal battery message at the load screen. i've never had to use a hex editor for any of this vc stuff either, and the online shuny converter has always done the job for getting saves to be the proper size and read properly. i may be wrong but i also believe i've got a patched cia, it came from a friend. i'm not sure if you just didn't read what i posted or something but i said i've done this plenty of times before, mostly with leaf green and fire red saves from cartridges. the save files have never just straight up not loaded like this for me. this doesn't seem to be the typical edit the last couple digits in hxd out or patch the cia type of problem, namely considering the cia was doing fine with the saves until trying to reinject the edited one.
anyway, i don't want this thread to turn into semantics arguments and non-answers. i was clearly able to load the save file, i did it earlier this morning originally, getting the save file on there with no problem. i played it to the elite four, then it crashed. so i took the save i had from before/during the e4 and finished it out in vba. now i want to take that save back to the 3ds, but when i try to reinject via gm9 it gives me the file is corrupted error.
also, for the meantime i'm just playing it on mgba until i can figure out what's going on. thanks for the response! :^)
