Gaming Heartgold Backup Memory has Failed

[NintenDavid]

When I try to save in Heartgold, it says the following: "Error saving data. Backup memory has failed. The game may be played but it will be impossible to save. Please turn off power." Please help. I know for a fact that my copy is a legitimate copy.

 

[FAST6191]

It would be surprising to see Flash memory fail at this point (number of write cycles wise it would be impressive if you got it at launch, played it all the time and saved every second for it to have gone at this point) but it is not impossible -- things randomly die all the time.

I will note that this was one of the titles to come with the pokewalker and I don't know how reliable that selector chip is, bonus though if it is that then you can bypass it (at the cost of the pokewalker) -- before the various save dumping tools were remade to account for this then people took to bypassing the selection chip with a wire, will have to search for one of those threads to cover what would need doing.

Before going down those paths I assume other games save OK. Also that you have tried cleaning the pins of the cart. If you can then trying to save in another device would be nice to test.

 

[NintenDavid]

It would be surprising to see Flash memory fail at this point (number of write cycles wise it would be impressive if you got it at launch, played it all the time and saved every second for it to have gone at this point) but it is not impossible -- things randomly die all the time.


I will note that this was one of the titles to come with the pokewalker and I don't know how reliable that selector chip is, bonus though if it is that then you can bypass it (at the cost of the pokewalker) -- before the various save dumping tools were remade to account for this then people took to bypassing the selection chip with a wire, will have to search for one of those threads to cover what would need doing.


Before going down those paths I assume other games save OK. Also that you have tried cleaning the pins of the cart. If you can then trying to save in another device would be nice to test.

So does the Up+Select+B to delete save date not work on backup memory?

 

[BORTZ]

I don't think you understand. You may have cleared your backup memory with the Up+Select+B combo but now you game cannot save. You can't write new save data.