Help recovering old save file(s)

[dennyK]

Hello everyone, I am sorry if this thread has been posted before in a similar context by someone else, but everyone seems to get different results, so I thought of sharing my problem.

I have an R4 where I played Pokemon Heartgold with a save file that I created back in 2016 (apparently).

The issue is, that it doesn't have the play hours that I know it should have. This is the game I played the most during my teenage years, but when I load the save file it says 0 hours. And I can vaguely recall that I did overwrite the save file (my friend and I wanted to restart at the same time, and I didn't make a backup... thinking I would have outdone my previous save file). Now, I don't remember if I made a backup of the original save file, I assume I didn't.

Is there a way of recovering such save file? Maybe recovering the version of it closer to 2016? For example, if I played on September 7 2017, and saved, is there a way I can find such version of the file?

Using the 'Previous Versions' property shows nothing

I tried using Recurva, which is what made me find those files in the first place (the ROM and the SAV)

However that doesn't fix my issue, I want to find an older version of the save file, please let me know if that's possible.

Thanks!

 

[4d1xlaan]

you're out of luck, because the data in the save file itself is wiped when you start a new file, and storage medium isnt going to just remember past versions of a file on its own