Hacking Save Data File Format Error

[sstomouth]

I just installed the new Sakura, formatted my card, and now every game I go the play has the "Save Data File Format Error"!

Someone help me, I'm so confused.

I'm about to cry, I think I killed my card.

 

[Yohko86]

Hmmm...it seems to me that your game save (or saves) is corrupted, if hot the Rom itself. I don't think the problem's your card.

That happened to me with one of my games once before. What I had to do was delete the ROM itself, then delete all the files associated with the ROM (.sav, .is0/1/2, .opt, .bkm), then download a new, clean ROM, then change the ROM's number (in my case, it was from 0731 to 0732). When I loaded the game, it created new, clean save files and loaded fine as it did before.

Of course, this will result in lost save data.

 

[loony747]

I'm suffering the same problem, but it happens only when I place a new game in my M3Real. The older games work fine (as in the ones I had prior to updating).

Either way, I tried switching ROMs, using clean, hacked, and trimmed, and it always gives me this error. I also tried deleting the "corrupted" files accompanying the game, and nothing.

Any tips would be welcome.

 

[sstomouth]

I think I figured out the problem.

GET RID OF SAKURA

I did this and replaced it with the new Touchpod.

It now works, except that the firmware itself it really slow.

I can put up with it, since games don't lag.

Make sure you put a system file on that ONLY has Touchpod, and your problem will be solved.

 

[loony747]

Thank you for the help, but it didn't work. It still gave me the same error. I'll try reformatting my SD card, and see what good it does.

EDIT: Alright, so I got it to work, somewhat. It seems the problem is in creating new SAV files. So what I did was that I formatted my card, set-up so that only Touchpod would work, and started the games I wanted in (KHDS, and PokeBlack). The files were created. I went ahead and reinstalled Sakura, and the games started up fine.

Alternitavely, you could use an emu to create a SAV patch alongside your game, and transfer it onto the card afterwards. I haven't tried this (at school,no DS Emu handy), but it seems like it would work if the SAV file is the only issue here.

 

[Yohko86]

Hm. I use Sakura all the time and I never had any real big problems with it (except for the time one of my games got corrupted). Maybe it's just an M3 Real issue?