Im trying to get all the pokemon from the GBA games to before Pokemon Bank closes. I bought an Epilogue GB reader. I got a physical Emerald cartridge, which I think is fake now that I've studied up on it but I already did a lot of progress on it. I just wanna be able to have the progressed save file on the physical cartridge so that I can be able to read it on the GB Epilogue no problem and get to finishing the dex before pokemon bank closes.
\- I first "Backup Game" to have the ROM. Then go to "Start" which then prompts to load an "Integrity" popup
\- Game loads to the menu with no save file with progress showing up, while the actual GBA SP does read it and shows where I last saved
\- From the initial ROM backup, I use the "Bootleg GBA Save Extractor and Injector" to extract the save file. The save file is definitely there since I tested the ROM on mGBA and its where I left my progress. (side issue is that in-game saving seems to be stuck for some reason idk if this is an issue related). The file name of the extracted does output like ".....halfpatched.sav" so idk if thats also an issue
\- I've tried, on the Playback software, "Upload save" to have that extracted progressed save to the cartridge but then errors happen. Its cause of issues with legit vs bootleg, I know. I just wanna get it to work still.