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Bug Report - Can't Load Pokemon DS Saves (Gen 4-5)

Open Zushikina-kun opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

Describe the bug Whenever I try to open or load save files from my Pokemon Black 1 or White 2, it just stays as is or freezes up in the "Backing up save... Please wait." and no response or anything even after over 10 minutes, the 3DS just stops working, cannot even go back to home menu and needed to be forced restart/shut-down, though it actually backup the save files but never or cannot even access any of them with PKSM for some reason.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to 'DS/3DS'
  2. Click on 'Pokemon BW or BW2'
  3. Click save file to Load it 'Backing up save... Please wait.'
  4. See error.

Expected behavior Freezing or crashing/bug.

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Information about your environment

  • OS version: 11.17.0-50U
  • PKSM version: 10.2.4
  • Entrypoint: CFW Additional context I have not tried any other DS Pokemon games other than Black 1 and White 2, IDK if this problem also exist in White 1 or Black 2 or any other Gen 1-4 (GB/GBC/GBA/DS) games, etc. other than the two I have mentioned.

Was using Twilight Menu++ to play those DS Pokemon Games on my 3DS (old) so I just use the generated .sav files and tries to access them with PKSM 3DS to no avail, but PKHex in PC works completely fine with any of them save files thought.

Zushikina-kun avatar Jul 11 '25 09:07 Zushikina-kun

I'm having the same problem. I use the same OS, PKSM version, and use CFW - I do use a 'new' 3d. Both Pokémon Black and Heart Gold gets stuck on the "Backing up save" screen. I also have to force shutdown my 3ds after my attempt to load the files. I've additionally attempted to re-download PKSM, which did not fix the problem.

Midnyte830 avatar Jul 14 '25 05:07 Midnyte830

I can reproduce this exact issue on my O3DS, I'm on the latest version of PKSM as well. Whenever I load any save file from the Absent games list, the application hangs. I tried it with a Gen 3, Gen 6, and a Gen 7 save file and all of them froze at the "Backing up save... Please wait." screen.

That said, I can still access the save files from the regular menu. This only happened on the Absent games list in my PKSM install.

eerews avatar Jul 20 '25 07:07 eerews