Pokemon Platinum 128mb card id CPUE. Will pay and send a copy if help

[huenex]

$ sudo ./ndsplus --debug
0000: 13 aa 55 aa 55 aa 00 01 ..U.U...
NDS Adapter+ firmware version 256 detected.
0000: 50 4f 4b 45 4d 4f 4e 20 50 4c 00 00 43 50 55 45 30 31 00 00 0a 00 00 00 POKEMON PL..CPUE01......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 40 00 00 00 08 00 02 00 00 00 02 f8 23 10 00 .........@...........#..
0030: 00 98 40 00 00 00 38 02 00 00 38 02 fc 77 02 00 00 10 43 00 b4 1b 00 00 ..@...8...8..w....C.....
0048: 00 2c 43 00 70 0e 00 00 00 66 10 00 40 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .,C.p....f..@...........
0060: 57 66 41 00 f8 08 18 08 00 3c 43 00 b8 f8 7e 0d ac 0a 00 02 88 01 38 02 WfA......<C...~.......8.
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3c 30 3c 06 00 40 00 00 a0 4b 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........<0<..@...K......
0090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........................
00a8: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........................
00c0: 24 ff ae 51 69 9a a2 21 3d 84 82 0a 84 e4 09 ad 11 24 8b 98 c0 81 7f 21 $..Qi..!=........$.....!
00d8: a3 52 be 19 93 09 ce 20 10 46 4a 4a f8 27 31 ec 58 c7 e8 33 82 e3 ce bf .R..... .FJJ.'1.X..3....
00f0: 85 f4 df 94 ce 4b 09 c1 94 56 8a c0 13 72 a7 fc 9f 84 4d 73 a3 ca 9a 61 .....K...V...r....Ms...a
0108: 58 97 a3 27 fc 03 98 76 23 1d c7 61 03 04 ae 56 bf 38 84 00 40 a7 0e fd X..'...v#..a...V.8..@...
0120: ff 52 fe 03 6f 95 30 f1 97 fb c0 85 60 d6 80 25 a9 63 be 03 01 4e 38 e2 .R..o.0.....`..%.c...N8.
0138: f9 a2 34 ff bb 3e 03 44 78 00 90 cb 88 11 3a 94 65 c0 7c 63 87 f0 3c af ..4..>.Dx.....:.e.|c..<.
0150: d6 25 e4 8b 38 0a ac 72 21 d4 f8 07 56 cf 53 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .%..8..r!...V.SQ........
0168: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........................
0180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........................
0198: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........................
01b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............@........
01c8: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........................
01e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........................
01f8: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
Card title: POKEMON PL
Card ID: CPUE
Card size: 128 MiB

[huenex]

e-mail me if you are able and interested in helping

[Thulinma]

What is the problem exactly? It won't read the card? Write? Both? Any error messages when you make an attempt?

[huenex]

exactly. cant read, and displays text saying it cant read the card. its a copy i bought from china, but if i can get someone to help me get these cards read i'll be down to give a card for testing+cash for helping

[Thulinma]

Could you post the exact error message it's giving you? There's like... a dozen or so possible errors, so it matters what the exact text is.

[Thulinma]

Okay, actually, strike that, using the hexdumps from your first post, I've deducted you probably got the message "It looks like you got a card that I don't know how to handle. Please run me with --debug and post the output as an issue on github - thanks!".

Could you try commenting out lines 372-374, recompiling, and then trying with:
ndsplus --size 524288 --backup test.sav
With some luck, that should get it working. If so, let me know and I'll update the code to allow for this in a more general way without needing to edit the code.

[huenex]

sure ill try that right now thanks

[huenex]

$ ./ndsplus --size 524288 --backup test.sav
NDS Adapter+ firmware version 256 detected.
Card title: POKEMON PL
Card ID: CPUE
Card size: 128 MiB
It looks like you got a card that I don't know how to handle. Please run me with --debug and post the output as an issue on github - thanks!

Again, I'd like to say that this is a chinese replica card that i plan on using for pokemon storage

[Thulinma]

Looks like you forgot to comment out lines 372-374.

[huenex]

haha i just forgot to re make

[huenex]

oh, i guess i actually need editing/converting help. when i open the sav with sav editors, they're showing all values as really high numbers and stuff.. damn. you got a paypal email?

[Thulinma]

It's still possible something is corrupt because of the card being wrongly detected.
Does the savegame look at all reasonable, or is it complete randomness?

And yes, I have a paypal e-mail (jaron@vietors.com), but I mainly do all this as a hobby. So while the thought is appreciated, don't feel like you have to send anything just because I replied to a few messages.

[huenex]

well the native sav is 2048 KiB, but all game sav editors require 512 KiB. the information displayed is all scrambled and random.

[Thulinma]

In that case you might want to try and change the --size parameter to 2097152, and see if that helps.
If it still stays scrambled, you might need to override some of the detected offsets (more complicated than merely commenting out a line or two) or possibly update your ndsplus device to a newer firmware.